Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Le Video New Arrivals Week 28

The Bounty Hunter (2010)

Director: Andy Tennant
Jennifer Anniston, Gerard Butler, Gio Perez,

A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure. Trailer

Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance. - DVD

Chloe (2009)

Director: Atom Egoyan
Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried

A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger. Trailer

Drama, Thriller, Suspense. - DVD


Greenberg (2010)

Director: Noah Baumbach
Ben Stiller, Great Gerwig, Koby Rouviere, Chris Messina

A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant. Trailer

Drama, Comedy - DVD and Blu-Ray


Our Family Wedding (2010)

Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, Regina King

The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud. Trailer

Comedy, Romance - DVD


The Greatest (2009)

Director: Shana Feste
Susan Sarandon, Pierce Brosnan, Carey Mulligan

A drama that is centered around a troubled teenage girl and a family that is trying to get over the loss of their son. Trailer

Drama, Romance - DVD and Blu-Ray



Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)

Director: Hue Rhodes
Steve Buscemi, John Cho, Sarah Silverman, Peter Dinklage

An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator. Trailer

Comedy, Drama - DVD



Artois the Goat (2009)

Directors: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Mark Scheibmeir, Sydney Andrews, Stephen Taylor Fry

Lab technician Virgil Gurdies struggles to choose between his truelove Angie and his newfound quest to create the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known. Trailer

Comedy - DVD


Formosa Betrayed (2009)

Director: Adam Kane
Will Tiao, James Van Der Beek, Wendy Crewson

In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. His investigation takes him across the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan, where with the help of the outspoken widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that the Professor's killing was not a random act, but a desperate move by a scandalous government intent on keeping its nefarious activities under wraps. Our detective soon finds himself on a collision course against the U.S. State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese Government - in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Inspired by actual events. Trailer
Thriller - DVD


Pornography: A Thriller (2009)

Director: David Kittredge
Matthew Montgomery, Pete Scherer, Jared Grey

A gay porn star's mysterious disappearance becomes an obsession for both a writer and another adult film star, leading them into dark supernatural corners that were never meant to be explored. Trailer

Mystery, Gay - DVD


Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)

Director: Cathy Randall
Danielle Catanzariti, Toni Collette, Cassandra Jinman

A coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl trying to fit into both a posh private school and an ordinary public school.
Trailer

Comedy, Drama, Jewish - DVD


Parasomnia (2008)
Dreams of the Sleepwalker

Director: William Malone
Dylan Purcell, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jeffrey Combs

In this surrealistic new nightmare from horror director William Malone (House on Haunted Hill, Fear.com),Laura Baxter (Cherilyn Wilson, Chain Letter, Extreme Movie) suffers from a bizarre medical condition that keeps her in an almost constant dream state, literally sleeping her life away. While confined to her hospital bed, art student Danny Sloan (Dylan Purcell) falls in love with her, unaware that a terrifying mass murderer is attempting to take possession of her mind. Trailer - Horror, Romance, Thriller - DVD


Middle of Nowwhere (2008)

Director: John Stockwell
Susan Sarandon, Eva Amurri, Anton Yelchin

An irresponsible mother blows her eldest daughter's college fund on her youngest daughter's modeling campaign. Trailer

Comedy, Drama - DVD


Foreign Cinema

2:37 (2006)

Director: Murali K. Thalluri
Teresa Palmer, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Charles Baird

A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragedy will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers. Won Australian Cinematographers Society SA & WA Gold Award. Trailer Foreign, Australian, Drama, Gay - DVD


God's Office (2008)
Les Bureaux de Dieu

Director: Claire Simon
Michel Boujenah, Nathalie Baye, Anne Alvaro, Rachida Brakni

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women. Trailer

Foreign, French, Comedy, Drama - DVD


Diary of a Nymphomaniac (2008)
Diario de una ninfomana

Director: Christian Molina
Belen Fabra, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Geraldine Chaplin

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.Trailer

Foreign, Spanish, Drama. In French and Spanish. DVD


The Girl by the Lake (2007)
La ragazza del lago

Director: Andrea Molaioli
Toni Servillo, Denis Fasolo, Nello Mascia

The body of a young woman is found in a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery. Trailer

Foreign, Italian, Mystery, Thriller - DVD


Terribly Happy (2008)
Frygtelig lykkelig

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Anh Le

A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown. Won 19 Awards.

