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American Bully
(2009) Matt O'Leary, Marshall Allman, John Savage, Paul Ben-Victor, Natasha Henstridge. A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation. (Green Apple Entertainment).
Bio-Dead
(2009) Matthew Norton, Derek Long, Tony Williams. Following a biological disaster in Southern California, the 4,000 square mile contaminated wasteland is dubbed "The Zone." While searching for survivors of the disaster, a hazmat team discover a mysterious building, and as they explore the enormous structure, the would-be rescuers realize they are not alone. Trapped inside the claustrophobic, maze-like structure and experiencing terrifying hallucinations, the team is forced to fight for their lives against their flesh-hungry attacker ... and each other. Extras: Behind-the-scenes footage, cast/crew interviews, commentary. (Entertainment One).
Born to Ride
(2011) Casper Van Dien, Patrick Muldoon, William Forsythe, Theresa Russell. Two friends head out for the open road but their pleasure trip takes a surprising turn when they become entangled in a plan involving political blackmail, corruption, and dirty money. (Image Entertainment).
Conan The Adventurer: Season One
(1992) Two-disc set with 13 animated episodes, $19.93. (Shout! Factory).
The Conqueror
(2009 -- Russia) Bohdan Stupka. Based on the tale "Taras Bulba" by acclaimed Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol. Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies. (Entertainment One).
The Dead and the Damned
(2010) David A. Lockhart, Camille Montgomery, Rick Mora, Robert Amstler. A bounty hunter and his Apache captive must fight off a horde of the undead after a meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush, turning the population into blood-thirsty mutants. (Inception Media Group.).
The Death of Andy Kaufman
(2008) Documentary explores the many mysteries and theories surrounding Andy Kaufman's death, using exclusive interviews with family and friends, rare performances by Kaufman, and the filmmaker's own personal investigation to get closer to understanding the mind and the myth of one of the most celebrated and mysterious performance artists all time -- and hopefully to answer the burning question: Did Kaufman fake his own death? (MVD Entertainment).
Dennis the Menace: Season Two
(1960-61) Five-disc set with 38 episodes, $29.93. Extras: Original promos. (Shout! Factory).
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
(2010) Brandon Routh, Taye Diggs, Peter Stormare, Sam Huntington, Kurt Angle. Dylan Dog is a supernatural detective who will go where the living dare not: facing friend and foe alike in the monster infested backstreets of New Orleans. Armed with an edgy wit and an arsenal of silver and wood-tipped bullets, Dylan must solve a series of murders before an epic war ensues between his werewolf, vampire and zombie clients. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Fox).
Jackboots on Whitehall
(2010) Voices of Ewan McGregor, Alan Cumming, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Richard E. Grant. "Team America" meets "Inglourious Basterds" in this supermarionation World War II farce from Scottish brothers Edward and Rory McHenry. On the South Coast of England, Chris, a young farm worker, dreams of the chance to join the army and fight in exciting new lands. His chance comes when the three top Nazi leaders, the enormous Goering, the malnourished Goebbels and the scarily campy Himmler, hatch a plan to invade England by drilling under the English Channel and into the heart of London. Extras: Behind-the-scenes footage; interviews with the Creators; featurettes: "The Swastikas," "Bad Day to be a Nazi," "Hitler's Rat Pack," "The Nazi Hotties", "Explosions," "Voiceovers." (Flatiron Films/New Video).
Jersey Shore Uncensored: Season Three
(2011) Four-disk set with 13 uncensored episodes, $26.99. strong>Extras: "Reunion Special," three "After Hours Specials," behind-the-scenes at the photo shoot, extended scenes, hook ups, confessionals. (MTV/Paramount).
Leon Morin, Priest
(1961) Jean-Paul Belmondo dons clerical robes and delivers a subtly sensual performance for the hot-under-the-collar "Leon Morin, Priest," directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is the crush object of all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widowplayed by Emmanuelle Riva, a borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, "Leon Morin, Priest" is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema's towering virtuosos. New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Extras: Archival interview with director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, visual essay by French film scholar Ginette Vincendeau, a booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Criterion Collection).
