{"id":17757,"date":"2016-03-16T18:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=17757"},"modified":"2016-04-18T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:54:00","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-june-2016-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/03\/16\/the-criterion-collection-announces-june-2016-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces June 2016 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today The Criterion Collection\u00a0announced their\u00a0June line-up, which includes\u00a0six new\u00a0releases! Not a one I do not care for!\u00a0Yet again, continuing their\u00a0unsettling trend, for the\u00a0fifth\u00a0time\u00a0in six months, there are\u00a0zero upgrades.<\/p>\n

The blurbs are from The Criterion Collection\u2019s website (so are the links) \u2014 go there to see the details on the supplements.<\/p>\n

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\"LeJune 7, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Le\u00a0amiche<\/em>\u00a0(1955)
\nd. Michelangelo Antonioni<\/p>\n

From <\/em>The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

This major early achievement by Michelangelo Antonioni bears the first signs of the cinema-changing style for which he would soon be world-famous. Le amiche<\/i> (The Girlfriends<\/i>) is a brilliantly observed, fragmentary depiction of modern bourgeois life, conveyed from the perspective of five Turinese women. As four of the friends try to make sense of the suicide attempt of the fifth, they find themselves examining their own troubled romantic lives. With suggestions of the theme of modern alienation and the fastidious visual abstraction that would define his later masterpieces such as L\u2019avventura, L\u2019eclisse,<\/i> and Red Desert,<\/i> Antonioni\u2019s film is a devastating take on doomed love and fraught friendship.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"LeJune 14, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

La chienne<\/em>\u00a0(1931)
\nd. Jean Renoir<\/p>\n

From <\/em>The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Jean Renoir\u2019s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter The Rules of the Game,<\/em> displaying all of the filmmaker\u2019s visual genius and fully imbued with his profound sense of humanity. A hangdog Michel Simon cuts a tragic figure as an unhappily married cashier and amateur painter who becomes so smitten with a prostitute that he refuses to see the obvious: that she and her pimp boyfriend are taking advantage of him. Renoir\u2019s elegant compositions and camera movements carry this twisting and turning narrative\u2014a stinging commentary on class and sexual divides\u2014to an unforgettably ironic conclusion.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"HereJune 14, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here Comes Mr. Jordan<\/em>\u00a0(1941)
\nd. Alexander Hall<\/p>\n

From <\/em>The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan<\/em> stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident. He finds himself in heaven but is told, by a wry angel named Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), that his death was a clerical error, and that he can return to earth by entering the body of a corrupt (and about-to-be-murdered) banker\u2014whose soul could use a transplant. Having inspired a sequel with Rita Hayworth and two remakes (the first starring Warren Beatty and the second Chris Rock), Alexander Hall\u2019s effervescent Here Comes Mr. Jordan<\/em> is comic perfection.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"FantasticJune 21, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fantastic Planet <\/em>(1973)
\nd. Ren\u00e9 Laloux<\/p>\n

From <\/em>The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director Ren\u00e9 Laloux\u2019s animated marvel Fantastic Planet,<\/em> a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue natives (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags\u2019 oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"TheJune 28, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clouds of Sils Maria<\/em>\u00a0(2014)
\nd. Olivier Assayas<\/p>\n

From <\/em>The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

This multilayered, immensely entertaining drama from the great contemporary French director Olivier Assayas is a singular look at the intersection of high art and popular culture. The always extraordinary Juliette Binoche is stirring as Maria, a stage and screen icon who is being courted to star in a new production of the play that made her famous\u2014only this time she must assume the role of the older woman. Kristen Stewart matches her punch for punch as her beleaguered assistant, called upon to provide support both professional and emotional for her mercurial boss. And Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz is Maria\u2019s arrogant new castmate, a starlet waiting in the wings. An amorphous, soul-searching tale, filled with ethereal images of its Swiss Alps setting, Clouds of Sils Maria<\/em> brilliantly dramatizes one woman\u2019s reckoning with herself and
\nthe world.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Dr.June 28, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb<\/em> (1964)
\nd. Stanley Kubrick<\/p>\n

From <\/em>The Criterion Collection:<\/em><\/p>\n

Stanley Kubrick\u2019s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR<\/span> ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchair-bound presidential adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb<\/em> is a genuinely subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch-black ironist.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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