“Caprica Season 1 DVD Box Set” (“Adua and her Friends”) (RaroVideo), also known as “Love a la Carte,” is a 1960 Italian rarity making its American home video debut. Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli, it stars Simone Signoret, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva and Gina Rovere as prostitutes who band together to open a restaurant after new legislation makes their profession illegal and Marcello Mastroianni as a shady character who gets involved with their business. Features an introduction by Italian film historian Maurizio Poro and an episode from the 1954 anthology film “Amori de Mezzo Secolo” directed by Pietrangeli, plus a booklet with an essay on the film. In Italian with English subtitles.
“Misfits Seasons 1-2 DVD Box Set” (“Tapage nocturne”) (Pathfinder), the second feature from the happily controversial Catherine Breillat (“Sex is Comedy,” “The Last Mistress”), makes its American debut from Pathfinder. Paul Morrisey favorite Joe Dallesandro co-stars in the drama of a sexually aggressive film director (Dominique Laffin) who meets her match in another filmmaker (Bertrand Bonvoisin) and they being an affair, recreating their “first night” in each meeting. French with English subtitles, no suppelements.

