6.23.2009

get yr release on


Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir - coolest trailer of 2008?


U.S. and Region 1 releases>>
- Cherry Blossoms (directed by Doris Dorrie)
- Jem Cohen: An Evening’s Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin (artsy rendering of the decline of the American Century)
- Dillinger (1973) (directed by Hollywood right-winger John Millius, starring Warren Oats, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, and Ben Johnson)
- Last Year at Marienbad (Criterion Collection directed by Alain Resnais)
- My Dinner With Andre (Criterion Collection directed by Louis Malle)
- Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, a former Israeli soldier, and his animated mediation on memory, guilt, and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon)

Multi-region and other foreign releases>>
-Franklyn (Brit sci-fi with Ryan Phillipe and Eva Green) (PAL Region 2)
- Hardware (1990) (special edition of Richard Stanley's punky cult hit) (PAL Region 2)
- Occupation (story of three British soldiers' experiences, and their aftermath, in Iraq) (PAL Region 2)
- Open City (Korean crime opera) (Region 3)
- Handphone (Korean thriller set around a lost telephone and a loan shark) (Region 3)

Blu-Ray releases>>
- American Gangster (directed by Ridley Scott)
- Casino (Scorsese's last great film before 2006's The Departed)
- Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg's sophomore outing with Viggo Mortensen)
- Last Year at Marienbad (Criterion Collection directed by Alain Resnais)
- The Pink Panther (1964)
- Waltz With Bashir


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