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January 7

Se7en

(1995) Director: David Fincher; Starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey. Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code Steelbook. (New Line).

January 14

Chinatown

(1974) Director: Roman Polanski. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston. A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code. (Paramount).

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

(1986) One of the greatest comedians of all time, Richard Pryor gets raw and real in this brutally funny and lacerating self-portrait. Following the notorious incident in which he caught on fire while high on cocaine, nearly losing his life, Pryor exorcised his inner demons by writing, producing, directing, and starring in this dizzying hall-of-mirrors biopic and backstage drama, which traces a young comedian’s rise to fame, from his childhood growing up in a brothel to the colorful experiences that shaped his edgy comic voice to the addiction struggles that brought him to the brink of death. As he did in his legendary stand-up sets, here Pryor fearlessly turns his soul inside out, revealing the deep vulnerability that made his art so compelling. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

The Mother and the Whore

(1973) After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and the upheavals of May 1968 came the near religiously revered magnum opus by Jean Eustache. In his long-unavailable body of work, ranging from documentaries about his native village to closely autobiographical narrative films, Eustache pioneered a forthright and fearless brand of realism. The pinnacle of this innovative style, “The Mother and the Whore” follows Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a Parisian pseudo-intellectual who lives with his tempestuous girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), even as he begins a dalliance with the sexually liberated Veronika (Françoise Lebrun), leading the three into an emotionally turbulent love triangle. Through daringly sustained long takes and confessional dialogue, Eustache captures a generation navigating the disillusionment of the 1970s, and in the process achieves an intimacy so deep it cuts. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Once Upon a Time in the West

(1968) Director: Sergio Leone; Starring: Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Gabriele Ferzetti, Paolo Stoppa. A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. The only time Henry Fonda played a villain. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code. (Paramount).

January 21

The Cell

(2000) Sublime, grotesque and visually ravishing, Tarsem Singh’s debut feature delivers on the extraordinary artistry of his work in music video and commercials as it takes the audience on a journey through the bizarre worlds inside the mind of a killer. When serial murderer Carl Stargher (Vincent D’Onofrio) falls into a coma with his latest victim still trapped in an unknown location and waiting to die, the FBI turn to psychologist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) for help. Using an experimental technology she enters the dark dreamscape of Stargher’s mind, attempting to learn his secrets before it’s too late. But his unconscious is a twisted nightmare, a labyrinth that threatens to trap her inside his terrifying world forever. To save a life, she’ll have to risk her own. With a script by Mark Protosevich (“I Am Legend”), and a supporting cast that includes Vince Vaughn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “The Cell” is a gripping, edge-of-the-seat thriller, filled with jaw-dropping imagery that will entrance and unsettle in equal measure. Formats: Blu-ray, 4K UHD. Extras: (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Read more here.

The Grifters

(1990) A dark-hearted neonoir comes to a boil under the bright Los Angeles sun, in British director Stephen Frears’s rousing adaptation of the novel by dime-store bard Jim Thompson, a film that raises pulp to the realm of existential tragedy. A possessive mother (Anjelica Huston), her cynical son (John Cusack), and his scheming, seductive girlfriend (Annette Bening) are career swindlers circling one another in an elaborate emotional confidence game that grows increasingly perverse as love and trust turn to betrayal and Oedipal undercurrents rise to the surface. In Frears’s first Hollywood film, the ever-assured director and his trifecta of magnetic actors conjure a moody, unstuck-in-time vision of toxic Americana.
Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, approved by director of photography Oliver Stapleton, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Kill Bill: Volume 1

(2003) Director: Quentin Tarantino; Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen. After waking from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her. Formats: 4K Ultra HD. (Lionsgate).

Kill Bill: Volume 2

(2004) Director: Quentin Tarantino; Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Chia-Hui Liu, Michael Parks. The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
Formats: 4K Ultra HD. (Lionsgate).

January 28

Winchester ’73

(1950) Noirish shadows spread across the frontier in this landmark western, the first of the celebrated collaborations between director Anthony Mann and actor James Stewart that redefined the genre with their moral and psychological intensity. Beginning his midcareer transition into increasingly edgy roles, Stewart portrays an avenging sharpshooter whose stolen rifle becomes a harbinger of death as it is passed from one doomed hand to the next. Featuring a stellar cast that includes a touching Shelley Winters, a sensationally sleazy Dan Duryea, and a pre-stardom Rock Hudson, this elemental tale of violence begetting violence broke new ground with its evocation of the West as a no-man’s-land of antiheroes and villains. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, undertaken by Universal Pictures in collaboration with The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

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February 4

Punch-Drunk Love

(2002) Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flier-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Fueled by the careening momentum of a baroque-futurist score by Jon Brion, the Cannes-award-winning “Punch-Drunk Love” channels the spirit of classic Hollywood and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo with 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Paul Thomas Anderson, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

February 11

King Lear

(1987) Jean-Luc Godard’s first English-language narrative feature is a radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece that finds the visionary filmmaker continuing to reinvent the syntax of cinema. In a post-Chernobyl world where culture has been lost, William Shakespeare Jr. V (played by theater director Peter Sellars) attempts to reconstruct his ancestor’s play, abetted by a cast that includes Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith, and Godard himself as a crazed avant savant. Through a dense layering of sounds, images, and ideas about everything from language to the economics of filmmaking to the very meaning of art in a ruined world, Godard fashions a puckish and profound metacinematic riddle to be endlessly analyzed, argued over, and savored. Formats: Blu-ray with New 2K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Extras: Audio recording of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival press conference, featuring director Jean-Luc Godard; new interviews with Richard Brody, author of” Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard,” actor Molly Ringwald; and actor and co-screenwriter Peter Sellars; an essay by Brody. Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Pretty in Pink

(1986) Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy. Andie is an outcast at her Chicago high school, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realizes that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code. (Paramount).

February 18

Crossing Delancey

(1988) Joan Micklin Silver’s wonderfully affectionate spin on the romantic comedy infuses the genre with a fresh, personal perspective, following an unmarried Jewish woman’s search for fulfillment in New York City. Happily independent bookstore manager Izzy (a luminous Amy Irving) isn’t looking for love, but she’s forced to reevaluate her desires when she catches the eye of two very different men: a self-centered novelist (Jeroen Krabbé) and the mild-mannered Lower East Side pickle seller (Peter Riegert) with whom her old-fashioned bubbie (scene-stealing Yiddish-theater star Reizl Bozyk) sets her up. A love letter to 1980s Manhattan shot in beautifully burnished, autumnal tones, “Crossing Delancey” gracefully captures the magic of a city where disparate cultures, generations, and traditions both clash and connect. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by cinematographer Theo van de Sande, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: New program on the making of the film featuring actors Amy Irving and Peter Riegert and screenwriter Susan Sandler; audio interview from 1988 with director Joan Micklin Silver; trailer; an essay by critic Rachel Syme. Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Drugstore Cowboy

(1989) Gus Van Sant’s dreamy, drifty, deadpan second feature—an addiction drama based on James Fogle’s autobiographical novel—captures the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix to fix. Swinging between dope-fueled disconnection and edgy paranoia, Matt Dillon plays the leader of a ragtag crew (also featuring Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and James Le Gros) that robs pharmacies for pills, coasting across the 1970s Pacific Northwest while trying to outrun sobriety and fate. With a brilliant supporting turn from counterculture high priest William S. Burroughs and a lyrical feeling for the streetscapes of Van Sant’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, “Drugstore Cowboy” cemented the director’s status as a preeminent poet of outsiderhood. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant and director of photography Robert Yeoman, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

February 25

Amadeus

(1984) Director: Milos Forman. Starring: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole. Portrays the rivalry between the genius Mozart and the jealous court composer Salieri who may have shortened Mozart’s life. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code. (Warner).

The Cat

(1988 — Germany) Two robbers hold up a bank and its employees demanding 3 million marks for their ransom. The police plot to storm the bank but are unaware the robbers have an accomplice on the outside, anticipating their every move. Genre master Dominik Graf specialized in crime films and “The Cat” is one of his greatest. A heist film of the highest order, it grabs you from its opening scenes and doesn’t let go. Winner of Best Direction at the German Film Awards, “The Cat” is an undiscovered treasure and Radiance Films is proud to present it on Blu-ray for the first time outside Germany. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Interview with Dominik Graf; interview with screenwriter Christoph Fromm; interview with producer Georg Feil; select-scene commentary by Dominik Graf; trailer; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow; limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings. (Radiance Films/MVD Entertainment).

