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Requiem for a Dream (2000) The best picture of 2000 is rightly accorded one of the best DVD presentations of 2001. The quality starts with the on-screen menu, made to look like a promo for a TV infomercial (a recurring plot point in the movie). You also get deleted scenes and an interview with star Ellen Burstyn.
Superman (1978) This phenomenal release includes (among its infinite number of extras) a feature that I wish would become a standard on DVDs: a Screen Test section in which we see various actresses (including Anne Archer, Stockard Channing and Lesley Ann Warren) audition for the role of Lois Lane (ultimately won -- and deservedly so, based on this footage -- by Margot Kidder).
Thirteen Days (2000) New Line Home Entertainment debuted its infinifilm line (basically, DVDs with even more bells and whistles than usual) with this dramatization of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the result is almost peerless -- a DVD that provides a moviegoing experience, a filmmaking workshop, and a history lesson all in one sitting (make that two or three sittings, given the amount of supplements crammed onto this disc). For those viewers who want as many opportunities as possible to fidget with the remote control's function buttons, this is the one to beat. *
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