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November 23, 2006

Best of 2006: Giving Thanks: Formerly MIA DVDs

GreenCine has a lot to be thankful for this year, but in our film geeky way we are feeling especially thankful about the home video release of a bunch of great films that had formerly been missing in action on DVD. We've compiled some of our picks for the best films to finally see a DVD release in 2006.

Top 10 Formerly MIA DVDs of 2006 >>

Posted by cphillips at November 23, 2006 9:24 AM

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Recent Reviews

The Yacoubian Building: Egyptian "Blockbuster" Meets Western Audiences
Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur: Jim's take.
Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur: Erin's take.
Pierrot Le Fou
Sharkwater
The Rabbit is Me: East Germany in the "Swinging" 60s
O Lucky Man!
Apres Vous
The 4th Dimension
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 2: More pre-code delights
En La Cama
Khadak
Wristcutters: A Love Story
I Am Legend
L'Age D'Or

Categories

1930s
Character Actor Countdown: William Demarest
Gold Diggers of 1933: Depression-era nugget
L'Age D'Or
Moto Rising

1940s
Brute Force: Was prison ever like this?
Character Actor Countdown: William Demarest
Green for Danger: Veddy British Mystery
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Postwar Kurosawa (Eclipse Series): A real treasure

1970s
Cisco Pike
Don't Look Now: 70's Gothic chiller
Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death

Action
Casino Royale/New James Bond Primer
Dragon Wars: Big laughs, plus cool special effects.
Exiled: Johnny To's Spaghetti Eastern
Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death
The Last Legion: Maid Marian kicks ass; viewers have some old-fashioned fun

Animation
Crac!
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Karas: The Revelation contest! Win a copy of the new DVD!
Kirikou and the Sorceress
The Amazing Screw-On Head

Anime
Appleseed: Ex Machina
Best Anime on DVD 2006
Elfen Lied
Genshiken
Hikaru No Go: No go.
Karas: The Revelation contest! Win a copy of the new DVD!
Planetes: Astronomical series
Speed Grapher, Vol. 1
Tekkonkinkreet

Art
Art & Commerce: My Kid Could Paint That and Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock

Asian
Bloody Reunion: To sir, with hate.
Election/Triad Election: To for the price of one
Exiled: Johnny To's Spaghetti Eastern
Journey From the Fall: A South Vietnamese family story
Kamikaze Girls
Linda Linda Linda: giddy Japanese punk rock high school flick
Summer Palace
Syndromes and a Century
Take Care of My Cat
Tears of the Black Tiger: Thai yai-yai!
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On: And what did you do in the war, daddy?
The Hidden Blade
The Host: Something fishy this way comes
The President's Last Bang
Trivia Contest! One Take Only

B&W
Elevator to the Gallows
Moto Rising

B-Movies
20 Questions with Joe Bob Briggs

Biopics
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film
Factory Girl: 15 minutes of fame in 99 minutes
Fake "Fur"

Black Comedy
Adam's Apples: A tart treat
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Brick
Comedy of Power: And the joke's on us
He Was a Quiet Man
O Lucky Man!
Putney Swope
Sleeping Dogs Lie: When's the truth too much?
The Butcher Boy: Bloody brilliant
The President's Last Bang
Win a DVD! Apartment Zero contest
Wristcutters: A Love Story

British
Chancer: Education for life
Dance to the Music of Time sings
Death of a President
Green for Danger: Veddy British Mystery
House of Cards
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
My Family and Other Animals
O Lucky Man!
Provoked: A British-Bollywood Burning Bed?
Red Road: An assured feature debut
School for Scoundrels: The original, superior British version.
Shaking Dream Land
Starter For 10: Rom-Com Brit-Style, Done Right
State of Play
The Hours and Times: The fifth Beatle and Lennon fall gently in Spain
Wah Wah
Wallis and Edward: At it again
Wondrous Oblivion: Hail Delroy

Camp Classics
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls

Character actors
Character Actor #4: Alan Arkin
Character Actor #6: Lili Taylor
Character Actor Countdown #7: James Cromwell
Character Actor Countdown #8: Bruno Kirby
Character Actor Countdown: Bill Nighy
Character Actor Countdown: Imelda Staunton
Character Actor Countdown: William Demarest

Chinese
Summer Palace

Classic Comedy
Character Actor Countdown: William Demarest
School for Scoundrels: The original, superior British version.
Trouble in Paradise

Classic Crime
Elevator to the Gallows
Moto Rising

Classic Drama
Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur: Erin's take.
Drunken Angel: Early Kurosawa as it was meant to be seen
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 2: More pre-code delights
Killer of Sheep/Charles Burnett
L'Avventura: Antonioni's art
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Miss Julie
Postwar Kurosawa (Eclipse Series): A real treasure
Ryan's Daughter
Sansho the Bailiff: Still a masterwork

Classic Horror
Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur: Jim's take.
Dr. Phibes
Fiend Without a Face
Fox Horror Classics
Zombies! A list.

