Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of October 19th – The Complete Works of Stanley Kubrick Comes to Criterion Alongside ‘The Silence of the Lambs’

Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, there’s a couple of great Criterion Collection releases to highlight. One is The Complete Kubrick, which collects everything that Stanley Kubrick ever made. The other is Jonathan Demme‘s Best Picture winner The Silence of the Lambs, getting a wonderful 4K treatment. Today also features I Want Your Sex hitting shelves, among other new releases, plus a third Criterion debut. What else is coming out? Read on to find out…

Joey’s Top Pick

The Complete Kubrick (Criterion)

From The Criterion Collection: “A titan of cinema whose influence extends across visual art, philosophy, politics, technology, fashion, and beyond, Stanley Kubrick created an unprecedented string of masterpieces, from Paths of Glory to Dr. Strangelove to 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut. Bending disparate genres to his will, he imbued his creations with a cuttingly ironic worldview and an iconographic, mesmerizingly precise visual style, probing the anxieties, enigmas, and horrors of the twentieth century with a coolly devastating eye. Tracing his evolution from independent maverick to Hollywood rebel to visionary transnational auteur whose every film from the mid-1960s on became a manifesto of a radically new sensibility, The Complete Kubrick brings together the entirety of a body of work that opened popular cinema up to new realms of moral profundity and metaphysical mystery.

Collected here for the first time are Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered; over twenty-five hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials; and deluxe packaging illustrated with rare photographs, artwork, and documents annotated by Kubrick himself, all housed in a singular box inspired by the director’s legendary archive.”

Also Available This Week

Abigail (4K SteelBook)

Adventure Time: The Complete Collection (TV)

An American Werewolf in London (4K SteelBook)

Barbarian (4K)

The Brink of War

The Cable Guy (4K SteelBook)

Citizen Vigilante

Franz

Futureworld (4K)

Hadestown: The Musical

Heated Rivalry: Season 1 (TV)

Ice Cream Man

I Want Your Sex

Masters of the Universe (4K)

One Night Only

Over Your Dead Body

The Purge: The Complete TV Series (TV)

The [REC] Collection (Blu-ray)

The Sandman: The Complete Second Season (TV)

Scary Movie (4K)

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: The Complete Series (TV)

Criterion Corner

Christiane F.

From The Criterion Collection: “Plunging into the 1970s Berlin underground, this unforgettable portrait stands as one of the most harrowing films ever made about drug addiction. Based on the true story of Christiane Felscherinow—whose shocking memoir made her the face of a generation of troubled German youth—this bracing dramatization follows the alienated thirteen-year-old Christiane (Natja Brunckhorst) as she goes from popping pills to shooting heroin amid West Berlin’s infamous club scene, the highs of adolescent abandon giving way to an agonizing existence on the city’s desolate margins. An instant cult sensation on account of its authentically grimy location shooting and electrifying soundtrack by David Bowie, Christiane F. remains a haunting vision of a young life in free fall.”

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The Silence of the Lambs

From The Criterion Collection: “With this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts traditional gender dynamics and gives one of the most memorable performances of her career. As her foil, Anthony Hopkins is the archetypal antihero—cultured, quick-witted, and savagely murderous—delivering a harrowing portrait of humanity gone terribly wrong. A gripping police procedural and a disquieting immersion into a twisted psyche, The Silence of the Lambs swept the Academy Awards^® (Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actress, Actor) and remains a cultural touchstone.”

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*The Complete Kubrick is also out on Criterion today and is our top pick for the week*

Stay tuned for more next week…