38 Years of Super Bowl commercials

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Selected New Home Use Titles

Dead Man's Shoes - HU DVD 6540
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - HU DVD 6458
Adventureland - HU DVD 6464
Chronicle Of A Disappearance - HU DVD 6465
Beaufort - HU DVD 6466
Drawn From Memory - HU DVD 6467
Yellow Asphalt - HU DVD 6468
Lemon Tree - HU DVD 6469
Fast Times At Ridgemont High - HU DVD 6470
The Garden - HU DVD 6475
Heathers - HU DVD 6486
Kundun - HU DVD 6487
The Mists Of Avalon - HU DVD 6488
Mad Hot Ballroom - HU DVD 6489
The Holy Land - HU DVD 6490
The Secrets - HU DVD 6500
Black Rain - HU DVD 6501
Arab Labor (Season 1) - HU DVD 6502
Sorceress - HU DVD 6503
Two Lane Blacktop - HU DVD 6504
Wild At Heart - HU DVD 6505
True Stories - HU DVD 6506
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls - HU DVD 6507
They Made Me A Fugitive - HU DVD 6508
Born To Kill - HU DVD 6509
Altered States - HU DVD 6510
Fritz The Cat - HU DVD 6511
Heavy Traffic - HU DVD 6512
The Fearless Vampire Killers Or, Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are In My Neck - HU DVD 6513
American Gangster - HU DVD 6514
Up In Smoke - HU DVD 6515
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - HU DVD 6516
Dark Star - HU DVD 6517
Big Trouble In Little China - HU DVD 6518
Defending Your Life - HU DVD 6519
The Larry Sanders Show (Season 1) - HU DVD 6531-6533
Wonderland - HU DVD 6534
Pinocchio - HU DVD 6535
Coming Soon - HU DVD 6536
The Cars That Ate Paris - HU DVD 6537
Four Rooms - HU DVD 6538
Ripley's Game - HU DVD 6539
Un Chant D'amour - HU DVD 6540
Animal Farm - HU DVD 6541
The Wicker Man - HU DVD 6542
Drunken Angel - HU DVD 6543
Forty Guns - HU DVD 6544
The Heiress - HU DVD 6545
Rock 'N' Roll High School - HU DVD 6546
Liquid Sky - HU DVD 6547
Vampire's Kiss - HU DVD 6548
Re-Animator - HU DVD 6549
The Brothers McMullen - HU DVD 6550
Closely Watched Trains - HU DVD 6551
The Narrow Margin - HU DVD 6552
Pink Floyd: The Wall - HU DVD 6553
Reprise - HU DVD 6560
The Tudors (Seasons 1-3) - HU DVD 6561-6571
Traffik - HU DVD 6572
Planet B-Boy - HU DVD 6573
Thomas Jefferson - HU DVD 6575
Destry Rides Again - HU DVD 6576
Mad Max - HU DVD 6577
The Road Warrior - HU DVD 6578
Funny People - HU DVD 6580
The Simpsons (Seasons 1-3) - HU DVD 6581-6591
Match Point - HU DVD 6592
Whatever Works - HU DVD 6593
Bruno - HU DVD 6594
Captain Blood - HU DVD 6595
Dodge City - HU DVD 6596
Wagonmaster - HU DVD 6597
Moliere - HU DVD 6599
Tigerland - HU DVD 6600
Battle Star Galactica (Seasons 1-4.5) - HU DVD 6601-6625
The Bellboy - HU DVD 6626
Attack! - HU DVD 6627
Dexter (Seasons 1-3) - HU DVD 6631-6642
The Edge Of Love - HU DVD 6648
Come And See - HU DVD 6649
Seinfeld (Seasons 1-9) - HU DVD 6651-6682
Were The World Mine - HU DVD 6684
Tol'able David - HU DVD 6685
Gomorrah - HU DVD 6687
The Postman Always Rings Twice - HU DVD 6688
The Driller Killer - HU DVD 6689
Up - HU DVD 6690
Unmistaken Child - HU DVD 6695
The Princes' Quest - HU DVD 6696
An Autumn Afternoon - HU DVD 6697
Classe Tous Risques - HU DVD 6698
Live And Become - HU DVD 6699
Diary Of A Chambermaid - HU DVD 6700
I Love Lucy (Seasons 1-9) - HU DVD 6701-6734
Heroes (Seasons 1-3) - HU DVD 6741-6757
The Girl Can't Help It - HU DVD 6761
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? - HU DVD 6762
The Sheriff Of Fractured Jaw - HU DVD 6763

Netflix- window to our souls

The New York Times website has a great interactive map of Netflix data which shows the popularity of various movie rentals across zip codes. They've mapped twelve major urban areas including DC. The maps reveal unexpected patterns. Why does I Love You Man, the Paul Rudd tour de force, stand out in zip code 20057 as the top rented movie here but nowhere else? Is Georgetown University full of Rudd fans?

