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AV Club visits Wire locations in Baltimore Part 1

The blog, the AV Club recently posted about visiting some Wire locations in Baltimore. Here’s what they have to say, and be sure to check out the video below. The Wire (Complete Series) – HU DVD 2861 – 2883 As The A.V. Club discovered, there’s an upside to having much of your perception of Baltimore … Continue reading “AV Club visits Wire locations in Baltimore Part 1”

The blog, the AV Club recently posted about visiting some Wire locations in Baltimore. Here’s what they have to say, and be sure to check out the video below.

The Wire (Complete Series) – HU DVD 2861 – 2883

As The A.V. Club discovered, there’s an upside to having much of your perception of Baltimore come from The Wire: The city is a lot nicer than you’d expect. Yes, we understood on a realistic level that Baltimore wasn’t just blocks upon blocks of Hamsterdam, but we were a little surprised by how charming Fells Point was when we arrived to meet Wire location scout Eric Bannat. Of course, right in the middle of Fells Point is the run-down building that was the headquarters for Homicide: Life On The Street. (Apparently it’s being turned into a hotel.) It has a giant plaque out front to commemorate the show.

For the first of our two-part Pop Pilgrims on The Wire—you didn’t think we could cram it all into one episode, did you?—Bannat took us to a bunch of spots that fans of the show should instantly recognize. From the basketball courts to the dog-fighting warehouse, from Marlo’s corner to the cops’ favorite hangout, everything is right there for any pop pilgrim to check out. (Many of the big interiors, of course, were sets, but you’ll still feel like Bodie’s sidekick walking around this neighborhood.)

On Wednesday, another whole bunch of locations you can visit in Bodymore, including the spot where—spoiler alert!—Omar got dropped.


Baltimore: The Wire locations, part one

Minimal Movie Posters

Zombieland – HU DVD 7980We do in fact have Zombieland avaiable for Home Use, so you should check it out. Another thing you should check out is this cool blog dedicated to Minimal Movie Posters like these. Toy Story 3HU DVD 7770HU BLU-RAY DVD 7770 Inception – HU DVD 8000 Amelie – HU DVD 401

Zombieland – HU DVD 7980
We do in fact have Zombieland avaiable for Home Use, so you should check it out. Another thing you should check out is this cool blog dedicated to Minimal Movie Posters like these.

Toy Story 3
HU DVD 7770
HU BLU-RAY DVD 7770

Inception – HU DVD 8000

Amelie – HU DVD 401

10 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter

From PasteMagazine.com: 10 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter (see the complete article here)…and their movies that you can check out from Media Services. 10. Robert Rodriguez – RobertRdzThe Sin City director just joined the world of Twitter (unless this is a fake) a couple of weeks ago when he gave the commencement speech to his … Continue reading “10 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter”

From PasteMagazine.com: 10 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter (see the complete article here)…and their movies that you can check out from Media Services.

10. Robert Rodriguez – RobertRdz
The Sin City director just joined the world of Twitter (unless this is a fake) a couple of weeks ago when he gave the commencement speech to his fellow University of Texas graduates.

The adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D – HU DVD 5499
Desperado – HU DVD 5569
Planet Terror – HU DVD 5201
Sin City – HU DVD 1959

9. Paul Feig – paulfeig
Feig directed I Am David and nearly all of my favorite TV shows (Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Mad Men, Weeds, The Office, Freaks and Geeks).

Freaks and Geeks – HU DVD 3441 – 3446

8. David Lynch – DAVID_LYNCH
If you ever want to know the weather in L.A., Dave’s your guy.

Inland Empire – HU DVD 3109
Lost Highway – HU DVD 4056
Straight Story – HU DVD 263
Twin Peaks – HU DVD 2961 – 2970

7. Jon Favreau – Jon_Favreau
Since his days as Monica’s boyfriend on Friends, Favreau has gone onto better things—like directing Iron Man 2 and Tweeting about it.

Iron Man – HU DVD 2763

6. Lee Unkrich – leeunkrich
The Pixar director (Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo) talks us through the creation of Toy Story 3 and tells us about sneaking in a Toy Story logo onto one of the balloons in Up.

Finding Nemo – HU DVD 836

5. Greg Mottola – GregMottola
The director of Superbad and Adventureland is shooting a new film called Paul with Seth Rogen, Simon Pegg, Bill Hader, Jane Lynch, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Nick Frost and (according to his Twitter feed) Sigourney Weaver. Holy crap. He’s also diggin’ him some Iron & Wine.

