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Besides a couple of releases mentioned above, this week's new DVD titles are highlighted by some big, honkin' sets and one prize-winner from abroad:

L'enfant (2005; $21.45). Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, the latest from the Dardennes brothers is "a forceful, impassioned and unsparing triumph," wrote Peter Travers in Rolling Stone. "Using a hand-held camera, the Dardennes - with a documentary rigor that recalls Robert Bresson's classic Pickpocket - follow these lovers as they try to find a moral ground in a world that cuts them no slack. Renier and Francois give deeply affecting performances that help soften the film's harsh blows."

Rome: Season 1 ($73.95). "A lavish series that offers many lusty pleasures similar to [HBO's] other period drama, Deadwood," wrote Variety's Brian Lowry. "Coarse, initially convoluted and densely populated by roguish characters, it's an intriguing world that hews closer to I, Claudius than Gladiator, with all the expected pay-cable debauchery. (It's not for the faint of heart). After watching half of the dozen episodes, I'm hooked."

Apocalypse Now: Complete Dossier (only $14.95). After some less than stellar previous editions of Francis Ford Coppola's epic Vietnam War meditation, this one arrives loaded with both the 1979 and 2001 versions, and a host of special features, including: commentary by Coppola over both, the lost "monkey sampan" scene, a Brando outtake, a cast members' reunion, 12 never-before-seen segments from the cutting room floor, and an in-depth look at the film's brilliant sound design. Now if only they'd added the documentary Hearts of Darkness to the mix...

The James Stewart Signature Collection ($37.74) offers up six Jimmy classics previously unavailable on DVD, including: The Spirit of St Louis, in which Stewart plays Charles Lindbergh; The Stratton Story, in which Stewart plays Monte Stratton, who overcame the odds and played baseball after losing a leg in a hunting accident; and likely the best of all the ones here, Anthony Mann's fabulous Western The Naked Spur, with Stewart a bounty hunter on the trail, through the breathtaking Rockies, of killer Robert Ryan, who has (hubba hubba) Janet Leigh in tow. Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader called Naked Spur "the most elemental Mann western and my favorite of all his pictures."

Also out this week: The political satire Land of the Blind (2006; $19.66), with Ralph Fiennes (read our interview with its director, Robert Edwards); Slant's Ed Gonzalez on Hoot (2006; $20.98): "The most goodhearted children's film of 2006 barely made a blip at the box office, but you can save it now that it's on DVD"; Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis (2004; $17.95), a crazy Thai zomb-edy; Eternity and a Day ($21.97), 1998 Cannes Palme d'Or winner.

New anime: The 1983 classic Barefoot Gen is finally back in print! The story of a family's struggle to survive in Japan during the waning days of World War II is a "great, great anime," raves Larbeck.

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