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Selected New Home Use This Week

Generation Kill - HU DVD 5081-5083
Boomerang - HU DVD 5076
Panic in the Streets - HU DVD 5075
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour best of season 3 - HU DVD 5071-5074
Pinky - HU DVD 5070
Chop Shop - HU DVD 5069

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Generation Kill - DVD 5081-5083
Sierra Club Chronicles - DVD 5078
American Harvest - DVD 5077
Boomerang - DVD 5076
Panic in the Streets - DVD 5075
Pinky - DVD 5070
Chop Shop - DVD 5069

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Man on wire - DVD 5068
Saturday Night Live: season 2 - DVD 5059-5066
Saturday Night Live: season 1 - DVD 5051-5058
Flow: for the love of water - DVD 5045
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: season 1 - DVD 5041-5044
Caddyshack - DVD 5038
Shrek - DVD 5036
Clerks - DVD 1423

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The Dick Van Dyke show: season 1 - DVD 5031-5035
Encounters at the end of the world- DVD 5029
Leave it to Beaver: season 1 - DVD 5021-5023
From Russia with love - DVD 5018
Thieves like us - DVD 5013
Nine to five - DVD 5010

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The God who wasn't there - DVD 5000
Casino Royale - DVD 4999
GoldenEye - DVD 4998
The spy who loved me - DVD 4997
Thunderball - DVD 4996
Goldfinger - DVD 4995
Dr. No - DVD 4994
John Adams - DVD 4991-4993
Terminator 3 - DVD 4990
Terminator 2 - DVD 4989
Terminator - DVD 4988
Midnight cowboy - DVD 4987
My Winnipeg - DVD 4986
Tropic thunder - DVD 4985
Looking for Richard - DVD 4982
Cidade dos homens=City of men - DVD 4980

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - DVD 4970
1776 - DVD 4969
The border - DVD 4965
Brideshead revisited - DVD 4961-4964
Sixteen candles - DVD 4960
Europa Europa - DVD 4959
Family business - DVD 4957
Alexis Zorbas=Zorba the Greek - DVD 4956
Morte a Venezia=Death in Venice - DVD 4955
Talk to me - DVD 4954

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The Bourne ultimatum - DVD 4953
The Bourne supremacy - DVD 4952
The Bourne identity - DVD 4951
WALL·E - DVD 4950
Cat on a hot tin roof- DVD 4949
Jerry Maguire - DVD 4940
Roman holiday - DVD 4938
Parenthood - DVD 4937
When Harry met Sally - DVD 4936
Lean on me - DVD 4935
Stand and deliver - DVD 4934
The visitor - DVD 4933
Running on empty - DVD 4932

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Le voyage du ballon rouge=Flight of the Red Balloon - DVD 4931
Forgiveness - DVD 4930
The judge and the general - DVD 4929
Paris vu par...=Six in Paris - DVD 4928
Les carabiniers - DVD 4927
Chats perchés=The case of the grinning cat - DVD 4926

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Baraka - DVD 4925
The notebook - DVD 4924
Koppel on Discovery: the People's Republic of capitalism - DVD 4923
Off the grid: life on the Mesa - DVD 4922
A passion for sustainability - DVD 4921
The price of bananas - DVD 4920
Unnatural causes: is inequality making us sick? - DVD 4919
Young & restless in China - DVD 4918
Wall Street's shadow market - DVD 4917
The big bailout - DVD 4916

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Idlewild - DVD 4915
National Lampoon's animal house - DVD 4913
Fast food nation - DVD 4912
The rape of Europa - DVD 4909
The boondock saints - DVD 4904
Your friends and neighbors - DVD 4903
Almost famous - DVD 4902
Jurassic Park - DVD 4901
Split: a divided America - DVD 4900
Cape fear - DVD 4899
Tootsie - DVD 4898
Zebrahead - DVD 4896
Mister Johnson - DVD 4895
Red Rock West - DVD 4894
War dance - DVD 4888
Sleeping beauty - DVD 4878
Arrested development: season 3 - DVD 4877-4878
Arrested development: season 2 - DVD 4874-4876
Arrested development: season 1 - DVD 4871-4873

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Standard operating procedure - DVD 4870
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections - DVD 4869
Bigger Stronger Faster* - DVD 4967
To die in Jerusalem - DVD 4965
Slacker uprising=Captain Mike across America - DVD 4961
Auf der anderen Seite=The Edge of Heaven - DVD 4860
Paranoid park - DVD 4859

Oddball: You fell asleep watching a DVD

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Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Vier Minuten=Four minutes - DVD 4857
Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert=The original four tenors - DVD 4854
Thin - DVD 4853
A crude awakening: The oil crash - DVD 4852
Theodora - DVD 4846
Vincent - DVD 4845
Our America - DVD 4843
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru=The bad sleep well - DVD 2194

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Kicking and screaming - DVD 4842
Akahige=Red beard - DVD 4841
The long Good Friday - DVD 4840
Die große stille=Into great silence - DVD 4839
Wings of defeat - DVD 4837
Dear America: Letters home from Vietnam - DVD 4836
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets - DVD 4834
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone - DVD 4833

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Coming soon - DVD 4832
Flight of the conchords - DVD 4831
Solyaris=Solaris - DVD 4830
Local hero - DVD 4829
In the valley of Elah - DVD 4827
Chappelle's show: season 2 - DVD 4823-4826
Chappelle's show: season 1 - DVD 4821-4822

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The President's analyst - DVD 4820
Monsieur Hire - DVD 4819
Say Amen, somebody - DVD 4818
Fracture - DVD 4815
Out of sight - DVD 4817
Bullitt - DVD 4816
Taxi to the dark side - DVD 4813
Iskateli schastya=Seekers of happiness - DVD 4812
Killing us softly 3 - DVD 4810

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

New York: a documentary film - DVD 4801-4808
The falcon and the snowman - DVD 4800
Owning Mahowney - DVD 4799
Death at a funeral - DVD 4798
Yankee Doodle Dandy - DVD 4797
Better luck tomorrow - DVD 4796
Steel magnolias - DVD 4795
A dangerous man: Lawrence after Arabia - DVD 4794

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Ariel - DVD 4792
Varjoja paratiisissa=Shadows in paradise - DVD 4791
The dresser - DVD 4790
Salaam Bombay! - DVD 4789
Braveheart - DVD 4787
Red vs. blue: the blood gulch chronicles - DVD 4781-4786
Hard candy - DVD 4780
Le Boucher=The butcher - DVD 4778

