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List Price: $29.95Price: $24.99You Save: $4.96 (17%)The Times of Harvey Milk 1984
Actors: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano
ASIN : B0001Y4LDW
Sales Rank : 3394
Director : Rob Epstein
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567303506
ISBN : 1567303501
UPC : 717119922443
Release Date : December 08, 2004
Publisher : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 90
Amazon.comA devastatingly skillful and emotionally compelling documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk charts the political rise and brutal slaying of the first openly gay city official in the United State, Harvey Milk. Ironically, the same election that brought Milk to the board of city supervisors of San Francisco also elected the man who killed him, a former police officer and fireman named Dan White. After White shot both Mayor George Moscone and Milk, his defense lawyers convinced the jury that White's judgment was impaired by depression and junk food, resulting in a conviction for manslaughter instead of murder--a verdict that prompted riots. With care and conviction, The Times of Harvey Milk captures not only Milk himself, but also the political and social landscape in which these events took place. The interviews--with friends, politicians, and journalists--are articulate and heartfelt, expressing the impact that Milk had upon this historical moment. --Bret Fetzer
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Still Life
Actors: Wang Hong Wei, Zhao Tao, Zhou Lin, Han Sanming, Li Zhubin
ASIN : B001CD6GL6
Sales Rank : 13420
Director : Jia Zhang Ke
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0717119111748
UPC : 717119111748
Release Date : December 25, 2008
Publisher : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 108
Product DescriptionIn Still Life, great changes have come to the town of Fengjie due to the construction of the Three Gorges hydro project on the Yangtze River. Countless families that had lived there for many generations have had to relocate to other cities. Fengjie's old town, which has a 2000-year history, has been torn down and submerged forever. There are still things that need to be salvaged and yet there are also things that must be left behind. In Still Life, such life-changing choices face both Sanming, a miner traveling to Fengjie in search of his ex-wife of sixteen years, and Shen Hong, a nurse who has come to Fengjie to look for her husband who she hasn't seen in two years. Both Sanming and Shen will find who they're looking for, but in the process they too will have to decide what is worth salvaging in their lives and what they need to let go of. Still Life is an empathetic portrait of those left behind by a modernizing society and, as in director Jia Zhang-ke's earlier films (Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World), it is a unique hybrid of documentary and fiction. Special Features:
- Additional feature film, Dong (68 minutes)
- Interview with director Jia Zhang-ke
- Theatrical Trailer
- Scene Selections
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- Enhanced for 16x9 TVs
- Optional English subtitles "A BREATHTAKING collision of fact and fiction. A movie to change one's view of both cinema and life. As such, it's very, very dangerous." John Anderson, NEWSDAY "Extremely beautiful!" David Denby, THE NEW YORKER "Extraordinary!" Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)My Architect: A Son's Journey
Actors: Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, B.V. Doshi, Frank O. Gehry, Philip Johnson
ASIN : B0006Q93EM
Sales Rank : 12312
Studio : New Yorker Video
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567303728
ISBN : 1567303722
UPC : 717119901547
Release Date : December 15, 2005
Publisher : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 116
DescriptionA riveting tale of love, art, betrayal and forgiveness -- in which the illegitimate son of a legendary architect undertakes a worldwide exploration to discover and understand his father's and the personal choices he made. Louis I. Kahn is considered by many historians to have been the most important architect of the second half of the twentieth century. While Kahn's artistic legacy was a search for truth and clarity, his personal life was secretive and chaotic. His mysterious death in a train station men's room left behind three families -- one with his wife and two with women with whom he had long-term affairs. The child of one of these extra-marital relationships, Kahn's only son Nathaniel, sets out on a journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious man. Revealing the haunting beauty of his father's monumental creations and taking us to the rarified heights of the world's celebrated architects and deep within his own divided family, Nathaniel's personal journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art and ultimately, of life itself. Amazon.comOne nonfiction film that truly creates a narrative journey, My Architect is filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn's engrossing search for his father. Louis Kahn, one of the most celebrated architects of the 20th century, died in 1974 and left behind a highly compartmentalized life, including two children born out of wedlock to two mistresses. Nathaniel interviews the members of this somewhat puzzled family, but his deepest experiences are visits to the buildings that his father made (such as the grand Salk Institute in La Jolla, California), culminating in an emotional trip to Bangladesh. Here, Louis Kahn designed a massive government complex, a soaring achievement (and fascinating paradox--a Muslim capital designed by a Jewish man). This film asks: where does an artist truly live? In his life, or in the work he leaves behind? Nathaniel Kahn takes an amazingly even-tempered approach to this, given his personal stake in the story, and the result is a uniquely stirring movie. --Robert Horton
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Life And Debt
Actors: Belinda Becker, Buju Banton, Horst Köhler, Michael Manley (II), Stanley Fischer
ASIN : B00008NNPK
