Merry Christmas!

Le Video's Gift Certificates are great stocking stuffers...

and they are pretty too !

December Special: Earn FREE rentals TWICE AS FAST

DECEMBER SPECIAL: Earn a FREE rental (10 pt) TWICE as fast! Get DOUBLE POINTS on all your paid rentals Monday thru Thursday! 

You can also earn points toward free rentals by returning new releases one day early. Points add up fast... especially in December! and this week.. check the bottom of your receipt.. you maybe the lucky winner of a discount toward prepaids!

New Arrivals... 742 more reasons to rent from us.. yes, you read it correctly... we added 742 TITLES just in NOVEMBER!!! Support Le Video so that we can keep searching the world to bring you movies you will just not find anywhere else!

Week of November 29th

Week of November 22nd

Week of November 15th - Part 1

Week of November 15th - Part 2

Week of November 8

Week of November 1

Film Festival in a Box

Giving Thanks to ALL our Customers (SPECIAL offer) & Holiday Hours

"Happy Thanksgiving fellow movie lovers!" 

As a way of giving thanks this year, Le Video is offering this coupon for a package of 15 rentals for $45 (25% off of our normal rental price!).

From the bottom of our hearts, Le Video would like to sincerely thank all of you for 31 years of love and support.

As usual you get 1 FREE rental for each 10 paid so this coupon is really worth 16.5 rentals!

This limited time offer is available from 11/21/11 - 11/27/11. 

One coupon per customer and/or account.

 Please print coupon and bring to redeem

Holiday Hours

Wednesday    11/23   12 pm - 11 pm

Thursday       11/24   11 am -   6 pm  (Thanksgiving Day)
Saturday       12/24   11 am -   6 pm  (Christmas Eve)
Sunday         12/25   12 pm -   6 pm  (Christmas Day)
Saturday       12/31   11 am -   7 pm  (New Year's Eve)
Sunday          1/1      12 pm -  11pm  (New Year's Day)

TIP #1: Though we will be open and happy to see you to wish you a happy holiday, remember that with 7 nights rental on 99.5% of our movies, you do not need to wait until the last minute to get your holidays cinematographic needs met

TIP #2: Planning on renting multiple non new releases? Save off the regular price, and save your pre-paids for New Releases or less than 3 movies at a time and take advantage of our multi-rental packages... like 5 movies for $15 for ONE WEEK (7 nights/8 days)

TIP #3: With any 2 paids rentals (Yes pre-paids and multi-rental packages count) take advantage of our FREE monthly rental special! Explore and discover a section you may never have ventured in... it's free so be daring!

This November we are featuring films from

The Middle East, click here for more info

Tip #4:  Click here to check out our Weekly New Arrivals Photo Albums located on Facebook

NEW Customer Special ~ Limited Time Offer

A Special offer for first time customers!

Save 25% with our "Intro Package" of 15 rentals for $45.

There are no rental restrictions. The pre-paids can be used toward any DVD, Blu-Ray, VHS, New Releases, Catalog and Adult Titles and used with our Monthly Special or other offers.

Must be purchased at the time of your first rental.

One per person and/or account

November 2011 Special - Middle East & Egyptian Cinema

 FREE Middle-Eastern & Egyptian movie rental with any 2 paid rentals

COME ON DOWN AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR FANTASTIC NOVEMBER SPECIAL! For the entire month of November, when you rent ANY 2 films you can pick up any non-new release title from our extensive collection of Middle Eastern films ABSOLUTELY FREE!

Choose from:

Bahrain
Iraq
Iran
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

&

Egypt

 

UNFAMILIAR WITH MIDDLE EASTERN FILMS? DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START? or would you just like a good, old fashioned recommendation? Le Video recommends checking out any of the following titles:

THE APPLE (Iran, 2009)*
THE BAND'S VISIT (Iran, 1998)
BARAN (Iran, 2001)
BLACKBOARDS (Iran, 2000)
CAIRO STATION (Egypt, 1958)
CAMPFIRE (Israel, 2004)
CHILDREN OF HEAVEN (Iran, 1997)
CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE (Palestine/Israel, 1996)
THE CIRCLE (Iran, 2000)
CLOSE-UP (Iran, 1990)
CRIMSON GOLD (Iran, 2003)
THE COLOR OF PARADISE (Iran, 1999)
DIVINE INTERVENTION (Palestine, 2002)
HEAD-ON (Turkey, 2004)
KADOSH (Israel, 1999)
KANDAHAR (Iran, 2001)
KIPPUR (Israel, 2000)
LATE MARRIAGE (Israel, 2002)
LEBANON (Israel/Lebanon, 2009)**
LEILA (Iran, 1998)
LIFE AND NOTHING BUT... (Iran, 1992)*
PARADISE NOW (Palestine, 2005)
SECRET BALLOT (Iran, 2001)
THE SYRIAN BRIDE (Israel, 2004)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Iran, 1997)
THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES (Iran, 1994)*
TIME OF FAVOR (Israel, 2000)
THE TIME THAT REMAINS (Palestine, 2009)
USHPIZIN (Israel, 2004)
WALK ON WATER (Israel, 2004)
WALTZ WITH BASHIR (Israel, 2008)
WHERE IS MY FRIEND'S HOME? (Iran, 1987)*
THE WHITE BALLOON (Iran, 1995)*
THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING (Egypt, 2006)
YOSSI & JAGGER (Israel, 2002)

All of the above films are available on DVD unless noted
* - ONLY AVAILABLE ON VHS
** - ALSO AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY

 We added 315 titles since 11/1/11  

Week of 11/1/11 New Arrivals 

Week of 11/8/11 New Arrivals

Celebrate Independent Video Store Day, COUPON extended to 10/17/11

Come celebrate the art of movies, win free rentals, 

and support you local video store!

