{"id":24950,"date":"2018-11-15T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=24950"},"modified":"2018-11-15T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T22:34:16","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-february-2019-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2018\/11\/15\/the-criterion-collection-announces-february-2019-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces February 2019 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Criterion Collection has announced its releases for February 2019. Last February, with\u00a0Night of the Living Dead<\/em> and\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>,\u00a0we got some horrific titles\u00a0to celebrate Valentine’s Day. This coming February they’re bringing Bergman, Clouzot, Fassbinder, and Visconti to celebrate, along with Charles Burnett later in the month!<\/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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February 5, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Shame<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1968)
\n<\/i><\/b>d. Ingmar Bergman<\/p>\n

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

Ingmar Bergman\u2019s\u00a0Shame<\/em>\u00a0is at once an examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by Sven Nykvist\u2019s handheld camera work, the two are faced with impossible moral choices that tear at the fabric of their relationship. This film, which contains some of the most devastating scenes in Bergman\u2019s oeuvre, shows the impact of war on individual lives.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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February 12, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Berlin Alexanderplatz<\/em><\/b>\u00a0(1980)
\n<\/b>d. Rainer Werner Fassbinder<\/p>\n

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

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder\u2019s fifteen-hour\u00a0Berlin Alexanderplatz,<\/em>\u00a0based on Alfred D\u00f6blin\u2019s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made over thirty films. Fassbinder\u2019s immersive epic follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (G\u00fcnter Lamprecht) as he attempts to \u201cbecome an honest soul\u201d amid the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. With equal parts cynicism and humanity, Fassbinder details a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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February 12, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"La v\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1960)
\n<\/em>d. Henri-Georges Clouzot<\/p>\n

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

Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover (Sami Frey). As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique\u2019s fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot\u2019s Oscar-nominated\u00a0La v\u00e9rit\u00e9\u00a0<\/em>delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of an impulsive young woman misunderstood and mistreated by those around her, and of her ultimately tragic affair with an up-and-coming conductor. With an astonishing performance by Bardot, Clouzot\u2019s affecting and intricately constructed film\u2014a huge late-career success for the French master\u2014renders a harsh verdict against a hypocritical and moralistic society.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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February 19, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Death in Venice<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/b>(1971)
\n<\/em>d. Luchino Visconti<\/p>\n

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

Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy (Bj\u00f6rn Andr\u00e9sen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann\u2019s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler,\u00a0Death in Venice<\/em>\u00a0is one of cinema\u2019s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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February 26, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"To Sleep with Anger\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(1990)
\n<\/em>d. Charles Burnett<\/p>\n

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

A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry\u2019s presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images,\u00a0To Sleep with Anger<\/em>\u00a0is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility, a portrait of family resilience steeped in the traditions of black mysticism and folklore.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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