If you think we should buy his films, feel free to submit a request here.

4. Errol Morris – errolmorris
The director of Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line packs a lot of substance into 140 characters like mini-ruminations on truth vs. narrative consistency.

Gates of Heaven – HU DVD 5781
Fog of War – HU DVD 791
Standard Operating Procedure – DVD 4870
Thin Blue Line – DVD 2219

3. Rian Johnson – rcjohnso
The director of Brick and The Brothers Bloom answers all the Tweets directed at him. The down-side is that gives his feed a pretty low signal-to-noise ratio. But it’s also pretty cool that he responds to just about any question.

Brick – HU DVD 2253

2. David Wain – davidwain
The prolific writer/actor/director/blogger is also a prolific Twitterer.

Wet Hot American Summer – HU DVD 1506

1. Kevin Smith – ThatKevinSmith
He’s in the middle of shooting a movie called “A Couple of Dicks” with Bruce Willis and
Tracy Morgan, so the number of penis puns is um… huge.

Clerks – HU DVD 1423
Clerks II – HU DVD 5335
Mallrats – HU DVD 5278
Zack and Miri Make a Porno – HU DVD 5313

Online event of the day: Vampire Blog-a-Thon

The blood begins to fly at 1:00pm today. Discussions of all things Desmodontinae (vampire bat) on film. AU literature professor Jeffrey Middents contributes a piece on Spanish-language Dracula. For more information see-the Vampire Blog-a-Thon linkJeffrey Middents’ “Drácula sounds much better with an accent” link Media Services own vampire collection-Bram Stoker’s Dracula [1992] (DVD 2048)Buffy the … Continue reading “Online event of the day: Vampire Blog-a-Thon”

The blood begins to fly at 1:00pm today. Discussions of all things Desmodontinae (vampire bat) on film. AU literature professor Jeffrey Middents contributes a piece on Spanish-language Dracula.

For more information see-
the Vampire Blog-a-Thon link
Jeffrey Middents’ “Drácula sounds much better with an accent” link

Media Services own vampire collection-
Bram Stoker’s Dracula [1992] (DVD 2048)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer [TV series] (DVD 797 – 802)
Cronos [1992] (DVD 856)
Dracula [1931] (VHS 5739)
Dracula [1931], Dracula’s Daughter [1936], Son of Dracula [1943], House of Dracula [1945] (DVD 862)
Dracula: pages from a virgin’s diary [2002] (DVD 901)
Genuine : the tale of a vampire included with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1920] (DVD 496)
Interview With the Vampire [1994] (DVD 1366)
Irma Vep [1996] (DVD 12)
Near Dark [1987] (DVD 483)
Nosferatu [1922] (DVD 393, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 4025)
Nosferatu the vampire [1972] (VHS 5248)
Le Vampire in Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and ’30s [1939] (DVD 1339)
Les Vampires [1915-1916] (DVD 414, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5431)
Vampire princess Miyu. Vol. 2 [1988] (VHS 5007)
Vampyr [1932] (VHS 3802)

Blogwatch: agnesvarnum.com

I just discovered this blog but have known Agnes for several years as one of the people responsible for getting the Center for Social Media up and running. She’s still around but seems to be pretty busy with other projects so we haven’t seen much of her lately. Anyway she’s been blogging since March 2006 … Continue reading “Blogwatch: agnesvarnum.com”

I just discovered this blog but have known Agnes for several years as one of the people responsible for getting the Center for Social Media up and running. She’s still around but seems to be pretty busy with other projects so we haven’t seen much of her lately. Anyway she’s been blogging since March 2006 and focuses on the American indepedent documentary film industry, more or less.

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Blogwatch: Reality Film

The author of the Reality Film site, who I deduce is a film studies professor at Penn State, has been posting since December 2005. His goals for the site are to have a place to discuss teaching, film and television viewing in a more or less organized manner. His tastes are somewhat mainstream but it’s … Continue reading “Blogwatch: Reality Film”

The author of the Reality Film site, who I deduce is a film studies professor at Penn State, has been posting since December 2005. His goals for the site are to have a place to discuss teaching, film and television viewing in a more or less organized manner. His tastes are somewhat mainstream but it’s still worth browsing once in a while, if only because it’s one of the few blogs devoted to documentary film.

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