Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you\u2019re watching.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PICK OF THE WEEK: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chinatown<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Nothing is ever quite as it seems (or so goes the clich\u00e9) in classic noir detective movies: the client is lying, their motives are sketchy, and the initially simple mystery gradually reveals itself to be something much bigger and more sinister. Robert Towne\u2019s justifiably celebrated screenplay<\/a> follows the playbook, but takes advantage of the freedoms of New Hollywood and the R rating to throw his mystery a twist that couldn\u2019t have flown in the Bogart era. Roman Polanski\u2019s direction is both elegant and scrappy, while stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway do career-best work. It\u2019s a movie that somehow maintains its power to shock \u2014 and to thrill \u2014 and Paramount\u2019s new 4K restoration is exquisite. (Includes audio commentary, featurettes, and The Two Jakes<\/em><\/a> on Blu-ray.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n ON 4K \/ BLU-RAY \/ DVD \/ VOD:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Love Lies Bleeding<\/a><\/em>: <\/strong>Rose Glass\u2019s electrifying follow-up to 2019\u2019s Saint Maud<\/em> is one of the best new films of the year so far, a jaw-dropping mash-up of crime movie, erotic thriller, and girl\/girl romance. (I\u2019m sure its near-simultaneous release with the Criterion Collection\u2019s Bound<\/em>, below, is a coincidence, but my god, what a double feature.) Kristen Stewart is at her low-key best as the daughter of a small-time crime boss who can\u2019t get out of his orbit, no matter how hard she tries; Katy O\u2019Brian is the bodybuilder she falls for, a potential escape hatch who reveals trouble of her own. But this one\u2019s less about the plot than the feel, how Glass captures the feverish intensity of losing control with someone you love, and how quickly it can go sideways. An ambitious effort, full of big swings that land with grace. (Includes audio commentary and featurettes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n ON BLU-RAY \/ DVD \/ VOD:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Monkey Man<\/a><\/em>: <\/strong>Actor Dev Patel not only directs but stars, co-writes, and co-produces this action thriller \u2014 his first time as an autuer. There\u2019s a restless energy to the entire production, a sense of a first-time filmmaker throwing in everything he wants to do, since he\u2019s not sure he\u2019ll get the chance again. This is not an uncommon quality of debut features, and sometimes it\u2019s part of the appeal \u2014 their enthusiasm is infectious, their ambition admirable. That happens for much of\u00a0Monkey Man<\/em>, though at a certain point, it\u2019s just too much; Patel shows himself a filmmaker of genuine skill, and once he learns some restraint, he could really be something else<\/a>. (Includes audio commentary, deleted scenes, and alternate opening and ending.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remembering Gene Wilder<\/a><\/em>: <\/strong>Ron Frank\u2019s documentary tribute to the beloved comic actor and filmmaker is fleet-footed (it runs but 92 minutes), which has its pros and cons\u2014I certainly expected, for example, more than the ten or so minutes spent on his years with Gilda Radner. But it\u2019s well-assembled and entertaining, with Wilder narrating much of his own story (via his audio book) and interviews from the likes of Alan Alda, Mel Brooks, and Carol Kane, as well as copious archival materials. If you\u2019ve read Brooks\u2019s memoir or seen the many documentaries about him<\/em>, some of this will be awfully familiar. But it\u2019s worth a look as an introduction to Wilder\u2019s life and legacy. (Includes additional interviews and trailer.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ennio<\/a><\/em>: <\/strong>Another, less conventional Great Artist Documentary, this one focusing on the career of the legendary Italian film music composer Ennio Morricone, and assembled by his friend and collaborator Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso<\/em><\/a>). He gives us a whole roll call of sound bytes from legends (Bertolucci, Argento, Springsteen, Tarantino) right off the top, but intercuts those with images of Morricone in solitude, composing, exercising, and conducting. That solitude is what interests Tornatore most, and the picture is at its best when he dives into the nuts and bolts of composing. The subject\u2019s bravado is endlessly entertaining (\u201cDe Palma did not agree, but as many directors do, he accepted it\u201d), and Ennio<\/em> attempts, and often manages, to replicate the composer\u2019s distinctive, sprung rhythms and sly wit. (Includes featurette, deleted scene, interview, and trailer.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n