This week sees the release of some great catalog titles, with the big one being the Blu-Ray of Michael Mann’s Ali. But this isn’t just a simple upgrade (which would alone be worth the price of admission, just to see a higher-resolution version of Emmanuel Lubezki’s stunning cinematography), it also sees the debut of a third cut of the film, a streamlining of the film beyond both previous director’s cut and the theatrical cut (it runs 14 minutes shorter than the first DC and 7 minutes shorter than the TC). It may be no Blackhat director’s cut, but it’ll do for now (at least until Heat gets its new Blu-Ray release in the States). There’s also Criterion continuing in the Fassbinder and “movies with Something Wild as the title” business by releasing Fox and His Friends and Jack Garfein’s Something Wild, the Warner Archive Collection doing right by John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock (although they still don’t port over Sturges’ much-ballyhooed commentary from the Criterion laserdisc), and Twilight Time getting Stanley Donen’s Two For the Road. New releases aren’t bad either, although the most intriguing new title isn’t one of the major studio options but instead the South Korean horror-thriller Train to Busan. Aside from that, we have Mike Flanagan paying homage to 70s horror in the guise of a sequel to that shitty Ouija movie, Roger Corman coming back with Death Race 2050, and Tate Taylor making something a little less offensive than The Help with The Girl on the Train (which I may be earmarking as a future cinematographers series entry, based it on being shot by Charlotte Bruus Christensen).

12 Monkeys: Season Two (Universal)
Ali (Sony)
Bad Day at Black Rock (Warner Archive Collection)
Comes a Horseman (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Death Race 2050 (Universal)
Fox and His Friends (Criterion)
The Girl on the Train (Universal)
Keeping Up with the Joneses (Fox)
Ouija: Origin of Evil (Universal)
Slumber Party Massacre II / Slumber Party Massacre III (Shout Factory)
Something Wild (Criterion)
Train to Busan (Well Go)
Two for the Road (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)