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Film/Television Studies library guide now online

Joe Bob says: Check it out! Here!

A History of Banned and Censored Films - courtesy of UCal Berkeley Library

This filmography created by media librarian Gary Handman has many titles that are also available in the AU collection. It's fun to browse through as it's loaded with notes on where and why a film was banned.

Sample entry:

The Last Picture Show(1973)
Director, Peter Bagdanovich. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd. A bittersweet drama of the social and sexual mores in small-town 1950s Texas. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny and Duane play football, go to the movies at the Royal Theater, hang out at the pool hall and lust after rich tease Jacy Farrow. Following two tragic deaths and with Duane gone to Korea and Jacy to college in Dallas, Sonny is left behind but he is determined to carry on, despite a telling sign of incipient communal disintegration: the closing of the Royal Theater. 118 min. DVD 9115; vhs 999:2325
Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database

Banned in Phoenix, Arizona, 1973, because of a scene featuring Cybill Shepherd skinnydipping. A federal court later ruled that the film was not obscene.

It's also got a section on landmark films that received X or NC-17 ratings upon their initial release and citations of landmark film censorship cases.

NOTE: The list isn't comprehensive but covers film/videos that are held in the U Cal - Berkeley Library's Media Resources Center. It is still very extensive and should serve as a useful researchers guide for general users.

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Will Ferrell is Number One – Forbes’ Most Overpaid Actor List

Forbes looked at 100 top actors based on their widely released films over the past five years. It factored in the production costs of those movies against how much boxoffice, DVD and other revenue they generated in order to come up with an operating income for each film, which it then compared with the salaries the stars earned.

In Ferrell's case, the actor's films earned just $3.29 for every dollar he was paid. That's a pretty poor contrast to the $160 that Shia LaBeouf's movies returned to the studios for every buck he earned.

That figure, by the way, put LaBeouf -- who starred in "Transformers" in 2007 and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" in 2008 -- at the top of Forbes list of Best Actors for the Buck. Also included on that list were Robert Downey Jr., Christian Bale and Dennis Quaid. See what the Hollywood Reporter had to say.

Forbes 10 Most Overpaid Stars were;
1. Will Ferrell ($3.29)
2. Ewan McGregor ($3.75)
3. Billy Bob Thornton ($4)
4. Eddie Murphy ($4.43)
5. Ice Cube ($4.77)
6. Tom Cruise ($7.18)
7. Drew Barrymore ($7.43)
8. Leonardo DiCaprio ($7.52)
9. Samuel Jackson ($8.59)
10. Jim Carrey ($8.62)

Will Ferrell's movies aren't all bad.
Stranger Than Fiction DVD 3173 is available for Home Use in Media Services.

Finally, enjoy this video showcasing Shia LeBeouf in several of his money-making roles.

In case you were wondering: How Clean are the Netflix DVDs and Mailers?

Turns out, they are fairly clear of bacteria and disease...

Full article here:

http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2009/11/how-clean-are-the-netflix-dvds-and-mailers.html

So you want to research a film or filmmaker: A user’s guide to Film Studies research databases at American University

This database user's guide has been updated with Atom Egoyan used as a sample search. Each entry briefly describes a given database's value for film studies research.

Here's an example:

Academic Search Premier – 237 hits; a majority as full-text
This is a major cross-disciplinary database with a large portion of full-text content. A great resource database that would allow you in most cases the option to view the results as an HTML, text or PDF file. Articles ranged from critical analysis to film reviews. Editors choice.

Art Abstracts – 68 hits; About half as full-text
The articles cited were primarily about individual films. Most are in English but there are also entries from the French journal Cahiers du Cinema. Editors choice.

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Media Services has Sound Effects Available for Checkout!

Media Services has thousands of sound effects and hundreds of musical effects available for enhancing student projects, films, and presentations. Up to six CDs at a time can be checked out of the library for three hours for AU student production work. Students can also use them here in the Digital Media Studio.
Browse our online guides and listen to samples sounds from the Hollywood Edge Premiere Edition, the Hollywood Edge Cartoon Trax, the BBC Sound Effects Library and the Canary Collection here.

