Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, Guillermo del Toro‘s Best Picture and Best Director winning film The Shape of Water joins the Criterion Collection. In addition to that Academy Award winner, Criterion also has another strong addition this week. What else is hitting shelves? Not a ton, but you can see exactly what below…
Joey’s Top Pick
The Shape of Water (Criterion Collection)
From The Criterion Collection: “Cinema’s great modern mythmaker Guillermo del Toro uses the hallmarks of classic horror and fantasy to tell a strange and sublime fable about outsiderhood, connection, and love’s transcendence. An ineffably touching Sally Hawkins plays Elisa, a mute janitor at a top-secret government laboratory who finds herself drawn to the facility’s newest research subject: a humanoid amphibian—for whom she is soon risking everything, amid the stifling conformity of 1960s America. A triumph of visual imagination that combines elements of sci-fi, noir, and the golden-age musical, this swooning cinematic dreamscape—winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director—is a monster movie with a human heart.”
Also Available This Week
Bones and All (4K)
Hatchet: The Complete Collection (Blu-ray)
Hush (4K)
Las Vegas: The Complete Series (TV)
Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice: Volume 4 (TV)
Swallowed
The Tenant (4K)
Criterion Corner
Paper Moon
From The Criterion Collection: “Maverick director Peter Bogdanovich affectionately recreates the world of the 1930s Dust Bowl in this beloved, briskly entertaining chronicle of one of cinema’s unlikeliest crime sprees. Real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O’Neal (who became the youngest-ever Oscar winner for her spark-plug performance) play off each other with almost musical agility as a Bible-hawking con man and the precocious, recently orphaned tomboy who falls into his care—and soon rivals her newfound father figure’s skill as a swindler. With period-perfect detail, glowing monochrome imagery by cinematographer László Kovács, and a memorable supporting cast (including the inimitable Madeline Kahn), Paper Moon is a witty, loving portrait of two natural-born hustlers on a road trip through Depression-era America.”
*The Shape of Water is also out today on Criterion and is our Top Pick*
Stay tuned for more next week…
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