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Great expectations - DVD 4777
Goya's ghosts - DVD 4775
Ta'm e guilass=Taste of cherry - DVD 4773
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations - DVD 4772
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills - DVD 4771
My home-your war - DVD 4766
The cruise - DVD 4764
Chicago 10 - DVD 4763
The American ruling class - DVD 4759

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Stranger with a camera - DVD 4757
Mardi Gras: made in China - DVD 4756
The brave one - DVD 4750
The English patient - DVD 4749
J'accuse - DVD 4748
Happiness - DVD 4747
Pleasantville - DVD 4746
Judex - DVD 4745
Blood simple - DVD 4740
The civil war - DVD 4731-4735
Hellboy - DVD 4730

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The fall - DVD 4716
In the company of men - DVD 4715
Stop-loss - DVD 4714
MacBeth - DVD 4713
Big fish - DVD 4712
The nightmare before Christmas - DVD 4711
Empire of the sun - DVD 4708
Gummo - DVD 4707
The good German - DVD 4705
Batman returns - DVD 4702
Batman - DVD 4701
K Street - DVD 4700
Die fälscher=The counterfeiters - DVD 4699
The war that made America - DVD 4696

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma=Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - DVD 4684
Spaced: the complete series - DVD 4681-4683
The kingdom - DVD 4678
Reservoir dogs - DVD 4676
Recount - DVD 4668
Ugly Betty: season 1 - DVD 4661-4666
Battlestar Galactica: season 1 - DVD 4641-4645
24: season 4 - DVD 4621-4627

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

How to draw a bunny - DVD 4586
Shine a light - DVD 4585
Mishima: a life in four chapters - DVD 4581
For the Bible tells me so - DVD 4579
The trial - DVD 4561
My so-called life: the complete series - DVD 4551-4556
Delirious - DVD 4550
Mad men: season 1 - DVD 4541-4544
The Larry Sanders Show: season 1 - DVD 4531-4533
Ripley's game - DVD 4528

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Lost: season 3 - DVD 4515-4521
Lost: season 2 - DVD 4508-4514
Lost: season 1 - DVD 4501-4507

Cool tool: An online "Is it protected by copyright?" slider

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A bit of esoterica: Sergei Eisenstein's Early Drawings - Sketchbook 1914

When the noted film pioneer was but a boy of 16. Provided by the Daniel Langlois Foundation.

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Obit: Bruce Conner, 74, Artist and Experimental Filmmaker

Bruce Conner, an artist internationally admired for his haunting, surrealistic sculptures and groundbreaking avant-garde films, died on Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 74.

AU Library Media Services has:

Bruce Conner films, VHS 3249, pt.1-pt.2

pt.1. Ten second film (10 sec.). Permian strata (4 min.). Mongoloid (4 min.). America is waiting (4 min.). A movie (12 min.)

pt. 2. Breakaway (ca. 5 min.). Vivian (ca. 3 min.). The white rose (ca. 7 min.). Marilyn times five (ca. 13 min.).

New York Times: Bruce Conner, San Francisco Artist With 1950s Beat Roots, Dies at 74

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Six feet under: season 5 - DVD 4400-4404
Six feet under: season 4 - DVD 4395-4399
Six feet under: season 3 - DVD 4390-4394
Six feet under: season 2 - DVD 4385-4389
Six feet under: season 1 - DVD 4381-4384
She's the man - DVD 4379
Naisu no mori: The First Contact - DVD 4378
Fingersmith - DVD 4375
Combats de femme - Un amour de femme - DVD 4374
Zert=The joke - DVD 4373
La Faute à Fidel!=Blame it on Fidel - DVD 4372
Il posto - DVD 4371
Beowulf - DVD 4370
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) - DVD 4368

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The Raspberry Reich - DVD 4496
Hustler white - DVD 4495
Blue - DVD 4494
Wittgenstein - DVD 4493
Caravaggio - DVD 4492
The angelic conversation - DVD 4491
South Park: season 4 - DVD 4481-4483

The Cinema Effect continues at The Hirshhorn with Part II: Realisms

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image
June 19, 2008 to September 7, 2008
Part II: Realisms

The second part of the Hirshhorn’s exploration of contemporary moving-image art, Realisms, looks at a decade of film, video and digital works that investigate how cinema—now encompassing such related media as television, home video and digital entertainment—communicates, amuses and critiques by complicating the relationship between fiction and reality. Films and videos by nineteen international artists reveal a spirit of critical self-examination and invention that parallels cinema’s historical ability to imagine for itself other possible forms, functions, and correspondences with the world at large.

Part II: Realisms

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The recyclergy - DVD 4465
Be kind, rewind - DVD 4462
The hunting party - DVD 4461
Narayama bushiko=The ballad of Narayama - DVD 4458
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo - DVD 4456
Century of self - DVD 4438
Senator Obama goes to Africa - DVD 4436
Young, Muslim and French - DVD 4430
My Shakespeare - DVD 4416
This is what democracy looks like - DVD 4415
This is England - DVD 4409
She hate me - DVD 4405

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Nanking - DVD 4367
Civilisation - DVD 4361-4364
The hours and times - DVD 4360
Bad santa - DVD 4355
By hook or by crook - DVD 4353
It's my party - DVD 4352
The doom generation - DVD 4351
Wigstock - DVD 4350
Lost and delirious - DVD 4349
When night is falling - DVD 4348
But I'm a cheerleader - DVD 4374
Better than chocolate - DVD 4346

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Michel Brault: Oeuvres 1958-1974 Works - DVD 4341-4345
Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I - DVD 4337
Bubot niyar=Paper dolls - DVD 4336
Darfur now - DVD 4325
Carmen - DVD 4318
Hets=Torment - DVD 4311
if.... - DVD 4310
Charlie Wilson's war - DVD 4309
Heaven's gate - DVD 4307
Nikutai no mon=Gate of flesh - DVD 4304

Obit: Ollie Johnston, 95, Disney Animator

Mr. Johnston, an animator who started with Walt Disney with "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)(VHS 5200), was an "inbetween artist" who specialized in communicating emotion in characters with his use of movement nuances studied from real life. Media Services has Frank and Ollie (VHS 6404), a documentary about his work and friendship with his longtime colleague, Frank Thomas. Other videos in the Media Services collection on which Mr. Johnston contributed include:

Fantasia (1940) VHS 1429
Bambi (1940) DVD 3318
The Three Caballeros (1944) VHS 3296
Alice in Wonderland (1951) DVD 995