Cronos

(1993) Guillermo del Toro made an auspicious and audacious feature debut with “Cronos,” a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab, and soon finds himself the possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious American named Angel (a delightfully crude and deranged Ron Perlman). Featuring marvelous makeup effects and the haunting imagery for which del Toro has become world-renowned, Cronos is a dark, visually rich, and emotionally captivating fantasy. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Guillermo del Toro, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Cruising

(1980) Legendary director William Friedkin brings together Al Pacino, the 70s New York gay scene and a searing punk-rock soundtrack in this one-of-a-kind serial killer thriller, finally restored to its long-unavailable original theatrical version in 4K. New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city’s underground gay scene. Young rookie cop Steve Burns (Pacino) is tasked with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows … but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process. Taking the premise and title from reporter Gerald Walker’s novel, “Cruising” was the subject of great controversy at the time of its release and remains a challenging and remarkable movie to this day, with Pacino’s haunted lead performance as its magnetic centrepiece. With hours of brand-new bonus features, including never-before-seen material from the deepest recesses of the studio archives, you’ve never seen “Cruising” like this. Co-stars Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen and Don Scardino. Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films. 120-page perfect-bound collector’s book featuring articles from The Village Voice and The New York Times, essays from the film’s extras cast, an introduction from William Friedkin, and an archive interview with Al Pacino. Formats: Two-disc 4K UHD. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

My Girl

(1991) Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Richard Masur, Griffin Dunne. Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code. (Sony).

Performance

(1970) The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between enigmatic artist Donald Cammell and first-time director Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, approved by producer Sandy Lieberson, with uncompressed monaural original-UK-version soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

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March 4

The Wages of Fear

(1953– France) In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

March 11

Thief

(1981) The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with “Thief,” his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con professional thief planning to leave the criminal world behind after one last score—but he discovers that escape is not as simple as he’d hoped. Finding hypnotic beauty in neon and rain-slick streets, sparks and steel, Thief effortlessly established the moody stylishness, tactile approach, and drama that would also define such later iconic Mann films as “Heat,” “The Insider,” “Ali,” and “The Last of the Mohicans.” Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray with new 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, supervised and approved by director Michael Mann, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

March 18

Deep Blue Sea

(1999) The ultimate predator just got smarter. From Renny Harlin, maximalist director of “Die Hard II”, “Cliffhanger” and “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” comes this shark-infested action-thriller where everyone is on the menu. At an isolated research facility in the middle of the ocean, a team of scientists, led by Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows), are working on a cure for Alzheimer’s by genetically altering the brains of sharks. When a shark escapes and attacks a pleasure boat, the company sponsoring the research threatens to pull its funding and sends corporate executive Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) to investigate. McAlester has just 48 hours to prove the value of her work, but her experiments have made the sharks smarter. No longer happy to be injected, prodded, and caged, they begin to turn the tables. As a freak storm causes chaos on the surface, making it impossible to leave, the facility is flooded and the scientists must fight to survive against the rising water and the hungry sharks that now swim freely through the corridors. Embracing action, horror and suspense with a knowing sense of humor and pushing them all as far as they can go, “Deep Blue Sea” is an adrenaline rush of pure entertainment presented in a brand new 4K restoration approved by director Renny Harlin. Formats: Blu-ray, 4K UHD. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

Tommy 50th Anniversary Edition

(1975) Director: Ken Russell. Starring: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Jack Nicholson, Elton John, Tina Turner. This classic rock opera is brought energetically to life by an outstanding cast including many stars of the rock music industry. Told through the remarkable music of The Who, this is the story of Tommy, who, when just a boy of six, witnessed the murder of his father by his mother and her lover. They command him, “You didn’t hear it, you didn’t see it, and you won’t say anything to anyone…” As a result, the traumatized boy retreats into the shadows of his mind and becomes deaf, dumb and blind. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray . (Shout! Factory).

March 25

Choose Me

(1984) An achingly romantic neon dream, Alan Rudolph’s comic and cutting exploration of the mysteries of human desire established him as one of the most boldly idiosyncratic independent auteurs of the 1980s. At the smoky dive Eve’s Lounge, a collection of strangers—including an insecure radio sexpert (Geneviève Bujold), a commitment-phobic former sex worker (Lesley Ann Warren), and a globe-trotting mystery man (Keith Carradine)—become entangled in a web of passion, jealousy, and self-discovery. Grooving to the rhythms of Teddy Pendergrass’s sexy slow jams, “Choose Me” exists on its own offbeat wavelength—knotty, surprising, and deeply tender in its vision of lost souls wounded by love yet still reaching out for human connection. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Alan Rudolph and producer David Blocker, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Delicatessen

(1991 — France) Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro. Starring: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Anne-Marie Pisani. In a burnt-out city on the verge of collapse, a canny butcher employs various young handymen, kills them, and then sells them as meat. When ex-circus performer Louison arrives looking for work, it seems that his head will be the next on the block. But Louison falls in love with Julie, the butcher’s daughter, and together they join forces with an underground vegetarian group who plan to bring an end to the butcher’s cruel regime. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray. (Severin Films).

Night Moves

(1975) Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress’s missing daughter (Melanie Griffith) leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp. Bolstered by Alan Sharp’s genre-scrambling script and Dede Allen’s elliptical editing, the daringly labyrinthine “Night Moves” is a defining work of post-Watergate cinema—a silent scream of existential dread and moral decay whose legend has only grown with time. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

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April 8

The Long Kiss Goodnight

(1996) From screenwriter Shane Black (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” “The Nice Guys”) and director Renny Harlin (D”ie Hard 2,” “Cliffhanger”) comes this ass-kicking action thriller. Eight years ago, Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) washed up on a beach, pregnant, with no memory. Now she’s a school teacher living an idyllic small town life with a daughter and boyfriend who love her. She’s almost given up on ever finding out about the life she used to lead, until an accident awakens hidden memories and her past comes back with all guns blazing. With the help of low rent private eye Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson) Samantha must uncover who she was and why so many people want her dead before it kills them both. With unforgettable action sequences and dialogue to die for, “The Long Kiss Goodnight” ranks among the very best of 90s action thrillers. Geena Davis is a revelation as the wholesome school teacher struggling to reconcile with her deadly alter ego Charly, while Samuel L. Jackson brings his quintessential charm to a role that so enamored test audiences they refused to let him die. Formats: Two-disc 4K UHD with limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley. Includes an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Clem Bastow, Richard Kadrey, Maura McHugh, and Priscilla Page; a seasonal postcard and a thin ice sticker. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Extras: Read more here.

April 22

Tombstone

(1993) Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn. Former U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp’s plan for peace, quiet, and prosperity misfires when he, his brothers, and the outrageous rogue Doc Holliday encounter that ruthless band of outlaws, the Cowboys. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code Steelbook. (Disney).

April 29

Dirty Harry

(1971) Director: Don Siegel. Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, John Larch. The City by the Bay faces the terror of a serial killer known as Scorpio, tough as nails Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track him down. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code. (Warner).

The Outlaw Josey Wales

(1976) Director: Clint Eastwood. Starring: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman. Josey Wales is a peaceful farmer and devoted family man, until renegade soldiers murder his family and destroy his farm. Fueled by hatred and branded an outlaw, he becomes dedicated to seeking vengeance on the people who took everything he had. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code. (Warner).

Pale Rider

(1985) Director: Clint Eastwood. Starring: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny. The peace of a small mining community is shattered when Coy LaHood, the ruthless proprietor of a powerful strip-mining company, arrives to take control of the territory. Soon, a mysterious drifter called “Preacher” rides into town on a pale horse and allies himself with the struggling denizens in their fight against the invaders. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code. (Warner).

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May 6

Lilo & Stitch

(2002) Voices of Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames. Lilo is a lonely young Hawaiian girl who adopts a small ugly ‘dog’, whom she names Stitch. He would be the perfect pet if he wasn’t a genetic experiment that escaped from an alien planet and crash-landed on earth. Through her faith and unwavering belief in “ohana”, the Hawaiian concept of family, Lilo helps Stitch to unlock his heart. This gives him the one thing he wasn’t designed for – the ability to love! Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code. (Disney).

