We were doing so good with home video releases for a while! And yet it all comes crashing down this week. Really, if you’re in the UK, you got it good compared to us, because you get the definitive release of the early Robert Altman film That Cold Day in the Park, a supply of Christopher Doyle magic courtesy of Mark Cousins’ I Am Belfast, and, uh, Wolfgang Petersen’s Enemy Mine (okay, maybe things aren’t quite so rosy there). Here, we got some good stuff, but much less of it compared to weeks past. Criterion’s showcase this week is only their third animated film, the French classic Fantastic Planet, which comes with color timing that is/was the source of mild controversy (it’s bluer than any other release), but which isn’t enough to spoil the fact that it’s fucking Fantastic Planet on Blu-Ray. The long-sought-after Neil Young-Devo movie Human Highway finally makes its way to Blu-Ray this week, alongside the filmed showcase of Young’s Rust Never Sleeps tour, while Olive Films puts out the country legend-filled 1986 version of Stagecoach on Blu-Ray. But two of my favorite titles this week are actually new releases. The first is Jeff Nichols’ terrific Midnight Special, a quiet sci-fi chase movie that also got me more than a little verklempt at the end (it’s essential viewing before Nichols’ other film this year, Loving, which sounds like it takes the same laconic yet emotional approach and applies it to source material that could not be any more different). And the second is Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, which has polarized even Malick fans. Personally, I loved it, for the way that Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki (this film is the best argument to grant Lubezki sainthood since Tree of Life) render modern scenery to look utterly foreign and bizarre, for the returns to Malick’s family autobiography, for the astonishingly beautiful Go-Pro shots, and for the numerous laughs it spawns (this is easily Malick’s funniest movie since Badlands, and it has a few gags that might as well have been lifted from an unused Malick draft of Zoolander 2). Just be warned, Broad Green’s cover art for Knight of Cups is fucking horrendous (come to think of it, Warner’s cover art for Midnight Special isn’t a looker either).

99 River Street (Kino)
The Brothers Grimsby (Sony, also in 4K)
The Crush (Shout Factory)
Embrace of the Serpent (Oscilloscope)
Enemy Mine (Eureka, UK-only, Region B)
Fantastic Planet (Criterion)
Human Highway (Reprise, on June 24)
I Am Belfast (BFI, UK-only, Region B)
Knight of Cups (Broad Green)
Midnight Special (Warner)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise, on June 24)
Nikkatsu Diamond Guys: Volume 2 (Tokyo Mighty Guy / Danger Paws / Murder Unincorporated | Limited Edition of 3000) (Arrow)
The Return of a Man Called Horse (Olive Films)
Stagecoach ’86 (Olive Films)
That Cold Day in the Park (Masters of Cinema, UK-only, Region B)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Warner Archive Collection)
The Wave (Magnolia)