Rebounding from last week, we have a solid week in home video all around, with new and old (okay, mostly old) titles to recommend. If you’re like me and the apparently excellent comedy-drama focusing around L.A. transgender sex workers, Tangerine, didn’t play at a theater near you, now’s your chance to check it out. It will likely be right next to Terminator Genisys (if you even consider buying that, you are getting some serious side-eye) and Trainwreck.
In catalog titles, Criterion finally starts to get into the Michael Haneke business with Code Unknown, Alain Resnais’s long-sought-after time travel drama Je t’aime, Je t’aime will finally see a home video release courtesy of Kino, more of Charlie Chaplin’s short films get an HD release courtesy of Flicker Alley, a bunch of Clint Eastwood films are finally available individually, Cohen bringing us the Alain Delon-Jean Gabin double-header Two Men in Town (timed very close to Delon’s 80th birthday), Arrow Academy rescuing the work of forgotten Japanese auteur Kiju Yoshida with a typically extravagant box set, and Bad Boys 1 & 2 finally get the 4K restorations they so desperately required (this is Bad Boys 2‘s Blu-Ray debut, so you can now go insane watching it in glorious 1080P). And Twilight Time has once again gotten ahold of many great films, perhaps too many. There’s Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility (already available on a region-free, dirt-cheap overseas Blu-Ray), Ken Loach’s Fatherland, and, most importantly/sadly, Woody Allen’s Shadows and Fog. I know hearing that a Woody Allen film is good from me is like hearing that, I dunno, a Steven Soderbergh movie is good from me, but this is a really underrated movie that’s well worth checking out, because it’s very funny and because it has some utterly gorgeous black-and-white cinematography from Carlo Di Palma, which should translate quite nicely to Blu-Ray. Just wish it was translating nicely to a cheaper Blu-Ray from a company I want to support, but it will be mine because I need the eggs.
Bad Boys 1 & 2 (Sony)
The Beguiled (Universal)
Better Call Saul: The Complete First Season (Sony)
Bound to Vengeance (Shout Factory)
Broken Lance (Twilight Time)
Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies (Flicker Alley)
Code Unknown (Criterion)
Coogan’s Bluff (Universal)
Davy Crockett (2-Movie Collection) (Disney)
Deep In My Heart (Warner Archive Collection)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (Kino Lorber)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (Kino Lorber)
The Eiger Sanction (Universal)
Fatherland (Twilight Time)
Forbidden Zone (MVD/VSC)
The Honeymoon Killers (Arrow, UK-only, Region B)
Je t’aime, Je t’aime (Kino Lorber)
Justice League Unlimited: The Complete Series (Warner Archive Collection)
Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism (Arrow, UK-only, region-free)
Mr. Holmes (Lionsgate)
Passage to Marseille (Warner Archive Collection)
Play Misty for Me (Universal)
Scorpio (Twilight Time)
Self/Less (Universal)
Sense and Sensibility (Twilight Time)
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (Troma)
Shadows and Fog (Twilight Time)
Sherlock Holmes (Flicker Alley)
Tangerine (Magnolia)
Terminator: Genisys (Paramount)
Trainwreck (Universal)
Treasure Island (Disney)
Two Men in Town (Cohen Film Collection)
The Voyeur (Cult Epics)
Zarafa (Cinedigm)