New Video Arrivals for October: Feature Films A to L

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Feature Films A - L

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New Video Arrivals for October: Feature Films M to Z · Feature Film Collections

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Feature Films M - Z
Feature Film Collections

  • Nikkatsu Noir From the late 1950s through the sixties, wild, idiosyncratic crime movies were the brutal and boisterous business of Nikkatsu, the oldest film studio in Japan. In an effort to attract youthful audiences growing increasingly accustomed to American and French big-screen imports, Nikkatsu began producing action potboilers (mukokuseki akushun, or “borderless action”) that incorporated elements of the western, comedy, gangster, and teen-rebel genres. This 5-DVD collection represents a standout cross section of what Nikkatsu had to offer, from such prominent, stylistically daring directors as Seijun Suzuki, Toshio Masuda, and Takashi Nomura.
  • Superman Ultimate Collector's Edition 14 disc set includes all the Christopher Reeve Superman Films (Superman · Superman II · Superman III · Superman IV The Quest For Peace) as well as 2006's Superman Returns.

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New Video Arrivals for October: Documentary Films

By Sebastian Derry on October 30, 2009 5:20 AM | | Comments (0)
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Documentary Films

  • American In Black And White: Protect And Serve Originally broadcast July 23, 2001 as a segment of ABC News' "Nightline" Ted Koppel reports on how police are moving from active to passive law enforcement in the wake of controversy, resulting in a spike of violent crimes. His discussion panel includes Keith Fangman, president of the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police; Reverend Damon Lynch III, president of Cincinnati's Black United Front; and Larry Gossett, the only African-American member of Seattle's King County Metropolitan Council.
  • The Art Of Failure Shot over six years, this dramatic and entertaining documentary explores a painter's passion for his work, despite being his own worst enemy. In the 1980s Chuck Connelly was a major upcoming talent in the New York art scene along with Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Connelly ended up alienating every collector and gallery owner he worked with. This documentary follows the life of this painter who now sees his career fading.
  • Art Of The Bow An in-depth pedagogical study of bass bowing by concert artist François Rabbath. Includes interviews, performance excerpts and 3-D biomechanic animation of Rabbath's technique.
  • Agustín's Newspaper El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile, has been owned and operated since 1849 by the Edwards family. Its current owner, Agustín Edwards Eastman, has controlled the journal since 1956. This documentary follows journalism students from the University of Chile as they launch an investigation into the work of the newspaper, and its reporting of and role in their country’s political history, in particular around the election of Salvador Allende in 1970, the violent coup against him in 1973, and the subsequent seventeen years of the military regime.
  • Awake My Soul: The Story Of The Sacred Harp Sacred harp singing is a haunting form of a cappella, shape-note singing with deep roots in the American south. Shape-note singing has survived over 200 years tucked away from notice in the rural deep south, where, in old country churches, singers break open The Sacred Harp, a 160 year old shape-note hymnal which has preserved these fiercely beautiful songs which are some of the oldest in America.
  • Blood And Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflict Uncovers the truth beneath the hype and headlines of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Features interviews with top officials from former Israeli Prime Ministers, Mideast scholars, and ministers and mullahs that are involved both directly and indirectly.
  • Breasts: A Documentary Twenty-two women from diverse age groups and backgrounds discuss how they feel about their breasts. Explores the role breasts play in puberty, motherhood, sex, health, and aging. Includes archival footage highlighting the centrality of breasts in popular culture as portrayed in mass media.
  • Children Underground A year in the lives of five homeless Romanian children--homeless in part as the result of the policies of deposed Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu--who live in a subway station in Bucharest, Romania.
  • Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll A portrait of rock's founding father, Chuck Berry. Berry, aided by Linda Ronstadt, Etta James, Eric Clapton, Julian Lennon Robert Cray and Keith Richard, performs songs that he made famous. Includes interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, John Lennon, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Berry himself with behind-the-scenes material and performances.
  • The City Originally shown at the 1939 World's Fair, this classic show comments on four types of cities: New England town, the unplanned industrial community, a crowded metropolis and the decentralized community.
  • Claude Levi-Strauss In His Own Words / Par Lui-Même Consisting of collected interviews from the 1960s through the present, the career and contributions of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, father of structural anthropology, confirmed ecologist, and defender of diversity of cultures and peoples is examined. His theories made an impact on linguistics, mythology, and pop culture studies as well as anthropology.
  • Crackdown On Crime: Taking Back Our Neighborhoods Focuses on some of the solutions to the growing problem of crime: the creation of neighborhood crime watches, nuisance task forces, parent patrols, providing young adults with alternatives to crime, a salute to an innovative police department that can be a role model for other departments, and ten ways for viewers to protect themselves. Originally produced in 1994.
  • Crude Impact It took hundreds of millions of years for petroleum to form on Earth. It took just 150 years for human beings to bleed the planet of roughly half of this oil. Examines the catastrophic prospect of "world peak oil", or the point in time when the quantity of petroleum extracted from the earth begins to irreversibly decline.
  • Darfur Now: Six Stories, One Hope Follows the story of six people who are determined to end the sufferings in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur. The six (an American activist, an international prosecutor, a Sudanese rebel, a sheikh, a leader of the World Food Program and an internationally known actor) demonstrate the power of how one individual can create extraordinary changes.
  • Energy Crossroads Discusses current energy consumption patterns and their damaging effects on our environment, the global economy, and the geopolitical balance in the world today.