Classic Sleepers
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Trouble in Paradise

Comedy
10 Items or Less: Check (it) out
Apres Vous
Blue State
Color Me Kubrick: Putting the recluse to good use
Eating Out 1 & 2: No reservations needed
Everything's Gone Green
Fay Grim: Hartley being neither grim nor foolish
Film Crew in review: MST3K sans 'bots
Fired! Struggling actors and auto workers
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Go for Zucker
Gray Matters: the RomCom for people who hate RomComs
I'm Reed Fish: Charming little indie
Kicking and Screaming
Live Free or Die: A New Hamsphire caper comedy
Look Both Ways
Love for Rent
Man of the Year: Shift your expectations
My Family and Other Animals
Oyster Farmer
Putney Swope
Queens
Red Doors: Asian family comes undone
Rocket Science
Romeo and Juliet Get Married: Wherefore Art Thou, Film?
Safe Men
School for Scoundrels: The original, superior British version.
Scoundrels all: director, writer and producers!
Starter For 10: Rom-Com Brit-Style, Done Right
Take Care of My Cat
The Amazing Screw-On Head
The Big Bad Swim: Lapping it up
The Motel
Wah Wah
Zerophilia: Change is Good

Comic Books/Superheroes
Confessions of a Superhero
The Amazing Screw-On Head

Coming of Age
Alpha Dog: Takes "difficult viewing" to new heights
Brick
C.R.A.Z.Y. is s.w.e.e.t.
I'm Reed Fish: Charming little indie
In Between Days: A teenage immigrant's so-called-life
Kamikaze Girls
Kicking and Screaming
Linda Linda Linda: giddy Japanese punk rock high school flick
Mouth to Mouth: Shows a lot of spark
Rocket Science
Somersault
Starter For 10: Rom-Com Brit-Style, Done Right
Summer Palace
Take Care of My Cat
The Butcher Boy: Bloody brilliant
The Heart of the Game (and the bigger picture, too)
The Motel
The Quiet: Hush hush, sweet cheerleader
Wah Wah
Wondrous Oblivion: Hail Delroy
Zerophilia: Change is Good

Crime
Alpha Dog: Takes "difficult viewing" to new heights
Brick
Brute Force: Was prison ever like this?
Death of a President
Election/Triad Election: To for the price of one
Ladron Que Roba A Ladron (Thief Robs Thief)
Le Petit Lieutenant: Prime Suspect francais
Live Free or Die: A New Hamsphire caper comedy
Pierrot Le Fou
The Dead Girl: the slivers of universal truth
The Laughing Policeman
Thieves Like Us: Good, not great Altman
Vengeance Is Mine
Wild Camp: Not So Wild or Campy

Cult Favorites
20 Questions with Joe Bob Briggs
Best of 2006: Giving Thanks: Formerly MIA DVDs
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Born In Flames
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film
Cemetery Man
Cisco Pike
Cruising: Third Time Out and Still Not the Charm
Dr. Phibes
Fiend Without a Face
L'Age D'Or
O Lucky Man!
Pierrot Le Fou
Putney Swope
Quickie review: Keane
Quickie review: The War on the War on Drugs: Taking No Prisoners
Smithereens: Desperately seeking Seidelman
Starstruck
Tears of the Black Tiger: Thai yai-yai!
The Amazing Screw-On Head
The Man With the Screaming Brain
Vengeance Is Mine
Win a DVD! Apartment Zero contest
Zombies! A list.

