I’ve been running on fumes these last few weeks, but here’s a release slate I can get excited to write about. There’s not much, and new releases are basically nonexistent (just the gooey space creature-feature Life), but there are some fine catalog titles to talk about. The biggest news is Criterion presenting Marcel Pagnol’s newly-restored Marseille Trilogy, which will be a must-buy whenever the Barnes & Noble sale starts, but I’m maybe most interested in Arrow’s release of Dario Argento’s breakthrough, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, with a new 4K restoration that should beautifully show off Vittorio Storaro’s gorgeous cinematography (in its original aspect ratio, not that 2:1 shit Storaro keeps pushing) and an entirely new collection of supplements. Elsewhere, the Warner Archive Collection does the lord’s work by finally giving us a quality release of John Patrick Shanley’s Joe Versus the Volcano, Shout Factory does a minor saint’s work by giving us quality releases of Car Wash and, uh, The Lawnmower Man (plus, to be fair, a collection of the work of Spanish horror director Paul Naschy), and Kino does the devil’s bidding by giving Hal Ashby’s supremely undignified swan song 8 Million Ways to Die a Blu-Ray release.

8 Million Ways to Die (Kino)
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Arrow)
Car Wash (Shout Factory)
Joe Versus the Volcano (Warner Archive Collection)
The Lawnmower Man (Shout Factory)
Life (Sony)
The Marseille Trilogy (Criterion)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kino)
The Paul Naschy Collection (Shout Factory)
Thunderbirds Are Go / Thunderbird 6 (Kino)