{"id":29659,"date":"2022-04-19T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29659"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:00:44","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-july-2022-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2022\/04\/19\/the-criterion-collection-announces-july-2022-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces July 2022 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, The Criterion Collection announced their July 2022 releases, which includes a long awaited upgrade of David Lean’s Summertime, among many other great releases!\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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\"\"July 5, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okja\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(2017) — 4K
\n<\/i><\/b>d. Bong Joon Ho<\/p>\n

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

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Master genre exploder Bong Joon Ho swirls pathos, dark satire, action, and horror into an exhilarating twenty-first-century fairy tale. An all-star cast including Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, and Jake Gyllenhaal is led by An Seo Hyun as Mija, a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic \u201csuperpig\u201d created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong\u2019s trademark virtuosic set pieces dazzle, Okja\u2019<\/em>s beating heart is the connection between a girl and her superpig, made all the more poignant by the brilliant special effects that bring the animal star to unforgettable life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"July 5, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Virgin Suicides<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong>(1999) — 4K
\n<\/em>d. Sofia Coppola<\/p>\n

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

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With this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides\u2019s highly acclaimed first novel, The Virgin Suicides<\/em> conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents\u2014as told through the collective memory of a group of men who were boys at the time and still yearn to understand what happened. Evoking its 1970s suburban setting through ethereal cinematography by Ed Lachman and an atmospheric score by Air, and featuring a magnetic performance by Kirsten Dunst, the film secured a place for its director in the landscape of American independent cinema and has become a coming-of-age touchstone.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"July 12, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raging Bull<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1980)
\n<\/em>d. Martin Scorsese<\/p>\n

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

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With this stunningly visceral portrait of self-destructive machismo, Martin Scorsese created one of the truly great and visionary works of modern cinema. Robert De Niro pours his blood, sweat, and brute physicality into the Oscar-winning role of Jake La Motta, the rising middleweight boxer from the Bronx whose furious ambition propels him to success within the ring but whose unbridled paranoia and jealousy tatter his relationships with everyone in his orbit, including his brother and manager (Joe Pesci) and gorgeous, streetwise wife (Cathy Moriarty). Thelma Schoonmaker\u2019s Oscar-winning editing, Michael Chapman\u2019s extraordinarily tactile black-and-white cinematography, and Frank Warner\u2019s ingenious sound design combine to make Raging Bull<\/em> a uniquely powerful exploration of violence on multiple levels\u2014physical, emotional, psychic, and spiritual.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"July 12, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summertime<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1955)
\n<\/em>d. David Lean<\/p>\n

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

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With this sublimely bittersweet tale of romantic longing, director David Lean left behind the British soundstage to capture in radiant Technicolor the sun-splashed glory of Venice at the height of summer. In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn embodies the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her deep-seated insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper (Rossano Brazzi) amid the ancient city\u2019s canals and piazzas. Lean\u2019s personal favorite among his own films, Summertime<\/em> is an exquisitely tender evocation of the magic and melancholy of a fleeting, not-quite-fairy-tale romance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"July 19, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drive My Car<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(2021)
\n<\/em>d. Ryusuke Hamaguchi<\/p>\n

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

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Only Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2014with his extraordinary sensitivity to the mysterious resonances of human interactions\u2014could sweep up international awards and galvanize audiences everywhere with a pensive, three-hour movie about an experimental staging of an Anton Chekhov play, presented in nine languages and adapted from Haruki Murakami stories. With Drive My Car, <\/em>the Japanese director has confirmed his place among contemporary cinema\u2019s most vital voices. Two years after his wife\u2019s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya<\/em> for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor (Masaki Okada) with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur (Toko Miura) with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living when there seems to be no road ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"July 19, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Devil in a Blue Dress<\/i><\/b> (1995)
\n<\/em>d. Carl Franklin<\/p>\n

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

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The bone-deep disillusionment of postwar film noir becomes a powerful vehicle to explore America\u2019s racial injustices in Carl Franklin\u2019s richly atmospheric Devil in a Blue Dress, <\/em>an adaptation of the hard-boiled novel by Walter Mosley. Denzel Washington has charisma to burn as the jobless ex-GI Easy Rawlins, who sees a chance to make some quick cash when he\u2019s recruited to find the missing lover (Jennifer Beals) of a wealthy mayoral candidate in late-1940s Los Angeles\u2014only to find himself embroiled in murder, political intrigue, and a scandal that crosses the treacherous color lines of a segregated society. Featuring breakout work by Don Cheadle as Rawlins\u2019s cheerfully trigger-happy sidekick, this stylish mystery both channels and subverts classic noir tropes as it exposes the bitter racial realities underlying the American dream.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n