(Includes audio commentary, documentary, featurettes, new and archival interviews, music video, deleted and extended scenes, storyboards, and trailers.)ġ984 : State propaganda, rewritten history, inverted language, “though criminals,” “the resistance” – gee, I wonder why Criterion thought now was a good time to restore and release Michael Radford’s adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel? It is, to be sure, a tricky work to translate, and Redford occasionally gets bogged down. The genius of Lee’s narrative is that, title notwithstanding, no one really does the right thing-or even seems to grasp, in the heat of the moment, what the “right thing” could be. Brash and bold, confident and funny, this even-handed examination of race relations on one Brooklyn block on the hottest day of summer culminates with acts of violence as heartbreaking as they are inevitable tensions that have been simmering all day finally boil over, as petty complaints about a wall of pictures and a blasting boom -box give way to an ugly, messy fist fight, a young black man’s murder by police, and the looting and burning of the neighborhood’s long-beloved pizzeria.
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( Also streaming on Amazon Prime Video.) (Includes audio commentary, new interviews, and choice of theatrical cut and new “Final Cut.”)ĭo the Right Thing: Spike Lee’s 1989 masterpiece (an early entry in the Criterion Collection, finally getting the Blu-ray upgrade on its 30th anniversary) remains his defining work, a spicy stew of provocative drama, street-corner comedy, and social commentary.
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But it’s immersive as hell to see it on a big home screen with the sound on blast is like going to a rock show where the hits just keep coming. In the interest of capturing the chaotic energy of their best music and performances, Stone lets the narrative get away from him a bit. But Oliver Stone’s 1991 Jim Morrison biopic – looking and sounding incredible in its new 4K release – goes all in, cranking up the volume, the mood, and the crazy for all 140 of its nutso minutes. The Doors : Sure, it’s pompous and self-important and overcooked so was the subject. (Includes audio commentary and featurettes.) It’s a charming, earnest, and often uproariously funny family entertainment. Director Chris Butler tells the story in inventive angles and frisky compositions, and fills in the backgrounds with wonderful little details and tiny throwaway gags. A lonely Sasquatch hiding out in Washington state, he begs a pompous gentleman adventurer (Hugh Jackman, also very good) to help him find a colony of his own kind, so that he won’t feel so alone anymore. Missing Link : The latest from LAIKA – the inventive stop-motion studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings – is probably their warmest and funniest picture to date, thanks in no small part to the character design and voice performance (by Zach Galifianakis) of its leading character. Cretton’s direction is personal and close, sometimes uncomfortably so, but he gets rich, nuanced performances out of his cast, which has become something of a Dazed and Confused-style “before they were stars” situation: Rami Malek, Kaitlyn Dever, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephanie Beatriz, and especially Brie Larson, who transforms from an unknowable puzzle to a character of astonishing openness and vulnerability. What’s more, it’s a film that gets what a cruel and hopeless place the world came seem like, when you’re a certain age and of a certain disposition. Short Term 12 : Destin Daniel Cretton’s drama is set at a foster care facility for teens, and he uses the emotional intensity of the location well it’s the kind of place where anyone can lose their grip at any time (including the staff).
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But that’s not all: we’ve got three ‘80s favorites on disc, an over-the-top rock biopic on 4K, and an indie drama with a bunch of your pre-fame faves on Netflix.
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LAIKA’s latest stop-motion animation adventure hits disc and VOD today, and I downright dare you to find a more enjoyable watch.