Bicycle Film Fest Comes to DC

Cycle-punk, cyclocross, fixee - the gradations of the bicycle subculture are varied. The BFF comes to town December 5 and takes a look at guys, gals and bikes around the world.
Saturday December 5
Screenings at United States Navy Memorial Theater - 701 Pennsylvania Ave NW
5:00 PM | Program 1 - ROAD TO ROUBAIX
7:00 PM | Program 2 - WHERE ARE YOU GO
9:00 PM | Program 3 - Urban Bike Shorts
10:00 PM | After Party

For more information, trailers and a full film list go to Bicycle Film Festival

Discover World Cinema - Sunday, November 15 - The Pope's Toilet

Discover World Cinema - Sunday, November 8 @ 7pm - Under the Bombs

Selected New Home Use This Week

Star trek the next generation complete series - HU DVD 6401-6449
Under the same moon - HU DVD 6388
Conspirator - HU DVD 6387
American visa - HU DVD 6385
Rosario tijeras - HU DVD 6386
Germany, pale mother - HU DVD 6380
Journey from the fall - HU DVD 6352
Lightning over water - HU DVD 6351
The Human condition - HU DVD 6350

22ND AFI European Union Film Showcase At AFI Silver Theater

I highly recommend attending this festival. It is one of the D.C. metro areas consistently best festivals. I've made the films link to their Internet Movie Database page, if possible, I've tracked down a trailer of the film, some of which DO NOT have English subtitles. However, all the films playing at the festival will have English subtitles.

The best and official source of information on the festival and the films playing can be found here, which will be updated soon.

Tickets in the past usually range between $10-$12, except for special events, such as Opening and Closing Night.

AFI EUROPEAN UNION FILM SHOWCASE 2009: CALENDAR BY COUNTRY

Austria
"Der Knochenmann" aka "The Bone Man"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 20, 9:30/Sat, Nov 21, 10:00

Belgium
"Panique au village" aka "A Town Called Panic"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 7, 7:00/Sun, Nov 8, 1:00

Bulgaria
"Zift"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 6, 9:30/Sat, Nov 7, 8:45

Czech Republic
"Nestyda" aka "Shameless"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 14, 7:30/Wed, Nov 18, 7:00
"Obcan Havel" aka "Citizen Havel"
Trailer
Sun, Nov 22, 3:30/Mon, Nov 23, 7:00

Denmark
"Applaus" aka "Applause"
Trailer
Tue, Nov 10, 7:00/Thurs, Nov 12, 7:00
"Fri os fra det onde" aka "Deliver Us from Evil"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 13, 9:45/Mon, Nov 16, 7:00

Estonia
"Disko ja tuumasõda" aka "Disco and Atomic War"
Trailer
Sun, Nov 8, 9:45/Tue, Nov 10, 9:00

Finland
"Haarautuvan rakkauden talo" aka "The House of Branching Love"
Trailer
Wed, Nov 11, 8:35/Sat, Nov 14, 5:00

France
"14-18, le bruit et la fureur" aka "14-18 Noise and Fury"
Trailer
Mon, Nov 9, 8:50/Thurs, Nov 12, 9:10
"Barbe Bleue" aka "Bluebeard"
Trailer
Mon, Nov 9, 7:05/Wed, Nov 11, 7:00
"L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot" aka "Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 21, 4:00/Sun, Nov 22, 7:45

Germany
"Alle Anderen" aka "Everyone Else"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 7, 3:30/Sun, Nov 8, 6:20
"Wolke Neun" aka "Cloud 9"
Trailer
Sun, Nov 8, 2:45 / Wed, Nov 11, 9:00
"John Rabe"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 13, 7:00/Sun, Nov 15, 7:00

Greece
"Athina - Konstadinoupoli" aka "Athens - Istanbul"
Trailer
Sun, Nov 8, 7:15/Thurs, Nov 12, 7:05
"Mikro eglima" aka "Small Crime"
Trailer
Sun, Nov 22, 6:00/Tue, Nov 24, 7:00

Hungary
"Made in Hungária" aka "Made in Hungary"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 6, 7:00/Sat, Nov 7, 2:45
"Nem vagyok a barátod" aka "I Am Not Your Friend"
Trailer
Thurs, Nov 19, 9:00/Tue, Nov 24, 9:00

Ireland
"Eamon"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 6, 5:00/Sat, Nov 7, 1:45/Wed, Nov 11, 7:05

Italy
"Pranzo di ferragosto" aka "Mid-August Lunch"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 14, 3:00/Sun, Nov 15, 5:15

Latvia
"Klucis - Nepareizais latvietis" aka "Klucis: The Deconstruction of an Artist"
Trailer
Sun, Nov 22, 9:45/Mon, Nov 23, 9:30

