We received many new DVDs over Winter Break, including several of the titles in the Criterion Collection series of DVDs that we did not previously have. Below is a selection of the newest titles to arrive:
9 / Focus Features ; Relativity Media ; Starz Animation ; produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Tim Burton, Dana Ginsburg, Jinko Gotoh, Jim Lemley ; story by Shane Acker ; screenplay by Pamela Pettler ; directed by Shane Acker.
49th parallel / Janus Films ; General Film Distributors, Ltd. ; an Ortus Films production ; original story and screenplay by Emeric Pressburger ; scenario by Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger ; produced and directed by Michael Powell.
(500) days of Summer / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Watermark production ; produced by Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Mason Novick, Steven J. Wolfe ; written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber ; directed by Marc Webb.
Adventure in Sahara / Columbia Pictures presents ; story by Samuel Fuller ; screenplay, Maxwell Shane ; directed by D. Ross Lederman.
America goes over : WWI propaganda film / J.C. Kalein, Jr.
Awakenings / a Lasker/Parkes production ; screenplay by Steven Zaillian ; produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker ; directed by Penny Marshall.
Between two worlds : the Hmong shaman in America / Siegel Productions ; directed and edited by Taggart Siegel ; produced by Taggart Siegel and Dwight Conquergood.
Cemetery stories : a rebel missionary in South Africa / a documentary by Cherif Keita.
Chapaev = Chapayev / proizvodstvo kinostudii “Lenfilm”
The circus / a comedy written, directed, and produced by Charlie Chaplin.
The Crimson kimono / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; a Globe Enterprises production ; written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller.
The curious case of Benjamin Button / Paramount Pictures & Warner Bros. Pictures present a Kennedy/Marshall production ; produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin ; screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord ; screenplay by Eric Roth ; directed by David Fincher.
The Devil and Daniel Webster / an RKO Radio picture ; a William Dieterle production ; produced and directed by William Dieterle ; screenplay by Dan Totheroh and Stephen Vincent Benét.
District 9 / Peter Jackson presents in association with TriStar Pictures and Block/Hanson, a Wingnut Films production, a film by Neill Blomkamp ; produced by Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham ; written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell ; directed by Neill Blomkamp.
Dumb and dumberer : when Harry met Lloyd / New Line Cinema presents a Brad Krevoy/Charles B. Wessler/Steve Stabler production, a Burg/Koules and Dakota Pictures production, a Troy Miller film ; producers, Oren Koules, Charles B. Wessler, Brad Krevoy, Steve Stabler, Troy Miller ; screenplay writers, Robert Brener, Troy Miller ; director, Troy Miller.
The furies / Paramount Pictures presents Hal Wallis’ production ; produced by Hal B. Wallis ; screenplay by Charles Schnee ; directed by Anthony Mann.
Gran Torino / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Double Nickel Entertainment ; a Malpaso Production ; directed and produced by Clint Eastwood ; screenplay by Nick Schenk ; story by David Johannson & Nick Schenk ; produced by Robert Lorenz, Bill Gerber.
The great possibility : Louis Riel & the Metis resistance / Strange Empire Productions, Inc. ; directed by Gil Cardinal, Tom Radford, Marke Stipp.
If– / Paramount ; a Memorial Enterprises film ; director of photography, Miroslav Ondricek ; screenplay by David Sherwin ; produced by Michael Medwin and Lindsay Anderson ; directed by Lindsay Anderson.
Inglourious basterds / Universal Pictures and The Weinstein Company presents A Band Apart, Zehnte Babelsberg Film, Visiona Romantica production ; produced by Lawrence Bender ; written by Quentin Tarantino ; directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Intolerable cruelty / Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present a Brian Grazer production in association with Alphaville ; produced by Ethan Coen, Brian Grazer ; screenplay by Robert Ramsey & Matthew Stone and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen ; directed by Joel Coen.
It happened in Hollywood / Columbia Pictures presents ; screenplay, Ethel Hill, Harvey Fergusson and Samuel Fuller ; directed by Harry Lachman.
John Cromwell’s Dead reckoning / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; screen play by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Steve Fisher ; adaptation by Allen Rivkin ; story by Gerald Adams, Sidney Biddell ; produced by Sidney Biddell ; directed by John Cromwell.
Julie & Julia / Columbia Pictures presents an Easy There Tiger/Amy Robinson production ; a Laurence Mark production ; a film by Nora Ephron ; produced by Laurence Mark, Nora Ephron, Amy Robinson, Eric Steel ; screenplay by Nora Ephron ; directed by Nora Ephron.
