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November-December 2018

VOL. 33 THE VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE FOR LIBRARIES N O . 6

IN THIS ISSUE Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story | What Lies Upstream | Three Identical Strangers | The Mayo Clinic | Defi ant Lives | The S Word

Spotlight Review Love & Bananas: freeing Noi Na takes viewers to the edge of An Elephant Story their seats, and there are unforeseen divi- HHH dends when the company’s owner begins to 1/2 regret what he has done to elephants. Bell (2018) 75 min. In has made a fine documentary, an inspiring Publisher/Editor: Randy Pitman English & Thai w/English subtitles. DVD: $24.95 portrait of compassion that also captures Associate Editor: Jazza Williams-Wood ($495 w/PPR from www. the fantastic bond between humans and loveandbananas.com/ Editorial Assistant: Christopher Pitman elephants. Extras include deleted scenes host-a-screening/). Cargo and the film’s soundtrack. Highly recom- Film & Releasing. Graphic Designer: Carol Kaufman mended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) Marketing Director: Anne Williams Actress Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism, Novitiate) directs this emotionally-charged documentary, serving Contributing Writers as a passionate onscreen advocate for ad- A fine companion dressing the sad state of the Asian elephant. documentary to Love & Bananas, filmmakers Sean Axmaker, Reviewer, While African elephants are estimated to Ben Bowie and Geoff Seattle Times, Online, be just under a half-million in number, the Luck’s PBS-aired Nature Parallax View Asian variety is currently less than 50,000. It’s no wonder that the population is dwin- documentary Naledi: Kathleen C. Fennessy, Reviewer, ( dling, considering the tormented lives of Little Elephant VL The Stranger Online-4/18) tells the these wondrous mammals (the film includes story of a newborn ele- Susan Granger, SSG Syndicate brief sickening footage of the prolonged tor- phant who arrives in a Botswana reserve Donald Liebenson, Reviewer, ture of a captured elephant being driven to called Abu Camp, a halfway house for , .com madness and submission). Following up on elephants who are left orphaned (often a promise made in 2013 to the renowned, Stephen Rees, Librarian, formerly with due to poachers) or require rehabilitation courageous conservationist Sangdeaun Lek Bucks Co. Free Library, Levittown, PA after lives spent as zoo or circus animals. Frank Swietek, Associate Professor Chailert, Bell with a small film crew arrives of History, University of , TX a few years later to capture life on Chailert’s elephant sanctuary in Thailand. Soon, Bell and Chailert focus on rescuing a nearly Note: Video Librarian editor Randy Pitman blind, 70-year-old elephant named Noi Na, Additional Contributors: is up to his eyebrows in documentaries to who is at a “trek” company that has been Charles Cassady watch for the January/February issue’s “Best selling rides atop the overstressed, bewil- Documentaries” list. His “Final Frame” col- Phil Hall dered creature for decades. The drama of umn will return then. Tom Keogh Lisa Martincik TABLE OF CONTENTS Trudie Root Sandlin Video Newsbriefs 4 Food & Spirits 56 Books Into Movies 6 Beauty & Fashion 57 Mixed Media 8 Computers & Technology 57 Video Movies 14 Sports, Games & Recreation 57 Video Librarian (ISSN: 0887-6851) is pub- TV on Video 40 The Arts 57 lished bi-monthly by Video Librarian, 9479 Bayshore Dr. NW, Suite 203, Silverdale, WA Key to Star Ratings 44 History & Current Events 59 98383. Subscriptions: $64 for one year in the ; $69 (US) in Canada (includes Video Reviews 44 Travel & Geography 63 GST); $86 elsewhere. Address all correspon- dence to Video Librarian, 9479 Bayshore Children’s 44 Biography 63 Dr. NW, Suite 203, Silverdale, WA 98383. Periodicals Postage Paid at Silverdale, WA ‘Tis the Season 46 Series Update 64 and at additional mailing offices.POST - MASTER: Send address changes to Video Psychology & Self-Help 47 Japanese 65 Librarian, 9479 Bayshore Dr. NW, Suite 203, Silverdale, WA 98383. Copyright © 2018 by Religion & Philosophy 47 Music/Dance 67 Randy Pitman. All rights reserved. Telephone/Fax/E-mail Social & Political Issues 48 2018 Annual Index 68 Subscriptions: (800) 692-2270 Teen Issues 52 Distributor Addresses 81 Editorial: (360) 626-1259 Advertising: (800) 265-7965 Law & Crime 52 Title Index 82 Fax: (360) 626-1260 E-mail: [email protected] Nature, Math & Science 53 Advertiser Directory 82 Web: www.videolibrarian.com Health & Fitness 55

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“Some Like It Hot,” David Smithsonian Chan- nel have just re- Byrne’s “True Stories,” Orson leased The Obama Welles’s “The Magnificent Years: The Power of Words ( DV D: Ambersons,” and an Ingmar $24.99). Over eight Bergman Set Head Up the years, President Obama delivered Criterion Collection’s more than 3,500 November Releases speeches and state- ments on topics The Criterion Collection’s Novem- that ranged from redefining patriotism, ber releases launch November 6 with a candidly addressing race relations, in- new 4K restoration of ’s spiring hope and healing, and turning long-unavailable 1954 late-career classic divisive moments into an opportunity A Story from Chikamatsu (DVD: $29.95, for national unification. But which are Blu-ray: $39.95), an exquisitely moving the moments that history will remember? tale of forbidden love based on a classic Narrated by actor Jesse Williams, The Pow- 18th-century Japanese drama. Slated er of Words tells the story of Barack Obama, for November 13 is a 4K restoration of “writer-in-chief,” taking viewers inside the ’s sizzling gender-bending defining highlights of his political career 1959 masterpiece Some Like It Hot (DVD: through the prism of six of his most mem- 2 discs, $29.95; Blu-ray: $39.95), which orable speeches. The program also features follows musicians (Tony Curtis insights from eminent historians Doris and ) as they skip town Kearns Goodwin and Douglas Brink- after witnessing a mob hit, don drag, and ley, senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, Chief join an all-female band—with Marilyn Strategist David Axelrod, Rep. John Lewis, Monroe as the group’s singer—en route Obama speechwriters Jon Favreau and to Miami. On November 20, David Byrne Cody Keenan, Reagan speechwriter Clark explores the wild, wild life of Texas in the Judge, and Smithsonian curator Harry 1986 musical odyssey True Stories (DVD: 2 Rubenstein of the National Museum of discs, $29.95; Blu-ray: $49.95), making its American History. Blu-ray debut in a special edition that also includes a never-before-released 23-song CD of the film’s complete soundtrack. Also “Robin Williams: Comic slated for November 20 is the Blu-ray de- Genius” Boxed Set Available but of ’s elegiac 1942 second feature The Magnificent Ambersons (DVD: Now from Time Life 2 discs, $29.95; Blu-ray: $39.95), adapted From his breakout role in Mork & Mindy from an acclaimed to his Academy Award-winning perfor- novel, featuring powerful performances mance in Good Will Hunting, iconic actor from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Robin Williams (1951-2014) displayed Holt, and , as it traces an inimitable artistry that made him the rifts deepening within the Amberson beloved by millions. In conjunction with family. And November 20 also celebrates the Trustees of the Robin Williams Trust, the 100th birthday of visionary Swedish Time Life is celebrating the incomparable filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) career of this singularly innovative actor with the release of Ingmar Bergman’s Cin- with the release of Robin Williams: Comic ema (Blu-ray: 30 discs, $299.95), which Genius (DVD: 22 discs, $199.99), available spans six decades and 39 films, including exclusively now at RobinWilliams.com. such celebrated classics as The Seventh , The extensive boxed set includes five HBO Persona, and Fanny and Alexander, alongside standup specials, including previously unavailable works like Dreams, (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams The Rite, and Brink of Life, as well as featur- (1983), An Evening at the MET (1986), Live ing more than 30 hours of supplemental on Broadway (2002) and Weapons of Self features and a 248-page book with essays Destruction (2009); never-before-released on each film. concert specials; talk show and late-night appearances on The Tonight Show, The “The Obama Years: The Power Oprah Winfrey Show, and ; an episode of Inside the Actors Studio; of Words” Documentary Now USO shows; exclusive behind-the-scenes Available from Public Media featurettes; the 2018 HBO documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind; Distribution and a 24-page memory book with rare Public Media Distribution and the archival photos.

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Books Into Movies

The following films based on books Directed by Jason Reit- are slated to open during November and man, the biograph- December. Movie release dates are subject ical film stars Hugh to change. Jackman as politician Gary Hart, and costars Coming in November Vera Farmiga and J.K. Simmons. Boy Erased (Nov. 2) is based on Garrard Con- ley’s 2016 gay conversion If Beale Street therapy memoir. Direct- Could Talk (Nov. 30) ed by Joel Edgerton, the is an adaptation of film stars Lucas Hedges, James Baldwin’s 1974 Nicole Kidman, and Rus- classic novel. Directed sell Crowe. by Barry Jenkins, the Harlem period drama stars Kiki Layne and The Nutcracker and Stephan James. the Four Realms (Nov. 2) is based on E.T.A. Coming in December Hoffmann’s 1816 hol- iday tale. Directed by Mary Queen of Lasse Hallström and Joe Scots (Dec. 7) is based Johnston, the film stars on John Guy’s 2004 bi- Keira Knightley, Macken- ography Queen of Scots: zie Foy, Misty Copeland, The True Life of Mary Helen Mirren, and Morgan Freeman. Stuart. Directed by Josie Rourke, the film The Girl in the Spi- stars Saoirse Ronan and der’s Web (Nov. 9) is Margot Robbie. based on the 2015 addi- tion to late author Stieg Mortal Engines Larsson’s crime novel (Dec. 14) is adapted series, which was tak- from the 2001 titular en over by David Lager- first entry in a futur- crantz. Directed by Fede istic YA series by Phil- Álvarez, the film stars ip Reeve. Directed by Sverrir Gudnason and Claire Foy as com- Christian Rivers, the puter hacker Lisbeth Salander. film stars Hera Hilmar and Robert Sheehan. The Grinch (Nov. 9) is a 3D-animated adap- M a r y P o p p i n s tation based on Dr. Se- Returns (Dec. 19) is uss’s 1957 classic How the adapted from the se- Grinch Stole Christmas! quels by P.L. Travers Directed by Scott Mosier (written between 1935- and Yarrow Cheney, the 88). Directed by Rob film features the voice of Marshall, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the notorious Emily Blunt as the be- holiday curmudgeon. loved magical maid, and costars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Fantastic Beasts: The Streep, and . Crimes of Grindelwald (Nov. 16) is loosely based Looking Ahead on J.K. Rowling’s 2001 Fantastic Beasts and Coming in Febru- Where to Find Them. Di- ary is The Turning, rected by David Yates, a modern adaptation this sequel again stars of Henry James’s 1898 Eddie Redmayne as Newt classic The Turn of the Scamander. Screw. Directed by - ria Sigismondi, the su- The Front Runner (Nov. 21) is based pernatural on Matt Bai’s 2014 book All the Truth stars Mackenzie Davis, Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid. Finn Wolfhard, and Brooklynn Prince.