Lithuania
"Artimos sviesos" aka "Low Lights"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 21, 2:00/Sun, Nov 22, 1:30

Netherlands
"Rembrandt's J'accuse"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 6, 5:00/Sat, Nov 7, 12:00/Mon, Nov 9, 9:00

Poland
"Swinki" aka "Piggies"
Sat, Nov 7, 12:45/Mon, Nov 9, 7:00
"Tatarak" aka "Sweet Rush"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 7, 5:00/Tues, Nov 10, 7:05

Portugal
"Morrer Como Um Homem" aka "To Die Like a Man"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 6, 9:20/Sun, Nov 8, 8:45

Romania
"Cea mai fericita fata din lume" aka "The Happiest Girl in the World"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 6, 7:15/Sun, Nov 8, 12:45
"Nunta muta" aka "Silent Wedding"
Trailer
Tue, Nov 17, 9:15/Thurs, Nov 19, 7:00
"Politist, adj." aka "Police, Adjective"
Trailer
Fri, Nov 20, 7:00

Slovakia
"La lune en moi" aka "The Moon Inside You"
Trailer
Sun, Nov 15, 3:00/Tue, Nov 17, 7:00

Slovenia
"Pokrajina St.2" aka "Landscape No.2"
Trailer
Tue, Nov 10, 9:15/Thurs, Nov 12, 9:15

Spain
"Ander"
Trailer
Mon, Nov 16, 9:00/Wed, Nov 18, 9:00

Sweden
"Mammut" aka "Mammoth" (OPENING NIGHT FILM)
Trailer
Thurs, Nov 5, 7:00/Sun, Nov 8, 5:00
"Flickan" aka "The Girl"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 14, 1:00/Sun, Nov 15, 1:00
"Män som hatar kvinnor" aka "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 7, 6:00/Sun, Nov 8, 3:00

United Kingdom
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 14, 9:30
"The Boat That Rocked" aka "Pirate Radio"
Trailer
Sat, Nov 7, 9:30
"The Young Victoria" (CLOSING NIGHT FILM)
Trailer
Sat, Nov 21, 7:00

Discover World Cinema - Sunday, October 25 @ 7pm - Ben X

Check out one or all of our upcoming Digital Media Tutorials

Wednesday, Oct. 21 @ 2pm - Quicktime: Tips and Tricks

Quicktime can be used for many things other than just watching videos. Did you know that you can extract the audio or grab a still image? Come learn about some of the powerful features of Quicktime.

Wednesday, Oct. 28 @ 2pm - Integrating Youtube into a Digital Lifestyle


Youtube is everywhere. Come learn everything about Youtube, from creating an account to tweaking your clips to get the most quality.

Wednesday, Nov. 4 @ 2pm - iMovie Transitions & Sound Effects


Did you know that Mediaservices has over 180 CDs filled with nothing but sound effects to enhance your films? In this tutorial, you will learn about how to make your films more visually appealing through the use of both audio and visual effects.

Wednesday, Nov. 11 @ 2pm - Making the jump from iMovie to Final Cut Pro


At first glance, Final Cut Pro is a daunting application. This tutorial aims to make the transition as easy as possible by drawing parallels between iMovie and Final Cut Pro.

Wednesday, Nov. 18 @ 2pm - Final Cut Pro and PhotoShop


These two applications go hand in hand. Add to the professionalism of your films by adding Photoshop to your workflow.

A list of the 100 greatest movie posters...

http://www.tccandler.com/columns/100_greatest_movie_posters.htm?cool

The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock - Errol Morris on photographic "fakery"

The New York Times is running an interesting multi-part essay by filmmaker Errol Morris on the photography of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Iconic pictures by Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans came out of this government agency. As always Morris is interested in the role of the photographer/filmmaker in constructing reality.

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Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Through Chinese Women's Eyes - DVD 6339
Liberia: A Fragile Peace - DVD 6338
Prison Town, USA - DVD 6337
Crossing the Bridge - DVD 6336
Autism is a World - DVD 6335
Kino-Eye/Three Songs About Lenin - DVD 6334
Histoire(s) of Cinema - DVD 6331-6333
Lil'ja 4-Ever - DVD 6325
The Odyssey - DVD 6324
John Brown's Holy War - DVD 6323
The World History of Organized Crime - DVD 6321-6322
1492: Conquest if Paradise - DVD 6307
Amazon Journal - DVD 6305
The Goddess Trilogy - DVD 6301-6303
Dishonored - DVD 6300
Guatemala: The Human Price of Coffee - DVD 6299
The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews - DVD 6298
Pray the Devil Back to Hell - DVD 6297
Radio Bikini - DVD 6295
Those who Can... Teach - DVD 6292

Selected New Home Use This Week

House of Saddam - HU DVD 6330
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - HU DVD 6329
Departures - HU DVD 6328
Mutluluks - HU DVD 6327
Le Confessionnal - HU DVD 6326
Company of Wolves - HU DVD 6310
Flashbacks of a Fool - HU DVD 6309
Venus - HU DVD 6308
Tora! Tora! Tora! - HU DVD 6294
Dumb and Dumber - HU DVD 6290
Butterfly Kiss - HU DVD 6289

Time Out's 50 greatest animated films, with added commentary by Terry Gilliam...

