Ahh, this is more like it. Finally, we’re back to a week where there’s an embarrassment of options for people to enjoy on home video. I guess I might as well get the most controversial of those options out of the way first and talk about The Revenant. I didn’t find it to be the worst thing since stomach cancer, and I’m not morally offended by Alejandro González Iñárritu (and I don’t even like half of his movies), his dumb pronouncements about his movies (which remind me of Mr. Show‘s hipster character enough that I can’t be much more than amused at them), or his awards, which I guess puts me in a minority in this group. I quite liked Revenant as an action movie about actions, although AGI still has some residual ponderousness I could do without (I may even wholeheartedly like him if he ever stops utilizing symbolic birds), and regardless of what one feels about Leo’s performance (I didn’t find it an affront to acting, and I even really liked it, although I know it’s far from his best work), it still has more of Tom Hardy’s wonderful inscrutable act, some excellent support from Domhnall Gleeson and the movie’s secret MVP Will Poulter, and some typically boner-inducing Emmanuel Lubezki cinematography, which captures nature’s beauty while making it clear that nature fucking hates you. And I still liked it less than Birdman! Fun times.

Anyways, moving into safer pastures, Criterion is finally completely their quest to release Whit Stillman’s first three films with their release of his Barcelona, which comes separately as well as packaged with Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco. And if you’re a UK denizen, you can finally experience the glory of bitching about Criterion in your neck of the woods, now that Criterion has expanded into Europe with six titles. Of course, this same week, Masters of Cinema tries to tell you that you should be happy with what you have, with their definitive releases of Man with a Movie Camera and Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900. And back in the U.S., the Warner Archive brings Frank Tashlin’s Susan Slept Here to Blu-Ray, Olive Films releases Sam Fuller’s Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street, Arrow brings their stunning restoration of Larry Cohen’s The Stuff stateside, Scream Factory comes close to outdoing Arrow’s release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and Drafthouse Films resurrects the so-bad-it’s-brilliant classic Dangerous Men, which should fit snugly alongside Miami Connection and Roar.

1900 (Masters of Cinema, UK-only, Region B)
And Then There Were None (Acorn)
Barcelona (Criterion)
Betrayed (Olive)
Dangerous Men (Drafthouse)
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (Olive)
Doris Day and Rock Hudson Romantic Comedy Collection (Pillow Talk / Lover Come Back / Send Me No Flowers) (Universal)
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (Magnolia)
Fatal Beauty (Olive)
Fifty Shades of Black (Universal)
The File of the Golden Goose (Kino Lorber)
The Fool (Olive)
Grey Gardens (Criterion, UK-only, Region B)
The Holcroft Covenant (Kino Lorber)
It Happened One Night (Criterion, UK-only, Region B)
The Lady in the Van (Sony)
Little House on the Prairie: The Ninth and Final Season (Lionsgate)
Love 3D (Alchemy)
Macbeth (Criterion, UK-only, Region B)
The Major (Olive)
Man with a Movie Camera (Masters of Cinema, UK-only, Region B)
Miracle Beach (Kino Lorber)
Misconduct (Lionsgate)
Norm of the North (Lionsgate)
Only Angels Have Wings (Criterion, UK-only, Region B)
Outlaw: Gangster VIP Collection (Gangster VIP / Gangster VIP 2 / Heartless / Goro the Assassin / Black Dagger / Kill! | Limited Edition of 3000) (Arrow)
Panic in Year Zero (Kino Lorber)
The Revenant (also in 4K) (Fox)
Sibling Rivalry (Olive)
Silicon Valley: The Complete Second Season (HBO)
Speedy (Criterion, UK-only, Region B)
The Stuff (Arrow)
Susan Slept Here (Warner Archive Collection)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Shout Factory)
Tootsie (Criterion, UK-only, Region B)
Ulee’s Gold (Kino Lorber)
Uptown Girls (Olive)
Veep: The Complete Fourth Season (HBO)
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (Olive)
A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan / Barcelona / The Last Days of Disco (Criterion)