Talking best DVDs.

DVD Talk has chosen its "Top Twenty DVDs of 2004." Little surprise that the emphasis is on popular entertainment (just as a random measure, the highest-ranking Criterion release squeezes in at #13), but at the same time, there's more than a whiff of the future in this list - in terms of the shape of home viewing, which already tops cinema-going in numbers alone. Big, blocky completist boxes reign here. With each passing year, DVDs become more than vehicles for 90-minute works; they're multi-faceted experiences, little worlds to explore.

At any rate, there's more than that top 20 going on at DVD Talk; there are, in fact, fifteen more top tens, ranging from the overlooked to anime, docs to schlock.

Movie City News has a DVD round-up as well: Doug Pratt presents two lists, a "Multi Platter Top Ten" and the "Single Platters"; Gary Dretzka's list is an altogether different one (part of what makes these exercises so fun); and Ray Pride's got five singles and box sets.

Posted by dwhudson at December 29, 2004 9:12 AM