Thanks again to Leslie and Anne for putting on the Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema festival. I had such a great time at all the events that I was able to attend. The finale at Precita Park was a blast, and we loved the MAMMA MIA sing along. My kids can’t stop singing Dancing Queen – it’s a non-stop disco party at my house right now.This Thursday and Saturday (Oct 15th and 17th) the VideoFest film festival is on! Labor and Dreams were the themes to this year’s festival. This year a Four Star Video award was given to the top local filmmaker entered in the festival. Congratulations to Jonathan King for winning this prize. The program runs at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and I urge you to go!
Fiesta on the Hill is this Sunday – should be a super fun community party as usual. Don’t forget about Bernal Bucks, which will be up and running at Fiesta. The Bernal Bucks website has nice explanations about this new community economic system. Contact: Arno Hesse 415-935-1050 for more information. Four Star will also be selling used DVD’s outside the shop that day at $5 a pop. So come on down, get some food, pet some animals, dance with your neighbors and have a grand old time.
In the blockbuster New Release department, THE PROPOSAL starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds as faux fiancées is here, as is LAND OF THE LOST, the Will Ferrell take on the classic story of people of the current era finding themselves back in the days when dinosaurs ruled the land. Also of note is DRAG ME TO HELL, Sam Raimi’s horror tale of a cursed mortgage banker (insert joke here) trying to avoid an eternal trip to hell. There’s more! Scroll on down, scroll on down the page.
Alrighty, that’s all folks, hope to see you at the store.
Love and Kisses,
Ken
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............//NEW RELEASES//............
ADORATION.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Drama.
Devon Bostick/Scott Speedman.
Directed by Atom Egoyan.
* A boy uses the internet, and the wide-spread audience it offers, to re-write his life-story in a way that helps him understand what really happened.
DRAG ME TO HELL.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Horror/Suspense.
Alison Lohman/Justin Long.
Directed by Sam Raimi.
* Christine Brown (Lohman) is going to hell. Seriously. In three days! See, she tried to be the tough at the bank she works at, in order to get a promotion. But she has offended the wrong mortgage holder, and now she has been cursed with an eternal vacation to a very hot place. Can she avoid her fate? Is there a way she can maybe pass it on to someone else? Maybe…
ECLIPSE SERIES 18: DUSAN MAKAVEJEV FREE RADICAL.
Directed by Duan Makavejev.
* The three movies in this collection are MAN IS NOT A BIRD, LOVE AFFAIR OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR, and INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED. This is the description from Amazon: There’s never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema’s steadfast rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker were dissolving the boundaries between fiction and documentary, Yugoslavia’s Makavejev stood alone. His films about political and sexual liberation were revolutionary, raucous, and ribald. Across these, his wild, college-like first three films, Makavejev investigates—with a tonic mix of earnestness and whimsy—love, death, and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen. .
HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER.
Comedy/Horror.
Matthew Gubler/Dameon Clarke.
Directed by Luke Ricci.
* Sort of an American version of MAN BITES DOG about a serial killer who trains a young man in the art, while being followed around by a camera crew.
JACK BROWN: GENIUS.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
Martin Czokas/Timothy Balme.
Directed by Tony Hiles.
Written and Produced by Peter Jackson.
* There’s crazy monks, eternities in hell, amplifiers in tape machines that can make you fly, Chinese investors, greedy ex-bosses and lover, and more in this quirky indie from New Zealand.
THE KILLING ROOM.
Horror/Suspense.
Nick Cannon/Chloe Sevigny/Clea DuVall/Timothy Hutton.
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman.
* You know those rough economic times where being a paid participant in a psychological study seems like a good idea? This movie suggests that might be a bad idea. The four who sign up here are truly sorry they did, as the study becomes less psychological and more diabolical. What are the scientists looking for?
LAND OF THE LOST.***ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Comedy.
Will Ferrell/Anna Friel/Danny McBride.
Directed by Brad Silberling.
* Look, I bought a big batch of this film, but I can’t be expected to hype it in any way.
