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THIS FRIDAY, JULY 18th: come see HAROLD AND MAUDE at our backyard screening room. The Cat Stevens soundtrack alone is worth watching this beautiful film about an older woman (much older) who teaches a young man (a boy, really) about love and life and passion. Beautifully, and wonderfully funny, this film is terrific. Doors open at 8:45, film starts at 9:00pm.

Lots of great movies up this week starting with 21, the nearly true tale of a group of MIT students who’s excellent schooling helped them take the casinos of Las Vegas to the cleaners. Also up this week is a batch of interesting looking foreign films such as HELP ME EROS, THE HEARTBEAT DETECTOR, THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION and THE FOLLIES OF MISS EVA. Also notable this week are a pair of Criterion releases (Kurosawa’s HIGH & LOW and Carl Dreyer’s VAMPYR. EARTH: THE BIOGRAPHY is the new BBC nature documentary release, and there are two terrific looking kids movies, both by Michael Sporn – ABEL’S ISLAND and THE MARZIPAN PIG.

Ah, there’s more. Pan down and read on.

Love and kisses,
Ken

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AMERICAN SLAPSTICK VOL. 2.
Comedy.
* Three discs comprising 440 minutes of amazing and historical comic brilliance.

AUTUMN HEARTS.
Drama.
Gabriel Byrne/Christopher Plummer/Susan Sarandon.
Directed by Paolo Barzman.
* A story of survivors of internment camps during WWII and the complicated questions they ask themselves for the rest of their lives.

BRUTAL MASSACRE.
Comedy.
David Naughton/Brian O’Halloran.
Directed by Steven Mena.
* Harry Penderecki (Naughton) a once famous horror filmmaker now considered washed-up, gets one last chance to make his opus. Unfortunately, things go badly wrong from the get-go.

DIRTY MONEY.
Crime/Action/Foreign (French).
Alain Delon/Richard Crenna/Catherine Deneuve.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
* Melville’s last film from 1972 tells the tale of a group of robbers involved in a bank heist.

THE FOLLIES OF MISS EVA.
Comedy/Foreign (Polish).
Dorota Grzelak.
Directed by Kazimierz Tarnas.
* Another of these mad-cap Polish comedies that I love so much, this one is about a fifteen year old girl who is trying to right the wrongs of the world. Based on a book by Kornel Makuszynski.

THE HEARTBEAT DETECTOR.
Drama/Foreign (French).
Mathieu Amalric/Michael Lonsdale.
Directed by Nicolas Klotz.
* A psychologist (Amalric) working for a big petrochemical corporation gets involved in an internal investigation that leads him into knowledge about the company’s inner workings that could prove fatal.

HELP ME EROS.
Drama /Foreign (Mandarin).
Kang-sheng Lee/Jane Liao.
Directed by Kang-sheng Lee.
* A young man in down economic times slips into a depression while hanging out all day smoking pot. Sound familiar? Well, it does to me. Loneliness is the central theme in this erotic and somewhat suicidal tale.

HIGH & LOW.
Thriller/Drama /Criterion/Foreign (Japanese).
Toshiro Mifune/Tatsuya Nakadai.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
* 1963 film about a business executive who is involved in a tight and dramatic showdown at his company must choose between using his funds to gain control at work or to pay the ransom on the supposed kidnapping of his child.

ROBOT CHICKEN: STAR WARS.
Comedy/Sci-fi/Animation.
Directed by Seth Green.
* Goofy and funny collection of Adult Swim Star Wars parodies.

TURN THE RIVER.
Drama.
Famke Janssen/Rip Torn/Jaymie Dorman/Matt Ross.
Directed by Chris Eigeman.
* A pool shark (Janssen), who’s son lives with her drunk ex-husband, desperately wants a better life and to raise her son, but barely has the means to take care of herself. Good pool playing scenes.

21. ****ALSO AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY****
Drama/Poker.
Jim Sturgess/Kevin Spacey/Kate Bosworth/Aaron Yoo/Laurence Fishburne.
Directed by Robert Luketic.
* Inspired by the events of the somewhat true story of five MIT students who took Vegas down with their card counting and other cheating skills.

TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE.
Comedy/Drama.
John C. McGinley/D.B. Sweeney.
Directed by D.B. Sweeney.
* When mid-life crisis hits, three guys hit the road to the College Football National Championship Bowl and attempt to re-find themselves. Man, I can’t wait for my mid-life crisis. I’m gonna dye my hair green!

VAMPYR.
Fantasy/Horror/Criterion/Foreign (German).
Julian West/Maurice Schutz/Rena Mandel.
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
* Originally shot as a silent film in 1931, eventually it was dubbed with voiceovers. It is a dark, washed out tale of sinister developments in the village of Courtempierre.

THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION.
Drama/Foreign (Portuguese/Yiddish/German).
Michael Joelsas.
Directed by Cao Hamburger.
* A story of political unrest and government oppression in Brazil in 1970 is told through the eyes of a child wrapped up in the excitement of football’s World Cup while his parents are on a mysterious “vacation”.

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EARTH: THE BIOGRAPHY.
Documentary/Nature/BBC.
* Another superb BBC doc featuring tremendous imagery.

WITHOUT THE KING
Documentary
His Majesty King Mswati III/Her Royal Highness Princess Sikhanyiso.
Directed by Michael Skolnick.
* Have you been to Swaziland? Could you find it on a map? Did you know it was the last absolute monarchy on earth? Dude, the king has 13 wives. A fleet of limos. Private planes, fat palace…over 9 billion in assets. The Swazis? Hungry, angry, ill (46% HIV rate – worlds highest), and a super low life-expectancy (31!). Think they got problems in Swaziland?

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TRANSFORMERS: CYBERTRON ULTIMATE COLLECTION.
Action/Animation.

............//FAMILY//............

ABEL’S ISLAND.
Family.
Directed by Michael Sporn.

THE MARZIPAN PIG.
Family.
Directed by Michael Sporn.

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THIS FRIDAY, JULY 18th: come see SILVER BULLET at our backyard screening room. Doors open at 8:30pm, show starts at 9pm sharp. $5 suggested donation.

I am proud and excited to announce that on Friday, August 29th, we will be showing Adrian Belic's documentary BEYOND THE CALL as part of the Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema festival. Screening time will be announced soon. More details to follow. Tomorrow is the very last day to submmit films to this festival. Please find all the information to do that here.

