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'Walker' (1987) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $31.96 or DVD [currently unavailable] Release date: April 12 "A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity—and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the contra war—the film uses this true tale as a satirical attack on American ultrapatriotism and a freewheeling condemnation of “manifest destiny.” Featuring a powerful score by Joe Strummer and a performance of intense, repressed rage by Harris, Walker remains one of Cox’s most daring works." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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'Miracle In Milan' (1951) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $31.96 or DVD $23.96 Release date: April 19 "Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it’s up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)—with some divine help—to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a bighearted ode to the nobility of everyday people." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
#903
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'The Girl Can't Help It' (1956) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $31.96 Release date: April 19 "In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he’d honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster’s bombshell girlfriend—the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role—and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive his career by turning her into a musical sensation. The only question is: Can she actually sing? A CinemaScope feast of eye-popping midcentury design, The Girl Can’t Help It bops along to a parade of performances by rock-and-roll trailblazers—including Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, Eddie Cochran, the Platters, and Gene Vincent—who light up the screen with the uniquely American sound that was about to conquer the world." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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'Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)' (2020) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $31.96 or DVD - $23.96 Release date: April 26 "This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from codirectors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers—Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), an electrician dealing with the fallout of a family tragedy, and Rosa (Temi Ami-Williams), a hairdresser supporting her pregnant teenage sister—as they each pursue their dream of starting a new life in Europe while bumping up against the harsh economic realities of a world in which every interaction is a transaction. From these intimate stories emerges a vivid snapshot of life in contemporary Lagos, whose social fabric is captured in all its vibrancy and complexity." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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''Round Midnight' (1986) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $31.96 or DVD - $23.96 Release date: April 26 "’Round Midnight is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character that was nominated for an Oscar, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching for a fresh start in Paris, Turner strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling single father and ardent jazz fan (François Cluzet) who finds his life transformed as he attempts to help the self-destructive musician. Herbie Hancock’s evocative, Oscar-winning score sets the mood for this definitive jazz film, a bittersweet opus that glows with lived-in, soulful authenticity." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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'For All Mankind' (1989) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for 4K UHD+Blu-ray Combo (2 Discs) - $39.96, Blu-Ray - $31.96 or DVD - $23.96 Release date: April 26 "’In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Twenty years later, Al Reinert constructed a documentary that imparts the unforgettable story of the twenty-four astronauts who participated in the Apollo mission to land on the moon—told in their words and in their voices, using the images they captured. With its awe-inspiring, otherworldly footage and a haunting atmospheric soundtrack by Brian Eno, For All Mankind stirs us with a profound sense of compassion for the “pale blue dot” that is our home, and it is still the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema that has been made about this earthshaking event." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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"Maggie Renzi and John Sloss revealed yesterday that Lonestar (1996) is coming soon from The Criterion Collection. Criterion are also in-talks to release Karyn Kusama’s Girlfight."
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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The CRITERION DVD and Blu-ray Thread
Nice! It’s about time that Line Star came out on BD or UHD! I’ve not seen Girlfight but Kasuma is a top notch filmmaker - quite eclectic films but I really enjoyed Jennifer’s Body, Destroyer and The Invitation. |
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WALKER for me!
__________________ Teddy, I'm a Scotch drinker - you know that. I just have the occasional brandy when I'm not drinking. |
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'Double Indemnity' (1944) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for 4K UHD+Blu-ray Combo (3 Discs) - $39.96, Blu-Ray (2 disc) - $31.96 Release date: May 31 "’Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this paragon of film-noir fatalism from James M. Cain’s pulp novel. When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck), he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. Featuring scene-stealing supporting work from Edward G. Robinson and the chiaroscuro of cinematographer John F. Seitz, Double Indemnity is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told and the cynical standard by which all noir must be measured." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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