Today Saturday, October 15th, neighborhood video stores across the US and Canada are coming together for the first International Independent Video Store Day, a celebration of local and independent brick and mortar stores. It’s a great time to reflect on what being independent and local mean to us ~ Le Video, one of the largest independent video stores in the country with over 90,000 titles available for rent.

Le Video was born in 1980 out of love for, and a desire to share a world of early cinema, foreign and independent movies - at the time, a spectrum not widely available in the USA

"Being an independently owned store gives us the freedom to passionately pursue that mission. A corporate office doesn’t select our inventory to maximize profits and appeal to only the widest audience. The titles on our shelves reflect the eclectic tastes and voracious cinematic appetite of our staff and, most importantly, our customers.

Our inventory is one reason we’re one of the largest and most reputable video stores in the country, but we wouldn’t be anywhere without our clientele.

Another part of being local is our staff and the connection we have to our customers. Rental-by-mail, vending machines and streaming video are more convenient, but they can’t help you figure out if Poltergeist is too scary for your 10-year old, walk you through how to watch DVDs from other countries, or help you figure out which of the new releases will best match your viewing mood for the night. We’ve seen more and more people willing to settle for a limited range of options, diminished picture and sound quality, and longer waits to see films for the sake of convenience. The effects of those choices are increasingly eroding our ability to maintain the quality our inventory, support our staff, and contribute to the greater community. We can’t argue with easy access all the time, but if it becomes the sole factor in discovering movies then local, independent sources for film will disappear.

In the end, we do our best to provide products and services we believe are worthy of your patronage. If you value our resources, our knowledgeable staff, and our commitment to the community, we ask for your support. If you haven’t visited Le Video in a while, Independent Video Store Day is a great reason to come in and rediscover what we have to offer."*

Stop by the store on Saturday, October 15th and take advantage of our one-day only Package of 20 rentals for $60 and save $10.

Print and bring in TODAY Saturday 10/15/11
EXTENDED TO MONDAY 10/17/11

If you haven't visited for awhile, you will discover thousands of movies not available anywhere else, 8 days / 7 nights rentals on everything except new releases (2 nights), $2 extra night rentals on all the movies and coming soon a new website which will allow you to checkout movies from home, ready to be picked up when you stop by the store

Catherine Tchen, Mark Bowen and the Staff at Le Video

Until the new website is finished, please "like" our Facebook page to see all the
movies we receive each week.

Some of our customers quotes - as found on Yelp:

"I really hope we can keep a few treasures like this store around. Having helpful people with recommendations is nice along with quickly picking up the box to scan the title is just more social than cruising Netflix." Nick B.

"Le Video is awesomey awesome.  It's a cute space in a great location - although parking can be really sucky sometimes.  They have so many movie/tv show titles that it's sometimes hard to decide what to watch.  The people who work there are really knowledgeable and give lots of great suggestions on what to watch. They have almost every single movie you could think of watching - from mainstream blockbusters to really obscure independent or foreign films." Kris I.

"This is the best video store ever. I don't do Netflix because I have Le Video." Aaron N.

"Le Video is a cinephile's wet dream come true!!! They have everything from the rare & hard to find to the over abundant hollywood crap/new releases. This is not your average local video store, it is a video museum where you can actually touch (and take home!) the exhibits. If there is some foreign film or documentary or even a rumored famous director's film school final project that you've only heard existed in a mythological realm of lost tape, chances are Le Video has it. Amazingly knowledgeable & friendly staff are always there to help or recommend options. Le Video is an SF treasure - go check it out!" Joseph K.

Monday-Friday: Noon-11 PM

Sat & Sun:       11AM - 11PM

*text by Carl Tostevin, Scarecrow Video, Seattle

October 2011 - Special

OCTOBER 2011 - Celebrating the World of Canadian Cinema 

Rent any 2 movies get a 3rd rental* ABSOLUTELY FREE  

from our Canadian section. Make sure to check our huge selection of imports from Quebec. Too many Canadian films never make it south of the border, so we at Le Video take great pride and joy in bringing them to you. Do not pass this chance to try something unknown... it's FREE! and you won't find most of them anywhere else! (*except new releases.. as a free rental)

 

Week of 10/4/11 Arrivals

Week of 9/27/11 Arrivals

Week of 9/20/11 Arrivals 

Week of 9/13/11 Arrivals

September Special, New Releases, New Hours & Disc Repairs

FOR A MUCH MORE DETAILED LOOK AT WHAT'S BEING ADDED TO OUR LIBRARY ALL WEEK LONG...PLEASE JOIN US ON FACEBOOK!:


This week New Arrivals - CLICK links to see ALL the titles
Last week New Arrivals
Week of August 23rd, 2011
Week of August 16th, 2011
Week of August 9th, 2011
To see ALL the albums

While we are building a brand new website we are mostly using Facebook to keep in touch.

