A big week, with a wealth of classics and less-obvious picks making it to 4K; North by Northwest, Funny Girl, Blazing Saddles, the Gillian Armstrong Little Women, another James Cameron AI upscale, Kino sticking it to Zaslav with two deeper-cut Clints, and Arrow remastering A Simple Plan before so many actual Coens movies have made the leap. There’s also the first of four movies Hong Sang-soo has made in these last two years, this one notable as “the one he shot mostly out-of-focus for some reason”. Griping about needless Criterion releases is an old and very tiresome, if inevitable, activity, but there’s no other real reaction to their big holiday release being an $800 box set of the same old Blu-Rays of 40 Criterion “greatest hits”, chosen only because they were featured the most in Criterion closet videos. The only new addition is a Blu-Ray of many of those YouTube videos. Meanwhile Paramount, a company that has been on the edge for no longer existing for several years, is charging $50 for two new 4Ks of Airplane! and Top Secret packaged with the existing one for The Naked Gun. $750 more for one less backwards bookstore sequence.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 4K (Warner)
Blazing Saddles 4K (Warner)
CC40 (Criterion)
The Eiger Sanction 4K (Kino)
Funny Girl 4K (Criterion)
Godzilla Minus One 4K (Toho)
In Water (Cinema Guild)
The Killer’s Game 4K (Lionsgate)
Little Women 4K (Sony)
North by Northwest 4K (Warner)
Play Misty for Me 4K (Kino)
Reagan (Lionsgate)
Rush 4K (Shout Factory)
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (Criterion)
A Simple Plan 4K (Arrow)
Speak No Evil (Universal)
The Terminator 4K (Warner)
Tomie (Arrow)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In 4K (Well Go)
Two Mules for Sister Sara 4K (Kino)
ZAZ: The Collection! 4K (Paramount)