An interesting list worth checking out:

http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8835/time-outs-50-greatest-animated-films-curated-by-terry-gilliam.html

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Race: The Floating Signifier - DVD 6286
Jerusalem: Center of the World - DVD 6267
Voices of Orishas - DVD 6262
Lizards Times Twenty - DVD 6258
Awake, My Soul - DVD 6256
Crips and Bloods - DVD 6253
The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings - DVD 6239
Misunderstood Minds - DVD 6236
Educating Peter - DVD 6237

Selected New Home Use This Week

Iris - HU DVD 6284
Wonderland - HU DVD 6283
Four Weddings and a Funeral - HU DVD 6282
My summer of love - HU DVD 6281
Shaun of the dead - HU DVD 6279
Hilary and Jackie - HU DVD 6277
Love is the devil - HU DVD 6276
Le jour se leve - HU DVD 6275
Blood & Wine - HU DVD 6272
Elite Squad - HU DVD 6270
God is Brazilian - HU DVD 6269
Duel in the Sun - HU DVD 6245
Soldier's Girl - HU DVD 6242
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation - HU DVD 6230
Me You Them - HU DVD 6228
Star Trek (Seasons 1-3) - HU DVD 6201 - 6225

National Geographic in DC

Click here to see the National Geographic website for details.

"Step into a world of entertaining presentations by today's leading explorers, scientists, photographers, and performing artists."

Some upcoming films include:

Redwoods Transect

El Regalo de la Pachamama

Barking Water

Before Tomorrow

The Fall of Womenland

Tickets for the general public are $18, or you can check out their free film series...

Upcoming titles include:

A Short Trip Around the World - A collection of six short films (9/22)

Terra Antarctica (9/29)

Kingdom of the Blue Whale (10/6)

Secrets of Angkor (10/13)

The Mountain Music Project (10/27)

La Ofrenda: Days of the Dead (11/3)

The Real Dragon Emperor (11/10)

A combination of films from the Native American powwow and beyond (11/24)

Hooked: Monster Fish of Mongolia (12/1)

Direct from the Moon (12/8)

America’s Wild Spaces: Death Valley (12/15)

Selected New Home Use This Week

Absurdistan - HU DVD 6146

Bolt - HU DVD 6109

Comanche station - HU DVD 6145

Entre les murs = The Class - HU DVD 6099

Ferris Bueller's day off - HU DVD 6126

Gran Torino - HU DVD 6110

Grey Gardens - HU DVD 6125

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - HU DVD 6177

Katyn - HU DVD 6135

Resolved - HU DVD 6084

Revolutionary Road - HU DVD 6004

Sin nombre - HU DVD 6188

Vals Im Bashir = Waltz with Bashir - HU DVD 6000

Watchmen - HU DVD 6080

Wise blood - HU DVD 6073

My Favorite Website Discovery of the Summer: The Auteurs

They stream complete and comparatively beautiful versions of classic films. Mostly they're in the business of pay per view at $2-$5 per viewing bu they do offer ten films at no charge. The free fare includes L'Avventura, Harakiri, Cleo from 5 to 7, and The Cranes are Flying. These films though are readily available on DVD. Even cooler is that there are videos you can't find on DVD but can be seen here for a minimal investment. Examples include Laurent Cantet's Human Resources, Marcel Carne's The Adultress, Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return, Guy Maddin's My Dad is 100 Years Old, and Jan Svankmajer's The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia, among others.

