Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of July 20th – Revisit Some Modern Classics as ‘I’ll Remind You of Everything: The Films of Mike Mills’ Comes to Criterion

Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have a wonderful box set coming to the Criterion Collection in I’ll Remind You of Everything: The Films of Mike Mills. As someone who is a fan of Mike Mills‘ work, seeing 20th Century Women, Beginners, and C’mon C’mon (which I reviewed here and spoke to Mills about here) get this treatment is a real delight. This week’s slate also includes some 4K and Blu-ray re-releases as well, as well as two other Criterion titles. What else is hitting shelves? Find out below…

Joey’s Top Pick

I’ll Remind You of Everything: The Films of Mike Mills (Criterion)

From The Criterion Collection: “The legacies we inherit, and the ones we pass on, form the heart of writer-director Mike Mills’s family portraits, inspired by his own experience. Both personal and panoramic, the films collected here—Beginners, 20th Century Women, and C’mon C’mon—set their stories of parents and children against the backdrop of a changing America, from the 1970s to the present. Anchored by performances of depth and wit from the likes of Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor, Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, Joaquin Phoenix, and Gaby Hoffmann, these three films compose a mosaic of Mills’s own life, from boyhood to fatherhood, and of the people, places, music, and memories that marked him along the way.”

Also Available This Week

Amazing Grace (Blu-ray)

Anyone But You (4K)

Faces of Death Part II (4K)

Falling Down (4K)

The Night of the Living Dead in 3D (Blu-ray)

Pleasantville (4K)

Why We Fight (Blu-ray)

Criterion Corner

Cruel Story of Youth

From The Criterion Collection: “A scorching tale of toxic love in a toxic world, Nagisa Oshima’s second feature film marked the artistic breakthrough of one of the most radical voices in the history of Japanese cinema. Caught in the dog-eat-dog crucible of postwar Tokyo, teenage lovers Makoto (Miyuki Kuwano) and Kiyoshi (Yusuke Kawazu) turn to a life of crime, entrapping lecherous middle-aged men in order to extort their money. But how long can the wayward youths outrun their fate? Bursting with vivid color, this visually scintillating, furiously nihilistic film howls with rage at a society in which everything—love, sex, and youthful idealism—has been corrupted.”

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The Love That Remains

From The Criterion Collection: “Suffused with tenderness and deadpan humor, The Love That Remains asks: What happens when a relationship ends but the bonds of caring endure? Moving unpredictably through four seasons in the lives of a separating couple—artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisherman Magnus (Sverrir Guðnason)—and their three children, Hlynur Pálmason’s fourth feature is as vibrantly attuned to the ebb and flow of domestic routine as it is to the stark, spectacular landscape of coastal Iceland. Juggling intimate scenes of adults at work and children at play with wild intrusions of surrealism, this strange and poignant film is a rare study of family life in all its beauty and confusion.”

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*As a reminder, I’ll Remind You of Everything: The Films of Mike Mills is also on Criterion today and is our Top Pick*

Stay tuned for more next week…