We got some good stuff coming out this week, several things being genuine must-owns. Those must-owns come from two companies; Criterion and Olive Films. The former brings us a special edition of the Coens’ debut, Blood Simple, including extensive interviews with the Coens and various other cast and crew members (including DoP Barry Sonnenfeld, actors Frances McDormand and M. Emmet Walsh, and composer Carter Burwell) and, perhaps most importantly, a brand-spanking-new 4K restoration of the film. And that’s almost dwarfed by their other release, that being Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People, also newly-restored, although its feature slate is a bit skimpier than some were hoping (Criterion only adds two interviews, plus sticks in the Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows documentary from Warner Bros.’s Val Lewton box set). Meanwhile, Olive has taken to rereleasing its biggest catalog titles with something resembling good feature slates, their first titles in this experiment being High Noon and Johnny Guitar. Otherwise, there’s Warner Bros. releasing three Stephen King adaptations, It, Cat’s Eye, and Salem’s Lot, plus rereleases of Labyrinth (which received a very timely 4K restoration) and the 1991 Beauty and the Beast, a paring down of the Twin Peaks set, and some new titles that aren’t really worth getting into much beyond this.

Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
Beware! The Blob (Kino)
Blood Simple (Criterion)
Cat People (Criterion)
Cat’s Eye (Warner)
Dead-End Drive-In (Arrow)
The Enemy Below (Kino)
Fanny (Shout Factory)
Fixed Bayonets! (Kino)
Free State of Jones (Universal)
High Noon (Olive)
It (Warner)
The James Bond Collection (MGM)
Johnny Guitar (Olive)
Labyrinth (Sony)
Ma ma (Oscilloscope)
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Universal)
The Originals: The Complete Third Season (Warner Archive Collection)
The Rift (Kino)
Salem’s Lot (Warner)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Paramount)
Twin Peaks: The Original Series, Fire Walk With Me & The Missing Pieces (Paramount)