Open earlier on Saturday & Sunday!
Monday - Friday:     Noon to 11 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 11 AM to 11 PM

Once again...a HUGE thank you from all of us to all of you for casting your vote and choosing Le Video as the Bay Area's best video store in the SF Guardian's Best of the Bay reader's poll! It really means a lot to us and we promise to continue building on our diverse library of movies from around the world. We love doing this and we love that you love what we do!

Did you know that during the last 12 months we added 7,939 items to our rental inventory and that many of them are imports that can only be found at Le Video?

But before we get to the list...another month has passed us by, so it's time to announce this month's rental deal! The Summer of 2011 has drawn to a close and many of you have the grind of the Fall semester on the horizon. All is not lost! Your obedient servants here at Le Video have cooked up (trumpets blare) THE SEPTEMBER, BACK-TO-SCHOOL SPECIAL*. This deal is a bit of a free for all. If you rent ANY 2 films MONDAY thru WEDNESDAY, you can pick up ANY NON-NEW RELEASE RENTAL ABSOLUTELY FREE! This is a great opportunity to take risks with your rental choices. A chance to dig deep into our vast library of cinematic treasures FREE OF CHARGE! IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES PEOPLE! Offer is good until the end of the month...so go forth and get your film on! ~ Mark

* offer only good with two paid rentals. Cannot be combined with any other coupon, special or offer

Discs Resurfacing Services:
Did you know that for a modest $3 we can bring back to life your damaged video game disc, music CD, or DVD? Bring it in for resurfacing! We have a fancy expensive machine that fixes up discs!

Like us? Want a FREE rental? Tell your friends!

All you have to do is get a friend/acquaintance/random stranger to start a membership with us. If they write in your name as their referral while signing up -voila!- you get one free rental after they initiate their first paid rental. (One free rental per new account referred)

Special Events:

October 15th we will celebrate Independent Video Store Day and on the 16th participate in the Inner Sunset Street Fair... you'll have to come on by to find out what specials we will have on those 2 days!

And at long last, the sampling of this week New Arrivals... just enough to get your taste buds going! By checking the Facebook albums... you'll quickly understand why we can only provide a "sampling" of the weekly arrivals!

- Diana Rigg At the BBC (DVD)
- Acolytes (2008) - Jon Hewitt (DVD)
- The Arbor (2010) - Clio Barnard (DVD)
- Asylum Seekers (2009) - Rania Ajami (DVD)
- Before Your Eyes (2009) - Miraz Bezar (DVD)
- Bereavement (2010) - Stevan Mena (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Cadavres (2009) - Erik Canuel (DVD)
- Children of the Corn (1984) - Fritz Kiersch (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- The Coffin (2008) - Ekachai Uekrongtham (DVD)
- Community - Season 2 (2010) - Dan Harmon (DVD)
- The Divine Weapon (2008) - Yu-jin Kim (DVD)
- Everything Must Go (2010) - Dan Rush (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Fistful of Dollars, A (Per un Pugno di Dollari, 1964) - Sergio Leone (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- For a Few Dollars More (Per Qualche Dollaro in Più, 1965) - Sergio Leone (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Fringe - Season 3 (2010) - J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, & Roberto Orci (DVD)
- God of Vampires (2010) - Rob Fitz (DVD)
- The Good Wife - Season 2 (2010) - Michelle King, Robert King (DVD)
- Hanna (2011) - Joe Wright (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Hashish (2002) - Daniel Gräbner (DVD)
- Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (1988) - Tony Randel (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Hellraiser (1987) - Clive Barker (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- High School Musical: China (2010) - Shi-Zheng Chen (DVD)
- The Hills Have Eyes (1977) - Wes Craven (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Horrible Way to Die, A (2010) - Adam Wingard (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- It's the Rage (1999) - James D. Stern (DVD)
- Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011) - Dick Lowry (DVD)
- The Last Kung Fu Monk (2010) - Peng Zhang Li (DVD)
- Legend of The Tsunami Warrior (2008) - Nonzee Nimibutr (DVD)
- Lizard Boy (2011) - Paul Della Pelle (DVD)
- Magic (2010) - Hye-sun Koo (DVD)
- The Office - Season Seven (2010) - Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, & Stephen Merchant (DVD)
- Olivia: Princess For a Day (2009) (DVD)
- Quattro Volte, Le (The Four Times, 2010) - Michelangelo Frammartino (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Rebirth (2011) - Jean-Marc Minéo (DVD)
- Sands of the Kalahari (1965) - Cy Endfield (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Scarface (1983) - Limited Edition - Brian DePalma (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Straw Dogs (1971) - Sam Peckinpah (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Team Umizoomi (2010) (DVD)
- Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels (2011) (DVD)
- Trail of the Panda (2009) - Zhong Yu (DVD)
- Vidal Sassoon: The Movie (2010) - Craig Teper (DVD)
- Weakness (2010) - Michael Melamedoff (DVD)
- X-Men: First Class (2011) - available 9/9/11 - Matthew Vaughn (Blu-ray) (DVD)

We're looking forward to see you soon at Le Video!

