Beware; this is probably the week you go broke. A few companies have soon to it that this week, they give you enough can’t-miss titles to make sure you’re in debt until Christmas. Just looking at Criterion alone, Russ Meyer makes his triumphant debut in the Collection with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (which contains a can’t-miss interview with John Waters, along with all the DVD features and several other archival features Criterion dug up), along with the actual attempt to adapt Jacqueline Susann’s bestseller, Valley of the Dolls (which Criterion has also done well by, for what could be a contractual obligation to fulfill before getting to the good stuff), not to mention motherfucking Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 10-part masterwork finally available in a quality other than ass in the U.S., with the spin-off works A Short Film About Love and A Short Film About Killing included. And then there’s Shout Factory giving the two Bill & Ted films the deluxe Blu-Ray release they so richly deserve, with extensive new documentaries on both films, new audio commentaries, and all of the features from the MGM Blu-Ray of Excellent Adventure. And then there’s Lionsgate raiding the Vestron catalog and releasing Blu-Rays of Blood Diner and Chopping Mall (the second being the only killer-robots movie to feature appearances by Eating Raoul‘s Paul and Mary Bland), not to mention their releasing the remastered version of Highlander. And then there’s Universal remastering An American Werewolf in London, greatly besting the DVD master that graced the previous Blu-Ray. And then there’s Arrow beginning to do separate releases for next week’s essential Woody Allen set, with a standalone Blu-Ray of Bananas. And then there’s the Cohen Film Collection releasing two restored Douglas Sirk films, one the historical melodrama A Scandal in Paris and the other the film noir Lured. And finally, lastly, there’s Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, my pick for the best film of the year thus far and one of the very greatest audiovisual experiences of the decade thus far (Natasha Braier and Cliff Martinez’s work here will be very hard to beat by any other film this year, even if La La Land is angling to take down both). And it provides, along with that Bill & Ted set, rather persuasive proof of Keanu Reeves’ superior acting abilities. Not that that shouldn’t be common knowledge at this point, but sadly news of this has traveled rather slowly.

An American Werewolf in London (Universal)
Bananas (Arrow Academy, UK-only, Region B)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Criterion)
Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection (Shout Factory)
Blood Diner (Lionsgate)
Cell (Lionsgate)
Central Intelligence (Warner)
Chopping Mall (Lionsgate)
Dekalog (Criterion)
Highlander (Lionsgate)
The Innocents (Music Box)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Warner Archive Collection)
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (Fox)
The Neon Demon (Broad Green)
The Shallows (Sony)
Slugs (Arrow)
The Shape of Things to Come (Blue Underground)
Two Films By Douglas Sirk (A Scandal in Paris / Lured) (Cohen)
Valley of the Dolls (Criterion)
Warcraft (Universal)