SATANTANGO (Facets/Morningstar) Even by standards of cinema’s greatest long movies, Bela Tarr’s 1994 masterpiece is… long. Seven hours long, in fact. It’s grim, too, though at times it’s much funnier than its daunting reputation would suggest. One of my favourite moments comes when, after 40-odd real-time minutes of watching an alcoholic doctor mumble to himself and fall over furniture, we hear the poor soul finally concede that he might’ve had too much to drink.

Hardier viewers may follow suit by trying the Satantango drinking game that I just invented: every time the film includes a shot of a barnyard animal that lasts longer than five minutes, have a pint of my homemade plum brandy. Within a few hours, you will have approximated the state of the characters in Tarr’s none-more-black comedy about a collective of destitute farmers duped by a devilish con man.

In any case, the greatness of Tarr’s achievement should now be widely acknowledged with the arrival of Facets’ long-delayed but very satisfying edition, which spreads a pristine digital transfer of the black-and-white print over three discs. A fourth collects a two-shot version of Macbeth that Tarr made for Hungarian TV in 1982, a 2003 short, a featurette on the restoration and a 1995 doc in which Tarr returns to the Satantango locations. In the accompanying booklet, David Bordwell, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Scott Foundas debate all things Tarr, though the many mysteries within Satantango help ensure its sublimity.

PARANOID PARK (Seville/Paradox) Few filmmakers have the same eye and ear for teen subcultures as Gus Van Sant. In this lyrical adaptation of a young-adult novel by Blake Nelson, he vividly presents the internal and external worlds of a Portland skateboarder who can’t own up to his part in a security guard’s accidental death. Even those viewers with no patience for Van Sant’s long-take aesthetic (very much inspired by Tarr, incidentally) should be drawn into this low-key morality tale. EXTRAS: none.

Also this week
ROBOT CHICKEN: STAR WARS (Warner) The Emperor’s phone conversation with a vanquished Darth Vader remains the show’s greatest three minutes of wiseassery. It’s also included in this special episode of Lucas-sanctioned Star Wars spoofs. EXTRAS: commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, alternate audio.

21 (Sony) This ludicrous but successful Vegas infomercial is highlighted by a spectacularly hammy performance by walking coldcut Kevin Spacey. EXTRAS: commentary, blackjack tutorial, featurettes.

BRUTAL MASSACRE: A COMEDY (Anchor Bay) An American Werewolf in Paris star James Naughton plays a hapless horror movie director in this fitfully amusing mockumentary by the director of Malevolence. EXTRAS: extended and deleted scenes, making-of doc.

Out July 29
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Shine a Light, Doomsday, The Hills season three and the long-awaited straight-to-disc sequel to The Lost Boys — which of the two Coreys will survive? I mean, in the movie?