August 23rd New Arrivals

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150278507085765.336592.27426240764&l=8181ac17e2&type=1

July Special and 31st Anniversary Special

 Rent any 2 Films* and checkout a

 3rd one ABSOLUTELY FREE from our War and Western Collection

In July, we are also celebrating our 31st Anniversary!

The PARTY will be on Saturday July 30th

As a THANK YOU to all of you who have supported Le Video since we opened 31 years ago we're offering you this Anniversary Special:

• 4 FREE rentals with your purchase of 20 Prepaid Rentals (20% bonus)
• 1 FREE rental with your purchase of 10 Prepaid Rentals (10% bonus)

Those FREE rentals are in addition to the rent 10 get 1 FREE that you will also receive !!! (This means that with the purchase of 20, you actually get 26 rentals and the purchase of 10, you actually get 12 rentals !!!)

~ The small print - not so small that you can't read it ~

Limit 1 Anniversary Prepaid package special per customer/account

unless you use them up before the end of the month

in which case you can purchase this special again and again until 7/31/11.

This means that you can get as many as you want during the month of July as long as they are used in July. Of course, you can still purchase your last one on July 31st, you just can't stockpile them for future use.

Click "Like" on our Facebook page to be the first to know about the party, specials, spur of the moment specials and the newly acquired movies.

*Paid Rental

June Special

For the month of June

RENT ANY 2 FILMS in the store &

you can rent one of our VHS treasures ABSOLUTELY FREE!

It often boggles the mind when you look at how many films still haven't made the leap to DVD and how many will never do.

A staggering amount of classic favorites, foreign films, cult gems and even high-profile Hollywood releases that were given proper home video releases, can only be watched on now out-of-print VHS cassettes.

Although DVDs took the home video format crown from VHS (after a 27 year reign of glory!) back in 2003, your faithful archivists here at Le Video, still proudly offer thousands of VHS-exclusive films. 

5 rentals for $ 9.99 today only

TODAY ONLY:  5 rentals (pre-paids) for $ 9.99  
when you rent a movie today at regular price or using your existing pre-paids.  
Not renting today, you can purchase this package for $15. 
Use them at your own pace. ~ One per customer and/or account ~ Must bring in coupon.

SIDEWALK SALE - MAY 21st - 1 to 4 PM

May Special

Rent any 2 movies and get a DOCUMENTARY of your choice as a FREE rental!

April 5th, 2011 New Releases

The weekly list is not exhaustive, in addition to the items listed, each month we are receiving several hundred titles not included on these lists. New movies are added on a daily basis... lots of them!

 American Jihadist (2010): American soldier. Family man. Jihadist. Isa Abdullah Ali is a person of many identities and contradictions, but in the beginning, he was a bullied young boy growing up in America s capital. At fifteen he joined the American army, and as a young man he converted to Islam and fought alongside the Amal militia and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Though the details of his past are murky, Isa claims to have killed more than 150 people in the fight to defend his faith. Through Isa s own words and those of family members, psychologists and political experts, this award-winning documentary attempts to decode the social and personal influences that can lead an individual down a path to radicalism. American Jihadist reaches beyond easy labels to grasp the nuances behind one man s decision to fight and kill for his religion.

Ayn Rand In Her Own Words (2011): Revealing the surprising life story of one of the world's most influential minds, this unprecedented film weaves together Ayn Rand's own recollections and reflections, and draws upon never-before-seen or heard materials from archives of the Ayn Rand Estate.

Calling, The (2011): A behind-the-scenes look at young Americans - Christian, Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim preparing to become the nation's next generation of religious leaders. The Calling follows their transformation from idealistic students into ordained religious professionals. This film explores the forces that are drawing a new generation of young people to serve their communities and their faith.

Carlos (2010): Based on an original idea by Daniel Leconte, written by Olivier Assayas and Dan Franck, directed by Assayas, Carlos tells the story of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez who, for two decades, was one of the most wanted terrorists on the planet. Between 1974, in London, where he tried to assassinate a British businessman, and 1994, when he was arrested in Khartoum, he lived several lives under various pseudonyms, weaving his way through the complexities of international politics of the period.

Casino Jack (2010): Two-time Academy Award® Winner Kevin Spacey delivers a “bravura performance” (The New Yorker ) in this “uproarious, riveting and wickedly hilarious” (Elle ) film inspired by a true story. Spacey stars as Jack Abramoff, the real-life Washington power player who resorted to jaw-dropping levels of fraud and corruption. High-rolling excess and outrageous escapades are all in a day’s work for Abramoff, as he goes to outrageous lengths to promote the Indian gambling industry, earning him the nickname “Casino Jack.” But when Jack and his womanizing protégé Michael Scanlon (Barry Pepper) enlist a dimwitted business partner (Jon Lovitz) for an illegal scheme, they find themselves ensnared in a web of greed and murder that explodes into a worldwide scandal.

