{"id":28107,"date":"2020-08-18T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=28107"},"modified":"2020-08-18T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T23:01:06","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-november-2020-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2020\/08\/18\/the-criterion-collection-announces-november-2020-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces November 2020 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few days ago The Criterion Collection announced one of their major releases in Essential Fellini (see my post here), coming out in November, and today they rounded out what they'll be releasing that month.<\/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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November 10, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Girlfriends<\/b><\/em> (1978)
\n<\/i><\/b>d. Claudia Weill<\/p>\n

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

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When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan (Melanie Mayron), trying to become a gallery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love. Could a new job be the answer? What about a fling with a married, older rabbi (Eli Wallach)? A wonder of American independent filmmaking whose remarkably authentic vision of female relationships has become a touchstone for makers of an entire subgenre of films and television shows about young women trying to make it in the big city, this 1970s New York time capsule from Claudia Weill captures the complexities and contradictions of women's lives and relationships with wry humor and refreshing frankness.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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November 17, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Moonstruck<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1987)
\n<\/em>d. Norman Jewison<\/p>\n

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

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A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement to the staid Johnny (Danny Aiello) are thrown into question after she meets his hot-blooded brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage), and one night at the opera changes everything. Winner of the Academy Awards for best actress (Cher), supporting actress (Olympia Dukakis), and original screenplay (by playwright John Patrick Shanley), this modern-day fairy tale is swept along on passionate Puccini melodies, and directed by master storyteller Norman Jewison with the heightened emotion to match.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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November 17, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai\u00a0<\/em><\/b>(1999)
\n<\/em>d. Jim Jarmusch<\/p>\n

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

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Jim Jarmusch combines his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller. In one of his defining roles, Forest Whitaker brings a commanding serenity to his portrayal of a Zen contract killer working for a bumbling mob outfit, a modern man who adheres steadfastly to the ideals of the Japanese warrior code even as chaos and violence spiral around him. Featuring moody cinematography by the great Robby M\u00fcller, a mesmerizing score by the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, and a host of colorful character actors (including a memorably stone-faced Henry Silva), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai<\/em> plays like a pop-culture-sampling cinematic mixtape built around a one-of-a-kind tragic hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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November 24, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The Irishman\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(2019)
\n<\/em>d. Martin Scorsese<\/p>\n

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

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Martin Scorsese's cinematic mastery is on full display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history, The Irishman<\/em> (based on the real-life Sheeran's confessions, as told to writer Charles Brandt for the book I Heard You Paint Houses<\/em>) is a uniquely reflective late-career triumph that balances its director's virtuoso set pieces with a profoundly personal rumination on aging, mortality, and the decisions and regrets that shape a life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

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