The time for the high hat is over, Miller’s Crossing is finally coming out from Criterion and it brings with it a new interview with the Coens to prove that they’re not actually broken up (unless this is another Good Wife situation). Other than that, I want to shout out Bruno Dumont’s France, a movie I didn’t quite love when I saw it but which has stuck with me as a singular object. It’s not really a satire of the news media like it seems it’s going to be, but every moment is practically daring you to laugh at the serious misfortunes that befall the titular TV journalist (a late-film tragedy is staged like an overwrought prestige remake of Homer Simpson falling off the cliff). It likely wouldn’t work at all without Lea Seydoux in the lead, she sells that her character is defined equally by silly workplace comedy and grand tragedy (at least 10% of the movie is close-ups on her crying face). And she wears a collection of the year’s best outfits while doing so.

12 Angry Men (1997) (Kino)
Blank Generation (Dark Force)
La Dolce Vita (Paramount)
Encanto (Disney)
Foul Play (Paramount)
France (Kino)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Warner Archive Collection)
King Richard (Warner)
Miller’s Crossing (Criterion)
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (Sony)
Some Like It Hot 4K (Kino)
Summer School (Shout Factory)
Surf Nazis Must Die (Troma)