Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, we have a Martin Scorsese classic coming to 4K in a 30th anniversary SteelBook with Casino, as well as several other 4K re-releases. Throw in some Criterion Collection films and today has a great slate for revisiting classic cinema. What else is hitting shelves? Read on to find out…
Joey’s Top Pick
Casino (4K)
Martin Scorsese’s birthday was this week, so what better present is there for the master filmmaker than for one of his classic movies to get a special edition? Casino is now available in a 30th anniversary 4K SteelBook, which is quite the addition to any fan’s library. Another Scorsese collaboration with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, it remains endlessly watchable and a showcase for a director at the height of his powers. If you’re a fan, don’t miss out!
Also Available This Week
Airport: The Complete Collection (4K)
The Americas (TV)
A Better Tomorrow Trilogy (4K)
Dark City (4K)
Howards End (4K)
My Hero Academia: Season Seven, Part Two (TV)
Out of Africa (4K)
Rent (4K)
Riefenstahl
Splitsville
Yellowstone: The Complete Series (TV)
Criterion Corner
Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features
From The Criterion Collection: “Long before he became one of the most renowned artists in world cinema, the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami began his cinematic career at Tehran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (a.k.a. Kanoon), where he honed his distinctive style and themes. During his first decades as a filmmaker, Kiarostami moved freely among documentary, narrative, and even animation, and between joyous short films made for children and subtle works exploring the struggles of adolescents. Often using the classroom as a laboratory, he probed social and political tensions in Iranian society during the turbulent years before and after the 1979 revolution. Spanning his very first short, Bread and Alley (which the director called the “mother of all my films”); other underseen early revelations, like Experience and The Traveler; and nonfiction masterpieces such as Homework, the graceful, warm, and playful works collected here find moments of transcendent poetry within everyday life, and use deceptively simple premises to express universal truths about the human condition.”
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Él
From The Criterion Collection: “Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel’s fiendish tale of love gone wrong is among the most perverse and unsettling films he made during his two decades of exile in Mexico. Folding his own neuroses into an adaptation of Mercedes Pinto’s autobiographical novel, Buñuel crafts an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young woman (Delia Garcés) discovers that the outward sophistication of her new husband (Arturo de Córdova) masks disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia. A characteristically raw indictment of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the director’s greatest excursion into melodrama, a vivid portrayal of society’s inability to restrain the irrational urges of the human id.”
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Hell’s Angels
From The Criterion Collection: “A high-flying feat of adventure filmmaking and a testament to the audacious, spare-no-expense vision of Howard Hughes, this landmark aviation epic remains exhilarating both for its daredevil aerial sequences and its nervy pre-Code punch. With the onset of World War I, two British brothers recruited into the Royal Flying Corps (Ben Lyon and James Hall) find their bond tested by their differing attitudes toward the war and their love for the same woman (Jean Harlow in her bombshell breakthrough). The product of a notoriously long and dangerous production that resulted in the deaths of multiple crew members, Hell’s Angels broke new technical ground, making use of early sound and color technologies, and capturing some of the most thrilling dogfight scenes ever filmed.”
Stay tuned for more next week…
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