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Mixed Media

Mixed Media features new release Hitman 2 (Warner, December 2—December 8 information on upcoming video PS4/XOne: $59.99, Rated: games and TV series on DVD/Blu-ray, M). This third-person ac- Just Cause 4 (, PS4/XOne: as well as notable older titles that are tion-stealth sequel puts $59.99, Rated: M). In this third-person re-priced or new to DVD/Blu-ray. players into the shoes of open-world action game, players once Agent 47, who is tasked again step into the shoes of rogue agent Video Games with dismantling the Rico Rodriguez as he journeys to Solis, a elusive Shadow Client’s huge South American locale filled with militia across the globe in six new sandbox conflict, oppression, and extreme weather Note: Entertainment Software Ratings environments with all-new weapons. conditions. Board (ESRB) ratings for video games are: E (Everyone), E10+ (Everyone 10+), T (Teen), Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Nin- Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight (At- M (Mature), and RP (Rating Pending). tendo, : $59.99, Rated: E). In this lus, PS4: $59.99, Rated: T). The Phantom Some titles are not rated until just prior to third-person adventure game, players Thieves return for a new heist in this release date. journey to the Kanto region with ener- rhythm dancing game featuring familiar getic partner Pikachu to become a top characters from the action-adventure hit October 28—November 3 Pokémon Trainer while battling other Persona 5. trainers. Diablo III: Eternal Super Smash Bros. Collection (Blizzard, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (2K, Switch: Ultimate (Nintendo, Switch: $59.99, Rated: $59.99, Rated: E10+). In this turn-based Switch: $59.99, Rated: M). New to the Switch, strategy game players explore new lands, E10+). Gaming icons this highly-acclaimed research new technology, and conquer clash in the ultimate third-person action-RPG enemies to build an empire that will stand brawl action game, fea- game set in the perilous the test of time. turing new characters world of Sanctuary in- Simon Belmont and King cludes the original Diablo Spyro Reignited Trilogy (Activision, K. Rool, who join Mario, III, along with the expan- PS4/XOne: $39.99, Rated: E10+). This Donkey Kong, Sonic, and others. sion pack “Reaper of Souls” and the bonus HD-remastered classic third-person (or Necromancer character. dragon) adventure game collection includes Spyro , Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! and TV on DVD/Blu-ray November 4—November 10 Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Available Now Carnival Games (2K, PS4/XOne/Switch: November 18—November 24 $39.99, Rated: E10+). This fun party collec- 9-1-1: The Complete Season One (Fox, tion features 20-plus mini-games, includ- Battlefield V (EA, PS4/ DVD: 3 discs, $29.98). Angela Bassett, Peter ing shooting basketballs, drone racing, and XOne: $59.99, Rated: M). Krause, and Connie Britton star in this cosmic bowling. This latest addition to the 2018 debut season of the police procedural blockbuster first-person series co-created by popular showrunner GRIP: Combat Racing (U&I Entertain- action-shooter series is set Ryan Murphy. ment, PS4/XOne/Switch: $39.99, Rated: during World War II. E10+). This racing game features high 800 Words: Season 3, Part 1 (Acorn, octane combat, with players achieving DVD: 2 discs, $49.99). Newspaper column ferocious speeds while armed to the teeth Wreckfest (THQ Nordic, PS4/XOne: writer George (Erik Thomson) deals with with heavy weapons. $59.99, Rated: T). This full-contact racing life in a seaside New Zealand small town game features epic crashes, neck-to-neck in this first compilation from the 2017-18 November 11—November 17 fights, and brand new ways for metal to third season. bend. Fallout 76 (Bethesda, The Affair: Season PS4/XOne: $59.99, Rated: November 25—December 1 Four (Paramount, DVD: 4 M). The latest entry in discs, $33.99). A flash-for- the popular first-person Darksiders III (THQ Nordic, PS4/ ward in time leaves one role-playing franchise— XOne: $59.99, Rated: M). Players return to character missing in this set in the aftermath of a an apocalyptic Earth in this third-person 2018 fourth season of the global atomic war—drops hack-n- action-adventure sequel, Showtime drama series players into a massive online open world assuming the role of FURY in her quest starring Dominic West, where every surviving human is a real play- to hunt down and dispose of the Seven Ruth Wilson, Maura Tier- er you can work together with to survive. Deadly Sins. ney, and Joshua Jackson.

The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA RIDE 3 (Maximum Family Games, PS4/ Alice: The Complete Eighth Season Tour (2K, PS4/XOne: $49.99, Rated: E). XOne: $49.99, Rated: E). In this motorcy- (Warner, DVD: 3 discs, $29.99). Linda This golf simulation game featuring cle-racing simulation sequel, players have Lavin, Vic Tayback, and Celia Weston famous courses—including TPC access to over 230 licensed bikes to race star in this 1983-84 penultimate eighth and TPC Sawgrass—has a PGA Tour around the globe on a wide variety of season of the -set roadside diner career mode. challenging tracks. sitcom.

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Billions: Season Three (Paramount, from the 1980-81 fourth season of the Cleeves, this 2018 fourth season of the DVD: 4 discs, $39.98). An attorney general cruise ship series include Nipsey Russell, crime drama series stars Douglas Henshall and hedge fund manager continue with Debbie Reynolds, and David Cassidy. Also as Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez. various schemes in this 2018 third season newly available at the same price is The of the Showtime drama series starring Paul Love Boat: Season Four, Volume Two. Silicon Valley: The Complete Fifth Sea- Giamatti and Damian Lewis. son (HBO, DVD: $19.98). The team works to The Miniaturist (PBS, make PiperNet a success in this 2018 fifth Blondie: The Complete 1957 Television DVD: $24.99, Blu-ray: season of the Mike Judge-created satirical Series (ClassicFlix, DVD: 4 discs, $39.99). $29.99). Based on Jessie comedy series. This 1957 adaptation of the popular titular Burton’s 2014 debut nov- comic strip stars Arthur Lake as Dagwood el, this two-part adapta- This is Us: The Complete Second Sea- and Pamela Britton as Blondie. tion of the 17th-century son (Fox, DVD: 5 discs, $39.98). Bouncing -set drama between the present and flashbacks, this Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The Complete stars Anya Taylor-Joy, 2017-18 sophomore season of the ensemble Third Season (Warner, DVD: 3 discs, Romola Garai, and Alex drama centers on the “Big Three” siblings $29.99). This 2017-18 penultimate third Hassell. (Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, and Justin season of the romantic comedy series fea- Hartley). tures guest appearances by Josh Groban, Peyton Place: Part Five (Shout! Fac- Dr. Phil, and B.J. Novak. tory, DVD: 5 discs, $34.99). Based on the Timeless: Season Two New -set 1956 classic by Grace (Sony, DVD: 3 discs, Deception: The Complete Series (War- Metalious, this fifth compilation features $35.99). Starring Abigail ner, DVD: 3 discs, $29.99). A former il- episodes from the 1964-69 primetime soap Spencer, Malcolm Bar- lusionist begins working for the FBI in starring Mia Farrow, Ryan O’Neal, and rett, Matt Lanter, and this short-lived 2018 series that stars Jack Dorothy Malone. Goran Višnjic, this 2018 Cutmore-Scott, Ilfenesh Hadera, and Am- second season finds the aury Nolasco. Police Story: Season Three (Shout! “Lifeboat” crew trying Factory, DVD: 6 discs, $34.99). This 1975- to thwart the Ritten- The Gifted: The Com- 76 third season of the LAPD anthology house’s scheme to reshape history through plete First Season (Fox, series features guest appearances by Dean time travel. DVD: 3 discs, $29.98). Stockwell, John Astin, and Louis Gossett Jr. Set in the Marvel Com- November 6 ics universe, the 2017-18 Private Eyes: Season One (eOne, DVD: debut season of this sci-fi 3 discs, $38.99). Jason Priestley stars as a The Good Fight: Season Two (Para- adventure series introduc- former professional hockey player who mount, DVD: 4 discs, $39.98). Christine es viewers to the Strucker joins forces with a private investigator Baranski stars as a Chicago law firm family, who discover that (Cindy Sampson) in this 2016 first season partner who balances personal and pro- their children have mutant powers. of the dramedy inspired by G.B. Joyce’s fessional issues in this 2018 sophomore 2012 novel The Code. season of the spin-off of The Good Wife. Good Witch: Season Four (Cinedigm, DVD: 2 discs, $19.98). Witch Cassie Night- Scorpion: The Final Poldark: The Complete Fourth Sea- ingale (Catherine Bell) works on wedding Season (Paramount, son (PBS, DVD: 3 discs, $44.99; Blu-ray: plans in this compilation from the 2018 DVD: 6 discs, $46.98). 3 discs, $54.99). This 2018 fourth season fourth season that also includes the 2017 Elyes Gabel, Katharine of the British period drama finds former companion TV movie Spellbound. McPhee, and Eddie Kaye Revolutionary War fighter Ross Poldark Thomas star in this 2017- (Aidan Turner) heading to the nation’s I Married Joan: Classic TV Collection 18 fourth and final sea- capital. #4 (VCI, DVD: $19.95). A wacky housewife son of the high-tech dra- causes havoc for her judge husband in ma series. Silent Witness: The Complete Season this fourth compilation from the 1952-55 Six (BBC, DVD: 2 discs, $34.98). This 2002 sitcom starring Joan Davis and Jim Backus. The Resident: The Complete Season sixth season of the procedural drama One (Fox, DVD: 3 discs, $29.98). This 2018 includes the two-part episodes “The Fall Killing Eve ( BBC , first season of the medical drama series Out,” “Kith and Kill,” “Tell No Tales,” and DVD: 2 discs, $24.98; Blu- stars Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp, and “Closed Ranks.” ray: 2 discs, $29.98). An Bruce Greenwood. MI5 officer (Sandra Oh) Succession: The Com- goes after a psychopathic Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The plete First Season (HBO, assassin (Jodie Comer) in Complete Sixth Season (Time Life, DVD: DVD: 3 discs, $47.99; Blu- this 2018 debut season of 6 discs, $39.95). Hosted by Dan Rowan and ray: 3 discs, $59.99). Hiam the BBC America drama , this 1972-73 sixth and final Abbass, Nicholas Braun, based on the Codename season of the sketch comedy series features and Brian Cox star in this Villanelle novella series by Luke Jennings. appearances by Isaac Hayes, James Caan, 2018 debut season of the Della Reese, and Dom DeLuise. HBO series centered on a : Season Four, Volume media dynasty. One (Paramount, DVD: 4 discs, $29.98). Shetland: Season Four (BBC, DVD: 2 Guest stars for this first volume of episodes discs, $38.99). Based on novels by Ann Who Is America (Paramount, DVD: 2

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discs, $24.99). Sacha Bar- in this 2017 second season of episodes from are key cases in this 2018 seventh season on Cohen poses as var- the procedural drama. set of the Caribbean crime drama that stars ious characters to shake Ardal O’Hanlon, Joséphine Jobert, and Don up political figures in November 27 Warrington. this 2018 satire series that features Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth I and Her Enemies (Acorn, Father Brown: Season Six (BBC, DVD: Dick Cheney, and Barney DVD: $34.99). Lily Cole stars as the titular 2 discs, $39.99). Father Brown (Mark Wil- Frank. monarch in this 2017 three-part British liams) worries about a revenge-seeking docudrama presented by historians Dan woman from his past in this 2017-18 sixth The Woman in White (PBS, DVD: 2 Jones and Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb. series based on the short stories by G.K. discs, $34.99). This 2018 five-part adapta- Chesterton. tion of the classic novel by Wilkie Collins Jack Irish: Season 2 (Acorn, DVD or Blu- chronicles the story of half-siblings (Jessie ray: 2 discs, $39.99). Starring Guy Pearce as : Buckley, Olivia Vinall) who are embroiled the titular brooding alcoholic private in- Season Two (Shout! Facto- ry, DVD: 6 discs, $29.99). in a sensational conspiracy. vestigator, this 2018 second season features Marta Dusseldorp and Aaron Pedersen. Set at the titular ranch November 13 in Arizona Territory, this Picnic at Hanging Rock (Acorn, DVD 1968-69 sophomore sea- son of the Western se- The Crown: The Complete Second Sea- or Blu-ray: 2 discs, $39.99). Based on Joan ries stars , son (Sony, DVD: 4 discs, $45.99; Blu-ray: 4 Lindsay’s 1967 Australian novel, this Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, and Linda discs, $55.99). This 2017 second season of mystery series concerning a small group Cristal. the -aired period drama profiling of students from an all-female college the life of Queen Elizabeth II stars Claire stars Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, and Instinct: Season One (Paramount, DVD: Foy, Matt Smith, and Vanessa Kirby. Harrison Gilbertson. 4 discs, $39.98). CIA operative turned quiet Sharp Objects (HBO, psychology professor Dr. Dylan Reinhart Elementary: The Sixth Season (Para- DVD: 2 discs, $49.99; Blu- (Alan Cumming) joins forces with an mount, DVD: 6 discs, $44.99). Jonny Lee ray: 2 discs, $59.99). An NYPD detective (Bojana Novakovic) to Miller and Lucy Liu are back in this 2018 adaptation of the 2006 thwart a serial killer. sixth season of the contemporary Sherlock debut novel by Gillian Holmes police procedural series. Flynn, this 2018 HBO- Nathan for You: The Complete Se- aired limited series fol- ries (Paramount, DVD: 9 discs, $39.98). Ernie Kovacs: The Centennial Edition lows a reporter (Amy Ad- A business advisor thinks out of the box (Shout! Factory, DVD: 9 discs, $69.98). In ams) with hometown memories who for his clients in this compilation from celebration of funnyman Ernie Kovacs’s returns to cover a murder. the 2013-17 four seasons of the Comedy 100th birthday, this compilation includes Central-aired docu-reality series starring various episodes of his local and national December 4 Vancouver-born comedian Nathan Fielder. morning shows, five ABC-aired specials, commercials, and more. Westworld—Season Two: The Door The Orville: The Com- (HBO, DVD: 3 discs, $49.99; Blu-ray: 3 plete First Season (Fox, Hidden: Series 1 (Acorn, DVD: 3 discs, discs, $54.98). Android theme park host DVD: 4 discs, $29.95). $49.99). DI Cadi John (Sian Reese-Williams) Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) takes con- Creator Seth MacFarlane works to solve a cold case stemming from trol in a search for survivors in this 2018 also stars in this 2017 disappearances in Snowdonia in this 2018 sophomore season of the sci-fi Western debut season of the sci-fi eight-part Welsh serial. series that also stars Thandie Newton and comedy series that fea- . tures guest appearances : Discovery— by Rob Lowe, Holland Taylor, Charlize Season One (Paramount, Yellowstone: Season Theron, and . DVD: 4 discs, $49.99; Blu- 1 (Paramount, DVD: 4 ray: 4 discs, $63.99). Set a discs, $29.98; Blu-ray: 3 Top of the Lake: China Girl (BBC, DVD: decade before the original discs, $39.99). The con- 2 discs, $24.98). A sequel to the original series, this 2017-18 debut flicts and issues involving 2013 series, this 2017 second season follows addition to the sci-fi fran- the borders tying togeth- Sydney detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth chise focuses on the crew er a ranch family, an In- Moss) as she investigates the case of a Jane of the Discovery and stars dian reservation, land Doe colloquially known as “China Girl.” Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Mary developer groups, and Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, and Wilson Cruz. the National Park are at the center of this December 18 2018 first season starring Kevin Costner, November 20 Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, and Cole Hauser. The Sinner: Season Two (Universal, DVD: 2 discs, $29.98). A teen poisons his No Offence: Series 2 (Acorn, DVD: December 11 parents, and Detective Harry Ambrose (Bill 2 discs, $49.99). While secrets still swirl Pullman) returns to his upstate around the recent death of her husband, DI Death in Paradise: Season Seven (BBC, roots, in this 2018 second season of the Vivienne Deering (Joanna Scanlan) comes DVD: 2 discs, $34.98). Murders of a billion- that also features Carrie back to work in the midst of a bomb blast aire’s wife and a bestselling author Coon, Elisha Henig, and Tracy Letts.