Obituary from The Economist

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The films of Charles & Ray Eames - DVD 4281-4286
Viva la muerte! - DVD 4280
Billy liar - DVD 4270
Kumonosu jô=Throne of Blood - DVD 4268
Divorzio all'italiana=Divorce - Italian Style - DVD 4266
Overstay - DVD4264
Arakimentari - DVD 4260
Sherman's march - DVD 4255
Who gets to call it art? - DVD 4253
Sister Rose's passion - DVD 4249

More streaming video from the National Film Board: Aboriginal Perspectives

In their words:
"The Aboriginal Perspectives module contains 33 documentaries, a short fiction film, and 5 film clips. These productions do not represent the entirety of the films on Canada’s native peoples in the NFB collection, which comprises more than 700 such works. We did want it, however, to be a representative sample of the whole. The user will find films on many important aspects of Aboriginal culture and heritage, its diverse communities, and some of the major issues and significant moments in its history. These films, more than half of which were made by Aboriginal people, are the work of experienced filmmakers, such as Alanis Obomsawin and Gil Cardinal, and filmmakers in the early stages of their career, such as Elisapie Isaac and Bobby Kenuajuak. The selection covers more than 50 years of film production. All the films are available in both official languages, and 18 of them include described video to allow blind and visually impaired people to fully enjoy their content. In addition, 27 films are available with closed captioning for hearing impaired people."

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Streaming video highlight: National Film Board of Canada's Documentary Lens

In their words: "The purpose of Documentary Lens is to show how National Film Board documentaries have portrayed Canada and the world since the founding of the Film Board in 1939."

At present there are about 50 films available in their entirety, dated 1944-2004. Most (if not all) are under 30 minutes - on topics covering arts, politics, social issues, World War II propaganda, and more.

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What you need to know about the digital television transition

From www.dtv2009.gov:

At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. The US Congress was sold on the digital broadcasting transition based on the providers' promises of a clearer picture, more programming options, and that it will free up airwaves for use by emergency responders. We'll have to wait and see how all that plays out.

In the meantime, consumers have a variety of options:

1. Keep your existing analog TV and purchase a TV converter box. A converter box plugs into your TV and will keep it working after Feb. 17, 2009

2. Connect to cable, satellite or other pay service. A TV connected to cable, satellite or other pay TV service will not require a TV converter box.

3. Purchase a television with a digital tuner.

Congress created the TV Converter Box Coupon Program for households wishing to keep using their analog TV sets after February 17, 2009. The Program allows U.S. households to obtain up to two coupons, each worth $40, that can be applied toward the cost of eligible converter boxes.

If you aren't sure if your TV has a digital tuner, check the owner's manual, the manufacturer's website, or check if your set has an input connection labeled “digital input” or “ATSC” (for Advanced Television Systems Committee, which is the DTV format).

The best source of information about the transition is probably the website cited above www.dtv2009.gov

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Cinema 16: American short films - DVD 4243
The war within - DVD 4237
La roue=The wheel - DVD 4235
The great debaters - DVD 4232
The living end - DVD 4231
La Môme=La vie en rose - DVD 4228
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - DVD 4227
I'm not there - DVD 4217
Jungfrukällan=The virgin spring - DVD4215
King corn - DVD 4214

Cool website of streaming documentaries: Folkstreams.net

This wonderful site currently has just over 100 documentaries on American roots cultures. It's a site loaded with classics including films by Les Blank, Tom Davenport, and Alan Lomax. It's indexed by film, filmmaker, region, subject, and featured individual. If you're interested in Dewey Balfa, for instance, you can quickly discover he's included in Les Blues de Balfa, Cajun Country, Cajun Visits: Visites Cajun, and Homemade American Music.

It's a site especially rich in blues and Appalachian music though there's much more. In addition to the films/videos, there are essays about the folk traditions and making of the films. There are also study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.

The creation of the site was spearheaded by Tom and Mimi Davenport in a coordinated effort with filmmakers, folklorists, web developers, and The University of North Carolina to preserve these works and provide greater exposure to them.

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Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Hollywood harems - DVD 4210
Sweet movie - DVD 4205
The savages - DVD 4204
Juno - DVD 4203
Le ballon rouge=The red balloon - DVD 4202
Les amants du pont-neuf=The lovers on the bridge - DVD 4200
There will be blood - DVD 4196
A major malfunction - DVD 4194
Cinema 16: European short films - DVD 4190
In search of international justice - DVD 4180

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Max Fleischer's famous out of the inkwell - DVD 4178
The 11th hour - DVD 4175
Feed - DVD 4170
Video out - DVD 4169
Knocked up - DVD 4166
The lookout - DVD 4162
The party - DVD 4160
The inman & the pastor - DVD 4156
Cleo from 5 to 7 - DVD 4151
Girl, interrupted - DVD 4150
Manderlay - DVD 4147
Breaking the waves - DVD 4146

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Atonement - DVD 4142
Georges Méliès: first wizard of cinema - DVD 4141
Breach - DVD 4140
Norman McLaren: the master's edition - DVD 4131-4139
Into the wild - DVD 4130
Midnight express - DVD 4118
Love in the time of cholera - DVD 4114
Michael Clayton - DVD 4112
What's eating Gilbert Grape? - DVD 4110
Mamoulak=The lizard - DVD 4100

TSPDT's "Greatest 1,000 Films" grouped by All-Movie Guide genres

They Shoot Pictures Don't They's "Greatest 1,000 Films" grouped by All-Movie Guide genres, keywords, themes and tones.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/Top1000Films_AMG%20Breakdown.pdf

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The last emperor - DVD 4098
Dick - DVD 4094
Closer - DVD 4080
The unbearable lightness of being - DVD 4078
Bad timing - DVD 4077
Walkabout - DVD 4076
Casanova - DVD 4075
The wild bunch - DVD 4074
Helter skelter - DVD 4073
À la folie... pas du tout=He loves me, he loves me not - DVD 4070
A decade under the influence - DVD 4069
Helvetica - DVD 4064

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Karov la-bayit = Close to home - DVD 4062
Paloma de papel - DVD 4061
Strange culture - DVD 4060
Urs al-jalil = Wedding in Galilee - DVD 4059
Zwartboek = Black book - DVD 4058
Public access - DVD 4057
Lost highway - DVD 4056
Le placard = The closet - DVD 4054
Ha-hesder = Time of favor - DVD 4053
Apocalypto - DVD 4052
The ice storm - DVD 4051
Riget = The kingdom: series two - DVD 4022
Riget = The kingdom: series one - DVD 4021
The office: season two - DVD 4012 - 4015
The office: season one - DVD 4011

