There is exceedingly little worth expanding on this week. The biggest news is Arrow releasing Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho Trilogy (perhaps now best-known as the source of In the Mood for Love‘s gorgeous recurring theme), followed semi-closely by Shout Factory releasing the Michael Caine dark comedy A Shock to the System and Kino releasing several Bob Hope vehicles, with Shout Factory’s release of Gordon Willis’s terrible, gorgeously-photographed sole directorial credit Windows trailing way behind. The rest is barely worth spelling out, so I’ll just spend the rest of this paragraph talking about Song to Song. The latest in Terrence Malick’s string of experimental, star-studded modern-day autobiographies to follow The Tree of Life (and maybe the last, considering his next is the apparently much more streamlined World War II film Radegund), it turned off the same people who were turned off by To the Wonder and Knight of Cups (to say nothing of those who never liked Malick to begin with) and appealed to the same people who found those films to be much more exciting than their reputation as pisstakes would suggest. I am wholeheartedly in the latter category, and as with both those films, Song to Song never had the common courtesy to play at a theater near me, so I am left to experience it at home, not the ideal format for movies this visually inventive (with some high-quality Emmanuel Lubezki cinematography) but I’ll take what I can get. I imagine Val Kilmer attacking an amp with a chainsaw (pictured in the header) will play just as well on a TV as it did on the big screen.

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (Universal)
The Comedian (Sony)
Land of Mine (Sony)
The Lemon Drop Kid (Kino)
Road to Bali (Kino)
Road to Rio (Kino)
Seijun Suzuki’s The Taisho Trilogy (Arrow Academy)
A Shock to the System (Shout Factory)
Son of Paleface (Kino)
Song to Song (Broad Green)
Windows (Shout Factory)
The Zookeeper’s Wife (Universal)