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The Exorcist in the 21st Century on DVD & Digital May 7... Pretty Little Liars: The Complete Third Season on DVD J... Dark Skies on Blu-ray & DVD May 28... Bea Arthur nude painting sells for $1.9 million ... Star Trek: Enterprise wants to return on Netflix, Needs... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (BLU-RAY)... PURPLE NOON (BLU-RAY)... WEEKEND (BLU-RAY)... JUAN OF THE DEAD... THE DEVIL'S NEEDLE AND OTHER TALES OF VICE AND REDEMPTI... A HAUNTING: THE 2012 SEASON... BADLANDS (BLU-RAY)... THE LONELIEST PLANET... SANSHO THE BAILIFF (BLU-RAY)... THE BIG PICTURE (BLU-RAY)... LIZ & DICK... CHINA BEACH: THE COMPLETE SERIES... PAUL SIMON: LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY... The Problem with the #Olympics: It's Us.... The Newsroom: Cable News Media Played for Laughs and Cr... TROUBLED TEENS... THE BLOB (BLU-RAY)... SCHOOLGIRL HITCHHIKERS (BLU-RAY)... MINISTRY OF FEAR (BLU-RAY)... UNDEFEATED (BLU-RAY)... DOWNTON ABBEY SEASONS ONE & TWO LIMITED EDITION... FLORENCE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE... NAZI COLLABORATORS... KATT WILLIAMS: KATTPACALYPSE... BARACK OBAMA: FROM HIS CHILDHOOD TO THE PRESIDENCY... STORAGE WARS: VOLUME THREE... Take Part in a Film Restoration... THE 39 STEPS (BLU-RAY)... DARK SHADOWS: THE BEST OF BARNABAS... STORAGE WARS: SEASON ONE... SUNSET BOULEVARD... SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM... TABLOID... CUL-DE-SAC... 3 WOMEN... YOJIMBO/SANJURO... SUMMER HOURS (L'heure d'ÈtÈ)... WIZARD OF OZ... WINGS OF DESIRE... HORTON HEARS A WHO!... REVANCHE... LAST DAYS OF DISCO... NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS... STARGATE SG-1: CHILDREN OF THE GODS... STARGATE ATLANTIS: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON... THE STEPFATHER... THE HILLS RUN RED... MANAGEMENT... NIGHT OF DEATH... GNAW... Freddy Got Fingered... Secure The Second Season of The Border on DVD August 25... THE WALTONS: THE COMPLETE 9TH SEASON... Dance Me Outside kicks onto DVD May 6, 2008... Film-Fest 4: Sundance 2000 & Hawaii... Saving Private Ryan... |
Keyword View: village voice PR Barrymore on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital May 7  adapted by writer-director Erik Canuel from the 1996 Broadway production for which Plummer won a Tony(TM) Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in 1997. Plummer, 82, has long had a fascination with the title character, and it shows. Special features on the Blu-rayTM and DVD include a behind-the-scenes documentary, Backstage With Barrymore, featuring Helen Mirren, Julie Andrews and Zoe Caldwell. Read More... PR Cirque Du Soleil - Worlds Away on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D & DVD Mar 12  Takes audiences on a wondrous journey across the imaginative landscapes of Cirque du Soleil. Offering Tremendous Value, Every Package Available for Purchase Includes an Offer for 20% Off Ticket Purchase to Select Cirque du Soleil Live Shows in the U.S. and Canada Through December 31, 2013 Read More... PR The Loneliest Planet on DVD Feb 26 Alex (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) are young, in love and engaged to be married. While backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, they hire a local guide to lead them on a camping trek. Venturing into the stunning wilderness, the trio's peaceful adventure takes a dark turn when they encounter an armed man and his two sons... Read More...  Travels the globe to show how prostitutes really live and work today. The conclusion to internationally renowned director Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy, following Megacities (1998) and Workingman's Death (2005), Whores' Glory depicts the skin trade in three economically divergent countries. Read More...  Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment--he's a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she's his former nurse who has clearly married up. Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly despises his wife's freeloading son and family. But when a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten the dutiful housewife's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan.... Read More... PR Gerhard Richter Painting on Blu-ray & DVD Sep 25  Legendary German painter Gerhard Richter granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his studio in the spring and summer of 2009, where he was working on a series of large abstract paintings. In quiet, highly concentrated images, the documentary provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the very personal, tension-filled process of artistic creation. Read More... PR Klown on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Sep 25  Based on the wildly popular six-season Danish TV show of the same name. Follows two wildly inappropriate friends (played by celebrated comedians Frank Hvam and Caspar Christensen) as they run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through social taboos, unspeakable debaucheries and absurd encounters. Read More... PR Salvation Boulevard on DVD Sep 18  Set in the world of fundamentalist Christians and mega-churches, born-again Christian Carl (Greg Kinnear) witnesses his evangelical pastor, Dan Day (Pierce Brosnan), accidently shoot a man in the head. Framed by the pastor and forced to run, Carl must now tangle with his family, the devout mega-church followers, a Mexican crime lord and Pastor Day himself. