Available to buy or rent on DVD Monday, June 2nd, 2008 in UK, Friday, May 30th, 2008 in Eire.
“Impressive and urgent” Cath Clarke, The Guardian
“A thoughtful documentary. ***” Mark Adams, Sunday Mirror
Warner Home Video UK is proud to announce the DVD release of THE 11th HOUR. Produced and presented by Leonardo DiCaprio, the film is a powerful and inspiring environmental documentary, motivating audiences to take personal action against global warming and informing them about practical ways of doing so. The DVD includes over an hour of special features.
Narrated by renowned actor and high profile environmental campaigner Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed, Blood Diamond); THE 11th HOUR is co-directed and co-written by Tree Media Group’s Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners. Petersen also produces with DiCaprio, Chuck Castleberry (Global Warming, Water Planet), Brian Gerber (Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew) and Pierre Andre Senizergues. Well known businessman and philanthropist Adam Lewis is executive producer.
THE 11th HOUR presents an urgent and transformational look at where we have been, where we are going, and most crucially, how we can change. Influential experts including: Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking and sustainable-design expert William McDonough reveal the critical state of life on our planet. By bringing the audience face-to-face with the shocking outcomes of continuing on our current path, they urge and motivate action. Will the world’s population employ break-through technologies and change our behaviour to save our species? The crisis is here now, but so are the solutions to turn humankind’s darkest hours into its finest.
*SPECIAL NOTE: The packaging for the DVD will be 100% environmentally friendly; with 100% recycled cardboard outer, and 100% sustainably sourced, biodegradable paper-foam disc tray.
20th Century Fox is proud to announce the theatrical release of MEET DAVE, in cinemas from July 18th 2008.
Starring Eddie Murphy (Trading Places, Coming To America, Beverley Hills Cop) and Elizabeth Banks (Definitely Maybe, Fred Claus) MEET DAVE is a hilarious comedy in the vein of Inner Space meets Crocodile Dundee.
Dave Ming Chang (Eddie Murphy), newly arrived in New York City, may be the ultimate fish out of water. There's something about him that's not quite right – for starters, he seems remarkably out of place and uncomfortable in his own body. And for good reason: "Dave" is not a man at all, but a ship made in the image of its miniature-sized captain. It's Eddie Murphy in Eddie Murphy in "Meet Dave".
"The Kite Runner is an enthralling piece of cinema. The performances are note perfect; in some cases sublime" **** Times
"A lively, earthy, authentic edge" **** Channel 4 Film
The poignant and intimate epic based on Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel, THE KITE RUNNER, is a profoundly moving tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes, betrayal and redemption.
Directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball), THE KITE RUNNER received widespread critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, as well as Golden Globe nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Score and three BAFTA nominations for Best Film Not in the English Language, Best music and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Set in contemporary London, CASSANDRA'S DREAM is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers (EWAN McGREGOR, COLIN FARRELL) who are desperate to better their troubled lives.
One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful actress (newcomer Hayley Atwell) he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled into a sinister situation with intense and unfortunate results.
Written and directed by Academy Award winner Woody Allen, the film also stars Tom Wilkinson and Sally Hawkins. The score is by Phillip Glass and the cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond.
CASSANDRA'S DREAM is released on May 23rd. Click on the link above for a trailer.
Graeme Clark [2 May 2008 at 19:11]
Farewell Julie Ege
Norwegian sex symbol dies aged 64
The death of Norwegian starlet of the late sixties and seventies, Julie Ege, has been announced; she had been suffering from cancer. For a while her career looked bright, with appearances in a Bond movie - On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Marty Feldman vehicle Every Home Should Have One, the Up Pompeii film and Hammer's Creatures the World Forgot, but she never really broke out of the cult movie world. Other appearances included The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, The Final Programme, Craze, Percy's Progress, The Mutations and The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires. She eventually retired from the screen to become a nurse back in Norway.
