Monday, August 18, 2008
New DVD releases round up 18th / 19th August.
Sifting through this weeks crop of contemporary DVD releases we've come up with some recommendations to help put Stars Wars Clone Wars out of your mind temporarily.
In the UK, our pick of the DVD releases on 18th August 2008 are:
Happy-Go-Lucky. Fresh from his previous film (oscar nominated Vera Drake) Mike Leigh manages to sneak this film out without anyone noticing. Harping back to an attitude he explored in Life Is Sweet, we are served up a marvelous confection of widescreen optimism (to match the mood of the nation). Great film and a stunning lead performance by Leigh collaborator and star in the making Sally Hawkins.
Love is the Devil. This fantastic film from 1998 should have been huge. A biopic of Britain's most controversial painter Francis Bacon, charts his relationship with with his model George Dyer. An amazing script is carried off by a perfect cast Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton and Derek Jacobi. Given a re-release on the very lovely BFI label.
Lonesome Jim . Steve Buscemi directs this excellent comedy drama about a failed novelist who returns home from New York to work in his families ladder factory. Strangely strange.
La Belle et la Bete. Jean Cocteau's 1946 retelling of the classic children's story Beauty And The Beast. One of the most beautifully made films ever.
In the USA, the pick of the DVD releases on 19th August 2008 are:
Twenty-Four Eyes. AKA Nijushi no hitomi. Revered in its homeland of Japan, but little known outside the country, Twenty-Four Eyes is an absolute classic of 1950s Japanese cinema. A masterpiece.
Orson Welles' Don Quixote. Welles unfinished 1961 film was a valiant attempt to bring the notoriously un-transferable tale to the silver screen. His lost masterpiece is lovingly refinished and reshaped by Jesús Franco. Certainly good enough until Terry Gilliam finally gets round to making his version of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - the exploits of which were the subject of the excellent film Lost In La Mancha.
Recount.Providing a slight insight into the 2000 US elections and its farcical outcome, and posing the question what price democracy and where can you find some?
Primo Levi's Journey. A tale of a truly remarkable man and his 1000 mile journey from the Auschwitz concentration camp to his home in Berlin. His footsteps are retraced 60 years later for a new look at Europe.
Other recommended August 2008 new DVD releases can be found on our site at alt-flix.co.uk DVD releases.
In the UK, our pick of the DVD releases on 18th August 2008 are:
Happy-Go-Lucky. Fresh from his previous film (oscar nominated Vera Drake) Mike Leigh manages to sneak this film out without anyone noticing. Harping back to an attitude he explored in Life Is Sweet, we are served up a marvelous confection of widescreen optimism (to match the mood of the nation). Great film and a stunning lead performance by Leigh collaborator and star in the making Sally Hawkins. Love is the Devil. This fantastic film from 1998 should have been huge. A biopic of Britain's most controversial painter Francis Bacon, charts his relationship with with his model George Dyer. An amazing script is carried off by a perfect cast Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton and Derek Jacobi. Given a re-release on the very lovely BFI label.
Lonesome Jim . Steve Buscemi directs this excellent comedy drama about a failed novelist who returns home from New York to work in his families ladder factory. Strangely strange.
La Belle et la Bete. Jean Cocteau's 1946 retelling of the classic children's story Beauty And The Beast. One of the most beautifully made films ever.
In the USA, the pick of the DVD releases on 19th August 2008 are:
Twenty-Four Eyes. AKA Nijushi no hitomi. Revered in its homeland of Japan, but little known outside the country, Twenty-Four Eyes is an absolute classic of 1950s Japanese cinema. A masterpiece.Orson Welles' Don Quixote. Welles unfinished 1961 film was a valiant attempt to bring the notoriously un-transferable tale to the silver screen. His lost masterpiece is lovingly refinished and reshaped by Jesús Franco. Certainly good enough until Terry Gilliam finally gets round to making his version of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - the exploits of which were the subject of the excellent film Lost In La Mancha.
Recount.Providing a slight insight into the 2000 US elections and its farcical outcome, and posing the question what price democracy and where can you find some?
Primo Levi's Journey. A tale of a truly remarkable man and his 1000 mile journey from the Auschwitz concentration camp to his home in Berlin. His footsteps are retraced 60 years later for a new look at Europe.
Other recommended August 2008 new DVD releases can be found on our site at alt-flix.co.uk DVD releases.
Labels: Happy-Go-Lucky, New DVD releases
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