Welcome back to my Home Movies! This time around, there’s not a whole lot to get excited about, in my humble opinion, but I know many folks love Lilo and Stitch, so I’m giving it top honors for all of you. This week also features a trio of Criterion Collection releases, so it’s just modern blockbusters. What else is hitting shelves today? Find out below…
Joey’s Top Pick
Lilo and Stitch
This massive Disney hit is yet another feather in their live-action cap. Lilo and Stitch was never an animated tale that I gravitated to, but a new generation of parents are clearly showing this to their children, with blockbuster results. So, even if this might not be my personal top pick, it’s the pick of so many, and who am I to argue with success? If you love it, enjoy.
Also Available This Week
Cinematography John R. Leonetti
But I’m a Cheerleader (4K)
The Conjuring (4K)
Erin Brockovich (4K)
Ghostlight
The King of Kings
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (4K)
Scoop (Blu-ray)
Criterion Corner
Compensation
From The Criterion Collection: “A poignant portrait of Deaf African Americans and the complexities of love at both ends of the twentieth century, Zeinabu irene Davis’s film is a groundbreaking story of inclusion and visibility. In dual performances, Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks play an educated dressmaker and an illiterate migrant in 1910s Chicago, and a resilient graphic artist and an endearing librarian living in the same city eight decades later. Employing archival photography, an original score blending ragtime and African percussion, and lyrical editing, Davis deftly intertwines the two couple’s stories, in ways both tender and tragic. Compensation is a landmark of American independent cinema that confronts the social forces and prejudices that hinder love.”
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Saving Face
From The Criterion Collection: “A queer romantic comedy set in vibrant, multicultural New York City, Alice Wu’s irresistible feature debut breathed fresh life into the genre by combining snappy dialogue and a swooning love story with a poignant narrative about a mother and daughter coming to terms with each other. Just as Wil (Michelle Krusiec), a harried young surgical resident, begins a promising romance with the flirtatious dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen), her life is turned upside down when her more traditional Chinese mother (Joan Chen)—unwed and unexpectedly pregnant—moves in with her, forcing both women to confront the generational and cultural barriers that have long troubled their relationship. Both embracing and cleverly subverting rom-com conventions, Wu delivers a bighearted ode to the Chinese American diaspora, and the liberating joy of living one’s truth.”
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Vermiglio
From The Criterion Collection: “Secrets swirl beneath the surface of a remote Italian community in Maura Delpero’s exquisite wartime drama, winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. In a majestic Alpine village touched only faintly by the upheavals of modern life, a strict schoolteacher’s family undergoes a profound shift when a relative returns home with a mysterious Sicilian soldier, both fleeing the front lines of World War II. As the seasons change across a single year, three very different daughters of the sprawling Graziadei clan will find their lives transformed. Blending historically grounded realism with painterly grace, Delpero draws from her own ancestral history for Vermiglio, an at once intimate and momentous vision of a world suspended between the patriarchal past and the stirrings of a new future.”
Stay tuned for more next week…
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