Past winners (and losers) on DVD on sale!
All the past winners on DVD on sale!
All your exploitation/sexploitation/world of the Weird indulgences!
The Premiere Asian Extreme collection!
Asian and Latin Genre pics: up to 30% off!
Architect Glen Howard Small wanted his daughter, Lucia, to write his biography.
Instead, she made a documentary about him. The result is an utterly engrossing portrait of a world-class eccentric and his family s struggle to understand the man. (Tim Merrill, FilmThreat)
Blithe, brilliant, and intimate.
..a real-life The Royal Tenenbaums in which dad comes off as insufferable but nonetheless charming and sympathetic, an uncompromising idealist whose failure to play the game exiled him to the margins.
(Boston Phoenix)
Submitted by on April 10, 2007 - 2:26pm. GreenCine s Craig Phillips of this Gallic policier, while it may remind one a bit of à la français, this is less about the mystery than it is about the characters. Star is remarkable.
called film a fine, taut, tough example of the realistic police drama.
Kenneth Turan, : A quiet powerhouse of a film, an implacable, uncompromising French police drama, both old-fashioned and modern, that underlines the reasons impeccably made crime stories do so well on screen.
Submitted by on April 10, 2007 - 1:40pm. This is the kind of week for DVD releases that we usually like to call a good week to catch up on other recent releases, since it seems on the surface like a fairly unexciting crop of titles. But there are gems to be had, from a to an odd on an eccentric Christian folk-indie-rock group ( a fond portrait, loaded with bizarre, haunting music and off-kilter inspirations - LA Times) to a set around RFK s asassination; from a to a about a man, a woman and the personal history that, um, dogs her..
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Check out this week s new releases, and more titles coming soon.
Submitted by on April 10, 2007 - 11:44am. I think that I always wanted to have a brother.
In 1979, a 21-year-old filmmaker warped countless young minds with a terrifying bit of surreality called . A quarter of a century later, he s entertaining us with a tale of Elvis and JFK, both alive (yet feeling their age), as crime-fighters.
finally caught up with the director on the eve of
s release, long after appeared with at the in 2003...has been reissued on DVD.
Submitted by on April 6, 2007 - 4:04pm. Her first short film was selected for International Critics Week at Cannes.
She received an Academy Award for her third short. She was awarded the Jury Prize at Cannes for her first feature and later dominated the BAFTAs in Scotland (winning the Best Director, Film, Screenplay, Actress and Actor awards). Such a sequence of achievements is essentially unheard of, admittedly, but Andrea Arnold is not your average filmmaker.
Spoke with Arnold about her films this past fall. Her first feature is now open in theaters.
Submitted by on April 5, 2007 - 1:12pm. The mood of making my kind of films is getting stronger here.
The will be screening two of Apichatpong Weerasethakul s films; Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady, this Friday and Saturday. You can Purchase tickets .
had a chance to speak with Weerasethakul, you can read the transcript of that interview after the jump.
Submitted by on April 4, 2007 - 2:32pm. NPR s had a piece on the group, which is comprised of comedians Maz Jobrani, Ahmed Ahmed and Aron Kader (of Iranian, Egyptian and Palestinian descent, respectively).
Their special, in which the comics muse on how life changed for them since Sept. 11 with amusement, bewilderment and a touch of self-deprecation (they enter the stage through metal detectors), premiered on Comedy Central last month and is out on DVD this week. [ .
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They are doing for Middle-Easterners what Richard Pryor did for African Americans - Carrying their culture to the mainstream...
Very funny and timely. -Newsweek
See: piece.
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