We’ve got some good new films this week, and a batch of great new additions! Some great 1990’s films like BOB ROBERTS, THE BAD LIEUTENANT, FLAMENCO and NIL BY MOUTH. All of these were requested by customers. If there is something you wish we had, let me know. I buy most of these requests, and I am appreciative of you helping us bulk up our library.

In the new movie department, we have some comedies (PENELOPE, MEET BILL, COLLEGE ROAD TRIP, EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES), action (THE BANK JOB), dance (STEP UP 2), horror (SHUTTER), romance (LOVE MY LIFE) and assorted other stuff.

Guess what? We have signed up about 70 members on KenFlix, Four Star Video’s local and lovable subscription rate membership! I have only heard great feedback about this program. In a nutshell, KenFlix lets you have a certain amount of films out on your account at any one time, without renewal fees and with unlimited exchanges at the store. If you rent even 5 movies a month, then this program is for you. If you would like to hear more, please email us, or check out the pamphlets at the store.

Love and kisses,
Ken

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THE BANK JOB.
Action/Crime/Thriller.
Jason Statham/Saffron Burrows
Directed by Roger Donaldson.
* Statham doing what Statham does best. Cops and robbers, preferably a bank involved. In this case, he stars in the real-life story of a bank robbery in 1971 that went unsolved, with no arrests and was completely media-quashed because secrets of the Royal family were involved.

BEAU BRUMMELL: THIS CHARMING MAN.
Drama/Fictobiopic/BBC.
Hugh Bonneville/James Purefoy.
Directed by Philappa Lowthorpe.
* The historical story of the world’s first dandy, Beau Brummell, gallivanter, socialite, bad-boy, good-boy, style councilor, all around well-dressed and slick dude.

COLLEGE ROAD TRIP.
Comedy/Family/G.
Martin Lawrence.
Directed by Roger Kumble.
* A young woman travels the country looking for the perfect college to attend and is accompanied by her cop dad (Lawrence) in this family entertainment vehicle.

EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES.
Comedy/Martial Arts/Foreign (Cantonese).
Leslie Cheung/Tony Leung Chiu Wai.
Directed by Jeffrey Lau.
* Hilarious parody film produced by Wong Kar-Wai.

LOVE MY LIFE.
Drama/Romance/ LGBT/Foreign (Japanese).
Rei Yoshii/Asami Imajuku.
Directed by Koji Kawano.
* Adapted from a manga of the same name, it is the story of two young women in love who are learning about dealing with the consequences of their decisions.

MEET BILL.
Comedy/Drama.
Aaron Eckhart/Jessica Alba.
Directed by Bernie Goldmann and Melisa Wallack.
* Bill is a loser whose wife knows it and it seems like everyone else in his life knows it. However, someone lets him have the huge responsibility of acting as a mentor to a teenage girl and somehow he re-finds himself within that task without the help of the CPS.

PENELOPE.
Comedy/Drama.
Christina Ricci/James McAvoy/Catherine O’Hara/Reese Witherspoon/Peter Dinklage.
Directed by Mark Palansky.
* Penelope’s family has a curse that she must break by finding true love. Unfortunately she has a pig’s snout and that seems to bother her suitors. Dudes: she’s just got a big nose! Deal with it.

SHUTTER.
Horror.
Joshua Jackson/Rachel Taylor.
Directed by Masayuki Ochiai.
* Freaky tale about a newly married couple moving to Japan who start having supernatural experiences involving images showing up on camera relating to an old relationship between the groom and a now-dead Japanese woman.

STEP UP: 2.
Dance/Drama.
Briana Evigan/Adam G. Sevani/Will Kemp.
Directed by Jon Chu.
* Number two in the franchise about young kids defining themselves through step-dancing.

TIMES AND WINDS.
Drama/Foreign (Turkish).
Taner Birsel.
Directed by Reha Erdem.
* Following the lives of people who inhabit a small village in Turkey during the five times in between prayer, this beautiful film focuses on some preteens struggling to make sense of their lives.

TRAFIC.
Comedy/Criterion/Foreign(French/Dutch/English).
Jacques Tati.
Directed by Jacques Tati.
* Comedy of errors, involving a designer of recreational vehicles driving his creation into all sorts of calamitous situations.

............//DOCUMENTARY//............

DOWN THE TRACKS: THE MUSIC THAT INFLUENCED BOB DYLAN.
Roc-Doc.
* From the producers of the film: “This fascinating program tells the story of the music and artists that have influenced Bob Dylan throughout his career. Although his reputation as a songwriter stands supreme, Dylan has often covered tracks from vintage blues, folk and country performers or incorporated elements from them into his own material. “Down The Tracks” explores the lives and work of many of these artists and how Dylan interacted with them through archive performance and interview footage alongside new interviews and documentary material.”

TWISTED: BALLOONAMENTARY
Balloonamentary.
Directed by Naomi Greenfield and Sara Taksler.
* A doc about the brilliant engineering feats of balloon twisters.

............//TELEVISION//............

RENO 911: 5th SEASON.
Television/Comedy.
* Season five of the absolutely real and true story of life as a cop in Reno.

THE SECRET WORLD OF ALEX MACK: THE COMPLETE 1st SEASON .
Television/Comedy/Sci-Fi.
Larisa Oleynik.
* Kooky 90’s era tv about a junior high school kid who get s drenched in chemicals that give her super powers.

............//NEW ADDITIONS//............

L’AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE.
* Replacement DVD.

THE BAD LIEUTENANT.
Cult/Drama/Crime.
Harvey Keitel.
Directed by Abel Ferrara.
* Wonderfully demented junkie cop psycho story. First DVD copy.

BOB ROBERTS.
* This is our first DVD of this comic masterpiece written, directed and starring Tim Robbins.

DEADWOOD: SEASON 2.
* Replacement DVD’s.

FINDING NEMO.
* 2 more replacement DVD’s.

FLAMENCO.
Dance/Drama/Foreign (Spanish)
Directed by Carlos Saura.
* Did you watch any of the trilogy of flamenco films we had out last year by Saura? They are beautiful and amazing and this is evidently the finest flamenco film that Saura made.

THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH.
Comedy/Drama.
Henry Winkler/Sylvester Stallone.
Directed by Martin Davidson and Stephen Verona.
* Great ensemble flick about some kids in Brooklyn who form a gang. This is our first copy of any sort of this 1974 film.

NIL BY MOUTH.
* First DVD copy of this Gary Oldman directed film.

SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS.
Comedy.
Ian Carmichael.
Directed by Robert Hamer.
* The secrets of taking advantage of people are revealed at the Lifeman College. This is our first copy of this 1960 film.

SHOWTIME.
Comedy/Action.
Robert De Niro/Eddie Murphy/Mos Def.
Directed by Tom Dey.
* First copy of this spoof of cop buddie movies.

THE WIRE: SEASONS 1, 2 and 3.
* Multiple copies of each.

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THIS FRIDAY, JULY 11th: come see INDIANA JONES & THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK at our backyard screening room. Doors open at 8:30pm, show starts at 9pm sharp. $5 suggested donation. We are at 402 Cortland Ave. 415.641.5380.

Speaking of screenings, has anyone else noticed the signs are up for the 2008 BERNAL HEIGHTS OUTDOOR CINEMA? This is a grass-roots festival featuring Bernal Heights filmmakers showing their stuff in wonderful mostly outdoor locations, such as Precita Park, and Holly Park. It is run by Leslie Lombre and Anne Batmale who year in and year out give their all to make this a great experience. This year will be no different. You can submit your film or read about the festival here.

Another local film festival to keep in mind is VideoFest EXISTENCE-CO-EXISTENCE. They have just announced that Peter Bratt, the Writer/Director/Producer of the critically acclaimed independent film “Follow Me Home”, will be the Juror for this year’s festival. Bratt received the Best Director award at the 1996 American Indian Film Festival and the Best Feature Film Audience Award at the 1996 San Francisco International Film Festival. Bratt is also the Writer/Director/Producer of MISSION STREET RHAPSODY, an upcoming full length feature film. Read about VideoFest here.

Lots of movies this week. We’ll see you at the store.

Love and kisses,
Ken

............//NEW TITLES//............

BAT WITHOUT WINGS.
Action/Foreign (Cantonese).
Directed by Yuen Chor.
* Freaky 1980 Shaw Brothers film featuring a villain who flies through the skies killing, abducting and doing all the kooky things killers like to do.

BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT.
Animation/Action.
Directed by Many.
* Six interlocking chapters telling the story of the rise of Batman from bat child, through his angry bat teenage years, into his early batty 20’s (officially known as the dirty hippy period), and finally into his established success and wealthy period as Batman, champion of the night, and defender of the peace, borderline schizophrenic, etc. etc... If only that was true. As it is, you can disregard most of this review. Except the part about the six chapters telling Batman’s story. About being a bat man. And growing up. Batlike.

BLOOD AND WINE: A BRAZILIAN STORY.
Drama/Foreign (Portuguese).
Mario Cesar Camargo/Marcos Cesana.
Directed by Joao Batista de Andrade.
* A violent arrest witnessed by a family just opening a grocery story in Goiania, Brazil changes the family dramatically.

BLOOD BROTHERS.
Drama/Crime/Action/Foreign (Cantonese).
Andy Lau/Jacky Cheung/Edison Chen.
Directed by Ching-Po Wong.
* A gangster considers getting out of the game upon the birth of his child, but unfortunately it is easier getting in then getting out.

CITY OF MEN.
Crime/Drama/Foreign (Portuguese).
Douglas Silva/Darlan Cunha.
Directed by Paulo Morelli.
* Actually got this last week, but forgot to write about it. In this, a couple of great friends in the latter portion of their teenage years seek out the truth of what happened to their missing fathers.

FLAKES.
Comedy/Indie.
Aaron Stanford/Zooey Deschanel.
Directed by Michael Lehmann.
* Goofy comedy about nuts and fruit.

MON ONCLE ANTOINE.
Drama/Criterion/Foreign (French).
Jacques Gagnon/Lyne Champagne.
Directed by Claude Jutra.
* 1971 film just being re-released by Criterion, it follows a boy’s coming of age in Quebec during Christmas time. Billed as Canada’s greatest film, which I had thought was THE ADVENTURES OF BOB AND DOUG MCKENZIE: STRANGE BREW, but hey, I’ve been wrong before, and I’ll be wrong again.

THE PLEASURE FACTORY. IN STORE THURSDAY
Drama/Foreign (Mandarin/Tagalog).
Isabella Chen/Ananda Everingham.
Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham.
* Three stories focusing on the pleasure seekers in Singapore’s red light district. Chicka-wow chicka wow-wow. No seriously, this isn’t soft-core porn. I am almost sure.

THE PLEDGE.
Western.
Luke Perry/C.Thomas Howell.
Directed by Armand Mastroianni.
* A sheriff goes after a killer after his wife and young child are murdered.

THE RUINS.
Horror.
Jonathan Tucker/Laura Ramsey.
Directed by Carter Smith.
* A clearly dopey group of leisure set vacationers have a bad bad time when they accompany another tourist on an archeological dig that uncovers some bad bad evil.

SLEEPWALKING.
Drama.
Charlize Theron/AnnaSophia Robb/Woody Harrelson/Dennis Hopper/Nick Stahl.
Directed by Bill Maher.
* A child (Robb) struggles to deal with her mother (Theron) abandoning her.

STOP-LOSS.
Drama/War.
Ryan Phillippe/Abbie Cornish/Channing Tatum.
Directed by Kimberly Peirce.
* The total nightmare occurs for Sgt King (Phillippe) when he is ordered back to Iraq arbitrarily after completing his tour of duty.

SUPERHERO MOVIE.
Comedy/Farce.
Drake Bell/Sara Paxton/Leslie Nielsen.
Directed by Craig Mazin.
* From the SCARY GUYS peeps comes this farcical look at the superhero movie genre. May be funny, but you won’t find The Kind Green Menace in this flick.

THIS KISS.
Romance/LGBT.
Mel Lockman/Tamsin Gatewood.
Directed by Kylie Eddy.
* A couple of childhood friends who haven’t seen each other in a decade struggle to deal with the lost years and the events that caused their estrangement.

