{"id":25717,"date":"2019-04-15T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=25717"},"modified":"2019-06-19T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:02:04","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-july-2019-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2019\/04\/15\/the-criterion-collection-announces-july-2019-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces July 2019 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Criterion Collection has announced its releases for July 2019. This is usually the month when Barnes and Noble does a 50% off sale, so it's always fun to see what new releases will entice us into the store \u2014 there are some good ones, including a few from directors I can't get enough of, like Fassbinder and Pagnol. Speaking of Fassbinder, it seems it's been a decade or so of clamoring for an upgrade to The BRD Trilogy (I don't think I'm exaggerating), and it's finally here. And speaking of upgrades, it's been about that long we've hoped for an upgrade of Spike Lee's\u00a0Do the Right Thing<\/em>. A good month that reminds us not to give up hope.<\/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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July 9, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Europa Europa<\/b><\/em> (1990)
\n<\/i><\/b><\/b>-d. Agnieszka Holland<\/p>\n

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

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As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadly secret of his Jewishness. He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he plays a dutiful Stalinist, to the Russian front, where he hides in plain sight as an interpreter for the German army, and back to his home country, where he takes on his most dangerous role: a member of the Hitler Youth. Based on the real-life experiences of Salomon Perel, Agnieszka Holland's wartime tour de force\u00a0Europa Europa<\/em>\u00a0is a breathless survival story told with the verve of a comic adventure, an ironic refutation of the Nazi idea of racial purity, and a complex portrait of a young man caught up in shifting historical calamities and struggling to stay alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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July 9, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The BRD Trilogy
\n<\/b>d. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
\n\u2013The Marriage of Maria Braun<\/em> (1979)
\n\u2013Veronika Voss<\/em> (1982)
\n\u2013Lola<\/em> (1981)<\/p>\n

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

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In 1977, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and had already directed more than twenty-five feature films. That summer, he embarked on a project to trace the postwar history of West Germany in a series of films told from the perspectives of three remarkable women. Fassbinder's\u00a0The Marriage of Maria Braun,<\/em>Veronika Voss,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Lola<\/em>\u2014The BRD Trilogy<\/em>\u2014would garner him his greatest commercial success, both at home and abroad, and cement his position as one of the foremost figures of the New German Cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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