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:

(please excuse the size of this embedded video)

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)

Happy Birthday Marky-Mark!

Lets party like its 1999...or 1989...

One of my favorite part of other people's birthdays is the opportunity to remind them of what they were doing 20 years ago. Mark Wahlberg, now famous for his performance as Det. Sgt. Dignam in The Departed (2006, HU DVD 2473), made his debut as a rapper with the group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. It was a time when his brother Donnie, thought he was the successful one in the family.

Thankfully, he since changed his clothes, never tried to make a come back as a rapper and made some pretty awesome movies in the meantime. Check out some of these in our collection.

Renaissance Man (1994) - HU DVD 1529

Basketball Diaries (1995) - HU DVD 1990

Boogie Nights (1997) - HU DVD 8

Three Kings (1999) - HU DVD 89

I Heart Huckabees (2004) - HU DVD 3882

Selected New Home Use This Week

Funny Girl - HU DVD 5739
Gypsy - HU DVD 5738
The Thing from Another World - HU DVD 5737
Edward II - HU DVD 5736
The Hotel New Hampshire - HU DVD 5735
Chan is Missing - HU DVD 5734
The Postman - HU DVD 5733
Soylent Green - HU DVD 5731
Battle in Seattle - HU DVD 5730
Basic Instinct - HU DVD 5729
Carnal Knowledge - HU DVD 5728
Juliet of the Spirits - HU DVD 5725
The Wrestler - HU DVD 5680
Dragon Inn - HU DVD 5675
Johnny Got His Gun - HU DVD 5654

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Evolution (PBS Video Series) - DVD 5721 - 5724
Around the World in 72 Days - DVD 5720
Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble - DVD 5719
Africans in America - DVD 5718
Yol - DVD 5717
Milking the Rhino - DVD 5716
Color Adjustment - DVD 5710
13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests - DVD 5709
One Woman, One Vote - DVD 5708
James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket - DVD 5705
The New Americans - DVD 5704
Legacy: The Origins of Civilization - DVD 5701 - 5703
Lemonade Stories - DVD 5699
Blacks & Jews - DVD 5698
The Celluloid Closet - DVD 5696
Special Circumstances - DVD 5690
18 with a Bullet - DVD 5685
America and the Holocaust - DVD 5679
Lord of the Dance - DVD 5678
Forgiving Dr. Mengele - DVD 5676
China or Bust! - DVD 5668
Turkey's Tigers - DVD 5667
The Axe in the Attic - DVD 5664
We Shall Remain - DVD 5661 - 5663
Spell Your Name - DVD 5655

Cannes Film Festival opens today with Pixar's 'Up'

Disney Pixar's animated feature, 'Up' opened the 62nd Cannes Film Festival this year, breaking ground for animated film. See what the Washington Post and the Associated Press had to say.

'Up' trailer

Here's a sneak peek at some of the sights and posters, courtesy of the CinemaIsDope blog.

HBO’s Screen on the Green cancelled for 2009...

HBO has canceled the long-running Screen on the Green program for 2009, according to a representative from HBO’s consumer affairs department.

However, Crystal City is still running their outdoor movie nights, go here for more details:

http://www.crystalcity.org/eventdetail.asp?IdEvent=412

A bad idea gets worse...

Disney to remove all extras from rental DVDs as well Following in Fox's footsteps, Disney has announced that it will become the second studio to release two different "classes" of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, a "premium" version, and a bare-bones rental version.

Starting in June with the movies Morning Light, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience, the studio will offer the premium version with extras and other "value-added material" while also offering the cheaper stripped-down rental versions.

The move follows that of 20th Century Fox, however with some significant differences. Disney will offer the rental versions at a lower price point, whereas Fox offers both versions at the same price. Fox also controls what rental or retail outlets can buy, however Disney gives all companies the option to buy what they please.

The rental units will not be shrink wrapped and will have no promotional inserts inside either. For example, the Jonas Brothers premium DVD, with digital copy and bonus features, has a MSRP of $39.99 USD while the single disc rental version will have the movie only, and has an MSRP of $29.99 USD.

Retailers seemed to generally respect the decision. “That is all we care about,” added one executive. “Not only do you have the difference in price, but retailers can buy either version.”

Fox has been having issues with their decision recently, and is even considering dissolving their DVD class separation.

