(COLUMBIA TRISTAR, $28.96)
MOVIE: DISC:

The Movie: After the intimate sprawls of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson delivered a different kind of masterpiece—a tight, absurdist, twisted take on the romantic comedy that actually finds good use for Adam Sandler. He plays Barry, an alternately withdrawn and psychotically angry soul in constant torment, who finds his seemingly improbable soul mate in Lena, the superb Emily Watson. Is it weird? Very much so. Is it beautiful? Almost too much—it emerges as one of the most potent love stories ever framed in celluloid.

The Disc: The two-disc set includes a Superbit disc of the movie, valuable deleted scenes, and the best extra in the short history of the disc format— a wonderful short film, Blossoms and Blood, that utilizes deleted scenes, alternate takes, and other footage to create an experience just as shockingly beautiful as the film itself. —Ian Rainnie

Our First Impression:

A movie of undeniable power and strangeness, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love is a modestly scaled masterpiece. read more

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