  • Fabulous! The Story Of Queer Cinema An overview of the recent history of gay and lesbian cinema, from Kenneth Anger's pioneering Fireworks (1947) to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005). Where documentaries about earlier times looked at the closeted world, "Fabulous!" celebrates films featuring gay characters and those made by out directors on homosexual themes.
  • Festival Express In 1970, artists such as Janis Joplin, The Band, and The Grateful Dead traveled by a customized train for five days to Toronto, Calgary, and Winnipeg for a mega-concert at each stop. This experience was filmed but much of the footage was locked away, until now.
  • Gap-Toothed Women Legendary documentary filmmaker Les Blank's valentine to women born with a space between their teeth, ranges from lighthearted whimsy to a deeper look at issues like self-esteem and societal attitudes toward standards of beauty. Interviews were conducted with over one hundred women, including model Lauren Hutton and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
  • Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers Legendary documentary filmmaker Les Blank celebrates the virtues of garlic, from a Chinese restaurant's sizzling wok to the stuffed piglet specialty of Berkeley's Chez Panisse and the garlic festival at Gilroy, Calif. Garlic enthusiasts describe the bulb's role in history, its medicinal qualities, and their own favorite garlic concoctions.
  • Gene Kelly: Anatomy Of A Dancer Looks at the life and career of Gene Kelly who revolutionized musical and movie dancing, making it accessible for all people. Uses extended film clips, interviews with colleagues and critics and filmed interview segments from 1976 with Kelly.
  • Great Artists: Two A 2-DVD set, host Tim Marlow discusses the lives and works of 12 painters that have had great influence on Western culture: Piero della Francesca, Holbein, Caravaggio, Stubbs, Goya, David, Constable, Delacroix, Whistler, Rodin, Cassatt, & Schiele.
  • The Great Squeeze: Surviving The Human Project Explores the current economic and ecological crisis stemming from our dependence on cheap and abundant energy. Demonstrates that there are recurring patterns of self-destructive and short-sighted behaviors that parallel our modern times.
  • Holocaust: The Liberation Of Auschwitz Film footage, taken by Soviet photographer Alexander Vorontsov, of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz. He describes the feelings that he and his comrades felt at the liberation.
  • Holocaust: The Liberation Of Majdanek Never-before-seen footage about the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp. Includes SS officers and Kapos appearing before a Russian Tribunal at Lubin to be accused of their crimes.
  • Holocaust: Theresienstadt A look at the 'show' camp at Theresienstadt where Nazis could deceive the outside world as to what was really happening to the Jews of Europe, as well as the prisoners themselves. An important collection of film documents.
  • The Human Family Tree Originally produced by National Geographic and broadcast in 2009, the human family tree answers some of humanity's most burning questions -- who we are and where we come from -- and forces us to change how we think not only about our relationships with our neighbors, but ourselves.
  • The Impressionists Host Tim Marlow presents the lives and works of the great French Impressionist painters: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne, Gauguin & Van Gogh.
  • The Irish Empire From the origins of the 'scattering' of the Irish over the centuries, to the dreams of a mythical home nurtured by so many Irish migrants today, this 2-DVD set is a lively exploration of the ups and downs of the Irish experience abroad -- as seen by themselves, and as they are perceived by others.
  • Jim Brown: All-American Spike Lee directs this moving portrait of Jim Brown and his days in the spotlight, first making football history as one of the 20th century's greatest athletes, and later as the star of numerous Hollywood features.
  • Ken Russell At The BBC Visionary and award-winning English director, Ken Russell, is best known for his attention to detail and his flamboyant and controversial style. As the first documentary film maker to use re-enactments, he established himself as a ground-breaking pioneer. The early Ken Russell works in this collection set new standards in documentary filmmaking and paved the way for a brilliant career that has spanned six decades
  • Making Our Neighborhoods Safe Bill Moyers interviews Stephanie Mann and Deborah Prothrow-Stith. Mann is a community activist who launched a "neighborhood watch" program in her hometown in California that led to a decrease in crime by 50%. Prothrow-Stith is the author of a violence prevention curriculum for adolescents, which helps young people deal with anger without resorting to violence.
  • Mein Kampf: The Testament & Rise Of Adolph Hitler Portrays Adolf Hitler's political philosophy and how he planned to accomplish his goals when in power. Contains original footage and presents what happened during this time of history and how it was made possible.
  • The Music Instinct: Science & Song Provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism is moved by the undeniable effect of music, and the deep connection between music and our bodies and brains. The program follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture in search of answers to music's deep mysteries.
  • My Architect Nathaniel Kahn documents the life and works of his father, Louis Kahn. Louis Kahn had an "official" family, including his wife Esther and daughter Sue Ann. He had two other secret families: with fellow architect Anne Tyng he had a daughter, Alexandra, and with his colleague Harriet Pattison he had Nathaniel.
  • Oriental Elegy The first among the "Japanese" videos by Alexander Sokurov, where real people are represented in their normal conditions and surroundings. They are simple people, but not ordinary. Their originality lies in the special nature of their souls, where poetry and mythology mean more than the symbols of contemporary reality.
  • Our City Dreams Filmmaker Chiara Clemente shines a light on five women artists whose inspiration is fueled by living in New York City. The artists (Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon) have widely varying backgrounds and artistic styles, but they all have one thing in common: the city they now call home.
  • Planet B-Boy Set in the international world of B-boying - the urban dance more commonly known as "breakdancing". Weaving between the vivid backdrops of Osaka, Paris, Seoul and Las Vegas, unforgettable images frame the intimate stories of dancers who struggle for their dreams despite being misunderstood by the larger society and even their own families.
  • Planet In Peril: A CNN Worldwide Investigation Takes viewers around the globe and highlights the issues that are threatening the world's environment. Filmed in 13 countries, uncovering places where environmental change is not a theory or a future forecast but a crisis happening in real time. Brings the stories behind the statistics and focuses on today's environmental threats and their impact on tomorrow.