Copyright Basics - The Video

From the folks at the Copyright Clearance Center

link

Wall Street 2 Becomes a Reality

Wall Street was so dang good, it looks like we’re finally going to get another. Michael Douglas has spoken publicly about the project, saying, “I think it's time to take another hard look at trading and the economy and what went wrong in the last few years.” Ironically, he made this statement at the premiere of his film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Shia LaBeouf might take up the young trader role Charlie Sheen played in the ‘80s, and Oliver Stone is all about directing the film. The story will take place after Gordon Gekko has been released from prison. Will he still think greed is good? Will he give the financial morons who got us into our present economic mess more fuel for the fire? Who knows, but it’s hard not to be pumped about the prospect of this movie getting made.

Found at ew.com.

Cannes Competitors To Receive Online Showcase

Originally posted on imdb:

Gilles Jacob, president of the Cannes Film Festival, has offered the festival's website as a showcase for the first five minutes of each of the 20 films participating in this year's competition. In a statement, Jacob said that the traditional movie trailer "extinguishes all desire" while it has been suggested that great directors are at their best in the first and last reels. "Let's hope that Internet users everywhere might drop their games and be tempted to rush to their nearest theater to find out what happens next," he remarked. At a news conference, festival director Thierry Fremaux indicated that he expected the current worldwide economic crisis to have little effect on the festival. "We haven't felt the slightest reluctance on anybody's part, anyone saying 'we have to watch out because of the crisis,'" he said, adding that Cannes would remain "the rendezvous for creators and the industry."

Here is a list of the films in competition this year:

* "Broken Embraces", Pedro Almodovar
* "Fish Tank", Andrea Arnold
* "A Prophet", Jacques Audiard
* "Vincere", Dir: Marco Bellocchio
* "Bright Star", Jane Campion
* "In the Beginning", Xavier Giannoli
* "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo", Isabel Coixet
* "The White Ribbon", Michael Haneke
* "Taking Woodstock", Ang Lee
* "Looking for Eric", Ken Loach
* "Spring Fever", Lou Ye
* "Kinatay", Brillante Mendoza
* "Enter The Void", Gasper Noe
* "Thirst", Park Chan-wook
* "Les Herbes Foilles", Alain Resnais
* "The Time That Remains", Elia Suleiman
* "Inglourious Basterds", Quentin Tarantino
* "Vengeance", Johnnie To
* "Face", Tsai Ming-liang
* "Antichrist", Lars von Trier

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Motherland Afghanistan - DVD 5641
A Jihad for Love - DVD 5640
America Betrayed - DVD 5639
Strait Through the Ice - DVD 5629
Is It True What They Say About Ann? - DVD 5628
Rick Steves' Iran - DVD 5626
Inside the Meltdown - DVD 5620

TONIGHT! - Discover World Cinema - Sunday, April 19 @ 7pm - XXY

XXY (Dir: Lucia Puenzo. Argentina) 86 minutes – 2007
The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call ’ambiguous genitalia,’ whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice.

Short: The pick-up artist (2006. 13 min. Dir: Steffen Weinert. Germany) Olli only wants to have noncommittal sex, but that becomes difficult when he meets the 6-year-old daughter of his one-night stand.

The Discover World Cinema video series is open to all and visitors are welcome to bring a snack. The series is coordinated by the American University library with support from Friends of the AU Library.

Sundays, 7 - 9 pm Media Classroom - Lower Level of the American University Library4400 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC 20016Future Discover World Cinema events are located here:

http://www.library.american.edu/about/events/index.html

Disney is okay with plagerizing...

...itself. Check out this collection of Disney films that have reused images in different films.

Media Services Recommends...Annie's Awesomely Amazing Adventurous Movies

Across the universe – HU DVD 3985
Amelie – HU DVD 401
Catch me if you can - HU DVD 698
Dazed and confused – HU DVD 97
Dick – HU DVD 4094
Doctor Zhivago – HU DVD 4570
Everything is illuminated – HU DVD 2041
Marie Antoinette – HU DVD 3830
Pan’s Labyrinth – HU DVD 2770
Royal Tenenbaums – HU DVD 1937
Little Miss Sunshine – HU DVD 2375
Vicky Christina Barcelona – HU DVD 4776

AMC - B-Movie Classics Streaming on amctv.com

There are loads of b-movies streaming on amctv.com. 

Go to the site and choose from the following genres:

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Crime/Thriller, Western  

TONIGHT! - Discover World Cinema - Sunday, April 12 - Campfire

Campfire (Dir: Joseph Cedar. Israel) 96 minutes – 2004
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.
Short: In the box (1999. 7 min. Michal Struss. Slovakia) – An animated film about space. About a wooden puppet. About a box. And, about the quest for freedom.