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

(1964 — France) The angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly. Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through lilting songs by the great composer Michel Legrand, “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, undertaken by Ciné-Tamaris and approved by Mathieu Demy, director Jacques Demy’s son, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

May 13

The Andromeda Strain

(1971) Before he created “Westworld” and “Jurassic Park,” Michael Crichton first blurred the line between science fiction and science fact with his breakout success “The Andromeda Strain.” Two years after the novel’s publication, Robert Wise (“The Haunting”) directed the film adaptation, a nail-biting blend of clinically-realized docudrama and astonishing sci-fi visuals that ushered in a new subgenre: the “killer virus” biological thriller. A government satellite crashes outside a small town in New Mexico – and within minutes, every inhabitant of the town is dead, except for a crying baby and an elderly derelict. The satellite and the two survivors are sent to Wildfire, a top-secret underground laboratory equipped with a nuclear self-destruct mechanism to prevent the spread of infection in case of an outbreak. Realizing that the satellite brought back a lethal organism from another world, a team of government scientists race against the clock to understand the extraterrestrial virus – codenamed “Andromeda” – before it can wipe out all life on the planet. Aided by innovative visual effects by Douglas Trumbull (“2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Silent Running”) and an unforgettable avant-garde electronic music score by Gil Melle (“The Sentinel”), Wise’s suspense classic still haunts to this day, and is presented here in a stunning, exclusive new restoration from the original negative. Formats: 4K UHD. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

May 20

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

(1989) Writer-director Bruce Robinson and star Richard E. Grant, the cracked comic geniuses behind the cult favorite “Withnail and I,” reteamed for this diabolically dark satire of runaway capitalism in Margaret Thatcher–era England. Grant gives a virtuosically crazed performance as an ambitious advertising exec whose latest assignment -— devising a campaign for a pimple cream —- has him on the edge of a nervous breakdown. When he sprouts an enormous boil on his shoulder -— one that not only talks but has evil ambitions of its own — a twisted battle of wills ensues. With fantastically fleshy body-horror effects and flourishes of gonzo surrealism, this tour de force of verbal jousting and physical comedy is a caustic Jekyll-and-Hyde tale for the greed-is-good 1980s. Formats: Blu-ray with 2K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Peter Hannan, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Jason Goes to Hell

(1993) After dying, coming back, taking Manhattan and dying again, Jason Voorhees is now back as a body snatcher in “Jason Goes to Hell,” an impossibly fun slice of campy supernatural slasher action. Jason Voorhees is finally dead! Or is he? After being blown to smithereens in a sting operation, the infamous killer’s body is taken to the morgue in Youngstown, Ohio. But Jason can’t be killed so easily, and his still-beating heart possesses the body of the coroner performing his autopsy. The now body-hopping Jason begins hacking and slashing his way back to his stomping ground of Crystal Lake, where his last living relatives, Diana, her daughter Jessica and her newborn baby Stephanie still reside. Only by them can he be truly killed, and only through them can he be reborn, and Jason is determined to return to full power. Can the last remaining Voorheeses survive long enough to finally send Jason to hell for good? Featuring fan favorite Kane Hodder as Jason and spectacular special effects by industry legends Howard Berger, Robert Kurtzman and Greg Nicotero of KNB EFX Group, “Jason Goes to Hell” is a madcap entry in one of the most lasting and entertaining franchises of all time, Formats: 4K UHD. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

Jason X

(2001) It is now time for Jason Voorhees to boldly go where no serial killer has gone before in “Jason X,” a spectacular sci-fi twist on the “Friday the 13th” franchise brought to life by legendary special effects supervisor Jim Isaac (“Gremlins,” “eXistenZ”). The year is 2455, humanity has left an overly polluted Earth for a new planet they’ve christened Earth II. A crew of scientists on an expedition to Earth I discover a research facility near Camp Crystal Lake where Jason Voorhees’ body has been cryogenically frozen. They decide to bring him back on their spaceship, but in so doing seal their doom. As they depart once again for the furthest stars, the masked maniac awakens, ready to kill again. With fan favorite Kane Hodder returning as Jason this time sporting a new space age look, and some of the most creative kills in all of slasherdom, “Jason X” is a rollicking blast from take-off to landing. Formats: 4K UHD. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

Law Abiding Citizen 4K UHD Steelbook

(2009) Director: F. Gary Gray. Stars: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Viola Davis, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney, Regina Hall, Michael Irby. Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Rice: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. The hook: the murders are orchestrated by Shelton from behind bars. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Steelbook. Extras:“The Justice of Law Abiding Citizens”; “Law in Black and White: Behind the Scenes”; “Preliminary Arguments: The Visual Effects”; “The Veridct: Winning Trailer Mash-Up”; theatrical trailer; audio commentary with producers Lucas Fioster and Alan Siegel. (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Steelbook). (Lionsgate).

May 27

Killer of Sheep

(1977) A quiet revelation of American independent filmmaking, Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut feature unfolds as a mosaic of Black life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a father worn down by his job in a slaughterhouse, and his wife (Kaycee Moore) seek moments of tenderness in the face of myriad disappointments. Equally attuned to the world of children and that of adults, Burnett —- acting as director, writer, producer, cinematographer, and editor —- finds poetry amid everyday struggles in indelible images that glow with compassionate beauty. Largely unseen for decades following its completion in 1977, “Killer of Sheep” is now recognized as a touchstone of the groundbreaking LA Rebellion movement, and a masterpiece that brought Black American lives to the screen with an aching intimacy like no film before. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, approved by director Charles Burnett, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Scent of a Woman

(1992) Al Pacino, Chris O’Donnell, James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gabrielle Anwar, Bradley Whitford. Retired Army Lt. Col. Frank Slade is blind, cantankerous, and impossible to get along with. Charlie, a poor prep-school student hoping to earn some extra cash agrees to look after Frank over the Thanksgiving holiday. Though the two are mismatched, their relationship grows into a close friendship during a string of wild escapades on an unforgettable trip to the Big Apple … Hoo-ah! Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray. (Shout! Factory).

Starman

(1984) Director: John Carpenter. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen, Tony Edwards. An alien’s ship crashes on Earth, and, to avoid detection, he transforms himself into a physical replica of the deceased husband of a young woman, whose house is the first he comes upon in the woods. He then must assuage her fears, learn how to adjust to his human form, and use her help to get to the Arizona crater where the mother ship awaits him. Things get complicated when the two fall in love and the alien is pursued by U.S. government agents attempting to capture him. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code. (Sony).

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June 3

Brazil

(1985) In the dystopian masterpiece “Brazil,” Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, “Brazil” is a nonstop dazzler. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration of Terry Gilliam’s director’s cut, supervised and approved by Gilliam, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

June 10

Air America 4K UHD Steelbook

(1990) Director: Roger Spottiswoode. Stars Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis. Despite having just had his Los Angeles pilot’s license revoked, Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr.) is hired by Air America, a clandestine airline operating out of Laos run by the CIA. He soon discovers that his mission is to covertly transport illicit goods in and out of Southeast Asia and that his co-pilot will be the wild-flying Gene Ryack (Mel Gibson). But when Covington begins expressing doubt about the dubious morality of their operation, the two hotheaded pilots become at odds. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Steelbook. Extras: Audio commentary by co-writer/co-producer John Eskow; short Interviews with cast and crew; “Pre-Flight: The Storyboards of Air America” featurette; “Flight Log” featurette; making-of featurette; “Return Flight: Revisiting Air America” retrospective featurette; theatrical trailer (Lionsgate).

Swordfish

(2001) The 90s saw an ever-growing number of action-thrillers based around computers and the Internet as more and more people connected to the information superhighway. Fresh from the success of “The Matrix,” legendary producer Joel Silver would ride the wave of this global phenomenon into the next millennium with this high concept hit. Former master hacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) is on parole after getting caught infiltrating an FBI program. Even so much as glancing at a computer could send him straight back to prison, but Stanley’s new offline life is interrupted when he’s approached by the mysterious Gabriel Shear (John Travolta), who offers him $10 million for one last hacking job. Unable to resist the lure of the computer screen, Stanley accepts and finds himself caught in the middle of a complex web of intrigue involving several covert agencies and a nine billion-dollar government slush fund. Slick, stylish and action-packed, Swordfish is a nail-biting high-tech thriller from its explosive opening to its thrilling climax, with a great supporting cast including Halle Berry, Don Cheadle and Vinnie Jones. Formats: 4K UHD Extras: Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket; double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket; illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Priscilla Page and an article from American Cinematographer about the film’s opening sequence. Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

June 17

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

(1988) The closest a film camera ever got to enigmatic jazz visionary Thelonious Monk, this intimate portrait sheds light on the corners of a brilliant and complex life. Superbly crafted by Direct Cinema pioneer Charlotte Zwerin from a trove of precious 1960s archival footage, “Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser” captures the pianist and bebop innovator in rare, unguarded moments on- and offstage, revealing an eccentric and complicated personality. Made with the same freedom of spirit that defines Monk’s artistry, this essential slice of jazz history is a unique glimpse into the quixotic world of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists. Formats: Blu-ray with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Midnight

(1939) Screwball comedy doesn’t get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental élan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American showgirl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness—but both a scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a smitten taxi driver (Don Ameche) are soon on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s sophisticated script—a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and caustic social observation—and the pitch-perfect direction of master craftsman Mitchell Leisen yield a topsy-turvy Cinderella story with a cynical bite. Formats: Blu-ray with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

June 24

Dark City

(1998) From Alex Proyas, visionary director of “The Crow,” comes this mind-bending science fiction thriller set in a shadowy world where the sun never rises and nothing is quite what it seems. John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there’s a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon Murdoch is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city… except him. With a cast that includes Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly and Richard O’Brien, and a script by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (“Kafka”) and David S. Goyer (“Batman Begins”), “Dark City” is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, filmed through a lens of film noir and German expressionism… an extraordinary feast for the cinematic senses. Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negatives approved by director of photography Dariusz Wolski. Two-disc set with director’s cut and theatrical cut.Formats: 4K UHD, Blu-ray. Extras: (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Read more here.