Documentaries
Air Guitar Nation: Silent, but deadly.
Al Franken: God Spoke
American Hardcore: Not just for hardcore fans
Art & Commerce: My Kid Could Paint That and Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock
Beauty Academy of Kabul
Best Docs of 2007
Bottom of the Ninth: Minor leagues, major heart.
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film
Confessions of a Superhero
Czech Dream: A welcome consumer nightmare
Election: A list.
Fired! Struggling actors and auto workers
Following Sean: 34 and a half Up
From Tugboats to Polar Bears
Giuliani Time: Who is the real Rudy?
Hacking Democracy: Showing up Diebold for what it is.
Helvetica
Hiding And Seeking: Unearthing something positive from the Holocaust in Poland
Iraq War Primer: A List of Docs
Is it Really So Strange?
Journey From the Fall: A South Vietnamese family story
My Father, the Genius: Blueprint for family healing
No End in Sight: Intellectual "shock doc"
Our Brand is Crisis
Park City Dispatch: The Unforeseen
Promises
Red Without Blue: That mysterious thing called family
Sharkwater
Sir! No Sir!
Small Town Gay Bar: Exactly that, for better and worse
So Goes the Nation
Sonata For Viola
The Blood of My Brother
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On: And what did you do in the war, daddy?
The Heart of the Game (and the bigger picture, too)
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
The Road to Guantanamo
Thin
This Film is Not Yet Rated
To Be and To Have: To learn and to teach
Trivia Contest! Wordplay
Unknown White Male
Winter Soldier and The Police Tapes

Down Under
Look Both Ways
Oyster Farmer
Somersault
Starstruck
The Bank
The Proposition

Drama
Allegro: Music to soothe the Scandinavian breast
Alpha Dog: Takes "difficult viewing" to new heights
Another look at John Sayle's Silver City
Broken English: An assured debut
Brute Force: Was prison ever like this?
Cisco Pike
Congorama
Crossing Beethoven
Dance to the Music of Time sings
Dreamland
Elizabeth Reaser two-fer: Puccini and Sweet
Evening: A tapestry of past and present
Eye of God
Factory Girl: 15 minutes of fame in 99 minutes
Fake "Fur"
Gay love, shame, blame, pride, change: Take your pick, try 'em all!
Golden Door: The immigrant experience writ large, and fine
House of Cards
Joyeux Noel
King of California
Look Both Ways
Mouth to Mouth: Shows a lot of spark
Old Joy
Princesas: Beyond the "hookers with heart of gold" cliche
Provoked: A British-Bollywood Burning Bed?
Quickie review: Keane
Red Doors: Asian family comes undone
Rocket Science
Secret Life of Words: Quietly powerful
Shaking Dream Land
Snow Cake: Magic from Canada
Somersault
Stephanie Daley: Neither lurid nor a polemic
The Big Bad Swim: Lapping it up
The Bubble: Hard to shake off
The Dead Girl: the slivers of universal truth
The Hours and Times: The fifth Beatle and Lennon fall gently in Spain
The Quiet: Hush hush, sweet cheerleader
The Road to Guantanamo
The Rocket: The Legend of Maurice Richard
Tickets
Two for the Road
Under the Volcano (Criterion): Finney erupts
Violet Perfume: Feminist breakthrough from Mexico
Wild Camp: Not So Wild or Campy
Wondrous Oblivion: Hail Delroy

DVD Review Blogs
Over at GreenCine Daily: New DVD Reviews

Exploitation
Story of a Cloistered Nun

Family Films
Crac!
King of California
Kirikou and the Sorceress
My Family and Other Animals
Red Doors: Asian family comes undone

First-Time Directors
Brick
Broken English: An assured debut
C.R.A.Z.Y. is s.w.e.e.t.
Eye of God
He Was a Quiet Man
Is it Really So Strange?
Kicking and Screaming
King of California
Live Free or Die: A New Hamsphire caper comedy
Look Both Ways
Love for Rent
Mouth to Mouth: Shows a lot of spark
Our Brand is Crisis
Puzzlehead: I, Robot, economy-style
Red Doors: Asian family comes undone
Red Road: An assured feature debut
Shaking Dream Land
Somersault
Take Care of My Cat
Unknown White Male
Wah Wah
Winter Soldier and The Police Tapes

For Kids
Kirikou and the Sorceress

Foreign Language
Allegro: Music to soothe the Scandinavian breast
Best of 2006: Giving Thanks: Formerly MIA DVDs
Congorama
Czech Dream: A welcome consumer nightmare
Days of Glory: Soldiers getting their due
Elevator to the Gallows
Family Law: The capper to a splendid little trilogy
Go for Zucker
Golden Door: The immigrant experience writ large, and fine
Jan Svankmajer's Lunacy
Joyeux Noel
L'Avventura: Antonioni's art
Missing Victor Pellerin: Where art and business meet
Princesas: Beyond the "hookers with heart of gold" cliche
Queens
Soldier of Orange
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On: And what did you do in the war, daddy?
The Hidden Blade
The Irony of Fate, Or, Enjoy Your Bath
The Last Kiss (Original vs. Remake)
The Man of My Life: Gorgeous love story, flaws and all
The Tunnel: Another Great Escape
The Uninvited Guest
To Be and To Have: To learn and to teach
U-Carmen: Bizarre Bizet adaptation works, off and on
Wild Camp: Not So Wild or Campy

