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.
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg)
Following his piercing, bleak drama The Hunt, director Thomas Vinterberg is clearly having a great deal of perhaps needed fun with his follow-up, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy‘s classic novel, Far From the Madding Crowd. The preeminent kind of period piece, the late 19th century tale arrives with a heightened sense of self-awareness on what makes this genre tick. With sun-kissed cinematography, a swelling score, and back-and-forth romantic yearnings, this is a drama, despite feeling rushed in sections, intent on providing satisfaction above all else. – Jordan R. (full review)
Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) longs for “a life of ease and plenty.” Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he tries to hatch a lucrative plan with a famous wrestler. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh—and Fabian soon learns the horrible price of his ambition. Luminously shot in the streets of London while Hollywood blacklisters back home were closing in on director Jules Dassin, Night and the City, also starring Gene Tierney, is film noir of the first order, and one of Dassin’s crowning achievements. – Criterion.com
Also Arriving This Week
Adult Beginners (review)
A Little Chaos (review)
Child 44
The Dead Lands (review)
Insurgent (review)
Madame Bovary
The Nightmare (review)
True Story (review)
The Salvation (review)
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
(Note: new additions are in red)
12 Years a Slave (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Adaptation (Blu-ray) – $7.86
A Most Wanted Man (Blu-ray) – $7.99
A Most Violent Year (Blu-ray) – $12.99
The American (Blu-ray) – $8.48
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $5.97
Anna Karenina (Blu-ray) – $12.22
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $10.99
Black Swan (Blu-ray) – $6.75
Brokeback Mountain (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $8.13
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Casino (Blu-ray) – $8.93
Captain Phillips (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Children of Men (Blu-ray) – $8.51
Cloverfield (Blu-ray) – $4.99
Collateral (Blu-ray) – $7.88
The Counselor (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Descendants (Blu-ray) – $7.40
Drive (Blu-ray) – $7.77
The Fly (Blu-ray) – $7.02
Gangs of New York (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $8.17
Good Will Hunting (Blu-ray) – $7.50
The Graduate (Blu-ray) – $8.26
The Grey (Blu-ray) – $9.46
The Guest (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Haywire (Blu-ray) – $7.41
Hot Fuzz (Blu-ray) – $7.66
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $8.89
It Follows (Blu-ray) – $12.76
Jackie Brown (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) – $8.33
Killing Them Softly (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Blu-ray) – $12.99
L.A. Confidential (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Looper (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $8.71
Magic Mike (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-ray) – $6.00
Margaret (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $6.74
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $9.67
Mud (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $6.53
Nightcrawler (Blu-ray) – $8.99
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $4.96
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) – $9.48
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Reality Bites (Blu-ray) – $8.72
The Secret In Their Eyes (Blu-ray) – $6.50
Seven (Blu-ray) – $6.91
Seven Psychopaths (Blu-ray) – $7.99
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $6.14
The Spectacular Now (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Spring Breakers (Blu-ray) – $9.90
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $6.57
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $8.69
The Tree of Life (Blu-ray) – $6.99
The Truman Show (Blu-ray) – $4.99
True Grit (Blu-ray) – $9.20
This is the End (Blu-ray) – $9.99
We Own the Night (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $6.91
Whiplash (Blu-ray) – $14.99
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray) – $9.99
What are you picking up this week?