{"id":22200,"date":"2017-08-16T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=22200"},"modified":"2017-08-16T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T01:22:29","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-november-2017-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/08\/16\/the-criterion-collection-announces-november-2017-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces November 2017 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today The Criterion Collection\u00a0announced their November 2017 line-up, which includes four releases, including a long-awaited upgrade as well as another great film from Classic Hollywood.<\/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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\"\"November 7, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Story<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(1940)
\n<\/em>d. George Cukor<\/p>\n

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

With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era\u2019s most iconic leading lady\u2014thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play\u00a0The Philadelphia Story,<\/em>\u00a0Hepburn snapped up the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Hepburn, at her most luminous) against various romantic foils, chief among them her charismatic ex-husband (Cary Grant), who disrupts her imminent marriage by paying her family estate a visit, accompanied by a tabloid reporter on assignment to cover the wedding of the year (James Stewart, in his only Academy Award\u2013winning performance). A fast-talking screwball comedy as well as a tale of regrets and reconciliation, this convergence of golden-age talent is one of the greatest American films of all time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"November 14, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Desert Hearts<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(1985)
\nd.\u00a0Donna Deitch<\/p>\n

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

Donna Deitch\u2019s swooning and sensual first narrative feature,\u00a0Desert Hearts,<\/em>was groundbreaking upon its 1985 release: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a self-financed shoestring budget, by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the younger free spirit Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape. With undeniable chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit,\u00a0Desert Hearts<\/em>\u00a0beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"November 14, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Le samoura\u00ef\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1967)
\n<\/em>d. Jean-Pierre Melville<\/p>\n

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

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville,\u00a0Le samoura\u00ef<\/em>\u00a0is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture\u2014with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"November 21, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jabberwocky<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(1977)
\nd. Terry Gilliam<\/p>\n

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

Amid the filth and muck of England in the Dark Ages, a fearsome dragon stalks the land, casting a shadow of terror upon the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable. Who should emerge as the town\u2019s only possible savior but Dennis Cooper (Michael Palin), an endearingly witless bumpkin who stumbles onto the scene and is flung into the role of brave knight? Terry Gilliam\u2019s first outing as a solo director\u2014inspired by Lewis Carroll\u2019s poem \u201cJabberwocky\u201d and made on the heels of Gilliam\u2019s success as a member of the iconic comedy troupe Monty Python\u2014showcases his delight in comic nonsense, with a cast chock-full of beloved British character actors. A giddy romp through blood and excrement, this fantasy remains one of the filmmaker\u2019s most uproarious visions of society run amok.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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