New Leaf, A | 4K UHD+Blu-ray

Elaine May was a director ahead of her time. Watching the Heartbreak Kid now and it reads like a thoroughly modern anti-romcom akin to 500 Days of Summer or Listen Up Phillip. Mikey and Nicky is a still startling deconstruction of male friendship in the face of professional responsibility, Ishtar is literally just Step Brothers for the 80s.

To say then, that A New Leaf, is May's most traditional film is only to reflect on how much the rest of her filmography bucked tradition.

Walter Matthau plays a thoroughly sexually disinterested son of a wealthy family, suddenly faced with financial ruin as a result of his complete ineptitude. His only path to freedom? Find a wealthy heiress, marry her, and kill her. But, what if that woman just so happens to become his only reason for living?

Special Features (via vinegarsyndrome.com)

• New audio commentary by film programmer, writer and educator K.J. Relth-Miller and Maya Montañez Smukler, author of Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema
• Director Jail - a new video interview with Carrie Courogen, author of Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
• Looking for Elaine May - a new video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May
• Elaine May and Mike Nichols In Conversation - an hour long post-screening discussion between Elaine May and her frequent collaborator, conducted at Film at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater in New York City in 2006
• Elaine May's A New Leaf 50th Anniversary - an episode of the Silver Streams podcast from the American Film Institute featuring programmers of the AFI Silver Theater discussing May's film
• The Cutting Room Floor - an archival interview with assistant editor Angelo Corrao
• Women in Hollywood: A Tragedy of Comic Proportions - an archival appreciation of Elaine May with filmmaker Amy Heckerling
• Theatrical Trailer
• New text essays from film writer Sarah Fensom; film critic Elena Lazic; queer historian and film critic Willow Catelyn Maclay; and film critic and editor Hannah Strong as well as a previously published piece by film critic Richard Brody
• Fold out poster featuring new art by cartoonist Michael DeForge
• English SDH subtitles