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Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Subway - DVD 5999
Exotica - DVD 5998
Discovering Psychology - DVD 5991 - DVD 5997
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War - DVD 5990
Bill Clinton: Speeches of the Presidential Years - DVD 5989
A Midsummer Night's Dream - DVD 5988
Consuming Kids - DVD 5987
Blues masters: The Essential History of the Blues - DVD 5979
Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers - DVD 5977
The Longest Hatred - DVD 5976
Huey Long - DVD 5975
Border Street - DVD 5974
Uncle Moses - DVD 5973
In Search of the Trojan War - DVD 5970
King Lear - DVD 5969
Appalachia - DVD 5968
The Japanese Version - DVD 5965
Lewis and Ark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery - DVD 5964
Arguing the World - DVD 5963
At the Jazz Ball - DVD 5962

Selected New Home Use This Week

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - HU DVD 6045
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - HU DVD 6044
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - HU DVD 6043
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - HU DVD 6042
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - HU DVD 6041
Sholay - HU DVD 6009
Story of Women - HU DVD 6008
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog - HU DVD 6007
The Importance of Being Earnest - HU DVD 6006
Revolutionary Road - HU DVD 6004
Sense and Sensibility - HU DVD 6003
Gideon's Trumpet - HU DVD 6002
Aria - HU DVD 6001
Waltz with Bashir - HU DVD 6000
Ten Commandments - HU DVD 5930
Que Viva Mexico - HU DVD 5929
The Manabharata - HU DVD 5928
Ciao! Manhattan - HU DVD 5926
Cabin in the Sky - HU DVD 5925
My Family - HU DVD 5924
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind - HU DVD 5923
Bull Durham - HU DVD 5922
Frozen River - HU DVD 5921
Prisoner of the Mountains - HU DVD 5920
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - HU DVD 5917
The Sound of Music - HU DVD 5916
Walker - HU DVD 5915
Hamlet - HU DVD 5914
Dangerous Liaisons - HU DVD 5913

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

A Perfect Candidate - DVD 5909
A Force More Powerful - DVD 5908
Triumph of the Nerds - DVD 5906
Counterfeit Coverage - DVD 5904
Jerusalem Cuts - DVD 5900
The Real George Washington - DVD 5899
Fast Food Women - DVD 5898
Coming Out Under Fire - DVD 5896
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues - DVD 5890
The Brandon Teena Story - DVD 5889

Selected New Home Use This Week

Enemies: A Love Story - HU DVD 5912
La Ciudad - HU DVD 5911
Sansho the Bailiff - HU DVD 5910
My Man Godfrey - HU DVD 5850
Thornton Wilder's Our Town - HU DVD 5849
Hamburger Hill - HU DVD 5848
M. Butterfly - HU DVD 5847
A Passage to India - HU DVD 5846
Antz - HU DVD 5845
Catch-22 - HU DVD 5844
Picture Bride - HU DVD 5843
Tap - HU DVD 5842
Gadjo Dilo - HU DVD 5841
Camille Claudel - HU DVD 5840
Dangerous Minds - HU DVD 5839
Blood In Blood Out - HU DVD 5838
Fahrenheit 451 - HU DVD 5837
Three Men and a Cradle - HU DVD 5836
The Dark Side of the Heart - HU DVD 5835
Basquiat - HU DVD 5830
W. - HU DVD 5829
Ballad of a Soldier - HU DVD 5828
Sallah - HU DVD 5827
Swingers - HU DVD 5826
Michael Collins - HU DVD 5820
Cyrano de Bergerac - HU DVD 5819
The War of the Worlds - HU DVD 5818
Beyond Borders - HU DVD 5817
The Finances of the Grand Duke - HU DVD 5816
All My Sons - HU DVD 5815

Selected New Home Use This Week

The Josephine Baker Story - HU DVD 5814
Othello - HU DVD 5813
If These Walls Could Talk 1 & 2 - HU DVD 5811-5812
Go Tell it on the Mountain - HU DVD 5810
The Harder They Come - HU DVD 5809
Lust for Life - HU DVD 5808
Educating Rita - HU DVD 5807
Romeo and Juliet (1968) - HU DVD 5806
Carrie - HU DVD 5805
Eat Drink Man Woman - HU DVD 5804
Rhapsody in August - HU DVD 5803
When We Were Kings - HU DVD 5802
Fried Green Tomatoes - HU DVD 5801
Desired Under the Elms - HU DVD 5800
Wild Style - HU DVD 5799
Coal Miner's Daughter - HU DVD 5798
Danzon - HU DVD 5797
Avalon - HU DVD5796
Three Sisters - HU DVD 5795
Yentl - HU DVD 5790
Man Hunt - HU DVD 5789
Carmen - HU DVD 5788
Double Happiness - HU DVD 5787
Exodus - HU DVD 5786
Round Midnight - HU DVD 5785
The Shop on Main Street - HU DVD 5784
Rosemary's Baby - HU DVD 5783
Zulu - HU DVD 5728
Gates of Heaven - HU DVD 5781
Of Mice and Men - HU DVD 5780
O Heroi - HU DVD 5770

HOME, A Film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Available Free Online

Click here to watch the complete film.

