CRITERION COLLECTION July 2021 titles - CINEMIN review

It is always interesting to wait for the announcements from the Criterion Collection staff ... I am always wondering what I will be seeing in three months, as I always do on the 15th of each month when the official announcement comes out. To my surprise in this announcement for the month of July 2021 it has no old title. There are all 5 new films for the collection. First there is a 1938 classic directed by Howard Hawks: "Bringing up Baby" starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in a classic screwball comedy - one of the best ever made and funniest where the absurdity of all circumstances that includes a leopard reigns on the loose. I imagine that with a 4K treatment it will be superb. Perhaps the somewhat expected release of "Mirror" 1975 and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky should be the title most coveted by fans. This is also a work that requires more of the public that I imagine to be more selected for its complexity of beautiful images with an enviable music and a script usually compared to a book of poems. But it is in this part that this Russian filmmaker has become so well-known and admired. More contemporary but no less admirable is the actor-film - director Bill Duke of 1992, interestingly "Deep Cover" in which we find Laurence Fishbourne - always excellent, like a disguised policeman who enters the world of crime in order to dismantle a drug cartel in LA In addition to the chic style of the 90s, this very violent and very action film still has another great actor Jeff Goldblum and the iconic Dr. Dre with the theme music on the soundtrack. Also somewhat chic but in the 1980s this other film was about prostitutes with high-class clients in Manhattan. The director Lizzie Borden made in 1986 her film "Working Girls" that she treats with an ideal treatment shows a day of work for several girls their ambitions and afflictions that basically are part of their respective daily routine. The director does not provoke the audience; she simply invites us to reflect on the oldest profession in the world. And so we arrived at the last of the films for July: the French film "La piscine" by Jacques Deray in 1969. The cast includes one of the most beautiful couples in the history of cinema: the eternal Alain Delon and Romy Schneider (gorgeous). The film tells the story of Jean-Paul and Marianne, a couple on vacations in St Tropez. So Marianne invites her ex-boyfriend to come and visit her and he brings his daughter. In a seductive romance and even revenge, the story turns into a police case. Maurice Ronet and Jane Birkin also star in this film that has Michel Legrand on the soundtrack. Well, I almost never hit the movies that are coming to the Criterion Collection but I have a certainty. They never disappointed me as a fan of great films. July 6: 1085 - Bringing Up Baby, dir by Howard Hawks (1938) and 1086 - Mirror, dir by Andrei Tarkovsky (1975). July 13: 1085 - Deep Cover, dir by Bill Duke (1992) and 1087 - Working Girls, dir by Lizzie Boden (1986) July 20: 1088 - La piscine, dir by Jacques Deray (1969). Don't forget to check CINEMIN page for more film reviews: https://danobre3.wixsite.com/cinemin