Bookhunter - part ten

part 10.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Se, jie = Lust, caution - DVD 4010
She's gotta have it - DVD 4008
The boxer - DVD 4007
My left foot - DVD 4006
A room with a view - DVD 4005
Lake of fire - DVD 4000
Fabulous: the story of queer cinema - DVD 3999
In the shadow of the moon - DVD 3990
My kid could paint that - DVD 3986
Across the universe - DVD 3985
Hot fuzz - DVD 3984
No country for old men - DVD 3982
Rome: season 2 - DVD 3977 - 3981
Rome: season 1 - DVD 3971 - 3976

Smithsonian Film Series

The Smithsonian is presenting several French language films in conjunction with it's Francophonie 2008: Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the French-Speaking World

THE WAY I SPENT THE END OF THE WORLD Tues., Mar. 25, 7 p.m.
The Way I Spent the End of the World is a testament to the power of love to transcend even the most tragic circumstances.

RETOUR À GORÉE Tues., Apr. 1, 7 p.m.
The musical road movie, Return to Gorée, tells of African singer Youssou N'Dour's epic journey following the trail left by slaves and by the jazz music they invented.

WRESTLING GROUNDS " THE CALL OF THE ARENA" Tues., Apr 8, 7 p.m.
Combining sporting prowess and fabulous music, this film dramatically demonstrates the cultural importance of wrestling in Senegal. Shamans and punching bags are the cornerstones of 17-year-old Nalla’s training in this colorful foray into the world of Senegalese wrestling.

SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL Tues., Apr. 15, 7 p.m.
Official selection of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, the Atlantic Film Festival and CINEFEST, this film adaptation of the Romeo Dallaire autobiography Shake Hands with the Devil, tells the personal journey of Dallaire through the 1994 Rwandan genocide and how Dallaire's request for more aid went ignored by the United Nations.

source: Smithsonian Resident Associate Program

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Cruel & unusual - DVD 3969
Frontline: growing up online - DVD 3966
Summertime - DVD 3964
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban - DVD 3963
Great expectations (1998) - DVD 3962
A little princess - DVD 3961
Idioterne = The idiots - DVD 3960
A good year - DVD 3959

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Schlock: the secret history of American movies - DVD 3958
The split horn: the life of a Hmong Shaman in America - DVD 3957
Somersault - DVD 3955
Fong juk = Exiled - DVD 3954
The butcher boy - DVD 3952
Becoming Jane - DVD 3953
Assume the position with Mr. Wuhl - DVD 3951
Of love and shadows - DVD 3950
Broken English - DVD 3949
The safety of objects - DVD 3948
Born in flames - DVD 3947
Da hong deng long gao gao gua = Raise red lantern - DVD 3946
The Darjeeling Limited - DVD 3945
China: a century of revolution - DVD 3939
The corner - DVD 3937
Unchained memories: readings from the slave narratives - DVD 316

Digital Media Studio Program Promos...

Check out all ten promos now playing on youtube:

Photoshop
iMovie
InDesign
iDVD
Illustrator
Flash
Finale
Final Cut Pro
DVD Studio Pro
Dreamweaver

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Fanny och Alexander = Fanny & Alexander - DVD 3888
Following - DVD 3886
O Fantasma = The Phantom - DVD 3885
Holy smoke! - DVD 3884
Ali - DVD 3883
I [heart] Huckabees - DVD 3882
Uzak = Distant - DVD 3881
Sud sanaeha = Blissfully yours - DVD 3880
Ingmar Bergman gor en film = Ingmar Bergman makes a movie - DVD 3879
Tystnaden = The silence - DVD 3878
Nattvardsgeasterna = Winter light - DVD 3877
Seasom i en spegel = Through a glass darkly - DVD 3876
I know where I'm going! - DVD 3864
A Canterbury tale - DVD 3863
Moolaade - DVD 3862
La guerre du feu = Quest for fire - DVD 3861
Im Juli = In July - DVD 3860
Odete = Two drifters off to see the world - DVD 3859
Black snake moan - DVD 3858
Ben-Hur (1925) & (1959) - DVD 3857
Rushmore - DVD 3856
Collateral - DVD 3855
Vers le sud = Heading south - DVD 3854
Les Sanguinaires = The Sanguinaires - DVD 3853
Once upon a time in Mexico - DVD 3851
The descent - DVD 3850
The day the earth stood still - DVD 3849
Sud pralad = Tropical malady - DVD 3848
Sang sattawat = Syndromes and a century - DVD 3847
Shi gan = Time - DVD 3845
Bin-jip = 3 iron - DVD 3844
Samaria = Samaritan girl: a dark tale of revenge - DVD 3843
Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai = Triad election - DVD 3842
Hak se wui = Election - DVD 3841

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Flandres = Flanders - DVD 3829
Twentynine Palms - DVD 3828
La vie de Jésus = The life of Jesus - DVD 3827
Innocence - DVD 3825
L'emploi du temps = Time out - DVD 3824
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - DVD 3823
Last Days - DVD 3821
True Romance - DVD 3820
Japón - DVD 3819
Batalla en el cielo = Battle in Heaven - DVD 3818
Hwal = The bow - DVD 3817
Miami vice - DVD 3815
Gwoemul = The host - DVD 3813

New at the Hirshhorn

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image
Part I: Dreams

February 14, 2008 - May 11, 2008

This two-part exhibition features moving-image artworks by a range of influential and emerging international artists whose works use film language and technology to explore the ever-increasing impact of the cinematic on our perceptions and the ways in which the very boundaries between “real life” and make-believe have become at least blurred, if not indecipherable.

The first, Dreams, addresses film’s ability to transport us out of our everyday lives and into a dream world. Using a series of artists’ installations, the exhibition moves us through the different stages of consciousness and dreaming, from those moments between wakefulness and sleep to the darker recesses of the imagination and fantasy. Dreams is curated by chief curator Kerry Brougher and associate curator Kelly Gordon.

Generous support for The Cinema Effect is provided by The Broad Art Foundation and the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation with assistance from Marion Boulton Stroud, Lorie Peters Lauthier, the British Council, the Holenia Trust in memory of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the Friends of Jim and Barbara Demetrion Endowment Fund, and the Hirshhorn’s Board of Trustees. In-kind support was provided by Sony Electronics Inc. The catalogue was made possible in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and Barbara and Aaron Levine.

More...

