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Today, The Criterion Collection announced their April 2022 releases, and we get a nice highlighting of the 80s. Other than For All Mankind<\/em>, which is getting a 4K upgrade, I haven’t seen any of them! See them below!<\/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 12, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Walker <\/i><\/b>(1987)
\n<\/i><\/b>d. Alex Cox<\/p>\n

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

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A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions,\u00a0Walker,<\/em>\u00a0from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity\u2014and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the contra war\u2014the film uses this true tale as a satirical attack on American ultrapatriotism and a freewheeling condemnation of \u201cmanifest destiny.\u201d Featuring a powerful score by Joe Strummer and a performance of intense, repressed rage by Harris,\u00a0Walker<\/em>\u00a0remains one of Cox\u2019s most daring works.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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April 19, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Miracle in Milan<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong>(1951)
\n<\/em>d. Vittorio de Sica<\/p>\n

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

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Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph\u00a0Bicycle Thieves<\/em>\u00a0with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it\u2019s up to the cherubic orphan Tot\u00f2 (Francesco Golisano)\u2014with some divine help\u2014to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and Ren\u00e9 Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a bighearted ode to the nobility of everyday people.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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April 19, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The Girl Can’t Help It<\/i><\/b> (1956)
\n<\/em>d. Frank Tashlin<\/p>\n

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

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In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he\u2019d honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster\u2019s bombshell girlfriend\u2014the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role\u2014and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive his career by turning her into a musical sensation. The only question is: Can she actually sing? A CinemaScope feast of eye-popping midcentury design,\u00a0The Girl Can\u2019t Help It<\/em>\u00a0bops along to a parade of performances by rock-and-roll trailblazers\u2014including Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, Eddie Cochran, the Platters, and Gene Vincent\u2014who light up the screen with the uniquely American sound that was about to conquer the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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April 26, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)<\/i><\/b> (2020)
\n<\/em>d. Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri<\/p>\n

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

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This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from codirectors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism,\u00a0Eyimofe\u00a0<\/em>(This Is My Desire<\/em>) traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers\u2014Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), an electrician dealing with the fallout of a family tragedy, and Rosa (Temi Ami-Williams), a hairdresser supporting her pregnant teenage sister\u2014as they each pursue their dream of starting a new life in Europe while bumping up against the harsh economic realities of a world in which every interaction is a transaction. From these intimate stories emerges a vivid snapshot of life in contemporary Lagos, whose social fabric is captured in all its vibrancy and complexity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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April 26, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"‘Round Midnight<\/i><\/b> (1986)
\n<\/em>d. Bertrand Tavernier<\/p>\n

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

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\u2019Round Midnight\u00a0<\/em>is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character that was nominated for an Oscar, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching for a fresh start in Paris, Turner strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling single father and ardent jazz fan (Fran\u00e7ois Cluzet) who finds his life transformed as he attempts to help the self-destructive musician. Herbie Hancock\u2019s evocative, Oscar-winning score sets the mood for this definitive jazz film, a bittersweet opus that glows with lived-in, soulful authenticity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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April 26, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"For All Mankind<\/i><\/b> (1989) — 4K
\n<\/em>d. Al Reinert<\/p>\n

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

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In July 1969, the space race ended when\u00a0Apollo 11\u00a0<\/em>fulfilled President John F. Kennedy\u2019s challenge of \u201clanding a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.\u201d No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Twenty years later, Al Reinert constructed a documentary that imparts the unforgettable story of the twenty-four astronauts who participated in the Apollo mission to land on the moon\u2014told in their words and in their voices, using the images they captured. With its awe-inspiring, otherworldly footage and a haunting atmospheric soundtrack by Brian Eno,\u00a0For All Mankind<\/em>\u00a0stirs us with a profound sense of compassion for the \u201cpale blue dot\u201d that is our home, and it is still the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema that has been made about this earthshaking event.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n