305.
Comedy/Farce.
Tim Larson/Brandon Tyra.
Directed by Daniel Holechek and David Holechek.
* Like 300, but five more.

THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS.
Drama.
Ellen Page/Libby Adams/Shawn Ahmed.
Directed by Bruce McDonald.
* This film won a bunch of film festival awards and most likely was made before Page hit it big with JUNO, the film that probably will catapult her into stardom. In this, she again plays a potty-mouthed teenager, but one dealing with a bit more traumatic events that just a little teen preggers.

2 MINUTES LATER.
Action/Drama/LGBT.
Michael Molina/Jessica Graham.
Directed by Robert Gaston.
* Detective tale pairing a lesbian detective (Graham) with a man (Molina) whose twin brother is missing.

............//DOCUMENTARY//............

CHOP SHOP.
Documentary.
Alejandro Polanco.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani.
* The life of a teen Latino orphan working in an auto-body shop in a junkyard in Queens is examined in this documentary.

THE GITS. IN STORE THURSDAY
Roc-Doc.
Joan Jett/Valerie M. Agnew.
Directed by Kerri O’Kane.
* Do you know about this band? They were a post-punk rock band from Seattle in the late 80’s early 90’s. They were a very influential band that was getting bigger and bigger when, tragically, in 1993, their lead singer Mia Zapata was found raped and murdered. This doc interviews many people who were influenced by this band, and examines the impact Zapata had on the people around her. I was lucky enough to see them play when my band in Santa Cruz opened for them at some dinky club in 1992; they ruled!

JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN IN STORE THURSDAY
Music Doc.
Bono/Brigitte Bardot/Steve Buscemi.
Directed by Julien Temple.
* Made by the man who made the video of Come On Eileen for Dexy's Midnight Runners (yeah, baby) this doc is the definitive word on Joe Strummer, the front man for 70’s and 80’s punk/reggae/rock innovators The Clash. The film focuses on the world wide influence that Strummer has had.

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DAE JANG GEUM: SEASON 3.
Television/Foreign (Korean).
Yeong-ae Lee/Jin-hee Ji/Ri-na Hong.
* The final season of the greatest Asian soap opera ever to air. I LOVED this show, even though yes, it is a soap opera. But it features just enough food porn, schmaltz, and strong characters to have kept me junked out on it for a solid 54 hours! It’s a guilty pleasure, but pleasure is good.

THE DOG WHISPERER: COMPLETE 3RD SEASON.
Television.
Cesar Millan.
* Shhhhh, I’m trying to hear him. Whhoooof. Whoooooof.

MONK: SEASON 6.
Television/Comedy.
Tony Shalhoub.
* Season six of the San Francisco based detective comedy series.

WIRE IN THE BLOOD: THE COMPLETE 5th SEASON .
Television/Crime.
Robson Green.
* Season five in this gnarly murder investigative series.

............//FAMILY//............

FIREMAN SAM: TO THE RESCUE!
Sam/Other Firemen.

............//NEW ADDITIONS//............

BATMAN BEGINS.
* Adding another DVD to the Batman collection in anticipation of the DARK KNIGHT.

PUSHING HANDS.
Comedy/Drama/Foreign (Mandarin/English)..
Directed by Ang Lee.
* 1996 Ang Lee film about a Tai-Chi master who comes to New York to live with his son and his family. In classic Ang Lee style, east meets west and cultural conflict is explored intimately.

TOPSY TURVY.
* Replacement DVD.

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THIS WEEK: We are having another DVD SALE! July 4th weekend, from Thursday July 3rd through Sunday July 6th, used DVD’s are BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE! We have over 300 titles on sale, so come on down and get some movies. To respect the entire community, there will be no “reserving” DVD’s for sale, so come early and get what you want. Sales are first come/first serve and all sales are final. Whoop whoop!

It is July, and that means it is a new monthly edition of Highlighted New Additions. This month’s movies are brought to you by Rachel S, and they are a combination of films that we have only had on VHS, classics of the old and new variety, as well as some terrific completely new additions to our library. I notice there is also a pretty wide variety of television and films from the mid-90’s, stuff we are really psyched to have in our DVD film collection. Thanks to Rachel for bringing us these great titles. We hope you enjoy them.

I am on vacation in Southern California as I type. Kinda strange to be down here and have the air be better quality than home! But it’s true right now, as the wildfires continue to burn up north. It is hot in LA today, and it should stay hot as we migrate south to San Diego later in the week. I plan on checking out WALL-E with the family this week, so I will give you the report on that next week.

In the meantime, happy July 4th, come see TEAM AMERICA at our backyard screening room. Call the store, or check in while you are there for a starting time for the movie.

Alrighty then, see you next week!

Love and kisses,
Ken

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DRILLBIT TAYLOR.
Comedy.
Nate Hartley/Troy Gentile/Owen Wilson.
Directed by Steven Brill.
* Another from the Apatow comedy production team, this features some nice kids who hire a bodyguard (Wilson) to protect them from a schoolyard bully.

MISHIMA: LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS.
Drama/Biography/Criterion/Foreign (Japanese and English).
Ken Ogata.
Directed by Paul Schrader.
* Yukio Mishima was one of the world’s great 20th century writers. This 1985 film celebrates his life and death while contrasting his personal history with the stories of some of his novels.

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS.
Drama/Romance.
Jude Law/Norah Jones/Natalie Portman.
Directed by Kar Wai Wong.
* From the writer and director of 2046 and THE CHUNG KING EXPRESS comes this offbeat, traveling tale of Elizabeth (Jones) a young woman traveling around the country trying to understand love and cope with the loss of it.

PATRIOTISM.
Drama/Criterion/Foreign (Japanese).
Yukio Mashima.
Directed by Domoto Maskai and Yukio Mishima.
* Another one from Mishima, this is a short rumination on sex, death, suicide and patriotism. Made especially poignant after Mishima’s actual suicide in 1970.

SUNFLOWER.
Drama/Romance/Foreign (Mandarin).
Joan Chen.
Directed by Yang Zhang.
* Tale following three generations of a family in Beijing. Well acted.

TYLER PERRY’S: MEET THE BROWNS.
Comedy/Drama.
Angela Bassett/Tyler Perry.
Directed by Tyler Perry.
* Another adaptation by Tyler Perry of one of his stage plays, this follows a single mother who discovers that her father, who’s she’s never met, has died. She brings her family to Georgia to meet the family she has never known.

