Blow Out (Criterion Collection) - 4K Blu-Ray [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]

In this scathing satire of the business of television, over-the-hill newsman Howard Beale's (an Oscar-winning Peter Finch) televised rant after being summarily dismissed from the anchor desk immediately transforms him into a prophet-like media figure and the focus of a new sensationalized broadcast. Oscars also went to writer Paddy Chayefsky, Beatrice Straight and Faye Dunaway. William Holden, Robert Duvall co-star. 121 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English Uncompressed PCM mono; Subtitles English (SDH); audio commentary; Inchmaking ofInch documentary; theatrical trailer; documentary InchPaddy Chayefsky Collector of WordsInch (2025); essay. Two-disc set.

Seven-disc set includes As Tears Go By (1988)The directorial debut of filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, this crime drama blends what would become his trademark lyricism and romance with the Hong Kong action style. Tough Triad hood Wah (Andy Lau) finds himself torn between loyalty to his trouble-prone pal and partner Fly (Jacky Cheung) and his attraction to ailing cousin Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who offers Wah a way out of his dead-end life. 102 min. In Cantonese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NRC/Rtg Days Of Being Wild (1991)Leslie Cheung is Yuddy, a handsome womanizer in 1960s Hong Kong who reserves his true feelings for the birth mother he never knew. As Yuddy searches for his mother, he woos and abandons a beautiful shopgirl (Maggie Cheung), setting in motion a chain of dramatic confrontations. Writer/director Wong Kar-Wai's emotional character study also stars Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung. 89 min. In Cantonese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NRC/Rtg Chungking Express (1994)At once funny and touching, this comedy/drama of life, love, and take-out food in contemporary Hong Kong follows the barely-connected romances of two city policemen. One man (Takeshi Kaneshiro) pines for his long-gone girlfriend while meeting a mysterious woman in a bar, the other (Tony Leung) becomes the object of obsession for a gamine sandwich shop worker (Faye Wong). Brigitte Lin, Valerie Chow co-star; written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai. 102 min. In Chinese with English subtitles. C/Rtg PG-13C/Rtg Fallen Angels (1995)Considered by many to be director Wong Kar-Wai's masterpiece, this unconventional film intertwines two tragic tales of love and redemption a woman in love with a contract killer, and a mute ex-convict who finds himself involved in an awkward romance with a girl named Cherry. Stars Leon Lai Ming, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Michele Reis. 97 min. In Chinese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NRC/Rtg

Joel and Ethan Coen's alternately hilarious and shocking Inchtrue crimeInch drama follows a shady Minneapolis car dealer's (William H. Macy) plan to have his wife kidnapped and then take part of the ransom from her wealthy father. When the crooks (Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare) hired to abduct the woman wind up killing a state trooper and two witnesses along a rural Minnesota highway, the very pregnant local police chief (Frances McDormand) begins her own investigation into the murder. With Harve Presnell, Kristin Rudrüd. 98 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English. Two-disc set.