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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 -

                           

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Le Video New Arrivals Week 26

 Warlords (2007)

It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. Remake of the 1973 The Blood Brothers. Trailer

Directors: Peter Chan and Wai Man Yip won Best Director at the Golden Horse Award.

Jet Li, Andy Law, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Foreign, Chinese. Mandarin - DVD and Blu-Ray



Shutter Island (2010)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Leonarda DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max Von Sydow.

Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. Trailer - DVD and Blu-Ray


Antarctica (2008)

Director: Yair Hochner

In two days, Omer will hit a milestone; his 30th birthday. Like many his age, he hasn't found himself. Trailer

Foreign, Israeli. Hebrew/English/German
Gay Romantic Drama - DVD



Bass Ackwards (2010)

Director: Linas Phillips
Linas Phillips, Davie-Blue, Jim Fletcher

An Official Selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, BASS ACKWARDS is a captivating and consummately human film that reminds us that whatever we think the road is about, the trip is probably about something else. Alternating between scripted action, improvisation and the unpredictable spontaneity of vérité encounters, the film is the semi-autobiographical story of Linas Phillips, who stars as well as directs. Born of the imagination of Phillips and his easy collaboration with old friends, costars and co-conspirators Davie-Blue, Jim Fletcher, Paul Lazar and Sean Porter, the film effortlessly and organically crosses the line between reality and fiction, incorporating the people and characters that Phillips meets on an unscripted and adventurous ride across America. Trailer     Independent, Adventure - DVD


Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

Director: Steve Pink
John Cusack, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson

Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub. Trailer

Comedy, Sci-Fi - DVD and Blu-Ray


Percy Jackson & The Olympians:
The Lightning Thief (2010)

Director: Chris Columbus
Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario

Modern and mythical worlds collide in this thunderous fantasy-adventure starring Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McKidd and Uma Thurman as you’ve never seen them before! Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager...he’s just learned he’s the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus’ ­lightning bolt – the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt and prevent a war amongst the gods that could destroy our world! Trailer

Adventure, Fantasy - DVD and Blu-Ray


Creation (2009)

Director: Jon Amiel
Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettan, Toby Jones

English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to find a balance between his revolutionary theories on evolution and the relationship with religious wife, whose faith contradicts his work. Trailer

Drama, Biography - DVD


 Pretty Bird (2008)

Director: Paul Schneider
John Behlmann, Anna Camp, Billy Crudup

A sweet-natured guy enlists his pals to help him create and market his idea for a rocket-powered belt. But can their friendship withstand unexpected success? Trailer

Comedy, Drama - DVD


Crazy (2008)

Director: Rick Bieber
Wayton Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison

Inspired by the life of Hank Garland, CRAZY is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950's. Won 8 Awards including Best of the Fest at the Breckenridge Festival 2008 - Trailer

Drama, Biography, Music - DVD


The White Ribbon (2009)
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte,
Le Ruban Blanc - Trailer

Director: Michael Haneke

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery. B/W.

                           Foreign, International Co-Production - DVD and Blu-Ray


Everlasting Moments (2008)
Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick - Trailer

Director: Jan Troell
Maria Heiskanen, Michael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen

Swedish master Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) returns triumphantly with EVERLASTING MOMENTS, a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen, in a beautifully nuanced portrayal) finds an outlet in photography, which opens up her world for the first time. With a burnished bronze tint that evokes faded photographs, and a broad empathetic palette, EVERLASTING MOMENTS--based on a true story--is a miraculous tribute to the power of image making.

Foreign, Swedish, Drama - DVD - Criterion Collection


Erste Liebe

First time on DVD! A beautiful love story by the masterful Russian author, Ivan Turgenev, has been made into an exquisite, internationally acclaimed film. Bittersweet study of a sixteen-year-old boy who becomes infatuated with an impoverished princess during an era of social decay and impending revolution.

Dominique Sanda and John Moulder. Directed by Maximilian Schell. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 19070's Academy Awards.

