We're delighted to be working with Sony Home Entertainment, to give away two bundles of newly released Blu-rays from The Criterion Collection's exceptional series of classic and contemporary cinema each month. February's releases include:
Dick Johnson is Dead (2020) - This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director’s beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she is beginning to face the reality of losing him to dementia.
Love Affair (1939) - Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York.
Written on the Wind (1956) - Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy - these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible secretary (Lauren Bacall) has the misfortune of marrying the clan’s neurotic scion (Robert Stack), it drives a wedge between him and his lifelong best friend (Rock Hudson) that unleashes a maelstrom of psychosexual angst and fury.
For a chance to win February's new releases, answer the following question: Which 2004 Studio Ghibli film did Written on the Wind star Lauren Bacall appear as a voice actor in the dubbed English version of, as Witch of the Waste?
Please email answers to leeds.film@leeds.gov.uk by midnight on Monday 28 February 2022.
The competition is open to UK residents only.