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Video Movies

Great Hunt, Chief Tau (Johannes Haukur Jo- does black-marketer Sonny Burch (Walton This section features reviews of current and hannesson) is concerned about his sensitive Goggins). All are doggedly pursued through teenage son, Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who the treacherous streets of San Francisco by classic studio, independent, and foreign feature hasn’t quite mastered all the necessary skills. persistent F.B.I./S.H.I.E.L.D agent Jimmy Woo films. Each review includes pricing information, As his mother Rho (Natassia Malthe) says, (Randall Park). Directed by Peyton Reed, this as well as running time, rating, subtitling infor- “Keda leads with his heart, not his spear.” is the first Marvel Comics universe movie to mation, and street dates for yet-to-be-released Joining other tribesmen, they stampede a feature a female superhero’s name in the title. titles. Most titles reviewed here are widely bison herd, driving them over a cliff, so that Recommended. (S. Granger) the carcasses can be butchered and hauled available through most distributors. back as food for the winter. But one beast Big Fish & Begonia turns and rushes his attackers, catching HHH HHHH= Excellent Keda on its horns and tossing him into the Shout! Factory, 105 min., PG- HHH= Good air. Knocked unconscious, Keda lands on a 13, DVD: $16.99, Blu-ray: narrow ledge that is too steep for a rescue. $26.99 HH= Fair When Keda regains consciousness, a flash The most successful an- flood enables him to swim to safety, only to H= Poor imated feature made in be attacked by voracious wolves. After stab- China to date is a gentle, bing the leader of the pack, dubbed Alpha, dreamy fantasy that mixes Chinese fables Keda takes pity on the injured , nurs- and folklore with magical imagery remi- ing its wounds, and offering water. But after niscent of ’s Studio Ghibli. The story Current Films killing a rabbit for sustenance, Keda firmly follows a young woman named Chun from establishes dominance, insisting, “You have a race of beings who live beneath the ocean 14 Cameras H1/2 to wait your turn.” Wandering through the and are the guardians of human souls and Gravitas Ventures, 88 min., not vast wilderness, Keda and Alpha encounter the laws of nature. While experiencing the rated, DVD: $19.99 many perils and predators, becoming co-de- world above (in the form of a red dolphin), E t r e m e vo y e u r i s m pendent as they trek home through blizzards, she is saved by a human boy who dies in the was the subject of Vic- relying on Keda’s hand tattoo of the Big Dip- process, and she bargains away her own life tor Zarcoff’s 13 Cameras, per constellation to point them in the right to a greedy god to bring the boy back to life, a low-budget thriller cen- direction. A magnificently photographed defying the rules of her world. Made over the tering on creepy landlord survivalist adventure story charting the first course of a decade-plus, Big Fish & Begonia Gerald (Neville Archambault), who spied on bond between man and wolf (who would later mixes hand-drawn, anime-style animation his tenants and often directly intervened in become dog), director Albert Hughes’s Alpha with CGI elements and effects (notably for their lives. This sequel directed by Seth Fuller is recommended. (S. Granger) magic). The plot and backstory can be a bit and Scott Hussion expands on the concept, confusing but the beauty and poetry of the not merely by adding another camera but Ant-Man and The Wasp imagery as the dolphins swim across the also subplots. Gerald is now an HHH ocean and float through the sky, coupled entrepreneur who rents out a baker’s dozen Disney, 118 min., PG-13, DVD: with the emotional journey of Chun and of of camera-equipped homes, footage from $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: Qui (another boy, who sacrifices himself for which he sends out to paying customers on $39.99 Chun), as well as the magnificent scope of the dark web. He also has his own perverted After assisting the supernatural scenes as Chun channels interests, keeping Claire (Brianne Moncrief), America and disobeying the her power to save her own world, ultimately the pregnant housewife from the first movie, Sokovia Accords, goofball triumph over the opaque narrative. A com- imprisoned in an underground chamber, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd)—aka Ant-Man— ing-of-age tale painted on an epic animated and adding recent tenant Sarah (Chelsea has been under house arrest for two years, canvas that approaches the visual creativity Edmundson). Meanwhile, Gerald also deals devising elaborate games to play with his and emotional storytelling of Japan’s ani- with a new family of renters: a couple, their 10-year-old daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder mation master Hayao Miyazaki and raises son and daughter, and the latter’s best friend. Fortson) while his cronies (Michael Peña, the bar for Chinese animated cinema, this is Much of the movie is given over to boring David Dastmalchian, Tip “T.I.” Harris) run recommended. (S. Axmaker) footage of this family that is enlivened only their security-consultant business. Mean- when one of Gerald’s customers decides to while, Scott’s mentor, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael BlacKkKlansman make an unwelcome visit and Gerald must Douglas), has discovered that his long-lost HHHH protect them. A thoroughly unnecessary miniaturized wife Janet van Dyne (Michelle Universal, 135 min., R, DVD: and disappointing sequel, marked by poor Pfeiffer) has been trapped for 30 years in the $29.98, Blu-ray: $34.99, Nov. 6 writing, slipshod plotting, amateur acting, sub-atomic Quantum Realm. So Hank and Opening with a Civil War and flat direction, 14 Cameras ends with the his skeptical daughter Hope (Evangeline Lil- scene from Gone with the promise—or threat—of yet another install- ly)—aka The Wasp—smuggle Scott out of the Wind and closing with foot- ment. Not recommended. (F. Swietek) house to help rescue Janet because he once age from the Charlottesville mind-melded with her and their “quantum” riots, Spike Lee’s “crazy, outrageous, incredi- Alpha HHH psychic connection remains (“Do you guys ble true story” centers on the historical figure Sony, 96 min., PG-13, DVD: just put the word ‘quantum’ in front of ev- of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), $30.99, Blu-ray: $34.99, Nov. erything?” Scott inquires). While mutating who in the 1970s became the first African 13 in size, Scott and Hope arouse the ire of sev- American detective in the Colorado Springs Set in Europe more than eral villains, including the shimmery Ghost Police Department, and wanted to go under- 20,000 years ago during the (Hannah John-Kamen)—aka Ava Starr—who cover. His chance comes when he’s assigned last Ice Age, Alpha is a fable along with disgruntled former colleague to surreptitiously record a speech by former about how a caveman first Dr. Bill Foster (Laurence Fishburne) covets Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael (Co- bonded with a wolf. Preparing for the annual Dr. Pym’s surreal, futuristic technology, as rey Hawkins), aka African nationalist Kwame

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Ture. After making friends with righteous over underlying reasons film bears only a superfi- Colorado State Black Student Union leader for rampant pedophilia in cial resemblance to 2017’s Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier), Stallworth the Catholic clergy, some Goodbye Christopher Robin, picks up the phone and calls the local Ku Klux higher-ups in the church which was about the re- Klan to ask about joining. When a meeting is hierarchy put the blame sentful, real-life son of A.A. arranged, Stallworth enlists Jewish colleague squarely on “homosexual Milne. As this live-action/ Flip Zimmerman () to pose as culture” in seminaries and CGI-animated story begins, him. In order to be convincing, Flip hangs monasteries. In Brotherly young Christopher Robin out with Klan members at the local pool hall, Love, a gay underground does indeed exist (Orton O’Brien) is in the Hundred Acre Wood, spewing racial slurs. When KKK leader David among young monks (they appear to be bidding farewell to his friends—Pooh Bear, Duke (Topher Grace), visits Colorado Springs, Franciscan) who haven’t taken final vows. Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga and Baby Stallworth is ordered to be his bodyguard Vito (writer-director-actor Anthony J. Caruso) Roo—before departing for boarding school. during a screening of D.W. Griffith’sBirth of parties, hangs out at a gay bar, and flirts with Years pass and Christopher goes off to war, a Nation, celebrating the Klan. Based on Stall- men he meets, sticking to the letter of the marries Evelyn (Hayley Atwell), settles in worth’s 2014 book Black Klansman, the film chastity rule. But when his adviser suggests , and has a lovely daughter, Madeline juxtaposes overt, institutional ‘70s bigotry that he needs a change of pace, Vito agrees to (Bronte Carmichael). And that is essentially with the racist behavior of some Americans spend a summer helping out at an AIDS care the prologue. Now middle-aged Christopher since Donald Trump was elected President. center in Austin. There he meets Gabe (Derek Robin (Ewan McGregor) works as an effi- Both visually dazzling and emotionally ca- Babb), a handsome, well-built landscaper with ciency manager for a luggage company that thartic, this is highly recommended. Editor’s puppyish charm. Not only is it pretty clear is losing money, so he’s forced to cancel an Choice. (S. Granger) what’s going to happen from this point on, eagerly anticipated visit to the family cottage but Caruso is a somewhat wooden director in Sussex. The angst of disappointing Evelyn Bleeding Steel HH behind the camera, robbing the narrative of and Madeline precipitates an emotional crisis, Lionsgate, 110 min., in what should have been an emotional roller during which Pooh Bear magically appears Mandarin & English w/English coaster. The best moment almost falls outside in a London park, seeking Christopher’s subtitles, R, DVD: $19.99, Blu- the plot: a conversation between Vito and an help in finding their missing animal friends. ray: $21.99 old Hollywood screenwriter who has AIDS—it Along the way, Christopher rediscovers what Now 64, re- is an unexpected scene that delivers a fleeting is really important in life and reconnects mains a charismatic actor spark of life and surprise that the film other- with his family. Director Marc Foster deftly with some impressive moves wise lacks. Optional. (T. Keogh) mixes real-life actors with CGI while adeptly that he puts on display in this colorful but utilizing the voices of Jim Cummings, Brad silly sci-fi/action thriller from writer-director The Cakemaker HHH Garrett, and Toby Jones, among others. Rec- Leo Zhang. Chan plays Special Forces officer Strand, 105 min., in English, ommended. (S. Granger) Lin Dong, whose duty takes him from his dy- Hebrew & German w/English ing young daughter to protect a bioengineer- subtitles, not rated, DVD or Crazy Rich Asians ing scientist. Thirteen years later, Lin watches Blu-ray: $27.99, Nov. 6 HHH over a Chinese college girl who has unnatural In a story that sounds like Warner, 120 min., PG-13, healing abilities and nightmares that hold something out of the canon DVD: $28.98, DVD/Blu-ray the secrets of bioengineered blood capable of of ironic 20th-century melo- Combo: $35.99, Nov. 20 creating an army of super soldier “bioroids.” dramas by director Douglas Sirk (Magnificent When Nick Young (Hen- Chan plays the sober, serious hero while Obsession, All That Heaven Allows), filmmaker ry Golding) asks Rachel young costar Show Lo carries the comedy as Ofir Raul Graizer’s The Cakemaker finds Chu (Constance Wu) to fly to Singapore for Leeson, a mysterious young hacker who joins Thomas (Tim Kalkhof), a strapping blonde his best friend’s wedding, she has no idea Lin’s mission to save the girl. The confusing Berliner who bakes pastries in a cozy cafe, what lies ahead. Unbeknownst to Rachel, plot involves secret identities, a sci-fi author becoming romantically involved with Oren Nick is Singapore’s richest, most eligible who inadvertently reveals classified material (Roy Miller), a city planner from Jerusalem bachelor. And no one, least of all Nick’s in his new novel, and a race to find the lost who visits Berlin on business each month. icy mother (Michelle Yeoh) and imperious formula. Although Chan is no longer able to Oren is married and has a 6-year-old son in grandmother (Lisa Lu), understands why execute the gymnastic martial arts moves Israel. As his relationship with Thomas in- he’s chosen this NYU economics professor, a and dangerous stunts of his prime, his team tensifies, both men become comfortable with Chinese-American raised by a working-class is still one of the best at staging and executing the idea of having an affair that brings them mother. Unsuspecting Rachel is immedi- ambitious and memorable set pieces (here together only a few per month. But then ately confronted by a sybaritic wonderland including a fight on the fins of the Sydney Thomas learns that Oren has been killed in of extravagant wealth and undermined Opera House and a final battle in a high-tech an accident back home. Yearning to somehow by catty, status-conscious rivals for Nick’s villain’s lair that seems straight out of a classic stay connected to his former lover, Thomas affection. Rachel’s only confidante is sassy James Bond movie). But mostly this is a busy, travels to Jerusalem, where he seeks out Oren’s Peik Lin Goh (hip-hop’s Awkwafina), her sloppy, and at times goofy action spectacle widow, Anat (Sarah Adler), and (without college pal who lives with her ostentatious, with lazy sci-fi flourishes and unnecessary revealing his true identity) helps her reopen nouveau-riche Singapore parents (Ken characters. Chan fans may enjoy, but this is her own cafe. As the boundaries of their own Jeong/Koh Chieng Mun). And even though not one of his best. Optional. (S. Axmaker) relationship expands, the question of what Nick’s glamorous sister, elegant Astrid each of the characters secretly wants (Gemma Chan), empathizes with Rachel’s Brotherly Love HH is deftly explored. Recommended. (T. Keogh) dilemma, she’s dealing with her own marital Breaking Glass, 119 min., not rated, DVD: $24.99 complications. Based on Kevin Kwan’s 2013 The gay comedy-drama Brotherly Love, Christopher Robin HHH bestseller and aptly directed by Jon M. Chu, adapted from John Gordon Sinclair’s 2012 Disney, 104 min., PG, DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Crazy Rich Asians is an enchanting romantic novel Seventy Times Seven, arrives at an odd Combo: $39.99, Nov. 6 comedy that shatters Asian stereotypes. moment in the real world. In the debate This sweet, sentimental, feel-good family Recommended. (S. Granger)

