Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of July 21st – ‘You Can Count on Me’ Comes to Criterion

Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, we have a really great Criterion Collection slate. Today features All We Imagine As Light debuting there, alongside classics like Carnal Knowledge and You Can Count on Me. So, Criterion is on fire today. Hitting shelves as well are some major Blu-ray and 4K re-releases, including a real guilty pleasure in Cobra. Read on for more…

Joey’s Top Pick

You Can Count on Me (Criterion Collection)

From The Criterion Collection: “Celebrated playwright Kenneth Lonergan first brought his rich, humanist vision to the screen with this soulful look at the complexities of a sibling relationship whose roots are as knotted as they are deep. Years after Sammy (Laura Linney) and her younger brother, Terry (Mark Ruffalo), lost their parents in a car crash, small-town single mother Sammy is plunged into another crisis when the troubled, adrift Terry comes home for what turns out to be an extended stay—one that could either bring them closer together or tear them apart. With infinite grace and his peerless ear for dialogue, Lonergan offers something all too rare on-screen: beautifully flawed human beings whose journeys offer achingly relatable insight into what changes when you grow up—and what doesn’t.”

Also Available This Week

Ash

Bewitched: The Complete Series (TV)

Cobra (4K)

Fight or Flight

Final Destination 6-Film Collection (Blu-ray)

Final Destination: Bloodlines 

Knight Rider: The Complete Series (TV)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (4K)

Little Buddha (4K)

Madagascar (4K)

The Nightwatch Collection (Blu-ray)

Original Sin (Blu-ray)

Serenity (4K)

Small Soldiers (4K)

Solo Leveling: Season 1 (TV)

Strangers with Candy (Blu-ray)

Criterion Corner

All We Imagine as Light

From The Criterion Collection: “Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed fiction-feature debut is a radiant ode to hope-giving connections forged amid big-city anonymity. Set against the hypnotic luminescence of Mumbai, All We Imagine as Light follows three very different women working at the same hospital—Prabha (Kani Kusruti), Anu (Divya Prabha), and Parvathy (Chhaya Kadam)—each contending with personal and material struggles amid a modernizing India riven by gentrification and rising Hindu nationalism. When Parvathy is evicted and forced to move back to her childhood village, Prabha and Anu travel with her to the seaside, where they shake loose their remaining secrets and—in one otherworldly sequence—a lingering ghost. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, All We Imagine as Light is a deep-rooted study of the fortifying power of friendship, propelled by moving performances and the director’s compassionate eye.”

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Carnal Knowledge

From The Criterion Collection: “Amid the sexual revolution and social upheaval of the early 1970s, acclaimed director Mike Nichols delivered a zeitgeist-defining examination of American mores. Sharply written by Jules Feiffer, this acerbic drama flashes through more than twenty years in the lives of two college buddies (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel) whose casual chauvinism is all fun and games—until it’s not. As the women who suffer and see through the friends’ insecure posturing, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane, and Cynthia O’Neal form an extraordinary ensemble that gives the film its soul. So controversial it became embroiled in an obscenity case that went all the way to the Supreme Court, Carnal Knowledge remains startling for its unnervingly frank look at postwar masculinity.”

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*As a reminder, You Can Count on Me is today’s Top Pick and also joining the Criterion Collection*

Stay tuned for more next week…