  • The Polio Crusade Interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf. Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.
  • Poto Mitan Haitian Women: Pillars Of The Global Economy Told through the compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, it gives the global economy a human face. Each woman's personal story explains neo-liberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti: inhumane working/living conditions, violence, poverty, lack of education, and poor health care. Offers in-depth understanding of Haiti, its focus on women's subjugation, worker exploitation, poverty, and resistance.
  • Pow Wow Trail: Episode 1 The Drum Hundreds of drum groups exist today and each hold their own drums, each with their own purpose. This program explores how drum songs are distinguishable from one another, each with different beats, and different meanings.
  • Pow Wow Trail: Episode 3 The Dances Each dance tells a story with its own historical significance, perhaps even the nation's creation mythology. Within the dances and songs, vital elements of Indian culture are expressed and preserved: it was meant to be showy and exhibitionist.
  • Pow Wow Trail: Episode 11 Pow -Wow Fever Anyone who has ever attended a Pow-wow notices there is something about the people who travel with the Pow-wows, sometimes on beat up old buses, sometimes the cars themselves are held up by duct tape. There are cars from hundreds of miles away, and as many as a dozen people can pile out of an old Chevy. The announcer (or crier) tries his best to be a comedian. Grannies sell beadwork, girls and boys play with one another. Relationships evolve, some at a social level, sometimes at an intimate level. Fried bannock is sold from portable deep fryers. It is fun, and an affirmation of what it means to be Indian.
  • The Rape Of Europa Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men". It is work that continues to this day.
  • Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story With rare performances, previously unreleased home movies and new recordings, filmmakers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville present the first comprehensive look at Memphis Tennessee's Stax Records, the greatest soul label of all time. Provides first-hand accounts of what really happened on the streets and behind studio doors from celebrated musicians such as Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and Mavis Staples, as well as label president Al Bell, Rev. Jesse Jackson and others.
  • The Shape Of Water Follows the efforts of women political activists in four developing countries (Brazil, India, Israel & Senegal) to effect positive change.
  • The Sociology Of Crime And Deviance A multi-section program that compares and contrasts the concepts of social causation, social construction, and social control as they relate to the sociology of crime and deviance. Topics include the influence of wider social forces on theories about crime, the reevaluation of criminals as victims or rebels, and three examples of the movement toward a greater pragmatism concerning crime: socio-environmental control, situational crime prevention, and Braithwaite’s restorative justice.
  • The Spaghetti West Celebrates the history of the "Spaghetti Western"--the wildly popular cinema classics of the 1960s created by Italy's finest filmmakers.
  • Teachings Of The Tree People National Heritage Fellow Gerald Bruce (Sùbiyay) Miller, Skokomish Tribal Twana Indian leader, gathers and weaves a cedar bark mat and shares his life story and the teachings of the Tree People. A passionate student of the traditional culture, Bruce became the bearer of the language, oral history, art and spirituality of the Tuwaduq (Twana) and Southern Coast Salish peoples. This film documents his race against time and ailing health to pass the knowledge of his ancestors on to those who would listen.
  • Thirst The survival of communities is threatened when big business buys the water supply in the third world. This is a look at how water is becoming the catalyst for community resistance to globalization, and at the conflict between public stewardship and private profit.
  • Time To Take Charge: Crackdown On Crime Examines different efforts around the United States aimed at preventing crime. The program shows how some individuals and communities are effectively fighting crimes such as insurance scams and domestic violence. The program also covers successful youth programs to reduce gang violence and crime in inner-city neighborhoods.
  • 'Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris In 1991 filmmaker Raymond De Felitta heard a singer named Jackie Paris on a Los Angeles radio station and began a search that first yielded the fact that Paris had died in 1977. In 2004 De Felitta discovered Paris was alive and making a comeback in a New York City nightclub. This film explores the life of the jazz singer along with an exploration into what it is to live the life of an artist in its least glamorous aspects. Includes interviews with jazz legends including Billy Taylor, James Moody, Anne Marie Moss, Mark Murphy, George Wein, and others.
  • Trans Generation Mini-series that follows four transsexuals, two male-to-female and two female-to-male, as they negotiate the twin minefields of college and gender-reassignment surgery.
  • UltraMarathon Man Features renowned endurance athlete and best selling author Dean Karnazes, in his attempt to run 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days to raise awareness for youth obesity and to get America active.
  • Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary Filmmaker Arturo Pérez Torres follows in the footsteps of two friends traveling on an extraordinary and extremely dangerous journey from Central America to North America. On their journey they encounter gangs and vigilantes, as well as border patrol. But these immigrants navigate real-life nightmares with uncanny calm, grace and even humor in their pursuit of a better life.
  • Which Way Is East: Notebooks From Vietnam Narrated by the Dana and Lynne Sachs, this personalized travelogue of their journey to Vietnam tells of their meetings with friends and local Vietnamese, as well as places they visit, as seen from an American viewpoint.
  • Woodstock This is the 40th Anniversary Director's Cut edition. Director Michael Wadleigh filmed the entire performance of every artist who appeared at Woodstock. This footage has been archived since that history-making weekend and has only recently been re-discovered. What a long, strange trip it's been.
  • Writings On The Wall With infectious optimism, three young men eke out a living in India's largest cities using public art to express their hopes and dreams.
  • Xavier Viramontes: A Life In Print Profile of Xavier Viramontes, one of the most influential Hispanic artists of our time. His iconic silk screen poster Boycott Grapes, for the United Farmworkers, awakened a nation and rallied the Chicano movement in art. A segment explores the rich history of Galería de la Raza, its origins and influence on the Chicano movement and the culture of San Francisco.