Sales Rank : 16553
Director : Stephanie Black (II)
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567303117
ISBN : 1567303110
UPC : 717119830342
Release Date : December 24, 2003
Publisher : New Yorker Video
Manufacturer : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 86
Amazon.comSet to a beguiling reggae beat, Life and Debt takes as its subject Jamaica's economic decline in the 20th century. The story has reverberations in the plight of other third-world nations blindsided by globalization, like Ghana and Haiti. After England granted Jamaica independence in 1962, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) stepped in with a series of loans. These loans came with strings attached--the kind that would eventually plunge the country $7 billion into debt, stranded without the resources to dig themselves out. Although IMF officials get the chance to have their say, it's clear where filmmaker Stephanie Black's sympathies lie--with the country's underemployed farmers and sweatshop workers. Jamaica Kinkaid (A Small Place) penned the narration, while the soundtrack features some of the "imports" with which this island nation remains mostly closely associated: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Mutabaruka, who performs the title track. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Fire
Actors: Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur, Dilip Mehta, Javed Jaffrey, Nandita Das
ASIN : 1567302246
Sales Rank : 15615
Director : Deepa Mehta
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567302240
ISBN : 1567302246
UPC : 717119653040
Release Date : December 27, 2000
Publisher : New Yorker Video
Manufacturer : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 108
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Jazz on a Summer's Day/A Summer's Day With Bert Stern
Actors: Jimmy Giuffre, Thelonious Monk, Henry Grimes, Sonny Stitt, Sal Salvador
ASIN : B00003OSU4
Sales Rank : 12981
Director : Bert Stern, Aram Avakian
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567302141
ISBN : 1567302149
UPC : 717119165048
Release Date : December 14, 2000
Publisher : New Yorker Video
Manufacturer : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 84
Amazon.com essential videoPart concert documentary, part pop-cultural time capsule, Bert Stern's Jazz on a Summer's Day chronicles the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with an approach as deceptively relaxed, even impulsive, as the music itself. Still photographer Stern sidesteps more formal documentary conventions such as narrative voiceovers to wander purposefully from festival stage to boarding-house jam sessions, taking in the parallel color and motion of the America's Cup preparations when he isn't capturing rich color footage of the performances and the celebratory mood of the concertgoers. In the process, he documents American jazz at a notably golden moment in its development--diverse, adventurous, and still broadly popular, this was jazz not yet under the shadow of rock and youth culture, played by an integrated artistic community a few short years away from social and political turmoil that would boil divisively to the surface during the '60s. To say Stern was rolling film in a jazz Camelot is overstatement, but only slightly so. Stern's circular approach and wonderful eye achieve a breezy languor at the expense of more comprehensive coverage of the festival's bumper crop of strong jazz, blues, and gospel musicians. Perhaps inevitably, the camera lingers on Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, and George Shearing. Avid fans of later styles may be frustrated by the fleeting glimpses of other musicians such as Eric Dolphy and Art Farmer, or the honor roll of classic jazz stylists whose Newport sets weren't included in the film, but such omissions seem forgivable, if not necessary, to Stern's serendipitous design. --Sam Sutherland
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List Price: $29.95Price: $24.99You Save: $4.96 (17%)Flamenco
Actors: La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Sanlúcar, Joaquín Cortés, Manuel Moneo
ASIN : B0000DIJOT
Sales Rank : 12140
Director : Carlos Saura
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567303247
ISBN : 1567303242
UPC : 717119622343
Release Date : December 02, 2003
Publisher : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 100
Product DescriptionThe film presents 13 rhythms of flamenco each with song guitar & dance: the up-tempo bularias a brooding farruca an anguished martinete & a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos a taranta alegrias siguiriyas soleas a guajira of patrician women a petenera about a sentence to death & a final rumba. Studio: New Yorker Films Video Release Date: 12/02/2003 Run time: 100 minutes
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Earth
Actors: Maia Sethna, Nandita Das, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Babby Singh, Kitu Gidwani
ASIN : B00008R9KP
Sales Rank : 14921
Director : Deepa Mehta
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567302332
ISBN : 1567302335
UPC : 717119781347
Release Date : December 15, 2003
Publisher : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 101
DescriptionEarth, The second film in Deepa Mehta's controversial trilogy is an emotionally devastating love story set within the sweeping social upheaval and violence of 1947 India. As her country teeters on the brink of self rule and instability, 8-year old Lenny, an innocent girl from an affluent family, is in danger of having her world turned upside down. As the simmering violence around them reaches a boiling point, Lenny's beautiful nanny Shanta (Nandita Das) falls in love with one of Lenny's heroes,… the charismatic and peace-advocating Hassan. Love, however, can be dangerous when religious differences are tearing the country apart, and friendships and loyalty are put to the test. Building to a shattering climax, Earth is a devastating human drama in which desire unfolds into a stirring tale of love and the ultimate betrayal. Amazon.comA tragedy set against the ethnic violence of India's independence in 1947, the second film in Deepa Mehta's elemental India trilogy is even more incendiary than her controversial Fire. Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Parsees alike buzz like bees around the lovely flower Shanta (Nandita Das), the Hindu nanny of sheltered 8-year-old Parsee girl Lenny-baby. This sunny Eden of racial harmony plunges into darkness when independence brings the partition of the empire and sets ethnic groups against one another in civil war. As seen through the naive eyes of little Lenny-baby, Earth is more tragic melodrama than social history, but what Mehta's adaptation of Bapsi Sidhwa's autobiographical novel Cracking India lacks in insight, it makes up for in fiery imagery, emotional passion, and a heavy-hearted longing for the paradise lost. --Sean Axmaker
