1 The Saragossa Manuscript

This isn't just a good movie, this is my kind of movie. What a feast of storytelling and imagery. It's a rambling, shambling maze of stories within stories. My favourite DVD release of the year on the merits of the film alone ...

2 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Extended Edition

This is simply one of the best films ever made. That it is so big, such an extravganza, and still manages to be such a wonderful film, defies belief ...

3 Sunset Boulevard

One of the best films to ever come out of Hollywood, in 2002 Paramount brought it out in a beautiful DVD transfer and package. Billy Wilder's best film ...

4 Changing Lanes

For me, one of the biggest surprises of the year. A much better, and different movie than the marketing leads you to believe. You're never quite sure where the movie is going to turn next ...

5 The Royal Tenenbaums
Criterion Collection

A wonderfully droll, understated comedy of manners. It very nicely presents itself through contemporary cynicism then deftly punctures that cynicism to make its point ...

6 Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

This is how DVDs should be presented. A wonderful animation enhanced by a bountiful, well designed DVD presentation. It's too bad more companies don't package DVDs this way ...

7 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

An odd amalgam of Spielberg and Kubrik. The movie utilizes the best of both while each negates the other's weaknesses. A flawed film, and certainly not everyone's favourite, but easily mine ...

8 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

The young Steven Spielberg's best movie and a classic American film. The DVD has 2 versions - the enhanced (and better) 2002 version and the original theatrical release. To ask for more would be greedy. A great DVD ...

9 The Alec Guinness Collection

A great surprise, this 5 movie set shows us just how good Alec Guinness was and how brilliant the wicked British sense of humour could be before it degraded into today's meanness and spite ...

10 Unfaithful

Another surprise, this is a beautifully crafted film that gives us the best performances of both Diane Lane and Richard Gere. Believe it or not (given the subject matter), this is a wonderful exercise in cinematic restraint ...

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