The Discover World Cinema video series is open to all and visitors are welcome to bring a snack. The series is coordinated by the American University library with support from Friends of the AU Library.

Sundays, 7 - 9 pm Media Classroom - Lower Level of the American University Library
4400 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC 20016
Future Discover World Cinema events are located here:
http://www.library.american.edu/about/events/index.html

Selected New Home Use This Week

A Nightingale's Prayer - HU DVD 5619
Adrift on the Nile - HU DVD 5618
Go for Zucker - HU DVD 5617
Long Day's Journey into Night - HU DVD 5611
Doubt - HU DVD 5610
Best of Youth - HU DVD 5609
Daughter of Keltoum - HU DVD 5608
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T - HU DVD 5607
Assassination of Jesse James - HU DVD 5606
The Other - HU DVD 5605

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Sacco and Vanzetti - DVD 5616
Das Wunder con Bern - DVD 5615
Am Ende Kommen Touristen - DVD 5614
Solino - DVD 5613
Berlin is in Germany - DVD 5612
A Class Apart - DVD 5603

Is this the death of American cinema?

Here is an article about last weeks opening of Fast & the Furious 4.

Did that seriously happen? Even in the middle of a massive recession, $72.5 million were spent last week to see round 4 of Vin Diesel and Paul Walker strut around next to unrealistically fast cars. I am always one for a cheesy Friday night movie, but...wow.

Green on the Screen Thurs April 9 @ the AU Library Heat Pt 2

Green on the Screen

Thursdays 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location: Media Services Classroom - located on the Lower Level of Bender Library
American University Library

The Green on the Screen video series is open to all and visitors are welcome to bring lunch. The series is coordinated by the Library Green Team with support from AU Ecosense and the Center for Environmental Filmmaking.

Future Green on the Screen events are listed here: http://www.library.american.edu/about/events/index.html

Media Services Recommends...Lauren laments "I should have been a film student"

A Woman under the influence – HU DVD 1392
Lost in Translation – HU DVD 741
Buffalo ’66 – HU DVD 5096
Bonnie & Clyde – HU DVD 1609
Le Boucher – HE DVD 4778
Coffee & Cigarettes – HU DVD 4499
God’s Country – HU DVD 2887
Paris, Texas – HU DVD 3348
Eric Rehmer’s 6 Moral Tales – HU DVD 2421-2426
Five Easy Pieces – HU DVD 5189
Le Mempris/Contempt – HU DVD 537
Annie Hall – HU DVD 126

Selected New Home Use This Week

Brother's Keeper - HU DVD 5597
The Sacrifice - HU DVD 5596
Tell No One - HU DVD 5595
Son of Rambow - HU DVD 5594
Zaman: The Man from the Reeds - HU DVD 5590
The World According to Monsanto - HU DVD 5587
The Saltmen of Tibet - HU DVD 5586
What Have I Done to Deserve This? - HU DVD 5585
Dark Habits - HU DVD 5584
Rosenstrasse - HU DVD 5583

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

We struggle but we eat fruit - DVD 5602
Black is...black ain't - DVD 5599
Birdsong & coffee - DVD 5598

Classic Movies Not on DVD

We've created a big wiki of classic, cult, guilty pleasure, and otherwise favorite films (700+ titles) that have yet to make it to DVD in the US. Take a look and feel welcome to add titles that we've missed.

Among the titles on this list, here's a sampling of what we have on VHS and are recommended viewing:

African Queen VHS 112
Alsino and the Condor VHS 6216
Antonio das Mortes VHS 568
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez VHS 375
Blue Dahlia VHS 3075
A Brief History of Time VHS 4999
Brighton Rock VHS 6798
Celine and Julie Go Boating VHS 4482
Cul-de-sac VHS 3004
David Holzman's Diary VHS 3584
The Glass Key VHS 4555
Homicide VHS 5092
India Song VHS 3703
Ironweed VHS 1954
Johnny Guitar VHS 5268
Lonely Are the Brave VHS 1630
Ministry of Fear VHS 5226
Paisan VHS 2731
Streetwise VHS 205
Underworld USA VHS 4589

Classics Not On DVD Wiki

Discover World Cinema - The Violin - This Sunday - 4.5.09

The Violin (Dir: Francisco Vargas. Mexico)
98 minutes – 2005
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist, Plutarco has a plan: to recover the munitions hidden in his cornfield. His music enraptures the captain, but he still has to get his hands on the ammunition. Winner of 3 Ariel Awards (Mexico's Oscars®)

Short: A kiss for the world (2007. 10 min. Dir: Cyril Paris. France) - A primary school teacher shows her pupils some daily newspapers. One boy carefully studies Le Monde and tears it in pieces. The teacher punishes him and asks him to stick the pieces back down. His reconstitution will have surprising effects on “the world”.

