In today’s film news roundup, “Roma” is getting a DVD release, Joaquin Phoenix backs an animal rights documentary, Humanitas announces nominations and “The Wretched” finds a home.Roma DVDAlfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” has become the first Netflix movie to get a Blu-Ray and DVD release, thanks to the Criterion Collection launching a special edition in February.The release will include five separate documentaries about the creation of the film, and will feature the same 4K master and Dolby Atmos sound that were in the theatrical release.
The movie won Academy Awards for Cuaron’s directing and cinematography along with the foreign-language film Oscar.“Roma” follows Yalitza Aparicio, who plays a live-in housekeeper in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City.
It became Mexico’s first winner of the Oscar for foreign-language feature.
The pic, produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Participant Media, joined foreign-language movies “Life Is Beautiful,
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