The Chronicles of Narnia – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010): Return to the magic and wonder of C. S. Lewis' epic world in this third installment of the beloved Chronicles of Narnia fantasy-adventure series. When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan and a mission that will determine the fate of Narnia itself!

The Chosen One (2007): Feature length animated film about a loser who becomes a ninja, robot, monster fighting savior?

Elena Undone (2010): From Nicole Conn, director of the lesbian classic CLAIRE OF THE MOON. Elegant and refined Elena (Necar Zadegan, TV s 24, The Event) is a devoted wife to her pastor husband, mother to her teenage son, and daughter to her traditional Indian family. When she meets lesbian writer Peyton (ravishingly beautiful Traci Dinwiddie, TV s Supernatural ) Elena is confronted with intense, unexpected feelings for a woman and their relationship evolves into a passionate romance. Charming, funny and poignant as well as smoldering and sensual!

 

The Heroes of Telemark (1965): It is 1942 and Norway is under the thumb of the Nazis. In a Norwegian factory, Nazis are producing "heavy water," an essential element in the production of atomic weapons. The leader of the Norwegian underground is enlisted by British intelligence to aid in destroying the factory.

 

 How to Make Love to a Woman (2010): Josh Meyers and Krysten Ritter star in this romantic comedy.

I Love You Phillip Morris (2009): Jim Carrey in his “best performance” as a gay con man. Co-stars Ewan McGregor.

Incendies (2010) : When notary Lebel sits down with Jeanne and Simon Marwan to read them their mother's will Nawal , the twins are stunned to receive a pair of envelopes - one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother they didn't know existed. With Lebel's help, the twins piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate forever marked by war and hatred as well as the courage of an exceptional woman. "Denis Villeneuve’s French-Canadian feature, “Incendies,” which has just been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, is an emotionally powerful film, boasting mythic elements and sweeping visual imagery." Emanuel Levy.
NO subtitle ~ French ONLY

Little Fockers (2010): Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) has finally begun to earn the respect of his ex-CIA father-in-law, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) but one important test still lies ahead: will Greg prove that he has what it takes to be the family's next "Godfocker" ... or will the circle of trust be broken for good? Returning co-stars Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand are joined by newcomers Jessica Alba, Laura Dern and Harvey Keitel in this hysterical family affair.


 

The Mountain (1956): Retired mountain climber and guide Zachary Wheeler (Spencer Tracy) reluctantly helps his younger brother (Robert Wagner) scale a treacherous mountain slope to reach the site of a recent plane crush. Truly his brother’s keeper, he puts aside their differences and agrees to help his inexperienced brother on an immoral looting mission. After reaching the crash site the brothers discover a lone survivor (Anna Kashfi)… Zachary immediately starts caring for the injured young woman planning her rescue while his brother would rather abandon her and make off with the loot. The stellar cast also includes Claire Trevor, William Demarest and E.G. Marshall. This one-of-a-kind action-adventure was directed by Edward Dmytryk (The Caine Mutiny).

The Night of the Generals (1968): Omar Sharif stars as a German intelligence officer who sets out to find the murderer of a prostitute who was also a secret agent. Focusing on three generals who were the girl's clients, Sharif obsessively attempts to prove one of them guilty of the crime. His attempts fail, until another prostitute is killed and Peter O'Toole is exposed as the psychotic general.

Purple Sea (2009): From the novel Minchia di Re by Giacomo Pilati comes a scandal hidden in 19th century Sicily between two young women, Angela and Sara. Angela isn t like other girls her age, she fears nothing and nobody. She can t hide her feelings for Sara. To maintain the forbidden relationship, she changes her outward appearance to disguise herself as a man. The chains that had imprisoned her existence suddenly disappear and she becomes powerful, but in her heart she never denies her identity as a woman. As intense and compelling as only young love can be, the two women challenge the rules of society in order to be together.

The Secret of the Urn (1966): Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn. Directed by Hideo Gosha

The Taqwacores (2009): Yusef is a first-generation Pakistani-American engineering student who moves off-campus with a group of Muslim punks in Buffalo, New York. His new un-orthodox housemates soon introduce him to Taqwacore a hardcore, Muslim punk rock scene. As the seasons change, Taqwacore influences the house more and more. The living room becomes a mosque during the day, while it continues to host punk shows at night. Ultimately, Yusef begins to challenge his own faith and ideologies. A powerful and original story of punk Islam in the USA and the discovery of oneself within the confines of religion.

Tron Legacy (2010): Disney presents a high-tech motion picture unlike anything you've ever seen in an astonishing 3D Combo Pack. Immerse yourself in the digital world of TRON, as celebrated actor Jeff Bridges stars in a revolutionary visual effects adventure beyond imagination. When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.

I Vinti (1953): Triptych of murder in an early film by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Wallenberg A Hero’s Story (1985): Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story is an incredibly riveting, Emmy award winning fact based story about a hero who helped over 100,000 Hungarian Jews escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust.





