Funny Girl – HU DVD 5739Gypsy – HU DVD 5738The Thing from Another World – HU DVD 5737Edward II – HU DVD 5736The Hotel New Hampshire – HU DVD 5735Chan is Missing – HU DVD 5734The Postman – HU DVD 5733Soylent Green – HU DVD 5731Battle in Seattle – HU DVD 5730Basic Instinct – HU […]
Continue readingSelected New Acquisitions This Week
Evolution (PBS Video Series) – DVD 5721 – 5724Around the World in 72 Days – DVD 5720Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble – DVD 5719Africans in America – DVD 5718Yol – DVD 5717Milking the Rhino – DVD 5716Color Adjustment – DVD 571013 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests – DVD 5709One Woman, One […]
Continue readingCannes Film Festival opens today with Pixar’s ‘Up’
Disney Pixar’s animated feature, ‘Up’ opened the 62nd Cannes Film Festival this year, breaking ground for animated film. See what the Washington Post and the Associated Press had to say. ‘Up’ trailer Here’s a sneak peek at some of the sights and posters, courtesy of the CinemaIsDope blog.
Continue readingHBO’s Screen on the Green cancelled for 2009…
HBO has canceled the long-running Screen on the Green program for 2009, according to a representative from HBO’s consumer affairs department. However, Crystal City is still running their outdoor movie nights, go here for more details: http://www.crystalcity.org/eventdetail.asp?IdEvent=412
Continue readingA bad idea gets worse…
Disney to remove all extras from rental DVDs as well Following in Fox’s footsteps, Disney has announced that it will become the second studio to release two different “classes” of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, a “premium” version, and a bare-bones rental version. Starting in June with the movies Morning Light, Confessions of a Shopaholic and […]
Continue readingCopyright Basics – The Video
From the folks at the Copyright Clearance Center link
Continue readingWall Street 2 Becomes a Reality
Wall Street was so dang good, it looks like we’re finally going to get another. Michael Douglas has spoken publicly about the project, saying, “I think it’s time to take another hard look at trading and the economy and what went wrong in the last few years.” Ironically, he made this statement at the premiere […]
Continue readingCannes Competitors To Receive Online Showcase
Originally posted on imdb: Gilles Jacob, president of the Cannes Film Festival, has offered the festival’s website as a showcase for the first five minutes of each of the 20 films participating in this year’s competition. In a statement, Jacob said that the traditional movie trailer “extinguishes all desire” while it has been suggested that […]
Continue readingSelected New Acquisitions This Week
Motherland Afghanistan – DVD 5641A Jihad for Love – DVD 5640America Betrayed – DVD 5639Strait Through the Ice – DVD 5629Is It True What They Say About Ann? – DVD 5628Rick Steves’ Iran – DVD 5626Inside the Meltdown – DVD 5620
Continue readingTONIGHT! – Discover World Cinema – Sunday, April 19 @ 7pm – XXY
XXY (Dir: Lucia Puenzo. Argentina) 86 minutes – 2007The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call ’ambiguous genitalia,’ whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice. Short: The pick-up artist (2006. 13 min. Dir: Steffen Weinert. Germany) Olli […]
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