Archive for July, 2008

New Releases and New Arrivals - July 29

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

New Releases:

  • The Band’s Visit
  • Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin’ With the Godmother
  • Disfigured
  • Doomsday
  • Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
  • Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
  • Kirikou and the Wild Beast
  • Puzzle
  • Rolling Stones: Shine a Light
  • Young & Restless in China

New Arrivals:

  • Dark City (Director’s Cut)
  • The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
  • A Man There Was / Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjostrom Collection)
  • The Outlaw and His Wife / Victor Sjostrom (Victor Sjostrom Collection)
  • Princes and Princesses
  • Privilege
  • Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet)
  • Tai Chi Master

New Releases and New Arrivals - July 22

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

New Releases:

  • The Curiosity of Chance
  • Heartbeat Detector
  • The Last Winter
  • 21

New Releases (TV Series):

  • Earth: The Biography
  • Robot Chicken: Star Wars
  • 30 Days: Season 2
  • TV Funhouse: Complete Series

New Arrivals:

  • An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
  • Andre Techine Collection (Hotel America / I Don’t Kiss / My Favorite Season / Wild Reeds)
  • Batman: Complete 1943 Serial
  • High and Low (Criterion)
  • Mandingo
  • Mystic Pizza
  • Pete Kelly’s Blues
  • The Skull
  • Spaced: The Complete Series
  • Vampyr (Criterion)
  • Yokai Monsters Collection (Along With Ghosts / One Hundred Monsters / Spook Warfare)

Napoleon Dynamite at Boundary Bay!

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

We’re sponsoring tomorrow’s screening of Napoleon Dynamite this Thursday at 7:30 pm in Boundary Bay’s beautiful beer garden,complete with delicious food and even better locally brewed adult beverages. For more info, check out The Travelling Pickford Show’s Summer Schedule here.

All the cool kids will be there - will you?

New Releases and New Arrivals - July 15

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

New Releases:

  • The Bank Job
  • Love My Life
  • Penelope
  • Times and Winds
  • The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

New Releases (TV Series):

  • Dog Whisperer: Season 3
  • Eureka: Season 2
  • Reno 911! Season 5

New Arrivals:

  • All You Need is Love
  • At Last the 1948 Show
  • Derek Jarman: Glitterbox (Caravaggio / Wittgenstein / Blue / The Angelic Conversation)
  • Do Not Adjust Your Set
  • Eagle Shooting Heroes
  • The Fortune Cookie
  • I Spit on Your Grave
  • A Throw of Dice
  • Trafic (Criterion)

New Releases and New Arrivals - July 8

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

New Releases:

  • Chop Shop
  • For the Love of Dolly
  • 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days
  • The Ruins
  • Stop-Loss

New Releases (TV Series):

  • Metropolis
  • Monk: Season 6
  • Psych: Season 2
  • Wire in the Blood: Season 5

    New Arrivals:

    • Mon Oncle Antoine (Criterion)

10 remarkable first efforts

Monday, July 7th, 2008

in no particular order…
1. Loves of a Blond (Milos Forman, 1965)
2. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962)
3. Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocio, 1968)
4. Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, 1985)
5. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
6. Lola (Jaques Demy, 1961)
7. Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989)
8. Blue light (Leni Riefenstahl, 1932)
9. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
10. The Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley/Morris Engle, 1953)

Metropolis, Rediscovered

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Wow — long-assumed gone forever, a complete version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has turned up in Buenos Aires, including over 90 minutes of footage lost for 80 years. Read about it here.

Top 10 Rentals - June 2008

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

What were you watching last month? Here are June’s best-renting movies at Film is Truth!

  1. Juno
  2. The Darjeeling Limited
  3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  4. The Golden Compass
  5. No Country for Old Men
  6. I’m Not There
  7. Lars and the Real Girl
  8. There Will Be Blood
  9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  10. Semi-Pro

Open Thread: France vs. America - Whose Cinema Reigns Supreme?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

July mean Independence Day in America and Bastille Day in France, and to honor both of these holidays, we’re featuring some of our favorite films from both sides of the Atlantic!

Representing America are : High Noon, Bull Durham, The Godfather, The Big Lebowski, cool Hand Luke, Star Wars, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance kid, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, and There Will Be Blood.

And in the French Corner: Breathless, Jules and Jim, Shoot The Piano Player, Le Samourai, The Battle of Algiers, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Paris, Je t’amie, La Vie en Rose, Amelie, The 400 Blow, Persepolis, La Cage Aux Folles and La Femme Nikita.

Anything we’ve left out? We’d love to hear your suggestions! Leave your comments, suggestions, chastisements, etc. below and maybe we can make some real diplomatic progresson this rivalry for once!

We’ll be Closed on July 4th

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

We will be closed all day this Friday for the Fourth of July. All rental periods will be extended an extra day, so stock up early.