New Criterion releases at a Fayes Video near you!

Did you know that Faye's has an awesome, nearly complete selection of Criterion films? Ask a friendly employee for recommendations today!

The Criterion Collection is a video-distribution company selling "important classic and contemporary films" to cinema aficionados founded in 1984. Criterion Collection releases were the first to provide several features that have become standard including audio commentaries. They are also known for taking great lengths to restore and clean all movies released on their label.

New to Fayes:

Blow Out, 1981

Dir: Brian de Palma

De Palma's homage to Antonioni's classic art movie Blow-Up (1966) blends suspense and political paranoia when a Philadelphia sound man inadvertently records a murder.

Cul-de-sac, 1966

Dir: Roman Polanski

Aging, furtively kinky Donald Pleasence is married to sexy young Francoise Dorleac. The couple's hermitlike tranquility is shattered when wounded gangsters Jack MacGowan and Lionel Stander invade their home and hold them hostage.

Kiss Me Deadly, 1955

Dir: Robert Aldrich

While driving down a lonely road, private eye Mike Hammer picks up a beautiful hitchhiker (Cloris Leachman!), dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, he assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted by two thugs.  

Life During Wartime, 2010

Dir: Todd Solondz.

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. An almost-sequel to Solondz' 1998 film Happiness starring an all new cast of actors.

Red Desert, 1964

Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni

Antonioni's creative muse Monica Vitti plays Giuliana, an unhappy wife, who suffers from an unnamed form of depression and malaise. Her quicksilver emotional shifts disturb everyone around her, but they, like she, pretend that nothing is truly wrong. Also starring Richard Harris as British engineer Corrado Zeller.

Zazie dan de Metro, 1960

Dir: Louis Malle 

Twelve-year old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover. However,  Zazie escapes her uncle's custody and sets out to explore Paris on her own.

T.V. Mash-Up!

The C word: Lesbians talk about catipillars

Project walking Dead: Zombies design torn, ripped and soiled garments and are rewarded in brains and trips to New York's Fashion Week.

Modern Blood: Al Bundy is a vampire.

Sex & the Weeds: Episodes 1-9 the gang gets real high eats junk food and watches t.v.. All shot in Slow-motion.

One Time - With Molly

One time I tried to get my husband to watch my most favoritest movie of all time "Battle Royale"  but he wasn't having it! That movie is so awesome.  You see the plot is that in Japan the children stopped respecting adults and were acting all kinds of out of line, SO the grown ups created this program called "Battle Royale". Every year a class of teenage school children are picked and they are shipped to an island, they are all given a weapon and they have 3 days to kill each other, only 1 student can be alive at the end of the 3 days or else the collars around their necks will all explode!!! It is the most amazing movie ever. And you wanna know what else? In the movie, the girl who likes to run and wears a yellow running suit, she is O'ren ishii's personal body guard in Kill Bill,  you know the school girl with the ball and chain. Isn't that cool?

THE END!

J.J. Abrams' new film "Super 8" may be the perfect film nerd's film

A still from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," 1977

 "George Lucas may be the godfather of the obsessive-compulsive, encyclopedic approach to movie consumption, but the current object of obsession is his friend and colleague Steven Spielberg. Just ask J. J. Abrams — or go see his 'Super 8.'"

Great article in the New York Times discusses the multiple late-70s and 80s film references in "Super 8," in theaters now. In particular, A.O. Scott points to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T." (both directed by Spielberg) and "The Goonies" (directed by Richard Donner from Spielberg's story). "Super 8" capitalizes on fans' knowledge of these films.