VANTAGE POINT.****ALSO IN BLU-RAY****
Drama/Suspense.
Dennis Quaid/Forest Whitaker/Matthew Fox/Sigourney Weaver/William Hurt.
Directed by Pete Travis.
* Hurt plays an American president in this perspective piece about an assassination attempt and the many possible things that might’ve happened, depending on the way you look at them.

............//DOCUMENTARY//............

DOWN THE BARRELL.
Sports Documentary.
Kelly Slater/Bob Machado.
Directed by Steve Lawrence.
* A treatise on the essence of surfing as spoken by the surfers themselves. Do you surf? Or have you spent time with surfers? It is an intensely spiritual experience and the people who enjoy it have the opportunity to achieve a nirvana that is not available in most sports. This movie attempts to expand upon this. Dude.

GANGES.****ALSO IN BLU-RAY****
BBC/Nature Doc.
* Another in the breathtakingly beautiful BBC nature series about our faire planet, this tells the story of the river Ganges, and the people whose lives are affected by it (nearly a tenth of all people on Earth live within the Ganges’ basin).

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THE CLOSER: 3RD SEASON.
Television/Crime.
Kyra Sedgwick/.
Directed by.
* Sedgwick plays LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson in this popular crime series. And she’s married to Kevin Bacon to boot!

MAD MEN: SEASON 1.
Television/Drama.
Jon Hamm/January Jones/Michael Gladis.
* Just last week, our hipster NY friends were raving about this show! The “mad” in the title refers to Madison Avenue and this story follows a fictional ad agency in the 1960’s and some of the mysterious geniuses who ran the show.

THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO: SEASON 2 VOLUME 1.
Television/Crime.
Karl Malden/Michael Douglas.
Directed by.
* Season two in this hard hitting crime show featuring lots of fights and car chases along the streets of our glorious city. Featuring a super young Michael Douglas.

30 DAYS: 2ND SEASON.
Reality-ish TV.
Morgan Spurlock.
* In this “show” they take someone and make them spend 30 days doing something quite antithetical to their entire belief system. Fun!

............//FAMILY//............

FIREMAN SAM: TO THE RESCUE!
Sam/Other Firemen.

............//HIGHLIGHTED NEW ADDITIONS//............

THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY, JR: THE COMPLETE SERIES.
Television/Western/Sci-Fi/Action/Adventure.
Bruce Campbell/Julius Carry/Christian Clemenson.
* This is the entire 27 episode set of the adventures of a bounty hunter riding through a new version of ye olde west, complete with 21st century gadgetry and perhaps even some 22nd century doodads. It’s a fun and futuristic romp.

DIRTY WORK.
Comedy/Revenge.
Artie Lange/Don Rickles/Chevy Chase/Norm MacDonald.
Directed by Bob Saget.
* A couple of losers open a “revenge-for-hire” business and all hell breaks loose.

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH.
Comedy/Drama/Iconic.
Sean Penn/Jennifer Jason Leigh/Judge Reinhold/Phoebe Cates.
Directed by Amy Heckerling.
* California teenagers on sex, drugs and rock and roll. This movie contains so many quotable lines and is truly a work of brilliance and a must-see if only because of its role as an early Sean Penn film that helped catapult him into stardom. This is our first DVD copy.

HARVEY.
Comedy/Drama.
James Stewart.
Directed by Henry Koster.
* It’s kind of a mental health meets faith movie about a lovable guy (Stewart) who has a best friend that happens to be a mostly invisible 6 foot tall rabbit named Harvey. This is our first DVD of this fine flick.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE: THE COMPLETE SERIES.
Television/Quirky/Comedy/Drama.
Cynthia Geary/Barry Corbin/John Cullum.
* Northern Exposure was one of the first of the really weird off-beat television shows that defined 1990’s television. My family was totally ga-ga for this show back then, but alas, I was living the artist life, and didn’t have time or desire to watch any TV at all. Now, I wish I had, and maybe I will, as we add the entire six season set to our collection. We had season one, and Rachel requested a couple more for her month, but we thought what the hell, let’s get it all. Here they are. Devour them.

PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE.
Adventure/Comedy.
Paul Reubens/Elizabeth Daily.
Directed by Tim Burton.
* Pee-wee embarks on a journey around the country searching for his stolen bike and armed with his borderline personality and his wonderful ability to exist somewhere between man and child. This is our first DVD copy of this movie.

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY.
Comedy/Romance/Classic.
Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn/James Stewart.
Directed by George Cukor.
* Nominated for 6 Oscars, and winning 2 including a Best Actor for Jimmy Stewart, this charming and beautiful film follows the romantic exploits of a rich woman and her ex-husband and a tabloid news reporter all stirring up trouble as the eve of her 2nd marriage approaches. Everyone is terrific in it, and this is our first DVD of the film.

PUMP UP THE VOLUME.
Drama/Comedy.
Christian Slater.
Directed by Allan Moyle.
* One of Slater’s more pivotal roles, he plays Mark Hunter, a kid running a pirate radio station and thus having the freedom to truly speak his mind. First DVD for us.

WHAT ABOUT BOB?
Comedy.
Bill Murray/Richard Dreyfuss/Julie Hagerty.
Directed by Frank Oz.
* A psychiatrist (Dreyfuss) is driven crazy by one of his patients (Murray) as he tracks him down on a family vacation. This is our first DVD of this kooky comedy.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO & JULIET.
Crime/Tragedy/Romance.
Leonardo DiCaprio/Claire Danes/John Leguizamo.
Directed by Baz Luhrmann.
* Modernized and updated version of the classic, retaining the original dialogue but taking place in the present with all its trappings, i.e. guns, sex and rock and roll. First DVD.

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HEATHERS: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION.
* New edition of this fabulous parable of societal disintegration. This movie is kind of DONNIE DARKO’s older sister.

KAMAKAZI GIRLS.
Comedy/Foreign (Japanese).
Kyoko Fukada/Anna Tsuchiya.
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima.
* A trippy surreal coming of age story about two girls in Japan not fitting into the “norm” in a gigantic way.

ONLY THE VALIANT.
Western.
Gregory Peck.
Directed by Gordon Douglas.
* 1951 film about a much hated Captain (Peck) and the stand he takes with his mutinous troops against who have every reason to wish him dead.

