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.
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones)
The world of cinematic discourse was a markedly place when François Truffaut interviewed Alfred Hitchcock Nowadays, high-profile filmmakers are talking about their craft whenever someone turns on a recorder, and few people doubt the greatness of this text’s main subject. This might explain why the decidedly old-fashioned degree to which Kent Jones’ documentary honors the book seems out-of-place. What Jones (most often identified as an essayist / critic) settles upon is a chance to expand the field, and he slyly does so by letting new authors — be it Scorsese or Fincher or Assayas — give point-by-point illustrations of how they read scenes, more fully revealing what they find valuable in cinema. The final result probably won’t change your own conceptions of the form, but a bit of insight never hurt. – Nick N.
Sully (Clint Eastwood)
You know the inciting incident because it is not quite like any in recorded human history, and you could stare at the foreboding, nigh-apocalyptic poster to no end before being fooled into anticipating a conclusion that’s anything but triumphant — the sort of victory we can find comfort in almost expressly because it’s so expected. So there’s the question of why and how Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s “Miracle on the Hudson,” a three-minute-long event, necessitates the big-budget cinematic treatment, other than, of course, “it’s cinematic!” (A plane sitting between two cities is a great image, no matter the danger endured by ordinary people so we could get it.) Clint Eastwood never directs pictures with so simple a follow-trough, and, sure, Tom Hanks is always a welcome presence. Thus there is Sully, just such a big-budget film centered on the scariest few minutes anybody ever came away from almost entirely unharmed. – Nick N. (full review)
Also Arriving This Week
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Goat (review)
The Magnificent Seven (review)
Oasis: Supersonic (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
10 Cloverfield Lane (Blu-ray) – $9.99
99 Homes (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Aliens: 30th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray) – $9.96
The American (Blu-ray) – $7.09
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $6.88
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $5.86
Blue Ruin (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Bone Tomahawk (Blu-ray) – $8.99
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $10.00
Carrie (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Casino (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Cloud Atlas (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Deep Blue Sea (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Eastern Promises (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Enemy (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Godzilla (Blu-ray) – $8.90
Glengarry Glen Ross (Blu-ray) – $4.00
Gone Girl (Blu-ray) – $9.90
Greenberg (Blu-ray) – $5.10
Green Room (Blu-ray) – $12.99
Hail, Caesar! (Blu-ray) – $12.89
Haywire (Blu-ray) – $8.11
Heat (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Holy Motors (Blu-ray) – $10.01
The Informant! (Blu-ray) – $7.89
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Inherent Vice (Blu-ray) – $10.70
Interstellar (Blu-ray) – $7.99
In the Loop ( Blu-ray) – $9.97
It Follows (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) – $5.96
Jaws (Blu-ray) – $8.16
John Wick (Blu-ray) – $8.00
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Knight of Cups (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Blu-ray) – $9.89
The LEGO Movie (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Mad Max: Fury Road (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Magnolia (Blu-ray) – $9.29
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Blu-ray) – $9.60
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $5.79
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Midnight Special (Blu-ray) – $12.99
Nebraska (Blu-ray) – $6.72
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $6.62
The Nice Guys (Blu-ray) – $12.99
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $5.99
ParaNorman (Blu-ray) – $7.70
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Piano (Blu-ray) – $7.34
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $5.96
The Searchers / Wild Bunch / How the West Was Won (Blu-ray) – $10.37
Selma (Blu-ray) – $6.75
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Blu-ray) – $8.39
Short Term 12 (Blu-ray) – $9.89
Shutter Island (Blu-ray) – $3.99
A Serious Man (Blu-ray) – $7.19
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Blu-ray) – $8.79
Somewhere (Blu-ray) – $5.20
Spotlight (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Sunshine (Blu-ray) – $8.14
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Blu-ray) – $8.29
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $5.86
The Third Man (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy (Blu-ray) – $8.96
Two Lovers (Blu-ray) – $9.78
Volver (Blu-ray) – $6.79
Waltz With Bashir (Blu-ray) – $6.50
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $6.70
Whiplash (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Witch (Blu-ray) – $(.99
The Wolf of Wall Street (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray) – $9.90
What are you picking up this week?