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New Video for October: Animation · Performing Arts

By Sebastian Derry on October 30, 2009 5:10 AM | | Comments (0)
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Animation

Performing Arts
 
  • Amelia Québécois contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps explores the use of point technique in modern dance, using extended intertwining solos, complex partnering sequences and extreme speed to generate power performances with emotion and serenity.
  • Death In Venice Performance of Benjamin Brtitten's opera which describes the grandeur and shabbiness of Venice in the grip of disease. Portrays the moral and physical degeneration of Aschenbach, a writer whose obsessive and self-devouring pursuit of beauty in the form of a boy named Tadzio, leads him to humiliation and death.
  • Elvis '56 1956 was Elvis Presley's breakthrough year, and this program takes you back, including his early television performances on the Dorsey Brothers Show and the Ed Sullivan show. An entire hour of rare footage and performances are captured during this amazing year when Elvis Presley became not only a star, but a phenomenon.
  • Europafest: Jazz Highlights Recorded in Apr. 1990 at Theaterhaus Stuttgart, West Germany, experience a night of spectacular music with diverse performances from the jazz world's most distinct artists: Steps Ahead (feat. Mike Manieri and Steve Smith); Samul Nori & Red Sun (feat. Wolfgang Puschnig); Charlie Mariano & Jörg Reiter; Mike Stern & The Bob Berg Band; Rabih Abou-Khalil Project (feat. Sonny Fortune); Sun Ra & his Omniverse Ultra 21st Century Arkestra (feat. Marshall Allen, Julien Preister & John Gilmore); John Zorn's Naked City (feat. Bill Frisell); The Archie Shepp Quartet (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith).
  • Greendale A mixture of rock 'n' roll and filmmaking. In 10 Neil Young songs, accompanied by images, the movie tells the story of an all-American family in a fictional California town, coping with the perils of today.
  • The Hard Nut Performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group, this production of "The Nutcracker" ballet has been updated with the sensibilities of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • Jim Gaffigan: Beyond The Pale The unhippest guy in the room is going to crack you up. Jim Gaffigan is the nice guy next door- with more than a hint of the devil in him. A regular of The Ellen Show and That '70s Show, the versatile actor shows his unique style of humor.
  • John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band: Live In Toronto '69 Opens with scenes of Yoko at the opening of the John Lennon Art Exhibit in London, Sept. 1988, then shows film footage of the 1969 Rock & Roll Revival in Toronto, John Lennon's first performance before a live audience in over three years, and his first time with the Plastic Ono Band.
  • Kooyinma: Les Ballets Bagata In Concert Excerpts from a live performance of Kooyinma, a concert of African dance about a young hunter who kills a sacred crocodile. Features the dances: Yankadi, Sofa, Soli, Coucou, Soko, Sorsoner, Bagata, Kindia Soli, Mendiani, Wula, and Konde.
  • Man In Black: Johnny Cash Live In Denmark 1971 Spotlights the great singer-songwriter and his road company before an audience that delights in the country, rockabilly, American roots music, and spirituals that comprise the evening's repertoire.
  • Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks & The Complete Masterworks 2  If you thought Tenacious D were nothing more than a novelty act, this two-volume feast will set you straight, proving that classically trained guitarist Kyle Gass and comedy star Jack Black (School Of Rock) are a bona fide acoustic power duo, scorching the pop-cultural landscape with their satirically scathing lyrics while qualifying as legitimate musicians with awesome chops and just enough insanity to make them dangerous on stage.
  • Woodstock This is the 40th Anniversary Director's Cut edition. Director Michael Wadleigh filmed the entire performance of every artist who appeared at Woodstock. This footage has been archived since that history-making weekend and has only recently been re-discovered. Never before has the complete performance been shown, before now.

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New Video Arrivals for October: Short Films · Short Film Collections · Television

By Sebastian Derry on October 30, 2009 5:00 AM | | Comments (0)
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Short Films
Short Film Collections
  • The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu Known as the "God Of Manga" and the "father of anime" Tezuka Osamu (1928-1989) was an animation pioneer, his unparalleled career is without rival for its extraordinary range of visual style. This collection highlights Osamu's 13 most innovative piecees, many of which are the master's own personal favorites.
  • Civil War Films Of The Silent Era  Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the American Civil War was a deluge of literature, drama and movies. The years 1911-1915 also marked the passage of movies from nickelodeon theaters to movie palaces showing carefully-prepared feature films. These silent films originally produced between 1913 and 1915 feature plots centered on the Civil War and include one feature film and two nickelodeon films by pioneering producer Thomas H. Ince.
  • Eclectic Shorts A stunning compilation of works presented with a mixture of live action, stop motion animation, puppetry and pixilation techniques, produced between 2001 and 2006.
  • The Exquisite Short Films Of Kihachiro Kawamoto Short films from one of the world's greatest stop-motion animators. Famous for his beautiful, expressive puppets, Kawamoto began his career in the 1950s. Drawing on ancient legends, contemporary short novels, as well as Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku doll theater, Kawamoto s haunting, poetic films speak of passion and loss in worlds populated by ghosts and demons. 
  • Liquid Tales: The Animated Films Of Patrick Smith Independent animator Patrick Smith has animated five award-winning short films, directed several television series, including MTV's "Daria" and "Downtown", and has created striking works of public art. His animated short films have been a favorite at film festivals world-wide for the last decade. For the first time, his bizarre, morphing style and symbolic stories of identity and emotion have been assembled onto this single DVD.

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New Video Arrivals for September: Feature Films A to L

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Feature Films A - L


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New Video Arrivals for September: Feature Films M to Z · Feature Film Collections

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Feature Films M - Z


Feature Film Collections

  • Airport Terminal Pack  4 classic disaster films from the 1970s, together at last! Airport · Airport '75 · Airport '77 · Airport '79 The Concorde.
  • The Art Of Buster Keaton This 11-disc set is the Holy Grail of the works of the silent era's greatest physical comedian and filmmaker. Features the 11 full-length comedies, 19 short films and a bonus disc with 3+ hours of archival rarities.
  • Philippe Garrel x 2 2-disc edition showcases two of the most important films by underseen French auteur Philippe Garrel. Both crafted in a poetic, meditative style, these films perfectly demonstrate the eloquent emotional agility of one of France's most essential post-New Wave directors. Features: I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (J'Entends Plus la Guitare) Garrel's haunting tribute to his ten-year relationship with the iconic German chanteuse Nico. Emergency Kisses (Les Baisers de Secours) When a philandering film director refuses to cast his stage actress wife in a role largely based on her, the couple begins to wrestle with their conflicting philosophies on art and life.
  • The Sissi Collection Includes the trilogy of romantic films about the Austrian princess: Sissi, Sissi: The Young Empress and Sissi: The Fateful Years Of The Empress. The three movies follow the adventures of Sissi and her husband Kaiser Franz Josef (Karl Heinz Böhm). Romy Schneider stars as the young princess, who has to endure the frustrations of court life in Vienna and a difficult mother-in-law. This popular series of costume dramas was directed by Ernst Marischka, and also includes two of his other movies, The Story Of Vicki and Forever My Love.