Graeme Clark [1 May 2008 at 17:09]
The JIM JARMUSCH Collection: VOL 1 on DVD
Details of the box set
Released by Optimum Home Entertainment on the 12th of May.
PERMANENT VACATION (1980)
Made for just $15,000, Permanent Vacation was actually rejected by the Tisch school as Jarmusch’s final thesis for being “a waste of their time”. Aloysius “Allie” Parker (Chris Parker) embarks on a thoughtful meander around a surreal, almost post-apocalyptic New York City, bored by life and inspired by the improvisational jazz of his hero Charlie Parker. Co-starring Frankie Faison and featuring the first collaboration of many between Jarmusch and Lounge Lizards’ John Lurie (soundtrack), Tim DiCillo (cinematographer), Richard Boes and Sara Driver, amongst others.
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984)
Structured around the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins song I Put A Spell On You, Stranger Than Paradise sees John Lurie move centre stage as New York hipster Willie who forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva (Estzer Balint) when she comes to visit him unannounced. Eva then moves to Cleveland to live with their Aunt Lotte (Cecilia Stark), and it’s almost a year later that Willie takes his best friend Eddie (Richard Edson) to see her; a visit that culminates with an eventful road trip to Florida. Winner of both the Camera D’Or at Cannes and the Special Jury Prize at Sundance on its release along with a host of other international awards.
Extras: Stranger than Paradise in Cleveland featurette (14 min)
DOWN BY LAW (1986)
DJ Zack (Tom Waits) and pimp Jack (John Lurie) end up in jail because they are too laid-back to defend themselves for crimes they didn’t actually commit. Sharing their cell is Roberto (Roberto Benigni) – a eccentric Italian optimist – who along with a poor grasp of English possesses knowledge of an escape route. After their breakout, the unlikely trio find themselves stumbling on an isolated diner in the Louisiana swamps, whose proprietor is a lonely Italian woman (Benigni’s real life wife Nicoletta Braschi).
Extras: Robby Muller Interview / Deleted Scenes / Isolated Music Track / Jim's phone calls with Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, and John Lurie (AUDIO ONLY) / Tom Waits video of It's Alright With Me directed by Jim Jarmusch
Graeme Clark [1 May 2008 at 16:47]
In The Valley of Elah on DVD
New release date
Inspired by true events, In The Valley of Elah is Haggis' directing follow-up to the Academy Award(R) winning Crash and stars Tommy Lee Jones in an Oscar-nominated performance.
OUT TO OWN ON DVD & BLU-RAY 26th May 2008.
Extras: Featurette: After Iraq / Featurette: Coming Home / UK Exclusive Interview with Paul Haggis / Additional Scenes / Trailer / 5.1 / Hard Of Hearing subtitles
Cert: 15
Feature Running Time: 121 mins approx.
Graeme Clark [1 May 2008 at 16:41]
Smithereens on DVD
Punk fave
Punk classic from Susan Siedelman, director of Desperately Seeking Susan
DVD Release date: 2nd June 2008
Running time: 89 minutes
RRP: £15.99
Cert: 15
Extras: Feature only
THE WORLD BELONGS TO WREN. She’s nineteen and awash in the boundless energy of someone determined to make it big in the world of rock ‘n’ roll. The pieces of her world are scattered over lower Manhattan: the abandoned train yards along the Hudson River; a grungy Lower East Side tenement; the copy shop where she works; and most of all, the helter skelter world of East Village rock clubs, like the Peppermint Lounge. It doesn’t matter that that Wren can’t sing, or play an instrument, or write songs; or that her aggressiveness is often rewarded with a black eye or busted lip. Desperation makes people do dangerous things.
Susan Seidelman’s first feature rocked the world of cinema, winning acclaim from Cannes to Hollywood. She went on to bigger projects like Desperately Seeking Susan and She-Devil, but Smithereens, with its barbed wire humor and indefatigable heroine, remains a classic of American independent cinema.
