Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of January 13th – ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Gets a Limited Edition 4K

Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have some 4K re-releases hitting shelves, led by Quentin Tarantino‘s classic Inglourious Basterds. What else is coming out this week? Well, we’ve also got a pair of Criterion Collection entries. Read on for more…

Joey’s Top Pick

Inglourious Basterds (4K)

One of Quentin Tarantino’s best film, Inglourious Basterds is almost everything that the auteur does best. It also introduced us all to Christoph Waltz, with his Oscar-winning supporting turn. Tarantino’s first crack at revisionist history is bravura filmmaking and immensely satisfying from start to finish. What more needs to be said? If you don’t own a copy, this limited edition 4K is a perfect one to pick up and add to your collection.

Also Available This Week

Chinatown (4K)

Once Upon a Time in the West (4K)

Romance & Cigarettes (Blu-ray)

Snowpiercer (4K Steelbook)

Sometimes I Think About Dying (Blu-ray)

Criterion Corner

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

From The Criterion Collection: “One of the greatest comedians of all time, Richard Pryor gets raw and real in this brutally funny and lacerating self-portrait. Following the notorious incident in which he caught on fire while high on cocaine, nearly losing his life, Pryor exorcised his inner demons by writing, producing, directing, and starring in this dizzying hall-of-mirrors biopic and backstage drama, which traces a young comedian’s rise to fame, from his childhood growing up in a brothel to the colorful experiences that shaped his edgy comic voice to the addiction struggles that brought him to the brink of death. As he did in his legendary stand-up sets, here Pryor fearlessly turns his soul inside out, revealing the deep vulnerability that made his art so compelling.”

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The Mother and the Whore

From The Criterion Collection: “After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and the upheavals of May 1968 came the near religiously revered magnum opus by Jean Eustache. In his long-unavailable body of work, ranging from documentaries about his native village to closely autobiographical narrative films, Eustache pioneered a forthright and fearless brand of realism. The pinnacle of this innovative style, The Mother and the Whore follows Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a Parisian pseudo-intellectual who lives with his tempestuous girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), even as he begins a dalliance with the sexually liberated Veronika (Françoise Lebrun), leading the three into an emotionally turbulent love triangle. Through daringly sustained long takes and confessional dialogue, Eustache captures a generation navigating the disillusionment of the 1970s, and in the process achieves an intimacy so deep it cuts.”

Stay tuned for more next week…