New Releases
Quick Jump to: 4th/11th/18th/25th| The Matador Garnering a suprising amount of positive reviews, Peirce Brosnan's first post-bond film has him as a Hit man, and Greg Kinnear as a Salesman meeting by chance in a Hotel. Part comedy, thriller, and character study, what the Whole Nine Yards should have been. |
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| The Libertine Johnny Depp in many erotic situations as the 2nd Earl of Rochester. |
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| Stoned Biopic on the orginal Rolling Stones drummer who ended up dead in an empty swimming pool. Not a movie with a twist ending. |
| Reno 911: Season
3 If you need this one explained, you need a good laugh like this. |
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| Tristram Shandy: A Cock and
Bull Story An Unfilmable book becomes the next Michael Winterbottom (Wonderland, The Claim) film. Based on the quasi auto-biography of Tristram Shandy, who by the end of the massive story of his life, through his digressions and side stories, has only just gotten to the point where he is born. |
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| Koko: The Talking Gorilla
(Criterion) Documentary about, you guessed it, Koko the talking Gorilla. With the criterion touch of quality and supplements. From Criterion, "In 1977, acclaimed director Barbet Schroeder and cinematographer Nestor Almendros entered the universe of the world’s most famous primate to create the captivating documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla. The film introduces us to Koko soon after she was brought from the San Francisco Zoo to Stanford University by Dr. Penny Patterson for a controversial experiment—she would be taught the basics of human communication through American Sign Language. An entertaining, troubling, and still relevant documentary, Koko: A Talking Gorilla sheds light on the ongoing ethical and philosophical debates over the individual rights of animals and brings us face-to-face with an amazing gorilla caught in the middle." |
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| Yiyi (Criterion) From Criterion, "With the runaway international
acclaim of this film, Taiwanese director Edward Yang could no longer be
called Asian cinema’s best-kept secret. Yi Yi swiftly follows a middle-class
family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding
and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged
father NJ’s tenuous flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, Yang imbues every gorgeous frame with a deft, humane clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century." |
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| Shogun Assassin Finally released, One of the Classic Samurai Sword movies. |
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| Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon "In the earliest years of the twentieth century, enterprising traveling showmen in the north of England hired pioneer filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon to shoot footage of local people going about their everyday activities. These films would be shown later at nearby fairgrounds, town halls and neighborhood theaters. Workers, school children, sports fans and seaside vacationers all flocked to see themselves miraculously captured on screen! The astonishing discovery of the original Mitchell & Kenyon negatives in Blackburn, England — in a basement about to be demolished — has been described as film’s equivalent of Tutankhamen’s tomb. Preserved and restored by the bfi National Film and Television Archive in collaboration with the University of Sheffield National Fairground Archive and featuring a hauntingly beautiful score by In The Nursery, this treasure trove of extraordinary footage provides an unparalleled record of everyday life in the years before World War I. Mesmerizing scenes of trolley cars and crowded streets, soccer matches, temperance parades, throngs of workers leaving the factory and a myriad of simple pleasures transport us to another — lost — world. The effect is as if H.G. Wells’ marvelous time machine had come to life." |
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| Carnivale Season
2 With Deadwood getting a reprieve from cancellation, maybe Carnivale will get a proper finish. If not, this is as close as your going to get. Set in the dustbowl, one of the HBO series that kept us watching. |
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| Tsotsi A 'city of god' style tale from South Africa of a criminals path to redemption. Won the Foreign film Oscar. |
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| Clean From Olivier Assayas (Demonlover), this film which has taken its time for DVD release stars Nick Nolte and Wong Kar Wai favorite and director Assayas' ex-wife Maggie Cheung as a junkie whose drug habits force her into making tough decision if she wants to ever be a mother to her son. |
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| Ren and Stimpy: Lost episodes Adult envelope pushing Ren and Stimpy episodes from the Original creator who left the original series on Nick after being pushed out. |
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| Masters of Horror: -Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) - Homecoming While a publically unpopular war rages, dead War Vets come back from the dead to vote. Best premise ever? -Larry Cohen (q the winged serpent) - Pick me up A divorced lawyer gets herself caught in a turf war between serial killers. Serial killer turf war - why didn't I think of that? |
| Chappelle's Show
Lost episodes So the aborted 3rd season has its 2-3 episodes that did tape premiere here, as well as a few extra stand up bits from Dave. |
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| The Boondocks
Season 1 Possibly the best animated show ever. From the hit comic strip comes the series that had Martin Luther King coming out of a coma to ask what the hell BET is. Absolutely brilliant and often emotionally forceful satire. Huey is my hero. |
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| Final Destination 3
(destination harder) I have no idea why we're getting this, except we have the other two and 'rollercoaster accident with multiple deaths' is a foolproof tagline to get us to buy at least one copy of your movie. |
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| Zizek! Documentary on the outspoken and extremely animated Lacan-loving theorist and thinker. |
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| Animaniacs V. 1 We couldn't resist Yacko, Wacko, and Dot. The original serial Pinky and the Brain bits, and all the rest. |
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| Ask the Dust The adaptation of one of my favorite books, John Fante's Ask the Dust, starring Colin Farrel and Salma Hayek. I'm holding judgement until I see it. |
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| Somersault Australian coming of age picture that won a laundry list of Ozzie Awards. A young girl learns the subtle distinctions in life and love. |
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| A Canterbury Tale (Criterion) From Criterion, "Michael
Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved classic A Canterbury
Tale is a profoundly personal journey to Powell’s bucolic
birthplace of Kent, England. Set amid the tumult of the Second World
War, yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, the film follows three
modern-day incarnations of Chaucer’s pilgrims—a
melancholy “landgirl,” a plainspoken American GI,
and a resourceful British sergeant—who are waylaid in the
English countryside en route to the mythical town and forced to solve a
bizarre village crime. Building to a majestic climax that ranks as one
of the filmmaking duo’s finest achievements, the dazzling A
Canterbury Tale has acquired a following of devotees passionate enough
to qualify as pilgrims themselves."
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| The Fifth Horseman is Fear Roger Ebert ended his original review of this Czech classic with "is a beautiful, distinguished work. I imagine it will win this year's Academy Award for the best foreign film.". In perfect bad timing, this was the year of 2 Czech poerhouses, 2 criterion dvd released films, Milos Forman's Firemen's Ball and Jiri Menzel's Closely Watched Trains wound up with the nominations. Ebert begins, "The Fifth Horseman is Fear is such a nearly perfect film that it comes as a shock, in the last ten minutes, to discover how deeply involved you have become.". Working on the themes of Nazi collaboration, it follows a jewish doctor banned from practicing medicine, and the tenants of the warehouse where he lives as he travels across a paranoid landscape of fear and control. |
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