Monday, March 28, 2011

NEW RELEASES APRIL 29th

ALL GOOD THINGS (Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst… crime story)
BLACK SWAN -----------------------
FAIR GAME (Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Political thriller,. Based on true stuff)
MAD MEN SEASON 4 (Still mad…)
MESRINE: THE PUBLIC ENEMY PART 2 (part two of two…)
THE RESIDENT (Horror flick starring Hilary Swank? What.. Its Got Christopher Lee too!)
TANGLED (Disney flick,, looks like there is a horse in it. Animated)
TREME: SEASON 1 (from the creators of THE WIRE, new HBO series:New Orleans style)


Sunday, March 20, 2011

NYTimes.com: Hollywood Ignores East-West Exchange

Richard Jenkins, foreground, is a professor who befriends Hazz Sleiman, a Syrian immigrant musician, in "The Visitor," directed by Thomas McCarthy.
"But why isn’t the United States also part of that same emerging global cinematic conversation? Why isn’t Hollywood also making movies that grapple with the issues that are provoking filmmakers elsewhere? And when Arab and Muslim characters do appear on screen, why are they presented in such simplistic and stereotyped ways?" 
Interesting article in the Times today about the shortage of sympathetic Eastern perspectives in American films. They highlight a few American movies that do attempt to address Islam, the Middle East conflict, and its victims on all sides in a thoughtful way, including:
The Hurt Locker
The Visitor
Syriana
Three Kigns
Redacted

Foreign films mentioned include:
In a Better World (Best Foreign Film Oscar winner, in theaters in April)
The Band's Visit
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
A Prophet

Rent one today and join the conversation!

In related news: "Jonathan Demme (director of Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphis) has bought the rights Dave Egger's book “Zeitoun,” about a Syrian immigrant in New Orleans who was helping neighbors after Hurricane Katrina when he was arrested, and is now developing a script for an animated film version of that story." Should be great!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

WHAT? WE GOTS THAT.

Now carrying SONS OF ANARCHY!
(by popular demand)
also.. just picked up some OUT OF PRINT films

TAMPOPO
and
ARIZONA DREAM
and
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISHER


Monday, March 14, 2011

MARCH 14th

HEREAFTER (Latest Clint Eastwood directed flick.. Haunting…)

THE FIGHTER (Mark Walberg fighter movie. Super great!)

 THE SWITCH (Jen Aniston and Jason Bateman star…. Romcom style)

 WASTE LAND (docu, nominated for Academy Award. Art Beuty human Spirit)

Monday, March 7, 2011

 FOUR LIONS (Comedy that takes aim at the war on terror. Sundance style)
INSIDE JOB(DOCU on the financial metldown, that we are currently living)
JACKASS 3 ( probably in 3-D)
MORNING GLORY (Smart/sharp comedy.. Like Devil Wears Prado) 
NEXT THREE DAYS ( Paul Haggis (crash) remakes french flick POUR ELLE and it stars Russ Crowe)
THE WALKING DEAD (AMC presents latest horror series…)