Tuesday Releases: Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Overlord, & A Star Is Born

Official Synopsis: Director/co-writer Bradley Cooper’s plays a present-day country musician struggling with alcoholism in this remake of the 1937 film of the same name. As his star wanes, the music career of the insecure singer-songwriter who became his lover and stage partner (Lady Gaga) rises to stratospheric heights – a process that places a great strain on their relationship.

• The Road to Stardom: Making A Star Is Born
• Jam Sessions and Rarities: “Baby What You Want Me to Do”
• Jam Sessions and Rarities: “Midnight Special”
• Jam Sessions and Rarities: “Is That Alright” by Lady Gaga
• Music Videos: “Shallow” Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
• Music Videos: “Always Remember Us This Way” by Lady Gaga
• Music Videos: “Look What I Found” by Lady Gaga
• Music Videos: “I’ll Never Love Again” by Lady Gaga

Official Synopsis: As the New Year begins, a terrifying evil is stirring, from across the centuries of Earth s history. As the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz return home, will they be able to overcome the threat to planet Earth?

• Series 11 Look Back
• Making of Resolution
• The Monster
• Closer Look

Official Synopsis: Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann’s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, Death in Venice is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant.

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel, a 2008 documentary about the director, featur­ing Visconti; actors Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Marcello Mastroianni; filmmakers Francesco Rosi and Franco Zeffirelli; and others
• Alla ricerca di Tadzio, a 1970 short film by Visconti about his efforts to cast the role of Tadzio
• New program featuring literature and cinema scholar Stefano Albertini
• Interview from 2006 with costume designer Piero Tosi
• Excerpt from a 1990 program about the music in Visconti’s films, featuring Bogarde and actor Marisa Berenson
• Interview with Visconti from 1971
• Visconti’s Venice, a short 1970 behind-the-scenes documentary featuring Visconti and Bogarde
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim

New cover by Cliff Wright

Official Synopsis: Director Brian A. Miller’s cop thriller features a violent robber battling chronic amnesia, an experimental drug designed to recuperate his memories of a bank heist executed seven years ago, a local detective, and a hardened FBI agent (Sylvester Stallone). He strives to survive the drug’s harmful side effects and rediscover the stolen loot while evading his pursuers.

• “Making Backtrace” Featurette
• Cast/Crew Interviews

Official Synopsis: This true story begins with frumpy Manhattan celebrity biography Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) as her luck begins to change. Her cat is unwell, her job has just been lost and she’s received an eviction warning meaning that she needs to make some money, and fast. She turns her creative hand to forging letters from well-known writers to earn a living. It works, but after getting her best friend Jack (Richard E. Grant) to help her stave off the authorities, it seems this money-making deception is drawing glances from all the wrong places.

• Deleted Scenes – with/without Commentary by Director Marielle Heller
  • Outtake
  • Vet’s Office
  • Cat Café
  • Lee and Jack Drink
  • Ms. Whitman Short
• Promotional Featurettes
  • Elevator Pitch
  • Becoming Lee Israel
  • Likely Friends
  • A Literary World
• Audio Commentary by Marielle Heller and Melissa McCarthy
• Galleries
  • Lee Israel Letter Gallery
  • Unit Photography Gallery

Official Synopsis: With only hours until D-Day, a team of American paratroopers drop into Nazi-occupied France to carry out a mission that’s crucial to the invasion’s success. Tasked with destroying a radio transmitter atop a fortified church, the desperate soldiers join forces with a young French villager to penetrate the walls and take down the tower. But, in a mysterious Nazi lab beneath the church, the outnumbered G.I.s come face-to-face with enemies unlike any the world has ever seen. From producer J.J. Abrams, Overlord is a thrilling, pulse-pounding action adventure with a twist.

• The Horrors of War
• Creation
• Death Above
• Death on the Ground
• Death Below
• Death No More
• Brothers in Arms

Official Synopsis: Filled with thrilling battle sequences, mind-blowing fight choreography, and epic adventure, ROBIN HOOD is an action-packed retelling of the classic legend. Returning home from the Crusades, Robin of Loxley (Taron Egerton) finds his country oppressed by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (Ben Mendelsohn). With the help of Moorish warrior Little John (Jamie Foxx), Robin transforms into the heroic outlaw Robin Hood, taking up arms to fight the sheriff and win the heart of his love, Maid Marian (Eve Hewson).

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• “Outlaws and Auteurs: Reshaping Robin Hood” (7-Part Documentary)
• Outtakes
• Deleted Scenes