There is certainly a lot of stuff out on Blu-Ray this week. As to how much of that stuff is actually worth your time and money, well, as Naughty by Nature sez, that’s not that simple. Starting with the good, Criterion releases one of Charlie Chaplin’s finest films, The Kid, and a scathing satire by the great Nagisa Oshima, Death by Hanging, this week (Hanging also includes an experimental documentary of Oshima’s). The Cohen Film Collection unearths the work of the Taviani brothers, including their three-hour opus Kaos, in HD. The Warner Archive Collection gives the Blu-Ray spotlight to one of Alfred Hitchcock’s least-heralded films, I Confess. Steve Jobs finally comes out on Blu-Ray, for those who want to experience changing film stocks and some of Aaron Sorkin’s most delightfully snappy dialogue at home. And for those who missed out on Twilight Time’s first release of Fritz Lang’s anti-coffee screed The Big Heat, they’ve reissued it on Blu-Ray, alongside a Blu-Ray of Otto Preminger’s classic noir Where the Sidewalk Ends. Other than that, Olive Films continues to pump out Blu-Rays of films that you vaguely recalling playing on Showtime once, Universal releases Solute favorite Trumbo on Blu-Ray, and Scream Factory scrounges up some more Vincent Price titles for a Part III of their Blu-Ray collections of his work. And of course, Warwnah is releasing Jawny Depp’s acclaimed perfawrmance as Whitey Bulger in Scawt Cooper’s Black Mass. I hear Matt Singah is a fan.
The 33 (Warner Bros.)
Ambush Bay (Kino Lorber)
Amos & Andrew (Olive Films)
The Doll of Satan (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Beachhead (Kino Lorber)
The Big Heat (Reissue | Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Black Mass (Warner Bros.)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (PBS)
The Challenge (Kino Lorber)
Class (Olive Films)
Code 46 (Olive Films)
Cowboy (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Curse of the Faceless Man (Kino Lorber)
Death by Hanging (Criterion)
Girls: The Complete Fourth Season (HBO)
The Hawaiians (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Hitch-Hike (RaroVideo)
I Confess (Warner Archive Collection)
The Kid (Criterion)
Labyrinth of Lies (Sony)
Moonlight and Valentino (Olive Films)
The Mutilator (Arrow)
Mystery Date (Olive Films)
No Way Out (Shout Factory)
Pressure Point (Olive Films)
Secret Admirer (Olive Films)
Sleep With Me (Olive Films)
Speechless (Olive Films)
Steve Jobs (Universal)
Support Your Local Sheriff / Support Your Local Gunfighter (Twilight Time)
The Taviani Brothers Collection ( Father and Master / The Night of the Shooting Stars / Kaos) (Cohen Film Collection)
Togetherness: The Complete First Season (HBO)
Trumbo (Universal)
The Vincent Price Collection III (Master of the World / Tower of London / Diary of a Madman / Cry of the Banshee / An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe) (Shout Factory)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)