Nov 01, 2008
DVDs
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
French auteur Oliver Assayas’ smart and clever sendup of the French film industry, Irma Vep, finally arrives in special edition form on DVD some 10+ years after its release.
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Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Nov 01, 2008
DVDs
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
Adam Yauch (aka Beastie Boys’ MCA) directs this lively if inconsequential documentary about eight high-school basketball players competing in a national contest to show off their skill set at the legendary Rucker Park in Harlem.
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Studio: Peace Arch Entertainment
Nov 01, 2008
DVDs
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
Writer/director Martin Hynes (who played George Lucas in George Lucas in Love) takes on directionless youth in The Go-Getter. There’s not much here to separate this film from other, better road movies—a genre that has been covered several times over.
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Nov 01, 2008
DVDs
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
With the understandable excitement about Criterion going Blu-ray with new releases Bottle Rocket and Chunking Express, it might be easy to over look the release of Lars von Trier’s masterpiece Europa (or Zentropa as it’s commonly referred to in the United States).
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Nov 01, 2008
DVDs
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
Paul Newman’s recent passing was a tremendous loss to the film world. The recent special edition release of one of his signature movies, Cool Hand Luke, is a great tribute to the larger-than-life actor.
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Nov 01, 2008
DVDs
Year End 2008 - Best of 2008
This film is not a film about the famous gun-slinging outlaw but is, instead, an intimate portrayal of adolescence, family, and heartbreak, all experienced by real-life 15-year-old Billy, who is trying to understand a confusing world in his small hometown in Maine.
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