The Invisible Swordsman

(1970 — Japan) Mysterious sprites, eerie supernatural goings on and heroic sword-fighting action abound in this mystical tale of vengeance and adventure from the makers of the “Zatoichi”, “Daimajin” and “Yokai Monsters” films. In Edo-era Japan, Sanshiro diligently hones his sword-fighting technique at the kendo dojo, but no amount of practice can hide the fact that he is both clumsy and cowardly. When his samurai father falls prey to a gang of murderous phantom thieves while on night watch duties, Sanshiro is drawn to the banks of the Sanzu River that separates the worlds of the living and the dead. Here he encounters a strange being that introduces itself as a Shokera. The otherworldly apparition offers advice on how Sanshiro can avenge his father with the aid of a mysterious potion with the power to turn him invisible. But first Sanshiro must gather the ingredients, and his father’s killers might be closer to home than he thinks. Directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda and beautifully shot by Hiroshi Imai , “The Invisible Swordsman” boasts the sumptuous attention to its historical setting, costume design, fight choreography and period details that Daiei Kyoto were renowned for, all with an added dose of rip-roaring fantasy and adventure. Arrow Films is proud to release this unseen gem in a brand new high-definition transfer for the very first time for the home video market outside of Japan. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Brand new audio commentary from author and Asian culture expert Jonathan Clements; “The Invisible People,” a brand new interview with film critic Kim Newman on the history of invisibility in cinema; “Phantom Fighter,” a brand new interview with film critic and Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp; image gallery; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jolyon Yates; illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Zack Davisson. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Read more here.

Palindromes

(2004) Ever since she was small, Aviva has desperately wanted a baby. Now a teenager – with thoughts and feelings her well-meaning parents Joyce (Ellen Barkin) and Steve (Richard Masur) don’t quite know how to handle – she’ll stop at nothing to make that dream a reality. Played by a cast of rotating actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sharon Wilkins, Aviva’s journey towards motherhood never would run smooth. Bringing his trademark dry wit to another series of taboos, Todd Solondz’s portrait of middle-American girlhood interrogates the naivety and hypocrisy of the post-9/11 psyche that continues to shape US public life and policy. 4K restoration from the original negative by the Museum of Modern Art approved by writer-director Todd Solondz. Formats: Blu-ray, 4K UHD. Extras: New interview with Todd Solondz by critic Hannah Strong; “Todd Solondz and His Cinema of Cruelty,” a new video essay by critic Lillian Crawford; trailer; reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters; limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Bence Bardos, extracts from the original press book, plus archival interviews with Solondz and composer Nathan Larson. (Radiance/MVD Entertainment).

Sorcerer

(1977) A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic “The Wages of Fear” was dismissed upon its release, only to be recognized decades later as one of the boldest auteur statements of the New Hollywood. In a remote Latin American village, four desperate fugitives—a New Jersey gangster (Roy Scheider), a Mexican assassin (Francisco Rabal), an unscrupulous Parisian businessman (Bruno Cremer), and an Arab terrorist (Amidou)—take on a seemingly doomed mission: transporting two trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through the treacherous jungle. Aided by Tangerine Dream’s otherworldly synth score, Friedkin turns each bump in the road into a tour de force of cold-sweat tension—conjuring a hauntingly nihilistic vision of a world ruled by chance and fate. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack approved by director William Friedkin. Alternate 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

(1993) A rare film biography as boldly unconventional as its subject, writer-director François Girard’s visionary portrait of iconoclastic, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould explodes the conventions of the form to illuminate the brilliant mind and innermost obsessions of a singular artist. Across thirty-two vignettes encompassing everything from dramatic sketches to documentary interviews to avant-garde animation, “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould” pieces together the story of Gould’s trajectory from child prodigy to celebrated concert pianist who turned his back on public performance to pursue his all-consuming fascination with recording technology. Led by a tour-de-force performance by Colm Feore and underscored by Gould’s landmark recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Girard’s film daringly deconstructs the enigma of genius. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director François Girard, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

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July 1

The Big Heat

(1953) Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style — stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Co-starring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster’s moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, “The Big Heat” hits with raw, unstoppable force. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

July 8

Barry Lyndon

(1975) Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, “Barry Lyndon” chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece — a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio. One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight

(1972 — Japan) Tetsuro Tamba, Goro Ibuki, Yuriko Hishimi, Tatsuo Endo. In this classic of 1970s Japanese cinema, the legendary actor Tetsuro Tanba stars as Shiro, a master swordsman known as “The Assassin”. Weary of the world of samurai honor and samurai killing, he attempts suicide in the middle of a huge swordfight by leaping into a fast flowing river. He is saved by the Bohachi clan, a gang of vicious pimps who have forsaken all honor and whose cynicism outruns even his own. But ultimately, he tires even of their nihilistic worldview, leading to a final showdown in the snow where he takes on a small army of brutal killers. Full of flying limbs, naked lady ninjas, drug-induced hallucinations, cackling villains and wild action set-pieces, “Bohachi Bushido” is one of director Teruo Ishii’s most deranged and impressive spectacles. The world HD disc debut of this incredible cult film in a brand new exclusive 4K restoration. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Interview with director Shinya Tsukamoto about working with “Bohachi Bushido” director Teruo Ishii; archive interview with actress Yuriko Hishimi; archive interview “What is Pinky Violence?”; audio commentary with Japanese film expert Tom Mes; archive audio commentary with Japanese film makers; theatrical trailer. (Mondo Macabro).

Clueless 30th Anniversary Edition

(1995) Director: Amy Heckerling. Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, Donald Faison, Elisa Donovan. A US West Coast teen lifestyle parody centered around Cher, a popular high school girl who spends her days playing match-maker, helping her friends with fashion choices, and looking for a boyfriend. Formats: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code. (Paramount).

July 22

The Beast to Die

(1980 — Japan) Deeply scarred by what he witnessed on battlefields across Asia, a young war photographer (Yusaku Matsuda) returns to the bustling streets of Tokyo, plotting a series of brutal murders and robberies that are mere warmups for an unprecedented bank heist. Searching for an accomplice, he finds the short-fused and equally disenfranchised Tetsuo (Takeshi Kaga). 4K Restoration. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Interview with director Toru Murakawa; interview with screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama; critical appreciation from novelist and screenwriter Jordan Harper; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow; limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Tatsuya Masuto; limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings. (Radiance/MVD Entertainment).

