{"id":21685,"date":"2017-06-16T18:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T22:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=21685"},"modified":"2017-08-04T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T19:36:50","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-september-2017-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/06\/16\/the-criterion-collection-announces-september-2017-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces September 2017 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today The Criterion Collection\u00a0announced their September 2017 line-up, which includes a reissue of the first Criterion I ever bought (and one that has been long out of print from them), Hitchcock’s Rebecca<\/em>! And for those of you who come her only for the book coverage, well, there’s your Daphne Du Maurier, and I’m thrilled that they’re releasing Kelly\u00a0Reichardt’s\u00a0Certain Women<\/em>, which is based on three Maile Meloy stories (and I’ve covered as many Meloy stories as I have been able to get my hands on). I’m chilled that they are releasing Michael Haneke’s\u00a0The Piano Teacher<\/em>, based on the work of Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek. And it’s worth mentioning that September is the month they are now releasing Orson Welles’s version of\u00a0Othello<\/em> (which was originally announced for May).<\/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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\"\"September 5, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rebecca\u00a0<\/em>(1940)
\n<\/em>d. Alfred Hitchcock<\/p>\n

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

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Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s elegantly crafted Rebecca,<\/em> his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier\u2019s 1938 novel, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes she has found her heart\u2019s desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (played with cunning vulnerability by Laurence Olivier). But upon moving to Manderley\u2014her groom\u2019s baroque ancestral mansion\u2014she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well. The start of Hitchcock\u2019s legendary collaboration with producer David O. Selznick, this elegiac gothic vision, captured in stunning black and white by George Barnes, took home the Academy Awards for best picture and best cinematography.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"September 12, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Festival\u00a0<\/em>(1967)
\nd.\u00a0Murray Lerner<\/p>\n

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

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Before Woodstock<\/em> and Monterey Pop,<\/em> there was Festival.<\/em> From 1963 to 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Howlin\u2019 Wolf, Johnny Cash, the Staples Singers, Pete Seeger, Son House, and Peter, Paul and Mary were just a few of the legends who shared the stage at Newport, treating audiences to a range of folk music that encompassed the genre\u2019s roots in blues, country, and gospel as well as its newer flirtations with rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. Shooting in gorgeous black and white, Lerner juxtaposes performances with snapshot interviews with artists and their fans, weaving footage from four years of the festival into an intimate record of a pivotal time in music\u2014and in American culture at large.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"September 19, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Certain Women<\/em>\u00a0(2016)
\n<\/em>d.\u00a0Kelly Reichardt<\/p>\n

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

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The expanses of the American Northwest take center stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from three short stories by Maile Meloy and unfolding in self-contained but interlocking episodes, Certain Women<\/em> navigates the subtle shifts in personal desire and social expectation that unsettle the circumscribed lives of its characters: a lawyer (Laura Dern) forced to subdue a troubled client; a woman (Michelle Williams) whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a night-school teacher (Kristen Stewart) who forms a tenuous bond with a lonely ranch hand (Lily Gladstone), whose unguardedness and deep attachment to the land deliver an unexpected jolt of emotional immediacy. With unassuming craft, Reichardt captures the rhythms of daily life in small-town Montana through these fine-grained portraits of women trapped within the landscape\u2019s wide-open spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"September 26, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Piano Teacher\u00a0<\/em>(2001)
\nd. Michael Haneke<\/p>\n

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

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Academy Award\u2013winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Beno\u00eet Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher<\/em>\u2014which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes\u2014is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"September 26, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Lynch: The Art of Life\u00a0<\/em>(2016)
\nd.\u00a0Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Rick Barnes, and Jon Nguyen<\/p>\n

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

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A rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema\u2019s most enigmatic visionaries, David Lynch: The Art Life<\/em> offers an absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles\u2014in stories that unfold like scenes from his movies. This remarkable documentary by directors Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm reveals the story behind Lynch\u2019s early years as a painter and director drawn to the phantasmagoric, while also illuminating his enduring commitment to what he calls the \u201cthe art life\u201d: \u201cYou drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you paint, and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

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