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'Mulholland Dr.' (2001) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo [2 Discs] - $39.96, Blu-Ray [1 Disc] - $31.96, DVD [2 Discs] - $23.96 Release date: November 16 "A love story in the city of dreams . . . Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other." Special features:
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'Menace II Society' (1993) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo [2 Discs] - $39.96 or Blu-Ray [1 Disc] - $31.96 Release date: November 23 "Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine (Tyrin Turner) is growing up under the influence of his ruthless, drug-dealing father (Samuel L. Jackson, in a chilling cameo) and his loose-cannon best friend, O-Dog (Larenz Tate), leading him into a spiral of violent crime from which he is not sure he wants to escape, despite the best efforts of his grandparents and the steadfast Ronnie (Jada Pinkett). Fusing grim realism with a propulsively stylish aesthetic honed through the Hughes brothers’ work on rap videos, Menace II Society is a searing cautionary tale about the devastating human toll of hopelessness." Special features:
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Menace II Society is a great film its a definite pick up for me.
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Given that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the film I'm willing to bet good money that we will see a SC UK release before December is out. I'll be all over Menace II Society though. |
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'Chan Is Missing' (1982) - As revealed by Wayne Wang at a showing of the film at the Film Forum in Manhattan, is coming to Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection soon! "Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society."
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'One Night In Miami' (2020) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-ray [1 Disc] - $31.96 or DVD [2 Disc] - $23.96 Release date: December 7 "Adapted by Kemp Powers from his acclaimed play, the feature directorial debut of Academy Award–winning actor Regina King puts viewers in a room with four icons at the forefront of Black American culture as they carouse, clash, bare their souls, and grapple with their places within the sweeping change of the civil rights movement. February 25, 1964, has gone down in history as the day that the brash young boxer Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) defeated Sonny Liston, but what happened after the fight was perhaps even more incredible: Ali, civil rights leader Malcolm X, NFL great Jim Brown, and “King of Soul” Sam Cooke all came together at a Miami motel. Electric with big ideas and activist spirit, One Night in Miami . . . plunges us into the midst of an intimate, ongoing conversation—and a defining moment in American history." Special features:
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'The Learning Tree' (1969) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-ray [1 Disc] - $31.96 or DVD [2 Disc] - $23.96 Release date: December 14 "With this tender and clear-eyed coming-of-age odyssey, the renowned photographer turned filmmaker Gordon Parks not only became the first Black American director to make a Hollywood studio film, he also served as writer, producer, and composer, resulting in a deeply personal artistic achievement. Based on Parks’s own semi-autobiographical novel, The Learning Tree follows the journey of Newt Winger (Kyle Johnson), a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark film tempers nostalgia with an incisive understanding of the harsh realities, hard-won lessons, and often wrenching moral choices that shape the road to self-determination of the young Black man at its center." Special features:
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