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PR Arts & The Mind on DVD Jan 8

At-risk teens use it to find meaning in the world around them -and in themselves. It offers healing to both chronically ill toddlers and veterans battling PTSD. What is this magical elixir? Art. Exploring the vital role the arts play in human development during both youth and older age and shares stories and cutting edge scientific research on how music, dance, painting, poetry and theater markedly improve well-being at both ends of life.

PBS Distribution

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Posted by: News Editor - January 7, 2013, 8:38 am - PR
Keywords: documentary, educational

PR Salma Hayek in Americano on Blu-ray & DVD Oct 30

The offspring of some of the movies' greatest names come together in a moving drama concerning inheritance, legacy and the enduring pull of the past. Americano stars Salma Hayek as a stripper who helps a man uncover secrets about his late mother.

MPI Home Video

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Posted by: News Editor - October 9, 2012, 7:23 am - PR
Keywords: drama

PR Lhasa and the Spirit of Tibet: Sites of the World's Cultures on DVD Aug 28

Nowadays the Tibetans have to fear for the preservation of their culture since the constantly growing Chinese population is rapidly crowding out the native Tibetans. The latter are often no longer able to practice their religion unhindered, an essential element of their native culture. The film describes a colorful culture in which secular and spiritual powers are in the same hands.

Kultur International

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Posted by: News Editor - August 12, 2012, 11:12 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR The Loved Ones on DVD Sep 11

When Brent (Xavier Samuel) rejects his classmate Lola's (Robin McLeavy) invitation to the prom, he sets off a chain of events that leave him the victim of her twisted revenge. Now he's the only guest at Lola's terrifying and demented prom, and must fight to survive what could be his final dance.

Paramount Home Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - August 10, 2012, 7:34 am - PR
Keywords: thriller

DVD Review THE DEAN MARTIN VARIETY SHOW UNCUT

Campy, shlocky, silly and imminently entertaining, The Dean Martin Variety Show roped in viewers week after week during its entire run. This set contains six full episodes in all their uncut glory.

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Posted by: Jesse Shanks - June 17, 2012, 4:57 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: television, comedy

PR Young Goethe in Love on DVD & VOD Apr 24

Follow the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Alexander Fehling) in 1772 as he struggles in his budding career as a lawyer even as he yearns to be a poet. After failing his law exams, he is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to the sleepy town of Wetzlar to toil as a law clerk and mend his ways. Soon after arriving, Johann meets the boisterous, crimson-tressed Lotte Buff (Miriam Stein), and the two fall in love. But their road to romance is filled with obstacles--employers to be obeyed, fathers to be heeded and duels to be contemplated--and hearts are destined to be broken. Such are the affairs of the heart and head that inspire a young poet--a poet who will soon go on to pen one his most vital and influential works.

Music Box Films

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Posted by: News Editor - March 21, 2012, 7:25 am - PR
Keywords: drama

DVD Review ATLAS SHRUGGED PART 1

You have demanded it and now here it is. The screen adaptation of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, or at least Part One on DVD. Yeah, I know you had good reason to avoid it in the theater, but now you can get your intellectual on in a big way. Well, maybe a little way. It's a good chance to get a "light on the sauce" taste of what the big meal is all about. Whether there is a there there is strictly a matter of taste.

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Posted by: Jesse Shanks - November 27, 2011, 11:59 am - DVD Review
Keywords: sci-fi, ayn rand

News How to prepare for a summer music festival

- CNN.com

Posted by: News Editor - July 15, 2011, 5:25 pm - News
Keywords: music, lollapalooza, pitchfork music festival, summer festivals

PR Clip from Treme Debut: Galactic and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Juvenile

Next Episode of Treme: Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky
Debut: SUNDAY, MAY 1 (10:00-11:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: May 1 (midnight), 3 (2:20 a.m.), 4 (midnight), 5 (10:00 p.m.) and 12 (9:00 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: May 2 (10:00 p.m.), 6 (11:00 p.m.) and 7 (9:00 p.m.)
Written by David Simon; directed by Tim Robbins.

HBO

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Posted by: News Editor - April 28, 2011, 8:44 am - PR
Keywords: television

PR Cinema Verite Debuts on HBO Apr 23

Cinema Verite tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking 12-hour PBS documentary series "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new genre: the reality TV series.

HBO

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Posted by: News Editor - April 19, 2011, 10:52 am - PR
Keywords: drama

PR HBO's Treme begins 2nd Season on Apr 24

It's more than a year since Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The national spotlight on the Crescent City has dimmed, and residents are finding it harder than ever to rebuild their lives. Some have become expatriates in distant cities. The insurance checks that never arrived for homeowners were followed by the bureaucratic nightmare that was the Road Home program, and a land-grab is underway as developers and disaster capitalists press their advantage. Crime and drug use are up, and corruption and graft are endemic, with civic institutions unable to counter any of it.

And yet the culture of New Orleans somehow endures.

HBO

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Posted by: News Editor - April 16, 2011, 1:08 pm - PR
Keywords: drama

PR A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray May 31

The two-disc release includes two newly-produced bonus features: Turning Like Clockwork, a 25-minute documentary about the film's "ultra-violence" and its cultural impact, and a short documentary where Malcolm McDowell reminiscences on working closely with the legendary director. This two-disc edition will also contain the feature-length documentaries, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures and O Lucky Malcolm! The 40th Anniversary Edition will be packaged in a 40-page Blu-ray book withrare photos and production notes.

Warner Home Video

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Posted by: News Editor - April 4, 2011, 11:13 am - PR
Keywords: horror

News Madonna and Daughter Lola Dish at Fashion Line Launch

Entertainment Tonight

Posted by: News Editor - September 23, 2010, 11:33 am - News
Keywords: music, madonna, lourdes, material girl

DVD Review PAPER COVERS ROCK

This has all the makings of a rough, emotionally tough drama, powered by a strong performance by Jeannine Kaspar. This is really going to be moving stuff.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - June 18, 2010, 11:56 am - DVD Review
Keywords: troubled, single mother, suicide

DVD Review LOLA MONTES

Max Ophuls' magnificent final film, finally, finally on DVD.

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Posted by: Jon Danziger - March 26, 2010, 7:17 am - DVD Review
Keywords: ophuls, criterion, lola montes, sarris, ustinov

DVD Review THE CONSTANCE TALMADGE COLLECTION

The easy charm of an all-but-fogotten star of the silent era will make this disc a fun find for silent film fans.

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Posted by: Ross Johnson - April 15, 2010, 4:26 am - DVD Review
Keywords: silent, comedy

DVD Review WHATEVER WORKS

I'll take curmudgeonly late-middle-age New York comedians for $800, please, Alex.

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Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 9, 2009, 8:07 am - DVD Review
Keywords: comedy, new york, woody allen, larry david