This week's new DVD and Blu-ray releases

Profound Desires Of The Gods Eureka, Blu-Ray With most films you can guess when they were made, to within five years, just by looking at them. Some films, however, are so locked into their own little world, so perfectly and unwaveringly delivered, that you'd be hard-pressed to date them with any accuracy. This near-forgotten classic from Shohei Imamura (better known for Pigs & Battleships and the incredible 1979 serial killer film Vengeance Is Mine) slides easily into the latter category. Released to mass bafflement and public indifference in 1968 after an indulgent 18-month production schedule, it looks and feels as if it could have been made any time within the past five decades. Set on a fictional island near Okinawa, the tale concerns a Tokyo engineer sent to oversee the construction of a well for a sugar mill. His encounters with a shamed local family provide a story that touches on both farce and allegory. Imamura's style owes little to any outside influence: his sequences are punctuated with lengthy diversions into the natural world, as the people bicker with sea slugs, starfish go about their business, a pig is eaten by a shark etc. The soundtrack too takes some equally bold moves, conspiring to create a cryptic and poetic film unlike others before or since. The stunning photography, impressively restored on this so-far Blu-Ray-only release, with rich and powerful colours (the film is almost all exterior shots) of the tropical "paradise" further makes this film seem truly out of time. Samson And Delilah Atmospheric Aboriginal teen road trip. DVD and Blu-Ray, Trinity Wild Target Jean Rochefort comedy thriller. DVD, Second Sight The Hungarian Masters Collection Box set with Miklós Jancsó's My Way Home, Károly Makk's Love and Márta Mészáros's Diary For My Children. DVD, Second Run Heimat The first two series of the seriously epic German TV drama. DVD, Second Sight The Disappeared Urban Brit horror starring Fish Tank's Harry Treadaway. DVD, Soda Pictures Le Grand Jeu Classic French 1930s doppelganger romance. DVD, Eureka