Carnal Knowledge

(1971) Amid the sexual revolution and social upheaval of the early 1970s, acclaimed director Mike Nichols delivered a zeitgeist-defining examination of American mores. Sharply written by Jules Feiffer, this acerbic drama flashes through more than 20 years in the lives of two college buddies (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel) whose casual chauvinism is all fun and games — until it’s not. As the women who suffer and see through the friends’ insecure posturing, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane, and Cynthia O’Neal form an extraordinary ensemble that gives the film its soul. So controversial it became embroiled in an obscenity case that went all the way to the Supreme Court, “Carnal Knowledge” remains startling for its unnervingly frank look at postwar masculinity. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Cobra

(1986) “Crime Is a Disease. Meet the Cure.” Fresh from the global success of “Rambo: First Blood Part II,” Sylvester Stallone and director George P. Cosmatos re-teamed for the iconic 80s action-thriller “Cobra,” this time waging a one-man crusade against crime on the streets of Los Angeles. A crazed killer. A woman in danger. A city in fear. Lt. Marion “Cobra” Cobretti (Stallone) is the man the LAPD calls when standard police procedure isn’t enough. Witness to a bloody murder, Ingrid Knudsen (Brigitte Nielsen) finds herself a target and is placed under Cobretti’s protection. But repeated attempts on her life lead Cobretti to believe it’s not just the work of one lone psycho wreaking bloody havoc across LA, but a murderous cult with plans for a new world order. An era-defining example of glossy high-octane Hollywood cinema, “Cobra” arrives in a sparkling new restoration with a wealth of new and archival extras. Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original 35mm negative by Arrow Films.
Formats: 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Read more here (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

Rosa La Rose, Fille Publique

(1986 — France) On the streets of Paris, Rosa ‘la rose’ (Marianne Basler) is the belle of Les Halles. With no shortage of clients, she is beloved by her fellow working girls and spoiled by her pimp Gilbert (Jean Sorel). For her, this is a charmed life – that is until her 20th birthday arrives. Across the floor, she locks eyes with Julien (Pierre Cosso), a blue-collar worker who sees something deeper beyond her fun-loving façade. Almost Shakespearean in its execution, Paul Vecchiali’s underseen drama explores class consciousness and female sexuality with startling precision. Anchored by a magnetic central performance from the then 20-year-old Marianne Basler, “Rosa la rose, fille publique” is a true hidden gem. 2K restoration approved by director Paul Vecchiali. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Interview with critic David Jenkins; archival interview with director Paul Vecchiali; archival interview with actors Marianne Basler and Jean Sorel; reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original promotional materials; limited edition booklet featuring archival interviews and new writing by Marina Ashioti; limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings. (Radiance/MVD Entertainment).

The Stuff

(1985) “re You Eating It … Or Is It Eating You?” The Stuff is the new dessert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It’s delicious, low in calories and better still doesn’t stain the family carpet … What’s not to like? Well, for a start, it has a life of its own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria. Young Jason seems to be the only one who doesn’t love The Stuff – in fact, he won’t go anywhere near it, after having seen the pudding crawling around the fridge one night. What’s more, everyone who eats The Stuff has started acting really weird. Now, teaming up with wise-cracking industrial saboteur Mo, Jason must put a stop to The Stuff and the organization behind it or face a gooey, gloopy demise. Coming courtesy of horror auteur Larry Cohen (director of the “It’s Alive” series and scribe behind the “Maniac Cop” trilogy), “The Stuff” is a titillating treat for the tastebuds which blends elements of films such as “Street Trash” with the straight-up B-movie flavor of “The Blob.”
Formats: 4K Ultra HD (2-disc set). Extras: Read more here (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

The Tattooed Dragon

(1973 — Hong Kong) Written and directed by Lo Wei, the man behind the Bruce Lee’s international hits “The Big Boss” and “Fist of Fury,” “The Tattooed Dragon” was designed to bring martial arts superstar Jimmy Wang Yu (“The One-Armed Swordsman”) to a global audience still hungry for kung fu cinema in the aftermath of Lee’s death. Featuring Sylvia Chang (“Slaughter in San Francisco”) and James Tien (“Shaolin Boxer”) in a villainous role, it follows “The Big Boss” in pitting a legendary fighter against organized crime. Wang Yu stars as the eponymous Tattooed Dragon, a virtuous martial artist who makes a habit of defending the defenseless. After he is injured in a fight, he is taken in by a farmer and his sweetheart (Chang), and soon finds himself having to defend their local village when it becomes the target of a gangster (Tien) and his crew. Determined to lay their hands on the village’s rich resources, the gangsters install a casino and encourage the locals to gamble away everything they have. But the Tattooed Dragon has other ideas. Available for the first time on Blu-ray anywhere in the world from a new 2K restoration. Limited to 2000 copies. Extras: Read more here. (Eureka Classics).

You Can Count on Me

(2000) Celebrated playwright Kenneth Lonergan first brought his rich, humanist vision to the screen with this soulful look at the complexities of a sibling relationship whose roots are as knotted as they are deep. Years after Sammy (Laura Linney) and her younger brother, Terry (Mark Ruffalo), lost their parents in a car crash, small-town single mother Sammy is plunged into another crisis when the troubled, adrift Terry comes home for what turns out to be an extended stay—one that could either bring them closer together or tear them apart. With infinite grace and his peerless ear for dialogue, Lonergan offers something all too rare on-screen: beautifully flawed human beings whose journeys offer achingly relatable insight into what changes when you grow up—and what doesn’t. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Kenneth Lonergan, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

July 29

Algiers Blu-ray Debut

(1938) Director: John Cromwell; Starring: Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart. Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr are the ill-fated couple in this Hollywood remake of the French classic “Pepe le Moko.” Boyer is Pepe, the jewel thief hiding out in Algiers’ maze-like and mysterious Casbah. Pepe is a master criminal who rules his field, but when he meets the beautiful Parisian Gaby (Lamarr, in her American film Debut), he begins to question his shady existence. Directed by John Cromwell with dialog by noir master James M. Cain, “Algiers” was an influence on everything from Pepe Le Pew cartoons to the making of “Casablanca.” Newly restored from a 5K scan of a 16mm print. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Commentary by Karie Bible and Roy Windham. (Film Masters).

They Died With Their Boots On Blu-ray Debut

(1941) Director: Raoul Walsh; Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn. Highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. Walsh’s spectacular film decidedly favors glory. Errol Flynn portrays the famed cavalryman in this hoof-and-thunder chronicle tracing his career from dandyish West Point plebe to Civil War hero to frontier legend immortalized by the Battle of Little Big Horn. Olivia de Havilland, sharing the marquee with Flynn for the eighth and final time, plays Custer’s devoted wife, Libby. And composer Max Steiner’s stirring music trumpets gallantry and sacrifice. Seventh Regiment: Charge! This new 4K remastered restoration from the original camera negative includes additional footage not seen in theatrical release. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Leonard Maltin hosts “Warner Night at the Movies 1942” with Newsreel; Military short: “Soldiers In White”; Cartoon: “A Tale of Two Kitties”; “All Through the Night” trailer; featurette: “They Died With Their Boots On: To Hell Or Glory”; original theatrical trailer. (Warner Archive).

To Catch a Thief

(1955) Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Starring: Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Charles Vanel, Georgette Anys, Jean Martinell. Cary Grant plays John Robie, reformed jewel thief who was once known as “The Cat,” in this suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller. Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances (Grace Kelly), he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother’s (Jessie Royce Landis) fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but France, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed. Formats: 4K UHD Steelbook + Digital. Extras: Audio commentary by Hitchcock historian Dr. Drew Casper; Filmmaker Focus: Leonard Maltin on “To Catch a Thief”; “Behind the Gates: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly”; theatrical trailer. (Paramount).

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August 5

The Burmese Harp

(1956 — Japan) An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white, Kon Ichikawa’s “The Burmese Harp” is an eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death and remains one of Japanese cinema’s most overwhelming antiwar sentiments, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan’s wartime legacy. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Fires on the Plain

(1959 — Japan) An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, Kon Ichikawa’s “Fires on the Plain” is a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast off into the unknown, Private Tamura treks across an unfamiliar Philippine landscape, encountering an increasingly debased cross section of Imperial Army soldiers, who eventually give in to the most terrifying craving of all. Grisly yet poetic, “Fires on the Plain” is one of the most powerful works from one of Japanese cinema’s most versatile filmmakers. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

(2003) Adapted from the 10th novel in Patrick O’Brian’s legendary ‘Aubrey/Maturin’ series, the film stars Russell Crowe as Captain “Lucky Jack” Aubrey, the Royal Navy’s most daring and battle-tested commander, and Paul Bettany as his close friend, ship’s surgeon, and naturalist Stephen Maturin. When HMS Surprise is ambushed by a superior enemy vessel, Aubrey must confront the brutal challenges of war, the unforgiving sea, and the limits of leadership. With his ship damaged and crew wounded, he sets off on a relentless pursuit across two oceans – facing a choice between duty and loyalty, and a mission that could alter the fate of nations or destroy them all. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Steelbook, VOD, Digital. (Fox). Read more here

August 12

Cairo Station

(1958 — Egypt) Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema. The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the “Marilyn Monroe of Arabia”) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo. Blending elements of neorealism with provocative noir-melodrama, Cairo Station is a work of raw populist poetry that explores the individual’s search for a place in Egypt’s new postrevolutionary political order. Formats: Blu-ray, DVD with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

(2005) Steve Carell; Catherine Keener; Paul Rudd; Seth Rogen; Jane Lynch; Leslie Mann. Andy Stitzer (Carell) has gone 40 years without “doing it.” Now his pals are making it their mission to help him score…fast. Can he survive their hilariously bad advice? Will he land in the arms of the way-too experienced or the way-too-drunk? Or can he find true love where he least expects — from a gorgeous grandmother (Keener)? 20th asnniversary edition with more than two hours of extras; includes both the theatrical and unrated versions of the movie. And, for a limited time, there’s premium Steelbook packaging. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Read more here (Universal).

