Friday, October 15, 2021

Celebration (In the Tune of "Celebration")


Happy Criterion Announcement Day! This one sneaked up on me as I'm so super distracted with ballyhooed Other Things, but we've got to take a quick glance at the just-dropped slate of January 2022 releases from our favorite movie-nerd house of home-releasing. First up is the one we already knew was coming because they mentioned it when they announced in August that they were going to finally start releasing discs on 4K, and that's Jane Campion's 1993 masterpiece The Piano, with that lovely artwork seen up top. You can check out all of the extra features on their site but looks like they (to borrow a line from a different "Sam Neill in 1993" movie) spared no expense on this sucker. It streets, as the kids say, on January 25th. Next up...

... is Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 flick The Celebration, which has some of the most delightful Criterion artwork I have ever seen with that stripped-down visage seen above -- I feel like somebody thought up that case first and realized they had to do it. Genius. This movie kicked off the Dogme 95 movement, which was all about stripping movies of their "movie-ness" -- this is where I admit I still insanely have never seen this movie! I have been meaning to for 20 years -- I guess this will finally make that happen. This one hits on January 11th. Then the other three titles that they're releasing are the Beatles' flick A Hard Day's Night, and the two terrific recent documentaries Dick Johnson is Dead from Kirsten Johnson and the prison-family heartbreaker called Time from visual artist Garrett Bradley. This is one stacked month!



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Travis Van Winkle in YOU!

Shawny said...

Not a fan of anything that came out of the Dogme filmmakers. I also missed The Celebration, but don't care if that continues.