Oh shit, @criterion is releasing a boxed-set of four Melvin Van Meebles films!!! The Story of a Three Day Pass, Watermelon Man, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, and Don’t Play Us Cheap -- out on September 28th! https://t.co/RtJufXqoYn
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) June 10, 2021
Moving on... the other films Criterion's releasing in September are first and foremost the great big Melvin Peebles boxed-set they announced last week; then there's Gina Prince-Bythewood's 2000 romantic drama Love & Basketball starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps (which I haven't yet seen), Johnnie To's 2004 action-packed Throw Down (which I have not yet seen), and Neil Jordan's 1984 mobster-drama Mona Lisa which, you guessed it, I somehow still have not yet seen. I hope these make their way onto the Criterion Channel so I can right all of these wrongs. Especially Mona Lisa since I've had that thing for Bob Haskins ever since he flashed those big furry shoulders in Roger Rabbit...
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I am so excited that 'The Damned' is coming to Criterion, now I just desperately need a re-release of 'Ludwig' since that Arrow boxset is so expensive on e-bay!
helmut berger is no helmut griem, damned it!
and bob hoskins is sensational in 'mona lisa' [i know awards mean nothing to you but paul newman's overdue narrative robbed bob]
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