This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘THE TEN COMMANDMENTS’ from Paramount, ‘THE MIKADO’ and ‘TOPSY TURVY’ from The Criterion Collection, ‘BLACK SWAN’ from Fox, ‘TANGLED’ from Disney, ‘KING OF KINGS’ and ‘SOYLENT GREEN’ from Warner, ‘TREME’ from Warner and HBO, ‘INFERNO’ from Blue Underground, ‘FAIR GAME’ from eOne and Summit, ‘DOGTOOTH’ from Kino, ‘EVANGELION 2.22′ from FUNimation and many, many more!
Mike Leigh‘s Topsy Turvy represents something of a departure from his usual, modern style of storytelling. With nineteenth century manners and speech patterns in hand, Leigh delivers a touching cinematic love-letter to the creative partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan, presented here in a gorgeous new Blu-ray edition from The Criterion Collection. …Continued…
My love affair with The Criterion Collection will continue, unabated into March, as the label issues another incredible slate of films on Blu-ray! This batch includes a further round of older spine-numbers (previously issued titles on DVD) like Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants and Edward Yang’s Yi Yi as well as films new to the Collection such as Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy and the film adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan stage play it dramatizes, The Mikado. Full details below: …Continued…