Noteworthy DVD Releases

1. 

   "Chaplin at Keystone"

   A spectacular and spectacularly important contribution to film history, this four-disc set carefully restores his earliest work—which has previously only been available in editions of widely varying quality—beginning in 1913, a full 23 years before Modern Times.
   
2. 

   Winter's Bone

   Is all the buzz behind breakout actress Jennifer Lawrence justified? Oh, yes. And then some. See Debra Granik's tough Ozark drama before Lawrence's closet fills with Indiewood acting trophies.
   
3. 

   Kisses

   Featuring two excellent child performances, Lance Daly's lo-fi film about two rough-and-tumble Dublin kids, Dylan and Kylie, who run away from home at Christmas to find something better together is sentimental without being treacly, tough without being exploitative.
   
4. 

   Paths of Glory

   Not to be outdone by the recent restoration of Apocalypse Now, the Criterion Collection has restored Stanley Kubrick's mutinous WWI classic, starring Kirk Douglas.
   
5. 

   House

   Looking for something that's a little less of a certified classic? Criterion's also delivering a new edition of Nobuhiko Obayashi's batshit insane 1977 horror film House. Admirers of Tears of the Black Tiger, Tim and Eric, Evil Dead, or Dead or Alive should not be disappointed, though even they will be confused.