This week's new DVD & Blu-ray

Brazil Terry Gilliam's masterpiece is set in a society on the brink of collapse, where sabotage is blamed when things go wrong, and where anyone questioning the status quo is branded a terrorist. As time passes, the film's power and resonance just refuses to dissipate. If anything, it has become less surreal and more satirical, making a case that the film could seem a bit underrated, even taking into account the acres of positive press garnered since its 1985 release. Jonathan Price is Sam Lowry, a heroic figure who dares to dream in a world where imagination and love are disregarded as unproductive and dangerous follies. His search for the woman of his dreams among society's oppressive machinery seems doomed from the offset, and indeed Brazil has one of the saddest happy endings you'll ever see. Watch this as a teenager and you'll get that it's a very funny take on Orwell's 1984. See it again and again with intervals of around 10 years and marvel how it becomes progressively darker in its humour, sharper in its satire and less and less of a paranoid fantasy. It's so visually dense that you'll notice something new each time you watch it, even more so now it's been given a sharp new Blu-ray makeover. Brazil is a timeless movie, in the best and worst possible ways. Blu-ray, 20th Century Fox Mildred Pierce Kate Winslet takes on the role made famous by Joan Crawford in HBO's mini-series adaptation of James M Cain's potboiler. DVD & Blu-ray, Warner Happy People Werner Herzog lends his mellifluous voice to narrate this fascinating documentary on isolated Siberian villagers. DVD, Second Sight Sarah's Key Kristin Scott Thomas excels as a writer investigating the horrific wartime history of her Paris apartment. DVD & Blu-ray, StudioCanal The Secret In Their Eyes Oscar-winning and compelling Argentinian drama which reopens an unsolved murder. DVD, Metrodome