A House Is a Home, and a Prison, Too

Jean Renoir’s Plunge Into the American Mire

By DAVE KEHR

Jean Renoir’s “Swamp Water” (1941), his first American movie, has been released in a limited-edition Blu-ray by Twilight Time.

Mystery Endures After Verdict Is In

By DAVE KEHR

Otto Preminger’s black-and-white courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Murder” (1959) is now available in a high-definition edition from Criterion Collection.

DVD

That Well-Lighted Agent of Desire

By DAVE KEHR

“Dishonored” and “Shanghai Express,” two of the great Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich collaborations, are now available on DVD from TCM Vault.

When the Kid Met the Kid

By DAVE KEHR

Three movies just released on Blu-ray, “Rock-a-Bye Baby,” “The Geisha Boy” and “Boeing, Boeing,” are an important chapter in the psychobiography that is Jerry Lewis’s career

DVD

In Hitchcock’s World of Fallible Mortals

By DAVE KEHR

New Blu-ray editions of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” (1940), “Spellbound” (1945) and “Notorious” (1946),

Buxom, Lustful and Thirsty for Blood

By DAVE KEHR

Remastered versions of five 1970s horror films by the French director Jean Rollin feature some vampires and even more sex.

Pilot’s-Eye View of the War in the Air

By DAVE KEHR

To make “Wings,” the 1927 silent film about World War I pilots, the director William A. Wellman mounted cameras in the cockpits of planes.

Mantle of Dreams Yields a Nightmare

By DAVE KEHR

Raro Video has released “Il Cappotto,” Alberto Lattuada’s adaptation of the Gogol short story “The Overcoat,” on DVD.

A Short Career in Lurid Hollywood

By DAVE KEHR

Dorothy Mackaill, a star in silent films and early talkies, is the subject of a DVD double bill from Warner Brothers, featuring two pre-code movies: “Office Wife” (1930) and “Party Husband” (1931).

Unsung Features, Screwball to Noir

By DAVE KEHR

DVD releases this week include “Nothing Sacred,” “The Nickel Ride” and “The People Against O’Hara.”

A Singular View of Movie History

By DAVE KEHR

Jean-Luc Godard is the director behind the sprawling and subjective eight-part “Histoire(s) du Cinéma.”