Taxi Driver
(Sony, $25)
Martin Scorsese’s “groundbreaking hybrid of the grind house and the art house” has been “scrupulously restored” for its Blu-ray release, said The New York Times. Scorsese’s 1976 portrait of New York drew on the era’s “fears of social collapse,” but the film’s story is “as timeless as Dante.”
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White Material
(Criterion, $30)
French director Claire Denis returns to the colonial Africa of her childhood in this “beautifully shot” 2010 drama, said the London Independent. Isabelle Huppert plays a white plantation owner who refuses to leave a land torn by conflict or recognize the gravity of her situation.
Upstairs, Downstairs: 40th Anniversary Collection
(A&E, $200)
This 1970s BBC series may have started as a “soap opera with overstuffed settees,” but it evolved into a “sweeping 19th-century English novel,” said The Seattle Times. The program was “insightfully and engagingly written and performed.”
