| United 93 Paul Greengrass is no stranger to sensitive subjects having directed the intense Bloody Sunday, A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972. Casting unknowns, and told in real time, was the first movie to tackle 9/11 outside interview and news footage, a precursor to Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, and focusing on the sky more so than ground zero. |
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| Lady Vengeance The last part of Chan-wook Park's Vengeance trilogy began with Sympathy for MR.Vengeance and the mind stretching Oldboy. |
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| Lost Season 2 So, Season 2 is here, and Season 3 is set to premiere on TV. Find out what happened to Walt, or not, I'm not really sure. |
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| OZ Season 6 |
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| Kinky Boots To save the family shoe business, a man finds an unlikely ally in Lola, a brassy cabaret singer. |
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| Summer Storm A story about the complexities of growing up, with a German Summer camp as the backdrop. |
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| Gojira The original uncut japanese version, the real GODZILLA. |
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| Unknown White Male The true story of Doug Bruce who woke up on Coney Island with total amnesia. This documentary follows him as he rediscovers himself and the world around him. |
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| Animation Show V. 2 - Official Site The follow-up of animated shorts, the brainchild of Mike Judge (King of the hill), and Don Hertzfeldt. Also, with a short by Bill Plympton (The Tune, I married a strange person). |
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| Ryna From imdb.com 16 year old Ryna is the daughter of a poor Romanian who runs a gas station in a small community in the Danube delta. Ryna has been brought up like a boy because her father had longed for a son. The film is about strong family ties, about a daughter's search for her mother, and about a despotic father slowly losing his grip. But, it is also about poverty, social suppression and the abuse of power by those who rule under the guise of a false freedom. Ryna shows the awakening of a young girl's soul and the pain that goes with it. Caught between traditional values and materialistic dreams, in the end Ryna pays a heavy price in order to preserve her identity. |
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| District B-13 - Official Site Produced by director Luc Besson, this is a futuristic vision of paris utilizing the extreme walking called Parkour. For fans of Ong-Bak:Thai Warrior. Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb. One of the new breed of action flicks. |
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| Japan's Longest Day From IMDB.com Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor. Features the first time any living Japanese emperor was played by a Japanese actor in a Japanese film |
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| Mrs.Parker and the Vicious Circle Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair in early 20th century New York. |
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| Dead Man's Shoes A disaffected soldier (Paddy Considine) returns to his hometown in the Midlands in England to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago. Directed by Shane Meadows (Once upon a time in the midlands). |
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| Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Seen in many the documentary, Reverend Billy can be seen marching with the Billionaires for Bush.Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure in the anti-globalization movement. His work combines the forces of social and political change with the means of theater arts to counteract our media culture. His artistic and political work is influenced by various concepts of "street theater." His disruptions or "shopping interventions" in public spaces are in the tradition of the Living Theater, José Bové, Lenny Bruce, The Yippies. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones within the island of Manhattan such as Starbucks, Disney and the New York University construction site at the Edgar Allan Poe House. |
| Lucky # Slevin Ben Kingsley as a gangster called 'the rabbi'. That's all it takes for me. Morgan Freeman as the opposing crime boss, and Bruce Willis as a hitman, I'm sold. |
| Original non-special edition Star Wars Trilogy DVD's Mr."I'm never going to release the non-special editions on dvd" caves into the prequel's sucking, and fan demand for Han shooting first. The original versions of Star wars, Empire strikes back, and Return of the Jedi with none of that digital effect stuff. I knew we held off buying that dvd boxset last year for a reason. |
| Stella Season 1 The Stella boys are old members of the comedy troupe 'The State'. We have their unedited, vulgar dvd of film shorts in the store but this is the TV show on Comedy Central they moved onto. Like their original short films, but less cursing, less 'prosthetic' parts, but equally bizarre. Cameos by Edward Norton, Sam Rockwell, and others. |
| I am a Sex Addict - Trailer So if you look on our Criterion room wall, there is a huge painting. It has 4 scenes from Waking Life on it. One of the 4 scenes is a man who talks about 'holy moments' on film. That man's name is Caveh Zahedi, and he also has released this film, a mix of comedy, fiction, and fact. Caveh, the director and lead actor of the film has a rather interesting problem; he is addicted to sex with prostitutes. The film is comprised of narrations re-telling the stories of his failed attempts to stop his addiction and the relationships that are destroyed as a result. Mixed in the narration is interview footage of Caveh just before his wedding (his third), where he narrates his struggle. He eventually finds recovery in a 12-step program, and finds a level of happiness. |
