LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF Thom Andersen’s bravura clipfest uses bone-dry narration and footage from dozens of movies to document Andersen’s vivid bewilderment at how the movie industry (mis)represents the city of Los Angeles as whatever it wants the place to be. The film, which hasn’t previously been available on home video, is like porn for film scholars: intellectually arousing and deeply entertaining. (Cinema Guild, $29.95; Blu-ray, $34.95)  WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. JAMES J. BULGER Filmmaker Joe Berlinger covers familiar ground in this account of the wicked ways of Whitey Bulger, his flight from justice, his Mephistophelean pact with the FBI, and his capture and trial. Berlinger also speculates on government coverups, but the film succeeds mostly as a vindication of Bulger’s victims and their survivors. (Magnolia, $26.98; Blu-ray, $29.98)  VENUS IN FUR Roman Polanski takes David Ives’s caustically brilliant Broadway play — about a theater director (Mathieu Amalric) and an actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) struggling over an adaptation of a legendary S&M novel — and romanticizes it until it reflects his career-long obsession with men, women, and power games. Both actors are excellent. (MPI, $24.98)  MY DARLING CLEMENTINE The sight of Henry Fonda’s Wyatt Earp leaning back in his chair on a Tombstone porch may be the purest, most pared-down encapsulation of John Ford’s vision of the American West. And the open-air square dance may be the most joyful. Extras: 1916 silent western costarring Ford, “Bandit’s Wager”; 1947 radio adaptation; trailer. (Criterion Collection, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.95)  DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN Susan Seidelman’s hip, kicky 1985 comedy happily mined the same mid-’80s vein as “Diva” and “Repo Man.” Rosanna Arquette and Madonna star as two girls who just wanna have fun, and do, exchanging identities and nearly getting themselves killed in the SoHo loft and club scene. Watch it while drinking a rum and Tab. Extras: alternate ending, trailer. (Kino Lorber, $19.95; Blu-ray, $29.95)  THE OFFICE: THE COMPLETE SERIES With Steve Carell primed to make his big dramatic breakthrough, in “Foxcatcher,” what better time to savor in all its fullness his big comic breakthough, as the ineffable/insufferable Michael Scott? Extras: deleted scenes, blooper reels, webisodes, promos, multiple commentaries from multiple commentators. (Universal, $199.98, available now)
New releases on disc include a documentary about Whitey Bulger and John Ford’s classic western “My Darling Clementine.”