SAN FRANCISCO.
* Replacement copy of this classic film.

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2008 OUTDOOR SCREENINGS SUMMER SCHEDULE

June 27th – FIGHT CLUB
July 4th – TEAM AMERICA
July 11th – INDIANA JONES & THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
July 18th (under the full moon) – SILVER BULLET
July 25th – HAROLD & MAUDE
August 1st – SUPERBAD
August 8th – HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH
August 15th – GRANDMA'S BOY
August 22nd – THE BIG LEBOWSKI

All shows screening in our backyard patio and begin at 9:00pm sharp.

Doors open @ 8:45pm

Sodas and Candy $1/Popcorn is free

$5 suggested donation

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Sorry for the late list…hectic week! You know how it goes…

Lots of good stuff here this week, but let me skip the movies for a sec and hit on a couple of other things.

First, books! To continue to support the community during this period without a library, we are starting to beef up our free book rental collection. The main criterion for books to qualify for this collection is that they must be somehow film related. Today, I added about ten books, most of which have been made into films. Books such as THE KITE RUNNER, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, THE CHOSEN, WATERSHIP DOWN, SEABISCUIT, THE PERFECT STORM, and A ROOM WITH A VIEW.

Feel free to donate your books! The community will thank you!

If you want to hear about the library, and the fables of the reconstruction, you can read their fun blog here.

Next, outdoor screenings: We are in the final stages of putting together a summer program of outdoor screenings. It is probably complete, and should be posted here, but alas, the same reason I am late getting this out to you is going to prevent me from posting the screening list as well. I will probably send it later in the week as a special supplement email from us to you!

Also, we are having another DVD SALE! July 4th weekend, from Thursday July 3rd through Sunday July 6th, used DVD’s are BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE! We have over 300 titles on sale, so come on down and get some movies. To respect the entire community, there will be no “reserving” DVD’s for sale, so come early and get what you want. Sales are first come/first serve and all sales are final. Whoop whoop!

The new movie list this week is long; I HIGHLY recommend PERSEPOLIS, which is a beautifully done animated movie about a young girl growing up in Iran during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970’s which follows her into adulthood. The images are gorgeous and the story, though very straightforward and biographical, is full of detail and all the things that make us humans so wonderful and so despicable are on full display. It left me teary and sad but also elated and buzzed. Watch it, it’s great.

Love and kisses,
Ken

p.s. Have you signed up for Kenflix yet? I have been hearing from some very happy customers…
p.p.s. Don't forget we are open on Saturday nights now until 11:00pm!

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ANOTHER WOMAN.
Drama/Transgender/Foreign (French).
Nathalie Mann/.
Directed by Jerome Foulon.
* Nicolas left his family and career behind ten years ago when he became Lea, now she longs to see her children again, even in the face of the pain her decision has caused her and the ones she loves.

BEFORE THE RAIN.
Drama/Criterion/Foreign (Macedonian/English/Albanian).
Katrin Cartlidge/Rade Serbedzija.
Directed by Milcho Manchevski.
* Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film of 1995, this film tells paints a portrait of the futility of war told in three stories backgrounded by war-torn Macedonia during the Bosnian War.

BELLE TOUJOURS.
Drama/Foreign (French).
Michel Piccoli/Bulle Ogier.
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira.
* Inspired by the movie BELLE DE JOUR (currently in our New Additions section) this film imagines a meeting of the two main characters thirty-eight years later and the tense psychological revenge that is sought by Henri (Piccoli) over Severine (Ogier).

BONNEVILLE.
Comedy/Drama.
Jessica Lange/Kathy Bates/Joan Allen. CORRECT ACTOR NAME?
Directed by Christopher N. Rowley.
* Three women embark on a road trip whose purpose is shaded in the new perspective on life that the journey engenders.

CARELESS.
Comedy.
Colin Hanks/Tony Shaulhoub.
Directed by Peter Spears.
* A severed finger plays a significant role in this offbeat comedy.

CHARLIE BARTLETT.
Comedy/Drama.
Anton Yelchin/Robert Downey Jr./Hope Davis.
Directed by Jon Poll.
* Kind of a RUSHMORE rip-off, with rich-kid Charlie Bartlett (Yelchin), newly kicked out of his latest private school and headed to public school where he runs afoul of the principal (Downey, Jr.) woos his daughter (Davis) and sells pharmaceutical medicine to the students while acting as their de facto psychiatrist.

DANIEL TOSH: COMPLETELY SERIOUS.
Stand-up Comedy.
Daniel Tosh/Peter Tosh (that’s just a joke, he’s dead and not Daniel Tosh’s dad).
Directed by Manny Rodriguez.
* Standup comedy from your peeps at Comedy Central.

DEFINITELY MAYBE.
Comedy/Drama/Romance.
Ryan Reynolds/An Nguyen/Sakina Jeffrey.
Directed by Adam Brooks.
* Probably, certainly, I think so, possibly, hopefully, unlikely, doubtfully, uh-uh, ain’t gonna happen, nada, hell no.

THE EYE 3.
Horror/Foreign (Chinese).
Directed by Hark Tsui.
* More freaky eye horror.

FURIES.
Western/Drama/Romance/Criterion.
Barbara Stanwyck/Wendell Corey/Walter Huston.
Directed by Anthony Mann.
* Psychological western from 1950 about a son seeking revenge for the death of his father.

FUTURAMA: THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS.
Animation/Comedy/Sci-fi.
Created by Matt Groening.
Directed by Peter Avanzino.
* If you dig FUTURAMA, then you’ll love this feature length offering about a tear in the universe being inhabited by some large…beast…with, a billion…backs.

THE HAMMER.
Comedy/Romance/Shlock.
Adam Carrola.
Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld.
* Dude is turning 40 and he is a washed up boxer trying to figure out what to do with his life – just like me!

HAIR.
Musical/War.
John Savage/Beverly D’Angelo/Treat Williams
Directed by Milos Forman.
* Stupendous, raunchy, street savvy musical from 1979 newly arriving on DVD.

HONEYDRIPPER.
Drama/Music.
Danny Glover/Lisa Gay Hamilton.
Directed by John Sayles.
* Centers around The Honeydripper Lounge, a blues club in rural 1950’s Alabama that is struggling to stay in business.