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 16 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 The Death of the Supermen. One of the best of the animated Caro), but their attempts to bond run into a HHH DCU features to date, sure to appeal to fans brick wall until she falls in love with a stray pug. And a slacker musician (Adam Pally) is Warner, 81 min., PG-13, DVD: of the series and the original comic books, $19.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: this is recommended. (S. Axmaker) compelled to dog-sit for his sister (Jessica St. $24.99 Clair), while she and her husband (Thomas This animated DC Uni- Dog Days H1/2 Lennon) deal with their twin newborns. All verse movie, based on the Fox, 113 min., PG, DVD: of these dog-driven plots come together in a 1993 landmark comic book, $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: big fi nale involving a money-raising concert $34.99, Nov. 20 is the 32nd fi lm in the series of direct-to-video to benefi t the doggie shelter. While there are animated features (and a remake of an earlier Ken Marino’s bland en- a few bright moments, most of Dog Days is as animated original: Superman: Doomsday, a semble rom-com shame- dreary as the title suggests. Not recommend- looser, less ambitious adaptation). The Death lessly resorts to repeated ed. (F. Swietek) of Superman pits Superman (voiced by Jerry shots of canines, babies, and O’Connell) against the alien killing machine older kids staring at the camera to pluck at Down a Dark Hall HH1/2 Doomsday after the latter has defeated the viewers’ heartstrings. Ambitious morning Lionsgate, 96 min., PG-13, Justice League and Lex Luthor (Rainn Wil- TV host Elizabeth (Nina Dobrev) is forced to DVD: $19.98, Blu-ray: $21.99 son). Familiar voices return to play Batman team up with Jimmy (Tone Bell), a charming An agreeably creepy am- (Jason O’Mara), Wonder Woman (Rosario ex-football player; since his dog brings out bience combines with an Dawson), Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion), the best in her depressed one, the owners increasingly silly plot in Ro- and (Christopher Gorham), who inch toward romance. Pretty barista Tara drigo Cortés’s supernatural all have memorable scenes. As in the comics, (Vanessa Hudgens) takes in a stray and then thriller, adapted from a 1974 Clark Kent reveals the truth to Lois Lane must decide between two suitors—handsome YA horror novel by Lois Duncan. The setting ( Romijn) just before going into the vet Dr. Mike (Michael Cassidy), who treats is a sinister school called Blackwood, where longest sustained fi ght sequence in the ani- the emaciated pup, or goofy but lovable troubled Kit (AnnaSophia Robb) is sent by her mated DCU, which directors Jake Castorena Garrett (Jon Bass), who runs a rescue kennel mother and stepfather. Kit is one of only fi ve and Sam Liu make interesting with dramatic for homeless canines. An elderly man (Ron girls in residence—all problem kids—includ- imagery and inventive twists. The fi lm ends Cephas Jones) loses his late wife’s dog, and ing fragile Sierra (Rosie Day), nervous Izzy with the death of Superman, as promised, but is aided by a pizza-delivery boy (Finn Wolf- (Isabelle Fuhrman), submissive Ashley (Taylor the story is not over (as the epilogue teases), hard). An anxious couple (Eva Longoria, Rob Russell), and belligerent Veronica (Victoria and will be concluded in 2019 with Reign of Corddry) adopts a darling little girl (Elizabeth Moroles). All will be taught painting by the

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 17 VIDEO LIBRARIAN imperious headmistress Madame Duret (Uma is a stay-at-home mother Freaky Friday HH1/2 Thurman, camping it up outlandishly), music to three small children Disney, 90 min., not rated, by her son Jules (Noah Silver), writing by who feels stifled by her ex- DVD: $19.99 Professor Sinclair (Jodhi May), and math by istence. She is increasingly Did the world really need Professor Farley (Pip Torrens), while fearsome distant and irritated with a fourth Freaky Friday, fol- Miss Olonsky (Rebecca Front) enforces disci- her overworked husband lowing the delightful 1976 pline. The instruction appears to be hugely (Dominic Cooper), who original, a 1995 TV-movie, successful: soon Sierra is painting lush can- belittles her notion of en- and a solid 2003 remake? vases, Ashley is producing impressive poetry, rolling in an art course in London. After This new iteration of the body-switching Izzy is solving impenetrable math problems, retreating into a state of numbness, Tara comedy inspired by Mary Rodgers’s titular and Kit is demonstrating hitherto unknown impulsively buys a one-way ticket to 1972 YA novel is squarely aimed at ‘tween talent at the piano, even composing challeng- and walks out on her family. Her initial (and younger) viewers of the cable Disney ing works. But their productivity is marked foray around the French capital in pursuit Channel, presented as a musical version that by a manic, frenzied quality, and the girls of the art classics that she has read about in has all the hallmarks of the Disney TV brand, are spooked by ghostly apparitions. How the books leads to a rendezvous with a Parisian but is ultimately shriller and more generally girls are managing such extraordinary feats is who reveals belatedly that he is also married unsatisfying than its predecessors. The story finally revealed in a fiery conclusion.Down a with children. But a chance encounter with remains the same: rebellious teen Ellie (Cozi Dark Hall happily depends more on style than a wise older woman (Marthe Keller) forces Zuehlsdorff) is struggling with the imminent gore, but it also grows more absurd along the Tara to re-examine her priorities and com- wedding of her widower mom, Katherine way. A strong optional purchase. (F. Swietek) mitments. Savage’s screenplay is strangely (Heidi Blickenstaff). Some hocus-pocus causes evasive about the roots of Tara’s crisis, and them to switch bodies, forcing Ellie to go Eighth Grade HHH1/2 the film’s abrupt shift to Paris only opens through a day of wedding planning as Kath- Lionsgate, 94 min., R, DVD: the door to too many convenient clichés erine, and Katherine to attend high school $19.99, Blu-ray: $24.99 thrown in Tara’s path. Arterton gamely tries as Ellie. Each comes to sympathize with the Capturing the effects of to plumb the internal conflict of her char- day-to-day pressures on the other. Some of social media on suburban acter, but she comes across as more selfish the more delightful Disney TV trademarks adolescence, filmmaker than self-discovering. Optional. (P. Hall) pop up, particularly the occasional dark note Bo Burnham’s perceptive (a flirtation in biology class over dissected dramedy focuses on one HH1/2 frogs is especially perverse and fun). But angst-ridden girl’s last week in middle school. Kino Lorber, 93 min., not rated, while the chuckles nicely balance the senti- Shy, lonely 13-year-old Kayla Day (Elsie Fish- DVD: $29.99 mentality, and Disney once again deserves er) spends most of her waking hours on her The title of this docu- praise for its diversity in casting, this is the iPhone. She’s either checking out Instagram/ mentary on , least of the filmed versions. Still, given the Snapchat or making YouTube videos, offering the British actor who be- popularity of Disney Channel movies, this advice to a non-existent audience. “You have came ’s should also be considered a strong optional to put yourself out there,” she says, “but personal assistant for over purchase. (T. Keogh) where is ‘there’?” Although Kayla claims 20 years, comes from the job description to be “funny and cool and talkative,” her that Vitali wrote on his travel documents: Gabriel and the classmates just voted her “most quiet.” Awk- filmworker. At the beginning of a successful HHH wardly vulnerable and painfully insecure, Mountain career on stage and screen (both big and Strand, 132 min., in Kayla yearns to be popular and attract the small), Vitali landed a major role in Stanley Portuguese, English & French attention of one particular boy (Luke Prael) Kubrick’s (1975) and became w/English subtitles, not rated, in her class. The highlight of Kayla’s existence fascinated by Kubrick’s working methods. DVD: $27.99 comes when she’s paired with exuberant When Kubrick invited Vitali to help him Brazilian director Fellipe Olivia (Emily Robinson) on the day that cast the boy in The Shining, he embraced Barbosa’s second feature middle-schoolers “shadow” a high-schooler. the opportunity and then spent the next is an unusual hybrid of documentary and When Olivia kindly invites her to join pals two decades as Kubrick’s right hand, do- drama, re-creating the last 10 weeks in the at the mall that night, Kayla’s content to just ing everything from scouting locations to life of his prep school classmate Gabriel sit and watch, listening to their prattle. But as historical research to coaching actors on Buchmann, who was traveling through Africa Olivia’s friend (Daniel Zolghadri) drives Kayla the set. Filmmaker Tony Zierra is clearly in 2009 before starting studies at UCLA—and home, he challenges her to a game of Truth or fascinated by Vitali’s devotion to Kubrick died alone, at the foot of Mount Mulanje, Dare, and mortified Kayla realizes that she’s during his lifetime, a relationship that was which he had just climbed (his body was way out of her depth. During this emotionally often thankless and came at the expense not discovered for 19 days). Barbosa went to agonizing period of her life, Kayla is cared of Vitali’s acting career. But Vitali remains great lengths to find locals who Buchmann for by her loving single dad (Josh Hamilton), proud of his role in helping Kubrick bring interacted with during his journey through who does his best to adjust to her inexplica- his visions to the screen and in overseeing , Tanzania, Zambia, and Malawi, and ble mood swings. Perhaps the 21st-century the legacy of Kubrick’s work since his death. then had the non-professionals re-enact their takeaway is that while social media increases This portrait of one man’s service to a genius conversations with actor João Pedro Zappa anxiety, you must learn to control it, instead pays tribute to his “sacrifice” without delv- (playing Gabriel) in the places they occurred. of letting it overwhelm your self-esteem. ing too deeply into the often-dysfunctional Barbosa also re-created the time that Bu- Highly recommended. (S. Granger) relationship between the two or exploring chmann spent with his girlfriend Cristina Vitali’s life outside of Kubrick’s orbit. In- (Caroline Abras), who shared one leg of the The Escape HH terviewees including Ryan O’Neal, Danny trip with him. The portrait the director draws MPI, 101 min., not rated, DVD: $24.99 Lloyd, , R. Lee Ermey, and of his friend is mostly very affectionate: Zappa Filmmaker Dominic Savage’s drama dis- Stellan Skarsgård, among others, share their has a broad smile and open-hearted manner, sects the disintegrating marriage of a subur- memories of Vitali’s work on the films. A and he captures the easygoing rapport that ban British couple. Tara (Gemma Arterton) strong optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) Gabriel developed with the locals. At the same

