Previously unavailable in the United States on DVD, here are the ten best, in no particular order, new DVDs you could've added to your collection this year.

Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, Criterion, NR)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Criterion, NR)

Films of Kenneth Anger: Volumes 1 and 2, The (Kenneth Anger, Fantoma, NR)

Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, Criterion, NR)

Milky Way, The (Luis Buñuel, Criterion, PG)

Muriel (Alain Resnais, Koch Lorber, NR)

Performance (Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell, Warner, R)

Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, Koch Lorber, UR)

Sweet Movie/WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, Criterion, UR)

Viva Pedro Boxset, The (Pedro Almodóvar, Sony Pictures, NC-17) [The set includes All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Bad Education, The Flower of My Secret, Live Flesh, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and new-to-DVD titles Law of Desire and Matador] | Joe Bowman

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