{"id":24494,"date":"2018-08-15T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=24494"},"modified":"2018-09-17T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:13:37","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-november-2018-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2018\/08\/15\/the-criterion-collection-announces-november-2018-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces November 2018 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Criterion Collection has announced its releases for November 2018. We already knew that November was going to be a great month because they recently announced they’d be releasing the landmark boxset Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (for more information go here<\/a>). Here we have more from Mizoguchi, Wilder, and Welles. And November 20 might be the most wonderful day of the year: Ingmar Bergman’s boxset and Welles’s\u00a0The Magnificent Ambersons<\/em> all on the same day? Fantastic stuff!<\/p>\n

The blurbs are from The Criterion Collection\u2019s website (so are the links)\u00a0\u2014 go there to see the details on the supplements.<\/p>\n

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November 6, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"A Story from Chikamatsu<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1954)
\n<\/i><\/b>d. Kenji Mizoguchi<\/p>\n

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

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One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 1950s,\u00a0A Story from Chikamatsu<\/em>\u00a0(a.k.a.\u00a0The Crucified Lovers<\/em>) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker\u2019s wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death. Shot in gorgeous, painterly style by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this subtly sensuous indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a \u201cgreat masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

\"\"Some Like It Hot<\/em><\/b>\u00a0(1959)
\n<\/b>d. Billy Wilder<\/p>\n

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

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One of the most beloved films of all time, this sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group\u2019s singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her bombshell powers) leads them ever further into extravagant lies, as Joe assumes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry\u2019s female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast,\u00a0Some Like It Hot\u00a0<\/em>is as deliriously funny and fresh today as if it had just been made.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

\"\"The Magnificent Ambersons<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1942)
\n<\/em>d. Orson Welles<\/p>\n

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

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Orson Welles\u2019s beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature\u2014the subject of one of cinema\u2019s greatest missing-footage tragedies\u2014harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and characterized by restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead, the film traces the rifts deepening within the Amberson clan\u2014at the same time as the forces of progress begin to transform the city they once ruled. Though RKO excised over forty minutes of footage, now lost to history, and added an incongruously upbeat ending,\u00a0The Magnificent Ambersons<\/em>\u00a0is an emotionally rich family saga and a masterful elegy for a bygone chapter of American life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

\"\"True Stories<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/b>(1986)
\n<\/em>d. David Byrne<\/p>\n

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

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Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make this sole foray into feature film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. Byrne plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas, shopping malls, and prefab metal buildings. In\u00a0True Stories,\u00a0<\/em>Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show\u2014all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

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