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. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) 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.
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Before he stunned the cinematic world with the epic series The Decalogue and the Three Colors trilogy, the great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski made his first work of metaphysical genius, Blind Chance, a compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek (the magnetic Bogusław Linda), a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; Kieślowski dramatizes Witek’s journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice does. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government, Blind Chance is here presented in its complete original form. – Criterion.com
Heaven Knows What (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
It’s hard not to fall in love with Arielle Holmes. Even when holding a close-up of a heroin daze (as seen on the poster) one gets the sense of the Safdie Brothers not prodding her and her real-life story for the sake of their own aesthetic interests, but rather a very complicated emotional need — one which the audience will understand within seconds. – Ethan V.
Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad)
A worthwhile biopic on Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson, Love & Mercy follows both Paul Dano and John Cusack playing different iterations of the legendary musician. Directed by Bill Pohlad, the accomplished producer behind The Tree of Life, 12 Years a Slave, and Brokeback Mountain, we said of it in our review, “With strong performances and unique insight that above all feels emotionally and artistically honest, Love & Mercy is a bittersweet triumph with a lot of pain along the way.” – Jordan R.
Also Arriving This Week
Cinderella (review)
Furious 7 (review)
Reality (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
(Note: new additions are in red)
Top Deal: A massive selection of The Criterion Collection titles are on sale, including the essential Apu Trilogy for 50% off.
Adaptation (Blu-ray) – $7.99
A Most Wanted Man (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The American (Blu-ray) – $8.48
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $6.21
Anna Karenina (Blu-ray) – $12.22
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $6.72
Black Swan (Blu-ray) – $6.75
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $8.23
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Casino (Blu-ray) – $9.95
Captain Phillips (Blu-ray) – $7.70
Children of Men (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Cloverfield (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Collateral (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Drive (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Edge of Tomorrow (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Fly (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Gangs of New York (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Good Will Hunting (Blu-ray) – $7.50
The Graduate (Blu-ray) – $7.88
The Grandmaster (Blu-ray) – $5.00
A History of Violence (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Hot Fuzz (Blu-ray) – $7.82
The Hustler (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $9.29
In the Loop (Blu-ray) – $7.69
It Follows (Blu-ray) – $13.07
Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) – $8.29
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Blu-ray) – $9.64
The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray) – $8.99
The Last of the Mohicans: Director’s Definitive Cut (Blu-ray) – $5.12
Let the Right One In (Blu-ray) – $9.16
Looper (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $8.71
Magic Mike (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Magnolia (Blu-ray) – $9.19
Margaret (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $5.11
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $9.65
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $9.20
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $4.96
Observe & Report (Blu-ray) – $7.49
Office Space (Blu-ray) – $5.88
Pariah (Blu-ray) – $7.08
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Public Enemies (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Reality Bites (Blu-ray) – $8.72
Road to Perdition (Blu-ray) – $9.21
The Secret In Their Eyes (Blu-ray) – $6.50
Seven (Blu-ray) – $6.68
Seven Psychopaths (Blu-ray) – $7.99
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $6.14
Singin’ in the Rain (Blu-ray) – $7.17
Snowpiercer (Blu-ray) – $11.99
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $6.25
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $7.88
The Tree of Life (Blu-ray) – $6.79
The Truman Show (Blu-ray) – $7.84
They Came Together (Blu-ray) – $9.99
True Grit (Blu-ray) – $9.98
This is the End (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Under the Skin (Blu-ray) – $7.99
We Own the Night (Blu-ray) – $6.89
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $7.31
While We’re Young (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $6.96
Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray) – $9.99
What are you picking up this week?