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 18 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 time Buchmann is not presented as a plaster man), a self-styled debunker of fake mediums. of the cinematic legend. Recommended. saint; he has a temper, argues with one of his In the first, Goodman interviews a belligerent (S. Axmaker) guides and Cristina, and refuses to take ad- man (Paul Whitehouse) who was visited by vice, indicating an arrogant streak that might an apparition from his tragic past when serv- Goldstone HHH1/2 have played a role in his death (he was warned ing as a security guard at a derelict asylum. Lightyear, 110 min., R, DVD: not to climb Mulanje with so little daylight The second story introduces Goodman to a $19.99, Blu-ray: $24.99 remaining, but ignored it). Reinforced with near-hysterical young fellow (Alex Lawther), A superb thriller set in an Buchmann’s actual photographs, excerpts who relates a terrifying car trip through the otherworldly desert outback from his letters, and reminiscences about woods, during which he was attacked by a in Australia, Goldstone is a him, this is both an intriguing travelogue and strange creature. Finally, Goodman talks with simmering drama about the a fascinating character study. Recommended. a smug, condescending businessman (Martin intersection of corruption (F. Swietek) Freeman), who describes how a poltergeist and the lives of dispossessed or otherwise invaded the nursery that he and his wife victimized people. Aaron Pedersen is out- Generation Wealth prepared for their expected child. Flashbacks standing as a federal cop named Jay Swan, a HH1/2 reveal what drives Goodman—an unhappy broken-down indigenous middle-aged drunk- Lionsgate, 105 min., R, DVD: childhood with a rigorous father—and those ard who—despite a messed-up life—has his $19.99 personal issues come to the fore in the last act detective wits about him and isn’t afraid to Lauren Greenfield’s doc- as he must relive a traumatic episode from say what he thinks. Turning up in Goldstone umentary reminds viewers his adolescence. The final twist tying every- to investigate a missing young woman, Jay that money can’t buy hap- thing together is pretty lame, but the movie collides with local cop Josh Waters (Alex Rus- piness, but she expands does offer some genuinely scary moments sell), who is younger than Jay and white. At on that theme to question the value of any and features a good deal of eccentric humor. the center of the drama is a not-terribly-secret obsessive interest, using her own devotion to Ghost Stories is no classic, but it does provide conspiracy by the mayor (Jacki Weaver) and photography—which has lessened time spent some real chills. A strong optional purchase. a mining company to dig on land reserved with her family—as an example. Much of (F. Swietek) for aboriginal people. A band of goons serve Generation Wealth portrays the absurdity of a as enforcers, keeping resistance at bay (some- single-minded lust for monetary success, ce- Godard Mon Amour times with lethal intent). While Josh is not on lebrity, and possessions. Greenfield checks in HHH the take or directly benefiting from the may- with David and Jacqueline Siegel—the couple Cohen, 107 min., in French or’s illegal machinations, he goes along to get shown building a grotesquely large mansion w/English subtitles, R, DVD: along, bristling when Jay suggests that Josh is in the director’s previous filmThe Queen of $25.99, Blu-ray: $30.99 nonetheless complicit. A related subplot about Versailles—who are offered as a perfect ex- Louis Garrel is well-cast trafficked Chinese women adds to the general ample of profligate materialism, and Florian as French New Wave icon monstrousness of the town, a frontier outpost Homm, a German wheeler-dealer who made a and legendary filmmaker comprised of clusters of trailers and portable fortune before being charged with violations Jean-Luc Godard in this film by Michel Haz- offices (the kind seen at construction sites). of financial regulations that forced him into anavicius. Godard Mon Amour is based on the Writer-director Ivan Sen patiently lays all hiding before he was caught and convicted. 2015 autobiographical novel Un An Après by the pieces of this puzzle out while skillfully Homm expounds profusely on the error of his the late Anne Wiazemsky, Godard’s wife and taking viewers towards the thrilling climax. ways, especially concerning the subsequent muse during the last half of the , and it Highly recommended. (T. Keogh) estrangement from his son. Greenfield also covers the period when Godard moved into revisits some of the rich young people she more aggressively political subjects and strug- Gonjiam: photographed two decades ago for a 1997 gled to challenge the traditional conventions Asylum HH book, finding that the opulence they flaunt- of filmmaking with a meaningful - Well Go USA, 95 min., in ed then has hardly guaranteed them either ary alternative. But the film is less about the Korean w/English subtitles, not success or happiness. Eventually, Greenfield artist than the man himself as seen from the rated, DVD: $24.99, Blu-ray/ turns the camera on herself to consider perspective of his dewy, bubbly young wife DVD Combo: $29.99 whether by placing such emphasis on her (Stacy Martin), a woman almost 20 years Although the cycle of work she too has ignored what is really im- his junior. Godard was something of a co- found-footage horror mov- portant in life. That observation seems to be nundrum: a self-conscious cinematic genius ies that began with has a bit of a stretch—particularly if one applies who cut ties with old friends for failing to be largely run out of steam, Korean writer-di- it broadly to history’s greatest geniuses—but revolutionary, a political filmmaker whose rector Jung Bum-shik tries to revitalize the her multifaceted portrait of unfettered greed treatment of women on screen ranged from formula with this tale of a bunch of young and excess is often compelling, even if it the admirable to the exploitative, and an adults who venture into a long-shuttered leads to some doubtful conclusions. A strong outsider in France who embraced oppressed mental institution in order to reveal its hid- optional purchase. (F. Swietek) people around the world yet has a history den secrets on a live-streaming website. The of troubling anti-Semitic remarks. Hazanav- place is believed to be cursed (rumors abound Ghost Stories HH1/2 icius (who directed the Oscar-winning The about torture, suicide, and mysterious disap- Shout! Factory, 98 min., not Artist) is neither a deep thinker nor a cine- pearances), especially the legendary locked rated, DVD: $16.99, Blu-ray: matic firebrand and he fails to connect with and bolted Room 402, which is reputed to be $22.99 Godard’s struggle or even his art, but he is the facility’s ultimate chamber of horrors. Af- Adapted from their Lon- adept at parody and pastiche and his style ter a long prologue in which the various team don stage hit, Jeremy Dyson here is closer to the whimsy and playful- members are introduced and the site host— and Andy Nyman’s film is a ness of Francois Truffaut, finding humor in called The Captain (Wi Ha-joon)—takes his horror anthology consisting Godard’s contradictions and his desperation place in a tent to monitor the group’s progress of three creepy tales of supernatural occur- to be taken seriously by the young students via a maze of monitors, the story follows rences that are connected by a wraparound leading the May 1968 protests. Ultimate- the adventurers from floor to floor, pausing narrative involving Philip Goodman (Ny- ly, this is a pleasingly irreverent portrait periodically when their instruments record

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 20 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 some supposedly supernatural presence (eerie a pawn in a political war that comes back Descours) and Constant messages and photographs appear on walls). on the apolitical Pierre, who hides out in (Nicolas Giraud) are sent Every once in a while someone will yell “It’s the commune where his ex-wife still lives. off to fight in the trenches, so creepy!”, telling viewers how to react to The first act of filmmaker Nicolas Pariser’s Hortense Sandrail (Natha- grainy footage that is presented with whip- debut feature is a dense, compelling polit- lie Baye) is left to run the lash editing and screwy camera angles. After ical thriller filled with fascinating discus- family farm along with her some predictable twists—the electricity goes sions of how modern propaganda works daughter Solange (Laura out and some events are being manipulated to both highlight and obscure messages Smet), whose husband Clo- to boost viewership—the team reaches Room (echoing the discussion of recent election vis (Olivier Rabourdin) is also away. Finding 402, open the door, and all hell breaks loose. interference in the U.S.). And then it winds the work too much to handle by themselves, Viewers have seen all of this before in terms down into a series of long conversations Hortense hires an orphan, Francine (Iris Bry), of both style and substance, and the fact between Pierre and new love interest Laura to help, and when Georges returns on leave, that the characters are such irritating twits (Clémence Poésy), who is committed to he becomes attracted to Francine. Hortense doesn’t much help. Not a necessary purchase. her commune work and the possibility of a disapproves, and after rumors begin to circu- (F. Swietek) different way of living, centering on philos- late about not only Francine but Solange as ophy, social politics, commitment, and the well, she fires the girl. While this narrative The Great Game HH1/2 choices we make. Paskin is by far the most might sound melodramatic—there are also Icarus, 100 min., in French w/ interesting character but the film focuses inevitable visits by officials to convey news English subtitles, not rated, on the largely passive Pierre and how he of deaths at the front—Beauvois stages even DVD: $26.99 reacts to the blowback of his actions. An the most emotional scenes with quiet, unhur- The great game of the ti- interesting drama that loses steam along the ried grace, accentuated by lush widescreen tle of this 2015 French dra- way, this is still a strong optional purchase. camerawork that makes the images look mu- ma is politics, specifically (S. Axmaker) seum-ready. Encompassing the period from the use of propaganda as a 1915 to 1919, the film beautifully visualizes political tool. Pierre (Melvil Poupaud), an The Guardians HHH the modernization of French rural life, illus- out-of-work writer and disillusioned leftist, Music Box, 135 min., in French w/English subtitles, trating how manual labor in the fields was is hired by a powerful political fixer named R, DVD: $29.95, Blu-ray: $34.95 gradually replaced by farm machinery, just as Joseph Paskin (the great André Dussollier) Director Xavier Beauvois’s The Guardians, warfare was being transformed to devastating to ghostwrite an incendiary political tract. set on the French homefront during World effect. Ending with an homage to Stanley It’s all part of a campaign to discredit a War I, is adapted from Ernest Pérochon’s Kubrick’s classic , this potent government minister and Pierre becomes 1924 novel. When her sons Georges (Cyril World War I film is recommended. (F. Swietek)

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 21 VIDEO LIBRARIAN anxiety and sense of isolation while the latter destructive, drill-riding Underminer (John H is desperately building a new business. Josh Ratzenberger), the family is unceremoniously Universal, 92 min., R, DVD: displaces Harvey as the man in Pearl’s life, banished from suburbia and forced to live in $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: and seems like a reliable mentor. But a river a cheap motel. To their rescue comes savvy $34.98, Dec. 4 of secrets and lies run beneath the superficial telecommunications entrepreneur Winston This crude and vulgar easiness of this seemingly ideal home. Recom- Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) and his cynical sister serial-homicide thriller in- mended. (T. Keogh) Evelyn (Catherine Keener), who convince volves the cast of Elastigirl to kick off a campaign to reinstate a beloved ‘80s children’s TV show who are I Am a Hero HHH superheroes. Feeling empowered, Elastigirl’s being murdered one-by-one, prompting a , 127 min., in first crime-fighting target is a mysterious, disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye Japanese w/English subtitles, masked villain known as Screenslaver, who not rated, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: uses TV to hypnotize and brainwash the puppet to investigate. Phil Phillips (voiced by $34.99 Muppet vet ) is hired by femme masses, turning them into mindless zombies. fatale Sandra White (Dorien Davies) to stop The zombie apocalypse Meanwhile, Bob is predictably uncomfort- the killings, which he is eager to do, since one arrives in Japan with a bang able playing Mr. Mom: he finds Dash’s “new of the stars was Phil’s brother Larry (Victor in Shinsuke Sato’s adaptation of Kengo math” homework baffling and is exhausted Yerrid) and the show’s only human actress, Hanazawa’s manga series, a horror-comedy trying to wrangle three rambunctious kids. Jenny (Elizabeth Banks), was once Phil’s tale in which a virus has struck , turn- A male chauvinist, Bob is jealous that his lover. Complicating matters is Phil’s troubled ing people into ferocious cannibals. Sad-sack wife is getting all the action and attention. relationship with his former LAPD partner, Hideo Suzuki (Yô Ôizumi), a failed would-be During Mom’s absence, Jack-Jack suddenly Det. Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy), comic artist, has just been tossed out by his exhibits his own unique superpowers, and who—after being seriously injured during disgusted girlfriend, but he happens to be car- more complications arise when unmasked the incident that destroyed Phil’s career— rying his prize possession—a shotgun (a rarity Violet is spied in her superhero costume by underwent emergency abdominal surgery in a society that is pretty much firearm-free). a boy at school. Imaginative, inventive, and in which she received a puppet liver. As a Although Hideo is reluctant to use it (one of featuring a terrific retro-futuristic design, this result, Connie has developed a serious sugar his endearingly silly qualities is his adherence fun family film is recommended. S.( Granger) addiction, prompting her to gulp huge quan- to the restrictions of the government-issued tities of maple syrup. The highly reputable certificate of ownership), the weapon acts as Indivisible HHH sued STX Entertainment’s a balance to his natural cowardice, even as Kino Lorber, 104 min., in “deliberate effort to appropriate its SESAME others try to wrest it away from him. Hideo Italian w/English subtitles, not links up with a somber but spunky schoolgirl rated, DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray: STREET trademark, and its trusted brand and $34.99 goodwill, to promote their R-rated movie,” (Kasumi Arimura) to make their way to the objecting to the tagline “NO SESAME, ALL top of Mount Fuji, a place—according to news Identical twins Angela STREET” in this film featuring profane, reports—where the virus has no effect, but and Marianna Fontana play conjoined twins Vi- drug-using, misogynistic, violent, copulating, they stop at an isolated shopping mall har- ola and Daisy, a novelty and even ejaculating (the case was boring a group of survivors, and here Hideo singing act in the impoverished, highly dismissed). Directed by Muppets creator Jim will eventually display his marksmanship in religious culture of southern . They are Henson’s son Brian, The Happytime Murders final battles against both human rivals and the family breadwinners, managed by their is simply not funny, except for comedienne attacking zombies. I Am a Hero differs from father, who writes their songs, shapes their Maya Rudolph as Phil’s lovelorn secretary. other entries in the zombie pack in both its image, and hustles new gigs, including a Not recommended. (S. Granger) sense of humor and unusual creature effects, which depict the ravenous horde as fast-mov- partnership with an ambitious priest who wants to use the girls to promote a new Homestate HHH ing contortionists rather than hulking slow- pokes. Add a heaping helping of gore, and church. And then Daisy learns that, con- Dreamscape, 86 min., not trary to what their father has told them all Sato’s movie becomes a wild, exuberant genre rated, DVD: $24.99 their lives, the pair can be safely separated ride. Recommended. (F. Swietek) A ne’er-do-well drifter and lead normal lives, so they run off to hitchhikes his way to his sis- find the money needed for the operation. ter’s family and is charitably Incredibles 2 HHH Filmmaker Edoardo De Angelis’s meander- taken in but made less wel- Disney, 111 min., PG, DVD: ing film is like a mercenary fable, with the come by her disapproving $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: girls as innocents used by authority figures $39.99, Nov. 6 husband. Sound familiar? Maybe so, but the for their own ends, sentenced to a life of formula is refreshed in this smart and often Fourteen years after the being literally joined at the hip to profit surprising comedy-drama about hairline frac- original, director Brad Bird’s off novelty. The girls have very different tures in a nuclear family cracking open—all digitally animated super- personalities and don’t even agree on the because of a visitor. Blaise Miller (who co- hero franchise has a super sequel revolving surgery (the religious Viola embraces their wrote the screenplay with writer-director-ac- around the Parr family. Bob, Mr. Incredible connection while the headstrong Daisy tor David Hickey) plays Josh, who has had a (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), is the traditional wants a solo life to experience travel and rugged few days making his way to his sister strong and protective patriarch, while Helen sex), but they are devoted to one another. Crystal (Shaneye Ferrell), her spouse Harvey (Holly Hunter) is his flexible wife—aka Elasti- Indivisible explores issues of objectification, (Hickey), and their middle-school daughter, girl. Violet (Sarah Vowell) is their angst-laden exploitation, and autonomy in a world of Pearl (Grace Love). Bent on giving Josh shelter teenage daughter, Dash (Huck Milner) is a superstition, hardship, and chauvinistic and incorporating him into family rituals, rowdy, impulsive younger brother, and Jack- control, and while the metaphors are obvi- Crystal unwittingly intensifies Harvey’s stress Jack (Eli Fucile) is the baby. The family’s best ous the film is also effective, largely thanks and hidden estrangement from her and Pearl. friend is Lucius Best—aka Frozone (Samuel L. to the performances of the Fontana twins, It’s not so much that Josh is in the way (he’s Jackson). This story begins where the last mov- who convey the sisterly love that connects staying in their backyard camper so is not ie left off, with superheroes being forbidden them beyond flesh and bone. Recommend- under foot), but that he personifies Harvey’s from saving lives. So after they dispense with ed. (S. Axmaker)

