Holy cow, I forgot about Holy Motors (HU DVD 11008)! Today, this DVD leapt off the shelf into my hands, and this one I’ve actually seen! This super weird Leos Carax movie stars Denis Lavant, whose acting generally leans towards hyper-physical mime-like motions, as an actor-like character inhabiting different roles. According to Wikipedia, Carax wrote […]
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“Bible films”
Here in DC, the controversial Museum of the Bible opened back in the fall. There are tons of movies based on the Bible, from religious and historical feature films to documentaries. But, did you know that you can do a keyword search for “Bible films” on our Media services website? Here’s what comes up: Killing […]
Continue readingEnjoy Some Lovely Stop Motion
This insanely cool video by Renana Aldor and Kobi Vogman explains the process of Lost-Wax casting. The video was made for the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and you can read more about it here: http://directorsnotes.com/2016/05/02/kobi-vogman-renana-aldor-hadrian-bronze-casting/ If you’re now in the mood for fantastic stop motion films, check out Kubo and the two strings (HU DVD […]
Continue readingMovies at Random: While the City Sleeps
Media services has so many movies that I’m always surprised by what I find. Today the movie While the City Sleeps (HU DVD 7621) caught my eye. This Fritz Lang film was released in 1956. Here’s our summary: “Ask mother” says the message scrawled in lipstick at a muder scene by an unknown serial killer who […]
Continue readingThe Last Command and The Act of Killing
We’ve gotten a lot of new movies already in 2018, but one of my favorites so far is a set of three silent films by Josef Von Sternberg. While these films are campus use only (DVD 14852 – 14854), they are truly worth watching and can be viewed by students in our screening room. One […]
Continue readingThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is currently in theaters and was just nominated for six Golden Globes, and it is pretty awesome. I went in totally expecting a Coen brothers movie because Frances McDormand is in it and I basically had only seen the trailer and read nothing about the movie. If I had been […]
Continue readingA Very Kubrick Christmas
What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Today, Ethan Epstein of the Weekly Standard argues that Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie. Having been subjected to a running explanation of this theory in literally every spare moment of the past month (hi Ethan!) I’m inclined to agree.So, what makes a Christmas movie? Eyes Wide Shut certainly […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions: November 2017
Happy Friday! Here’s the list of every DVD that crossed my desk in November 2017. One interesting film we got is David Lynch: The Art Life: It was a big month for renumbering DVDs, which really reminds me how many movies we have in our collection! Take a look, and whether it’s a new or […]
Continue readingA Spongebob Musical?
So…I guess they’ve made a SpongeBob SquarePants musical? That’s a thing? It’s a weird choice. But not too weird. After all, we have Mean Girls, Groundhog Day, and in a shocking insult to a movie I truly adore, Dirty Rotten Scoundels. What else? Legally Blonde, Catch Me If You Can, Amelie, and like literally every […]
Continue readingLooking forward to seeing: The Square
The Square, which won the Palme d’Or in 2017, was released back in October in the US. This highly regarded film sounds really weird, looks really weird, and is probably amazing, if amazingly weird: Here in Media Services, we have the director’s prior film, Force Majeure (HU DVD 11805), which was absolutely hilarious. Also, this […]
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