Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent is the third French film in five years about famed fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008), albeit the first to receive a major Blu-ray and DVD release in the U.S. Both 2010’s L’Amour Fou and 2014’s Yves Saint Laurent were DVD only releases here.

Bonello’s 250-minute film does not have a conventional structure. It’s more or less a first person stream of consciousness recollection of the most tumultuous decade in Saint Laurent’s life, from 1967 through 1976 with several scenes depicting the suddenly much older-appearing Saint Laurent of 1989 when he was in his early 50s.

The film intersperses a lot of detail about Saint Laurent’s work-life including his twice annual fashion shows and his sex life which consisted of long term affairs as well as brief encounters with both men and women. His longest relationship was with business partner Pierre Bergé with whom he would enter into a civil commitment shortly before his death. Gaspard Ulliel (A Very Long Engagement) plays Saint Laurnet from 1967-1976 and Jerémie Renier (The Kid With a Bike) plays Bergé. Helmut Berger plays Saint Laurent in 1989. In one bizarre scene, Berger is watching The Damned in the scene in which he (Berger, not Saint Laurent) seduces his mother (Ingrid Thulin). Was it supposed to be Saint Laurent remembering an episode in his own life or just an inside joke meant for film buffs?

Curiously the decade of Saint Laurent’s greatest success was also the decade of Hollywood’s fascination with the devil. It began in earnest with 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby and continued through, among others, 1973’s The Exorcist and 1976’s The Omen, ending with 1976’s The Sentinel, which has been newly released on Blu-ray.

Like Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, The Sentinel was based on a best-selling novel, but unlike those works, Jeffrey Konvitz’s first novel is no classic. Nevertheless Konvitz, an already established film producer, was able to get a group of distinguished actors to portray the mostly silly characters in the film directed by Michael Winner.

Cristina Raines stars as a fashion model who, not ready to marry boyfriend Chris Sarandon, moves out on her own and into a stunning Brooklyn Heights apartment. The apartment it turns out is in a house in which all the residents are devil worshipers except the old blind priest (John Carradine) who sits at the window on the top floor. He, she comes to learn, is the guardian, or sentinel, at the gate of Hell. She’s his chosen replacement. Ava Gardner is the real estate agent who gets her into the apartment. Arthur Kennedy, and briefly José Ferrer, are priests in on the plan. Burgess Meredith is an obsequious tenant. Fellow tenants Sylvia Miles and Beverly D’Angelo are lesbians who like to take their clothes off and fondle one another whenever they have an audience.

Gary Oldman, on the heels of his breakthrough role as Sid Vicious in 1986’s Sid & Nancy, had another sensational role as playwright Joe Orton whose life also ended tragically in Stephen Freaks’ 1987 film, Prick Up Your Ears, newly released on Blu-ray.

Alfred Molina, in his own breakout role, plays Kenneth Halliwell, a lesser known playwright, Orton’s mentor and lover, who murders Orton and then commits suicide. Although both actors received acclaim for their performances, the most awarded member of the cast was Vanessa Redgrave in one of her signature roles as Orton’s agent. It earned her numerous critics’ accolades include the New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe nomination.

Alec Guinness received strong notices for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in Ennio De Concini’s 1973 film Hitler: The Last Ten Days, but the legendary actor received no awards for his work this time around.

Newly released on Blu-ray, the film is a fascinating take on the dictator’s final days. It traces his growing paranoia from from his 56th birthday on April 20, 1945 to his suicide on April 30, 1945. Thirty-one years later the Oscar-nominated German film Downfall would prove the definitive take on the situation.

The biggest name associated with 1965’s The Satan Bug, now out on Blu-ray, aside from author Alastair MacLean, was director John Sturges. While the cast was far from unknown, neither George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis nor Dana Andrews was a star at the time. Sturges, having directed three of the biggest hits of the previous decade, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Magnificent Seven, and The Great Escape, was. Unfortunately this science fiction thriller about a mad scientist threatening to annihilate the world was not in a class with his previous work. Francis, playing Andrews’ kidnapped daughter, is especially wasted here.

Even more relevant now than it was in 2001, Peter Howlitt’s Antitrust is now also out on Blu-ray. This is an engrossing thriller about an egomaniacal software czar, played as a cross between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs by Tim Robbins, who plots to control the internet by either hiring or killing all the young programmers with ideas that threaten his supremacy. Ryan Phillippe is the hotshot young programmer who begins to suspect the worst when his best friend and former programming partner is murdered.

Less impressive is the film’s portrayal of women. The two principal female characters are clichéd characters. We get Claire Forlani as Phillippe’s supportive girlfriend with a hidden agenda and Rachel Leigh Cook as a stand-offish programmer with issues of her own. One will turn out to be good, the other bad. Still, they don’t detract from the overall enjoyment of the film.

New on Blu-ray and DVD from Criterion are two films that were previously released in both formats, Wes Anderson’s whimsical 2012 family comedy Moonrise Kingdom and Bruce Berseford’s multi-award-winning 1980 classic about military injustice during the Boer War Breaker Morant. Both are worth seeking out.

This week’s new releases include the British mystery releases George Gently, Series 7, and Vera, Set 5.