Foreign, Danish, Drama, Mystery - DVD - Trailer


Vivere (2007)

Director: Angelina Maccarone
Hannelore Elsner, Esther Zimmering, Kim Schnitzer

On Christmas Eve, Francesca sets out for Rotterdam in order to find her little sister, who has run off with her musician boyfriend. On the way, she picks up Gerlinde, a heartbroken older woman at the end of her rope. Trailer

Foreign, German/Dutch, Drama, Romance - DVD


Zift (2008)

Director: Javor Gardev
Zahary Baharov, Tanya Illieva

"Zift" is a genre mixture of neo-noir and sots-art. The story unfolds in one night. Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world - the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. B/W - Won 11 Awards - Trailer

                            Foreign, Bulgarian, Crime, Drama, Mystery - DVD


The Only Son (1936)
Hitori musuko

There was a Father (1942)
Chichi Ariki

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Foreign, Japanese - DVD - Criterion Collection


Here and There (2009)

Director: Darko Lungulov
David Thornton, Mirjana Karanovic, Cyndi Lauper

While trying to make quick cash, Robert, a cynical New Yorker, ends up in chaotic Serbia, where instead of money he finds his soul. Won 9 awards. Trailer - DVD

Foreign, Serbian/German/USA. In English and Serbo-Croatian


Supranova (2009)
For the End Of Time

Director:  Ema Kugler
Maja Delak, Jasa Drovsek, Lydia Lunch

For the End of Time is about the mind, about the body and the inability to merge these two entities. Two entities which shape a form of civilization known under the name of 'human.

Foreign, Slovakian, Drama, Fantasy. In English - DVD

                     Classics

 Film Noir Classic Collection Vol.5

Documentaries

8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)
Equality for some

Directors: Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet

A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights. Trailer

Documentary, Civil Rights, Politics, Gay - DVD

Saving Marriage (2006)

Directors: John Henning and Mike Roth

A landmark court decision in Massachusetts allows gay people in that state to marry - forcing activists, legislators, and ordinary people to reconsider how they view same-sex relationships. Trailer

Documentary, Civil Rights, Politics, Gay - DVD


Don't You Forget About Me (2009)
A tribute to John Hughes

Director: Matt Austin
David Anderle, Mike Bender, Judd Nelson, Gene Siskel

In 1991, filmmaker John Hughes disappeared from Hollywood. In 2008, four filmmakers went to find him.

Documentary, Biography, Cinema - DVD


Television

White Collar - Season 1 (2009)

Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Tiffani Thiessen

A white collar criminal agrees to help the FBI catch other white collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter and racketeer.

TV serie, Crime, Comedy, Drama, Mystery - DVD



Mystery Science Theater 3000
Vol. XVIII
  • Lost Continent
  • Crash of the Moons
  • The Beast of Yucca Flats
  • Jack Frost

TV serie, Comedy, Sci-Fi - DVD



Selling Hitler (1991)
The Outrageous True Tale Of Hitler's Missing Diaries.

Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alison Doody, 

Dramatisation of the true story of Konrad Fischer, an East German who fooled the world (including the UK's "The Times" newspaper, Germany's "Stern" magazine and eminent historian Hugh Trevor-Roper) when he produced what he claimed were the war-time diaries of Adolf Hitler, but which were in fact his own forgeries. Written by Martin Underwood {imdb@martinunderwood.f9.co.uk}  Foreign, British, Comedy, Drama, V
- New to DVD and replace our VHS -

                           

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