{"id":23149,"date":"2017-12-15T17:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=23149"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T21:09:53","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-march-2018-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/12\/15\/the-criterion-collection-announces-march-2018-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces March 2018 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Criterion Collection has announced a host of literary adaptations for March 2018!<\/p>\n

The blurbs are from The Criterion Collection's website (so are the links)\u00a0\u2014 go there to see the details on the supplements.<\/p>\n

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March 13, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The Age of Innocence<\/b>\u00a0<\/em>(1993)
\n<\/em>d. Martin Scorsese<\/p>\n

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

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No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted the work of another great New York artist, Edith Wharton, bringing to life her tragic novel of the cloistered world of Gilded Age Manhattan.\u00a0The Age of Innocence<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), whose engagement to an innocent socialite (Winona Ryder) binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. But when her cousin (Michelle Pfeiffer) arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of old-world America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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March 20, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The Passion of Joan of Arc<\/i><\/b> (1928)
\n<\/em>d. Carl Th. Dreyer<\/p>\n

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

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Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the days leading up to her execution, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques\u2014including expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, and painfully intimate close-ups\u2014to immerse viewers in her subjective experience. Anchoring Dreyer's audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Ren\u00e9e Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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March 20, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Baal\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1970)
\n<\/em>d. Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff<\/p>\n

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

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Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff transported Bertolt Brecht's 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels himself cast out from bourgeois society and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfully to Brecht's text, Schl\u00f6ndorff juxtaposes the theatricality of the prose with bare-bones, handheld 16 mm camera work, which gives immediacy to this savage story of rebellion. Featuring a supporting cast of Fassbinder's troupe of theater actors as well as Margarethe von Trotta,\u00a0Baal<\/em>\u00a0demonstrates the uncompromising nature of Schl\u00f6ndorff's vision and forged a path for New German Cinema.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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March 27, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Women in Love<\/b><\/em> (1969)
\n<\/em>d. Ken Russell<\/p>\n

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

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With this film, the audacious Ken Russell vaulted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexual radicalism of D. H. Lawrence's classic novel to shatter taboos in his own time. Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity,\u00a0Women in Love<\/em>\u00a0traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters (Jennie Linden and an Oscar-winning Glenda Jackson) to a freethinking dreamer (Alan Bates) and a hard-willed industrialist (Oliver Reed)\u2014as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship. Coupling earthy sensuality with kaleidoscopically stylized images, Russell pursues this quartet to the heights of agony and ecstasy, crafting a breathtaking drama of human sexuality at its most liberating, dominating, and destructive extremes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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March 27, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"King of Jazz\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1930)
\n<\/em>d. John Murray Anderson<\/p>\n

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

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Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows of the time to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers overseen by Whiteman himself (including a larger-than-life rendition of George Gershwin's \"Rhapsody in Blue\")\u2014all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson and beautifully shot in early Technicolor. Long available only in incomplete form,\u00a0King of Jazz<\/em>\u00a0appears here newly restored to its original glory, offering a fascinating snapshot of the way mainstream American popular culture viewed itself at the dawn of the 1930s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

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