Mostly remembered for its plot twist, Jordan’s film is marked by a deep sense of empathy.
This influential, eternally enigmatic classic arrives on a lush new Blu-ray.
Neil Marshall’s debut film is a competently mounted cult item with terrific werewolves and anonymous workmanlike action sequences.
Miyazaki’s most well-known film belatedly comes to Blu-ray with one of the strongest A/V transfers afforded to a Studio Ghibli film.
Criterion’s Blu-ray for The Fisher King packs an audio/visual wallop, but is undermined by its transparent interest in communal naval-gazing.
Thanks to Criterion’s new Blu-ray, The Bridge can further assume its rightful rank among the progenitors of New German Cinema.
Three of the respective mediums’ most emotionally gratifying collisions are now available in an exquisite gift package.
With an image that’s faded and at times fuzzy, Kino’s Blu-ray of the film needed more time in the studio.
A sturdy transfer and little else, but fans will still happily add this retro slice of practical effects geekery to their shelves.
As one scholar says in the accompanying documentary, “You could spend a lifetime studying 1939.”
For fans of 1980s-era horror cinema, this is surely one of the home release events of the year.
Blu-ray Review: Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and Other Newly-Restored Works
Flicker Alley’s loving presentation of some of Dziga Vertov’s best films easily stands as the home-video release of the year.
One of cinema’s great romantic tragedies, Chaplin’s Limelight continues to exude a very real weight in each of its rich, elegant images.
Kino offers a Blu-ray that responds with, in the words of Commandant Van der Weyden: “Hope my ass!”
A must-buy for the beautiful aural/visual rendering of one of Fassbinder’s gentlest, most direct films.
Criterion is squeezing a few extra bucks out of you by not combining this disc with their excellent packaging of The Confession.
Criterion’s ecstatically assembled Blu-ray release demands revisionist interrogation.
It looks and sounds incredible on the new Blu-ray, though more adventurous viewers may yearn for some thornier supplements.
The film finally receives a pristine home-video release with Cohen Media Group’s stellar new Blu-ray.
Eastwood’s visceral, divisive war film receives a top-shelf A/V presentation, though be sure to skip the dull puff pieces masquerading as extras.
Evocative performances and sporadically astute direction enliven a film that’s too often overstuffed with plodding, literal-minded humanism.