{"id":29877,"date":"2022-11-15T18:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29877"},"modified":"2022-11-15T18:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:25:57","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-february-2023-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2022\/11\/15\/the-criterion-collection-announces-february-2023-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces February 2023 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New releases and upgrades abound! The Criterion Collection announced what they’re releasing in February 2023. 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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February 7, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Three Colors<\/b>\u00a0— 4K
-Blue<\/i><\/b> (1993)
-White<\/i><\/b> (1994)
-Red<\/i><\/b> (1994)
<\/i><\/b>d. Krzysztof Kie?lowski<\/p>\n

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

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This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kie?lowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution\u2014liberty, equality, and fraternity\u2014but that hardly begins to explain their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White,<\/i> and Red<\/i>(Kie?lowski\u2019s final film) examine with artistic clarity a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions. Marked by intoxicating cinematography and stirring performances by such actors as Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Ir\u00e8ne Jacob, and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Kie?lowski\u2019s Three Colors is a benchmark of contemporary cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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February 14, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Romeo and Juliet (1968)<\/strong>
<\/em>-d. Franco Zeffirelli<\/p>\n

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

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One of the great Shakespeare adaptations, this sublime take on the Bard\u2019s immortal romantic tragedy by Franco Zeffirelli breathed new life into the oft-told tale by casting actual teenagers in the title roles. As the young lovers whose affair threatens to inflame the tensions between their feuding families in Renaissance Verona, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting vividly capture the mix of adolescent ardor and turmoil that fuels their destiny-driven liaison. A sensory banquet thanks to Nino Rota\u2019s delicate score and the exquisite, Oscar-winning costumes and cinematography, Romeo and Juliet<\/em> is Shakespeare at its most deeply felt and passionately alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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February 21, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Dazed and Confused<\/b><\/em> (1993) — 4K
<\/em>-d. Richard Linklater<\/p>\n

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

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America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Dazed and Confused<\/em> eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen. A launching pad for a number of future stars, the first studio effort by Richard Linklater also features endlessly quotable dialogue and a blasting, stadium-ready soundtrack. Sidestepping nostalgia, Dazed and Confused<\/em> is less about \u201cthe best years of our lives\u201d than the boredom, angst, and excitement of teenagers waiting . . . for something to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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February 28, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Two Films by Marguerite Duras<\/b>
<\/em>–India Song<\/em> (1975)
–Baxter, Vera Baxter<\/em> (1977)<\/p>\n

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

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Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through an unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue, music, silence, and architectural space, the tantalizing, sphinxlike evocations of soul-deep female malaise India Song<\/em> and Baxter, Vera Baxter<\/em> embody Duras\u2019s singular multisensory approach, with each opening up new spaces for the expression of women\u2019s interior worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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February 28, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Hollywood Shuffle\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(1987)
<\/em>-d. Robert Townsend<\/p>\n

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

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This debut feature by Robert Townsend is an ingenious guerrilla satire that takes riotous aim at the typecasting of Black actors in 1980s Hollywood. The writer-director-star\u2019s megawatt charisma propels Hollywood Shuffle<\/em>, the hilarious tale of a struggling actor attempting to break into an industry where the only roles available to Black performers seem to be hustlers, butlers, slaves, and \u201cEddie Murphy types\u201d\u2014forcing him to choose between selling out and maintaining his self-respect. Lampooning everything from film noir to zombie flicks to Siskel and Ebert, Townsend and cowriter Keenen Ivory Wayans cannily turn the frustrations of the Black artist into a subversively funny pop-culture critique.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n