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 Killers (Robert Siodmak and Don Siegel)
Ernest Hemingway’s simple but gripping short tale “The Killers” is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style and launch the acting careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and John Cassavetes, that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway’s existential classic. – Criterion.com
Slow West (John Maclean)
The western has a setting and tropes and characters so indelible to the American consciousness that the genre could easily be seen as an outgrowth of fairy tales. Slow West takes this idea and runs with it, creating a playful and elegiac story of love and loss and redemption. Directed with affection and care, acted with suitable whimsy and wit, Slow West is the film that finally elevates the western to its appointed destiny. – Brian R.
Also Arriving This Week
The Cell
Kill Me Three Times (review)
Maggie (review)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (review)
Woman in Gold (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
(Note: new additions are in red)
Top Deal: All titles on The Criterion Collection are now 50% off through July 27th at Barnes & Noble. (See our 10 recommendations.)
12 Years a Slave (Blu-ray) – $9.99
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) – $8.48
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Anna Karenina (Blu-ray) – $12.05
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Blu-ray) – $9.29
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $9.10
Black Swan (Blu-ray) – $6.75
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $8.01
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Casino (Blu-ray) – $8.96
Captain Phillips (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Children of Men (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Cloverfield (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Collateral (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Contempt (Blu-ray) – $11.75
The Counselor (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Deer Hunter (Blu-ray) – $10.73
The Descendants (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Drive (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Fly (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Gangs of New York (Blu-ray) – $7.50
Goodfellas (Blu-ray) – $7.92
Good Will Hunting (Blu-ray) – $7.50
The Graduate (Blu-ray) – $7.99
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) – $8.49
Jackie Brown (Blu-ray) – $5.00
Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) – $8.10
Jaws (Blu-ray) – $10.99
Killing Them Softly (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut (Blu-ray) – $5.00
L.A. Confidential (Blu-ray) – $8.17
The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Looper (Blu-ray) – $9.72
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $8.71
Magic Mike (Blu-ray) – $6.99
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-ray) – $6.64
Margaret (Blu-ray) – $8.99
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) – $6.99
Office Space (Blu-ray) – $5.88
Pariah (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $6.49
Public Enemies (Blu-ray) – $9.10
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Reality Bites (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Secret In Their Eyes (Blu-ray) – $6.70
Seven (Blu-ray) – $6.88
Seven Psychopaths (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Shame (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Shutter Island (Blu-ray) – $6.86
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $6.14
The Spectacular Now (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Spring Breakers (Blu-ray) – $9.92
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $6.59
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) – $8.80
This is the End (Blu-ray) – $9.47
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?