Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have the wild filmmaker Leos Carax having three of his movies joining the Criterion Collection. In fact, the Criterion title of the collection is literally Three Films by Leos Carax. The flicks in question? Boy Meets Girl, Mauvais sang, and The Lovers on the Bridge. What else is hitting shelves this week? Read on to find out…
Joey’s Top Pick
Three Films by Leos Carax (Criterion)
From The Criterion Collection: “Burning with stylistic freedom, the first three features by Leos Carax are cinema at its most ecstatically sensorial and deliriously romantic. Built around virtuosic, intensely physical performances from Denis Lavant as three different characters named Alex, these tales of outsiders, criminals, and doomed lovers living on the edge blaze with the whirlwind abandon of youth and the thrilling highs and torturous lows of all-consuming passion. Love letters to the city of Paris, with its streets transformed by cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier into expressive dreamscapes, these three films erupt in moments of anarchic euphoria that fuse sound and image to heart-stopping effect.”
Also Available This Week
Catch a Fire (Blu-ray)
Continental ’25
Corpus Christi (Blu-ray)
Dead Poets Society (4K)
Dexter: The Complete Series (TV)
Go (4K)
Happy’s Place: Season Two (TV)
The Godfather Trilogy (4K)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season Twenty-Seven (TV)
Mrs. Doubtfire (4K)
Sword of Trust (Blu-ray)
The Wailing
Criterion Corner
Days and Nights in the Forest
From The Criterion Collection: “One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the countryside, where their urban entitlement and prejudices are gradually exposed. Among these young bachelors is the overconfident Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), who finds his self-assurance shaken by Aparna (the radiant Sharmila Tagore), an enigmatic young woman whose cool intellect conceals turbulent emotional depths. Filmed luminously amid the sun-dappled splendor of the woodlands of India’s Palamu region, Days and Nights in the Forest deconstructs the masculine ego and India’s fraught class divisions with elegant complexity.”
*As a reminder, Three Films by Leos Carax is on Criterion today and is also our Top Pick*
Stay tuned for more next week…
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