Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, This Is Spinal Tap joins the Criterion Collection, hot on the heels of its sequel hitting theaters. This week also features a number of 4K re-releases, including for Requiem for a Dream. Read on for more…
Joey’s Top Pick
This Is Spinal Tap (Criterion Collection)
From The Criterion Collection: “Spinal Tap has come to be recognized as England’s loudest and most punctual band. In the legendary rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, now beautifully restored, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) embark on their final American tour, with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) capturing all the mishaps, creative tensions, dwindling crowds, and ill-fated drummers. This Is Spinal Tap takes DiBergi’s brilliant vérité style and turns it up to eleven!”
Also Available This Week
Big Helium Dog (Blu-ray)
Cinderella Man (4K)
Hotel Rwanda (Blu-ray)
Meatballs (4K)
My Dead Friend Zoe
Requiem for a Dream (4K)
Speak No Evil (4K)
TRON (4K)
TRON: Legacy (4K)
Criterion Corner
Born in Flames
From The Criterion Collection: “A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden’s explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revolution that supposedly transformed the country into a social-democratic utopia. In reality, racism, sexism, and economic inequality are as virulent as ever, and a band of radicals—led by Black, lesbian, and working-class women—join forces to fight back. Told through a furiously fractured, kinetically edited flurry of television news broadcasts, pirate radio transmissions, agitprop, and protests shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York City, Born in Flames is a shock wave of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.”
*This Is Spinal Tap also comes to Criterion today and is the Pick of the Week*
Stay tuned for more next week…
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