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.
The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)
A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality, the magnificent, Manhattan-set The Fisher King, by Terry Gilliam, features Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in two of their most brilliant roles. Bridges plays a former radio shock jock reconstructing his life after a scandal, and Williams is a homeless man on a quest for the Holy Grail—which he believes to be hidden somewhere on the Upper East Side. Unknowingly linked by their pasts, the two men aid each other on a fanciful journey to discovering their own humanity. This singular American odyssey features a witty script by Richard LaGravenese, evocative cinematography by Roger Pratt, and superb supporting performances by Amanda Plummer and an Oscar-winning Mercedes Ruehl, all harnessed by Gilliam into a compassionate, funny modern-day myth. – Criterion.com
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Abderrahmane Sissako can no longer be called one of the greatest African directors of our time; he has become, simply, one of the greatest directors of our time. With his fifth feature, Timbuktu, Sissako fuses the poetic visual language of Waiting for Happiness with the political urgency of Bamako to bring about a revelatory work, something along the lines of a Howard Hawks jihadi-hangout movie. I mean that as a very good thing. – Peter L. (full review)
Also Arriving This Week
Recommended Deals of the Week
(Note: new additions are in red)
Adaptation (Blu-ray) – $7.99
A Most Wanted Man (Blu-ray) – $7.99
A Most Violent Year (Blu-ray) – $12.99
The American (Blu-ray) – $6.29
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $6.66
Anna Karenina (Blu-ray) – $12.05
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Blu-ray) – $8.06
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $9.10
Black Swan (Blu-ray) – $6.74
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Casino (Blu-ray) – $8.87
Captain Phillips (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Children of Men (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Cloverfield (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Collateral (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Contempt (Blu-ray) – $12.73
The Descendants (Blu-ray) – $7.51
Do the Right Thing (Blu-ray) – $9.21
Drive (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Fly (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Gangs of New York (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $8.35
Good Will Hunting (Blu-ray) – $7.50
The Graduate (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Grandmaster (Blu-ray) – $5.99
The Grey (Blu-ray) – $8.57
Haywire (Blu-ray) – $7.64
Hot Fuzz (Blu-ray) – $7.88
The Illusionist (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Jackie Brown (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) – $8.12
Jaws (Blu-ray) – $10.99
Killing Them Softly (Blu-ray) – $7.88
L.A. Confidential (Blu-ray) – $8.50
The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Looper (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $8.71
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Margaret (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $6.50
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Observe & Report (Blu-ray) – $7.49
Office Space (Blu-ray) – $5.88
Pariah (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $6.50
Public Enemies (Blu-ray) – $8.57
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $7.00
Reality Bites (Blu-ray) – $8.72
The Secret In Their Eyes (Blu-ray) – $6.60
Seven (Blu-ray) – $7.00
Seven Psychopaths (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Shutter Island (Blu-ray) – $6.88
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $6.37
The Spectacular Now (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Spring Breakers (Blu-ray) – $9.94
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $6.30
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $7.88
The Tree of Life (Blu-ray) – $6.99
The Truman Show (Blu-ray) – $7.99
True Grit (Blu-ray) – $7.99
This is the End (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Vanilla Sky (Blu-ray pre-order) – $8.30
We Own the Night (Blu-ray) – $6.94
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $6.94
Whiplash (Blu-ray) – $14.99
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $6.72
Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray) – $9.99
What are you picking up this week?