Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
The Witch (Robert Eggers)
“We will conquer this wilderness. It will not consume us,” foreshadows our patriarch in the first act of The Witch, a delightfully insane bit of 17th century devilish fun. As if Ingmar Bergman and Ken Russell co-directed Kill List, Robert Eggers’ directorial debut follows a God-fearing Puritan family banished from their settlement in a colonial New England, only to have their deep sense of faith uprooted when our title character has her way with their fate. – Jordan R. (full review)
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo)
Director Kaneto Shindo’s documentary-like, dialogue-free portrayal of daily struggle is a work of stunning visual beauty and invention. The international breakthrough for one of Japan’s most innovative filmmakers—who went on to make other unique masterworks such as Onibaba and Kuroneko—The Naked Island follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island in the Japanese archipelago. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island—a nearly backbreaking task essential for the survival of these people and their land. Featuring a phenomenal modernist score by Hikaru Hayashi, this is a truly hypnotic experience, with a rhythm unlike that of any other film. – Criterion.com
Also Arriving This Week
Dark Passage
Candy
The Films of Maurice Pialat: Volume 1
Theeb (review)
Recommended Deals of the Week
All the President’s Men (Blu-ray) – $9.37
The American (Blu-ray) – $8.01
Amelie (Blu-ray) – $8.99
The Assassin (Blu-ray) – $11.99
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Blu-ray) – $7.89
Beginners (Blu-ray) – $6.62
Bone Tomahawk (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Brothers Bloom (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Cabin in the Woods (Blu-ray) – $7.17
Casino (Blu-ray) – $9.49
The Conformist (Blu-ray) – $14.49
Cloud Atlas (Blu-ray) – $6.79
Dear White People (Blu-ray) – $9.98
Eastern Promises (Blu-ray) – $7.86
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Blu-ray) – $9.99
A History of Violence (Blu-ray) – $9.69
Heat (Blu-ray) – $9.03
Holy Motors (Blu-ray) – $13.79
The Informant! (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Inglorious Basterds (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Inherent Vice (Blu-ray) – $12.99
The Iron Giant (Blu-ray pre-order) – $9.99
It Follows (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Jaws (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Blu-ray) – $9.69
The Lady From Shanghai (Blu-ray) – $8.99
Looper (Blu-ray) – $7.88
Lost In Translation (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Macbeth (Blu-ray) – $11.77
Magnolia (Blu-ray) – $9.19
Margaret (Blu-ray) – $9.49
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – $6.48
The Master (Blu-ray) – $9.59
Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) – $8.25
Nebraska (Blu-ray) – $9.36
Never Let Me Go (Blu-ray) – $7.99
No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) – $5.99
Obvious Child (Blu-ray) – $9.99
ParaNorman (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Pariah (Blu-ray) – $6.74
Persepolis (Blu-ray) – $5.79
Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) – $7.95
Raging Bull: 30th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray) – $11.66
Re-Animator (Blu-ray) – $9.99
Road to Perdition (Blu-ray) – $8.99
The Searchers / Wild Bunch / How the West Was Won (Blu-ray) – $9.67
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Blu-ray) – $6.43
Short Term 12 (Blu-ray) – $9.89
Shutter Island (Blu-ray) – $6.79
A Separation (Blu-ray) – $6.80
A Serious Man (Blu-ray) – $7.66
A Single Man (Blu-ray) – $6.00
Snowpiercer (Blu-ray) – $7.99
The Social Network (Blu-ray) – $9.96
Steve Jobs (Blu-ray) – $11.99
Synecdoche, NY (Blu-ray) – $7.49
There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) – $9.15
The Tree of Life (Blu-ray) – $7.07
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Blu-ray) – $5.48
Volver (Blu-ray) – $5.95
Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray) – $7.99
Whiplash (Blu-ray) – $9.99
The Wrestler (Blu-ray) – $7.43
What are you picking up this week?