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 22 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 A Kid Like Jake HH Milly (Zoë Kravitz) joins the boys on the lam. to kill his fellow crewmen. The Dodsons Shout! Factory, 89 min., R, A guest star eventually shows up to explain have expanded their identically-named DVD: $16.99, Blu-ray: $22.99 what makes Eli special—and set the stage 1995 short film about the men’s time in Originating as an for a sequel that will probably never occur. the desert, adding an extended interview off-Broadway play in which Kin throws pretty much everything but the with the older Cunningham (again played the titular character never kitchen sink into the plot, but it displays by Hannah), and comments from others, appears, this family drama imagination, and features a fine cast. A strong including relatives of Cunningham and the set in Brooklyn revolves optional purchase. (F. Swietek) dead men, a congressman who headed the around lawyer-turned-stay-at-home mom original investigation of the incident, and Alex (Claire Danes) and her therapist husband La Madre, El Hijo Y La various conspiracy theorists and debunkers, Greg (Jim Parsons), who are perplexed and Abuela HHH along with archival stills and footage that defensive when their 4-year-old son, Jake IndiePix, 88 min., in Spanish bring an aura of historical authenticity to the (Leo James Davis), expresses a preference for w/English subtitles, not rated, Watergate-era backdrop. The result is a canny dressing in Disney princess costumes and DVD: $24.95 fabrication that ridicules today’s penchant playing with so-called girls’ toys. Desperate to An intimate story about a for coming up with ridiculous explanations transfer Jake from a city elementary school to pop-up family and finding to explain past events, but one so skillfully a private educational institution and seeking love where you least expect put together that it could fool many viewers. scholarship aid, they face one roadblock after it, this debut feature by Benjamin Brunet Still, in the end, this is essentially a stunt, another during crucial admissions interviews. centers on young photographer Cristobal although admittedly a clever one. A strong Fortunately, they’re counseled by observant (Gonzalo Aburto), who returns to the ru- optional purchase. (F. Swietek) friend Judy (Octavia Spencer), director of the ins of his hometown in Chile, which was pre-school that Jake currently attends, who devastated by a volcano some years before. Lost Child HHH suggests that they emphasize Jake’s “gender Finding the site of his family home, Cristobal Breaking Glass, 101 min., not nonconforming play,” hinting that it might sorts through the debris of his childhood, rated, DVD: $24.99 be a diversity ploy that will work to their and later takes photos of other abandoned Fern (Leven Rambin), a advantage. Although Jake’s best friend (Rhys structures that he finds in the village. Eventu- newly-discharged soldier Bhatia), the son of Alex’s BFF Amal (Priyanka ally, Cristobal encounters Ana (Ana Gallegos suffering from PTSD, reluc- Chopra), accepts Jake as he is, other kids have Mattei), a hardened, middle-aged tobacconist tantly returns to her roots begun to bully him, calling Jake “flag,” a living with her elderly mother, Maria (María in the Ozarks following the mispronunciation of the word “fag.” Frantic Muñoz), who is ill but refuses to seek treat- death of her addict father. Alex steadfastly refuses to place a label on ment. From here, Brunet proceeds to tell the With little intention of sticking around, Fern Jake’s developmental behavior, yet analyti- story of a familial bond that arises between nevertheless moves into her late dad’s ram- cal Greg seems ready to recognize his son as Cristobal and the women, as he becomes the shackle house, which looks like a mansion transgender, and a rupture begins to grow surrogate son Ana needs (since her real son compared to neighboring dumps. Heavily between them. Along the way, director Silas can’t be bothered to drop by for a visit) and drinking and smoking Fern is also looking Howard’s film detours into unnecessary sub- a sympathetic sounding board for Maria. For for her younger brother, Billy (Taylor John plots involving one of Greg’s patients (Amy his part, Cristobal—who has only recently Smith), who is full of rage toward her. Fern is Landecker), and Alex’s abrasive mother (Ann learned he was adopted—becomes immersed ready to leave but then she encounters Cecil Dowd). Optional. (S. Granger) in the affections and support of mother and (Landon Edwards), a young guarded boy grandmother figures. Brunet presents the living alone in the woods. The mysterious Kin HH1/2 story in three chapters from the point of view Cecil soon attaches himself to Fern, who is Lionsgate, 102 min., PG-13, of each character, offering different subjective wholly unprepared to be a surrogate mother. DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray/DVD angles, changing tones, and varying emotion- But as a supernaturally-tinged myth about Combo: $24.99, Nov. 20 al colors. Recommended. (T. Keogh) the boy takes root in the community, Fern Jonathan and Josh Baker’s is challenged to learn the truth or surrender debut feature, an expansion The Landing HH1/2 Cecil to an uncertain fate. Co-writer/director of their short filmBag Man, Random Media, 86 min., not Ramaa Mosley’s Lost Child never tips all the begins as a dysfunctional rated, DVD: $14.95, Blu-ray: way into either horror or psychological dra- family drama but soon morphs into first a $24.95 ma, keeping a fine balance in this tale marked gangster picture and then an overwrought A found-footage 2011 by a strong sense of place, an honest look at revenge tale that is also a road movie with movie called Apollo 18 pos- human wreckage, and a welcome belief in a strong coming-of-age component before ited that the famous moon redemption. Recommended. (T. Keogh) finally transforming into a full-fledged sci-fi landing originally sched- flick.Kin starts with young Eli (Myles Truitt) uled by NASA for 1973—but cancelled—ac- Lou Andreas-Salomé: stumbling upon a futuristic weapon that tually did occur and ended disastrously. This The Audacity to be Free responds to his . Simultaneously, his mockumentary by David and Mark Dodson HHH older half-brother (Jack Reynor), just out of uses the same premise, but while in Apollo Cinema Libre, 113 min., in prison, shows up at the Detroit home that 18 the crew was attacked by aliens, here German, Italian & Russian w/ Eli shares with his hard-working adoptive the craft malfunctions and Commander Bo English subtitles, not rated, dad Hal (Dennis Quaid), looking for money Cunningham (Don Hannah) must attempt DVD: $24.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 to pay off a debt to crime lord Taylor a manual landing, which takes them not to Novelist and psychoan- (James Franco). Hal winds up dead and the the Pacific but rather the inhospitable desert alyst Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) was a brothers take off for the West Coast, pursued region of China, where the other two astro- woman ahead of her time. In documentarian not only by Taylor and his gang, but also the nauts die mysteriously, leaving Cunningham Cordula Kablitz-Post’s attractive feature film cops and a couple of soldiers from some other as the sole survivor. He quickly becomes the debut a framing device finds the 72-year-old dimension on stolen motorcycles. Along the focus of conspiracy theories contending (Nicole Heesters) dictating her memoirs to ar- way, a sweet-natured exotic dancer named that he stage-managed the entire episode dent admirer Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier) in

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 23 VIDEO LIBRARIAN 1933, while the primary narrative illustrates troubled souls trying to survive in an inhos- the story’s subtext about tolerance and true her past. In transitions between time periods, pitable world prove to be more depressing rebellion. The narrative focuses on a school she appears to walk through old photographs than enlightening. Not a necessary purchase. for young women that is largely cloistered and postcards. As a girl growing up in St. Pe- (F. Swietek) and run by radical females dedicated to tersburg, Lou longed to partake in the same the destruction of global patriarchy. Lesson activities as boys. Before her father (Peter Mamma Mia! Here We plans and everything else at the school are Simonischek) died, he encouraged Lou to do Go Again HH merely fronts for anti-male propaganda and whatever she wanted, from climbing trees to Universal, 114 min., PG-13, revisionist thinking about everything from studying philosophy (Lou’s mother was more DVD: $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD reproduction to pornography (the ersatz nuns traditional). Once 16-year-old Lou (Liv Lisa Combo: $34.98 who run the school plan to finance their rev- Fries) found a tutor, she applied herself to her The original 2008 Mam- olution with funds from lesbian porn films studies, but after he proposed, she rejected his ma Mia! revolved around shot on campus and featuring the students). offer and “renounced all erotic experiences.” Meryl Streep as Donna, the The status quo is shaken when transgen- Lou (now played by Katharina Lorenz) went adventurous, high-spirited 1970s hippie who der student Isolde (Kita Updike) rescues a on to study religion and philosophy in Zu- didn’t know which of her three lovers fathered wounded male anti-capitalist and hides him rich, but took a break when she developed her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried). Mam- at the school, sparking an ideological battle. bronchitis. Instead, she studied with her ma Mia! Here We Go Again reveals in the first LaBruce brings a comic archness to the pro- friends, Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche, scene that Donna is dead, leaving a huge ceedings, including a cheesy turn by Susanne even after she rejected their respective pro- void that not even a last-minute, flamboyant Sachsse as a headmistress who resembles a posals. Although she had an affair with poet appearance by Cher can fill. And since most bewigged stripper more than an administra- Rainer Marie Rilke, who changed her mind of the Swedish pop group ABBA’s best songs tor. Also delightful are the ambiguous con- about sex, she married literature scholar were used in the first film, the soundtrack is versations between the girls, which suggests Friedrich Carl Andreas for practical reasons. filled with reprises of “I Have a Dream” and that their mad orthodoxy about men rings a Her first few novels met with a receptive lesser known tunes such as “When I Kissed little hollow even for them. With the caveat audience, although she had to write under a the Teacher” and “Andante, Andante.” The that the film features explicit sexuality and man’s name since her publisher didn’t think story is divided into two sections, with one a graphic vaginoplasty, this is a funny satire they would sell otherwise. She then turned to concerning Sophie’s preparations to re- with a timely bite. Recommended for more psychoanalysis after meeting Sigmund Freud. open the picturesque hotel founded by her adventurous collections. (T. Keogh) “I was never able to make compromises,” she oft-lamented mother, despite having a serious tells Pfeiffer, who would become the executor domestic dispute with her husband (Dom- Mission Impossible: of her estate, in a statement that nicely sums inic Cooper) who is considering a lucrative Fallout HHH1/2 up the complex, underappreciated life that job in Manhattan. Sophie is comforted by Paramount, 147 min., PG-13, Kablitz-Post depicts with such care. Recom- one (Pierce Brosnan) of her possible fathers, DVD: $30.99, Blu-ray/DVD mended. (K. Fennessy) although the other two (, Skellan Combo: $39.99, Dec. 4 Skarsgård) are otherwise occupied. Also on After 22 years, this sixth Mambo Cool HH hand are Donna’s irrepressible bandmates installment of the escapist IndiePix, 62 min., in Spanish (Christine Baranski, ) and a suave spy fantasy continues to w/English subtitles, not rated, hotel manager (Andy Garcia). The second deliver sheer fun, thanks to the charming, DVD: $24.95 story is a prequel, an extended flashback set charismatic lead performance by Tom Cruise. Chris Gude’s film is la- 25 years earlier when energetic flower child It begins as IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) beled as an “experimental Donna (Lily James) fled to an idyllic Greek receives an assignment to take out the documentary,” but while island and became enamored with younger, Apostles, an evil syndicate of international Mambo Cool does feature unconvincing versions of the three potential anarchists determined to detonate nuclear non-professional actors and real locations, fathers (Josh Dylan, Hugh Skinner, Jeremy bombs in Jerusalem, Mecca, and the Vatican. most of it is obviously scripted and staged, Irvine). Discarding all semblance of cohesion At Hunt’s side are loyal teammates Luther with cinematography so arty and preten- and reality, both casts meet and mesh during (Ving Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg). Also tious that it only increases the feeling of splashy “Super Trouper” and infectious on hand are IMF boss Alan Hunley (Alec pervasive artificiality. Gude, who trained as “Dancing Queen” end credits which, thank- Baldwin), CIA director Erika Sloan (Angela an anthropologist and worked for a time in fully, include a campy glimpse of Streep. Bassett), and her henchman, August Walker Medellín, Colombia, trains his camera on Sloppily written and frantically directed by (Henry Cavill). After capturing radical Sol- that city’s dark underbelly, where a parade Ol Parker, this is a disjointed, confusing, and omon Lane (Sean Harris), their challenge is of impoverished denizens trade drugs and ultimately redundant . Optional. to obtain the plutonium cores from an arms sad stories. Also prominent are rats scurrying (S. Granger) dealer known as White Widow (Vanessa along alleyways—mirrors of the hapless hu- Kirby) and find the mysterious John Lark, mans who share the streets (a shot of a rat in The Misandrists HHH who wrote a nihilistic manifesto claiming a cage is clearly intended to suggest that the Strand, 91 min., in English & that “the greater the suffering, the greater people are also trapped), as well as prolonged German w/English subtitles, the peace.” Along the way, they are joined by close-ups of cocaine being cut and mixed, not rated, DVD: $19.99 intrepid MI6 secret agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca and related paraphernalia being carefully Bruce LaBruce’s queer Ferguson) and Ethan’s estranged wife Julia arranged. But there is one form of release comedy The Misandrists pits (Michelle Monaghan). Written and directed the film openly celebrates: the mambo, into a binary notion of sex and by Christopher McQuarrie, the film delivers a which the characters break with abandon, sexual politics for women number of dazzling stunts, with Cruise racing showing off their individualistic moves and (i.e., straight but oppressed by men vs. lesbian the wrong way ‘round the Arc de Triomphe talking about their “salsa.” Mambo Cool boasts and radically separatist) against a more nu- on a BMW RnineT motorcycle with 70 stunt some striking (if also affected) images, as well anced reality of gender-fluidity and inclusive- drivers in pursuit, climbing onto an open as an atmospheric score by David Oquendo, ness. It does so with a campy flair that makes helicopter in midflight, and dangling off the but overall the fleeting glimpses it offers of one laugh without diluting the seriousness of side of a cliff. And for the opening HALO

