The Copacetic Comics Company

Title	Director	Price
Giant 600 Cartoon Collection		$24.95 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Should you or anyone you know ever find yourself totally burned out, unable to form a single cohesive thought, and in need of some serious downtime where not one iota of effort is required from your enfeebled being, this might be just what you're looking for. This box set of 600 cartoons on 12 discs averaging 50 cartoons each will do the job, and then some, and at a price of less than a nickel per cartoon. About half of the cartoons in this feature characters and cartoons that will be familiar to most, and include some real classics, most notably Betty Boop, Popeye, Felix the Cat and Gumby; and if you really need to dumb it down to numb, put on the discs featuring massive runs of Three Stooges cartoons . Then there are the surprise treats: literally hundreds of cartoons that you may have never seen before featuring characters you're either only dimly aware or never even heard of. Some of these are destined to be your favorites. Don't believe us? You'll see...
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer	Ian McCrudden, Robbie Cavolina	$25.00 ($29.98 list)
Read more and comment...	Years in the making, this definitive documentary film portrait of one of the all-time great jazz singers is now here. It's a two-disc marvel with a bonus disc that includes what all true aficionado's crave: 90 minutes of uninterrupted live performances! Make sure to get a taste here, at the official Anita O'Day website.
Spider-Man: The '67 Collection		$53.95 ($59.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Talk about a long wait! 34 years after the series completed it's 4 year run, it's finally available to own. This 6-Disc box set contains all 52 episodes and runs 1,144 minutes. "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can..." ad infinitum. Our favorite super-hero cartoon series of all time is here.
High School Confidential	Jack Arnold	$13.77 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The secret source of David Lynch's Twin Peaks (Don't believe us? Watch it and see for yourself!)
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra	Larry Blamire	$23.95 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	2004; Larry Blamire; filmed in "Skeletorama"
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Jacques Demy	$21.21 ($24.95 list)
Read more and comment...	1964; Demy; w/ Catherine Deneuve; beaut. new print!
A Woman Is a Woman (Une Femme Est une Femme)	Jean Luc Godard	$25.47 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	1961; Godard; w/early Godard short
Coffee and Cigarettes	Jim Jarmusch	$12.77 ($14.98 list)
Read more and comment...	Looking for the heppest film of the year? Look no further: this is it. Not that many people even know about this film, let alone have seen it. It played here in Pittsburgh for a week at the Oaks, and then was gone. But now it's back, on DVD. Fifteen years in the making. Filmed in glorious black and white, featuring performances by Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Roberto Begnini, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Cate Blanchett, Meg White, Jack White, Alfred Moline, Steve Coogan, Renée French, GZA, RZA, Taylor Mead, Bill Rice, and Bill Murray!
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!
The Believers	John Schlesinger	$12.77
Read more and comment...	This time out Schlesinger looks for linkages in superstitions and conspiracies in the unconscious and asks the question, "When does religious belief become a crime?"
The Falcon and the Snowman	John Schlesinger	$12.77
Read more and comment...	Based on a true story, this film delves deeply into the cold war nexus of defense industries, the CIA, the KGB, and the underground world of drugs, and in the process demonstrates the parallels and linkages between them.
Marathon Man	John Schlesinger	$12.77
Read more and comment...	Reuniting Schlesinger and Hoffman in a thriller involving a graduate student (Hoffman) and a Nazi fugitive (Olivier) locked in a deadly game of intrigue. Intense.
The Day of the Locust	John Schlesinger	$12.77
Read more and comment...	And speaking of Hollywood, this film is an epic adaptation of Nathanael West's infamous novels of Hollywood in the late '30s that is at one with its subject. The definitive '70s film about Hollywood.
Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	$12.77
Read more and comment...	The only X-Rated film to ever win the Oscar® for Best Picture (it's rated R now), also gave Schlesinger an Oscar® for Direction. A fable of innocence and despair, it somewhat caricatures its protagonists, but is nevertheless a film unique in the annals of Hollywood.
Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger	$12.77
Read more and comment...	Watching this film today is a real wake up call. A totally matter of fact look at the varieties of human behavior and interactions, Sunday Bloody Sunday will have you wondering, "What happened?" The citizens populating the 1971 portrayed in this film posses a reasonable and measured approach to living that we seem to have lost somewhere en route to the twenty-first century. The screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt is a wonder of simple human being, refreshingly free of the hooks and plot gimmicks that so inundate the cinema of the present. Schlesinger's direction is an all too rare mastering of naturalism. A film to savor.
Darling	John Schlesinger	$12.77
Read more and comment...	If any film can said to be the sequel to Fellini's La Dolce Vita, this is it. Sumptuously filmed in B & W in a style that at times deliberately echoes Fellini, this film captures the ennui that lies at the center of striving after success and the concomitant materialistic cravings that such a lifestyle engenders and so deepened the reflective mood of reprioritization that characterized the 1960s. A penetrating and beautiful masterpiece, this film took the 1965 Oscar® for Original Screenplay (by Frederic Raphael) and Christie took Best Actress -- rare wins for a British production. Yet, like the next film on our list, it is a film for today as well.
Warner Gangster Collection	Raoul Walsh	$59.92 ($69.92 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This follow-up collection to last year's well-received Noir Collection is now in stock. Six great gangster pics at one great price -- but that's not all! This time around each film is accompanied on disc by an original Warner Brothers cartoon, a newsreel, a short film, and a trailer reel -- thereby replicating the viewing experience of this bygone era. The six films are: •Angels with Dirty Faces •Little Caesar •The Petrified Forest •The Public Enemy •The Roaring Twentiesand... •White Heat! Click here for details!
