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May-June 2019 VOL. 34 THE VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE FOR LIBRARIES NO. 3 IN THIS ISSUE The Last Resort | Apollo 11 | Birds of Passage | The Facebook Dilemma | Hillbilly | Jihadists | Cuban Food Stories | Poetry in America Ent tainment BAKER & TAYLOR’S SPECIALIZED ENTERTAINMENT TEAM OFFERS ALL THE PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND EXPERTISE TO FULFILL YOUR LIBRARY PATRONS’ NEEDS. 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DVD: offbeat portrait of a bygone time and place $29.95 ($349 w/PPR from in America, this is highly recommended. Publisher/Editor: Randy Pitman www.kinolorberedu.com). Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady) Associate Editor: Jazza Williams-Wood DRA. Kino Lorber (avail. from most distributors). Editorial Assistant: Christopher Pitman Closed captioned. A fine companion Graphic Designer: Carol Kaufman Inspired by a 1970s film toThe Last Resort photography-docu- Marketing Director: Anne Williams is Next Year Jerusalem mentary project (that (VL-1/15). Reviewer was tragically interrupted by murder), film- Tom Keogh wrote Contributing Writers makers Dennis Scholl and Kareem Tabsch that filmmaker David revisit the bygone days of Miami and South Gaynes’s “lovely doc- Sean Axmaker, Reviewer, Beach, FL, as major retirement havens, prin- umentary…follows Seattle Times, Turner Classic Movies Online, cipally for elderly Jews (many of whom were members of a sometimes-invisible Parallax View Holocaust refugees). In an environment that population—senior citizens in nursing was dominated by the elderly, two young Kathleen C. Fennessy, Reviewer, homes—who do something extraor- The Stranger and energetic professional shutterbugs— dinary. Proving that there are no age Gary Monroe and Andy Sweet—captured barriers to adventures and new expe- Susan Granger, SSG Syndicate sympathetic character portraits of the aged riences, a group of seniors at a U.S. Donald Liebenson, Reviewer, residents and their fluorescent-kitsch envi- retirement home makes a long trek to Entertainment Weekly, Amazon.com ronment, before changing times (including Israel along with a handful of nursing Stephen Rees, Librarian, formerly with an enormous influx of Cuban refugees), staff, where they visit historic sites, Bucks Co. Free Library, Levittown, PA mortality, and crime ultimately altered the are entertained by schoolchildren, social landscape. In addition to that story, drink wine and converse with locals, Frank Swietek, Associate Professor of History, University of Dallas, TX The Last Resort also tells the tale of Sweet’s and go floating in the buoyant waters shocking death in 1982 and the subsequent of the salty Dead Sea…. Serving up a loss and eventual recovery of his incredible solid reminder that people in their Additional Contributors: photo archive. Extras include a Q&A with 80s and 90s deserve better than to be the directors, deleted scenes (one with Pu- warehoused and forgotten, this [is an] Sue-Ellen Beauregard litzer-winning interviewee Edna Buchanan, inspirational film.” Charles Cassady an ace Miami crime reporter/author, talking about favorite cases), Tabsch’s 2014 short Phil Hall documentary Cherry Pop (about a million- Tom Keogh aire Fort Lauderdale couple’s pampered Cover Photo: Andy Sweet Lisa Martincik Trudie Root TABLE OF CONTENTS Michael Sandlin Video Newsbriefs 6 Health & Fitness 52 Books Into Movies 8 Food & Spirits 52 Video Librarian (ISSN: 0887-6851) is pub- Mixed Media 10 Sports, Games & Recreation 52 lished bi-monthly by Video Librarian, 9479 Bayshore Dr. NW, Suite 203, Silverdale, WA Video Movies 16 The Arts 54 98383. Subscriptions: $64 for one year in the United States; $69 (US) in Canada (includes TV on Video 41 History & Current Events 56 GST); $86 elsewhere. 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Her extravagant, Werner Hertzog meets mesmerizing and mostly Jurassic Park in this real- improvised pieces com- life thriller that explores bine traditional flamenco the dawning of unprec- with modern-dance, edented scientific change. avant-garde theatrics, ob- jects, paint, and eclectic “The woolly mammoth tusk music compositions. is just the tip of the iceberg in “Ms. Molina is one of the this haunting excavation.” greatest flamenco dancers —Hollywood Reporter I have seen, but to say that is not enough.” —The New York Times IMPULSO • A film by Emilio Belmonte GENESIS 2.0 From The KimStim Collection • An Icarus Films Release A film by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev • A Kimstim Films Release 2017 • 87 min • Color • in Spanish w/English subtitles • Not Rated 2018 • 112 min • Color • in English & Russian w/English subtitles • Not Rated UPC # 6-98452-21433-7 • $29.95 UPC # 6-98452-21453-5 • SRP: $29.95 AVAILABLE NOW! AVAILABLE MAY 28 EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED BY NEW THIS SPRING! 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