Estevez passes on commentary track

Emilio Estevez’s “Bobby” (Weinstein, $29), an ensemble drama that reexamines the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy through the eyes of more than 22 individuals who were at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles that fateful day, arrives with a modicum of extras.

Although the film, which stars Estevez, his dad Martin Sheen, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone and William H. Macy, to name just a few, was a labor of love for the actor-filmmaker, he doesn’t offer a commentary track. Estevez, though, does participate in the passable “making of” documentary. The most satisfying extra is a discussion with several people who were at the Ambassador that Tuesday in June 1968, including journalist Ruth Ashton Taylor.

Winner of the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for best documentary, “My Father the Genius” (Metro, $29) is a provocative study of an egomaniac, which inevitably echoes another documentary by a troubled child of its subject, “My Architect,” about Louis I. Kahn.

Architect Glen Howard Small asked his estranged middle daughter from his first wife to write a biography. Instead, Lucia Small decided to make a documentary. And the end result is a fascinating tale of a visionary architect and self-proclaimed genius who was constantly creating career suicide while being a less than satisfactory parent and husband. By the time, Lucia Small made her movie, the then 61-year-old Small was so broke he had to move in with his eldest daughter. Extras include a father-daughter interview, a super-8 movie that Glen Small made about his 1970s planned Biomorphic Biosphere project and frank interviews with other architects.

It’s easy to forget that before she became the virtuous co-star of 1960s comedies with Rock Hudson and others, Doris Day starred in musicals. The sparkling five-feature set “The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2” (Warner, $60 for the set; $20 each) includes her movie debut in 1948’s “Romance on the High Seas,” in which she introduced the Oscar-nominated “It’s Magic”; “My Dream Is Yours” (1949); “On Moonlight Bay” (1951), based on Booth Tarkington’s “Penrod” stories; “I’ll See You in My Dreams” (1951) with Danny Thomas as songwriter Gus Kahn; “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (1953); and “Lucky Me” (1954).

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