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New Arrivals for September: Documentary Films

By Sebastian Derry on September 30, 2009 5:20 AM | | Comments (0)
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Documentary Films

  • African Underground: Democracy In Dakar Examines hip-hop youth and politics in Dakar, capital city of Senegal. The film follows rappers, DJs, journalists, professors and people on the street at the time before, during, and after the controversial 2007 presidential election in Senegal and examines hip-hop's role on the political process.
  • Almost Myself Award-winning filmmaker Tom Murray sets out on a fascinating cross country journey to explore just a small part of the vastly diverse transgender community. The filmmaker, in trying to define the film and what he learned in making it, said that it could be described as "Transgender 101 by and for a non-transgender person."
  • American Drug War Follow director Kevin Booth as he investigates the world of illegal drugs, from street-corner dealers to high level kingpins, from narcotics officers to powerful judges. Approaching his subject matter with a skeptical eye, Booth questions the effectiveness of the drug war, and the motives of those who continue to fuel it from all ends.
  • American Outrage The Dann sisters' heroic fight for their land rights, and their human rights after the government sued them for trespassing and their dispute went to the Supreme Court, and then eventually the United Nations.
  • American Teen A look at what the life of a high school senior is really like through the eyes of five very different teenagers living in Indiana. Features the Prom Queen, the Jock, the Rebel, the Geek, and the Heartthrob.
  • Anatomy Of Sex As one young couple settles down to start a family, learn how biological and evolutionary forces conspire to keep the human race running.
  • Arthur Ashe: Citizen Of The World Narrated by Ossie Davis, presents the life and career of tennis great Arthur Ashe. Known for his sports skill, he was also a champion of civil rights and equality, such as his notable part in calling attention to South Africa's system of apartheid.
  • Autism: The Musical Profiles five children with autism, their parents, and acting coach Elaine Hill as they take on the enterprise of a full-length stage production
  • Ayn Rand: A Sense Of Life Looks at the life and work of the controversial Russian-born author, Ayn Rand. Drawing from personal papers, public archives, rare film footage, and interviews with those who knew her, the material captures Rand's life-long themes of reason, rational selfishness and political freedom.
  • The Badlands Originally aired on Nightline in 1995, hosted by Ted Koppel. Covers the drug trade in a neighborhood in North Philadelphia and interviews two heroin addicts.
  • Ballerina Profiles five ballet dancers who are uniquely individual - tough, insightful, and exceptionally talented. Their onstage performance reveals no hint of the sweat, pain, and hard work endured in the rehearsal studio.
  • Bombay Calling Filmmakers Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal dive into the bustling world of call centers steeped in late nights, long hours and hard partying. The result is a compelling journey into India's youth culture where a growing number of young people have chosen to chase the American dream... Indian style.
  • Carmen & Geoffrey Follows the careers of Carmen de Lavallade, a dynamic dancer and choreographer from California, and her husband Geoffrey Holder, an actor, dancer, choreographer, and theater director. Featuring interviews and dance performances with legends such as Alvin Ailey, Herbert Ross, Lester Horton, Joe Layton, Duke Ellington, and Josephine Baker.
  • Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed Follows the 1972 campaign waged by Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to run for a major party's nomination for United States President. Chisholm first made her mark on American political history when, in 1968, she became the first African-American woman elected to Congress, representing New York.
  • Clocked: An Oral History "To clock" means to be perceived by people that one is transsexual or crossdressing as opposed to passing. Focusing on six individuals, the video explores the nuances within the broader transgender community.
  • Concrete, Steel And Paint When men in a prison art class agree to collaborate with victims of crime to design a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide. At times the divide seems too wide to bridge. But as the participants begin to work together, mistrust gives way to genuine moments of human contact and common purpose. Their struggle and the insights gained are reflected in the art they produce.
  • Deliver Us From Evil Confessed pedophile priest Oliver O'Grady and the attempts by the Catholic Church to cover up his actions. Includes interviews with O'Grady and his victims.
  • Doing Time: Ten Years Later VHS Ten years ago the documentary film Doing Time explored the intense and dangerous world of a maximum security prison using footage shot on location in 1979 at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. It included interviews with inmates, some of whom were killed during riots in February 1980, scenes from parole hearings and disciplinary hearings, and views of general prison life. Now the makers of the film have returned to New Mexico to discover what has happened since 1979 in a gripping and uncompromising story of how life continues.
  • Don't Need You: The Herstory Of Riot Grrrl The Riot Girrls were unapologetic, aggressive, in-your-face activists who acted out against domination and refused to play by anyone's rules but their own. Director Kerri Koch documents the origins of the 1990s Riot Girrl movement of the Pacific Northwest through interviews with its key players. This feminist movement evolved into a revolutionary underground network of education and self-awareness through music, writing, activism and building a women-friendly community.
  • Drug Wars: The Rise And Fall Of The World's Largest Cartels Takes the viewer traveling from South America and their on going dependency on the coca plant, to Asia, as Thailand and Burma battle for control of a drug abused border crossing. Discover qat in the Middle East and the obsession Yemen has with the drug.
  • Fated To Be Queer VHS Four gay Asian American men speak about coming to terms with their identity as gay Asian Americans and of the attitudes of family members and friends towards them.
  • Ganges In a kaleidoscope of color and energy, this amazing series reveals how the Ganges River has shaped the wildlife, culture and beliefs of India.
  • Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records A look at Sun Records, the Memphis record company that defined American music. Includes interviews with the company's founder, Sam Phillips, rare footage of original Sun artists Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Sunny Burgess, Billy Lee Riley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Rich, and performances of classic Sun hits by contemporary artists.
  • Henri Langlois: Phantom Of The Cinematheque For forty years, Langlois presided over the Cinémathèque Française with absolute commitment and unwavering passion. By collecting motion pictures, he preserved the priceless treasures of an art form. It wasn't always easy as Langlois went underground during the Nazi occupation of Paris and as he battled with bureaucrats. Includes rare footage and interviews.
  • I [heart] Hip Hop In Morocco Follows the attempt to organize and present the first ever hip hop festival in three cities in North Africa in 2005 by DJ Key, founder of the Original Hiphop Association. Various Moroccan hip hop artists talk about the struggles they face between making the music they love and Muslim culture.
  • Imaginary Witness: Hollywood & The Holocaust Examines the American film and television industry's response to the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi persecution of the Jews before, during, and after World War II. Uses film clips, newsreel footage and interviews of filmmakers and Holocaust survivors.