From the youtube.com video description:

"We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

HOME official website
http://www.home-2009.com

PPR is proud to support HOME
http://www.ppr.com

HOME is a carbon offset movie
http://www.actioncarbone.org

More information about the Planet
http://www.goodplanet.info

Selected New Home Use This Week

Jesus Christ Superstar - HU DVD 5769
The Advocate - HU DVD 5768
The Trojan Women - HU DVD 5767
The Meaning of Life - HU DVD 5766
Pink Narcissus - HU DVD 5765
Selena - HU DVD 5764
Wendy and Lucy - HU DVD 5763
Coup de Torchon - HU DVD 5762
The Fountainhead - HU DVD 5761
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me - HU DVD 5760
Rain Man - HU DVD 5759
Danton - HU DVD 5758
Born in East L.A. - HU DVD 5757
Antonia - HU DVD 5756
La Otra Conquista - HU DVD 5755
Cinema Paradiso - HU DVD 5754
Lenny - HU DVD 5753
Love for Sale - HU DVD 5752
Blow - HU DVD 5751
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears - HU DVD 5750
Invaders from Mars - HU DVD 5749
Higher Learning - HU DVD 5748
Peeping Tom - HU DVD 5747
Gorillas in the Mist - HU DVD 5746
The Glass Menagerie - HU DVD 5745
The Man Who Would be King - HU DVD 5744
Slumdog Millionaire - HU DVD 5743
Fool for Love - HU DVD 5742
Jane Eyre - HU DVD 5741
A Hard Day's Night - HU DVD 5740

AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival June 15-22, 2009

There are a lot of great films to check out at the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival this summer. Here are two of them:

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SOUL POWER

Jeffrey Levy-Hinte

USA, 2008, 93 MINUTES

Before Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s 1974 boxing match in Zaire, the biggest names in R&B as­sembled for a three-day music festival. Jeffrey Levy-Hinte takes this never-seen footage and shows us the talents of James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, the Spinners and top African acts such as Miriam Makeba and Orchestre Afrisa International.

Fri. 6/19 at 9:45 p.m.

Sky Sitney, Artistic Director of the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival also said:

Though most of the black American performers were visiting Africa for the first time, many felt they had returned home. After years spent rooted in the civil rights movement, the journey prompted them to explore roots of another sort, and their days leading up to the festival were spent as if in an alternative universe, where Black Power took on an entirely new reality and meaning. The festival and film were financed by a Liberian investment group that became hindered by legal disputes, and consequently the film footage remained in the can for more than two decades. Eventually, the disputes were settled and the footage was transformed into the 1996 Academy Award-winning film When We Were Kings.

Unfortunately, the historical concert didn’t make the cut. The editor of KINGS, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, understood that the concert footage was worthy of a film unto itself and resurrected it from the editing-room floor. SOUL POWER is the dazzling result. With never-seen footage of the performances and new sections with Ali, the film plays like a glorious time capsule. SOUL POWER is a beautifully constructed lost object that creates more than mere nostalgia: It allows one to fully enter into the world of 1974 and captures an event so extraordinary that we dare not forget it.

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry



















Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer, Director/Producer of "The Nine Lives of Marion Barry", were on The Kojo Namdi Show this afternoon on WAMU. Here's what was said on Kojo's site:

Some people call him the "mayor for life." Others think he's been in the political limelight for far too long. Whether you love him or hate him, Marion Barry has been a key force in the city's politics for four decades. We'll talk with a pair filmmakers who recently explored the complicated relationship between Barry's legacy and D.C.'s identity.

10 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter

From PasteMagazine.com: 10 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter (see the complete article here)...and their movies that you can check out from Media Services.

10. Robert Rodriguez - RobertRdz
The Sin City director just joined the world of Twitter (unless this is a fake) a couple of weeks ago when he gave the commencement speech to his fellow University of Texas graduates.

The adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D - HU DVD 5499
Desperado - HU DVD 5569
Planet Terror - HU DVD 5201
Sin City - HU DVD 1959

9. Paul Feig - paulfeig
Feig directed I Am David and nearly all of my favorite TV shows (Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Mad Men, Weeds, The Office, Freaks and Geeks).

Freaks and Geeks - HU DVD 3441 - 3446

8. David Lynch - DAVID_LYNCH
If you ever want to know the weather in L.A., Dave's your guy.

Inland Empire - HU DVD 3109
Lost Highway - HU DVD 4056
Straight Story - HU DVD 263
Twin Peaks - HU DVD 2961 - 2970

7. Jon Favreau - Jon_Favreau
Since his days as Monica's boyfriend on Friends, Favreau has gone onto better things—like directing Iron Man 2 and Tweeting about it.

