{"id":18025,"date":"2016-05-16T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=18025"},"modified":"2016-05-16T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:35:49","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-august-2016-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/05\/16\/the-criterion-collection-announces-august-2016-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces August 2016 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today The Criterion Collection\u00a0announced their\u00a0August line-up, which includes five new\u00a0releases — including two films by Orson Welles and Criterion’s second Robert Altman release of the year\u00a0—\u00a0and\u00a0one upgrade of a film, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes<\/em>,\u00a0that was formerly in a nice DVD boxset, though the other films in that set were not upgraded (which makes me sad).<\/p>\n

The blurbs are from The Criterion Collection\u2019s website (so are the links)\u00a0— go there to see the details on the supplements.<\/p>\n

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\"McCabeAugust 9, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

McCabe and Mrs. Miller<\/em>\u00a0(1971)
\nd.\u00a0Robert Altman<\/p>\n

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

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema that transformed Hollywood in the early 1970s. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as an enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, and soundtrack that innovatively interweaves overlapping dialogue and haunting Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller<\/em> brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"IngridAugust 16, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words<\/em>\u00a0(2015)
\nd. Stig Bj\u00f6rkman<\/p>\n

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

Whether headlining films in Sweden, Italy, or Hollywood, Ingrid Bergman always pierced the screen with a singular soulfulness. With this new documentary, made on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Bergman\u2019s birth, director Stig Bj\u00f6rkman allows us unprecedented access to her world, culling from the most personal of archival materials\u2014letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super 8 and 16 mm footage Bergman herself shot\u2014and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an undiminished legend.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"AAugust 23, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Taste of Honey<\/em>\u00a0(1961)
\nd. Tony Richardson<\/p>\n

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

The revolutionary British New Wave films of the early 1960s were celebrated for their uncompromising depictions of working-class lives and relations between the sexes. Directed by Tony Richardson, a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey<\/em> stars Rita Tushingham, in a star-making debut role, as a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, Richardson\u2019s classic is a still startling benchmark work of realism.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"WomanAugust 23, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woman in the Dunes <\/em>(1964)
\nd. Hiroshi Teshigahara<\/p>\n

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

One of the 1960s\u2019 great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes<\/em> was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema\u2019s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life\u2014an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"ChimesAugust 30, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chimes and Midnight <\/em>(1966)
\nd. Orson Welles<\/p>\n

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

The crowning achievement of Orson Welles\u2019s extraordinary film career, Chimes at Midnight<\/em> was the culmination of the filmmaker\u2019s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare\u2019s ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff\u2014the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV\u2019s wayward son Prince Hal\u2014here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace. Integrating elements from both Henry IV<\/em> plays as well as Richard II, Henry V,<\/em> and The Merry Wives of Windsor,<\/em> Welles created a gritty and unorthodox Shakespeare film, one that he intended, he said, as \u201ca lament . . . for the death of Merrie England.\u201d Poetic, philosophical, and visceral\u2014with a kinetic centerpiece battle sequence that rivals anything else in the director\u2019s body of work\u2014Chimes at Midnight<\/em> is as monumental as the figure at its heart.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"TheAugust 30, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Immortal Story <\/em>(1968)
\nd. Orson Welles<\/p>\n

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

Orson Welles\u2019s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story<\/em> is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau, this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles\u2019s artistic interests\u2014a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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