Sunday, August 10, 2008
New DVD releases round up 11th / 12th August.
Sifting through this weeks crop of contemporary DVD releases we've come up with some recommendations to while away the summer hours wishing the rain away.
In the UK, our pick of the DVD releases on 11th August 2008 are:
Son Of Rambow. After a few weeks delay, this film, of one of last years most charming and genuinely funny films, gets it's DVD release. Director Garth Jennings is back from his criminally ignored sojourn with studio money (in the guise of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy) with this charming, funny, heartfelt and hugely innovative tale of two schoolmates who attempt to make their own film, their own sequel to First Blood, in which they attempt to rescue Rambo (played by a wonderfully vagueEric Sykes). One of the surprise hits of last year. We highly recommend this one for laugh and a big heart.
Check out the trailer below.
The Best of 15th Raindance Film Festival. It does what it says on the tin. A superb collection of short films that featured in the 2007 Raindance Film Festival. There are already a few names from this collection that we are very much looking forward to seeing directing full length features.
Gimme Shelter. An extras pack release of the Mayles brothers classic documentary of the Rolling Stores American tour that culminated in Altamont, and the final beginning of the very end of the 60s dream. Without doubt one of the finest musical documentaries ever made.
In the USA, the pick of the DVD releases on 12th August 2008 are:
Brand Upon the Brain!. Weird is an often overly used word in society, but this DVD release seems to fit the weird and wonderful bill nicely. This strange piece from Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin is as confusing and as a eccentrically delirious trip as you could wish for. (It's like what you dream after eating too much strong cheese before bed on a hot summer night).
Larisa Shepitko: Eclipse Series 11 (Wings / The Ascent). Before her untimely death, Shepitko's all to brief career showed consistent flashes of genius, and had she lived she would not doubt to have gone on to become a significant name in European cinema. Collected her are two films Wings and The Ascent, given a suitable treatment by the Criterion label.
Irina Palm. This one slipped out almost unseen last year. Starring the ever wonderful Marianne Faithfull and ever gorgeous Jenny Agutter. The film follows the exploits a middle-aged widow who, in order to raise money to pay for her grandson`s medical bills, takes a hostess job in a sex club. She soon finds she can turn her hand to almost anything. Sorry for the cheesy write up - the film is much better than our blurb.
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 11th August 2008 are:
Son Of Rambow. After a few weeks delay, this film, of one of last years most charming and genuinely funny films, gets it's DVD release. Director Garth Jennings is back from his criminally ignored sojourn with studio money (in the guise of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy) with this charming, funny, heartfelt and hugely innovative tale of two schoolmates who attempt to make their own film, their own sequel to First Blood, in which they attempt to rescue Rambo (played by a wonderfully vagueEric Sykes). One of the surprise hits of last year. We highly recommend this one for laugh and a big heart.
Check out the trailer below.
The Best of 15th Raindance Film Festival. It does what it says on the tin. A superb collection of short films that featured in the 2007 Raindance Film Festival. There are already a few names from this collection that we are very much looking forward to seeing directing full length features.
Gimme Shelter. An extras pack release of the Mayles brothers classic documentary of the Rolling Stores American tour that culminated in Altamont, and the final beginning of the very end of the 60s dream. Without doubt one of the finest musical documentaries ever made.
In the USA, the pick of the DVD releases on 12th August 2008 are:
Brand Upon the Brain!. Weird is an often overly used word in society, but this DVD release seems to fit the weird and wonderful bill nicely. This strange piece from Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin is as confusing and as a eccentrically delirious trip as you could wish for. (It's like what you dream after eating too much strong cheese before bed on a hot summer night).
Larisa Shepitko: Eclipse Series 11 (Wings / The Ascent). Before her untimely death, Shepitko's all to brief career showed consistent flashes of genius, and had she lived she would not doubt to have gone on to become a significant name in European cinema. Collected her are two films Wings and The Ascent, given a suitable treatment by the Criterion label.
Irina Palm. This one slipped out almost unseen last year. Starring the ever wonderful Marianne Faithfull and ever gorgeous Jenny Agutter. The film follows the exploits a middle-aged widow who, in order to raise money to pay for her grandson`s medical bills, takes a hostess job in a sex club. She soon finds she can turn her hand to almost anything. Sorry for the cheesy write up - the film is much better than our blurb.
Other recommended August 2008 new DVD releases can be found on our site at alt-flix.co.uk DVD releases.
Labels: Gimme Shelter, New DVD releases, Son Of Rambow
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