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The Jewish Americans - DVD 3812
Everything's cool: A toxic comedy about global warming - DVD 3811
Pioneers of television - DVD 3809
Speedo - DVD 3808
Stolen - DVD 3807
Air guitar nation - DVD 3806
College - DVD 3788

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Plagues and pleasure of the Salton sea - DVD 3782
The king of kong - DVD 3781
As you like it - DVD 3764
Offside - DVD 3759
The Apu trilogy - DVD 3751-3753
Overlord - DVD 3750
Mon oncle = My uncle - DVD 3749
Once - DVD 3745
Vampyr - DVD 3734
The education of Shelby Knox - DVD 3710
The wire: season 4 - DVD 2876-2879
Cesky sen = Czech dream - DVD 3700
Sancharram = The journey - DVD 3694
East is east - DVD 3691
The Buddha of suburbia - DVD 3689

Making Your Media Matter Conference

Taking place February 7-8th, 2008, this year's "Making your media matter" conference was quite a success. The Center for Social Media did a wonderful job organizing and executing this forum. I took some notes on the various sessions and have posted them below.

Games for social change seminar

1. Suzanne Seggerman (Games for change)
1. Most people are afraid of the printed word, novels, and films when they first come out, but over time accept them.
2. Games are good at immersion in a new environment, as well as a chance to change a scenario safely.
3. You have a different cognitive thinking when using video games versus reading.
4. Games for change is a non-profit organization that assumes three things are important and attainable with video games:

i. Education

ii. Social change

iii. Culture

5. Tries to shape the public outlook and increase the outlook for the positive.
6. “Film was the dominant aspect of the 20^th century, interactive media will be the dominant one of the 21^st.
1. Heidi Boisvert (ICED!)
1. The game is out to teach users about the 1996 U.S. immigration policy. It’s a free role-playing game targeting high school and college students.
2. The law itself has deported over 1.4 million people. It costs $95/day to detain someone. Human rights have been denied some of these detainees.
3. The game allows you to play as an immigrant youth seeking asylum. It is a mix of civic questions and avoidance of immigration officers.
4. Developed by over one hundred New York City youths from all over the boroughs.
5. Emphasizes freewill of characters.
6. Attempts to reframe the immigration debate from just illegal aliens.
7. Launching February 18, 2008 on both PC/Mac platforms.
2. Eric Brown (Impact Games)
1. Created a for-profit company in order to launch Peacemaker, a game that addresses the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
2. Emotional impact comes from connection to real life, not just spectacle. Games in include real footage.
3. Their new online platform has constant updates (http://beta-ptn.impactgames.com)
4. The “Play the news” option allows users to read and play other conflicts currently going on in the world. People can sign up by emailing beta@impactgames.com
3. Ivan Marovic (A force more powerful)
1. A single term strategy is a game, which it is a player versus the computer. As a protester you are trying to take down a government, non-violently.
2. It teaches analytical skills and decisions without consequences that you would have in real life, like getting killed or thrown in prison.
3. Ivan’s background is based in non-violence and had designed the game as a tool for others.
4. Documentary films about political uprisings are framed with the filmmaker’s point of view, not the protester. And the film is always linear, with one solution.
5. The game has 10 different scenarios, from fighting for women’s rights to a corrupt city or a government eroding the constitution. This allows the users to tweak each game and scenario according to the data they import.
4. Dennis Palmieri (World without oil)
1. More involved in television, but funded web based content. World without oil, was the first game they sponsored and hosted.
2. World without oil ran for a finite time period in 2007. It corresponded to “real time,” a day equaled a day in this online reality.
3. The programmers created a shell in which people using it created the content. These users made videos, blogs, and comics, which were hosted offsite.
4. The users were sometimes so impacted by the game, that they changed their real lives, making themselves more environmentally friendly.
5. http://www.filmocracy.com will allow users to mash-up content from “King corn”.

“Plight Entertainment”: Engaging audiences with difficult stories seminar

1. Julia Bacha (Edited/co-wrote Control room)
1. Directed Encounter point.
2. Set from the point of view of civilians in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
3. Was first released in film festivals, but as interest grew, was released for purchase then television networks.
2. Giovanna Chesler (AU Professor)
1. http://www.g6pictures.com
2. http://www.periodthemovie.com
3. Focused in on women who have taken drugs to stop their periods.
4. The image/video was shot on 16mm film and non-synch audio was used.
5. Rejected from every film festival it was submitted to.
6. Distributors “got it” and it is being released through Cinema Guild.
7. Latest project is web-based. http://www.hpvboredom.com follows primarily college students and their stories about sexually transmitted diseases.
3. Bristol Baughan (Good Magazine)
1. Graduated from SIS in 2004.
2. Works for Good magazine, which allows is involved in film and the web.
3. Started last year as a film studio.
4. Michael Apted directed their first film, a documentary about soccer, but it was not theatrically released.
5. Marshall Curry, who directed Streetfight, is doing a follow-up about NASCAR from the point of view of kids.
6. Which way is home is a documentary about immigrants who leave their kids in the U.S. hoping they will be able to stay on their own.

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes seminar

1. Byron Hurt (Writer/director Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes)
1. ITVS gave completion funds and the Ford Foundation covered him when he ran over budget.
2. It took six years to shoot. While a fan of hip-hop, Byron is critical of the negative stereotypes that the music propagates (Misogyny, sexism, homophobia, etc.)
3. His first film was rejected by PBS, I am a black man. But it helped create the template for Beyond beats and rhymes.
4. Although there were documentaries about some of the issues his film focused in on, he tried to frame the issue of the manhood complex. Likewise, he tried to structure it so fans of hip-hop could enjoy it, without alienating non-fans.
5. He has numerous screenings which he had the audience fill out surveys which he took very seriously. It actually altered how the film was edited.
6. Although it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2006, but won no awards. However, the media really built up a buzz. ITVS used it as an outreach program.
7. After it was broadcast, Firelight Media started to represent it and continued to be involved its community’s outreach.
2. Sonya Childress (Firelight Media)
1. Firelight Media was initially just a production house that used Beyond beats and rhymes as their first outreach project.
2. The success of Beyond beats and rhymes was rooted in the fact Byron was such a fan of hip-hop while finding a great story.
3. ITVS decided to air the program during their Independent Lens series. The problem was the ideal audience was not who do not typically watch PBS.
4. Pre-broadcast was focused on service providers, teachers, organizations.
5. Tried to empower organizations (Big brother, Boys and girls’ clubs, etc.) to utilize the film specific to each goal, created interactive content, advance screenings, and discussion guides.
6. The Corporation for public broadcasting gave them funds for advertising and they premiered at 1.1 million. However, PBS continued to give supporting funds after the broadcast (Almost unheard of.).
7. About a month after the broadcast, the Don Imus controversy happened where he blamed hip-hop for his comments.
8. The biggest problem was the film never gave an answer/solution which frustrated some viewers.
9. After the film aired, Byron has toured for the past two years so he is finally starting to step back so he can begin working on his next project.
10. The majority of the places he is touring are historical black colleges and universities. The Ford Foundation helps subsidize his travel costs.
11. Emulate what the norm is watching, but insert a subversive message.

