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Today The Criterion Collection\u00a0announced their October 2017 line-up (which, though I didn’t put it below, also includes Orson Welles’s Othello<\/em> — which has been delayed again, but which now has Filming Othello<\/em> as a vital supplement).<\/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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\"\"October 3, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vampyr<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(1932)
\n<\/em>d. Carl Th. Dreyer<\/p>\n

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

With Vampyr,<\/em> Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer channeled his genius for creating mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery into the horror genre. The result\u2014a chilling film about a student of the occult who encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris\u2014is nearly unclassifiable. A host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creates a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr<\/em> is one of cinema\u2019s greatest nightmares.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"October 10, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lure<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(2015)
\nd.\u00a0Agnieszka Smoczynska<\/p>\n

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

This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up\u2014the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczy?ska\u2014follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczy?ska\u2019s imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d in which the girls\u2019 bond is tested and their survival threatened after one sister falls for a human. A coming-of-age fairy tale with a catchy synth-fueled soundtrack, outrageous song-and-dance numbers, and lavishly grimy sets, The Lure<\/em>explores its themes of emerging female sexuality, exploitation, and the compromises of adulthood with savage energy and originality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"October 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barry Lyndon<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(1975)
\n<\/em>d. Stanley Kubrick<\/p>\n

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

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of brutal aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon<\/em> chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O\u2019Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years\u2019 War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece\u2014a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"October 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(1992)
\nd. David Lynch<\/p>\n

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

In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets\u2014but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me<\/em> is nevertheless one of Lynch\u2019s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine\u2014a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"October 24, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Personal Shopper<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(2016)
\nd.\u00a0Olivier Assayas<\/p>\n

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

With this intimate supernatural drama, the celebrated French filmmaker Olivier Assayas conjures a melancholy ghost story set in the world of haute couture. Starring Kristen Stewart, whose performance in Assayas\u2019s Clouds of Sils Maria<\/em>made her the first American actor to win a C\u00e9sar Award, this evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological thriller, Personal Shopper<\/em>\u2014which won Assayas the best director award at Cannes\u2014is a chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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