TELEVISION

Any Human Heart (2010): An adaptation of William Boyd's best-selling novel, Any Human Heart tells the story of Logan Mountstuart's long and rackety life, one which spans every decade of the twentieth century. 4 Part mini-series stars Jim Broadbent and features Gillian Anderson

Bill Moyers – The Language of Life (1995): An 8 part series on poets and their work. The magic of the spoken word takes center stage in this exhilarating eight-part series that showcases contemporary poets and their work. Join host Bill Moyers as he engages 18 writers—including greats Robert Bly, Adrienne Rich, and Gary Snyder--in lively conversation, and share the experience of hearing them read aloud before a live audience. Produced and directed by Emmy&reg-winning documentarian David Grubin and filmed on location at the fifth biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in historic Waterloo, New Jersey, The Language of Life combines intimate, one-on-one interviews and public performances--several with musical accompaniment by the famed Paul Winter Consort. Featured poets include National Book Award honorees, Pulitzer Prize winners, and a former U.S. Poet Laureate. Collectively, the writers here testify to the full range of human experience and poetry’s power to inspire, redeem, and celebrate life.

How the World was Made Season 2: Spectacular on-location shooting, evidence from geologists in the field, and clear, dramatic graphics combine in SEASON TWO of this stunning series from HISTORY to show how immensely powerful, and at times violent, forces of geology have formed our planet. This season, HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE goes back in history from 4.5 billion years ago to today peeling back layers of rock, filling up river canyons, parting the oceans, and leveling mountains and volcanoes to investigate the origins of some of the most well-known locations and geological phenomena in the world. With rocks as their clues and volcanoes, ice sheets and colliding continents as their suspects, scientists launch a forensic investigation that will help viewers visualize how the Earth has evolved and formed over millions of years.

KJB – King James Bible (2010): Acclaimed actor John Rhys-Davies visits landmarks, explains relics and leads us back into a darker time to discover this fascinating tale of saints and sinners, power and passion, as the greatest translation of Holy Scripture emerges into a world and culture that would never be quite the same again.


Nova: Deadliest Earthquakes Haiti and Chile (2011): Timely Nova documentary.

Sarah Palin’s Alaska (2010): Sarah Palin's Alaska takes viewers into the country's 'final frontier' through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens - Sarah Palin. Sarah is joined by various family members as she shares the state she knows and loves. Along with Alaska's great wilderness, the Palins encounter Alaska's fascinating residents and share what its takes to thrive in the country's largest state.


NEW RELEASES ON BLU-RAY!
A.I – Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Carlos (2010) import
The Cove (2009)
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
Little Fockers (2010)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tron (1982)
Tron Legacy (2010)


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NEW ARRIVALS (DVD)
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Betty Blue (1986): Sex and sunlight are on ample display in Betty Blue, director Jean-Jacques Beineix's passionate look at mad love. (Every French director is contractually required to make at least one movie about l'amour fou.) It begins at the seashore, where handyman and failed novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) has his life electrified by Betty, a woman whose sense of abandon frequently tips over into the pathological. This was the role that introduced gap-toothed, voluptuous Beatrice Dalle to the world, and neither Dalle nor the world has ever quite recovered. Traces of Beineix's preciousDiva are still present, though this is a darker and more memorable ride, especially in the three-hour "version integrale" that restores an hour of footage. Its copious nude scenes are a drawing card, but stick around for the age-old alchemy of life translated into art. Gabriel Yared's score is a favorite of movie-soundtrack mavens, especially its haunting piano theme.

The Blot (1921): The scholarly and underpaid Professor Griggs and his family live in genteel poverty in a small college town. To help out the family, beautiful young Amelia Griggs (Claire Windsor) works in the public library. Next-door to the Griggs are the Olsens, a large and lively family of immigrants living high on the hog, thanks to a thriving shoemaking business. Amelia attracts the attentions of Phil West, the son of a college trustee and her father’s laziest and naughtiest student. His rival for Amelia’s affection is Reverend Gates, a gentle, sincere and impecunious minister.
When Amelia falls ill from overwork, her mother tries to nurse her back to health. With the cupboards bare, the very proper Mrs. Griggs is sorely tempted to steal a chicken from her neighbor’s kitchen. The ensuing commotion turns out to be a blessing in disguise…

Defending Your Life (1991): Immediately following his death by bus, Daniel finds himself in the afterlife facing his past. If you can't make a case for having lived a full and fearless superb music score won an Academy Award.s life, you must go back to Earth and try again. But Daniel doesn't want to go back after he meets Julia in this heavenly fable written and directed by Albert Brooks.

Disclosure (1994): Michael Crichton's bestselling novel was both a high-tech thriller and source of controversy with its hot-button plot about a man's charge of sexual harassment against a female colleague and former lover. The movie, directed by Barry Levinson, turned these issues into a prurient thriller gussied up in glossy production values, virtual reality computer graphics, and steamy sex between Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. Having cornered the market on roles for men whose brains are located south of their waistline, Douglas is well cast as the computer-industry guy who loses a plush promotion to the opportunistic Moore, and he's perfected the expression of paranoid panic. If you don't think about it too much, this is one of those films that can draw you into its manipulative web and really grab your attention. Disclosure is more entertaining than thought provoking (because the filmmakers basically danced around the story's potential controversy), but there's enough star power and visual glitz to make this an enjoyable ride.

