{"id":29983,"date":"2023-02-15T19:09:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29983"},"modified":"2023-02-15T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T23:11:31","slug":"the-criterion-collection-announces-may-2023-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2023\/02\/15\/the-criterion-collection-announces-may-2023-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection Announces May 2023 Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Criterion Collection announced what they’re releasing in May 2023. Again we get a couple of 4K upgrades of great titles, but I’m most interested in the new releases, including Targets, which I have never seen but which comes up in John Darnielle’s Universal Harvester<\/em>, which I was just reading last night and this morning. Creepy! 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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\"\"May 2, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wings of Desire<\/em><\/b>\u00a0— 4K
\n<\/i><\/b>d. Wim Wenders (1987)<\/p>\n

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

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Wings of Desire<\/em> is one of cinema\u2019s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts\u2014fears, hopes, dreams\u2014of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, forever made the name of director Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"May 9, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Branded to Kill<\/em> (1967) -4K<\/strong>
\n<\/em>-d. Seijun Suzuki<\/p>\n

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

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When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Branded to Kill<\/em> tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme\u2014the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"May 16, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Targets<\/em> (1968)
\n<\/b>-d. Peter Bogdanovich
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From\u00a0The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O\u2019Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets<\/em> is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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May 23, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Petite maman<\/b><\/em>
\n<\/em>-d. C\u00e9line Sciama (2021)<\/p>\n

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

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C\u00e9line Sciamma\u2019s follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire<\/em> transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother\u2019s death, eight-year-old Nelly (Jos\u00e9phine Sanz) accompanies her distraught mother (Nina Meurisse) to her childhood home. There, Nelly\u2019s encounter with another young girl (Gabrielle Sanz) brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood\u2019s perpetual state of wonder through luminous, richly textured images, Petite maman<\/em> takes viewers on a journey inward for a quietly miraculous tale of emotional time travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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May 30, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Thelma & Louise<\/em> (1991) – 4K
\n<\/b>-d. Ridley Scott
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From\u00a0The Criterion Collection<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O\u2019Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets<\/em> is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n