  • IMAX China: The Panda Adventure Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of 1936 China. Inspired by the true-life story of widowed New York socialite Ruth Harkness, a fiercely independent woman who dared to take up her late husband's expedition, journeying deep into the forests of China to study the Giant Panda.
  • IMAX Deep Sea Famed oceanic filmmaker Howard Hall guides this immersive adventure that lets you swim alongside some of the most exotic creatures of the planet.
  • IMAX Fires Of Kuwait Shot on location, viewers are taken to the very center of the terrible Gulf War legacy. Firefighters from 10 countries answered Kuwait's cry for help. Supported by more than 10,000 people from 40 nations, they battled and won.
  • IMAX Galápagos Follow marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin as she explores 3,000 feet beneath the ocean, near the Galápagos islands, to collect rare and unusual species for study.
  • IMAX The Hidden Dimension A macrocosmic journey through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl on a holiday with her parents. Like Alice in Wonderland, Elly follows carefully contrived clues to discover an enchanted world unlike anything she has ever seen.
  • IMAX Into The Deep An underwater exploration beneath kelp forests in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. The film captures the birth of a shark, squids mating, a lobster molting, a fish protecting its nest from an octopus and a sea urchin, and the sea bed covered with brittle stars.
  • IMAX Mark Twain's America Interweaves the life and times of Mark Twain with the lives of current day enthusiasts who revel in the inventions and way of life of the 19th century. Utilizing archival stereo-optic photos, powerful images from the past seemingly come alive in a larger-than-life presentation. Archival photos representative of Twain and what he saw and experienced in his time are juxtaposed against scenes of actual present day recreations of that era.
  • IMAX Mountain Gorilla Beginning with footage of Carl Akley's expedition in 1921 to the Belgian Congo to collect mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) specimens, this film briefly discusses the history of mountain gorilla research and protection in the Virunga Volcanoes area of Africa. Gorillas are shown foraging, feeding and resting. Infants, including one only two days old, are seen with their mothers, breastfeeding, trying new foods, and riding on their mothers' backs. Infants and juveniles are seen at play, and vocalizations of all gorillas are heard.
  • IMAX Space Station Experience zero gravity and the thrill of life aboard the most complex scientific project ever assembled: The International Space Station, hovering 220 miles above Earth.
  • IMAX Survival Island Standing almost alone in the great Southern Ocean, South Georgia Island plays host to some of the largest concentrations of animals anywhere on Earth during the spring and summer months.
  • IMAX T-Rex: Back To The Cretaceous The incredible realm of dinosaurs, a world based on up-to-date scientific findings and created for the screen by richly effective computer graphics, comes alive when teenager Ally Hayden (Liz Stauber) plunges through time and becomes eyewitness to the primeval era of Hadrosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Rex and more.
  • I.M. Pei With two full-length documentaries and a portfolio of twenty projects, this special edition DVD presents the life and work of one of the most inspired and inspiring architects of our time, I.M. Pei.
  • Inside The Third Reich Four documentary films explore Germany during the Nazi years, using archival footage Disc 1: Firestorm: The Allied Bombing of Nazi Germany. Disc 2: The Reich Underground. Disc 3: Television Under The Swastika: Unseen Footage From The Third Reich. Disc 4: The Goebbels Experiment.
  • In The Symphony Of The World Saint Hildegard of Bingen (d. 1179) challenged Popes and Emperors, composed music, wrote volumes of visionary and poetic works and contributed to the knowledge of biology and medicine.
  • I.O.U.S.A. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government of the United States is critically overextended. Weaving together archival footage, economic data and candid interviews with Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Paul O'Neill, Robert Rubin, Alice Rivlin and Paul Volcker, along with David Walker of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition, the film offers a vivid and alarming profile of America's financial status.
  • John Waters: This Filthy World Philosopher of filth and reigning king of bad taste, filmmaker John Waters presents an outstanding live one-man show that celebrates his origins of trash with his signature brand of irreverent humor.
  • K*ke Lke Me Provocative, mischievous, and difficult to dismiss, filmmaker Jamie Kastner's first-person docu-essay dissects identity politics by exploring the question, "What does it mean to be perceived as Jewish?"
  • Kinsey Through interviews with Alfred Kinsey's research assistants, his children, people who took his sex questionnaire, and historians, this documentary assesses Kinsey's remarkable achievements.
  • Legacy A stirring portrait of a Chicago family from one of the worst Chicago housing projects, as they wrestle with violence, drugs, poverty, and illiteracy. Five years in the making, the Collins family's story covers three generations on welfare, as together they face up to their weaknesses, develop their own talents, and change their fortunes.
  • Masizakhe Explores the role of art, social activism and Hip-Hop in South African education. It presents students, teachers, artists and principals working to support each other while re-establishing individual and cultural identities.
  • Meat Director Frederick Wiseman's 1976 film concerning the routine activities at a large meat packing plant and slaughterhouse.
  • Mr. Devious: My Life Biography of South African hip-hop MC and social justice advocate Mr. Devious (Mario van Rooy).
  • A Musical Quartet  Collection of 4 documentaries: From Mao to Mozart chronicles the violinist Isaac Stern's 1979 visit to China, during which he gave concerts, toured the countryside, and taught numerous master classes-captivating everyone he met with his ability to communicate the inner life of music. In Small Wonders (Fiddlefest) dedicated violin teacher, Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras, takes her students on a journey, transforming them from beginning musicians all the way to performing at a Carnegie Hall benefit concert. High Fidelity reveals the inner workings of the Guarneri Quartet on tour to Prague, Venice, and across the United States. The Turandot Project follows the collaboration of conductor Zubin Mehta and film director Zhang Yimou in mounting the elaborate Florence production of Puccini's opera, Turandot, subsequently staged outdoors in Beijing's Forbidden City.
  • Music From The Inside Out An exploration of the magic and mystery of music through the stories, passions, and artistry of the 105 musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Filmed over a period of five years on three continents, the main character of this film is "Music" itself. Incorporating a blend of well-loved musical works--including classical, jazz, bluegrass, salsa, and world music the film features one of the most eclectic soundtracks of any recent documentary.
  • Nascar: The IMAX Experience Puts the history of NASCAR in context, placing emphasis on the technical details surrounding the cars, drivers, and fans. It covers the people inhabiting pit row, building the cars, and the elements of an engine block, leaving viewers feeling as if they have been present at the birth of a NASCAR chariot.
  • New Muslim Cool Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of drug dealing and street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. Now he's moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family and take his message of faith to other young people through hard-hitting hip-hop music.
