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Title	Director	Publisher	Price
Wild Palms	Phil Joanou, Peter Hewitt, Keith Gordon, Kathryn Bigelow, Bruce Wagner (writer)	MGM	$17.77
Read more and comment...	Without doubt one of the most singularly unusual television shows in the history of the medium, Wild Palms (obliquely referencing the Faulkner novel from which its title is taken) is an ultra-paranoid political thriller that takes place in world clearly reminiscent of David Lynch, whose own unique foray into television, Twin Peaks, concluded its broadcast two years before this was aired in 1993 and was an obvious inspiration for the dream like ambience on display here. It is important to keep Lynch in mind when watching this series, the 6-episode entirety of which is available on this low priced two-disc DVD, to fully appreciate and enjoy it. Like Lynch's work, Wild Palms is not overly worried about verisimilitude. That the action is supposed to take place in the year 2007 adds to the fun of watching it today. To read our full length review, click on the image at left.
Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta delgi Spiriti)	Federico Fellini	Criterion Collection	$25.95 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The most lushly beautiful and haunting of all of Fellini's films, the climax of Federico Fellini's artistic collaboration with his life-long partner, actress Giulietta Masina, an experience that can never be forgotten, Juliet of the Spirits is now available on DVD from the Criterion Collection! In Juliet of the Spirits, the processes involved in identity formation -- specifically those that involve the family dynamic and religious aspirations -- are shown to involve spirits of the past which, while they typically are encountered during the process of "growing up" as the values which are transmitted through the generations, are more real than that and manifest themselves in a variety of other ways. While these processes occur primarily during childhood and adolescence, they continue throughout adult life as well; although most adults seem oblivious to this fact -- but not Giulietta! She is open to the life of the spirit world, and by being so is able to come to terms with her existence. Juliet of the Spirits is a film of intense self-discovery: the layers of illusion and self-delusion peel away one after another as slowly but surely the film makes its way to the core of human being, leading finally to a profoundly satisfying conclusion that frees the individual to face the future on her own terms.
Absolute Beginners	Julien Temple	MGM	$12.77 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This is one of the most overlooked films of the 1980s. An absolute masterpiece, Absolute Beginners attempted the impossible: to single-handedly revive the Hollywood musical, and from England, no less! While, clearly, it did not achieve the impossible, you can, if you try, trace a line from this film that goes slowly-but-surely, step by step, straight through to Moulin Rouge, and, more recently, Across the Universe and a generally more favorable environment for flashy, spectacular cinéma entertainments that, Lord knows, we could all use more of these days. This is a film where, clearly, everyone involved gave their all, and everything fell into place, just right. Click on the box to read our full length review.
By Brakhage	Stan Brakhage	Criterion Collection	$35.00 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This is it! The definitive Brakhage DVD collection. Two DVD set includes the films: The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes Black Ice Cat’s Cradle Commingled Containers Crack Glass Eulogy The Dante Quartet The Dark Tower Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse Desistfilm Dog Star Man Eye Myth For Marilyn The Garden of Earthly Delights I…Dreaming Kindering Love Song Mothlight The Stars are Beautiful Stellar Study in color and Black and White Three hand-painted films: •Nightmusic •Rage Net •Glaze of Cathexis Wedlock House: An Intercourse Window Water Baby Moving The Wold Shadow New high-definition digital transfers of all films, approved by Stan Brakhage Interview with the filmmaker Essay by Brakhage expert Fred Camper Film Info 243 minutes Color/Black and white 1.33:1 Dolby Digital Mono 1.0 Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition To learn more about Stan Brakhage, the films that he has made, and his writings on film and other topics, the best web resource is Fred Camper's Stan Brakhage on the Web.
Lost Highway	David Lynch	Focus International	$17.77 ($19.99 list)
Read more and comment...	The final (major) piece in the puzzle of the Lynchian oeuvre is at last in place. Employing the great American metaphor of driving -- in a highly coded manner that takes one bizarrely twisted turn after another -- Lost Highway shows us the innermost workings of a psyche (in more ways than one, Lynch's own) that failed to successfully navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood and so remains trapped in a state of traumatized adolescence where identity remains in a constant state of transitional flux and the real and the imagined are never far apart. Or something like that. Not to mention the cool soundtrack. Get creeped out, freaked out, wigged out and more!
Titus	Julie Taymor		$17.77 ($24.98 list)
Read more and comment...	With Titus, Julie Taymor proves herself to be one of the very few film directors to successfully employ the visual vocabulary invented by Italian Film Director Federico Fellini and make it speak to her own concerns. That she did so while simultaneously wedding it to the vocabulary, aims and genius of Shakespeare makes this film a truly spectacular achievement. Click on image to read our full review of this amazing film. Recommended!
Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Resnais	Criterion Collection	$34.95 ($39.98 list)
Read more and comment...	directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet w/ Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi <<<•>>> There are few truly one-of-a-kind films. By any measure, Last Year at Marienbad is clearly one of them. A film that is successful like none other in recreating a mental landscape, that shows the inner workings of a restless mind and haunted memory, that employs the language of cinema to probe the interior twists and turns of consciousness, that demonstrates how thought is action in a manner that, while tempermentally quite different from, may yet be considered the most successful translation of the Proustian approach to narrative in any film yet realized. Here, in L'année dernière à Marienbad, like in Á la recherche du temps perdue, we are confronted with a life turned inside out. Robbe-Grillet, Resnais & Co. managed a feat that has yet to be repeated, and now we are presented with the – for now – definitive DVD edition, courtesy of The Criterion Collection (who else?). This is a two-disc edition with some interesting and worthwhile extras – including two short Resnais documentaries from 1956 & 1958 – but all pale next to the glory of the restored high-definition transfer of the film itself. Your film education is incomplete until you've seen this film. And this is also one film that can quite decidedly stand up to repeated viewings, as its aesthetic pleasures and intellectual challenges are not easily exhausted.
Eureka	Nicolas Roeg	MGM	$17.77 ($19.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Eureka is our candidate for the single least appreciated film of all time. This film, the crowning achievement of 1970s auteur Nicolas Roeg (Performance, The Man Who Fell to Earth), so baffled the powers that be at United Artists that they sat on it for years before finally deciding... not to release it! With the exception of a single print, which showed briefly in NYC, LA and Toronto, it never saw the light of a North American movie projector bulb. (It may have played Europe, however) It sat on the shelves for years more, before grudgingly being transferred to video, where it was released to zero fanfare and disappeared. Now, at last it’s on DVD, and the story repeats itself. The company that owns this film simply has no idea what it has. The film is, admittedly, extremely difficult to define and describe, but, hey, we’re going to try. And yes, it wouldn’t be overly difficult to make the case that Roeg himself got lost while making it, but, y’know, we’re not. Read our long description to see what lengths we will go to defend this film.
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Collector's Edition Mega-Set	Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin	A & E	$59.95 ($159.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Copacetic Comics is amazed to present our second Depression Buster Bargain™: ••>> A mind-boggling box of 21 discs featuring just about everything ever produced for television under the aegis of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and then some, at an equally mind-boggling price! The complete series, three live films, one German television show, six personal best shows, two NEW documentary films and bonus galore! What can we say about Monty Python that hasn't been said before? Taking the angsty absurdity of post-WWII European existentialists across the English channel and then running it through the Goon Show grinder, and, via American ex-pat and former Harvey Kurtzman underling,Terry Gilliam, adding a touch of Mad, the Python posse somehow stumbled on a secret formula involving a heretofore unseen combination of startlingly original format, style and sense of humor that gave birth to a once in a lifetime television experience that is now available at what may be a once in a lifetime price. Perfect timing, we say. Read the long description for more details.
La Dolce Vita - Deluxe Collector's Edition	Federico Fellini	Koch Lorber	$39.95 ($79.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	(1960) directed by Federico Fellini • starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg & Anouk Aimée • Here it is: Indisputably one of the greatest films of all time, the film that captured a fleeting moment in time and yet defined not only an era but a state of mind, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita is now available on DVD. This is the film that pinpointed once and for all the transformation that movies -- Hollywood movies initially, but all of cinema ultimately -- have wrought upon the human soul. We are now all actors in a film, we view are own lives as cinematic spectacles to fulfilled, we are all dying to live la dolce vita. And here we have the definitive DVD edition, completely restored and remastered. You can take it from us – Koch-Lorber have done a terrific job here; at least as good as Criterion in this regard: the image is clean and crisp, the contrast is perfectly calibrated and the sound is sharp. And this 3-disc deluxe edition is loaded with bonus features galore, which you can read abot by clicking on the image at left.
By Brakhage, Volume 2	Stan Brakhage	Criterion Collection	$34.95 ($39.98 list)
Read more and comment...	By Brakhage, Volume 2 << • >> Here we have it: a whopping seven and a half hours of work by the undisputed master of independent American experimental cinema, selected by his widow, Marilyn Brakhage, and expertly transferred to digital media by the Criterion Collection Crew. While most movie-goers have never even heard of him, it's hard to over-estimate Brakhage's impact on the history of film. Beginning in the 1950s, he opened up a whole new way of thinking about and working with film. It could be said (and so, we will) that what Einstein was to Newton in the realm of physics, Brakhage was to Eisenstein in the realm of film. Learn quite a bit about what's on this 3-disc set by reading this in-depth essay by Ms. Brakhage.

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