| The Maid Asian horror film from the Phillipines. Another segment in the Tartan Asian Extreme DVD line. |
| Death of MR.Lazarescu A black comedy about healthcare and the medical industry. The movie is the first in a series of 6 feature-length films that Cristi Puiu will direct, entitled "Stories From the Suburbs of Bucharest". Mr. Lazarescu, a 63 year old lonely man feels sick and calls the ambulance. When it arrives the doctor decides he should take him to the hospital but once there they decide to send him to another hospital and then yet another... As the night unfolds and they can't find a hospital for Mr. Lazarescu, his health starts to deteriorate fast. |
| La Petite Jerusalem A beautiful Jewish young woman still living with her orthodox family in a Parisian suburb, falls in love with a Muslim co-worker. Beautifully shot, won a screenwriting award at Cannes last year. |
| Jan Svankmaker: The Ossuary The first of two Legendary Animators/avant garde filmmakers this month (Jiri Barta, the other), Svankmaker's film is A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death). DVD also contains almost a dozen other shorts finding release for the first time. |
| Jiri Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness Famed Czech animator Jiri Barta is responsible for a stunning array of dark gothic works that draw on the aesthetic traditions of Jan Svankmajer, Yuri Norstein, Franz Kafka, E.A. Poe, Fritz Lang, and the Brothers Quay. Slyly funny and frequently stocked with anti-consumerist themes, Barta's shorts are extraordinary encapsulations of imaginative worlds. This collection includes eight of Barta's most celebrated films: A Ballad About Green Wood (1983, 11 mins.), The Club of the Laid Off (1989, 25 mins.), The Design (1981, 6 mins.), Disc Jockey (1980, 10 mins.), The Last Theft (1987, 21 mins.), The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1985, 55 mins.), Riddles For a Candy (1978, 8 mins.), and The Vanished World of Gloves (1982, 16 mins.). |
| Masters of Horror: Dance of the Dead (Tobe Hooper - Poltergeist) Tells a story of a angst ridden youth of America, brought on by a total disregard for human safety by those in power. A theme that's becoming more popular in the horror genre with Alexandre Aja's "The Hills Have Eyes" remake. There are no monsters here, save for the corrupted and corroded humanity of the characters. |
| The Proposition Possibly the best Western made in the last decade, easily on our top 10 of the year. Written by musician extraordinaire Nick Cave, this Australian opus stars Guy Pearce, Danny Huston, Ray Winstone, and Emily Watson. A dark, uncompromising look at the beginnings of Australian colonization (frequent Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil [Last Wave, Walkabout] role as Jacko) and the proposition made to Guy Pearce's Charlie Burns to go after and kill his older brother Arthur in return for his younger brothers life. A MUST SEE. |
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| The Devil and Daniel Johnston Documentary favorite that follows the life of eccentric outsider musician Daniel Johnston through his battles with mental illness, creativity, and fame. |
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| Hard Candy You know all those internet predators? What if their prey turned the tables? One of the most disturbing movies made, a young girl lured into a meeting by an internet predator gets the last word, torturing and ultimately killing her would-be predator. |
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| Advise and Consent Otto Preminger directed film with a key starring role by Charles Laughton (Night of the Hunter). Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified. Leading the Senate committee is idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, who soon finds himself unprepared for the political dirt that's revealed, including Leffingwell's past affiliations with a Communist organization. When Leffingwell testifies about his political leanings, he proves his innocence. Later, however, Anderson learns that he lied under oath and even asks the president to withdraw Leffingwell for consideration, especially after the young senator begins receiving blackmail threats about a skeleton in his own closet. |
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| Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5 The concluding half of Battlestar Galactica S. 2.1 I've been on pins and needles the whole time. Timed for the start of season 3 on the sci-fi channel. One of our favorites, great performances by Edward James Olmos and Mary Mcdonnel. |
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| Jigoku (Criterion) From criterion: Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, Jigoku (Hell, a.k.a. The Sinners of Hell) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelganger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell— literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, Jigoku, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema. |
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| Spirit of the Beehive (Criterion) From Criterion: Criterion is proud to present Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country's devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it. Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end, The Spirit of the Beehive is a bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life and one of the most visually arresting movies ever made. |