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 North by Northwest<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s elegant 1959 spy picture\u2014finally joining the rest of his classics on 4K\u2014is perhaps the most emblematic of his particular gifts, the most <\/em>Hitchcock movie if not quite the best <\/em>Hitchcock movie, one rife with his cinematic signatures: a ridiculously handsome leading man (this time, Cary Grant); an icy-cool and inscrutable blonde leading lady (Eva Marie Saint); gorgeous globe-trotting cinematography; an innocent-man-wrongly-accused narrative; and not one but two of his show-stopping suspense set pieces. Midway through, protagonist Roger Thornhill (Grant) finds himself in the isolated countryside, pursued and nearly killed by a crop-dusting plane, and at the film\u2019s conclusion, he finds himself dangling from Mount Rushmore with the villain\u2019s shoes crushing his fingers. They didn\u2019t call him the Master of Suspense for nothing. (Includes audio commentary and featurettes.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n ON MAX:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I Saw the TV Glow<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Writer\/director Jane Schoenbrun\u2019s follow-up to We\u2019re All Going to the World\u2019s Fair<\/em>, already exhibits, on just their second feature, a confidence of tone, texture, and composition that recalls Sofia Coppola\u2019s early work. And not just her; \u201cLynichian\u201d is overused, and rarely accurate, but it feels like the only reference point for waking-dream storytelling like this. It doesn\u2019t all work \u2014 some of it\u2019s a little heavy-handed, and the acting can get mannered. But the ambition is undeniable, and when Schoenbrun is really cooking, it feels like they\u2019re doing nothing less than rewriting the cinematic language, using unexpected camera movement and on-screen text like a Millennial Godard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ON BLU-RAY \/ DVD \/ VOD:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Red Rooms<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>There is a moment late in Pascal Plante\u2019s chilling psychological drama in which his protagonist, Kelly-Anne, watches a video. But it\u2019s not just any video; it\u2019s a recording of a live-stream in which a serial killer tortures and murders a teenage girl. We<\/em> don\u2019t see that video\u2014only her face as she watches and reacts, a choice that requires an actor to deliver everything within that video, and her own inner monologue besides. As Kelly-Anne, Juliette Gari\u00e9py lands that near-impossible moment, and many others besides; it’s a tricky, difficult turn, and some of the best acting I\u2019ve seen this year. Plante transcends the ghoulishness of the material by working in a cold, clinical style, and taking his narrative into the darker corners of Kelly-Anne\u2019s psyche in ways that are both surprising and satisfying. (Includes audio commentaries, featurettes, trailer, and essay by Jourdain Searles.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hush<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Mike Flanagan\u2019s breakthrough feature, a Netflix fave for years, gets a big, four-disc 4K release from Scream Factory, and it remains a model for low-budget chiller efficiency, a lean, mean single-issue thriller<\/a> where the high concept (deaf woman is stalked by a slasher) is clever, and every potential complication and variation has been carefully, thoughtfully worked through. The new flourish for this release is the alternate \u201cshush\u201d cut, in which Flanagan desaturates the picture to his original, preferred black-and-white format, and uses a stripped-down, minimalist sound design to create a genuinely new and compelling viewing experience\u2014a fine excuse to revisit an excellent little potboiler. (Includes original and \u201cshush\u201d cut, audio and video commentaries, and interviews.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n