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New Release Tuesday
New DVD releases for Tuesday, January 5:
* Big Love Season 3
* Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
* Final Destination
* Max & Ruby: Playtime With Max and Ruby
* Sing Along With Barbie
* Winnie the Pooh: Valentine For You
* Big Love Season 3
* Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
* Final Destination
* Max & Ruby: Playtime With Max and Ruby
* Sing Along With Barbie
* Winnie the Pooh: Valentine For You
Labels: Harford County Public Library, HCPL, new release Tuesday, new releases
posted by AVZone on 12/30/2009
Newly Requestable DVDs....
ADULT
Adam Resurrected
Away We Go
Battle for Terra
The Bracelet of Bordeaux
Camille
Crank 2: High Voltage
Dance Flick
Easy Virtue
Gervaise
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gomorrah
Goodbye Solo
Katyn
Lies and Illusions
Lymelife
Mail Order Bride
Management
Monsters vs. Aliens
Next Day Air
Observe and Report
Playtime
Scooby-Doo! The mystery Begins
Silent Light
Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes)
Tulpan
X-Men origins: Wolverine
JUVENILE
Alvin and The Chipmunks Go To the Movies. Star Wreck
Animal Friends!
Barbie and The Three Musketeers
The Berenstain Bears. Halloween Treats
Bionicle: The Legend Reborn
Doodlebops: Where's Moe?
Dora the Explorer. Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom
Go Diego go! Diego's Arctic Rescue
Goosebumps: Attack of the Jack-o-lanterns
Goosebumps: The Headless Ghost
Little Einsteins: Fire Truck Rocket’s Blastoff
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Olivia
Pahappahooey Island. What about me?
School Days
Thomas & friends. Hero of the Rails
The Wiggles. Big Big Show!
Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Wubbzy Goes Boo!
Adam Resurrected
Away We Go
Battle for Terra
The Bracelet of Bordeaux
Camille
Crank 2: High Voltage
Dance Flick
Easy Virtue
Gervaise
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gomorrah
Goodbye Solo
Katyn
Lies and Illusions
Lymelife
Mail Order Bride
Management
Monsters vs. Aliens
Next Day Air
Observe and Report
Playtime
Scooby-Doo! The mystery Begins
Silent Light
Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes)
Tulpan
X-Men origins: Wolverine
JUVENILE
Alvin and The Chipmunks Go To the Movies. Star Wreck
Animal Friends!
Barbie and The Three Musketeers
The Berenstain Bears. Halloween Treats
Bionicle: The Legend Reborn
Doodlebops: Where's Moe?
Dora the Explorer. Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom
Go Diego go! Diego's Arctic Rescue
Goosebumps: Attack of the Jack-o-lanterns
Goosebumps: The Headless Ghost
Little Einsteins: Fire Truck Rocket’s Blastoff
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Olivia
Pahappahooey Island. What about me?
School Days
Thomas & friends. Hero of the Rails
The Wiggles. Big Big Show!
Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Wubbzy Goes Boo!
Labels: Harford County Public Library, HCPL, newly requestable DVDs
posted by AVZone on 12/30/2009
New Release Tuesday
New DVD releases for Tuesday, December 22:
* Jennifer's Body
* The Weather Girl
* Jennifer's Body
* The Weather Girl
Labels: Harford County Public Library, HCPL, new release Tuesday, new releases
posted by AVZone on 12/23/2009
New Release Tuesday
New DVD releases for Tuesday, December 22:
* Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
* District 9
* Extract
* It Might Get Loud
* Motherland
* Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
* District 9
* Extract
* It Might Get Loud
* Motherland
Labels: Harford County Public Library, HCPL, new release Tuesday, new releases
posted by AVZone on 12/21/2009
New Release Tuesday
New DVD releases for Tuesday, December 15:
* Angels and Demons Decoded
* G-Force
* The Other Man
*Wizards of Waverly Place
* Angels and Demons Decoded
* G-Force
* The Other Man
*Wizards of Waverly Place
Labels: Harford County Public Library, HCPL, new release Tuesday, new releases
posted by AVZone on 12/11/2009
New Release Tuesday
New DVD releases for Tuesday, December 8:
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
* Julie & Julia
* Public Enemies
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
* Julie & Julia
* Public Enemies
Labels: Harford County Public Library, HCPL, new release Tuesday, new releases
posted by AVZone on 12/04/2009
Foreign Films New to View - December
December 2009 - Vol. 3, No. 12
The Foreign Films New to View newsletter is a monthly publication designed to keep you up to date on some of HCPL's latest foreign films on DVD. The selections in this newsletter are just a sample of the rich variety of films available to you through your library.
(In Japanese, with English subtitles)
Were all Japanese citizens in favor of war in the 1930’s and 40’s? Yoji Yamada shows that the answer is no. While Shigeru remains in jail for subversive and less than enthusiastic thoughts over Japan’s aggression towards China, his wife Kayo remains at home to raise their young children on her own. She faces the difficulties of being alone within her family and within the larger society around her, since her own enthusiasm for the war is less than her countrymen’s.