Iron Man - HU DVD 2763

6. Lee Unkrich - leeunkrich
The Pixar director (Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo) talks us through the creation of Toy Story 3 and tells us about sneaking in a Toy Story logo onto one of the balloons in Up.

Finding Nemo - HU DVD 836

5. Greg Mottola - GregMottola
The director of Superbad and Adventureland is shooting a new film called Paul with Seth Rogen, Simon Pegg, Bill Hader, Jane Lynch, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Nick Frost and (according to his Twitter feed) Sigourney Weaver. Holy crap. He's also diggin' him some Iron & Wine.

If you think we should buy his films, feel free to submit a request here.

4. Errol Morris - errolmorris
The director of Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line packs a lot of substance into 140 characters like mini-ruminations on truth vs. narrative consistency.

Gates of Heaven - HU DVD 5781
Fog of War - HU DVD 791
Standard Operating Procedure - DVD 4870
Thin Blue Line - DVD 2219

3. Rian Johnson - rcjohnso
The director of Brick and The Brothers Bloom answers all the Tweets directed at him. The down-side is that gives his feed a pretty low signal-to-noise ratio. But it's also pretty cool that he responds to just about any question.

Brick - HU DVD 2253

2. David Wain - davidwain
The prolific writer/actor/director/blogger is also a prolific Twitterer.

Wet Hot American Summer - HU DVD 1506

1. Kevin Smith - ThatKevinSmith
He's in the middle of shooting a movie called "A Couple of Dicks" with Bruce Willis and
Tracy Morgan, so the number of penis puns is um... huge.

Clerks - HU DVD 1423
Clerks II - HU DVD 5335
Mallrats - HU DVD 5278
Zack and Miri Make a Porno - HU DVD 5313

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The Power of Myth - DVD 5880
The Merchants of Cool - DVD 5879
Poisoned Waters - DVD 5876
The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony - DVD 5875
Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War - DVD 5874
The Unknown Soldier - DVD 5872
Empire of the Air - DVD 5869
Madonna: Truth or Dare - DVD 5866
Shtetl - DVD 5865
Partisans of Vilna - DVD 5864
The Amish: People of Preservation - DVD 5863
A Midwife's Tale - DVD 5862
Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House - DVD 5861
The Plow that Broke the Plains/The River - DVD 5859
Incident at Oglala - DVD 5858
Daughter from Danang - DVD 5857
The Last Bolshevik - DVD 5856
A Crime of Insanity - DVD 5855
Ballot Measure 9 - DVD 5854
Hackers - DVD 5853
Making it Big on Ebay - DVD 5852
Toyota's Drive to the Top - DVD 5851
Lost Civilizations - DVD 5831-5834
Ever Again - DVD 5777
The Long Way Home - DVD 5776

Now Available for Home Use!

6 adventures originally presented in IMAX Theaters are now available for home use check out!

MacGillivray Freeman's Dolphins - HU DVD 3183

MacGillivray Freeman's Coral Reef Adventure - HU DVD 3184

Hidden Hawaii - HU DVD 3185

The Great Barrier Reef - HU DVD 3186

Whales: An Unforgetable Journey - HU DVD 3187

Search for the Great Sharks - HU DVD 3188

On this day in history...

1870: Author Charles Dickens died at age 58.

So Charles Dickens death is not as exciting as Mark Wahlberg's birthday. BUT, his stories became the basis of a lot of movies. Here are two titles that were made and remade (and are available in our home use collection).

Great Expectations (1946) - HU DVD 4777
Great Expectations (1998) - HU DVD 3962

Oliver Twist (1948) - HU DVD 633
Oliver Twist (2005) - HU DVD 1773

1973 Secretariat became horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes.

Horse racing. Frankly, I get more excited about wearing a large hat than I do about the actual horses. Never the less, here are some movies or or centered around horse racing.

Charlie Chan at the race track - HU DVD 4002
A day at the races - HU DVD 3415
The first Saturday in May - DVD 4365
Seabiscuit - DVD 1176
Shadow of the thin man - HU DVD 4974

1980: Comedian Richard Pryor suffered near-fatal burns at his home when a mixture of "free-base" cocaine exploded.

I couldn't help but post this fun fact. Get your friends together and come watch this 1982 film here in Media Services.

Richard Pryor live on the Sunset Strip - VHS 2832

(See more events "On This Day" at the New York Times website)