Inland Empire	David Lynch	$22.22 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	It is safe to say that David Lynch films are like no other films, and that his stories operate much closer to the edge of consciousness and adhere more closely to the logic of dreams than typical Hollywood fare. His plots twist and turn in on themselves like a möbius strip that a cat's gotten a hold of, and it's easy for the casual viewer to get lost; but that's precisely the point. Lynch always aims to destroy the cosy sense that all is right with the world which is the goal of the majority of films, especially those emanating from southern California. Where other forms work to achieve closure, Lynch works to plunge his audience into the abyss that lurks just below the surface of quotidian normalcy. Nowhere is this tendency more evident than in his latest release. Inland Empire is, when you get right down to it, an art film, of the type that is usually a tiny fraction of its length. Its disjointed, discontinuous narrative works to portray how modern consciousness has been subjected to a fundamental reformation as a result of its virtual submersion in the the alternate reality of artificial moving images that surround us in a multiplicity of forms delivering the basic mediums of film and video (which are beginning to merge in the medium of digital video, which, signifigantly, Inland Empire was entirely shot in). The age old sense of a single, contained, isolated and particular self (which may very well have been illusory to begin with) has, in the Lynchian view, given way to a continuous, connected field in which the individual's identity, and, indeed, his or her very being, is constantly in a state of flux and can, at times, be located in other bodies and places, even, at times, those that do not physically exist, but are instead creations of the self same mediums that are responsible for this transformation. Confusing? You bet, but, again, that's the idea. To delve more deeply into Inland Empire, read Dennis Lim's review (complete with clips from the film) at Slate. This 2-disc DVD release features a whopping 211 minutes of bonus material, including 75 minutes of additional scenes referred to as "More Things That Happened." This addition extends the total running time of the film to a vertigo-inducing 254 minutes, so make sure you brew a strong pot of coffee before settling in to watch it (you might even want to consider brewing Dave's own personal roast).
Cartune Xprez: A Collection of Contemporary Animated Videos from the USA and Canada	Various	$12.00
Read more and comment...	This is an amazing, eye-popping new DVD anthology of, for the most part, new school, lo-fi, DIY animations that we're pretty confident you won't be seeing anywhere else anytime soon. Not only that, you'll be hard pressed to find this disc anywhere else. So we're working overtime to bring this disc to your attention as there's some really creative and original work here, the likes of which you may not have previously encountered, at least not on a purchasable DVD. Artists on this disc include Paper Rad & Peter Burr (both Pittsburgh-connected), Amy Lockhart, Takeshi Murata, Phillippe Blanchard, Michael Bell-Smith, Christopher Doulgeris, as well as Hooliganship and Slow Dance Recyttal. Get more details here. PLEASE NOTE: One of the shorts (Gretchen Hogue's Where's My Boyfriend?) is composed of a rapid-fire montage of still images -- most appear to have been cut out of magazines -- that includes quite a few that are pornographic in nature. The on-screen time of these images is generally under one second, they are all employed to humorous effect, and one would be hard pressed to find anything of prurient interest here, but, nevertheless, it renders this collection inappropriate for unsupervised children and anyone who would be offended by this type of material. You have been warned.
Paper Rad -- Taking Out the Trash/Trash Talking	Paper Rad	$12.77 ($15.98 list)
Read more and comment...	Clear your mind and get ready to wrap it around this DVD of Paper Rad video zaniness that just came in. The "Pittsburgh, PA/Northampton, MA collective that has bubbled under the elastic waistline of the world’s slacks for over a decade" presents "This DVD that includes lots of ephemera filling every color on the PANTONE wheel, but also including the recurring Alfe character in a brand new (never aired) TV Pilot. Also included will be the ultimate PAPER RAD “Guide to CD-ROMS” - essential knowledge for jammers everywhere. 60 minutes in all!" If you don't have any idea what we're talking about here, but think it sounds kind of interesting, you might want to check out the trash talking trailer on YouTube. Paper Rad, on DVD. 'Nuff said. Well, maybe not -- we can't help but add: it's a deal!
The Personal Best of Monty Python		$18.88 ($44.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This six-disc box set features the greatest hits of the immortal classic, Monty Python's Flying Circus. The contents of each of the discs was chosen and is introduced by one of the six Pythons and features their personal favorites, which, taken together are sure to encompass a solid majority of anyone's faves, including yours. Want to see for yourself? Here's the complete listing. OK, now that that's over and done with, feast your eyes on our amazing special price below. This is is a perfect opportunity to reacquaint yourself witih this classic, or, better yet, introduce it to someone new.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Julian Schnabel	$25.00 ($29.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Where to begin with a film like this? Well, for starters, this film single-handedly renewed our faith in the existence of a cinema of redemption, of the sort we had thought had long ago passed from this earth. The viewing of this film reveals a complex signification system constructed of layer upon layer upon layer of meaning-generating signs, symbols and referents and designed to address the core theme of communication and those inter-personal relations that most closely -- at least, in Schnabel's view -- inhere to it. These the film differentiates as inter-generational familial relations -- particularly the father-son relation -- along with its corallary, gender relations; the relation between self-interest and self-sacrifice, which can, in turn, be further parsed to the relation between self-expression and submission; which leads, finally, to the relationship between art and religion. These themes are explored to such a depth as to reveal their shared roots. At the end we discover that the essence of life is a struggle to communicate our being in the face of mortality, and that the cinema is -- when properly employed -- a powerful language in this struggle, one that is, in fact -- as powerfully demonstrated by this film -- capable of redeeming the life led in its service.

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