"At Salon.com the critic and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz has enumerated, extensively though probably not exhaustively, the movie’s Spielbergian motifs. These include large themes (“daddy issues”), visual patterns (“flashlights or searchlights as harbingers of impending doom”) and camera techniques (“God’s-eye point-of-view shots”). It is, of course, perfectly possible to enjoy “Super 8” without hunting down these echoes, and also possible to be distracted and annoyed by them. But whatever you make of them, it is clear that all those reminders of 1970s and ’80s vintage Spielbergiana — of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial” and “The Goonies” (directed by Richard Donner from a story by Mr. Spielberg) — are part of the design, and intended to be part of the fun, of Mr. Abrams’s film. "

We have a great selection of Spielberg films here at Fayes so come in and bone up on your Spielbergania before you go see "Super 8" in theaters! 

NEW RELEASES FOR JUNE 28th

3 BACKYARDS (all star cast. Drama Drama Drama)

BARNEY's VERSION (Paul Giamatti, drama)

SEASON OF THE WITCH (Nick Cage stars.. Epic Battle)

SUCKER PUNCH  (Young girl fantasy escapism leads her into a world of action)

NEW RELEASES FOR JUNE 21st

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (Matt Damon and Emily Blunt)

CEDAR RAPIDS (funny fun movie with all star funny people)

THE EAGLE (epic adventure movie)

UBKNOWN (Laim Neeson tries hand at action flick again: ala TAKEN)

Alfonso Spelunking

the dark hole warrior
gathers his tools
where is the flash light?
he found it

down the hole he goes
searching
ow! burnt by the steaming wand
he's got a poll now

i think he's got it but
shit, two handed poll and tape stick
no luck, he's getting nervous glances
i don't know if he will complete his task

getting frustrated in the dark
there are only so many things you can do
with a tape measure

NEW RELEASES FOR JUNE 14TH

ADRIFT (From Director of The Constant Gardener; stars Vincent Cassel)

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (sci-fi-Y war in the City of Angels)

BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (Big Mommas House 3)

HALL PASS (comedy!!!!! Boo Relationships!!!! Yeah Freedom!)

MONOGAMY (Rashida Jones stars in sexy stalker movie)

RED RIDING HOOD 2011 (whatsherface is in it…)

Know your Faye's crew! by Katie

Episode 1: Alfonso

What is your full name?
Alfonso Alejandro Kellenberger

Where were you born?
I was born at the Kaiser in La Mesa, San Diego County , CA

How long have you worked at Faye's?
For a while now ... (laughs) ... Maybe 4.5 or 5.5? Not sure...

Who would play you in the movie of your life?
Vincent Gallo with Ray Liotta or Keanu Reeves doing the voiceover.

What was the last movie you saw in the theater?
Paris after Midnight. I attempted to go see Tree of Life but they weren't taking passes yet...

What would your last meal on earth be?
It's gonna be as much Spanish ham (jamon serrano) as I can fit in me.

If you were a salad, what kind of dressing would you have?
Ranch with bacon bits!


If you could have dinner with any famous person, living or dead, who would it be?
Toulouse-Lautrec, but only if we could get drunk.

What question should I ask you?
Are we done here?


Are we done here, Alfonso?
Seems like it.

THINGS WE DID

Here at Fayes we don't often like to take credit for other people's accomplishments, but sometimes... it's just makes us feel good. So things that we have done in the past that you may have not known about:

we built this:

we invented this:

                                                  that's penicillin, in case you didn't know




we started this trend:

we painted this:

we invented this:

and we invented this:

we also invented clapping among others

So, come into fayes, you owe us.

NEW RELEASES FOR JUNE 7TH

ANOTHER YEAR (Drama. Nominated for Best Screenplay)

THE BIG C: SEASON 1 (stars Laura Linney and Oliver Platt, oh and Precious)

THE COMPANY MEN (All star cast.. Maybe like Modern Mad Men)

BREAKING BAD SEASON 3 (--------------------------------)

JUST GO WITH IT (Adam Sandler and Jen Aniston)

SANCTUM (James Cameron flick.. Its not Avitar 2)

TRUE GRIT 2010 (Cohen Brothers… )

Best in Show 2011!!

Thanks to all the adorable pooches (and their owners) who participated in our annual Cutest Dog Contest. We love you all!