This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘THE GREAT DICTATOR’ and ‘SOLARIS’ from Criterion, ‘PLATOON’ and ‘TIGERLAND’ from Fox/MGM, ‘PAPILLON’, ‘GRAND PRIX’, ‘GETTYSBURG’, ‘GODS AND GENERALS’, ‘MAVERICK’ and ‘WILD WILD WEST’ from Warner, ‘LE MANS’ from Paramount, ‘I AM NUMBER FOUR’ and ‘GNOMEO & JULIET’ from Disney and many, many more!
This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1′ from Warner, ‘LE CERCLE ROUGE’ and ‘WHITE MATERIAL’ from Criterion, ‘THE INCREDIBLES’ from Disney/Pixar, ‘FAREWELL’ from eOne/Seville, ‘MARWENCOL’ from Cinema Guild and many, many more!
Writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville crafts in his penultimate work, Le Cercle Rouge, the ultimate Euro-gangster heist film – a distillation of elements gleaned through years of devouring American movies and projected through the lens of French cinema. It’s a riveting film that looks and sounds better than ever on newly issued Blu-ray disc from The Criterion Collection. …Continued…
From the looks of things, The Criterion Collection will be gracing us with another brilliant slate of Blu-ray discs come April. I’m particularly excited about upgrading my DVD copy of Terry Gilliam‘s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, because, as I feared over a year ago, Universal‘s Blu-ray release of the film just didn’t cut the mustard. I’m expecting great things from this new director approved transfer! Oh yeah, and Blow Out in HD! And more Melville! And Ken Loach! …Continued…