{"id":29771,"date":"2022-07-18T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29771"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:30:52","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-october-2022-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2022\/07\/18\/the-criterion-collection-announces-october-2022-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces October 2022 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love it when The Criterion Collection goes all out on horror for October, and here we are with their scary-good October 2022 releases! See them all 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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October 4, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Night of the Living Dead\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(1968) 4K upgrade
<\/i><\/b>d. George A. Romero<\/p>\n

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

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Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead,<\/em> directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero\u2019s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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October 11, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Lost Highway\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>(1997) 4K
<\/em>d. David Lynch<\/p>\n

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

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\u201cWe\u2019ve met before, haven\u2019t we?\u201d <\/em>A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, <\/em>David Lynch\u2019s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker\u2019s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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October 11, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Arsenic and Old Lace<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(1944)
<\/em>d. Frank Capra<\/p>\n

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

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Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant, cutting loose in a hilariously harried performance) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who both starred in the Broadway production) greet him with love, sweetness . . . and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother (John Alexander) who thinks he\u2019s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal (Raymond Massey) who\u2019s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) are among the outr\u00e9 oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace,<\/em> a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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October 18, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"La Llorona<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(2019)
<\/em>d. Jayro Bustamante<\/p>\n

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

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A country\u2019s bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante\u2019s transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efra\u00edn R\u00edos Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala\u2019s Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people\u2019s demands for justice, he and his family are plagued by a series of increasingly strange and disturbing occurrences, seemingly brought on by an enigmatic new housekeeper (Mar\u00eda Mercedes Coroy). With a restraint that renders the film\u2019s shocks all the more potent, Bustamante crafts a chilling vision of a nation reckoning with collective harms and the restless ghosts of a past that refuses to die.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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October 18, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Cure<\/b><\/em> (1997)
<\/em>-d. Kiyoshi Kurasawa\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa\u2019s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders\u2014each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks\u2014leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure<\/em> is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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October 25, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Eve’s Bayou\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(1997)
<\/em>d. Kasi Lemmons<\/p>\n

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

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\u201cThe summer I killed my father, I was ten years old . . .\u201d So begins Kasi Lemmons\u2019s spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl (Jurnee Smollett) sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father (Samuel L. Jackson)\u2014setting in motion a series of deceptions and betrayals that will upend her world and challenge her understanding of reality. Rooted in Creole history, folklore, and mysticism, Eve\u2019s Bayou<\/em>is a scintillating showcase for a powerhouse ensemble of Black actresses\u2014including Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, and the legendary Diahann Carroll as a voodoo priestess\u2014as well as a profoundly cathartic exploration of trauma, forgiveness, and the elusive nature of truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n