The late work of legendary director John Frankenheimer, who died in 2002, might have been a little uneven (think 2000’s Reindeer Games), but in 1998 he made what may be one of the finest movies of that decade: Ronin. Taking its name from the masterless samurai of yore and set in a post-Cold War world, the film follows a group of solo intelligence and secret agent types recruited to steal a mysterious briefcase. It’s a joy to watch Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone and Stellan Skarsgard chew over David Mamet’s juicy dialogue, and the car chase scenes are wonderfully pulse-pounding, among the best of their kind.

The original DVD of Ronin didn’t have many special features, although it featured a great, insightful Frankenheimer commentary, focusing on all the little filmmaking details that make the movie great. But now there’s a new collector’s edition that includes (along with the aforementioned commentary) a second disc boasting a host of featurettes focusing on subjects ranging from the movie’s stunt driving to its editing to its score, plus interviews with the leads conducted when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival. —Mark Slutsky