The fact that this week has anything at all that’s particularly enticing coming out on disc is entirely the result of the boutique labels’ efforts, as apparently the studios know that going against Star Wars on home video even in its second week is a suicide mission. Scream Factory tries to rehabilitate the image of John Carpenter’s poorly-received remake of Village of the Damned, while Cult Epics does the same for the works of the director of Nekromantik and Arrow for Brian Yuzna’s Bride of Re-Animator. Meanwhile, Criterion needs to do no such rehab on the reputation of Howard Hawks’ classic Only Angels Have Wings, nor does Warner with their Warner Archives Blu-Ray of Hitchcock’s Suspicion (okay, maybe the ending needs a bit of defending). Twilight Time puts out a bunch of stuff this week, but the ones really worth getting are two Jeff Bridges films, Cutter’s Way and, if you couldn’t snag it the first time, Michael Cimino’s debut, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Bride of Re-Animator (Limited Edition of 5000) (Arrow)
Chato’s Land (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Cutter’s Way (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Destroyer / Edge of Sanity (Shout Factory)
The Forest (Universal)
Heroes Reborn (Universal)
In the French Style (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Julia (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Ken Burns’ Jackie Robinson (PBS)
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (Magnolia)
Only Angels Have Wings (Criterion)
A Prayer for the Dying (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik / Nekromantik 2 / The Death King / Schramm) (Cult Epics)
Suspicion (Warner Archive Collection)
Three Days of the Condor (Masters of Cinema, UK-only, Region B)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Encore Edition | Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Village of the Damned (Shout Factory)