French
Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur: Erin's take.
Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur: Jim's take.
Apres Vous
C.R.A.Z.Y. is s.w.e.e.t.
Comedy of Power: And the joke's on us
Congorama
Days of Glory: Soldiers getting their due
Elevator to the Gallows
Fear and Trembling
Heading South: French film set in Haiti
How Much Do You Love Me? Bertrand Blier is still shaking us up.
Joyeux Noel
Le Petit Lieutenant: Prime Suspect francais
Missing Victor Pellerin: Where art and business meet
Pierrot Le Fou
Regular Lovers: "Dreamers" of a Different Sort
The Man of My Life: Gorgeous love story, flaws and all
To Be and To Have: To learn and to teach
Wild Camp: Not So Wild or Campy

Gay/Lesbian
Best Gay Films on DVD 2007
C.R.A.Z.Y. is s.w.e.e.t.
Cruising: Third Time Out and Still Not the Charm
DarkBlueAlmostBlack
Eating Out 1 & 2: No reservations needed
Gay love, shame, blame, pride, change: Take your pick, try 'em all!
Gray Matters: the RomCom for people who hate RomComs
Hellbent
Mala Noche
Queens
Red Without Blue: That mysterious thing called family
Small Town Gay Bar: Exactly that, for better and worse
The Bubble: Hard to shake off
The Man of My Life: Gorgeous love story, flaws and all
Zerophilia: Change is Good

Great Directors
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Don't Look Now: 70's Gothic chiller
Drunken Angel: Early Kurosawa as it was meant to be seen
Jan Svankmajer's Lunacy
L'Age D'Or
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Postwar Kurosawa (Eclipse Series): A real treasure
Ryan's Daughter
Sansho the Bailiff: Still a masterwork
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Tickets

Great Screenplays
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Horror
13 Tzameti: Grim noir
Bloody Reunion: To sir, with hate.
Dr. Phibes
Fiend Without a Face
Hellbent
I Am Legend
The Diabolical Dr. Z
The Host: Something fishy this way comes
The Man With the Screaming Brain
The Uninvited Guest
The Woods
Zombies! A list.

In Theaters
Best Films of 2007: Craig's... List.
Casino Royale/New James Bond Primer
Death of a President
Everything's Gone Green
Exiled: Johnny To's Spaghetti Eastern
Killer of Sheep/Charles Burnett
Live Free or Die: A New Hamsphire caper comedy
Provoked: A British-Bollywood Burning Bed?
The Host: Something fishy this way comes

Independent
10 Items or Less: Check (it) out
Another look at John Sayle's Silver City
Beauty Academy of Kabul
Blue State
Born In Flames
Brick
Broken English: An assured debut
Coastlines: Multi-genre indie deserves a look
Colma: The Musical
Dreamland
Elizabeth Reaser two-fer: Puccini and Sweet
Everything's Gone Green
Eye of God
Factory Girl: 15 minutes of fame in 99 minutes
Fay Grim: Hartley being neither grim nor foolish
Film Movement: A Closer Look
Film Movement: Films reviewed
From Tugboats to Polar Bears
Gay love, shame, blame, pride, change: Take your pick, try 'em all!
Half-Cocked: Fully loaded
He Was a Quiet Man
I'm Reed Fish: Charming little indie
In Between Days: A teenage immigrant's so-called-life
Is it Really So Strange?
Kicking and Screaming
Kill the Poor
Killer of Sheep/Charles Burnett
King of California
Ladron Que Roba A Ladron (Thief Robs Thief)
Live Free or Die: A New Hamsphire caper comedy
Love for Rent
Lustre shines
Mala Noche
Mendy: On a wandering Jew
Mouth to Mouth: Shows a lot of spark
Old Joy
Park City Dispatch: Weapons
Pizza
Puzzlehead: I, Robot, economy-style
Quickie review: Keane
Quickie review: The War on the War on Drugs: Taking No Prisoners
Red Doors: Asian family comes undone
Rocket Science
Secret Life of Words: Quietly powerful
Smithereens: Desperately seeking Seidelman
Snow Cake: Magic from Canada
Stephanie Daley: Neither lurid nor a polemic
The 4th Dimension
The Big Bad Swim: Lapping it up
The Dead Girl: the slivers of universal truth
The Man With the Screaming Brain
The Motel
The Quiet: Hush hush, sweet cheerleader
The Road to Guantanamo
The Woods
Things To Do
Trivia Contest! Russian Dolls and Sex Addict
Trivia Contest! Wordplay
Win a DVD! Apartment Zero contest
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Zerophilia: Change is Good

