NEW ON HOME-VIDEO Selected releases

"Flightplan" -- Jodie Foster resumes her "Panic Room" routine, this time at 40,000 feet. Foster plays a widow returning home from Europe with her husband's body in the cargo hold and her 6-year-old daughter missing in mid-flight aboard a trans-Atlantic jet -- with passengers and crew convinced she's a crazy lady whose kid doesn't exist. The DVD's behind-the-scenes materials for last fall's hit thriller examine casting, including Peter Sarsgaard as an air marshal, Erika Christensen as a flight attendant and Sean Bean as the plane's captain, visual effects and the design of the film's mammoth jetliner. Director Robert Schwentke offers commentary. DVD, $29.99. (Disney)
"The Fog" -- Producer John Carpenter oversees a remake of his 1980 horror tale about a town tormented by its dark past one night when a fog rolls in from the sea. Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair star in the feeble tale of vengeful ghosts of lepers killed in a shipwreck a century earlier, who pop out of the mist to get payback. The movie is available in a full-screen edition with the PG-13 theatrical cut or a widescreen unrated version that adds a few minutes of footage. Both DVDs include deleted footage accompanied by commentary from director Rupert Wainwright, who also offers commentary for the full unrated cut of the movie. Other extras include three background featurettes. DVD, $28.95. (Sony)
"The Aristocrats" -- As one-joke movies go, this may be the best. Comics Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza direct a foul-mouthed romp that gets to the heart of sick humor and why it makes us laugh. Jillette and Provenza capture about 100 of their fellow comedians -- among them George Carlin, Drew Carey and Sarah Silverman -- discussing and riffing on a legendary filthy backstage joke comics have been sharing with one another for decades. The DVD offers deleted moments with many of Provenza and Jillette's interviewees, along with renditions of the joke by amateurs who won a "Be an Aristocrat" promotional contest. Jillette and Provenza also offer commentary. DVD, $29.99. (ThinkFilm)
"Oliver Twist" -- Roman Polanski picked an empty pocket with the follow-up to his Holocaust saga "The Pianist," which earned him a best-director Academy Award. Polanski's take on Charles Dickens' tale of orphan boy Oliver sumptuously re-creates the physical environs of 19th century London but fails to inject much emotional or dramatic weight to the story. Barney Clark stars as Oliver, an urchin scorned and abused by society, who finds a dubious foster family among the young pickpockets in the gang run by the sinister Fagin (Ben Kingsley). The DVD has three featurettes, one offering reflections on the film by Polanski, one examining the design, music, costumes and other crafts, and the third presenting interviews with the movie's child stars. DVD, $28.95. (Sony)
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