Short shorts and hot platforms seminar

1. Matisse Bustos-Hawkes (WITNESS Hub)
1. Works with Witness, an organization that Peter Gabriel started 15 years ago which tries to get a video camera into different people hands to shoot their own stories.
2. The hub (http://www.witness.org) is a website that allows users to upload content dealing with human rights.
3. The creation of the site was a result of concern of the safety of filmmakers and those depicted in the content.
4. They offer options (email, uploading, anonymous logins, etc.) for those without top equipment and those who live in places which are monitored. It allows you to also imbed other site’s videos.
2. Leba Haber (Where My Ladies At?)
1. Utilized http://youtube.com by creating her own video channel and embedding the videos in her own site (http://www.wheremyladiesat.com/). That way she did not have to host these videos. Cost-wise this is a very good idea.
3. Melissa Roberts (Free Range Studios)
1. Works closely with flash animation; example, Store wars.
2. Current project, The story of stuff (http://www.thestoryofstuff.com) deals with where things come from, how they are made and where they go when they are thrown away.
3. Site is very interactive, allows users to check all the facts, but is presented in a humorous way, appealing to all demographics.
4. Leighton Woodhouse (Brave New Films)
1. Brave New Films started as a feature documentary production house, but over time it has branched into online shorts, primarily hosted on their own channel at http://www.youtube.com.
2. Three goals for every project:

i. Fix a target. No matter what the subject, have focus.

ii. Have a story.

iii. Ask people to take action at the end of the piece in a very specific clear way.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Crazy love - DVD 3679
Indie sex - DVD 3677
Slasher - DVD 3676
How art made the world - DVD 3674
Eastern promises - DVD 3665
Things you can tell just by looking at her - DVD 3661
All the king's men (2006) - 3662
All the king's men (1949) - DVD 3661
I like killing flies - DVD 3658
Nine lives - DVD 3657

Bookhunter - part nine

part 9.

Bookhunter - part eight

part 8.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Working man's death - DVD 3645
The libertine - DVD 3642
Waitress - DVD 3641
Entourage: season 3 - DVD 3626-3630
Entourage: season 2 - DVD 3623-3625
Entourage: season 1 - DVD 3621-3622
Ezra - DVD 3610
Five factories - DVD 3609
The debt of dictators - DVD 3608
Conversations with other women - DVD 3607
Primary colors - DVD 3606

Center for Social Media Screening, Wed. Feb. 6, 2008, 5:30pm - Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Wechsler Theater, 3rd Fl. Mary Graydon Center, American University

It's Free!

HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes takes an in-depth look at representations of manhood, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture. This groundbreaking documentary is a "loving critique" of certain disturbing developments in rap music culture from the point of view of a fan who challenges the art form's representations of masculinity.
Discussion to follow film, led by Georgetown Assistant Professor Scott Heath, whose research has included African American literature and black public culture, including hip-hop studies.

Center for Social Media Calendar

Green on the Screen Tomorrow, Thurs. 12:30-1:30pm - Global Banquet: Politics of Food

Global banquet: Politics of food. 2001. 50 min. This film exposes globalization’s damaging effect on our food system in terms that are understandable to the non-specialist. It debunks several underlying myths about global hunger.

Green on the Screen videos will be shown every Thursday @ 12:30pm throughout the Spring Semester in the Media Services Classroom on the lower level of the AU Library. The screenings are open to all and attendees are welcome to bring lunch. Most of the videos scheduled run 60 minutes or less.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The West Wing: the complete series - DVD 3561-3605
Querelle - DVD 3560
Dritte generation = The third generation - DVD 3559
Angst vor der angst = Fear of fear - DVD 3558
Mutter Kusters fahrt zum Himmel = Mother Kusters goes to heaven - DVD 3557
Handler der vier Jahreszeiten = The merchant of four seasons - DVD 3555
Warum lauft Herr R. amok = Why does Herr R. run amok? - DVD 3548

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

10 questions for the Dalai Lama - DVD 3535
Diary of a political tourist - DVD 3534
Topaz - DVD 3532
Marnie - DVD 3531
Rope - DVD 3526
Sabotage - DVD 3522
Der himmel über Berlin = Wings of desire - DVD 3520
End of the century: the story of the Ramones - DVD 3519
Love actually - DVD 3510
The history boys - DVD 3509
The gospel according to Philip K. Dick - DVD 3500
The namesake - DVD 3499

Bookhunter - part seven

part 7.

Bookhunter - part six

part 6.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Dexter: season 1 - DVD 3461 - 3464
Lat sau san taam = Hard boiled - DVD 3459
Joyeux Noël = Merry Christmas - DVD 3458
The baron of Arizona - DVD 3456
I shot Jesse James - DVD 3455
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - DVD 3453
Parting glances - DVD 3452
My beautiful laundrette - DVD 3451
The devil came on horseback - DVD 3448

Women filmmakers article in The Guardian

Just don't call them chick flicks

Just 7% of films are directed by women - but the work on show at the Edinburgh film festival proves female film-makers are punching above their weight, reports Clare Birchall

Friday August 31, 2007
The Guardian

Presidential debate schedule and video

This link may be helpful for professors, students and members of the general public. http://www.youdecide2008.com/2007/06/13/full-2008-debate-schedule-from-dnc-and-gop/ is a website that hosts the Presidential debate schedule as well as video of these debates. Since Media Services has to delete off-air recording of programs after 45 days, this is a great resource for anyone who wants to watch these debates after this time frame.

Bookhunter - part five

part 5.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Freaks and geeks: the complete series - DVD 3441 - 3446
Paprika - DVD 3440
The fallen idol - DVD 3439
Amazing grace - DVD 3420
Rescue dawn - DVD 3419
Go west & The big store - DVD 3418
A night in Casablanca - DVD 3417
Room service & At the circus - DVD 3416
A day at the races - DVD 3415
A night at the opera - DVD 3414

Origins of American Animation @ Library of Congress American Memory site

This is pretty cool. Streaming video of 21 shorts from 1900 to 1921. From a variety of producers including Edison, Gaumont, Essanay, and International Film Service.

