For the week of August 17th, Music Box Films has a Blu-ray for François Ozon's The Stranger (L'Étranger) (2025), starring Benjamin Voisin, Denis Lavant, Rebecca Marder and Swann Arlaud.
Description: In French Algeria, office clerk Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) stands accused of murder. His only alibi is a mysterious indifference. Photographed in sensuous black-and-white, acclaimed director François Ozon's fresh take on Albert Camus' classic novel of existentialist ennui is a landmark of adaptation.
Music Box Films' Blu-ray of The Stranger contains interviews with Francois Ozon, Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Harder, deleted scenes, outtakes, costume and lighting tests, a poster featurette and a trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
New on Blu-ray from Crunchyroll is the anime series Clevatess: Season 1 (クレバテス-魔獣の王と赤子と屍の勇者-) (2025), featuring the voices of Haruka Shiraishi, Mutsumi Tamura, Yûichi Nakamura, Saya Aizawa, Jun Hashizume and Mamoru Miyano.
Description: In the aftermath of battle, the Lord of Dark Beasts Clevatess finds an orphaned baby. Thankfully, a hero is resurrected to guide him in child care and the world of man. The fate of the newborn and all of humanity now lie in the hands of this unlikely duo.
Crunchyroll's Blu-ray of Clevatess: Season 1 contains 12 episodes with a choice of Japanese: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 (with English subtitles) or English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio tracks. Extras include a "Making-of Chapter 1 Special Effects - Director's Cut", director's interviews with Shinji Higuchi, promo videos, behind-the-scenes of the English dub recording, web previews and textless opening and ending songs.
New on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber is Ryuya Suzuki's animated film Jinsei (無名の人生), featuring the voices of Ace Cool, Taketo Tanaka, Shôhei Uno, Tsubaki Nekoze, Remi Tyon and Eri Kamataki.
Description: Description: Our hero (voiced by rapper ACE COOL), called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student, he trains to become an idol, starting his search for self-identity and a journey toward greatness beyond superstardom. Written, directed, edited and entirely hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki over eighteen months, JINSEI (meaning "life" in Japanese) is an anime tour-de-force that announces Suzuki to the world as a bold new talent in independent animation.
Kino's Blu-ray of Jinsei contains Japanese audio with optional English subtitles. Extras include Ryuya Suzuki's short film Lawless Love (2022) and a theatrical trailer.
Also new from Kino is Holger Roost-Macias' documentary Longing for Innocence (Sehnsucht nach Unschuld).
Description: Between 1963 and 1976, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl spent months living among the Nuba people in the Kordofan Province of Sudan, documenting their cultural traditions as well as the everyday activities crucial to their very survival. The Nuba Mountains provided Riefenstahl with a means of rediscovering life in its most essential form, while escaping the notoriety that had overshadowed her in the wake of her notorious propaganda film Triumph of the Will. In this otherworldly setting, Riefenstahl captured stark ethnographic images of statuesque bodies of warriors and women covered in dye, undergoing ritual scarification, and engaging in communal dance—their movements so infectious that the filmmaker was unable to resist participating herself. Riefenstahl herself never completed a film of her Nuba experience, and this special edition, produced by La Tresor (the legal successor of her estate), is the most comprehensive assemblage of the footage ever released.
Kino Lorber's Blu-ray of Longing for Innocence contains Riefenstahl's documentary Impressions Under Water (2002), as well as audio commentaries for both films with film historian Anthony Slide.
Turning to catalog titles, Kino has several coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD. They are:
A Blu-ray for Alberto De Martino's Django Shoots First (Django spara per primo) (1966), starring Glenn Saxson, Fernando Sancho, Ida Galli, Nando Gazzolo, Erika Blanc and José Manuel Martín. Extras include audio commentary with filmmaker Alex Cox and an interview with Glenn Saxson.
A remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Joseph Sargent's MacArthur (1977), starring Gregory Peck, Ivan Bonar, Ward Costello, Nicolas Coster, Marj Dusay and Ed Flanders. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents MacArthur with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary with filmmaker / historian Steve Mitchell and author Steven Jay Rubin (Combat Films: American Realism), as well as a theatrical trailer. For full release breakdowns, read Svet Atanasov's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
A remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Michael Ritchie's The Island (1980), starring Michael Caine, David Warner, Dudley Sutton, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson and Dudley Sutton. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents The Island with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two new audio commentaries: one with action film historian Mike Leeder and another with film historian Howard S. Berger, as well as a newly-remastered theatrical trailer. For full release breakdowns, read Svet Atanasov's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
A 4K UHD combo pack release for Rob Cohen's Daylight (1996), starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Jay O. Sanders. and Karen Young. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Daylight with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary with Rob Cohen, a making of documentary, an EPK featurette, a music video for Donna Summer and Bruce Roberts' "Whenever There is Love" and two trailers. For a full release breakdown, read Svet Atanasov's 4K UHD review.
A remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Miguel Sapochnik's Repo Men (2010), starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, Alice Braga, Carice van Houten and Chandler Canterbury. Kino presents the theatrical version of Repo Men with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new audio commentary with entertainment journalists / authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry, two Blu-rays with the theatrical and unrated cuts of the film as well as audio commentary with Miguel Sapochnik and writers Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner (on both cuts), deleted scenes, in-movie commercials and a visual effects featurette. For a full release breakdown, read Svet Atanasov's 4K UHD review.
And finally from Kino comes a remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Robert Zemeckis' Flight (2012), starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood and Melissa Leo. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Flight with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new audio commentary with film historian / writer Julie Kirgo and writer / filmmaker Peter Hankoff, a new interview with Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter John Gatins, four featurettes and a theatrical trailer.
Staying with catalog titles, there are five more Blu-rays coming from the Warner Archive Collection. They are:
William Keighley's Torrid Zone (1940), starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, Helen Vinson and Jerome Cowan. Sourced from new 4K scans of the original nitrate negative, Warner Archive presents Torrid Zone with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include a vintage newsreel, the WB shorts Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra and Pony Express Days the Merrie Melodies cartoon A Wild Hare (all 1940) and the original theatrical trailer.
Vincent Sherman's All Through the Night (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Peter Lorre and Judith Anderson. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate negative, Warner Archive presents All Through the Night with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include audio commentary with Vincent Sherman and Bogart biographer Eric Lax, the featurette Call the Usual Suspects: The Craft of the Character Actor (2006), a vintage 1942 newsreel, the WB short So You Want to Give Up Smoking, the Merrie Melodies cartoon Lights Fantastic (all 1942) and the original theatrical trailer.
Ray Enright's Montana (1950), starring Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Douglas Kennedy, James Brown and Ian MacDonald. Sourced from new 4K scans of the original nitrate Technicolor negatives, Warner Archive presents Montana with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the WB Western shorts Oklahoma OutlawsWagon Wheels West (both 1943) and Gun to Gun (1944), the WB short So You Want a Raise, the Looney Tunes cartoon It's Hummer Time (both 1950) and the original theatrical trailer.
John Ford's Sergeant Rutledge (1960), starring Constance Towers, Jeffrey Hunter, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Juano Hernandez and Willis Bouchey. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents Sergeant Rutledge with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include an audio interview with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and film historian / author Donald Bogle, the Looney Tunes cartoon West of the Pesos, the Merrie Melodies cartoon Hopalong Casualty (both 1960) and the original theatrical trailer.
Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog (1997), starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson, Denis Leary and Willie Nelson. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents Wag the Dog with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include audio commentary with Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman, the featurette From Washington to Hollywood and the original theatrical trailer.
Coming to 4K UHD from Paramount Home Media Distribution is Robert Altman's Popeye (1980), starring Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, Paul L. Smith and Richard Libertini. Paramount presents Popeye with a choice of Dolby TrueHD 5.1 or lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 audio tracks, as well as Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include three featurettes, a song selection and a theatrical trailer.
Finally this week, Arrow Video has a remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004), starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox and Sean Bean. Arrow presents the theatrical cut of the film sourced from a new 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negatives, while the director's cut is on a second Blu-ray or 4K UHD disc, with Arrow noting that "for those sections unique to the Director's Cut, a 2K DI was used". Audio options are DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD discs. Extras include an introduction by Wolfgang Petersen, while a third Blu-ray disc of extras also contains a reconstructed picture-in-picture commentary, six archival featurettes, three image galleries, an easter egg and a theatrical trailer. Limited edition content includes a "collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the film by Priscilla Page and Laurie Maguire and an excerpt from the original production notes". For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.