Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have the subversive Sofia Coppola work Marie Antoniette coming to the Criterion Collection. This week also features two other Criterion debuts, as well as a number of 4K re-releases hitting shelves. What else might be coming out, you ask? Read on below to find out.
Joey’s Top Pick
Marie Antoniette (Criterion)
From The Criterion Collection: “Sofia Coppola brings a candy-colored palette, a dreamy synth-pop soundtrack, and Converse high-tops to eighteenth-century Versailles for this exuberantly subversive, extravagantly stylized anti-biopic of one of history’s most infamous (and perhaps misunderstood) figures. Kirsten Dunst portrays Marie Antoinette as a rebellious teenage princess, who marries the awkward young dauphin of France (Jason Schwartzman), soon to be crowned King Louis XVI. Feeling isolated in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue, Marie Antoinette defies both royalty and commoner by living like a rock star—which can work for only so long.”
Also Available This Week
Con Air (4K SteelBook)
Four Rooms (4K)
The Lovely Bones (4K)
Memoirs of a Geisha (4K)
National Treasure (4K SteelBook)
Never Let Go (4K)
Paddington (4K SteelBook)
Criterion Corner
Blue Heron
From The Criterion Collection: “A singular coming-of-age story, this revelatory feature debut by Sophy Romvari heralds the arrival of a major new cinematic voice. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her Hungarian Canadian family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of her eldest brother, Jeremy (Edik Beddoes). At wit’s end, the parents are presented with a shattering choice. Audaciously layering the past and the present until they converge in a moment of devastating emotional clarity, Blue Heron evokes the languid haze of a childhood summer and the hidden tensions rippling underneath.”
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Shoot the Piano Player
From The Criterion Collection: “François Truffaut plays the crime genre like jazz with this freewheeling adaptation of a novel by pulp master David Goodis, a film that infuses noir fatalism with a nervy nouvelle-vague freshness. The tragicomic story follows the adventures of timid dance-hall pianist Charlie (Charles Aznavour), who gets caught up in a whirlwind love affair and is inadvertently drawn into a violent underworld by his gangster brothers. With the film’s dazzling mix of Raoul Coutard’s handheld camera work, a wistful score by Georges Delerue, and playfully jagged editing, Truffaut creates a rueful character study shot through with his signature obsessions: cinema, the elusive nature of creativity, and the sting of romantic regret.”
*As a reminder, Marie Antoinette is also out on Criterion today and is our top pick for the week*
Stay tuned for more next week…
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