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

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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

1. Classics from the Van Beuren Studio (Thunderbean Animation)
2. Thunderbirds: The Complete Series (Timeless Media Group / Shout! Factory)
3. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Arrow UK)
4. Twice Upon A Time (Warner Archive Collection)
5. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Twilight Time)
6. Watership Down (The Criterion Collection)
7. Walt Disney Animation Studios: Short Films Collection (Disney)
8. 3-D Rarities (Flicker Alley)
9. Spartacus: Restored Edition (Universal)
10. 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

1. Fat City / Emperor of the North (Twilight Time)
2. Murder, My Sweet (Warner Archive)
3. The Special Effects Collection (WB)
4. The Prowler (VCI)
5. Blood and Black Lace (Arrow)
6. Miracle Mile (KL Studio Classic)
7. Ride the Pink Horse (Criterion)
8. The Brood (Criterion)
9. River’s Edge (KL Studio Classics)
10. 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.