Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have a classic comedy joining the Criterion Collection with the savage satire Monty Python’s Life of Brian. This week also features another Criterion re-release, as well as several 4K re-releases as well. Read on to find out more…
Joey’s Top Pick
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Criterion Collection)
From The Criterion Collection: “The anarchic irreverence of British comedy legends Monty Python is at its most inspired in this brilliant send-up of the blockbuster biblical epic. In a stable in ancient Jerusalem, a child is born—a child who will grow up to be . . . Brian (Graham Chapman), an ordinary Judean who goes on to live an extraordinary life, becoming entangled in a plot to overthrow the Roman empire and being mistaken for the Messiah, among other unlikely events. Featuring ribald Roman puns, sharp political commentary, and an audacious crucifixion-themed musical number, the Pythons’ most ambitious film is a hilarious satire of dogma and blind faith in which nothing is sacred.”
Also Available This Week
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Hearts of Darkness: The Making of “The Final Friday”
Meet the Fockers (4K)
The Phantom (4K)
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (4K)
Criterion Corner
Trouble in Paradise
From The Criterion Collection: “Ernst Lubitsch’s famed touch is on exquisite display in this sexy pre-Code jewel, glittering with witty innuendo and elegant comic invention. It’s love at first swindle when high-society thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) and pickpocket Lily Vautier (Miriam Hopkins) cross paths amid the canals of Venice while attempting to con each other—and then it’s off to Paris, where the pair meet their match in their latest mark, the très chic Madame Colet (Kay Francis), whose fabulous fortune is exceeded only by her powers of seduction. With its delightfully risqué dialogue, swoonworthy couture, and high deco style, Trouble in Paradise is a pinnacle of comic-romantic sophistication that fizzes like the finest champagne.”
*Monty Python’s Life of Brian is also out on Criterion today and is the Top Pick*
Stay tuned for more next week…
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