  • Obama, All Access: Barack Obama's Road To The White House The television newsmagazine 60 Minutes tracks the rise of Barack Obama from Senator to President with behind-the-scenes access over a two-year period. Contains material from six separate broadcast segments, and includes major public appearances and speeches. Hosted by Steve Kroft.
  • The Opposite Sex: Jamie's Story Companion piece to Rene's Story, this Showtime-produced documentary vaults the fence from the other direction as a middle-aged Midwestern man decides to spend the rest of his life as a woman -- a decision that alienates nearly everyone in his hitherto close knit group of family and friends.
  • The Opposite Sex: Rene's Story The first of two documentaries charting the progress of transgendered individuals undergoing sex-change surgery. Rene, 31, a female-to-male gender reassignment candidate took hormones for years and "passed" as a man for all of his adult life. Married to his high-school sweetheart, Wona, a heterosexual woman, for 12 years, no one would guess Rene was biologically a woman.
  • Playing Shakespeare With The Royal Shakespeare Company Nine intensive acting workshops conducted by John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company demonstrate how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity.
  • Poverty Outlaw Shows some of the devastating effects of welfare reform, from the point-of-view of Philadelphia welfare recipients. Chronicles the growth of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a group of welfare recipients organizing to protest the cuts in their benefits and to work toward better living conditions for poor people who live in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.
  • Primate Director Frederick Wiseman shows some of the routine events at a primate research center. Examines the scientific programs designed to study primate physical and mental development, primate manual and language skills, and primate sexual and aggressive behavior.
  • Punk: Attitude Acclaimed director Don Letts explores the music, fashion, and attitude that came to define 'Punk' and the impact it had on pop culture. Music from the New York Dolls, MC5, The Stooges, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones and many more.
  • Ram Dass: Fierce Grace Richard Alpert, after being expelled from Harvard in 1963 for experimenting with LSD, morphed into Ram Dass, a serious and much loved spiritual leader, author and lecturer. This film visits Ram Dass in 2001 as he remakes his life since suffering a stroke five years ago. Balances fascinating, often hilarious footage from the hippie era with contemporary material and interviews with Ram Dass and his associates.
  • The Real Dirt On Farmer John As John Peterson approached his college years, his father unexpectedly died, leaving him in charge of the family farm. Thus, John became a farmer, albeit a strange farmer, with one foot in the counterculture and the other in rich organic soil. The film combines his mother Anna's home movies and footage by his close friend Taggart Siegel, and explores the Rockwellian experience of growing up on a Midwestern farm, the calamitous failure of family farms in the age of corporate farming, and the rise of organic gardening and Community Supported Agriculture.
  • Riding The Rails Originally produced as a documentary film in 1997, it tells the unforgettable story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression.
  • R.F.K. This new biography of Robert Kennedy takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory: "He who learns must suffer." RFK is a tragedy in two acts. In part one: The garish sun, Robert Kennedy devotes himself to his glamorous brother John, suppressing his own ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name. In part two: The awful grace of God, after an assassin's bullet takes his brother's life, RFK is bereft, not only of a brother he loved, but a role that had given meaning to his life. Plunged into unremitting pain and grief, he struggles to find his own voice
  • The Road To Guantánamo A trio of British Muslims vacationing in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 are captured by the American military and sent to the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp. For the next two years, they are imprisoned without any charges officially being filed. They are tortured and interrogated relentlessly, in hopes of getting them to "confess" their nonexistent link to Al-Qaida. This is a fictionalized account of the actual experiences of "The Tipton Three" incorporating interviews, news footage and extensive reenactments by professional actors.
  • The Singing Revolution Documents the Estonians between 1986 and 1991, as they took to the streets to sing forbidden songs in an effort to free themselves from Soviet occupation.
  • Sister Wendy: The Complete Collection Sister Wendy Beckett has transformed public appreciation of art through her astonishing knowledge, insight and passion for painting and painters. Join her on a trip across the world and through the ages, where her contemplative insights and unorthodox enthusiasm bring the world's great art to life. 4-dvd set contains: Sister Wendy's Story Of Painting · Sister Wendy's Odyssey · Sister Wendy's Grand Tour.
  • The Sound Of Rio Brasileirinho Focuses on the development of choro, a uniquely Brazilian urban music evolved from European, Afro-Brazilian and indigenous roots.
  • Still Black: A Portrait Of Black Transmen Explores the lives of six Black transgender men living in the United States through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers, and teachers.
  • Tell Me Do You Miss Me The four members of the celebrated New York-based indie-rock band Luna confront their ambition, modest success, and conflicted feelings about each other as they embark on their final world tour.
  • Tell Them Who You Are Mark Wexler uses a blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler. Film includes interviews with George Lucas, Julia Roberts, Jane Fonda, Ron Howard and more.
  • Tinkanyi I & Tinkanyi II Learn the dances of Guinea: Sorsornè, Yankadi, Macru, Soli Rapide. Each instruction consists of an introduction, the dance, explanation and breakdown, a reprise and some solos.
  • To Do Battle In The Land: John Brown's Raid Documents John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and the events leading up to the raid. Also details conditions in the country prior to the raid and the consequences of Brown's actions in relation to the Civil War.
  • Transgender Revolution Originally broadcast in 1998 as a segment of: Investigative Reports, examines the fast-growing movement to combat gender oppression, highlighting the nation's most notorious transsexual killings and a Congressional battle over including transsexuals in the Hate Crimes Act.
  • The Way North From Marseilles come the stories of North African women making new lives for themselves in tense, complex, contemporary France. Shows their struggles to cultivate alternative economic and social supports for themselves in a society that has historically ignored or misunderstood them.
  • We Feed The World A globe-trotting exposé of our modern agricultural system. From struggling fishermen and long-distance truckers, to agronomists and multi-national corporate executives. Presents a sobering portrait of the people who define the contemporary food industry, where the constant pursuit of profit takes precedence over the health of the workers, the hungry, and the environment. Nearly 1 billion of the 7 billion people on Earth are starving, but the food produced could feed 12 billion people.
  • When I Knew: A Different Beginning Inspired by the book of the same name by Robert Trachtenburg, more than 150 people in five cities were surveyed about the experience of realizing they were gay. In the resulting film, 16 interviewees--of different ages, sexes, and lifestyles--share their stories describing their own "when I knew" moment.
  • Zoo Director Frederick Wiseman looks at the Miami Zoo, presenting the wide diversity of interests and activities at the zoo and the inter-relatedness of the animal, human, ethical, financial, technical, organizational and research aspects of operating the zoo.

