Other DVDs of note
Gary Oldman double bill. British actor-director Gary Oldman was most recently featured in
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as an aging, retired spy catcher. Take a time machine back to his glorious youth with 1986's
Sid & Nancy (Collector's Edition) Blu-ray from MGM, which features Oldman as Sex Pistols philosopher Sid Vicious.
(http://www.mgm.com/; $24.99; rated R) Long available only on VHS, Track 29 finally has been released on DVD (but not on Blu-ray) by Image Entertainment. A Freudian freak-out fantasy about incest and mother-love, Nicolas Roeg's 1988 psychotic soap opera features Theresa Russell as an unhappy hausfrau who falls for a young man (Oldman) who claims to be her long-lost son. (http://www.image-entertainment.com/; $14.98; rated R)
Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Season 2. Not since Upstairs Downstairs drove the colonies mad with its fine scripts has there been such fever in America over a British costume drama. PBS this week released the show's second run in a three-disc set. (www.shoppbs.org/; $44.99 DVD; $49.99 Blu-ray; not rated)
Belle de Jour (Criterion Collection). Catherine Deneuve, the ultimate French ice queen, gave the world a few shocks as a bored bourgeois housewife who fills her empty afternoons working in a brothel. Luis Bunuel's 1967 classic, out from the Criterion Collection, is rife with subversive politics and delicious sexual fantasies. (www.criterion.com/; $29.95 DVD; $39.95 Blu-ray; not rated)