International Sleepers
13 Tzameti: Grim noir
Adam's Apples: A tart treat
Agnes and His Brothers
Beauty Academy of Kabul
Cinema16 European Shorts: A stellar collection
Close-Up
Congorama
En La Cama
Family Law: The capper to a splendid little trilogy
Gloomy Sunday
Go for Zucker
Golden Door: The immigrant experience writ large, and fine
Jan Svankmajer's Lunacy
Khadak
La Petit Jerusalem
Look Both Ways
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Missing Victor Pellerin: Where art and business meet
Oyster Farmer
Princesas: Beyond the "hookers with heart of gold" cliche
Provoked: A British-Bollywood Burning Bed?
Queens
Siberiade
Snow Cake: Magic from Canada
Soldier of Orange
Sonata For Viola
Summer Palace
Syndromes and a Century
Take Care of My Cat
The Bubble: Hard to shake off
The Butcher Boy: Bloody brilliant
The Hidden Blade
The Hours and Times: The fifth Beatle and Lennon fall gently in Spain
The Last Kiss (Original vs. Remake)
The Rabbit is Me: East Germany in the "Swinging" 60s
The Tunnel: Another Great Escape
The Uninvited Guest
Tickets
Trivia Contest! Russian Dolls and Sex Addict
Violet Perfume: Feminist breakthrough from Mexico

Japanese
Drunken Angel: Early Kurosawa as it was meant to be seen
Kamikaze Girls
Linda Linda Linda: giddy Japanese punk rock high school flick
Postwar Kurosawa (Eclipse Series): A real treasure
Sansho the Bailiff: Still a masterwork
Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On: And what did you do in the war, daddy?
Vengeance Is Mine

Korean
Bloody Reunion: To sir, with hate.
Dragon Wars: Big laughs, plus cool special effects.
In Between Days: A teenage immigrant's so-called-life
Take Care of My Cat
The President's Last Bang

Kung Fu/Martial Arts
Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death
The Hidden Blade

Latin/South America
Romeo and Juliet Get Married: Wherefore Art Thou, Film?

Lists
Best Docs of 2007
Best Films of 2007: Craig's... List.
Best of 2006: Giving Thanks: Formerly MIA DVDs
Best of 2007: Dylan's Seen on DVD List
Election: A list.
For 9/11: A list.
Iraq War Primer: A List of Docs
Zombies! A list.

Middle Eastern
Half Moon
The Yacoubian Building: Egyptian "Blockbuster" Meets Western Audiences

Mock-Docs
Death of a President

Music
American Hardcore: Not just for hardcore fans
Crossing Beethoven
Half-Cocked: Fully loaded
Is it Really So Strange?
Linda Linda Linda: giddy Japanese punk rock high school flick
Sonata For Viola
U-Carmen: Bizarre Bizet adaptation works, off and on

Musicals
Colma: The Musical
Gold Diggers of 1933: Depression-era nugget
Starstruck

Mysteries
Another look at John Sayle's Silver City
Brick
Green for Danger: Veddy British Mystery
Moto Rising

Nature/Science
Sharkwater

Noir
Brick
Brute Force: Was prison ever like this?
Elevator to the Gallows

Other Critics and Stuff
20 Questions with Joe Bob Briggs

Political
Al Franken: God Spoke
Another look at John Sayle's Silver City
Blue State
Born In Flames
Czech Dream: A welcome consumer nightmare
Death of a President
Election: A list.
Giuliani Time: Who is the real Rudy?
Hacking Democracy: Showing up Diebold for what it is.
House of Cards
Iraq War Primer: A List of Docs
Man of the Year: Shift your expectations
No End in Sight: Intellectual "shock doc"
Our Brand is Crisis
Quickie review: Bloody Sunday
Regular Lovers: "Dreamers" of a Different Sort
Secret Life of Words: Quietly powerful
Sharkwater
So Goes the Nation
State of Play
The Bank
The Blood of My Brother
The President's Last Bang
To Iraq. And back.
Winter Soldier and The Police Tapes

