Newly Released

‘The Death of Louis XIV’: Jean-Pierre Leaud, who appeared as a 14-year-old in The 400 Blows, gives the performance of his life in Albert Serra’s period chamber piece. In his New York Times review Glenn Kenny called the movie “sober, meticulous and entirely convincing in its depiction of period and mortality”. It’s also a film for the ages. Available on Blu-ray and DVD. (Cinema Guild)

Fritz Lang: The Silent Films’: The greatest

of pulp filmmakers, Fritz Lang pioneered or even invented several movie genres, many in the 1920s. This 12-Blu-ray box includes all of Lang’s surviving silent films, among them Metropolis, Die Nibelungen, Spies, Dr Mabuse, the Gambler and Woman in the Moon. (Kino Lorber)

‘Lady Macbeth’: In his first feature, British director William Oldroyd transposes Nikolai Leskov’s novella (the source of the Dmitri Shostakovich opera Lady Macbeth of Minsk) to the 19th-century English

countryside with ferocious results. In her review, Times critic Manohla Dargis praised the movie’s “ticklish nastiness”. On Blu-ray, DVD and Amazon Video. (Lionsgate)

‘Personal Shopper’: Making her second appearance in an Olivier Assayas film, Kristen Stewart again plays a celebrity assistant — as well as something of a medium seeking to make contact with a dead relative. The movie is “sleek and spooky, seductive and suspenseful”, The Times’ AO Scott wrote in a review. Available on Blu-ray, DVD and

Amazon Video. (Criterion)

‘Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series’: The big television (and motion picture) news this autumn was, for many, David Lynch’s return to the great Northwest. Looking over the entire series, Noel Murray wrote in The Times that its best moments could be appreciated “as pure televisual poetry, regardless of their larger meaning”. All 18 episodes (and many extras) are available, in a multidisc set, on Blu-ray and DVD. (Showtime/CBS)