New on Blu-ray: STARTING OVER (1979) Starring Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh and Candice Bergen

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Product Description: Screen legend Burt Reynolds (The Longest Yard) plays brilliantly against type as a low-key, contented magazine writer who tries to put his life back together after his wife (Candice Bergen, Soldier Blue) opts for independence as a singer-songwriter. Jill Clayburgh (Semi-Tough) plays the wacky nursery school teacher who tries to help him surmount the emotional hurdles, but it’ll be rough going: he’s still hung up on his ex-wife. Starting Over is sprinkled with charming comedy, from Bergen’s nails-on-a-chalkboard singing style to Reynolds’ near-nervous breakdown right in the middle of Bloomingdale’s department store. Crafted by world-renowned filmmakers—writer-producer James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment), director Alan J. Pakula (Klute), cinematographer Sven Nykvist (Cries and Whispers) and composer Marvin Hamlisch (The Sting)—this delightful romantic comedy garnered 1979 Academy Award nominations for both iconic actresses, Bergen and Clayburgh.

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DVD & Blu-ray: COMES A HORSEMAN (1978) Starring James Caan and Jane Fonda

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Product Description: James Caan (The Godfather, Misery), Jane Fonda (Coming Home, Barbarella) and Jason Robards (Magnolia, Once Upon a Time in the West) headline Alan J. Pakula’s (Klute, All the President’s Men) seminal western, Comes a Horseman. Set in the late days of World War II, Ella Connors (Fonda) joins forces with fellow rancher Frank Athearn (Caan) in a battle to save their land from greedy cattle baron Jacob “J.W.” Ewing (Robards). Richard Farnsworth’s (Misery) portrayal of aging cowhand Dodger earned him an Academy Award® nomination for Best Supporting Actor and George Grizzard (Advise & Consent) and Mark Harmon (TV’s NCIS, Summer School) round out the cast. Michael Small (Marathon Man) contributes the music with photography by Gordon Willis (Annie Hall) in this “enormously beautiful” (Newsweek) modern-day western.

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974) Starring Warren Beaty - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Perhaps no director tapped into the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. and about to be shocked by Watergate.

Three years after witnessing the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle’s Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady (Warren Beatty) begins digging into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the event—and stumbles into a labyrinthine conspiracy far more sinister than he could have imagined.

The Parallax View’s coolly stylized, shadow-etched compositions by acclaimed cinematographer Gordon Willis give visual expression to a mood that begins as an anxious whisper and ends as a scream into the void.

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DVD & Blu-ray: KLUTE (1971) Starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland

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Product Description: With her Oscar-winning turn in Klute, Jane Fonda arrived full-fledged as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels—a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing-person investigation when detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) turns up at her door—Fonda made the film her own, putting an independent woman and escort on-screen with a frankness that had not yet been attempted in Hollywood. Suffused with paranoia by the conspiracy-thriller specialist Alan J. Pakula, and lensed by master cinematographer Gordon Willis, Klute is a character study thick with dread, capturing the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society.

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