Romance
Allegro: Music to soothe the Scandinavian breast
Apres Vous
Broken English: An assured debut
Dance to the Music of Time sings
DarkBlueAlmostBlack
Elizabeth Reaser two-fer: Puccini and Sweet
En La Cama
Evening: A tapestry of past and present
Everything's Gone Green
Gold Diggers of 1933: Depression-era nugget
Gray Matters: the RomCom for people who hate RomComs
How Much Do You Love Me? Bertrand Blier is still shaking us up.
I'm Reed Fish: Charming little indie
Kicking and Screaming
L'Avventura: Antonioni's art
Look Both Ways
Love for Rent
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Oyster Farmer
Regular Lovers: "Dreamers" of a Different Sort
Romeo and Juliet Get Married: Wherefore Art Thou, Film?
Ryan's Daughter
Shaking Dream Land
Sleeping Dogs Lie: When's the truth too much?
Smithereens: Desperately seeking Seidelman
Starter For 10: Rom-Com Brit-Style, Done Right
Syndromes and a Century
The Hidden Blade
The Last Kiss (Original vs. Remake)
The Man of My Life: Gorgeous love story, flaws and all
Thieves Like Us: Good, not great Altman
Trouble in Paradise
Two for the Road
Wah Wah
Wild Camp: Not So Wild or Campy

Russian
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Satire
Color Me Kubrick: Putting the recluse to good use
Eating Out 1 & 2: No reservations needed
Election: A list.
Man of the Year: Shift your expectations
Putney Swope
Quickie review: Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
School for Scoundrels: The original, superior British version.
Sleeping Dogs Lie: When's the truth too much?
The President's Last Bang

Science Fiction
Allegro: Music to soothe the Scandinavian breast
Forbidden Planet: Special Anniversary Edition
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
I Am Legend
Planetes: Astronomical series
Puzzlehead: I, Robot, economy-style
The 4th Dimension

Shorts/Compilations
Cinema16 European Shorts: A stellar collection
Crac!
From Tugboats to Polar Bears

Silent Films
The Dragon Painter

Spanish
DarkBlueAlmostBlack
Family Law: The capper to a splendid little trilogy
Princesas: Beyond the "hookers with heart of gold" cliche
Violet Perfume: Feminist breakthrough from Mexico

Sports
The Rocket: The Legend of Maurice Richard

Suspense/Thriller
13 Tzameti: Grim noir
Casino Royale/New James Bond Primer
Comedy of Power: And the joke's on us
Cruising: Third Time Out and Still Not the Charm
Don't Look Now: 70's Gothic chiller
Election/Triad Election: To for the price of one
Elevator to the Gallows
Green for Danger: Veddy British Mystery
House of Cards
Le Petit Lieutenant: Prime Suspect francais
Red Road: An assured feature debut
Soldier of Orange
State of Play
The Bank
The Quiet: Hush hush, sweet cheerleader
The Tunnel: Another Great Escape
The Uninvited Guest

Television
Chancer: Education for life
Dance to the Music of Time sings
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
House of Cards
My Family and Other Animals
Quickie review: Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
State of Play

Trivia contest
Hot Fuzz: Trivia Contest!
Joy Division joy: Control contest
Rendition contest!
Trivia Contest! Cinema Paradiso
Trivia Contest! Russian Dolls and Sex Addict
Trivia Contest! Wordplay

War
Days of Glory: Soldiers getting their due
Journey From the Fall: A South Vietnamese family story
Joyeux Noel
No End in Sight: Intellectual "shock doc"
Soldier of Orange
The Blood of My Brother
The Road to Guantanamo
To Iraq. And back.
Winter Soldier and The Police Tapes

Westerns
7 Men From Now: A magnificent 7
Seraphim Falls: Throwback Western
Tears of the Black Tiger: Thai yai-yai!
The Naked Spur: Two views
The Proposition

Women
Broken English: An assured debut
Elizabeth Reaser two-fer: Puccini and Sweet
Evening: A tapestry of past and present
Fake "Fur"
Fay Grim: Hartley being neither grim nor foolish
Mala Noche
Stephanie Daley: Neither lurid nor a polemic
The Dead Girl: the slivers of universal truth
U-Carmen: Bizarre Bizet adaptation works, off and on
Violet Perfume: Feminist breakthrough from Mexico

WWII
Days of Glory: Soldiers getting their due
Green for Danger: Veddy British Mystery
Hiding And Seeking: Unearthing something positive from the Holocaust in Poland
Soldier of Orange
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On: And what did you do in the war, daddy?

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