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New Video Arrivals for September: Animation · Performing Arts

By Sebastian Derry on September 30, 2009 5:10 AM | | Comments (0)
All titles are on DVD unless otherwise noted

Animation


Performing Arts
 
  • The Axis Of Evil Comedy Tour In a time when East and West don't seem to understand each other, top stand-up comics of Middle Eastern descent Ahmed Ahmed, Aron Kader, and Maz Jobrani take it upon themselves to single-handedly bridge the gap with an original comedy tour.
  • Bill Cosby, Himself One of the longtime masters of stand-up comedy, Bill Cosby treats his fans to this funny, satirical and heartwarming live concert from Canada. His material ranges from the trials of marriage and parenthood, to the side-splitting antics of the very young, to a hilarious encounter at a dentist's office.
  • Chris Rock: Kill The Messenger Comic superstar Chris Rock stars in his fifth solo stand-up performance. From three international performances - at South Africa's Carnival City Casino, London's Carling Apollo Hammersmith, and New York's legendary Apollo Theater. He delivers his adults-only take on dozens of social, political and celebrity issues.
  • Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved musical filmed for home video. Cast includes Elaine Paige and Sir John Mills.
  • Delirious Recorded live in 1983 at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. this is Eddie Murphy's wild, outrageous stand-up comedy act which has been labeled "The defining moment of comedy." Eddie's set was groundbreaking, completely new, razor sharp and definitely for adults only.
  • The Devil And Kate Steeped in the myths of Bohemia, this performance of Antonín Dvořák's phantasmagoric opera tells the story of a beautiful young dancer who crosses paths with the devil.
  • Eddie Murphy Raw Filmed live at New York's Felt Forum, Eddie Murphy entertains with celebrity impersonations and his observations on '80s love, sex, marriage, his remembrance of Mom's hamburgers, and more.
  • The George Carlin Collection Highlights from five of the twelve specials that Carlin has created for HBO since 1977. 4-DVD set features On Location With George Carlin · George Carlin Again! · Carlin At Carnegie · Carlin On Campus · George Carlin: Personal Favorites.
  • George Carlin: Jammin' In New York Carlin's first live stand-up special for HBO is a perfect blend of biting social commentary and more gently observed observational pieces.
  • George Lopez: Why You Crying? Comedian George Lopez takes you on a liberating, comedic journey hysterically dissecting his life growing up in a Hispanic family in Los Angeles.
  • Jim Gaffigan: King Baby Recorded live in 2008 in Austin, TX stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan touches on hard-hitting issues ranging from bacon to bowling.
  • Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same It's time for the Hammer of the Gods, people. Concert film from Led Zeppelin's legendary 1973 performances at Madison Square Garden. Features documentary and fantasy narrative sequences.
  • Louis CK: Shameless Taped live at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood, November 4, 2006, Louis C.K.'s third solo and first full-length hour-long HBO special takes aim at such topics as creative profanity, honesty in marriage and loss of privacy.
  • Richard Pryor Stand-Up Comedy Double Feature 2 concert films from the most influential stand-up comedian of the modern era, filmed live on stage at the height of his powers. Contains Here And Now and Live On The Sunset Strip.
  • Spalding Gray's Monster In A Box Noted monologist Spalding Gray takes you on an unforgettable and often hilarious journey through the pitfalls of the creative mind in this brilliant follow-up to his critical and audience favorite, Swimming to Cambodia.
  • A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie Narrated by Robbie Robertson, this collection of artists and songs features new versions of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly's most important and influential music. Featuring interviews with and performances by John Mellencamp, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Little Richard, U2, Willie Nelson, and Bob Dylan.
  • Whoopi: Back To Broadway (20th Anniversary) The 20th anniversary DVD features a refreshing mix of familiar and new Goldberg creations. Taped before a live audience at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City. Also includes Whoopi Goldberg: Direct From Broadway from her 1985 performance.


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New Video Arrivals for September: Short Films · Short Film Collections · Television

By Sebastian Derry on September 30, 2009 5:00 AM | | Comments (0)
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Short Films

Short Film Collections
  • Jordan Belson: 5 Essential Films Experimental mood or meditation shorts, these films comprise abstract light patterns and music without plot, characters, or dialogue of any kind.
  • Perils Of The New Land: Films Of The Immigrant Experience (1910-1915) Four films that address the immigrant experience in the United States in the early twentieth century: Italian (ca. 75 min.) / Police Force Of New York City (ca. 9 min.) / McQuade Of The Traffic Squad (ca. 16 min.) / Traffic In Souls, or, While New York Sleeps (ca. 90 min.) / The Call Of The City (ca. 12 min.).

Television


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