IN BRUGES.
Comedy/Crime.
Colin Farrell/Brendan Gleeson/Ralph Fiennes.
Directed by Martin McDonagh.
* A couple of hitmen are holed up in Bruges, Belgium waiting for the heat to settle down after a big job.

PERSEPOLIS.
Animation/History/Biography/Drama/War.
Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud.
* Gorgeous animation and lush, sparse story-telling describe this wonderful tale of a young girl and her family living through Iran’s cultural revolution up into the 1990’s.

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES.
Adventure/Family/Fantasy/Thriller.
Freddie Highmore/Nick Nolte/Mary-Louise Parker/Seth Rogen.
Directed by Mark Waters.
* Adapted from the popular books, this is another tale of some kids who move into a weird old estate and find themselves magically zapped into faerie land.

10000 B.C.. ****ALSO AVAILABLE IN BLU-RAY***
Adventure/Romance/Saber-teeth.
Camilla Belle/Cliff Curtis.
Directed by Roland Emerich.
* A pre-historic romp following a young Mammoth hunter’s battle for his loved one and his life. Do you know about Terror Birds? You will after you watch this film.

VIOLIN.
Drama/Foreign (Spanish).
Directed by Francisco Vargas.
* Black and white film about people fighting a violent government and a family trying to pass ammunitions to the insurgency using a violin case.

THE WITNESSES.
Drama/Foreign (French).
Michel Blanc/Emmanuelle Beart/Johan Libereau.
Directed by Andre Techine.
* It is 1984 Paris, and a group of friends are contending with the outbreak of AIDS with a central character, Manu (Libereau) playing the role of reality.

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AUTISM THE MUSICAL.
Documentary.
Directed by Tricia Regan.
* Inspiration story of five very different children who are taking part in the MIRACLE PROJECT and working together to create and perform in a live musical production.

FROM THE GROUND UP: THE DEFINITIVE SCOOP ON COFFEE.
Documentary.
Directed by Su Friedech.
* Behold, each step of coffee production from the soil to your mouth.

HOMEMADE HILLBILLY JAM.
Documentary/Music.
Directed by Rick Minnich.
* Freaky music and dancing focusing on some peeps from the Ozark Mountains of Southwestern Missouri.

NG: SEA MONSTERS A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE. ****ALSO IN BLU-RAY****
Documentary/Nature.
Directed by Steve Zissou, psyche Sean Phillips.
*Fossil discoveries, ocean footage and CGI combine to make this a visually stimulating treat about the giant creatures that lived in the ocean.

WHOLFIN: ISSUE ONE and TWO.
Documentary.
Directed by so many, including Spike Jonze, Miranda July, David O. Russell and Steven Soderbergh.
* I am not really sure what these are, but I stumbled into them, and thought they would make a nice addition to our collection here. Between the two issues, there are 27 short films from a wide array of award winning directors about an even wider array of subjects, including Selma Blair in an eventful visit to her gynecologist’s office. Here is a link where you can read about Issue One.

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INSPECTOR LYNLEY: SEASON 5.
Television/Crime.
Nathaniel Parker.
* Season five of the crime solving adventures of Inspector Thomas Lynley.

............//FAMILY//............

ELMOS WORLD: SUMMER VACATION.
Elmo.

THE MOUSE AND THE MOTORCYCLE.
* Do you remember this awesome book by Beverly Cleary? I do, I totally remember reading this as a very young kid and loving it!

............//NEW ADDITIONS//............

CHET BAKER: LIVE IN 64 and 79.
* Oh, how I love the honey-voiced Chet Baker! So sad how things turned out not to be very honey-sweet for Chet. We are waiting, waiting for the great doc about his life, but in the meantime, here is some great concert footage.

GOSFORD PARK.
* Replacement DVD.

HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK.
* Replacement DVD.

STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN DIRECTOR’S CUT.
* First DVD of the second (and many people think best) Star Trek movie.

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**** Extra! Extra! We are now open on Saturday night until 11pm! ****

**** 11am-11pm on Saturdays, every Saturday! ****

Does everyone out there know what a Blu-ray disc is? Have you seen one? Blu-ray is the hi-def format that has won the format war. And suddenly, they are putting nearly all new movies (and tons of old ones) out on this format.

I have only seen them while loitering at big yucky stores like Best Buy and Circuit City. I have not yet watched an entire movie on one of those discs. Even my hi-def television experience thus far has been quite limited. Last fall, I sat and watched football at my father-in-law’s house, flipping back and forth watching the same game on one channel as I have always watched it (lo-fi, I guess) and then in the hi-def digital format. I was stunned at how different it was. Seriously, it took my eyes about ten minutes to adjust to the new format, and even then it was disconcerting how much I could see.

Anyway, I bring it up, because my experience thus far has been limited, and I am wondering who is watching these discs? Are you? Tell me, if you are. I have been slowly cranking up our Blu-ray library, including adding six titles this week (THE FIFTH ELEMENT, CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER, BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, CASINO ROYALE, KUNG FU HUSTLE, and PAPRIKA), bringing our collection total to somewhere around 30 titles. If you are a Blu-ray renter, let me know what you wish we had, and I will look into accommodating you.

Soon, I will be getting a Blu-ray player at the store, and then we can all see what all this hubbub is about. I would have done it already, but like many of you have discovered, the cost of the television is quite high, and is really the most prohibitive part of the equation. I am guessing that we are going to see a price decrease in these coming up soon, definitely in time for next holiday season.

There’s a bunch of titles this week that may interest you, including the silly new Michel Gondry film, BE KIND REWIND, focusing on some very ingenious video store clerks, who do whatever it takes to keep their favorite customers happy. That story sounds pretty familiar. Other silly comedies this week include MY MOM’S NEW BOYFRIEND, JUST ADD WATER, WELCOME HOME, ROSCOE JENKINS, LOVE AND OTHER DISASTERS, and FOOLS GOLD. We also have some great sound foreign films like CARAMEL (Lebanon), UNDER THE SAME MOON (Mexico) and MY VOICE (Portugal and Guinea Bissau). There is also some good docs (SUPER HIGH ME {which we screened here on April 20th}, JOY DIVISION and TO DIE FOR: IMAGES OF PETER KENNARD & CAT PICTON PHILLIPPS), some anticipated television (CALIFORNICATION, BLOOD + V02, DR.WHO: BENEATH THE SURFACE, INVADERS: SEASON ONE) and the usual batch of new additions.

