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Vampyr and High and Low Long Overdue on DVD

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In autumn, Tuesdays are exciting as summer blockbusters, Cannes and Sundance films, and straight-to-video horror titles all find their way to DVD. But autumn is still a few weeks away and some weeks, like this one, are pretty dry. Sure, Season Four of The Office is out today, but as much as I'd like NBC to convince me that Jim and Pam aren't just the Ross and Rachel of the 00s, my busy schedule doesn't allow for the dedication a TV show requires. Besides, I'm in the middle of The Wire and Battlestar Galactica.

So if you're not waiting for something to break up Jim and Pam (it's going to happen, trust me, and I will hate them for doing it), this may be the week you catch up on the Criterion Collection. If you're not familiar with the Criterion Collection, you are clearly not a cinephile. A self-dubbed "continuing series of important classic and contemporary films on DVD," Criterion lives up to all of its proclaimed adjectives and modifiers, releasing multiple beautifully transferred discs of excellent and important films each month.

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