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List Price: $29.95Price: $24.99You Save: $4.96 (17%)Promises
Actors: Maia Sethna, Nandita Das, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Babby Singh, Kitu Gidwani
ASIN : B00031TXGI
Sales Rank : 18554
Director : Carlos Bolado, Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567303681
ISBN : 1567303684
UPC : 717119951443
Release Date : December 16, 2004
Publisher : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 102
Amazon.comPromises presents a powerful portrait of seven Palestinian and Israeli children who live in and around Jerusalem. As filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg, who was raised in Israel, notes, "They live no more than 20 minutes from each other, but they are each growing up in very separate worlds." The children include Mahmoud, Shlomo, Sanabel, Faraj, Moishe, and twins Yarko and Daniel. With the exception of the latter, all are religious (the twins are the grandchildren of a Holocaust survivor). Most have strong political beliefs and have seen their share of tragedy--Faraj's friend was killed in front of him--but as the film makes clear, they're also kids. They like to watch TV, hold burping contests, and compete in sports (Faraj is a runner, Yarko and Daniel play volleyball). Promises doesn't attempt to explain them, but lets the kids speak for themselves. The results are funny, sad, and ultimately quite profound. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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List Price: $39.95Price: $35.99You Save: $3.96 (10%)Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection
Actors: Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore
ASIN : B000VEA3MU
Sales Rank : 19990
Director : Charles Burnett
Studio : New Yorker Video/Milestone Cinematheque
Region Code : 0
Format : Black & White, NTSC, Full Screen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0784148010748
UPC : 784148010748
Release Date : December 20, 2007
Publisher : New Yorker Video/Milestone Cinematheque
Manufacturer : New Yorker Video/Milestone Cinematheque
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Running Time : 81
Product DescriptionOne of the 100 Essential Films. -National Society of Film Critics DVD Details: USA, 1977, 80 minutes, B&W, Region 0, NTSC, In English; Special Features of this 2-disc deluxe box set: KILLER OF SHEEP commentary track with Charles Burnett and the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Richard Peña; KILLER OF SHEEP cast reunion video by Ross Lipman (who restored the film); KILLER OF SHEEP trailer; Burnett's second feature, MY BROTHER'S WEDDING (1984. Color. In English. Starring Everett Silas and Jessie Holmes): the original 115-minute cut and the director's 82-minute cut; three rediscovered short films: SEVERAL FRIENDS (1969. 23 minutes.), THE HORSE (1973. 13 minutes.), and WHEN IT RAINS (1995. 13 minutes.); the new short on Hurricane Katrina, QUIET AS KEPT (2007. 5 minutes.); and liner notes by film critic Armond White. A masterpiece of African American filmmaking and one of the finest debuts in cinema history, KILLER OF SHEEP was chosen for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. In the Los Angeles community of Watts, Stan, a sensitive dreamer, is growing detached and numb from the toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a teacup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife, holding his daughter. Combining lyrical moments with neorealist style, Burnett unfolds his story with compassion and humor. KILLER OF SHEEP's haunting images and extraordinary soundtrack are a revelation in this new high-definition transfer from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's brilliant 35mm restoration. View the trailer here: http://www.killerofsheep.com/trailer.html. The 2-disc special edition also includes an additional full-length feature (original release & director's cut), MY BROTHER'S WEDDING: When MY BROTHER'S WEDDING was rushed to a festival screening before the director could make his final cut, it received mixed reviews and was never released - denying audiences the chance to discover Burnett's remarkable second feature. The film critic Armond White called this 'a catastrophic blow to the development of American popular culture.' Revisited decades later, following restoration by the Pacific Film Archive and a complete re-edit by Burnett, MY BROTHER'S WEDDING proves to be funny, heartbreaking and timeless. Pierce Mundy works at his parents' South Central dry cleaners with no prospects for the future - his childhood buddies are all in prison or dead. With his best friend just getting out of jail and his brother busy planning a wedding to a snooty upper-middle-class black woman, Pierce navigates his conflicting obligations while trying to figure out what he really wants. A treasure that demands to be unearthed in all its funny-sad tenderness. - Village Voice Astonishing! Marvelous and rare... Humorous, loving and honest, devoid of either condescension or political posturing... An indelible reminder of what real independence looks like. - A.O. Scott, The New York Times Never less than engrossing! As ever, it's a joy to look at and listen to: Burnett's movies are quite unlike anyone else's. - Time Out New York
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