LOVE OF SIAM.
LGBT/Romance/Foreign (Thai)
Directed by Chookiat Sakveerakul.
* When a girl goes missing in Bangkok, the lives of her younger brother and his best friend are thrown into turmoil. Years later the boys meet again, under different circumstances, and find themselves draw to each other.
ORAL FIXATION.
Suspense.
Emily Parker.
Directed by Jake Cashill.
* I mean, I really like my dentist. He’s awesome! I mean, a great practitioner, and a great guy. But I’m not obsessed with him! Rachel Marks (Parker) has different needs. And she’ll stop at nothing to get her dentist’s special attention.
THE PROPOSAL.****ALSO ON BLU-RAY****
Comedy/Romance.
Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds/Craig T. Nelson/Mary Steenburgen.
Directed by Anne Fletcher.
* Bollock plays the bossy executive in charge of a publishing company who basically pushes her assistant (Reynolds) into a “green-card wedding” in order to not get deported to Canada (snort). However, the immigration officer forces them to spend some time with his family to test their story, and among other things, real love blossoms. With Nelson and Steenburgen as Reynolds parents.
SUNCHASER.
Drama.
Woody Harrelson/Jon Seda/Anne Bancroft.
Directed by Michael Cimino.
* This 1996 Cimino (THE DEER HUNTER, DESPERATE HOURS, HEAVEN’S GATE) film is about a dying patient (Seda) who kidnaps his oncologist and tries to find meaning in his desperate plan.
............//DOCUMENTARY/............
ELEPHANTS.
Nature.
Directed by Animal Planet.
EVERY LITTLE STEP.
Music.
Directed by Adam Deo and James Stern.
* This documentary goes behind the scenes of real life dancers, actors, writers, choreographers, producers and directors for the Broadway musical A CHORUS LINE.
............//TELEVISION/............
JACKASS: THE LOST TAPES.
Reality/Really.
NIP/TUCK: SEASON FIVE PART TWO.
Reality/Really.
Dylan Walsh/Julian McMahon.
* This is a really tripped out show about plastic surgeons.
............//KIDS/............
BACKYARDIGANS: BIG BACKYARD ADVENTURES.
BACKYARDIGANS: ROBOT REPAIRMAN.
BOB THE BUILDER: CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER.
CURIOUS GEORGE: A VERY MONKEY CHRISTMAS.
GONNA CATCH SANTA CLAUS.
* Featuring William Shatner!
KONG: RETURN TO THE JUNGLE.
LITTLE SPIRIT: CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK.
Danny DeVito/Freddy Rodriguez/Lucy Liu.
THOMAS AND FRIENDS: SODOR HOLIDAY COLLECTION.
WOW WOW WUBBZY: WUBB-IDOL.
* Featuring Beyonce!
............//NEW ON BLU/............
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS.
* Jim Carrey doing his thing.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS.
* Creepy but almost a comedy.
SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER UNCUT.
* There are some really wonderful family scenes in this movie.
TALKING HEADS: STOP MAKING SENSE.
* Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
............//NEW ADDITIONS/............
DEATH NOTE.
Adventure/Crime/Drama/Mystery/Foreign (Japanese and English).
Directed by Shusuke Kaneko.
* Award winning live-action version of the popular Manga series. Bought by customer request (thanks Rebekah!).
DEATH NOTE II: THE LAST NAME.
Adventure/Crime/Drama/Mystery/Foreign (Japanese and English).
Directed by Shusuke Kaneko.
* Part two of the award winning live-action version of the popular Manga series. Part three coming soon!
Sarkar blurbs by local filmmaker and Asian film guru Valerie Soe.
SARKAR
* Bollywood's take on The Godfather, this sprawling saga stars real-life
father and son Amitabh and Abishek Bachchan, two of India's most popular
stars, as leaders of a powerful Mumbai family.
SARKAR RAJ
* The sequel to Sarkar Raj adds the glamorous and beautiful Aishwarya Rai
into the mix, as the story of the powerful and ruthless Nagre family
continues.
****
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