{"id":20262,"date":"2017-03-15T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=20262"},"modified":"2017-05-24T22:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T02:42:39","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-june-2017-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/03\/15\/the-criterion-collection-announces-june-2017-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces June 2017 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today The Criterion Collection\u00a0announced their June\u00a02017 line-up, and it’s another great month!<\/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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\"\"June 6, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ugetsu\u00a0<\/em>(1953)
\nd.\u00a0Kenji Mizoguchi<\/p>\n

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

Having refined his craft in the silent era, Kenji Mizoguchi was an elder statesman of Japanese cinema\u2014fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other younger directors\u2014by the time he made\u00a0Ugetsu.<\/em>\u00a0And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far astray from their loyal wives. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly,\u00a0Ugetsu\u00a0<\/em>reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"June 13, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

They Live by Night\u00a0<\/em>(1948)
\nd. Nicholas Ray<\/p>\n

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

Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America\u2019s outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O\u2019Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie\u2019s fellow outlaws, who aren\u2019t about to let him go straight, they realize there\u2019s nowhere left to run. Ray brought an outsider\u2019s sensibility honed in the theater to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundly romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrillers to come.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"June 20, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Marseille Trilogy
\n<\/em>-Marius<\/em> (d. Alexander Korda, 1931)
\n–Fanny<\/em> (d. Marc All\u00e9gret;\u00a01932)
\n–C\u00e9sar<\/em> (d. Marcel Pagnol; 1936)<\/p>\n

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

In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces\u00a0Marius, Fanny,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0C\u00e9sar<\/em>\u00a0mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic love story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimental C\u00e9sar (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the old port of Marseille, where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea. The prosperous, middle-aged sailmaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin), wanting to wed Marius\u2019s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), sets up a generation-spanning romantic triangle, the story of which unfolds in a series of fateful twists in the films of The Marseille Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history. \u201cIf Pagnol is not the greatest auteur of the sound film,\u201d critic Andr\u00e9 Bazin wrote, \u201che is in any case something akin to its genius.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n