#921
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'The Heroic Trio' (1993) - Coming soon to Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection "Deep under the Earth's crust lies the lair of The Evil Master, a mysterious and powerful figure plotting to kidnap all babies destined to become emperors! The police cannot stop The Evil Master and his plan is working, so who can people turn to in this time of despair? THE HEROIC TRIO, that's who! Invisible Girl (Michelle Yeoh), Wonder Woman (Anita Mui) and Thief Catcher (Maggie Cheung) must join forces to stop the dastardly villain from stealing any more babies before time runs out. Johnnie To, one of Hong Kong's most prolific and masterful action film directors, charges THE HEROIC TRIO with an electric shotgun blast of frantic energy, adds wizards and flying motorcycles, and turns the blender on high. Featuring comic book-styled production design reminiscent of CREEPY magazine, but with DC Comic-level capes, you get three of the most badass women kicking all sorts of supernatural butts" More info TBA
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
#922
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FFS Even Criterion are at it now!
__________________ Teddy, I'm a Scotch drinker - you know that. I just have the occasional brandy when I'm not drinking. |
#923
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'The Tales Of Hoffmann' (1951) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct - Blu-Ray - $31.96 Release date: June 7 "Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach’s fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a poet dreams of three women—a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren, and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer—all of whom break his heart in different ways. Powell and Pressburger’s feverishly romantic adaptation is a feast of music, dance, and visual effects, and one of the most exhilarating opera films ever produced." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
#924
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'Farewell Amor' (2020) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $31.96 or DVD $23.96 Release date: June 14 "In her luminous feature debut, filmmaker Ekwa Msangi chronicles a broken family’s journey to wholeness with empathy and insight. Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife (Zainab Jah) and teenage daughter (Jayme Lawson) when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another’s strengths, forgive one another’s weaknesses, and bridge cultural and generational divides in order to build a life together. Told in three perspective-shifting chapters that honor the multitude of struggles and emotions that make up the immigrant experience, Farewell Amor is a bittersweet, compassionate evocation of how it feels when your heart and your home are in different places." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
#925
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'Rouge' (1987) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $31.96 or DVD $23.96 Release date: June 21 "Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man and Emily Chu) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
#926
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'Shaft' (1971) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo (3 Discs) $39.96 or Blu-Ray (2 Discs) $31.96 Release date: June 21 "While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss (Moses Gunn) from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is studded with indelible elements—from Roundtree’s sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
#927
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'The Worst Person In The World' (2021) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-ray - $31.96 or DVD - $23.96 Release date: June 28 "Renate Reinsve won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for the revelatory, complex performance that anchors this sprawlingly novelistic film by Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier, an emotionally intricate and exhilarating character study of a woman entering her thirties. Amid the seemingly endless possibilities of the modern world, Julie (Reinsve) vacillates between artistic passions and professions, the question of motherhood, and relationships with two very different men: a successful comic-book artist (Trier regular Anders Danielsen Lie) and a charismatic barista (Herbert Nordrum). Working with a team of longtime collaborators, Trier and his perennial cowriter Eskil Vogt construct in The Worst Person in the World, the Oscar-nominated third entry in their unofficial Oslo Trilogy, a liberating portrait of self-discovery and a bracingly contemporary spin on the romantic comedy." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
#928
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'Pink Flamingos' (1971) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-ray - $31.96 Release date: June 28 "John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word filthy. Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending — Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability." Special features:
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
#929
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#930
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'Okja' (2017) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo (2 Discs) - $39.96, Blu-Ray (1 Disc) - $31.96, DVD (2 Discs) $23.96 Release date: July 5 "Master genre exploder Bong Joon Ho swirls pathos, dark satire, action, and horror into an exhilarating twenty-first-century fairy tale. An all-star cast including Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, and Jake Gyllenhaal is led by An Seo Hyun as Mija, a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic “superpig” created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong’s trademark virtuosic set pieces dazzle, Okja’s beating heart is the connection between a girl and her superpig, made all the more poignant by the brilliant special effects that bring the animal star to unforgettable life." Special features:
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