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(high-altitude, low-opening) skydive over Par- Vernalde), who is considering going off with a navigating academia. Based is, Cruise jumped more than 100 times from a businessman. Boyish projectionist Balthsazar on a play by Katharine Clark Boeing C-17 Globemaster III at 25,000 feet. A (Mickaël Pelissier), however, is so moved by Gray (who adapted it for the box-office and critical hit,Mission Impossible: the film that he impulsively professes his love screen with her husband, Fallout serves up an intense action-adventure for Géraud, who puts the kid off while trying Nicholas Gray, the film’s thrill ride. (Full disclosure: my son, Don to resurrect his relationship with the movie’s director), the sharp-edged Granger, is an executive producer.) Highly (Tancredi Volpert). Meanwhile, story finds college drop- recommended. (S. Granger) Gladys (Juliette Damiens), the cynical clerk out Annalee (Stef Dawson) at the hotel, becomes involved in the wryly cynically exploiting her own keen intellect Mountain HHH funny goings-on, as does Balthazar’s virile and writing talent by ghostwriting papers Greenwich, 74 min., PG, DVD: father (Bertrand Belin). The result is rather for college undergraduates. As an outsider $24.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 like a cheeky cinematic roundelay, in which looking in at higher education she can’t Eye-popping visuals are the various characters chase after one anoth- afford, Annalee blows up regularly when the chief selling point of er—often in the wrong combinations—as confronting the debatable subject matter Jennifer Peedom’s docu- Géraud and Sylvia take his film from one of the assignments she covers. When she mentary celebrating the small town to another while trying to work takes on a job for a graduate student, Sigurd majesty of high peaks while out their individual romantic problems. An (Penn Badgley), who is pursuing his masters’ expressing healthy skepticism about human entertaining and light-as-a-soufflé confec- degree in media studies, the lines between impact on mountains. narrates, tion, this is recommended. (F. Swietek) employment and romantic attachment blur. drawing from Robert Macfarlane’s ruminative Annalee proves a high-maintenance lover, 2003 book Mountains of the Mind, backed by Next Time I’ll Aim for the hollering and complaining about popular original music from the Australian Chamber Heart HHH culture while Sigurd is a capable foil. When Orchestra and excerpts from works by various Icarus, 111 min., in French w/ a hidden agenda emerges that results in both classical composers. After some establishing English subtitles, not rated, characters being confronted by an adjunct shots of rock-climbers scaling sheer cliffs, the DVD: $26.99 professor (Richard Kind), the moral quanda- film notes that until the last century, moun- Director Cédric Anger, a ries grow exponentially and the question of tains were considered dangerous obstacles former Cahiers du Cinéma what constitutes cheating becomes inevitable. to be avoided. In the early 1900s attitudes critic, draws from official What keeps viewers riveted by this talky changed, with the challenge of conquering documents for this cool-eyed portrait of a story—which is full of drive-by references the peaks beckoning adventurers. Tourists real-life serial killer. Guillaume Canet, in to classroom fodder about filmmakers, pop followed, indulging in sports such as skiing, a tightly-wound performance, plays Alain stars, and The Simpsons—are the penetrating, snowboarding, mountain bicycling, and Lamare, here renamed Franck, a gendarme intuitive performances of Dawson, Badgley, flying in wingsuits. Others tested themselves who stalked women in provincial France in and Kind. Highly recommended. (T. Keogh) with feats like tightrope-walking from peak the late 1970s. With his side-parted hair and to peak in a dare against death. Scenes of predilection for driving at night, he looks for Papillon HH climbers who form long lines at Everest are all the world like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle Universal, 134 min., R, DVD: contrasted with shots of life in a serene moun- and even shares character traits. As far as $22.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: taintop monastery to emphasize how the Franck is concerned, his victims deserve the $29.99, Nov. 6 environment is being altered for the worse by harm he inflicts because they take risks such Those who saw Franklin human activity. Featuring extraordinary foot- as hitchhiking and biking after dark. He Schaffner’s 1973 adaptation age credited to scores of cameramen shooting hits one with his car and afterward writes of Henri Charrière’s bestsell- across the globe, Mountain is definitely a an anonymous letter to the gendarmie, pro- ing autobiographical books visually exciting experience. Recommended. claiming, “I am a killer. And as such, I intend (Papillon, Banco)—starring Steve McQueen (F. Swietek) to kill.” Relatively polite (although not exactly and Dustin Hoffman—are likely to feel acute friendly) to the people in his life, he’s surly disappointment early on in this decidedly My Life with James Dean to strangers, especially when drinking. His mediocre version. In Paris in the early 1930s, HHH parents wonder why he’s single, although Charrière (Charlie Hunnam) is a reckless safe- Breaking Glass, 108 min., in he has little time for romance, what with all cracker who is framed for murder and shipped French w/English subtitles, not the ice baths, flagellation, and other forms off to a notorious penal colony on the remote rated, DVD: $24.99 of self-harm. Eventually, he warms up to his island of French Guiana, located on the north Somewhat reminiscent attractive laundress, Sophie (Ana Girardot), Atlantic coast of South America. Leaving Mar- of Bill Forsyth’s beloved but the town’s other women remain vulner- seilles, Charrière offers to “protect” delicate, Local Hero, this charming able. Sophie is also keeping a secret herself. diminutive currency counterfeiter Louis Dega fish-out-of-water comedy by writer-director Although there are several close calls, Franck (Rami Malek), who has money stashed away. Dominique Choisy amusingly depicts how keeps finding ways to evade detection until he Called “Papillon” for the butterfly tattooed on a trip through the Norman byways to show discovers the limits of his cleverness. Despite his chest, Charrière repeatedly plots the pair’s his eponymous film changes the life of young the despicable nature of his crimes, Anger and escape, despite warnings by sadistic Warden director Géraud Champreux (Johnny Rasse). Canet conspire to make Franck ever-so-slight- Barrot (Yorick Van Wageningen) and even- Géraud’s first stop is a modest seaside town ly sympathetic, obfuscating rather than tual incarceration on Devil’s Island, site of a filled with quirky characters. Although Sylvia elucidating his pathology, which remains a former leper colony. Although flight from the (Nathalie Richard) has invited him to screen mystery. Recommended. (K. Fennessy) rocky, palm-covered, disease-infested island his artily homoerotic My Life with James Dean was considered impossible—since the sur- in her cinema, she fails to meet him at the The Paper Store HHH1/2 rounding sea was infested with piranhas and bus stop, and doesn’t even show up for the Dreamscape, 98 min., not rated, DVD: $24.99 sharks—the stubbornly determined Charrière screening—which only one person attends— Driven by virtuoso performances from its would eventually succeed after surviving for because she is in the midst of a tumultuous three lead actors, The Paper Store is an engross- years in solitary confinement. Helmed by breakup with her long-time lover (Marie ing and sometimes explosive drama about Danish director Michael Noer, this remake

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 26 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 features actors most recognizable from TV the more naïve Bea to discover her true self. up residence in The Pearl, the world’s tallest in the lead roles: Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) Veninger’s screenplay unfortunately often building, so that Will can do final checks be- and Malek (Mr. ). Despite suffering a feels stilted and incomplete, with the male fore its grand opening. Things go awry when starvation diet and lack of medical/dental characters particularly poorly sketched and an army of thugs invade the building and set it care, Hunnam’s teeth remain sparkling white, often cartoonish in their extreme behavior. ablaze, trapping Sawyer’s family inside, along his body perfectly toned, and his haircut And while the performances by Salisbury with the building’s owner and his entourage. barbershop-fresh. For real drama, watch the and Hall help elevate the material, the story Naturally, our intrepid hero climbs a construc- original. Optional. (S. Granger) ultimately falls short. Not a necessary pur- tion crane, crashes through a window, and chase. (P. Hall) tries to save his wife and kids. As the police The Poet and the Boy watch helplessly, Will’s increasingly farfetched HHH Puppet Master: The feats of derring-do are applauded vociferously Altered Innocence, 110 min., in Littlest Reich HH by a crowd of observers down on the street, Korean w/English subtitles, not RLJE Films, 90 min., not rated, and he eventually identifies the villains re- rated, DVD: $21.99 DVD or Blu-ray: $29.99 sponsible for the attack. Hard to believe that Few movies successful- This cheaply-made reboot such a preposterous lump of action hokum ly manage the sometimes of the decades-old Puppet could have been put to paper, let alone given hairpin turns of the come- Master series of horror mov- a $125-million-plus budget, but Skyscraper is dy-drama genre as well as South Korea’s The ies lays the tastelessness on clearly a big studio production, and Johnson Poet and the Boy. Hyon (Yang Ik-june) is a thick in terms of both style and substance, earns his paycheck by gamely embracing this sad sack poet and comic foil who can’t get a combining a nasty premise with blood-and- nonsense. Unfortunately, even his likability break. Other members of his poetry group are guts effects that are both disgustingly over- cannot prevent this disaster movie from being dismissive of his verse, the students in a writ- the-top and decidedly cheesy. Series regular a true disaster. Optional. (F. Swietek) ing class he teaches don’t listen to a word he character André Toulon (Udo Kier) is a Nazi says, and a low sperm count (unhappy news who fashioned menacingly mobile, weap- Slender Man H to his baby-craving wife) only adds to his on-loaded puppets as a pint-sized means of Sony, 93 min., PG-13, DVD: profile of a hapless schlub. When a doughnut exterminating Hitler’s enemies. Toulon was $30.99, Blu-ray: $34.99 shop opens across the street from his home, killed after using his puppets to murder a les- The Internet bogeyman Hyon repeatedly pigs out on boxes of pastries, bian couple in Texas, and now a convention that actually inspired a pair which naturally swells his belly over time. of current owners of the puppets—which of impressionable 12-year- But the shop has another attraction pulling have become collectors’ items—becomes old girls to try to kill a friend Hyon in: Seyun (Jung Ga-ram), a young, the occasion for Toulon rising from the dead in 2014 comes to the screen handsome school dropout working behind and his critters resuming their vicious work, in this drearily familiar horror movie. The the counter. Seyun awakens a repressed gay slaughtering Jews, gypsies, blacks, and gays spooky figure—a tall, dark, faceless creature desire in Hyon, and the film shifts gears to in ludicrously grisly ways. The heroes are a with long, spindly fingers, who was often become a tragic tale of impossible timing pair of clerks from a comic-book store, along depicted as stalking and kidnapping chil- between men from separate generations. with a girl one is romancing, together with dren—is here summoned by four high-school Hyon lovingly tries to help Seyun attain an inept police detective (Michael Paré), who girls (Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sin- an education and better future, while also team up to put Toulon back in the grave and clair, and Annalise Basso) when they upload coming to terms himself with the next steps deactivate his murderous marionettes. Most a video, after which they are each targeted. in his own destiny. Director Kim Yang-hee of the film consists of a string of sadistic The rules governing just how Slender Man proves equally at home with laughter and killings perpetrated by the hideous dolls, operates are never made very clear, or they heartbreak in this well-cast tale of star-crossed achieved with rudimentary visual effects seem to be made up as the movie progresses, loss. Recommended. (T. Keogh) that are more likely to elicit giggles than eventually settling on the creature as some shudders. Filmmakers Sonny Laguna and sort of bioelectrical being. Slender Man encas- Porcupine Lake H1/2 Tommy Wiklund’s gleefully tawdry movie es its victims in the trunks of trees, grabbing Breaking Glass, 84 min., not doesn’t damage the franchise, which was them with extended branchlike tendrils from rated, DVD: $24.99 ostentatiously junky from the start, but it also its fingers—or at least that is what seems to Canadian filmmaker In- certainly doesn’t offer any improvement. Not be happening (the film is so murkily shot and grid Veninger helmed this a necessary purchase. (F. Swietek) haltingly edited that one cannot always tell small intimate drama in- what is going on, and many sequences turn volving two very different Skyscraper HH out to be the girls’ nightmares). The Slender teenage girls whose lives Universal, 103 min., PG-13, Man figure is presented with some evocative intertwine over the course of a summer. Bea DVD: $24.99, Blu-ray/DVD imagery onscreen, but when it turns into a (Charlotte Salisbury) is a socially awkward To- Combo: $39.99 humanoid played by a real actor, the result ronto resident in an unhappy family environ- Mash together Die Hard looks rather silly (although not so ridiculous ment. When her father inherits a diner in a with The Towering Inferno, as the giant wooden spider that it morphs into resort area, Bea gets a chance to be away from add an extra helping of ab- near the close). A film about the murderous the city and her overbearing mother. Initially surdity, and you have film- impulse that this Internet figure inspired in unable to connect with local girls, Bea meets maker Rawson Marshall Thurber’s live-action real children could have been truly frighten- Kate (Lucinda Armstrong Hall), who has a cartoon, which provides a massive but also ing, but director Sylvain White’s cookie-cut- brash personality and turbulent domestic brainless adrenaline rush—and not much ter horror flick is most definitely not. Not life. Indeed, Kate’s mentally disturbed older else. Dwayne Johnson is Will Sawyer, a top recommended. (F. Swietek) brother and her endlessly agitated mother security expert who lost a leg in a SWAT rescue seem frighteningly out of place in the placid attempt years ago. Will married the military Sollers Point HH1/2 countryside setting. The girls’ friendship nurse (Neve Campbell) who saw him through Oscilloscope, 102 min., R, DVD: $34.99, Blu-ray: begins to blossom beyond comradeship, rehab, and they now have darling twin kids. $39.99 with Kate helping (and sometimes forcing) The family has come to Hong Kong to take A young ex-con struggles to put his life in