The Discover World Cinema video series is open to all and visitors are welcome to bring a snack. The series is coordinated by the American University library with support from Friends of the AU Library.

Sundays, 7 - 9 pm Media Classroom - Lower Level of the American University Library

4400 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC 20016

Future Discover World Cinema events are located here:

http://www.library.american.edu/about/events/index.html

Green on the Screen - Heat: A Global Investigation Pt. 1 - TODAY!

Facing pressure from governments, green groups and investors alike, big business is promising to reshape its approach to the environment. Martin Smith travels the globe to test what big business is really doing to solve this urgent issue. 60 min.
Open to all. Bring lunch.

Laughter is internal jogging - April is National Humor Month

To read all about it, click here.

National Humor Month was founded in 1976 by best-selling humorist Larry Wilde, Director of The Carmel Institute of Humor. It is designed to heighten public awareness on how the joy and therapeutic value of laughter can improve health, boost morale, increase communication skills and enrich the quality of one's life.

As finals approach, let loose and laugh with some of these films from media services:

Odd Couple - HU DVD 5551-5555
Steel Magnolias - HU DVD 4795
Jerry McGuire - HU DVD 4940
Monty Python’s Life of Brian - HU DVD 970
Animal House - HU DVD 4913
Monty Python - HU DVD 2143
Little Miss Sunshine - HU DVD 2375
A League of Their Own - HU DVD 1384
Team America World Police - HU DVD 2086
Annie Hall - HU DVD 126
Sister Act - HU DVD 5341
Sister Act 2 - HU DVD 5342
Caddyshack - HU DVD 5038
Groundhog Day - HU DVD 2351
Fried Green Tomatoes - HU VHS 2719

Media Services Recommends...Masterpieces (according to Megan)

Animal House – HU DVD 4913
Barefoot Contessa – HU DVD 4565
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – HU DVD 501
El destino no tiene favorites – HU DVD 2570
A Few Good Men – HU DVD 3171
Once – HU DVD 3745
El otro lado de la cama – HU DVD 3308
Roman Holiday – HU DVD 4938
Solo con tu pareja – HU DVD 2222
True Romance – HU DVD 3820

Iranian film industry thriving, Hollywood learns

Check out this article from CNN.COM.

"Despite their limitations, filmmakers have raised Iranian cinema to new heights, winning awards and critics' praise across the globe."

The following Iranian films (most in Persian with English subtitles) are available for home use check out:

Taste of Cherry - HU DVD 4773
Half moon - HU DVD 4407
Offside - HU DVD 3759
The Cow - HU DVD 1430
Moment of Innocence - HU DVD 1431
Close up - HU DVD 1344
Blackboards - HU DVD 1035
The Circle - HU DVD 715
Leila - HU DVD 702
The Color of Paradise - HU DVD 670

Selected New Home Use This Week

The Singing Detective - HU DVD 5561
V for Vendetta - HU DVD 5558
Repo Man - HU DVD 5556
Hard Eight - HU DVD 5548
I shot Andy Warhol - HU DVD 5546
One False Move - HU DVD 5545
Sawdust and Tinsel - HU DVD 5540
An American Crime - HU DVD 5539
Osaka Tough Guys - HU DVD 5538
Rainy Dog - HU DVD 5534

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Jerome Robbins - DVD 5566
No Vacancy - DVD 5565
My Father, My Brother and Me - DVD 5564
Looking for Lincoln - DVD 5563
Climates - DVD 5562

Green on the Screen: Slow Food Revolution

Media Services Recommends...Faves of a Film Student

Amelie – HU DVD 401
Arrested development – HU DVD 4874 - 4876
Batman Begins – HU DVD 3175
Children of Men – HU DVD 2631
Flight of the Conchords – HU DVD 4831
Little Children – HU DVD 2714
Sixteen Candles – HU DVD 4960
Taxi Driver – HU DVD 904
Third Man – HU DVD 48
Trainspotting – HU DVD 1002