Hi, I’m still here. Anyway, Criterion leads this week with 4Ks of Seven Samurai and the Howard Hawks Scarface (the latter given some truly fuck-ugly artwork), and there’s also 4Ks of Steven Spielberg’s (second) debut and one of many Oliver Stone movies well-suited to this moment in American history. But what’s gotten in my gears is Arrow continuing to lower what were already not especially high standards and releasing The Invasion, the fourth and very least Body Snatchers movie (Ferrara’s adaptation is now the only one without a 4K, a travesty for one of the best-looking movies of its era). The special features focus on the one thing you can take away from this that isn’t “Jeffrey Wright can deliver the hell out of science exposition”, its prescient take on body snatching as a pandemic that’s interesting only for the parts where you’re not as sleepy as Nicole Kidman is on-screen. Personally, the only real interest I find in it is as a Wachowskis completionist, their studio-mandated third-act rewrites having apparently given Lana a great idea for the climax of Matrix Resurrections.

Arabesque 4K (Kino)
Born on the Fourth of July 4K (Shout Factory)
Circus of Horrors 4K (Kino)
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark 4K (Arrow)
Heavenly Bodies (Fun City)
The Invasion 4K (Arrow)
The King of Queens: The Complete Series (Mill Creek)
Merchant Ivory: The Documentary (Cohen)
Paradise (Fun City)
Roseland (Cohen)
Scarface 4K (Criterion)
Seven Samurai 4K (Criterion)
The Sugarland Express 4K (Universal)