Poseidon

(2006) Legendary director Wolfgang Petersen (“Das Boot”) brings all his talent for jaw-dropping spectacle to his 2006 epic disaster movie, a pulse-pounding update of Paul Gallico’s classic adventure novel. Passengers and crew members alike are celebrating New Year’s Eve aboard the cruise-liner Poseidon, the pinnacle of engineering and the height of luxury. But soon after the clock strikes midnight, a gigantic rogue wave comes crashing against the vessel, sending it plummeting towards the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. As the ship sinks further down, a group of survivors must learn to work together if they are to pull through this terrifying ordeal. With an outstanding ensemble cast including Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Andre Braugher and Emmy Rossum, and stunning special effects by Industrial Light and Magic, “Poseidon” is an audiovisual tour de force, presented for the first time on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. Formats: 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Read more here(Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

August 19

Perpetrator

(2023) From the exquisite mind of Jennifer Reeder (“Knives and Skin” and “V/H/S/94”) comes ths brilliantly original and twisted take on female suppression, dangerous male predators and the pains of adolescence, with a stunning lead performance from Kiah McKirnan. On the eve of her 18th birthday, wild and rebellious Jonny is sent by her father to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie, where she begins to experience a radical metamorphosis: a family spell called the Forevering. With her newly uncovered powers, alongside a growing obsession with blood, a freshly feral and self-assured Jonny sets out on a perilous hunt to find a lethal perpetrator, responsible for the disappearances of several local women. Superbly blending a feminist coming-of-age drama with serial killer and supernatural fantasy genres, “Perpetrator” is beautifully shot in Bava-esque colors by director of photography Sevdije Kastrati, and features a phenomenal supporting cast, including Alicia Silverstone (“Clueless”), Melanie Liburd (“Bad Boys: Ride or Die”) and Christopher Lowell (“Promising Young Woman”). Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Read more here(Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

Shoeshine

(1946 — Italy) An international breakthrough for neorealism, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award-winning film is an indelible fable of innocence lost amid the hardscrabble reality of 1940s Italy. On the streets of Rome, two boys-best friends Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi)-set out to raise the money to buy a horse by shining shoes. When they are inadvertently caught up in a robbery and sent to a brutal juvenile detention center, their loyalty to each other is severely tested. A devastating portrait of economic struggle made all the more haunting by its child’s-eye perspective, “Shoeshine” stands as one of the defining achievements of postwar Italian filmmaking. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD with New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Through and Through

(1973 — Poland) Jan (Franciszek Trzeciak) and Maria (Anna Nieborowska) become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation. Their attempt to survive leads to a desperate crime. Remarkably filmed with precise close-ups and fragmented sound design creating a sense of unnerving dissonance, “Through and Through” was enthusiastically received on release and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it was compared to Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” Radiance Films is proud to present Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s film on Blu-ray for the first time in the world. New 2K restoration supervised by cinematographer Bogdan Dziworski. Formats: Blu-ray, Extras: New interview with critic Michal Oleszczyk; three short films by Grzegorz Królikiewicz: “Everyone Gets What They Don’t Need” (1966, 12 mins), “Brothers” (1971, 6 mins), “Don’t Cry” (1972, 9 mins); reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow; limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critic Ela Bittencourt; limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings. (Arrow Video/Radiance).

August 26

City on Fire

(`987 — Hong Kong) Director: Ringo Lam. Starring Chow Yun-Fat, Sun Yueh, Danny Lee. Newly remastered and restored Hong Kong Classic. Ko Chow is an undercover cop torn between his duty as a police officer and his loyalty to his friends on the wrong side of the law. He wants out – and his commanding officer Inspector Lau reluctantly approves his resignation – but only after he completes one final assignment. Tasked with infiltrating a notorious gang of criminals, Chow bonds with their leader, building a relationship based on mutual trust and respect. But when a planned heist turns into a violent shootout with the law, the tension among the thieves heats up … and they begin to suspect there is an informant in their midst. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Audio commentary with film historians Frank Djeng And F.J. DeSanto; “Burn it Down!” interview with screenwriter Tommy Sham; “Hong Kong Confidential” inside “City On Fire” with author Grady Hendrix; “Some Like it Hot” interview with film historian Ric Meyers; “Burning Rivalries” interview with film historian Kim Newman; audio commentary with film historians Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto; theatrical trailer; image gallery. (Shout! Studios Hong Kong Cinema Classics). Read more here.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

(1975) Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. 50th anniversary of arguably the best Python movie ever made. A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen. Formats: Blu-ray/DVD Combo Steelbook. 4K UHD extras: “Near-Theatrical Version of the Fil” (in HD resolution): Experience a slightly shorter version of the film, as seen on VHS!; “‘Tis But a Tribute – 50 Years of Monty Python and the Holy Grail”: Over 25 comedy luminaries share their memories of, affection for, and continued fascination with the film. Blu-ray extras Audio commentary with Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones; audio commentary with John Cleese, Eric Idle and Michael Palin; 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Q&A with Terry, Terry, Mike, John and Eric; outtakes and extended scenes with introduction by Terry Jones; lost animations with introduction by Terry Gilliam; “Quest for the Holy Grail Locations” with Michael Palin and Terry Jones; “Lego Knights: The Knights of the Round Table in LEGO”; special Japanese version; “How to Use Your Coconuts (An Educational Film)”; “BBC Film Night on Location”; three songs to sing-along; photo gallery; original theatrical trailer. (Sony). Read more here

Saving Face

(2004) A queer romantic comedy set in vibrant, multicultural New York City, Alice Wu’s irresistible feature debut breathed fresh life into the genre by combining snappy dialogue and a swooning love story with a poignant narrative about a mother and daughter coming to terms with each other. Just as Wil (Michelle Krusiec), a harried young surgical resident, begins a promising romance with the flirtatious dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen), her life is turned upside down when her more traditional Chinese mother (Joan Chen)-unwed and unexpectedly pregnant-moves in with her, forcing both women to confront the generational and cultural barriers that have long troubled their relationship. Both embracing and cleverly subverting rom-com conventions, Wu delivers a bighearted ode to the Chinese American diaspora, and the liberating joy of living one’s truth. Formats: Blu-ray, with high-definition digital master, approved by director Alice Wu, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

(2003) For its inaugural film, Michael Bay’s studio Platinum Dunes brought together scriptwriter Scott Kosar (“The Machinist”) and director Marcus Nispel (2009’s “Friday the 13th”) for a grisly update of Tobe Hooper’s classic tale of Texan terror. The result would conquer the 2003 boxoffice, introducing a new generation of genre fans to the franchise. A group of carefree young adults’ road trip through Texas is cut short when the panic-stricken hitchhiker they’ve picked up shoots herself in the back of their vehicle. Desperate to find help, our heroes are directed to the home of the local Sheriff, but little do they know they are stumbling into the lair of the Hewitts, the most violent family in all of Texas, including their chainsaw-wielding son. Described by critic Roger Ebert as “vile, ugly and brutal”, 2003’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is a boundary pushing, agonizingly violent gorefest masterpiece ready to traumatize and delight horror fans ane. Formats: 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Read more here (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

(2006) After 2003’s successful remake of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes would take another trip to the Lone Star State for the terrifying prequel, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.” In the summer of 1969, brothers Eric and Dean and their girlfriends Chrissie and Bailey are having one last road trip before the boys set off to Vietnam. An altercation with a shotgun-wielding biker leads them to crash their car, only for them to be rescued by Sheriff Hoyt. But their savior isn’t as benevolent as he seems, and the gang are taken hostage and dragged to the residence of the murderous Hewitt family, among them Hoyt’s brother Thomas, a hulking brute who conceals his face behind a leather mask. Feast your eyes on this twisted and horrifying vision of the Hewitts’ origins, presented here in its original theatrical version and the extended uncut version for the first time on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. Formats: 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Read more here (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).