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New York Public Library: Webcasts

Webcasts of many of the public events the NYPL has hosted in the past few years. Speakers include Umberto Eco, Werner Herzog, Ken Burns, Robert and Aline Crumb, Jan Morris, Bill Moyers, and E. O. Wilson, among many others.

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British Film Institute: Interviews

The British Film Institute regularly hosts public forums and an interview series at the National Film Theatre in London. Here they offer transcripts from many of their choicest interviews. They include conversations
with people such as Robert Altman, Costa-Gavras, Rickey Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and
Satyajit Ray.


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Bookhunter - part four

part 4.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Pixar short films collection Volume 1 - DVD 3411
Seven years in Tibet - DVD 3409
Killer of sheep - DVD 3408
Heavy metal parking lot - DVD 3407
Manufactured landscapes - DVD 3406
The Sopranos: season 3 - DVD 3399-3402
The Sopranos: season 2 - DVD 3395-3398
The Sopranos: season 1 - DVD 3391-3394

Must-See Video: Winter Soldier

This film, long unavailable, was restored and released on DVD a couple years ago by New Yorker Films. It's a documentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation that occurred in Detroit 1971. It was comprised of the testimony of about thirty Vietnam Veterans against the War on atrocities that were being committed daily and systematically by US military forces. If you think you've heard it all, you haven't. Several related shorts are included on the DVD. Call number: DVD 2600

Bookhunter - part three

part 3.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

The iron giant - DVD 3390
Hamlet (1996) - DVD 3386
Berlin Alexanderplantz - DVD 3385
No end in sight - DVD 2786
Stanley Kubrick: a life in pictures - DVD 2787
300 - DVD 2788
Red road - DVD 2789

Bookhunter - part two

part 2.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Dnevnoy dozor=Day watch - DVD 3384
Paris je t'aime=Paris, I love you - DVD 3378
Checkpoint - DVD 3376
The wind that shakes the barley - DVD 3374
Sicko - DVD 3368
The life aquatic with Steve Zissou - DVD 3367
The l word: season 4 - DVD 3363 - 3366
The l word: season 3 - DVD 3359 - 3362
The l word: season 2 - DVD 3355 - 3358
The l word: season 1 - DVD 3351 - 3354
Paris, Texas - DVD 3348
Queer as folk: season 3 - DVD 3343 - 3347
Queer as folk: season 2 - DVD 3337 - 3342
Queer as folk: season 1 - DVD 3331 - 3336

Bookhunter - part one

part 1.

Robert Bresson article on BFI Sight & Sound

Taken from the BFI: Robert Bresson: Alias Grace

Robert Bresson's films are so singular an achievement they have inspired legions of fine directors. Here Olivier Assayas, Bruno Dumont, Paul Schrader, Eugène Green and Aki Kaurismäki pledge their allegiance, while Michael Brooke introduces his work

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49407

Robert Bresson titles available at AU Library Media Services:

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1116

A Man Escaped (1956)
HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1120

Pickpocket (1959)
HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1805

Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1365

Mouchette (1967)
HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2719

The Devil, Probably (1977)
VHS 6290

L'Argent (1983)
VHS 5733

European Film Buffet

A preview for AFI Silver's 20th annual European Union Film Festival can be found here.

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Hair - DVD 3327
A mighty heart - DVD 3326
Bambi - DVD 3318
Death of a president - DVD 3310
El otro lado de la cama=The other side of the bed - DVD 3308
Election - DVD 3307
The hoax - DVD 3300
Days of heaven - DVD 1964
A bout de souffle=Breathless - DVD 456
The third man - DVD 48
Bronenosets Potyomkin=Battleship Potemkin - DVD 43

Bookhunter - a library detective story

Media Services News is happy to begin sharing this comic by Jason Shiga. Jason's tense, gripping drama rips the lid off the seamy underbelly of the library world. Reproduced with permission, we will have a new installment each Monday.

The entire comic can be seen at shigabooks.com

"The year is 1973. A priceless book has been stolen from the Oakland Public Library. A crack team of Bookhunters (aka. library police) have less than three days to recover the stolen item. It's a race against the clock as our heroes use every tool in their arsenal of library equipment to find the book and the mastermind who stole it.

While this story is based on an actual case, it has been highly fictionalized. I took some liberties with architecture as well. For example, the library of this comic does not in fact exist. It is a hybrid of Oakland Main and the old Berkeley Central library."

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Fraggle rock: the complete first season - DVD 3291 - 3295
Eugene O'neill: a documentary - DVD 3290
Mark Twain - DVD 3289
The insurgency - DVD 3288
Tex Avery's Droopy - DVD 3280
Swiss family Robinson - DVD 3276

Film Movement: a selection of recent international films

Film Movement is an ongoing series of films that have been selected by a panel of film festival curators to expose the work of important emerging international filmmakers. Three of these films will be screened here at American University over the next few weeks. Admission is free and the screenings are open to the public.

Following each film will be a discussion led by film scholar and AU professor Jeffrey Middents.
When: Wednesdays, 6 pm, Oct. 31, Nov. 7, Nov. 14

Where: The Oct. 31 and Nov. 14 screenings will be in Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center - 3rd Floor, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW

The Nov. 7 screening will be in Ward 1, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Films to be screened this fall are:

Oct. 31 - Wechsler Theater
The Great Match (Gerardo Olivares. Spain)
The adventurous story of three soccer fans, none of whom have ever met, but who nevertheless have two things in common: first, they all live in the farthest-flung corners of the planet and, second, they are all determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final between Germany and Brazil. The protagonists in this “global” comedy are a family of Mongolian nomads, a camel caravan of Tuareg in the Sahara, and a group of Indios in the Amazon. They all live 300 miles away from the next town—and the next television—making their task a particularly daunting one. Nevertheless, these inventive people possess the resourcefulness and the willpower to achieve their goal.

Official Selection: Berlin International Film Festival; Seattle International Film Festival 2006; Sydney International Film Festival 2006; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006

Nov. 7 – Ward 1
Madeinusa (Claudia Llosa. Spain-Peru)
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days, sin does not exist: God is dead and can’t see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa, her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo—the Mayor and local big shot—maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change Madeinusa’s destiny.