Bonus Features: Digitally Remastered & Restored, Original Theatrical Trailer, Uncut - European Version, Anamorphic Widescreen - Enhanced for 16x9 monitors. 1970 - Foreign, German - DVD



Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (2009) Part 1 
Hagane no renkinjutsusi

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood faithfully recreates the story from the classic manga - see Fullmetal Alchemist the way the creator intended!

Foreign, Japanese, Anime, Animation, Adventure. In Japanese. DVD


Hamlet (1990)

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge. 

DVD (Replacing our VHS)



aka Black Dice

Director: St John Legh Clowes
Linden Travers, Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott

Film Noir, Gangster, Crime, Drama

DVD




Alex in Wonderland (1970)

Director: Paul Mazursky
Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn

After his first film is a hit, a young director is caught in the classic bind between art and commerce.
Comedy, Drama - DVD



It (1990 TV) Stephen King

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Seven youths have to defeat a demonic creature named Pennywise which dresses in a clown suit and terrorizes a 1960's town in Maine

DVD (replacing our VHS)



Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (1972)
Collection 1
As seen on Masterpiece Theater
Various Directors
Actor: Ian Carmichael

Foreign, British Television, BBC Miniseries,

DVD
 


The Doors: When You're Strange (2009)

Director: Tom DiCillo
Narrated by Johnny Depp

A look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors, including rare exclusive footage. Trailer

Nominated at the Sundance Film Festival 2009

Documentary, Music - DVD



Next: A Primer on Urban Painting (2005)

Director: Pablo Aravena

An exploration of graffiti-based visual art as a world culture.

Documentary, Art - DVD




How the Earth Changed History (2010)
How Earth Made Us

The traditional interpretation of history has focused largely on human factors. Yet the natural environment has also shaped history since the dawn of time. This series reveals for the first time on television how geology, geography and climate have had a far more powerful influence on mankind than has previously been acknowledged. With passionate storytelling and extraordinary HD camerawork, this series combines bold ideas with a new science, geo-determinism, to form an original version of human history. Discover why societies have succeeded or failed, and how the environment has influenced every aspect of our history from art to industry, religion to war, world domination or collapse. This series overturns preconceptions about our nations and our cultures to offer a new perspective on who we are today.

Documentary, British, Nature - DVD and Blu-Ray

 
 A Traveler's Guide to the Planets (2010)

Take a trip of a lifetime to visit our neighboring planets with A Traveler s Guide to the Planets. National Geographic takes off beyond Earth s boundaries for the ultimate tour of our solar system. From Mars monstrous mountains to Saturn s glittering rings, the sights are out of this world. Each hour offers breathtaking tours of the planets using modern-day high-tech telescopes and stunning CGI. Programs include: Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus, Pluto and Beyond, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

                            Five Hour Documentary, Nature - DVD and Blu-Ray


A Walk Into the Sea:
Danny Williams and the Factory (2007)

Director: Esther Robinson

Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams -- Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right -- offers a exploration of the Factory era, an homage to Williams's talent, a journey of family discovery and a compelling inquiry into Williams's mysterious disappearance at age 27. Winner of 2 Awards including Best Documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival 2007. Trailer

Documentary, Biography, Art - DVD




 The Closer: The 5th Season

Kyra Sedgwick

TV serie, Crime, Drama - DVD





Madeline's Great Adventures

Join little Madeline, her loyal canine companion Genevieve, puckish next-door neighbor Pepito and her 11 delightful classmates from Miss Clavels Parisian school as they encounter their very own Arabian lamp, a visit from the Prince of Monaco, a band of pirates and even track down 40 charitable thieves in this thrilling DVD collection inspired by Ludwig Bemelmans beloved children s classic! Family, Children, Animation - DVD



Mannequin and Mannequin 2 (1987 and 2001)

Jonathan Switcher is a young artist. He just doesn't seem to last in any job he does. But when he builds a mannequin, he makes it so perfect, he falls in love with it.
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, James Spader

Romantic Comedy - DVD (replacing our VHS)





 Point Break (1991)
An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of bank robbers who may be surfers
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey
Action, Adventure. DVD (replacing our VHS)






Wild in the Streets and Gas-s-s-s (1968)
Director Barry Shear
Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones

DVD (replacing our VHS)