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September 9

High and Low

(1963) Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in “High and Low,” the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

September 16

This Is Spinal Tap

(1984) Spinal Tap has come to be recognized as England’s loudest and most punctual band. In the legendary rockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” now beautifully restored, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) embark on their final American tour, with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) capturing all the mishaps, creative tensions, dwindling crowds, and ill-fated drummers. “This Is Spinal Tap” takes DiBergi’s brilliant vérité style and turns it up to eleven! Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Rob Reiner, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Alternate 2.0 uncompressed stereo soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

September 23

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

(2005) A riveting character study in the guise of a gritty underworld thriller, Jacques Audiard’s international breakthrough features an explosive performance from Romain Duris as a real-estate broker torn between the dirty dealings of his slumlord father (Niels Arestrup) and his recently rekindled love for classical piano. Can music offer salvation from a life of sin? Winner of eight César Awards, including Best Film, this bold reimagining of the New Hollywood cult classic “Fingers” showcases Audiard’s gift for balancing breathtaking tension with galvanic human drama. Formats: Blu-ray with high-definition digital master, approved by director Jacques Audiard, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Peking Opera Blues

(1986 — Hong Kong) Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia, Sally Yeh Chian-Wen, Cherie Chung. Newly remastered and restored Hong Kong Classic. A delightful action comedy from renowned filmmaker Tsui Hark. In chaotic 1920’s China, three young women and two young men are thrown together. One young woman grabs a box of jewels during the looting when a warlord takes Peking, and madcap action ensues when the jewels end up at the Peking Opera. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Audio commentary with film critic James Mudge; “An Opus For Peking: Starring in a Tsui Hark Classic” interview with actor Mark Cheng; “An Operatic Achievement” pnterview with cinematographer Ray Wong; “Hong Kong Confidential: Inside Peking Opera Blues With Author Grady Hendrix”; “Peking Provocations” interview with author and critic David West on the cinema of Tsui Hark; “Peking History Blues professor Lars Laamann on the setting and time of a Tsui Hark masterpiece; audio commentary with film critic James Mudge; theatrical trailer; image gallery. (Shout! Studios Hong Kong Cinema Classics). Read more here

Read My Lips

(2001) Two outcasts are drawn together by crime and passion in this early tour de force from director Jacques Audiard. Carla (Emmanuelle Devos, who won a César Award for her performance) is an unappreciated, hard-of-hearing employee at a nondescript construction company. Her lonely life gets a jolt of excitement when she hires a new assistant: Paul (Vincent Cassel), an ex-con who soon enlists her (and her lip-reading ability) in a risky scheme. With visceral camera work and sound design, Audiard immerses viewers in the duo’s increasingly turbulent world, blending noir conventions with complex character development for a thriller of unique depth and emotion. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jacques Audiard and director of photography Mathieu Vadepied, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

September 30

Creepshow 2

(1987) Titans of terror George A. Romero and Stephen King deliver yet another selection of blood-curdling tales in “Creepshow 2,” the follow-up to the 1982 horror classic. In “Old Chief Wood’nhead”, a group of young hoodlums face retribution from an unlikely source after looting a local hardware store. Meanwhile, “The Raft” sees a group of horny teens wishing they’d read the warning signs first before taking a dip in a remote lake. Finally, an uptight businesswoman finds herself with some unwanted company following a hit-and-run incident in “The Hitch-hiker”. Retaining the same EC Comics flavor that made the original such a hit, “Creepshow 2” – this time directed by long-time Romero collaborator Michael Gornick – is a standout horror anthology from the minds of two of the genre’s master craftsmen. Formats: 4K Ultra HD. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Extras: Read more here.

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

(2021) A salute to writers and expatriates, Wes Anderson’s 10th feature takes the form of the final edition of The French Dispatch, a weekly magazine chronicling life in the city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, France (for American readers). Made up of three featured stories—a profile of a tortured artist, a report on student revolutionaries, and a recounting of a tabloid kidnapping with a gourmet twist—plus an obituary and a travelogue, this dazzlingly constructed anthology mixes everything from theatrical interludes to tableaux vivants to comic-book animation. The superb ensemble cast includes Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Léa Seydoux, Owen Wilson, and Jeffrey Wright. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital master supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

(2008 — Korea) Genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (“A Tale of Two Sisters”) set his sights on new frontiers and spiced them up with his rollicking kimchi western. Wrangling three of Korea’s biggest stars, he orchestrated an audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains. In the 1930s, three gun-toting Koreans converge on a train with different objectives but after an explosive altercation they leave it with the same goal: track down a map leading to an unfathomable treasure. The ‘Good’ is bounty hunter Park Dowon (Jung Woo-sung), who is chasing down the ‘Bad’, the ruthless bandit Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun), rumored to be the notorious ‘Finger Cutter’. Meanwhile, wily thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho), the ‘Weird’, is on the hunt for anything he can get his hands on. Backs are stabbed, fingers are cut, and many bullets fly as this dangerous trio blast their way through the desert in search of untold riches. This glorious resurrection of the Manchurian Western was the biggest and most ambitious production ever undertaken in Korea. Presented here in stunning 4K, experience this spicy slice of wild west mayhem as you’ve never seen it before. Formats: 4K Ultra HD. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Extras: Read more here.

Isle of Dogs

(2018) Wes Anderson conjures a dystopian future Japan in magical stop-motion. After a canine virus outbreak, the dogs of Megasaki are exiled to a vast island garbage dump. When Atari (the daring 12-year-old ward of the city’s mayor) sets out to rescue his beloved Spots, he meets a pack of mongrel friends and is launched on an epic quest. Innovatively blending English and Japanese dialogue through a cross-cultural voice cast that includes Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Yoko Ono, and Koyu Rankin, this fable of loyalty and disobedience combines Anderson’s signature themes—friendship among outsiders, the adventure of rebellion—with a delight in the boundless possibilities of animated storytelling. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital master, supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Raw Meat (AKA Death Line)

(1972) Sharon Gurney, David Ladd, James Cossins, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, Hugh Armstrong, Christopher Lee. During a late-night ride on the London Underground, Patricia Wilson (Gurney) and her boyfriend Alex Campbell (Ladd) find James Manfred, OBE (Cossins) passed out on the steps to the Russell Square Station. When they fetch a police officer to help, the body disappears. Inspector Calhoun (Pleasence) and Detective Sergeant Rogers (Rossington) investigate, and it appears the disappearance is tied to the urban legend of workers trapped in a tunnel collapse when the Underground was being built. To survive deep under the streets, the workers reportedly resorted to cannibalism. Are their descendants roaming the Tube still looking for victims? New 4K restoration from the original uncensored camera negative, with Dolby Vision HDR and a new Dolby Atmos audio mix. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Audio commentary with co-writer/director Gary Sherman, producer Paul Maslansky, and assistant director Lewis More O’Ferrall; new audio commentary with film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth; “Tales From The Tube” interview with co-writer/director Gary Sherman and executive producers Jay Kanter & Alan Ladd Jr.; “From the Depths” interview with star David Ladd and producer Paul Maslansky; “Mind the Doors” interview with star Hugh Armstrong; trailers; TV spots; radio spots; poster & still gallery. (Blue Underground/MVD Entertainment).

The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years

Wes Anderson’s first 10 features represent 25 years of irrepressible creativity, an ongoing ode to outsiders and quixotic dreamers, and a world unto themselves, graced with a mischievous wit and a current of existential melancholy that flows through every captivating frame. This momentous 20-disc collector’s set includes new 4K masters of the films, over 25 hours of special features, and 10 illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition. $499.00. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital masters of “Bottle Rocket,” “Rushmore,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” “The Darjeeling Limited,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Isle of Dogs,” and “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun,” supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks. Ten 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and ten Blu-rays with the films and special features. Over 25 hours of special features, including audio commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photographs, discussions/analyses, and visual essays. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

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October 7

Rocky Horror Picture Show 50th Anniversary Edition

(2024) Fasten your garter belt and relive the time–warping, gender–bending cult classic! When a newly engaged couple’s (Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon) car breaks down on a rainy night, they wind up in the creepy castle of Dr. Frank–N–Furter (Tim Curry). There, they have an adventure that will thrill you, chill you and fulfill you like never before. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code Steelbook, VOD, Digital. Extras: “Rocky-oke: Sing It!” (With and Without Vocals): “The Midnight Experience with the 35th Anniversary Shadowcast.” “Vintage Callback Track (Unrated),” “Trivia Track: 50 Years and Still Kicking!”; deleted songs; deleted & alternate scenes; “he Search for the 35th Anniversary Shadow Cast”; “Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show (1995)”; “Beacon Theater, New York City (10th Anniversary)”; “Song Selection (With and Without Vocals)”; “Time Warp Music Video (15th Anniversary VHS Release)”; marketing materials. (Fox/Disney). Read more here

Silverado Limited Edition Steelbook

(1985) Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Linda Hunt. Fortieth anniversary edition. This spirited Western stars Kline, Glenn, Costner and Glover as four unwitting heroes who cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends live has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It’s up to the sharpshooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail and learn who their real friends are. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Steelbook. Extras: “Along the Silverado Trail: A Western Historians’ Commentary”; “A Return to Silverado With Kevin Costner” featurette; “The Making of Silverado”; trailer. (Sony).

