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Dans Paris (IFC)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 19, 2008
2006, Unrated "Is it possible for a love story to make us jump off a bridge?" It's a meaningful query posed at the start of Christophe Honor/'s Dans Paris. Immediately striking is its suicid  

The Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Show: The Complete Series (Warner Home Video)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 19, 2008
1971, Not Rated Many TV shows spin characters off into their own shows as soon as possible. The Flintstones's studio Hanna-Barbera, however, waited 6 years before giving that program's progeny   

DR. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (Self-Released)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 19, 2008
2007, Not Rated In the 1960s, at food co-ops and hippie boutiques, there was this strange all-around soap on sale, "Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap." Wrapped around the squirt-bottle was a 3  

DARKON (Porchlight Entertainment)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, February 27, 2008
2006, Unrated Darkon is a complex, magical place. Knights, wizards, Amazonian and Greek warriors, elves and more inhabit this world, and all fiercely protect their swath of it. Land is important,  

TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Criterion Collection)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, February 27, 2008
1971, Rated R Before it was even released in 1971, Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop was heralded as "film of the year" by Esquire magazine in a cover story. Showing the power of the press, it  

INTO THE WILD (Paramount)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, February 27, 2008
2007, Rated R Christopher McCandless was a fiercely idealistic young man who yearned to be free. He read Henry David Thoreau and Jack London with an almost religious zeal. He was a solitary wande  

Right at your door (Lionsgate)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, February 13, 2008
2005, Rated R Where will you be when the bombs go off? This question is key to the jarring, grossly ignored, low-budget Sundance fave Right at Your Door. In the vein of 1983's The Day After and   

The John Frankenheimer Collection (MGM)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, February 13, 2008
1961-1998, Unrated A few years back, BMW teamed up with David Fincher to create a series of short films for the Internet to spotlight the automaker's cars. High-profile film directors were given  

Absolute Wilson (New Yorker Video)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, February 13, 2008
2006, Not Rated I was lucky enough to meet avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach, The Black Rider) recently as he escorted a group of journalists around Los Angeles' AC  

Crossing the Line (Kino)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, January 9, 2008
2006, Unrated In 1962, 21-year-old U.S. Army private James Joseph Dresnok left his post on the border between North and South Korea, crossed the treacherous, two-mile-long Demilitarized Zone and   

Joshua (20th Century Fox)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, January 9, 2008
2007, Rated R George Ratliff's supremely sinister film will leave more than a few viewers wary in its wake. An upscale Manhattan couple (Vera Farmiga and Sam Rockwell) and their hyper-intelligen  

The District (Atopia)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, January 9, 2008
2005, Unrated Pimps, whores, drunks, gangsters, terrorists, corrupt cops and even corrupter politicians rap, dance, fight, cuss, fuck and steal throughout The District -- a wild Hungarian Hip Hop  

Lost: The Complete Third Season (Buena Vista)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, January 9, 2008
2007, Not Rated Watching Lost places you in a rather toxic relationship. You know you should break it off, but you have so much time invested in it all, you just can't walk away. You've become   

I Am Cuba: The Ultimate Edition (New Yorker/Milestone)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, December 12, 2007
1964, Not Rated In the early 1960s, a team of Russian filmmakers led by visionary director Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying) joined forces with Cuban comrades to create cinema at its most  

Interview (Sony)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, December 12, 2007
2006, Rated R In this remake of the Danish movie by murdered director Theo Van Gogh, Steve Buscemi plays Pierre, a political journalist who in the midst of one of Washington's biggest scandals i