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4K BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
New 4K restorations of both the Theatrical Cut and the Director s Cut from the original camera negatives by Arrow Films, supervised and approved by director Richard Kelly and cinematographer Steven Poster
4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations of both cuts in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
100-page hardcover book featuring writing by Nathan Rabin, Anton Bitel and Jamie Graham, an in-depth interview with Richard Kelly, an introduction by Jake Gyllenhaal and contemporary coverage, illustrated with original stills and promotional materials
Double-sided fold-out poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Luke Preece
Six double-sided collector s postcards
Limited Edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Preece
Posted on Friday, April 30th, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
Still clinging to physical media like a drowning person clinging to a life preserver? Me too, reader. Me too. Which is why I’ve compiled a round-up of some recent Blu-ray releases you’re going to want to check out.
Memories of Murder
Bong Joon-ho‘s 2003 masterpiece returns, restored by the Criterion Collection. The film remains just as haunting and memorable as it was all those years ago – perhaps even more so now. At the time the film was made,
Memories of Murder was inspired by a real series of unsolved murders. In the years since its release the killer has been caught, which makes the film’s unsettling, open-ending ending extra eerie.
Japanese cinema has been a bit of a mystery. It’s not that it didn’t exist, but what arrived in America was rather specific offerings. When I was a kid, Japanese cinema consisted of large monsters stomping Tokyo. Around college time, things expanded a little bit beyond Godzilla and Gamera with the films of Akira Kurosawa showing up at art houses. Although his movies would get referenced in terms of the movies that were remade from his work such as
Seven Samurai into
The Hidden Fortress for
Star Wars. Even during the era of Mom & Pop VHS shops, the foreign section didn’t contain much from Japan outside of a copy of the erotic classics
Among the new releases are Stowaway, Chaos Walking, Shadow And Bone, and The Marksman by Norman Wilner on April 23rd, 2021 at 7:30 PM 1 of 5 2 of 5
Our critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of April 23, and list everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Stowaway
(Joe Penna)
Just hours into a two-year mission to Mars, three astronauts (Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Toni Collette) are shocked to discover an extra passenger: a launch support engineer (Shamier Anderson) who was knocked out in an accident before liftoff, and can’t be returned to Earth. That’s the premise that kicks off this speculative drama from the creators of the Mads Mikkelsen survival thriller Arctic and this one’s even more focused and intense. Refreshingly, there’s no tension between the crew and the new guy: once it’s clear he’s not a saboteur, everyone is downright hospitable. But what does his presence mean for the ship’s fuel, oxygen and food resources?