Though no stranger to the unusual, French auteur Jean-Luc Godard created one of his wackier films in 1972 with Tout va bien, which comes out on special-edition DVD this week. Here, Godard cast Jane Fonda, who was then at the height of her power and on the cusp of becoming more of a leftist icon than an actor. This rather stilted film, about troubled labour relations in France, was intended to comment on class identity and strife. Sadly, Fonda reportedly hated working with Godard, stating later that he didn't like people, especially women. The film is as much a critique of contemporary capitalist society as it is a mocking of the bourgeois Fonda herself, something she realized after Tout va bien was released.

In an entirely different vein, the Rocky Anthology series is due out this week. While the initial film has its genuine moments, the sequels get progressively worse, the most laughably rotten being Rocky IV, when Stallone squares off with a Soviet commie. Cold War kitsch at its very best. » Matthew Hays