Leo the Last (1970): Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest. With him are social-climber Margaret, to whom he is engaged, and Laszlo, who is planning a counter revolution which will restore Leo to the kingship of the monarchy. Leo is shocked to discover the one exclusive neighborhood has degenerated into a ghetto inhabited mainly by poor blacks on the brink of desperation. His nearest neighbors are the Mardi family and their beautiful daughter, Salambo, who catches his eye as does her boy friend the procurer Roscoe. Using the excuse of watching birds he watches them closely through field glasses with the coolness and detachment of a scientist watching insects under a magnifying glass. When Salambo is forced to become a whore in order to keep her family together, Leo, despite the pleadings of Margaret and Laszlo who has just about finished the steps toward the restoration, does something of which he always though himself incapable of.

Lorna (1964): Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim's buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna's supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it's their anniversary.

Love Field (1992): On November 22, 1963, America lost a president and a generation lost its innocence. Michelle Pfeiffer (What Lies Beneath) is superb (The Hollywood Reporter) in this 'thoroughly captivating (Rex Reed) film about an interracial friendship set against the back drop of a nation both divided by prejudice and united by sorrow. Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett (Pfeiffer) feels such a strong personal connection to her idol, Jackie Kennedy, that when JFK is assassinated, she defies her husband and takes an eastbound bus, determined to be there for Jackie at the funeral. On board she meets a mysterious black man traveling with a sad, silent little girl. But when Lurene realizes thathe's given her a false name, she fears she's uncovered a kidnapping plot! As a result of her well-intentioned meddling, the trio end up on the run from the police and, ultimately, on the road to a deep friendship that defies racial boundaries and changes each of them forever.

Mudhoney (1965): It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to earn some travelling money, but gets entangled in a bad family situation: Lute's daughter is married to Sidney, a good-for-nothing drunk that frequents the rural equivalent of a whorehouse and beats his wife and is just waiting for Lute to kick the bucket to get his money. When Sidney and a local wacko preacher begin orchestrating a smear campaign against Calif, he finds it difficult to conceal his past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.

Ren & Stimpy - The Lost Episodes (1991): After a ten year hiatus, John K. resurrected his classic cartoon for Spike TV – no holds barred. Witness the cartoons he always wanted to make, uncensored and out of control. Deemed too hot to handle by Spike execs, these episodes are now available on DVD – be warned: this is not your baby-brother’s Ren & Stimpy!

Tesis (Thesis, 1996): Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar grabbed the attention of American audiences with his dreamy thriller Open Your Eyes, but he earlier sent shock waves throughout Spain in 1996 with this disturbing debut. Thesis is a quietly creepy psychological thriller about a young college student, Ángela (Ana Torrent) investigating the social fascination with sensational violence for her thesis project. In her search for violent video footage, she stumbles onto what may be a real live snuff film, a videotape that her professor was watching before his untimely death. With the help of a geeky gore junkie she uncovers a conspiracy that may include her handsome but sinister new boyfriend, her thesis advisor, and even her weirdo partner. When she uncovers one too many secrets lying in the catacombs of the university basement, she realizes that she may be the next victim. It goes on perhaps too long, and Amenábar's pointed observations on the lure of violence and the dark side of human nature are lost as the spiraling mystery spins into a first-person nightmare, but his skill at weaving a paranoid world where evil may lurk behind every friendly face is undeniable. Thesis is reminiscent of Brian De Palma's early thrillers: dark, stylish, subdued, and bubbling with the characters' guilty (and ultimately dangerous) fascination with the transgressive.

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965): In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.

White Wedding (2009): Set against South Africa’s breathtaking landscapes, WHITE WEDDING is a high-spirited modern day road comedy about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship, and the unbelievable obstacles that can get in the way of a fairy-tale ending. Ayanda (Zandie Msutwana) is just days away from her lifelong dream of a modern ‘white wedding,’ complete with a dazzling dress, dozens of bridesmaids, a flamboyant wedding planner and large reception at a fancy hotel. The only problem is that her husband-to-be, the sweet, committed Elvis (Kenneth Nkosi), is 1,000 miles away with his childhood friend and best-man Tumi (Rapulana Seiphemo). What should be a simple, straightforward journey gets seriously derailed, forcing Elvis, Tumi and Rose (Jodie Whittaker), a footloose English doctor they meet along the way to tackle directional mishaps, car accidents, a tag-along goat, and a potentially dangerous encounter with a bar full of redneck Afrikaners seemingly stuck in the era of Apartheid. Ultimately charmed by Elvis’ infectious spirit, everyone surrounding him becomes determined to get him to his destination. Meanwhile, poor Ayanda is watching her dream unravel as she wrestles with problems of her own -- from questioning whether there’s any truth to Elvis’ preposterous excuses of why he might not get to the church on time, being caught between European and African traditions as her mother (Sylvia Mngxekeza) has a very different idea about how the wedding should be orchestrated, and dealing with the unexpected arrival of Tony (Mbulelo Grootboom), a slick old boyfriend with a questionable agenda. WHITE WEDDING subtly interweaves South Africa’s history as bride, groom, friends and lovers are forced to look at the meaning of marriage, fidelity, honesty and the two sides to every story.