Life During Wartime
(2010) In "Life During Wartime," independent filmmaker Todd Solondz explores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. The film functions as a distorted mirror image of Solondz's acclaimed 1998 dark comedy "Happiness," its emotionally stunted characters now groping for the possibility of change in a post-9/11 world. "Happines's" grim New Jersey setting is transposed to sunny Florida, but the biggest twist is that new actors fill the roles originated in the earlier filmincluding Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney and Ally Sheedy as alarmingly dissimilar sisters, and Ciaran Hinds hauntingly embodying a reformed pedophile. Shot in expressionistic tones by cinematographer extraordinaire Ed Lachman ("Far From Heaven"), Solondz's film finds the humor in the tragic and the tragic in the everyday. New digital transfer, supervised and approved by director of photography Ed Lachman, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Extras: "Ask Todd," an audio Q&A with director Todd Solondz; "Making Life During Wartime," a new documentary featuring interviews with actors Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, and Michael Kenneth Williams, and on-set footage of the actors and crew; new video piece in which Lachman discusses his work on the film; a booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Criterion Collection).
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
(1976) One of the most violent, censored and unconventional Italian style detective films of its time. The credit goes to both the director Ruggero Deodato, extremely apt at telling stories in a strong tone (he made the infamous "Cannibal Holocaust"), and the scriptwriter Fernando di Leo, author of the best Italian noir films. Above all, the psychological and behavioral description of the main characters, two policemen, members of an anti-crime squad who have complete freedom in their actions against crime, had never been seen before. Not only do they not hesitate to brutally kill the criminals they are hunting down, but Alfredo (Marc Porel) and Antonio (Ray Lovelock) do so while maintaining a cynical and light-hearted attitude even in the most threatening situations. (RaroVideo/Entertainment One).
Mark of Love
(2009) Bryan Price, Caitlin M. Shultz. A fun-loving, serial monogamist signs up for a karate class to fill his spare time, only to find that he's been duped by a group of women seeking men to date. When he tries to leave, they offer him cash to give them insights into dating but, instead, he learns more than he imparts to the women. Extras: Bloopers and outtakes, behind-the-scenes shenanigans. (Cinema Libre Studio).
Matrimony
(2007 -- China) Leon Lai Ming, Rene Liu. Supernatural horror thriller about a married woman who allows the ghost of her husband's first love to enter her body to win him over -- with unforeseen consequences. Extras: Cast and crew interviews, behind the scenes footage. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Palisades Tartan/Asia Extreme label).
Omnibus: American Profiles
An historic two-disc collection featuring 14 segments of TV's ground-breaking cultural magazine Omnibus (hosted by Alastair Cooke), examining the iconic people and places that have helped to shape American pop culture and society. Across six hours of acclaimed programming, Omnibus explores the lives of luminaries such as LIFE Magazine photographer Phillipe Halsman, authors William Faulkner, James Thurber and E.B. White, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pearl Buck, the "greatest fighter of the 20th Century" Sugar Ray Robinson, and conductor Leonard Bernstein and places, such as The New York Times and Grand Central Station and "The Museum that Ought to Be," featuring Dr. Seuss. Among those segments also included is the episode, "New York's Night People," which is an intriguing visit to the city that never sleeps and several segments by Richard Leacock, one of the fathers of the cinema verite movement. $34.98. Extras: Collectible booklet. (Entertainment One).
Park Benches
(2009 -- France) Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Olivier Gourmet, Pierre Arditi, Chiara Mastroianni. By interweaving three main story lines -- involving a lonely man and the office workers across the way, the people in a local park, and those in a nearby home-improvement store -- director Bruno Podalydes (who directed the "Montmartre" segment of the omnibus hit "Paris, I Love You") presents a sprawling, gently comedic canvas of modern life in a wealthy French town. (MPI Home Video).
Shaun the Sheep: Animal Antics
(2011) Seven wild and hairy farm adventures in which Shaun and his barnyard buddies deal with a fiendish fox, attempt some clever catering, take to the links, run a farmer's market, stage a daring rooster rescue and more. $14.98. Extras: "Building a Pig" game. (Lionsgate).
Source Code
(2011) Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Arden.
Read more about "Source Code" in the July Calendar. Extras: Commentary by Jake Gyllenhaal, director Duncan Jones and writer Ben Ripley; cast interviews; science focal points; trivia track. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds "Access: Source Code" dynamic "scene specific" features that include interviews with the cast, expert opinions on time travel, trivia and more. (Summit Entertainment).
