#1: Introduction/Fall Arrivals

Hello! This is where you'll find information on recent old release additions to the Alternative Video Spot catalogue, as well as store news, and any other movie related info I feel like throwing up here. A lot of people come into the store and go straight to the new release section, not realizing that we in fact add to the back catalogue almost weekly! You can expect a new catalogue updates monthly, but check back often as sales, promotions, etc. will be posted as they are announced.
Since this is the first entry, here's a quick lists of the DVDs we've brought in this fall:

(note: these films will be marked in the store with a bright orange "new arrival" sticker.)

Criteron Collection:

Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara - 3 definitively surreal works by this Japanese master: Woman in the Dunes, Pitfall, and The Face of Another.

A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman - Bergman's thematic trilogy exploring faith and alienation: Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence.

Mala Noche - Gus Van Sant's first feature length film, which paved the way for the New Queer Cinema, and established him as an emerging American independent filmmaker. Our Van Sant collection is now almost complete with other recent additions of My Own Private Idaho (not the criterion release) and Good Will Hunting; just in time for Paranoid Park's upcoming release.

Ace In the Hole - Billy Wilder film starring Kirk Douglas. A cult classic that has been largely unavailable until now.

Classics

Yankee Doodle Dandy - 1942 musical directed by Michael Curtiz (of Casablanca fame) and staring James Cagney. Named the 97th greatest American film of all time by AFI.

A Place in the Sun- 1951 film staring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Cliff. Directed by George Stevens.


3:10 To Yuma - 1957 western directed by Delmer Daves. See it now, before the remake is released in January.

Cult

Blow-Up - Michaelangelo Antonioni's swinging sixties thriller. The patient will be rewarded with one of the best film endings of all time.

Naked Lunch - David Cronenberg's loose adaptation of the incomprehensible drug-addled writings of William Burroghs (well, it was incomprehensible when i attempted to read it). Think talking bugs.

Comedy

Weird Science - Classic Geek Comedy from John Hughes. Has it stood the test of time? You be the judge.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The butcher job on this film by the studios left creator Joss Whedon no choice but to rewrite the story for t.v., which surprisingly fought on for 7 seasons, attained cult hit status, and even spawn it's own spin off. Although not nearly as dark or dramatic as the show, the film is an interesting and fun, if cheesy, prologue to the story of The Chosen One.


On the Way:

Night on Earth (U.S.A.Criterion. Dir. Jim Jarmusch)
BRD Trilogy (Germany.Criterion. Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Paper Flowers (India. Dir. Guru Dutt)
Susana (Mexico. Dir. Luis Bunuel)
O Lucky Man! (U.K. Dir. Lindsay Anderson)
Microcosmos (France. Dir. Nuridsany/Perennou)

thanks,
Heather