(In Norwegian, with English subtitles)
Hamer, who directed the somewhat off-kilter Kitchen Stories, presents to us a story of a man who faces his retirement with his idiosyncrasies in tow. Forced to leave his job as a train engineer due to age, he now finds himself shifting his routines to suit his new life. Compared by more than one critic to Jacque Tati’s M. Hulot (Mon Oncle, Trafic, and Playtime), Odd Horten (for that is the O of O’Horten) goes about the routine of his humdrum life, all the while infusing subtle comedy into his actions and predicaments. In time, he comes to see what he has missed in life and what yet remains to be gained.
(In Spanish, with English subtitles)
In 1972, a plane crashed in the Andes, leaving several survivors stranded for 72 days. Their ordeal has been documented in both books and movies. Many of us remember well the shock of discovery that these young men had to resort to cannabalism of the dead in order to survive. This documentary looks at the events from the perspective of the survivors today, more than thirty years later. Arijón allows the men, now grey-haired and wiser for the ordeal, to speak of their experiences with candor and an almost transcendent respect for those who died and then became the means through which these sixteen men survived. Arijón uses some re-enactments, but allows the survivors themselves to address us with a poignancy and immediacy about the events so long in the past, but still so vivid to those who stand before the camera today.
(In Turkish, with English subtitles)
The director of Distant and Climates now brings us Three Monkeys. When a prominent politician kills a pedestrian, he knows his career may be over. He asks his driver to assume blame, for a reward, of course. At first, this deal looks pretty good. Eyüp, the driver, knows his family will be cared for while he serves his prison time, but he does not realize how thoroughly a family can fall apart even with financial support. His son begins to neglect his studies and falls in with a bad crowd. His wife may be having an affair with the politician. The story is full of uncertainties of plot and character, and behind it all brew numerous storms - rain storms that may be the cause of the initial accident and thunderstorms that become almost a metaphor for the disharmony engendered by the characters’ thoughts and actions.
(In Korean, with English subtitles)
When the mother of two young girls must leave them with their aunt as she searches for their missing father, the young girls learn the importance of prevailing in the face of adversity and abandonment. While the adults seem unthinkingly neglectful of the two children, the older child, Jin, only six years of age, becomes in a way even more responsible than any grown-up could be. Director Kim, Korean by birth but American-raised, brings to the film a poetic sensitivity and delicacy of style.
The Foreign Films New to View newsletter is a monthly publication designed to keep you up to date on some of HCPL's latest foreign films on DVD. The selections in this newsletter are just a sample of the rich variety of films available to you through your library.
Kabei
directed by Yoji Yamada(In Japanese, with English subtitles)
Were all Japanese citizens in favor of war in the 1930’s and 40’s? Yoji Yamada shows that the answer is no. While Shigeru remains in jail for subversive and less than enthusiastic thoughts over Japan’s aggression towards China, his wife Kayo remains at home to raise their young children on her own. She faces the difficulties of being alone within her family and within the larger society around her, since her own enthusiasm for the war is less than her countrymen’s.
O’Horten
directed by Bent Hamer(In Norwegian, with English subtitles)
Hamer, who directed the somewhat off-kilter Kitchen Stories, presents to us a story of a man who faces his retirement with his idiosyncrasies in tow. Forced to leave his job as a train engineer due to age, he now finds himself shifting his routines to suit his new life. Compared by more than one critic to Jacque Tati’s M. Hulot (Mon Oncle, Trafic, and Playtime), Odd Horten (for that is the O of O’Horten) goes about the routine of his humdrum life, all the while infusing subtle comedy into his actions and predicaments. In time, he comes to see what he has missed in life and what yet remains to be gained.
Stranded: The Andes Crash Survivors in Their Own Words
directed by Gonzalo Arijón(In Spanish, with English subtitles)
In 1972, a plane crashed in the Andes, leaving several survivors stranded for 72 days. Their ordeal has been documented in both books and movies. Many of us remember well the shock of discovery that these young men had to resort to cannabalism of the dead in order to survive. This documentary looks at the events from the perspective of the survivors today, more than thirty years later. Arijón allows the men, now grey-haired and wiser for the ordeal, to speak of their experiences with candor and an almost transcendent respect for those who died and then became the means through which these sixteen men survived. Arijón uses some re-enactments, but allows the survivors themselves to address us with a poignancy and immediacy about the events so long in the past, but still so vivid to those who stand before the camera today.
Three Monkeys
directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan(In Turkish, with English subtitles)
The director of Distant and Climates now brings us Three Monkeys. When a prominent politician kills a pedestrian, he knows his career may be over. He asks his driver to assume blame, for a reward, of course. At first, this deal looks pretty good. Eyüp, the driver, knows his family will be cared for while he serves his prison time, but he does not realize how thoroughly a family can fall apart even with financial support. His son begins to neglect his studies and falls in with a bad crowd. His wife may be having an affair with the politician. The story is full of uncertainties of plot and character, and behind it all brew numerous storms - rain storms that may be the cause of the initial accident and thunderstorms that become almost a metaphor for the disharmony engendered by the characters’ thoughts and actions.
Treeless Mountain
directed by So Yong Kim(In Korean, with English subtitles)
When the mother of two young girls must leave them with their aunt as she searches for their missing father, the young girls learn the importance of prevailing in the face of adversity and abandonment. While the adults seem unthinkingly neglectful of the two children, the older child, Jin, only six years of age, becomes in a way even more responsible than any grown-up could be. Director Kim, Korean by birth but American-raised, brings to the film a poetic sensitivity and delicacy of style.
Labels: foreign films
posted by Dave on 12/01/2009
