Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, we have Martin Scorsese‘s Best Picture winning classic The Departed coming to 4K, as well as Ethan Coen‘s comedy Drive-Away Dolls. It’s a massively entertaining duo hitting shelves today. What else do we have, including a new Criterion Collection release? Read on for more…
The Departed (4K)
Martin Scorsese’s The Departed is not just a modern crime classic, but it will always be known as the film that finally got him an Oscar. Yes, this remake of Infernal Affairs won Scorsese the Academy Award for Best Director, while the production itself took home Best Picture. Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg are all at the tops of their respective games here. If you somehow haven’t seen it, fix that ASAP. If you have, this 4K edition makes for a perfect excuse to revisit!
Recommended Viewing
Drive-Away Dolls
I really wish more people had seen Drive-Away Dolls. This really fun raunchy road trip comedy is just a damn good time. Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan have incredible chemistry, making for a tremendous on-screen pairing. It’s silly, yes, but there’s so much to like about the flick. My review here included the following praise:
I’m that rare beast who doesn’t always love the Coen Brothers. So, when the pair split up to make their own projects, I was perhaps more intrigued than sad. After all, maybe they had more distinctive tastes than we realized? Well, that was quite the understatement, as Joel Coen opted to get real classy with The Tragedy of Macbeth. What did Ethan Coen make? Well, if any of you had a lesbian road trip action comedy on your dance card, you’re quite perceptive. That’s what Drive-Away Dolls is, in short, closer to Judd Apatow than OG Coen Brothers. Lo and behold, Coen has also made an incredibly fun, raunchy, and even sexy film that grew on me the longer it went on. It ends up being a movie that made me laugh as much as any other so far this year.
Drive-Away Dolls has a scruffy charm and a winningly juvenile sense of humor that tickled me. There’s a nice gradual elevation of the jokes that proves effective, especially considering where things go. Coen also isn’t afraid to be make things get sexy on occasion, which blends this genre mashup into something with a bit more meat on its bones than expected.
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I Am Cuba
From The Criterion Collection: “Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. Backed by Carlos Fariñas’s stirring score, the dazzling camera work by Sergei Urusevsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation.”
Stay tuned for more next week…
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