Love and kisses,
Ken

............//NEW TITLES//............

BE KIND REWIND.
Comedy.
Jack Black/Mos Def/Danny Glover/Mia Farrow.
Directed by Michel Gondry.
* Two video store clerks set out to remake all of the stores films after they are accidentally all demagnetized.

CARAMEL.
Comedy/Romance/Foreign (Arabic and French).
Nadine Labaki/Yasmine Elmasri.
Directed by Nadine Labaki.
* This is sort of a Lebanese BEAUTY SHOP, about the love lives of five women living in Beirut.

CLASSE TOUS RISQUE.
Suspense/Criterion/Foreign (French).
Lino Ventura/Sandra Milo/Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Directed by Claude Sautet.
* Tight 1960 crime story.

FOOLS GOLD.
Comedy/Adventure.
Matthew McConaughey/Kate Hudson/Donald Sutherland.
Directed by Andy Tennant.
* A treasure hunter, who’s failures have brought him to the edge of despair and cost him his marriage has found perhaps the one last clue that will bring him that much closer…to that aforementioned precipice and potentially more failure.

JUST ADD WATER.
Comedy/Romance.
Dylan Walsh/Tracy Middendorf/Danny DeVito/Jonah Hill.
Directed by Hart Bochner.
* And plot, and character development, and motivation, and common sense.

LOVE AND OTHER DISASTERS.
Comedy/Romance.
Brittany Murphy.
Directed by Alek Keshishian.
* Kind of a silly romantic comedy about an American interning at UK Vogue and the comical dalliances that keep her occupied.

MY MOM’S NEW BOYFRIEND.
Comedy.
Antonio Banderas/Meg Ryan/Colin Hanks/Selma Blair.
Directed by George Gallo.
* An FBI agent is given the wonderful task of spying on his mommy and her new boyfriend, who is suspected of sleeping with his mom – I mean being an art thief.

MY VOICE.
Comedy/Musical/Drama/Foreign (Kabuverdianu).
Fatou N’Diaye.
Directed by Flora Gomes.
* A young woman, whose family is convinced that any of them who sings, will die, comes up with a method of informing her mother of her singing success.

RAILS & TIES.
Drama.
Kevin Bacon/Marcia Gay Harden.
Directed by Alison Eastwood.
* A train engineer becomes bonded with a young child who survives a wreck with the train and an automobile.

UNDER THE SAME MOON.
Drama/Foreign (Spanish).
Kate del Castillo/Eugenio Derbez.
Directed by Patricia Riggen.
* A young Mexican boy crosses the US-Mexico border to try to re-unite with his mother who is working in the US to support her family back home.

WELCOME HOME, ROSCOE JENKINS.
Comedy/Romance.
Martin Lawrence/James Earl Jones.
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee.
* Roscoe Jenkins (Lawrence), successful talk show host in sunny Los Angeles, goes home to reconnect with his family down south.

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JOY DIVISION.
Music Documentary.
Directed by Grant Gee.
* The companion piece to CONTROL, this is the story of the late 1970’s English rock band Joy Division.

SUPER HIGH ME.
Documentary.
Directed by Michael Blieden.
* Doug Benson, stand-up comic and true scientist, uses himself as a test dummy to determine the effects of marijuana on the human body. Using SUPER SIZE ME as his example, he smokes as much as he can over 30 days to determine how just high as can get he, while he’s…uh, he’s…shit…where’s my lighter?

TO DIE FOR-IMAGES OF PETER KENNARD & CAT PICTON PHILLIPPS.
Documentary.
* I found this description somewhere on the net: “Known throughout the world for his satirical montages, London-based photographer Peter Kennard teams up with artist Cat Picton Phillipps for this unique collection. An impressive assortment of compelling, eye-popping images, compiled from their 2007 show, cast a critical eye on contemporary politics, art and society. At times alarming but always engaging, Kennard and Phillipps's work turns your screen into a canvas of unmistakable power.”

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BLOOD +: V02.
Television/Animation.
* The further adventures of Saya, the demon-fighting little girl of Okinawa.

CALIFORNICATION.
Television/Showtime.
David Duchovny.
* Duchovny plays a lusty writer in this calipornification view of life in the SC.

DOCTOR WHO: BENEATH THE SURFACE.
Television/Sci-Fi
* 400+ minutes of early 1970’s and mid 1980’s Doctor Who action spanning both the Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison eras.

INVADERS: SEASON ONE.
Television/Sci-Fi.
Roy Thinnes.
* Something like 900 minutes of this show about a guy trying to convince the world that some not nice aliens are here to take over the world (don’t you feel like that sometimes?).

............// FAMILY//............

SWORD IN THE STONE: 45th ANNIVERSARY EDITION.
Family/Disney.
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman.
* Oscar nominated Disney film from the 1960’s about Merlin and King Arthur.

............// NEW ADDITIONS//............

BLACK CHRISTMAS (SPECIAL EDITION).
Horror/Mystery/Thriller.
Olivia Hussey/Margot Kidder.
Directed by Bob Clark.
* The original Sorority house thriller from 1974 about a bad, bad Christmas break.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.
* Two replacement DVD copies.

JUNGLE BOOKS 2.
* Disney’s vault opens up, allowing us to get some replacement DVD’s of this kids favorite.

LOST HORIZONS.
Adventure/Drama.
Ronald Colman/Jane Wyatt.
Directed by Frank Capra
* When a British diplomat (Colman) and a small group of survivors crash their plan into the Himalayas, they are rescued by people who appear to be from the eternal paradise local of Shangri-La.

QUILLS.
* Replacement DVD.

SPY KIDS 3.
* Replacement DVD.

THE UPSIDE OF ANGER.
* Replacement DVD.

............//NEW BLU-RAY ADDITIONS//............

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA.
* First Blu-Ray copy.

CASINO ROYALE.
* First Blu-Ray copy.

CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER.
* First Blu-Ray copy.

THE FIFTHE ELEMENT.
* First Blu-Ray copy.

KUNG FU HUSTLE.
* First Blu-Ray copy,

PAPRIKA.
* First Blu-Ray copy.

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