Off The Shelf – Episode 74 – The Best DVDs & Blu-rays from 2015

In this special episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the best DVD and Blu-ray 2015.

In this special episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the best DVD and Blu-ray 2015.

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Follow-Up

Ryan buys the Ernest and Celestine Blu-ray from Plain Archive
Ultra HD Blu-ray Pre-orders Live, March 1st release: Fox, Sony, WB, Shout! and now Lionsgate
Curzon Tarkovsky

Ryan’s Top 10 List of 2015

Classics from the Van Beuren Studio (Thunderbean Animation)
Thunderbirds: The Complete Series (Timeless Media Group / Shout! Factory)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Arrow UK)
Twice Upon A Time (Warner Archive Collection)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Twilight Time)
Watership Down (The Criterion Collection)
Walt Disney Animation Studios: Short Films Collection (Disney)
3-D Rarities (Flicker Alley)
Spartacus: Restored Edition (Universal)
The Apu Trilogy (The Criterion Collection)

Honorable mentions:

Arrow Video: Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism, The Train,
The Criterion Collection: The Fisher King, Moonrise Kingdom and Dont Look Back
Disney: Aladdin, 101 Dalmations and Inside Out
Flicker Alley: Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film and Sherlock Holmes
Kino Lorber: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Masters of Cinema: The Shohei Imamura Masterpiece Collection
Second Run: Fruit of Paradise and Traps
Shout! / Scream Factory: Mad Max, the Gerry Anderson Collections and The Duke of Burgundy.
Twilight Time: Zardoz
Warner Bros: Special Effects Collection, Hammer Horror Collection, Inner Space, and Mad Max: Fury Road
Warner Archive Collection: Hugo the Hippo, Justice League Unlimited, Hanna-Barbera Specials Collection, Wind in the Willows and Jack and the Beanstalk
Zeitgeist Films: The Quay Brothers: Collected Short Films and Elena

Brian’s Top 10 List of 2015

Read his full list at Rupert Pupkin Speaks

Fat City / Emperor of the North (Twilight Time)
Murder, My Sweet (Warner Archive)
The Special Effects Collection (WB)
The Prowler (VCI)
Blood and Black Lace (Arrow)
Miracle Mile (KL Studio Classic)
Ride the Pink Horse (Criterion)
The Brood (Criterion)
River’s Edge (KL Studio Classics)
Breaking Away (Twilight Time)

Honorable mentions:

The Criterion Collection: Moonrise Kingdom, The Fisher King, Palm Beach Story, Sullivan’s Travels, Speedy, Make Way For Tomorrow.
Warner Archive: Wolfen, Five Came Back, Twice Upon A Time, Clue Club The Complete Series, Run Of The Arrow, Viva Villa.
KL Studio Classics: Modern Girls,Busting,Truck Turner.
Arrow Video: Stray Cat Rock,Blood Rage.
Flicker Alley: 3D Rarities, Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film
Scream Factory: I Madman.
Twilight Time: At Close Range.
Olive Films: Roar
Shout! Factory:Thunderbirds: The Complete Series
Grindhouse Releasing: Massacre Mafia Style
Masters of Cinema: The Naked Prey, Paper Moon, Day of the Outlaw

Other “best of the year” lists worth reading

Sight and Sound
DVD Beaver
Blu-ray.com

Past “best of the year” episodes

2014
2015 mid-year round-up

Credits

Ryan Gallagher (Twitter / Website / Wish List)
Brian Saur (Twitter / Website / Instagram / Wish List)

Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.