‘All That Jazz’, ‘Blended’, ‘The Double’, ‘Vengeance is Mine’ and More on DVD & Blu-ray Today

I’ve only seen Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz once and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it a lot for its excellent photography, but I’m not sure I feel any need to purchase it. I didn’t even ask for a review copy, but I will say were it to come on television I’m pretty sure it would be an easy movie to sink back into. One thing I will add, however, is Roy Scheider crushes this performance; a stand out, dripping with intensity performance that’s certainly worth seeing.

This new Criterion release comes loaded to the gills, here are the features:

• New 4K digital restoration, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring editor Alan Heim
• Selected-scene audio commentary by actor Roy Scheider
• New interviews with Heim and Fosse biographer Sam Wasson
• New conversation between actors Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi
• Episode of the talk show Tomorrow from 1980, featuring director Bob Fosse and choreographer Agnes de Mille
• Interviews with Fosse from 1981 and 1986
• On-set footage
• Portrait of a Choreographer, a 2007 documentary on Fosse
• The Soundtrack: Perverting the Standards, a 2007 documentary about the film’s music
• Interview with George Benson from 2007, about his song “On Broadway,” which opens the film
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Hilton Als

It’s coming out today so I feel I have to mention it, but come on, are any of you shelling over your hard-earned money for this?

I saw Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas in Cannes last year and while the movie itself didn’t do much for me (read my review here), Mads Mikkelsen is great and if you’re a fan of his work and his performances you might owe it to yourself to watch this one for him alone.

I seem to be in the minority when it comes to Richard Ayoade‘s film, but I didn’t get much out of this one (read my review here) other than to see a film that wanted to be a Terry Gilliam film and was on “rinse and repeat” until it felt it got it right.

I just received this and at nearly 2.5 hours long and including an audio commentary it’s going to be a few days before I get it finished, but I did sneak it into the player for a few minutes and I’m already digging its vibe. The film tells the story of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), a man who went on a 78-day killing spree, and yes, it’s based on a true story. Here are the features:

• Restored high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary from 2005 featuring critic Tony Rayns
• Excerpts from a 1999 interview with director Shohei Imamura, produced by the Directors Guild of Japan
• Trailer and teaser
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson, a 1994 interview with Imamura by filmmaker Toichi Nakata, and writings by Imamura on Vengeance Is Mine and his approach to directing

One of the biggest flops in box office history, probably worth buying… right?