Garv’s Pick of the Week: Easy Living
For the release week of July 23rd:
Garv’s Pick of the Week: Easy Living [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: Preston Sturges was the wittiest screenwriter in the history of Hollywood, and from his typewriter flowed some of the screwiest of all the screwball comedies. Easy Living comes from the period before Sturges was allowed to direct his own scripts, but the movie has much the same feel of his self-directed classics of the 1940s. In other words, it’s a pure delight. The story involves a wealthy, powerful banker (Edward Arnold), his son (Ray Milland), a poor working girl (Jean Arthur), and a $58,000 sable fur coat that changes all of their lives. By the way, that’s $58,000 in 1937 dollars.
Additional Titles of Interest —
Universal Horror Collection, Vol. 2 [Blu-ray / Scream Factory]: Scream Factory’s slightly overpriced series of Universal horror Blu-ray box sets continues with this collection, which contains Murders in the Zoo, The Mad Ghoul, The Mad Doctor of Market Street, and The Strange Case of Doctor Rx.
Death Takes a Holiday [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: Fredric March is the less-than-grim reaper on an Italian vacay.
Criss Cross [Blu-ray / Shout Select]: Dan Duryea makes every noir noirier.
Merrill's Marauders [Blu-ray / Warner Archive]: I haven’t seen this one, but when Sam Fuller directs a war film, you have my attention.
Do the Right Thing [Blu-ray / Criterion]: One of the very best films of the 1980s gets the prestige Criterion treatment.
1984 [Blu-ray / Criterion]: Watch Big Brother as he watches you.
The Fate of Lee Khan [Blu-ray / Film Movement]: I suspect martial arts are somehow involved.
The Milky Way [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: Luis Buñuel’s surrealistic story about a religious pilgrimage has nothing to do with the candy bar of the same name.
