On the Shelf: ‘The Surfer’ ‘Shane,’ ‘Antoine Doinel’ on 4K Highlight the Physical Media Releases
Welcome to On the Shelf, a weekly dive into the upcoming physical media releasing within the world of film and television, highlighting the essential releases you should add to your collection.
There’s a little bit of everything this week for physical media fans as we see the release of The Surfer, the psychologic thriller starring Nicholas Cage, land on 4K alongside the classic western Shane, and one of the best Criterion Box Sets in a while.
Premiering at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, with screenings at SXSW 2025, The Surfer follows a man returns to his beach side hometown in Australia, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local group of surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Led by another committed, wild performance by Academy Award Winner Nicholas Cage, co-star the late Julian McMahon as the leader of the intimating group of surfers, Lorcan Finnegan’s fourth feature film is a journey through the soul of a man trying to keep his reality in order before he loses his mind. Our own Luke Hearfield raved about the film in his review out of the Cannes Film Festival last year, calling it “unhinged,” as well as referring to the film as a crazy, ye tragic “comic folly about toxic masculinity.” Eat the rat and get your copy on 4K today.
Over at Kino Lorber, we take a step back in time as they are releasing one of the most important westerns of all time with George Stevens’ Shane. Based on Jack Schaefer’s novel, the story brings Alan Ladd (The Great Gatsby), a retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance). Shane received six Academy Award nominations for 1953, including Best Picture, winning for its now iconic Technicolor cinematography from Loyal Griggs. But the lasting impact of this elegant, mysterious, emotional western is the final showdown, where our main character comes to terms with who he is, and the profession he once called his calling card. It’s a deeply introspective look into the genre, with one of the greatest film shots of all time. If you don’t own Shane, or haven’t’ seen it, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy asap.
For the Criterion release of the week, The Adventures of Antoine Doinel arrives just in time before the 50% off Criterion Summer Sale at Barnes and Noble ends at the end of the month. As an expansion pack of director François Truffaut films, The Adventures of Antoine Doinel, includes The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run, and the short subject Antoine and Colette. In 1959, The 400 Blows shook the cinematic world, and introduced Truffaut as a master of the craft within the revolutionary French New Wave. This new box set focuses solely on the projects that featured his most indelible creation, Antoine Doinel (played by the iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud), who is a character molded after the director himself.
Other Notable Releases for the Week of July 14, 2025 include:
The Actor (2025, Blu-ray, Neon)
Capote (2005, Blu-ray, MPI Media Group)
Crumb Catcher (2023, Blu-ray, Arrow)
Dark Victory (1939, Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
Exclusive (1937, Blu-ray, Kino Lorber)
Frality (2001, 4k Blu-ray, Lionsgate Films)
Fury (2014, 4K Blu-ray Steelbook, Sony Pictures)
Sands of the Kalahari (1965, Blu-ray, Kino Lorber)
Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection (1989-2008, 4K Blu-ray, Shout Factory)
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