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Coraline (2009) Blu-Ray: A dark and creepy film about family relationships directed by Henry Selick of Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach fame, Coraline is based on the haunting book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The first stop-motion feature shot in stereoscopic 3-D, Coraline features big-headed, stick-bodied animated characters with huge eyes and demonic grins set against menacing backgrounds and an undercurrent of spooky music. Coraline is a teenager who has just moved to an old house in the middle of nowhere with her writer parents and she is bored, bored, bored. Her only companions are an annoyingly talkative boy Wybie (short for Why Born), some eccentric neighbors from the theater and circus, and a strange, button-eyed doll with a marked resemblance to Coraline which Wybie found in an old trunk of his grandmother's. When Coraline finds an old door hidden behind an armoire and papered over with wallpaper, she convinces her mother to unlock it, only to find a wall of bricks. When Coraline revisits the door later that night, the bricks magically disappear and she discovers a strange pathway to another world where everything is just what she wishes for. In stark contrast to the real world where Coraline's parents just don't have time for her, her "Other Mother" and "Other Father" in this alternate world are the perfect loving, attentive parents who anticipate her every need and desire. Initially comforted and quite happy in this new world, suspicion that things may not be quite as they seem grows inside Coraline and her disquiet is furthered by the mute "Other Wybie" and a strange-talking cat that seems to move between both worlds. Eventually, Coraline discovers some dark secrets about her "other parents" and the seemingly perfect "other world," but it may be too late for her to escape back to the real world. Teri Hatcher is especially effective in her dual (voice) role as Mom and "Other Mom" and Dakota Fanning also gives a great performance as Coraline. Coraline is a disturbing, intriguing film that both captivates and frightens. (Ages 11 and older)

Hannibal (2001) Blue-Ray: Part four in the Hannibal Lecter Quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum in "Silence of the Lambs," Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor's, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling.

Happy Together (1997) Blu-Ray: The expressionistic, stylized visual brilliance (courtesy of Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle) of Happy Together is so breathtaking and enveloping it nearly detracts from this startling, queasy, despairing glimpse at a gay relationship gone amok. Director Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express, Fallen Angels) won the Best Director Prize at Cannes in 1997--surprising many--but on viewing the film it's easy to see why. The subject matter may not be the easiest to swallow--any relationship on the rocks sometimes gets dirty and pathetically disturbing--but there is a universality to Happy Together that rings true and real and less like an edition of The Honeymooners than isolation tinged with the embarrassment of intimacy. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) have left Hong Kong for Buenos Aires. The journey is another in Ho's attempts to "start over." But their initial optimism is short-lived, and once they become dislocated strangers in this strange land it only further thrusts the two into their already codependent, caretaking dark love affair. But like all crazy love, the trip through masochistic hell--from violence to apathy--leads to self-enlightenment, and Wong Kar-Wai's gorgeous, grasping film is true, tricky, difficult, and emotionally wrought, aided by Hong Kong superstars Cheung and Leung, who contribute greatly to creating a work that is exceptional--and lump-in-throat brutal--in image, story, and performance.

Moulin Rouge! (2001) Blu-Ray: A dazzling and yet frequently maddening bid to bring the movie musical kicking and screaming into the 21st century, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge bears no relation to the many previous films set in the famous Parisian nightclub. This may appear to be Paris in the 1890s, with can-can dancers, bohemian denizens like Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo), and ribaldry at every turn, but it's really Luhrmann's pop-cultural wonderland. Everyone and everything is encouraged to shatter boundaries of time and texture, colliding and careening in a fast-cutting frenzy that thinks nothing of casting Elton John's "Your Song" 80 years before its time. Nothing is original in this kaleidoscopic, absinthe-inspired love tragedy--the words, the music, it's all been heard before. But when filtered through Luhrmann's love for pop songs and timeless showmanship, you're reminded of the cinema's power to renew itself while paying homage to its past.

Network (1976) Blu-Ray: Media madness reigns supreme in screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's scathing satire about the uses and abuses of network television. But while Chayefsky's and director Sidney Lumet's take on television may seem quaint in the age of "reality TV" and Jerry Springer's talk-show fisticuffs, it's every bit as potent now as it was when the film was released in 1976. And because Chayefsky was one of the greatest of all dramatists, his Oscar-winning script about the ratings frenzy at the cost of cultural integrity is a showcase for powerhouse acting by Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight (who each won Oscars), and Oscar nominee William Holden in one of his finest roles. Finch plays a veteran network anchorman who's been fired because of low ratings. His character's response is to announce he'll kill himself on live television two weeks hence. What follows, along with skyrocketing ratings, is the anchorman's descent into insanity, during which he fervently rages against the medium that made him a celebrity. Dunaway plays the frigid, ratings-obsessed producer who pursues success with cold-blooded zeal; Holden is the married executive who tries to thaw her out during his own seething midlife crisis. Through it all, Chayefsky (via Finch) urges the viewer to repeat the now-famous mantra "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" to reclaim our humanity from the medium that threatens to steal it away.

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