Alain Resnais’ enigmatic, genre-defining and defying film, Last Year at Marienbad, arrives on Blu-ray in a pleasing transfer from Optimum Releasing.

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The price of Hollywood, the price of being a god, the dissolution of love — it’s Godard’s most traditional narrative, but “traditional” doesn’t mean banal when it comes to Godard, the complex emotional and symbolic layers of Le Mépris and its leading actress Brigitte Bardot.

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The dark sounds of Joy Division and the violence of young football hooligans in the late 1970’s — it’s Awaydays from Optimum Releasing.

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The BFI do an excellent job bringing yet more classics of British cinema from their archives to Blu-ray with the release of Bill Douglas autobiographical trilogy of the harrowing experience of a childhood in poverty.

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Light, colorful, raw emotion, and an improvised story based around a broad narrative — this is Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou presented in a superb transfer from The Criterion Collection on Blu-ray Disc.

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This enigmatic 1960s feminist film comes to Blu-ray as another solid entry in the BFI canon.

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Studied, precise, and thought provoking, Don Levy’s 1967 film Herostratus gets its first commercial release in a two-disc Blu-ray set that should be grabbed up by film students and film collectors everywhere.

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