{"id":29617,"date":"2022-03-17T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29617"},"modified":"2022-03-17T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:16:03","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-june-2022-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2022\/03\/17\/the-criterion-collection-announces-june-2022-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces June 2022 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, The Criterion Collection announced their June 2022 releases, which includes a long awaited upgrade of a Powell and Pressburger classic, though not, sadly, in 4K. There is, however, a 4K release of Gordon Park’s Shaft<\/em> in the mix!\u00a0See 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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\"\"June 7, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tales of Hoffmann\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(1951)
\n<\/i><\/b>d. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger<\/p>\n

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

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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach\u2019s fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffmann,<\/em> a poet dreams of three women\u2014a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren, and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer\u2014all of whom break his heart in different ways. Powell and Pressburger\u2019s feverishly romantic adaptation is a feast of music, dance, and visual effects, and one of the most exhilarating opera films ever produced.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"June 14, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Farewell Amor<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong>(2020)
\n<\/em>d. Ekwa Msangi<\/p>\n

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

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In her luminous feature debut, filmmaker Ekwa Msangi chronicles a broken family\u2019s journey to wholeness with empathy and insight. Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife (Zainab Jah) and teenage daughter (Jayme Lawson) when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another\u2019s strengths, forgive one another\u2019s weaknesses, and bridge cultural and generational divides in order to build a life together. Told in three perspective-shifting chapters that honor the multitude of struggles and emotions that make up the immigrant experience, Farewell Amor <\/em>is a bittersweet, compassionate evocation of how it feels when your heart and your home are in different places.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"June 21, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rouge<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1987)
\n<\/em>d. Stanley Kwan<\/p>\n

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

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Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong\u2019s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge<\/em> bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man and Emily Chu) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-sc\u00e8ne and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"June 21, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shaft<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1971) — 4K
\n<\/em>d. Gordon Parks<\/p>\n

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

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While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss (Moses Gunn) from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft<\/em> is studded with indelible elements\u2014from Roundtree\u2019s sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"June 28, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Worst Person in the World<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(2021)
\n<\/em>d. Joachim Trier<\/p>\n

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

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Renate Reinsve won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for the revelatory, complex performance that anchors this sprawlingly novelistic film by Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier, an emotionally intricate and exhilarating character study of a woman entering her thirties. Amid the seemingly endless possibilities of the modern world, Julie (Reinsve) vacillates between artistic passions and professions, the question of motherhood, and relationships with two very different men: a successful comic-book artist (Trier regular Anders Danielsen Lie) and a charismatic barista (Herbert Nordrum). Working with a team of longtime collaborators, Trier and his perennial cowriter Eskil Vogt construct in The Worst Person in the World,<\/em> the Oscar-nominated third entry in their unofficial Oslo Trilogy, a liberating portrait of self-discovery and a bracingly contemporary spin on the romantic comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"June 28, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pink Flamingos<\/i><\/b> (1972)
\n<\/em>d. John Waters<\/p>\n

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

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John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos,<\/em> his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outr\u00e9 diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the \u201cFilthiest Person Alive.\u201d When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word filthy.<\/em> Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history\u2019s most legendary gross-out ending\u2014Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n