The GreenCine "250 Core Set" is a list of the top 250 movies as ranked by our members. (Don't worry - these are titles that have been rated a number of times, as opposed to just once.) We've got other such lists in the works, too, so stay tuned.

Yep, another one of those summertime slow releasing days, but as always, still a few gems here:

Tsotsi (2005; $21.76). Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, South African director Gavin Hood's Tsotsi (which means "gangster") is "an explosive wide-screen vision of the street life of Soweto, bursting with music, danger and vitality, and the extraordinary story of a ruthless young criminal." [Salon's Andrew O'Hehir] "Turns on the debut performance of young Presley Chweneyagae as the hood, and it's magnificent," wrote J.R. Jones in the Chicago Reader. Or as Hood himself describes it in an interview for GreenCine, "you've got an environment, this tremendous flavor of Johannesburg that is not often seen on screen with a story that seems terribly local but deep down is really a classic myth, a classic fable." [interview]

Ultraman Series 1 ($28.45): Finally a legit Stateside release of this wacky Japanese series. Newly re-mastered with stereo sound and brilliant color in its original japanese audio, with new English subtitles, and English dubbed tracks created for the original TV broadcast by the same team that voiced Speed Racer. Look out for the Specium Beam!

"Perhaps the most anticipated DVD release of the day, at least in Region 1," notes DK Holm on the GC Daily, "is Warner Home Video's Film Noir Classic Collection Vol 3." The set ($37.74) includes such rare treasures as Robert Montgomery's first-person-POV-noir Lady in the Lake and His Kind of Woman, along with a bonus disc containing a set of noir shorts.

Sybil (1976; $18.88). "Sybil has disassociated into a baby... I can't get her back!" Groundbreaking made-for-TV drama starring Sally Field (who won an Emmy) as the poor girl with multiple personality disorder. Joanne Woodward, too, is brilliant as Sybil's psychiatrist, in this still-gripping drama. Extras on the DVD release include interviews with Field, Woodward and friends of the real Sybil - plus a gallery of her artwork.

Don't Move (2004; $15.95) has "a rich, lyrical sweep and floats between past and present, reality and imagination, with ease. It is a richly satisfying experience," praised Kevin Thomas in the L.A. Times, of Serge Castillitto's "what if?" tale starring Penélope Cruz.

Also out this week: Clean (2004; $19.45); ATL (2005; $25.45) which Jami Bernard calls "fresh and unexpected...feels like a real window on the lives of disenfranchised youths"; Adventures of Brisco County Jr. ($87.95); Carnivale Season 2 (8 discs; $74.99); Shakespeare Behind Bars (2004; $15.45).

New anime: Fafner Vol. 7 ($19.94). This oh-so-serious mecha series is a huge hit in Japan.

A complete list of this week's new releases and all titles coming soon is available here | New Releases Archive | Your Queue

François Ozon has just been treated to a two-day tribute at MoMA in New York and was honored with the Frameline30 Award in San Francisco last month. Quite something for such a relatively young director whose work can't be pinned to any one genre. Hannah Eaves talks with him about his latest feature, Time to Leave.

GreenCine Daily takes a look at the latest issue of Sight and Sound, and offers up a few obituaries, too.

The GreenCine member list(s) of the week is Misshaped's Banned Books list - compiling movies adapted from books that were at one point or another banned.