Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links.
IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):
Reality: Quentin Dupieux‘s latest project is about a horror film director searching for a perfect scream. Dupieux’s meta-absurdist comedies are always worth a look, and we anxiously await this one. Reality official site.
NEW ON DVD:
Inherent Vice (2014): Read our review! Now that this is finally on DVD, you can hover your finger over the pause button, get out your flow chart with multicolored inks to track the different subplots, and try to make sense of this psychedelic caper flick. Buy Inherent Vice
Wild at Heart (1990): David Lynch‘s road movie about Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) fleeing from assassins hired by the girl’s disapproving mother. This is in our reader-suggested review queue, naturally, and is one of the few Lynch films we have not yet covered. Buy Wild At Heart
NEW ON BLU-RAY:
Inherent Vice (2014): See description in DVD. Buy Inherent Vice [Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack]
The White Buffalo (1977): Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Bronson) dreams of a white buffalo and concludes it is his destiny to kill it; Crazy Horse (Will Sampson) hunts the same beast, believing its sacred hide will enable his dead child to find peace in the afterlife. A strange Western that flopped badly on release and has seldom been seen since, though it has a small cult of admirers who will be thrilled by this release. Buy The White Buffalo [Blu-ray]
FREE (LEGITIMATE RELEASE) MOVIES ON SHOUT FACTORY TV:
The Stunt Man (1980): A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set and is blackmailed into becoming the director’s stunt man—and psychological plaything. This odd, mind-bending labor of love from writer/director Richard Rush had so much trouble finding a distributor that star Peter O’Toole said “the film wasn’t released, it escaped.” Watch The Stunt Man free on Shout Factory TV.
What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that I have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.
Does anyone happen to know where/how I can see the Ryan Gosling debut, Lost River? I checked virtually everyone on Comcast, and it seems to not be being screened in any nearby theater.
Thanks in advance 😉
DVD/Blu-ray drops this Tuesday. It’s also on VOD on Amazon and probably other sites.
Any significance on this new DVD release of “Wild At Heart”, that differs from previous releases? Also, that’s definitely a Lynch film that needs to be covered on the site soon, I hope it makes the list.!
P.S. super excited about the Inherent Vice DVD release. Okay I’m done now.
I think that MGM’s rights to Wild at Heart must have lapsed and Kino Lorber snapped it up. The old DVD was out of print and somewhat expensive. This one appears to have approximately the same special features, there may be one or two differences, and is significantly cheaper.
Oh okay, thanks!