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The Criterion Collection has announced what they’ll be releasing in April 2021. I cannot wait! In December I went through all of Bong Joon Ho’s filmography\u00a0except for<\/em> the one Criterion just announced,\u00a0Memories of Murder<\/em>, which I planned to watch this weekend and will now have to figure out if I just wait a few months for the superior Blu-ray. I’m thrilled that we are also getting work from Borzage and Assayas, and the two Blu-ray upgrades are very welcome. The coming of spring is not the only reason to look forward to April!<\/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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April 13, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"History Is Made at Night\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(1937)
\n<\/i><\/b>d. Frank Borzage<\/p>\n

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

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Suffused with intoxicating romanticism, History Is Made at Night <\/em>is a sublime paean to love from Frank Borzage, classic Hollywood\u2019s supreme poet of carnal and spiritual desire. On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an American (Jean Arthur) is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger (Charles Boyer)\u2014and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents and brings them to the very edge of catastrophe. Lent a palpable erotic charge by the chemistry between its leads, this delirious vision of lovers beset by the world passes through a dizzying array of tonal shifts\u2014from melodrama to romantic comedy to noir to disaster thriller\u2014smoothly guided by Borzage\u2019s unwavering allegiance to the power of love.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 20, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Memories of Murder\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(2003)
\n<\/em>d. Bong Joon Ho<\/p>\n

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

In his breakthrough second feature, Bong Joon Ho explodes the conventions of the policier with thrillingly subversive, genre-defying results. Based on the true story of a string of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s, Memories of Murder<\/em> stars New Korean Cinema icon Song Kang Ho as the local officer who reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective (Kim Sang Kyung) to investigate the crimes\u2014leading each man on a wrenching, yearslong odyssey of failure and frustration that will drive him to the existential edge. Combining a gripping procedural with a vivid social portrait of the everyday absurdity of life under military rule, Bong fashions a haunting journey into ever-deepening darkness that begins as a black-comic satire and ends as a soul-shattering encounter with the abyss.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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April 20, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The Furies\u00a0<\/em><\/b>(1950)
\n<\/em>d. Anthony Mann<\/p>\n

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

Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in this crackling western melodrama by master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann. In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T. C. Jeffords (Huston, in his final role) butts heads with his firebrand of a daughter, Vance (Stanwyck), over her dowry, choice of husband, and, finally, ownership of the land itself. Sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama, The Furies <\/em>is an often-overlooked treasure of American filmmaking, boasting Oscar\u2013nominated cinematography and vivid supporting turns from Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey, and Gilbert Roland.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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April 27, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Irma Vep\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(1996)
\n<\/em>d. Olivier Assayas<\/p>\n

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

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The live-wire international breakthrough of Olivier Assayas stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself: a Hong Kong action-movie star who arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade\u2019s classic silent crime serial Les vampires. <\/em>What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director (a cannily cast Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud) drives himself to the brink to realize his vision. Blending blasts of silent cinema, martial-arts flicks, and the music of Sonic Youth and Luna into a hallucinatory swirl of postmodern cool, Assayas composes a witty critique of the nineties French film industry and the eternal tension between art and commercial entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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April 27, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Masculin f\u00e9menin\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(1966)
\n<\/em>d. Jean-Luc Godard<\/p>\n

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

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With Masculin f\u00e9minin, <\/em>the ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to \u201cthe children of Marx and Coca-Cola,\u201d through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and one another. French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud stars as Paul, an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with the adorable pop star Madeleine (real-life y\u00e9-y\u00e9 girl Chantal Goya). Through their tempestuous affair, Godard fashions a candid and wildly funny free-form examination of youth culture in pulsating 1960s Paris, mixing satire and tragedy as only Godard can.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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