Supernatural: The Anime Series
(2010) Japanese re-imagining of the U.S. TV series in anime style. Three-disc set with 22 episodes, $49.98. Extras: "The Making of Supernatural: The Anime Series." Also available on Blu-ray Disc.
The Task
(2010) Tom Payne, Texas Battle, Amara Karan. A group of unlucky reality show contestants must survive the night in a haunted jail. Syfy Channel After Dark original. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette. (Lionsgate).
Trust
(2011) Dir.: David Schwimmer; Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato, Jason Clarke, Viola Davis, Chris Henry Coffey, Noah Emmerich. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Millennium Entertainment)).
Turbulent Skies
(2010) Casper Van Dien, Patrick Muldoon, Brad Dourif, Nicole Eggert. The first passenger plane under the complete control of a state-of-the-art computer gets compromised by a virus, and the inventor must regain control and reprogram the computer by boarding the plane in mid-flight. (Anchor Bay).
We Are What We Are
(2010 -- Mexico) Adrian Aguirre, Miriam Balderas, Francisco Barreiro. When the patriarch of a family passes away, the teenage children must take responsibility for the family chores: The preparation of the rituals, the hunting, and putting the all-important meat on the table. These newfound responsibilities are even more daunting, however, when you live in the city and happen to be a family of cannibals. (IFC Films).
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?
(2010) Award-winning director Saul Landau embarks on an in-depth exploration of Miami-Havana politics through the story of the Cuban 5, a group of spies sent by the Castro government to infiltrate violent right-wing terrorist organizations in Miami. When the spies turned over evidence of U.S.-based terrorism to the FBI, they themselves were arrested, tried, and convicted in Florida courts. Meanwhile, the confessed anti-Castro terrorists, who planned and implemented decades of assassinations and sabotage backed by Washington, live freely in Florida. (Cinema Libre Studio).
Winter in Wartime
(2008 -- Netherlands) Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick Van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry. In Nazi-occupied Holland in 1945 a 13-year-old boy is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a British paratrooper. Extras: Making-of featurette. Also available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. (Sony).
The Young Artists Collection
Three-disc collection features animated adaptations from 17 award-winning and beloved books for every aspiring young artist, musician or performer, narrated by celebrities such as Zach Braff, James Earl Jones, Mary Beth Hurt and a singing performance from Aretha Franklin; $24.95. Three DVDs -- "Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin ... and More Stores For Young Musicians," "The Dot ... and More Stories For Young Artists" and "Shrinking Violet ... and More Stories For Young Performers" will be available separately for $14.95 each. (Scholastic Storybook Treasures).
Source Code
When soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of an experimental government program called the "Source Code" that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life. Armed with the task of identifying the bomber of a Chicago commuter train, Colter must re-live the incident over and over again, gathering clues until he can solve the mystery and prevent an even deadlier second terrorist attack.
Vitals: Director: Duncan Jones. Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Arden.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 93 min., Sci-Fi Thriller, Box office gross: $52.233 million, Summit Entertainment.
Trust
A suburban family is torn apart when 14-year-old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be: he's a 41-year-old internet predator. Shocked into disbelief, her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life. While her father becomes obsessed with revenge fantasies, Annie enters therapy, where she refuses to admit she's been victimized.
Vitals: Director: David Schwimmer. Stars: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato, Jason Clarke, Viola Davis, Chris Henry Coffey, Noah Emmerich.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, Box office gross: $.117 million, First Look.
Amelie
(2001)
Beauty and the Beast
(1946) (Criterion)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
(2008)
Boyz N the Hood
(1991)
Bridget Jones's Diary
(2001)
Chocolat
(2000)
The Music Room
(1958)
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The Anger
(1963) Taps into topics from the 1950s and the early 1960s, such as racism, the Middle East, Cuba, Stalinism, the Atomic bomb, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. The directors and commentators of "The Anger," two of the most important opinion makers and intellectuals in post-WWII Europe, employ documentary footage from the era and an accompanying commentary, in which they attempt to answer, quite elegantly and poetically, the existential question: Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing film director and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini and the conservative journalist and film director Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of, and prescriptions for modern society. This release is an exclusive, uncut, restored version obtained from the Cinemateque of Bologna. (RaroVideo/Entertainment One).
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