April is National Poetry Month! We have a great many documentaries and learning resources on poets (see our filmography here). But we also have some home use titles for you as well! Have you seen these poetry themed movies? ✰✰✰ Basketball Diaries (HU DVD 1990) – Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high […]
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Disco Film Screenings at the LOC
The Library of Congress just announced their “Bibliodiscotheque” and a whole series of film screenings to go with it!Here are a few disco-themed movies from our collection to get you dancing! The Greasy Strangler (HU DVD 13736): Ronnie runs a disco walking tour of Los Angeles with his adult son Brayden when the appearance of […]
Continue readingBeing There
David Cairns looks at Being There (HU DVD 655) in the most recent Anatomy of a Gag:
Continue readingPresenting the DVD wall!
So, a confession. A few weeks ago, I screwed up. As part of our ongoing project to digitize our VHS collection, I had accidentally encoded almost 100 videos incorrectly. I went back and fixed the mistakes, but I ended up with nearly 100 DVDs to discard. Rather than toss them out or recycle them, I […]
Continue readingBeauties turned Beastly
Film Comment’s Michael Sragow has much to say about Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast. While we wait for Disney to get down to business and ruin Mulan, here’s are some animated Disney classics in our collection with remakes rumored or in the works: Mulan: HU DVD 11033The Little Mermaid: HU DVD 281The Lion […]
Continue readingFeud: Bette and Joan
Feud: Bette and Joan premieres TONIGHT on FX. For anyone who will be waiting to binge watch this series on DVD, may we suggest the below titles to tide you over? What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (HU DVD 610): This film was the notorious battleground of Davis and Crawford. An aging ex-vaudeville child star […]
Continue readingThe weather is nice. Let’s all stay inside.
What’s your favorite DC movie theater? Here are a few places to see movies in DC that you might not have heard of! AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center AFI, which is on the Red Line in Silver Spring, often shows award winners, has international film festivals (sometimes in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution), and […]
Continue readingYou can now watch Jean-Luc Godard’s first narrative film
Once in a while, a lost film appears, delighting film buffs and historians. In the past few years, we’ve seen a lost Méliès film, a Hitchcock, and a Star Wars-related short all turn up after decades of absence. But this weekend, someone uploaded the Holy Grail: Jean-Luc Godard’s first narrative film. Une Femme Coquette (embedded […]
Continue readingCelebrate Valentine’s Day with one of AFI’s 100 Passions
Did you know that in addition to their 100 Greatest Films list, AFI also has a list of the top 100 romantic movies of all time? Here are AFI’s top 10 romantic movies in our collection: # MOVIE YEAR 1 CASABLANCA (HU DVD 150) 1942 2 GONE WITH THE WIND (HU DVD 9) 1939 3 […]
Continue readingA lament for DVD commentary
When Fox decided to stop publishing The Simpsons on DVD, one thing we lamented (apart forcing you to get a cable subscription to watch the show) was the fate of the show’s audio commentary. The creators of The Simpsons recorded in-depth, insightful discussions for every episode of the show, and although you can still access […]
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