Mamma mia! / Universal Pictures present in association with Relativity Media, a Playtone/Littlestar production ; produced by Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman ; screenplay by Catherine Johnson ; directed by Phyllida Lloyd.
Le mani sulla città = Hands over the city / Janus Films ; Lionello Santi presenta ; una produzione Galatea S.p.A. ; soggetto [story], Francesco Rosi, Raffaele La Capria ; sceneggiatura [screenplay], Francesco Rosi, Raffaele La Capria, Enzo Provenzale, Enzo Forcella ; regia, Francesco Rosi.
The men who danced / producer and director, Ron Honsa ; writer, Richard Philp.
N!ai : the story of a !Kung woman / produced by John Marshall and Sue Marshall-Cabezas ; directed and edited by Adrienne Miesmer and John Marshall; a co-production of Documentary Educational Resources and Public Broadcasting Associates.
Le plaisir / Gaumont ; Gaumont Distribution présente ; Columbia Films S.A. présente une production C.C.F.C., E. Harispuru, producteur délégué, et Stera Films ; un film de Max Ophüls ; adaptation de Jacques Natanson et Max Ophüls ; dialogues de Jacques Natanson.
Power of the press / Columbia Pictures presents ; story by Samuel Fuller ; screenplay, Robert H. Andrews ; produced by Leon Barsha ; directed by Lew Landers.
The saddest music in the world / Rhombus Media, Buffalo Gal Pictures and Ego Film Arts present ; written by George Toles and Guy Maddin ; produced by Niv Fichman, Jody Shapiro ; directed by Guy Maddin.
Scandal sheet / Columbia Pictures presents ; story by Samuel Fuller ; screenplay, Ted Sherdeman, Eugene Ling, and James Poe ; produced by Edward Small ; directed by Phil Karlson.
Shockproof / Columbia Pictures presents ; written by Helen Deutsch and Samuel Fuller ; directed by Douglas Sirk.
Slacker / Detour Filmproduction ; producer, writer, director, Richard Linklater.
Spoorloos = The vanishing / Janus Films ; world distribution, Cine International ; MGS Film presents ; screenplay, Tim Krabbé ; adapted by George Sluizer ; producers, Anne Lordon and George Sluizer ; a coproduction Golden Egg Film, Ingrid Productions ; a film by George Sluizer.
The spy who came in from the cold / a Paramount picture ; a Salem production ; screenplay by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper ; produced and directed by Martin Ritt.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm : two takes / Janus Films ; Take One Productions Ltd. presents ; co-producer, Manuel Melamed ; produced, directed and edited by William Greaves. Janus Films ; Steven Soderbergh presents ; in association with William Greaves Productions, Inc. ; co-producer, Louise Archambault ; executive producers, Steven Soderbergh, Steve Buscemi ; produced and directed by William Greaves.
Taxi blues / ASK Eurofilm ; Centre National de la Cinématographie ; Le Sept Cinéma ; Lenfilm Studios ; MK2 Productions ; Ministry of Culture and Communications ; produced by Mark Gekht, Aleksandr Golutva, Pierre Rival ; written by Pavel Lungin ; directed by Pavel Lungin.
This sporting life / Janus Films ; Granada International ; Rank Organisation presents Independent Artists ; a Julian Wintle and Leslie Parkyn production ; produced by Karel Reisz ; screenplay by David Storey ; directed by Lindsay Anderson.
Threads of life : hemp and gender in a Hmong village / Susan Morgan and Kathleen Culhane-Pera.
Trafic / Janus Films ; StudioCanal ; Les Films Corona present ; scénario original de Jacques Tati ; avec la collaboration artistique de Jacques Lagrange ; et la participation de Bert Haanstra ; production, Films Corona, Films Gibé, Selenia Cinematografica ; produit par Robert Dorfmann ; un film de Jacques Tati.
Trisha Brown : early works 1966-1979.
Twilight / Summit Entertainment presents ; produced by Greg Mooradia, Mark Morgan, Wyck Godfrey ; screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg ; directed by Catherine Hardwicke.
Two-lane blacktop / Universal presents ; a Michael S. Laughlin production ; screenplay by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Corry ; story by Will Corry ; produced by Michael S. Laughlin ; directed by Monte Hellman.
Underworld U.S.A. / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; a Globe Enterprises production ; written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller.
Up / Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar Animation Studios film ; directed by Pete Docter ; co-directed by Bob Peterson ; produced by Jonas Rivera ; story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy ; screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter.
You got to move : stories of change in the South / Cumberland Educational Cooperative, Inc. ; filmmakers, Lucy Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver.