A hefty week, with multiple box sets, a lot of Francois Truffaut movies, and at least one movie whose future availability may be affected by a lawsuit (maybe the House Party remake will be the second). And then there’s The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg proving once again that, behind the feel-good gloss, he can fuck you up just as badly as his parents’ divorce fucked him up. The scene where Spielberg Sammy Fabelman discovers his mother’s infidelity through a Blow-Up homage unlocks the hidden meaning of every other Spielberg movie (there’s no longer any excuse to say Kubrick came up with the “dark” parts of A.I., everything with Michelle Williams makes it crystal-clear whose mommy issues were getting hashed out in it), but then Sammy makes a Leni Riefenstahl celebration of his Aryan bully and I’m back to having many questions about how exactly Spielberg perceives his own work. Not since his 2000s run has Spielberg felt so confident to be so knotty and uncomfortable, and he’s done this in the guise of an “aren’t movies grand?” hagiography.

American Gigolo: Season 1 (Paramount)
The Bride Wore Black (Kino)
Dark Glasses (RLJ)
Decision to Leave (MUBI)
Enter Santo: The First Adventures of the Silver-Masked Man (Indicator)
The Fabelmans 4K (Universal)
Francois Truffaut Collection (The Wild Child / Small Change / The Man Who Loved Women / The Green Room) (Kino)
Giallo Essentials (White Edition) (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave / The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire / The Suspicious Death of a Minor) (Arrow)
House Party (Warner)
Iron Monkey (Shout Factory)
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Paramount)
Love on the Ground (Cohen)
Mississippi Mermaid (Kino)
Romeo and Juliet (Criterion)
The Story of Adele H. (Kino)
Strange World 4K (Disney)