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Read More... PR Kill List on DVD & Blu-ray Aug 14  The story of an ex-soldier turned contract killer who plunges into the heart of darkness - and takes the viewer with him on a ride from which there is no return. From director Ben Wheatley comes a mind-blowing genre concoction that marks a new milestone in the annals of modern horror. Read More... PR Monsieur Lazhar on DVD & Blu-ray Aug 28  In Montreal, elementary school teacher Bachir Lazhar, from Algeria (portrayed by well-known Algerian comedian and writer Fellag) takes over an elementary school class following the suicide of their teacher. Though Lazhar is still recovering from a personal tragedy of his own, he gets to know his students despite a wide cultural gap and difficulties in adapting to the school system's constraints. In time, the students begin their healing process with the hope of transcending their collective grief, just as Bachir comes to be loved and respected by his class. Read More... PR A Bag of Hammers on Blu-ray & DVD Jun 19  Two law-breaking goofballs have to suddenly turn into responsible grownups in the hilarious and poignant story of larceny and living life on the edge. The quirky and endearing comedy is the feature debut of director Brian Crano and stars Rebecca Hall, Jason Ritter and Jake Sandvig. Read More...  A film by director Tariq Tapa focusing on a student and petty criminal whose affection for an older, more sophisticated woman eventually causes chaos for both of them. Dilawar (Mohamad Imran Tapa) is a rebellious seventeen-year-old Kashmiri boy who lives on the outskirts of Srinagar city with his strict uncle. While on an errand, he meets Bani (Taniya Khan), a bright, beautiful woman who had recently finished her studies in America. Read More... PR Perfect Sense on DVD & Blu-ray May 22  What happens when everyone becomes so emotional that they literally lose their senses? And what does a star chef do when people can no longer taste his food? An unexplained pandemic of sense deprivation is the catalyst for director David Mackenzie's provocative, daring and powerful drama of loss and love, Perfect Sense. Starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green as two damaged people who come together to face the global catastrophe. Read More... PR Norman Mailer: The American on DVD May 8  Two- time Pulitzer Prize winner, political candidate, journalist, movie director, and social critic are just a few of the titles that Norman Mailer holds. Mailer wrote over 30 books in his lifetime, married six times and had nine children. He died at the age of 84 on November 10, 2077. He lived a tumultuous life that has demarcated him as one of the most memorable iconoclasts of the last century. On May 8, 2012, Cinema Libre Studio will take you beyond the headlines and into the life of this complex man. Read More... PR Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel on DVD & Blu-ray Mar 27  Directed by Alex Stapleton, Corman's World interview roster boasts such modern Hollywood icons and cinematic luminaries as Oscar(R) winners Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jonathan Demme, and Ron Howard; Eli Roth, David Carradine, Peter Fonda, William Shatner, Pam Grier, John Sayles, Brett Ratner, Bruce Dern, Paul W.S. Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, and many more actors and filmmakers. Read More... DVD Review GODZILLA (BLU-RAY)  Criterion pays long overdue scholarly homage to one of the classic monsters in all of cinema, and the inclusion of both the original 1954 Japanese film and the laughable 1956 American "reworking" only reinforces the fact that you have not seen Godzilla until you have seen Ishiro Honda's somber cautionary tale of H-bomb testing and the giant monster destruction it awakens.
Read More... PR On The Bowery on DVD & Blu-ray Feb 21  When the film opened it 1956, it exploded on the screen, burning away years of Hollywood artifice, jump-starting the post-war American independent film movement and earning an Oscar nomination. Now gloriously restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, On the Bowery is both an incredible document of a bygone era and a vivid and devastating portrait of addiction that resonates today just as it did when it was made. Read More... PR The Man from London & Night and Day on DVD Jan 10  From Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr (2011 Berlinale winner The Turin Horse, Satantango) and with Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk about Kevin) comes the existential dazzler The Man From London. And from prolific Korean master Hong Sang- soo (Woman Is the Future of Man, Tale of Cinema) arrives a sharply funny tale of male woe, Night and Day. Read More... |
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