Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. If we were provided screener copies, we’ll have our own write-up, but if that’s not the case, one can find official descriptions from the distributors. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
The Complete Jacques Tati
Perhaps their finest release of the year (alongside that Jacques Demy set), today The Criterion Collection debuts The Complete Jacques Tati, a 12- disc collection featuring Jour de fête, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, Playtime, Trafic, and Parade. With all the features restored, along with a batch of shorts, it’s a worthy release to honor the ambitious director (with that term both applied to his visuals and style of nearly mute comedy). The additional extras are too numerous to highlight here, but check out Criterion’s official site and if you don’t have the Benjamin to pick it up now, it makes for a mighty fine top spot on the holiday wish-list. – Jordan R.
The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
Also on The Criterion Collection his week is the Blu-ray upgrade of George Sluizer‘s incredibly chilling The Vanishing. Named the most “horrifying film that I’ve ever seen” by Stanley Kubrick, I’d have to agree with the sentiment as we follow a man’s extensive search for his missing girlfriend. Special features might not be as notable as other releases — interviews with Sluizer, Johanna ter Steege, and a Scott Foundas essay — but as we approach Halloween, this mystery thriller is bound to be scary that any other potential offering. – Jordan R.
Also Available This Week
Begin Again (review)
Child of God (review)
Deliver Us from Evil (review)
Life of Crime
Wish I Was Here (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
(Note: new additions are in red)
Top Deal: Rosemary’s Baby, House, Videodrome, Badlands and more Criterion titles are less than $20 this week. See them all here.
The American (Blu-ray) – $6.00
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $6.94
An Education (Blu-ray) -$7.57
Animal Kingdom (Blu-ray) – $7.08
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $6.91
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Black Swan (Blu-ray) – $9.49
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $7.92
Casino (Blu-ray) – 8.99
Gangs of New York (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $8.17
Gone Baby Gone (Blu-ray) – $6.00
The Grey (Blu-ray) – $6.96
Headhunters (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Heat (Blu-ray) – $8.48
High Plains Drifter (Blu-ray) – $9.95
The Host (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Hot Fuzz (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Hugo (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $9.99
I Saw the Devil (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Jackie Brown (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Knocked Up (Blu-ray) – $8.63
Let the Right One In (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $9.63
MacGruber (Blu-ray) – $6.64
Melancholia (Blu-ray) – $10.42
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $4.98
Observe & Report (Blu-ray) – $4.88
Office Space (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $7.79
Public Enemies (Blu-ray) – $9.10
Reality Bites (Blu-ray) – $8.99
The Secret In Their Eyes (Blu-ray) – $7.76
Seven (Blu-ray) – $7.50
sex, lies, and videotape (Blu-ray) – $7.18
The Shining (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Shutter Island (Blu-ray) – $7.99
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $7.41
Skyfall (Blu-ray) – $9.96
The Spectacular Now (Blu-ray) – $12.74
Spring Breakers (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Source Code (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Synecdoche, New York (Blu-ray) – $7.99
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $8.69
Vanilla Sky (Blu-ray pre-order) – $8.61
Volver (Blu-ray) – $7.57
Waltz With Bashir (Blu-ray) – $7.07
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Zodiac (Blu-ray) – $6.99
What are you picking up this week?