A high point in the journeywoman career of writer-director Joan Micklin Silver, 1979’s Chilly Scenes of Winter has finally received the lavish Criterion Blu-ray it deserves ($27.99). A comedy with acidic undertones — or a bitterly funny drama, depending on how you look at it — it stars a never-better John Heard as Charles Richardson, a civil servant pushing paper in Salt Lake … [Read more...]