{"id":19800,"date":"2016-09-15T17:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=19800"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:45:00","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-december-2016-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/09\/15\/the-criterion-collection-announces-december-2016-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces December 2016 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today The Criterion Collection\u00a0announced their December\u00a0line-up, which includes three\u00a0new releases and one upgrade of an essential. December is typically a lighter month, and this year’s slate is no different, but that doesn’t mean it’s low quality.<\/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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December\u00a06, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heart of a Dog\u00a0<\/em>(2015)
\nd.\u00a0Laurie Anderson<\/p>\n

From\u00a0The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Heart of a Dog<\/em>\u00a0marks the first feature film by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson in over thirty years. A cinematic tone poem that flows from a sustained meditation on death and other forms of absence, the film seamlessly weaves together thoughts on Tibetan Buddhism, reincarnation, the modern surveillance state, and the artistic lives of dogs, with an elegy for the filmmaker\u2019s beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle, at its heart. Narrated by Anderson with her characteristic wry wit, and featuring a plaintive, free-form score by the filmmaker, the tender and provocative\u00a0Heart of a Dog<\/em>\u00a0continues Anderson\u2019s five-decade career of imbuing the everyday with a sense of dreamlike wonder.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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December 6, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Exterminate Angel\u00a0<\/em>(1962)
\nd.\u00a0Luis Bu\u00f1uel<\/p>\n

From\u00a0The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in\u00a0The Exterminating Angel<\/em>\u00a0(El \u00e1ngel exterminador<\/em>), a daring masterpiece from Luis Bu\u00f1uel. Made just one year after his international sensation\u00a0Viridiana,<\/em>\u00a0this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Bu\u00f1uel\u2019s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ve actually covered this film already here<\/a>. Perhaps we’ll get a chance to cover the new Blu-ray upon its release.<\/p>\n

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December 13, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roma\u00a0<\/em>(1972)
\n<\/em>d.\u00a0Federico Fellini
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From\u00a0The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Travelogue, memoir, and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director\u2019s young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are gathering footage of the bustling cityscape. The material delights of sex, food, nightlife, and one hallucinatory ecclesiastical fashion show are shot through with glimmers of a monumental past: the Colosseum encircled by traffic, ancient frescoes unearthed in a subway tunnel, a pigeon-befouled statue of Caesar. With a head-spinning mix of documentary immediacy and extravagant artifice,\u00a0Roma<\/em>\u00a0penetrates the myth and mystique of Italy\u2019s storied capital, a city Fellini called \u201cthe most wonderful movie set in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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December 13, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Asphalt Jungle\u00a0<\/em>(1950)
\nd.\u00a0John Huston<\/p>\n

From\u00a0The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme. Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble\u2014including a tight-jawed Sterling Hayden and a sultry Marilyn Monroe in her breakout role\u2014this gritty crime classic by John Huston climaxes in a meticulously detailed anatomy of a robbery that has reverberated through the genre ever since. An uncommonly naturalistic view of a seamy underworld,\u00a0The Asphalt Jungle\u00a0<\/em>painstakingly depicts the calm professionalism and toughness of its gangster heroes while evincing a remarkable depth of compassion for their all-too-human fragility, and it showcases a master filmmaker at the height of his powers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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