Despite a relatively slim pack of new home-video offerings hitting shelves this week (after weeks and weeks of DVD-only options, this week appears to be without any dedicated DVD releases), fans of awards-season cinema will have plenty of options to round out their collections. With Wild, The Imitation Game, and Interstellar all arriving on both DVD and Blu-ray (so many purchasing picks!), Oscar-lovers can catch up on films they might have missed months ago and/or sneak in a first viewing of a feature they probably should have seen when it was in theaters. (Confession: I haven’t seen one of these films, guess which one!)
If you’re not interested in 2014 awards contenders, Warner Bros. has got your number, delivering a brand new “Diamond Luxe” edition of Gravity, apparently styled to fit the shiny, gem-shaped hole in your 2013 awards contender home-video collection. (What is “Diamond Luxe”? WB announced the new re-release series late last year, styled as an “elegant” new way to collect your favorite films, from older offerings like Ben-Hur to new stuff like, yup, Gravity.)
Anxious to avoid Oscar bait-y quality in favor of fun and really bad wigs? The Nicolas Cage-starring Outcast—the one that was (temporarily) not available in China—also hits home video this week. Make a double feature out of that one and Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar, and you’ve got yourself one heck of an offbeat offering. (Free idea for movie studios interested in making animal documentaries: Hire Cage to narrate one of them. We’re not kidding.)
DVD and Blu-ray (* = combo pack)
Alice’s Restaurant (Olive Films)
Allan Quartermain And The Lost City Of Gold (Olive Films)
Behind Enemy Lines (Olive Films)
Cries And Whispers (Criterion Collection)
David & Lisa (Scorpion Releasing)
Day Of Anger (Arrow)
Gravity: Diamond Luxe Edition (Warner Bros.)
Hoop Dreams (Criterion Collection)
How To Beat The High Cost Of Living (Olive Films)
Interstellar (Paramount)
Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar – 3D (Warner Bros.)
Night Game (Olive Films)
Outcast (Entertainment One)
Stranger At My Door (Olive Films)
The Beat Generation (Olive Films)
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission and The Fatal Mission (Olive Films)
The Facts Of Life (Olive Films)
The Imitation Game (Starz/Anchor Bay)
The Quiet Gun (Olive Films)
The Rewrite (Image Entertainment)
The Shanghai Story (Olive Films)
The Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry (Olive Films)
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy? (Olive Films)
Wild (Fox)
Wild Card (Lionsgate)
Without A Clue (Olive Films)