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

(1992) In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets — but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine-a character as enthralling in life as she was in death. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD with 4K digital restoration, with 7.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised by director David Lynch. Alternate original 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

October 14

Eyes Without a Face

(1960) At his secluded château in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance — at a horrifying price. “Eyes Without a Face,” directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here — of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty — that once seen are never forgotten. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

Malpertuis

(1971 — The Netherlands) Jan (Mathieu Carrière, “Police Python 357”), a sailor newly arrived onshore, is unsure about returning to land but makes the journey to visit his childhood home only to find it no longer there. He goes to Bar Venus and joins his friends but an altercation leaves him knocked out cold. He wakes up in Malpertuis, a gothic mansion presided over by his uncle, Cassavius (Orson Welles). All the inhabitants of Malpertuis are waiting for Cassavius to die and the opportunity to inherit his vast fortune. But Cassavius wishes anyone who inherits to stay there forever. Jan investigates as those who leave meet with mysterious deaths. Harry Kümel’s (“Daughters of Darkness”) phantasmagoria is a Matryoshka doll of fantastic ideas, realized with stunning photography by Gerry Fisher (“The Exorcist III”) and scored by Georges Delerue. New 4K restoration of the film overseen by director Harry Kümel, released on Blu-ray for the first time in the world. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: New interview with Harry Kümel (2025); new interview with author and gothic horror expert Jonathan Rigby (2025); “Malpertuis Archive” archival documentary on the making of the film featuring Kümel, actor Mathieu Carrière and director of photography Gerry Fisher among others (2005); “Orson Welles Uncut” featurette on the casting of Welles, including rare outtakes of the actor (2005); “Susan Hampshire: One Actress, Three Parts” archival interview with the actress, including screen tests and contributions from cast and crew (2005); archival interview with Michel Bouquet and Harry Kümel from Belgian television (1971); “Jean Ray, John Flanders 1887 – 1964” archival interview with the source novelist and co-writer of “Malpertuis” (2005); “Malpertuis Revisited”; “Malpertuis: The Cannes Cut” rejected version of the film which premiered in Cannes (100 mins); “The Warden of the Tomb”: Kümel’s early film based on Franz Kafka’s play (1965, 37 mins); trailer; limited edition 80-page perfect bound booklet featuring new writing by Lucas Balbo, Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, David Flint, Willow Catelyn Maclay, Jonathan Owen. (Radiance Films/MVD Entertainment).

Tormented

(1960) Director: Bert I. Gordon. Starring: Richard Carlson, Susan Gordon, Lugene Sanders, Juli Reding, Joe Turkel. Rating: NR. Running time: 75 minutes. Bert I. Gordon’s cult classic arrives on definitive Blu-Ray. Jazz pianist Tom Stewart’s life unravels when his vengeful ex-lover returns from the dead after a preventable accident. This eerie supernatural shocker blends ghostly suspense, campy drive-in thrills, and unforgettable ’60s horror style. Newly remastered from archival elements. Formats: Blu-ray. (Gemini Entertainment).

October 21

Altered States

(1980) The ultimate cinematic head trip of the 1980s, British renegade Ken Russell’s first Hollywood film — adapted by the legendary screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his own novel — is part hallucinogenic freak-out, part gonzo creature feature, part transcendent love story, all played at a fever pitch. When researcher Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) begins using himself as a test subject for his mind-expanding psychological experiments, it sends him on an increasingly dangerous, substance-fueled odyssey from humankind’s primordial past to the outer limits of consciousness. It’s all visualized by Russell in a psychedelic supernova of out-there imagery that encompasses everything from the pagan to the cosmic sublime, culminating in a brain-wave-blasting battle between the mind and the heart. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray with new 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

A History of Violence

(2005) In David Cronenberg’s subtly provocative film, all is not as it seems. In his first of many collaborations with the director, Viggo Mortensen delivers a highly nuanced performance as Tom Stall, a small-town husband and father who is hailed as a hero when he kills the would-be perpetrators of a violent robbery. But how did this ordinary family man dispatch them with such skill? Working with an exceptional cast that also includes Maria Bello, Ed Harris, and William Hurt, Cronenberg slyly deconstructs the mythos of the American action hero, posing elemental questions about identity, human nature, and the violence that we both abhor and can’t look away from. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

October 28

Deep Crimson

(1996) One of the peaks of subversive Mexican director Arturo Ripstein’s cinema of outsiders, this deliriously perverse portrait of obsessive love dares audiences to see the humanity in the most sordid of antiheroes. A lonely-hearts advertisement leads lusty nurse Coral (Regina Orozco) to Nicolás (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a con man with whom she forges an increasingly intense, twisted bond as they crisscross 1940s Mexico, robbing and murdering the women he seduces. Blending sweeping melodrama with macabre humor and eruptions of berserk violence, Ripstein transforms one of the most infamous true-crime stories of the 20th century into a haunting vision of how love can give way to madness. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, supervised and approved by director Arturo Ripstein, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

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November

Burden of Dreams

(1982) For nearly five years, acclaimed German director Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult projects of his career: “Fitzcarraldo,” the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made more perilous by Herzog’s determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of Indigenous locals to pull a full-size 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded mission of one of cinema’s most fearless directors. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

Él

(1953) Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel’s fiendish tale of love gone wrong is among the most perverse and unsettling films he made during his two decades of exile in Mexico. Folding his own neuroses into an adaptation of Mercedes Pinto’s autobiographical novel, Buñuel crafts an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young woman (Delia Garcés) discovers that the outward sophistication of her new husband (Arturo de Córdova) masks disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia. A characteristically raw indictment of religious and social hypocrisy, Élstands as the director’s greatest excursion into melodrama, a vivid portrayal of society’s inability to restrain the irrational urges of the human id. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

Hell’s Angels

(1930) A high-flying feat of adventure filmmaking and a testament to the audacious, spare-no-expense vision of Howard Hughes, this landmark aviation epic remains exhilarating both for its daredevil aerial sequences and its nervy pre-Code punch. With the onset of World War I, two British brothers recruited into the Royal Flying Corps (Ben Lyon and James Hall) find their bond tested by their differing attitudes toward the war and their love for the same woman (Jean Harlow in her bombshell breakthrough). The product of a notoriously long and dangerous production that resulted in the deaths of multiple crew members, “Hell’s Angels” broke new technical ground, making use of early sound and color technologies, and capturing some of the most thrilling dogfight scenes ever filmed. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

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December 9

I Know Where I’m Going!

(1945) Love flourishes in the Scottish Hebrides in this windswept enchantment from British cinema’s most passionate visionaries, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. “I know where I’m going!” declares headstrong, upwardly mobile Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) en route to her marriage to a wealthy industrialist—until her carefully laid plans are blown away by a raging storm that leaves her stranded on an island off the Scottish coast with a dashing naval officer (Roger Livesey). Shot in ethereal black and white that enhances the almost mystical air of its setting—a folkloric world where legends and curses still hold sway—this beloved romance is one of cinema’s most stirring expressions of the eternal conflict between the head and the heart. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation, supervised by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

December 16

David Byrne’s American Utopia

(2020) David Byrne meets America’s fractious political moment with the transcendent power of song in this ecstatic documentary of the Broadway adaptation of his acclaimed “American Utopia” tour. Captured with immersive immediacy by director Spike Lee, this uplifting spectacle interweaves twenty-one songs, both new and classic, with Byrne’s singular observations on the state of the nation—its perils, promises, and possibility for transformation. Choreographed by Annie-B Parson with the inventive minimalism that has become a signature of Byrne’s live performances, “David Byrne’s American Utopia” moves between moments of communal exuberance and hymnlike grace, making the case for music as an agent of protest, change, and above all unity. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD with 4K digital master, supervised by director of photography Ellen Kuras, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here(The Criterion Collection).

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