DVD: Art School Confidential

After watching Art School Confidential, I took a very long time just trying to compute what the hell was happening in this movie. I really makes you think.

This is a comedy/ satire, about a young man who comes to a Art School and as a desire to become the best artist in the 20th Century. As he is there, he meets the girl he's been waiting for, he quickly falls in love with, but their is another one who he will be competing against. Unknowing what was happening before his arrival to the school our main character Jerome (Max Minghella), he learns that several murders have been taken place on the campus and the murder was still on the loose. As Jerome tries to find his art "Style" he begins to loose control. Also into the mix the movie also brings a sort of murder mystery to the story which is much different from the murder mysteries they have out now. The murder aspect of the film is about the school Jerome's at their is a strangler that has been terrorizing students.

The story aspect of this film is one that really hasn't been like the ones shown in quite a while. The movie's storyline is good, I loved it. I thought it did a good job at round out the characters and making at lease one of them you can relate to. Another great thing for this movie is that its packed with great actors. There are John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Joel Moore, Anjelica Huston, and Ethan Suplee who is in the great TV show My Name is Earl. The Two principle Actor I thought did a fantastic job in the film Sophia Myles who plays the love interest, Audrey Baumgarten, who I remember fort her role in Underworld one and two as Erika, which I really liked her character in those movies, and the other actor Max Minghella who to me is very new, I think I've seen him in only a couple of films, but I liked him in Art School Confidential I thought he played a great job. I liked the transition through out the film. Also the Director Terry Zwigoff, I thought did a great job, I also liked his other film Crumb which is based on the cartoonist Robert Crumb and that is a great film.

Overall they film as a good feel to it it paces itself very well, the story is a good enjoyable film, the movie as a great set of actors, and the direction is good. So overall this is one of the films that you must see. I recommend to everyone that this movie, Art School Confidential is a Must See and I hope most will like it.

DVD

Specs.

Art School Confidential comes in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, with English, Spanish, Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound, and French Dolby Digital audio tracks. With English, French Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese Subtitles. This is Master in High Definition, and is 102 minutes in length. The Special Features are:

• Making Of Art School Confidential.
• Sundance Featurette.
• Deleted Scenes.
• Additional Scene: Testimonials
• Bloopers and Alternate Takes.
• Previews

The Features are good for a film being a low budget project, most other low budget film sometimes never even have any type of Special Features on the DVD. So that's one big plus for the DVD, I liked the Bloopers and Additional Takes but the one that really jumped out at me was the Previews. Now I mostly just ignore the Previews because they are just the previews you see at the beginning of the DVD, but There were about three pages of great films that they recommend which I really enjoyed.

The DVD of Art School Confidential is a great buy for anyone, the DVD contains come great extras, and straight forward, the movie is awesome. So you really can't go wrong with buying this DVD. The DVD is a Must Buy in my book.