Awards: Rotterdam International Film Festival; Mar Del Plata Film Festival 2006; Festival de Cine Español de Malaga 2006; Recontres d’Amerique Latine Toulouse 2006; Cine Ceará, Brasil.
Official Selection: Sundance International Film Festival; Seattle International Film Festival; Tribeca Film Festival

Nov. 14 - Wechsler Theater
Bothersome man (Jens Lien. Norway)
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment—even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. The people around him seem cut off from any real emotion, and communicate only in superficialities. The ominous “Caretakers,” who make sure the city runs smoothly, keep a close watch over Andreas when they realize he doesn’t fit in. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, or his life, but he discovers there’s no way out—not even suicide. Then Andreas meets Hugo, who has the same longings as himself. Hugo has found a crack in the wall in his cellar from which beautiful music streams out. In hopes that the crack leads to “the other side,” Andreas and Hugo hatch a new plan of escape.

Awards: Rotterdam International Film Festival; Hamptons International Film Festival 2006; Festival International de Cinema de Catalunya 2006; Brussels European Film Festival 2006

Official Selection: Cannes International Film Festival 2006; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006; Toronto International Film Festival 2006; London International Film Festival 2006; AFI Fest, Los Angeles 2006

Post-film discussion with Jeffrey Middents, Asst. Professor of Literature. Since arriving at AU in 2001, Prof. Middents has taught a wide variety of film courses on cinemas of Latin America, the film musical, the horror film, the movie star, short films, film criticism, and Pedro Almodóvar. He also advises the Cinema Studies minor within the Literature program.
Professor Middents' current book project is called Hablemos de cine peruano: Film Criticism and Peruvian National Cinema. He is also co-editing a volume of English translations of recent film writing from Latin America.
SPONSORS: Friends of the American University Library, the Center for Social Media and the American University Department of Literature.

INFORMATION:
Contact Chris Lewis, Media Librarian, AU Library, clewis@american.edu

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Killer's kiss - DVD 3275
A clockwork orange - DVD 3274
Lolita - DVD 3273
Spartacus - DVD 3272
Paths of glory - DVD 3271
Twilight zone: the movie - DVD 3271
A civil action - DVD 3269
Mala noche=Bad night - DVD 3268

Edifying and odd streaming video from UC-Berkeley

Stephen Hawking lectures (various years)

Malcolm X interview at UCB, 1963

Voices of Black Panther Women Symposium (date unknown)

Richard Eakins, biology professor who used to dress up in period costume and act the part of famous
scientists (circa 1970s)

Lots of other nifty streamed audio and video linked from the same page.

Crittercam Exhibit at National Geographic Museum

It's cute and cuddly for the kids, but it's also real science.
The idea is to attach cameras to animals to see what they do when we aren't around. New technology is quickly expanding this form of wildlife research. See video shot by animals themselves. August 31, 2007 - January 2, 2008 at the National Geographic. Media Services alumna Karen Buckley worked on this exhibit.

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Selected New Acquisitions This Week

PBS' the war - DVD 3261-3266
Indiana Jones and the last crusade - DVD 3253
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom - DVD 3252
Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost arc - DVD 3251
Elizabeth Edwards at American University Octover 2, 2007 - DVD 3279
Cane toads - DVD 3247
Robinson in Space - DVD 3243
London - DVD 3242
Can Mr. Smith get to Washington anymore? - DVD 3240
The women of Brewster Place - DVD 3230
Ten canoes - DVD 3229

New Filmography: Body Image

Body Image / Self Perception / Self Image Filmography
http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/body_image.html

Selected New Acquisitions This Week

Two Trevors go to Washington - DVD 3190
What's up, Doc? - DVD 3177
The fountain - DVD 3176
Batman begins - DVD 3175
Gardens of stone - DVD 3174
Stranger than fiction - DVD 3173
A few good men - DVD 3171
Festen=The celebration - DVD 888

The Baltimore Women's Film Festival is fast approaching! Oct. 13 and 14th

http://www.bwfilmfestival.com/

2007 Human Rights Film Series starts Wednesday, October 3

October 3 - November 8, 2007, the 8th Annual Human Rights Film Series showcases films that show how film and video can make a difference for human rights. Discussions with expert speakers follow all screenings.

NOTE:
All WCL screenings will take place at 6:00pm at the Washington College of Law campus: 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC

All AU screenings will take place at at 5:30pm in the Wechsler Theater, 3rd Fl., Mary Graydon Center, American University main campus, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC (unless otherwise noted).

All screenings are FREE and open to the public.

Encounter Point
by Ronit Avni (2006, 85 minutes)
Follow the unlikely journey of two Israelis and two Palestinians as they risk their lives and public standing to promote nonviolence in their communities. A true story about the everyday leaders who refuse to sit back as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates.
WCL Oct 3 @ 6:00
AU Oct 4 @ 5:30

Devil’s Miner
by Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani (2005, 82 minutes)
Fourteen-year-old Basilieo and his younger brother work in the mines of Cerro Rico in Bolivia, where devout Catholic miners sever their ties with God upon entering the mountain. Winner, Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Special Mention.
WCL Oct 17 @ 6:00
AU Oct 18 @ 5:30

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
by Zach Niles and Banker White (2005, 78 min.)
An inspiring story of survival and rebirth in the wake of the horrors of Sierra Leone’s Civil War, and a triumphant testament to the power of music. SXSW 2006 Film Festival Winner.
WCL Oct 24 @ 6:00
AU Nov 1 @ 5:30

Nov 8 @ 5:30pm
Katzen Arts Center
SPECIAL EVENT! Human Rights in a Time of War: An Evening with Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Award-Winning Producer Liz Garbus

Join us for a powerful evening as Fall 2007 Visiting Filmmaker Liz Garbus shares her experiences and answers your questions about the making of this provocative film. This event takes place against the backdrop of Fernando Botero’s startlingly barbaric exhibit, Botero: Abu Ghraib

Sponsored by the Washington College of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the School of Communication’s Center for Social Media, in collaboration with the Center for Global Peace, the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, and the Office of the University Chaplain, all of American University.

Center for Environmental Filmmaking/Filmmakers for Conservation screenings at AU in October

Tuesday, Oct. 9, Rhett Turner will be discussing and screening his documentary on the ongoing honey bee crisis, Pollinators in Peril.

Tuesday, October 16, David Hamlin, an Emmy award-winning filmmaker at National Geographic TV, will discuss and screen films on wildlife, adventure and archaeology.

Tuesday, October 30, Kathy Milani from the Humane Society of the United States uses film and video to further the cause of animal rights.

All Shows are at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays in The Wechsler Theater, 3rd floor, Mary Graydon Center, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20016. Admission is Free!

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