Sept 14, 2004
Angels In America
Home On The Range
Man On Fire
THX-1138
50 Years Of Playmates
Young Adam

Sept 7 , 2004
American Dreams
Bullwinkle & Rocky Show
Clerks
Darby O'Gill & The Little People
Dogville
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Ladykillers
Magnum P.I.
The Passion of the Christ
The Punisher
Shaolin Soccer
Wattstax

August 23, 2004
Dallas
Duel
Ella Enchanted
Goodfellas
Grafitti Bridge
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Laws of Attraction
Martin Scorsese Collection
The Munsters
New York Minute
Show Boy
Sugarland Express

August 10, 2004
Freaks
Kill Bill Volume 2
The Lost Boys
The Real Olympics
Sada

August 3 , 2004
Hidalgo
13 Going on 30
Darby O'Gill
Sliders
Knight Rider

The Elvis Collection Gidget
Beaches

July 27, 2004
Hellboy
The Whole Ten Yards
Showgirls
Ned Kelly
Pennies From Heaven
V - The Complete Series
Sledge Hammer
Hells Angels 69
Greendale
You Bet Your Life
Hells Angels 69
Salaam Bombay Dreams
Greendale

July 21, 2004
Bus 174
The Big Bounce
Broken Wings
Confidence
Crimson Gold
The Human Stain
Outfoxed
Starsky & Hutch
Thunderbirds Are Go

July 13, 2004
Against the Ropes
Agent Cody Banks 2
The Barbarian Invasions
The Bourne Identity
The Dreamers
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Project Greenlight 2
Slasher
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Uncovered

Uzumaki

Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise

July 6, 2004
Butterfly Effect
Garage Days
The Line King
Monsieur Ibrahim
My Voyage to Italy
Playboy Presents Rita
Wonder Woman

June 29, 2004
Barbershop 2
Blazing Saddles
Cold Mountain
Independent's Day
A Perfect Score
Stray Cat Rock

June 21, 2004
Bad Santa
Bloody Territories
Elvis - Aloha Hawaii
The Holy Land
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Secret Window

June 15, 2004
50 First Dates
Spartan
The Station Agent
Stepford Wives '75
Touching The Void


Coffee & Cigarettes | How To Draw A Bunny | La Dolce Vita | MADtv First Season
| Mean Girls | Rounders

La Dolce Vita
US/Canada Gross: $19.5 million

The film that introduced the world to the word "paparazzi."

Released in 1960 to much critical acclaim and surprising commercial success everywhere it played La Dolce Vita still inspires lively debate among lovers of international cinema. Was it a masterpiece, or merely a harbinger of excesses to come from master showman Federico Fellini? What was original producer Dino De Laurentiis thinking, when he insisted that Paul Newman be given the key role of society reporter Marcello Rubini, instead of Marcello Mastroianni? Never mind. Even at three hours, this study of divine decadence along Rome’s Via Veneto remains one of the medium’s richest entertainments. Overflowing with interviews and commentary, this generous two-disc set is what Fellini fans have been waiting to arrive, ever since the introduction of the VCR.

Among the many lasting images one takes away from La Dolce Vita -- aside from Anita Ekberg’s unforgettable Trevi Fountain romp, of course -- are the freelance photographers who swarmed around the celebrities like mosquitoes (in Sicilian, palpitate”) at a picnic. How difficult is it to imagine that Rubini’s photographer colleague, Paparazzo, might have had a Nikon-toting grandchild buzzing around Di and Dodi’s limousine, on their fateful last ride through Paris. -- Gary Dretzka

You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home.

 

Coffee & Cigarettes
US/Canada Gross: $.99 million

This film was made over a 17-year period. The Roberto Benigni and 'Steven Wright' segment was filmed in 1987. The Tom Waits and Iggy Pop segment was shot in 1992.

Pride Unprejudiced: Jim Jarmusch has been shooting his black-and-white sketches about his two favorite power drugs (as well as simmering passive-aggressive behaviors) since 1986, and eleven of them together live up to his reputation as one of our shaggiest shaggy-dog storytellers.

www.howtodrawabunny.com

How to Draw a Bunny
US/Canada Gross: $.0027 million

Documentary filmmakers have enjoyed a pretty heady run over the last few years. But, while some make headlines, others struggle to get their fine work shown outside of the festival circuit. John Walter’s illuminating profile of the late performance artist and “art-world prankster” Ray Johnson, “How to Draw a Bunny,” is just such an exercise. Like his contemporary, Andy Warhol, Johnson was fascinating by America’s obsession with celebrity, and produced early collages of James Dean, Elvis Presley, Shirley Temple, Betty Boop and Jim Carrey, often employing Xerox machines, the U.S. Postal Service and food to further his art. If you recognize such names as Christo, Chuck Close, Richard Feigen, Morton Janklow, Judith Malina, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist, this film’s for you. -- Gary Dretzka

Trailer

Mean Girls
US/Canada Gross: $17 million

I know she's kind of socially retarded and weird, but she's my friend.

Pride Unprejudiced: Try not to let anyone let you in on one inspired sight gag that comes out of nowhere, that took the teen preview audience at my preview's breath away and had them gasping for five minutes. Lindsay Lohan plays a home-schooled student who transfers to Chicago suburban North Shore High School, and has to decipher the tribal rites of her new jungle. Love, liquor, life: it's all there, with an embrace of multiethnic and multicultural realities that's at once lightly jokey but also a big sloppy kiss.

Stuart
"I Do Like Girls"

MADtv

And remember: When you watch Mad TV, it's like making love to us with your remote control.

The arrival of MADtv: The Complete First Season, via a three-disc boxed set, recalls the moment when Fox Broadcasting announced it was taking on NBC’s mighty Saturday Night Live franchise, with a sketch-comedy series inspired by Mad magazine. Back then, a lot of smart people were willing to bet serious money that, A) the only resemblance between the show and the magazine would be its title, B) it would be a bargain-basement imitation of SNL, and C) it wouldn’t last more than one season. Wrong on all counts. Although nothing evenly remotely iconic has emerged from MADtv -- not even a horrifically bad movie spin-off, like It’s Pat or Stuart Saves His Family -- the show has proven to be formidable competition for SNL … infinitely better, on some nights. And, it’s about to enter its 10th season, thank you.-- Gary Dretzka

 

Rounders
US/Canada Gross: $12 million

And remember: When you watch Mad TV, it's like making love to us with your remote control.

Thanks to high-voltage teaming of Matt Damon and Edward Norton, Rounders made a bit of a splash when it was released in 1998, and it already has enjoyed a successful afterlife on DVD. In John Dahl’s capable hands, the poker-room drama was an entertaining-enough drama, but hardly the kind of picture that would warrant a two-disc Collector’s Edition. Never one to ignore an exploitable trend, however, Miramax has re-released Rounders -- which also stars John Malkovich, John Turturro, Famke Janssen and Gretchen Moll -- to take advantage of the current poker craze on television. In addition to the movie itself (and commentaries from the first DVD edition), the set now serves as a beginner’s guide to tournament poker, with player interviews and Hold ‘Em lessons. Imagine what the Farrelly brothers could do with Kingpin, if bowling ever makes a comeback.-- Gary Dretzka

 

 


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