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 28 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 order after being released the only other employment open to Cash Drew’s mission by wading knee-deep into from prison in Matthew is at the WorryFree factory, where workers dangerous espionage, stoic Audrey and im- Porterfield’s gritty but rath- sign lifetime, multi-generational contracts pulsively manic Morgan scamper around er shapeless drama. Keith in return for guaranteed on-site housing Europe on stolen passports—touching down (McCaul Lombardi) is on and food—a slavery concept that incites the in , Prague, Paris, and Berlin, and probation, living with his ire of protest group Left Eye. When Cash is crossing paths with another pair of operatives alternately sympathetic and invited to a swanky party hosted by Worry- (, Hasan Minhaj). Although exasperated father Carol Free’s coked-out CEO (Armie Hammer), he’s they call Morgan’s suburban parents (Jane (Jim Belushi) in the titular Baltimore work- faced with sacrificing his morality/conscience Curtin, Paul Reiser) for help, they wind up ing-class neighborhood. Some of his old while encountering an insidiously surreal being drugged, kidnapped, and tortured by a friends prod him to rejoin their drug-selling choice. An innovative, politically-charged psychotic Russian gymnast (Ivanna Sakhno). gang, but he halfheartedly looks into taking fable, this is recommended. (S. Granger) The highlight here is the sarcastic sincerity of a course in air-conditioner repair instead. He Morgan’s skewering of an icy MI6 chief (Gil- also tries (unsuccessfully) to make amends to Speed Walking HHH lian Anderson), but Fogel can’t quite pull off his erstwhile girlfriend, flirts with a young Breaking Glass, 108 min., in the violent, blood-splattered action set pieces student, and befriends a high-strung addict Danish w/English subtitles, not in this uneven film. Optional. S.( Granger) who has an abusive boyfriend. Keith has a rated, DVD: $24.99 soulful reunion with his elderly grandmother Speed Walking is a tender Streets of Vengeance and enjoys a few brief visits with his sister and often urgent coming- H1/2 and her kids, while also talking to a former of-age film set in 1976, deft- Olive, 101 min., not rated, gang leader who advises him to follow a code ly directed by Niels Arden DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: $24.99 of conduct that includes dignity and self-re- Oplev (who helmed the Scandinavian adapta- Quentin Tarantino may spect. But Keith ultimately fails to resolve tion of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Martin mine cinematic gold out the contradictory impulses buffeting him (Villads Bøye), a 14-year-old Danish boy, is a of homages to yesteryear’s around, and seems as close to reverting to champion speed walker on his school’s team, trashploitation cinema, but his old life of crime as he is to embarking on and he is in that phase of life where discovery few others can pull it off. Co-helmers Paul a more hopeful path. The performances are can be confusing and painful, with no road Ragsdale and Angelica De Alba’s Streets of excellent (with Belushi in an unexpectedly map available. With his best pal Kim (Freder- Vengeance re-creates “erotic” action-thriller affecting turn as the frustrated father), and ik Winther Rasmussen) giving him a little sleaze that was typical of direct-to-video Porterfield expertly captures the atmosphere orientation to the mysteries of sex, Martin B-Hollywood back when VHS reigned. The of a city in economic decline, but Sollers Point develops an ambiguous desire for his friend. film is bumpered as a mock-airing on a is also somewhat meandering and episodic. A But pretty Kristine (Kraka Donslund Nielsen) strong optional purchase. (F. Swietek) is his real focus. When Martin’s mother SoCal local-TV weekend late show (hosted suddenly dies, rendering his father and older by a bikini-clad girl). The plot concerns a Sorry to Bother You brother barely able to function, the lad has murderous male-supremacist cult targeting HHH to grow up quickly while clumsily courting San Francisco’s hottest strippers and bosomy Kristine and preparing for his confirmation at nudie models. A would-be target, “feminist” Fox, 100 min., R, DVD: $29.99, sex starlet Mila (Delawna McKinney), ral- Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $34.99 a Christian church. The collision of youthful naivete, grief, and ritual overwhelms Martin. lies her fellow demi-monde into becoming Persistent telemarketers thong-lingerie vigilantes. Many ‘80s-retro have surpassed unscrupu- Oplev assuredly captures the challenges of a kid taking the first adolescent steps of com- notes are hit, including Casio-like synth lous real-estate developers music, Miami-Vice-style cinematography, pay as contemporary villains. mand over his own destiny. Recommended. (T. Keogh) phones, bad continuity, community-theater Hip-hop recording artist Boots Riley, front- acting, fake gore, and topless shower/club- man of the Coup, makes an ambitious debut bing/lesbian fondling montages that come as writer-director in this confrontational, The Spy Who Dumped out of nowhere. Yet there is also anachronis- absurdist, corporate satire. Set in Oakland, Me HH tic modern slang, online video, and digital CA, the story centers on Cassius “Cash” Green Lionsgate, 116 min., R, DVD: technology. Featuring a bevy of past/present (Lakeith Stanfield), who gets caught faking $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $39.99 adult-movie actresses, this wannabe cult film credentials for a telemarketing position at is not recommended. (C. Cassady) RegalView but lands the job anyway. Eager Susanna Fogel’s silly to move out of Uncle Sergio’s (Terry Crews) screwball comedy caper garage and into an apartment with his artsy, mostly wastes the prodi- Suffering of Ninko activist girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson), gious talent of SNL’s Kate McKinnon. While a HH1/2 Cash struggles on the phone, respecting Re- shootout takes place at an open-air market in IndiePix, 70 min., in Japanese galView’s edict: “Stick to the script.” But then, Vilnius, Lithuania, halfway around the world w/English subtitles, not rated, heeding the advice of cubicle-mate Langston in , Audrey (Mila Kunis) is cele- DVD: $24.95 (Danny Glover), black Cash adopts a “white” brating her 30th birthday, having just been Norihiro Niwatsukino’s voice (dubbed by David Cross), using certain dumped—via text—by one of the gunmen, debut feature is an erotic verbal tones, common phrases, and cultural Drew (Justin Theroux), a C.I.A. agent who fable told with enormous references. Suddenly, Cash closes so many doesn’t want to place Audrey in danger. As visual panache, narrated by Qyoko Kudo deals that he is promoted upstairs as one of Audrey seeks solace with her roommate/BFF in an amusingly deadpan oracular manner. the “Power Callers”—an executive position Morgan (McKinnon), Drew suddenly crashes Set during the Edo period, the film centers with an upgrade in wardrobe, automobile, through her apartment window, claiming on Ninko (Masato Tsujioka), a handsome and living conditions. Meanwhile, Squeeze that the fate of the free world depends on young monk at a remote Buddhist temple (Steven Yeun), another low-level telemarket- delivering a cheap plastic “2nd place” football who is striving to fulfill the demands of his er, tries to form a union to improve working trophy (containing a USB drive) to someone vocation. Unfortunately, he is irresistible to conditions, pay, and benefits. Significantly, at a café in Vienna. Determined to complete virtually everyone. That his fellow novices

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 30 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 ogle him is bad enough, but his trips to the about two women living as their sons had identical siblings and were part nearby village to beg for alms are even worse: recluses in a ramshackle of a secret psychological study by Dr. Peter the women fall over themselves to get near estate could spawn both a Neubauer, a psychiatrist at the Manhattan him, and riot when another monk is sent in Broadway musical and an Child Development Center. Neubauer, who his place. Bemoaning his fate, Ninko leaves HBO movie, but David and died in 2008, was an Austrian-Jewish émigré the monastery, going into the wilderness to Albert Maysles’s classic Grey who apparently placed several multiples with pray and undertake ascetic exercises, but he Gardens did precisely that. adoptive parents of different socioeconomic falls in with a cynical samurai. And the pair That Summer is a sort-of backgrounds in order to research the question are enlisted by a village elder to do battle with prequel, filmed three years of nature vs. nurture. Working from New a beautiful sorceress who has been system- before the Maysles made their 1975 portrait Yorker journalist Lawrence Wright’s investi- atically seducing the local men and sucking of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (“Big Edie”) gation, director Tim Wardle utilizes extensive their life away. Niwatsukino invests this and her daughter (“Little interviews and archival footage to tell this bizarre tale with great style: the live-action Edie”), the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Ken- story. And while 10,000 pages of redacted segments are elegantly staged (although the nedy and her youngster sister . information have already been released, the acting is sometimes amateurish), juxtaposed Radziwill and her friend, photographer Peter bulk of Neubauer’s twin study will legally with elaborate animated sequences that Beard, enlisted the brothers as cameramen for remain sealed at Yale University until 2066, mimic various Japanese art forms in depicting a film about her childhood in the Hamptons. despite pleas from former subjects demand- Ninko’s dreams and hallucinations, which Among the locales they visited was Grey ing the truth about their backgrounds. An feature much sexual content. Undoubtedly Gardens, and while the documentary that engrossing, often enraging documentary, this strange but also fascinating, Suffering of Radziwill had in mind never materialized, is highly recommended. (S. Granger) Ninko’s unique qualities make it a strong the Maysles later returned to make their own optional purchase for more adventurous film about Big and Little Edie. The original Toto H1/2 collections. (F. Swietek) 1972 footage of the Beales was long forgotten, Passion River, 115 min., in but director Göran Olsson has edited it here Tagalog & English w/English Tainted Souls HH with recollections by Beard, excerpts from subtitles, not rated, DVD: $59.95 Breaking Glass, 111 min., in a previous interview with Radziwill, and Italian w/English subtitles, not footage taken at Beard’s Montauk house in The come- rated, DVD: $24.99 1972 featuring guests including Truman dy-drama Toto has a cute An ambitious but ulti- Capote and Andy . That Summer is opening in which the titular mately inconsequential mainly focused on Radziwill’s efforts to fix character (Sid Lucero), a ho- Italian film, Tainted Souls up the house to prevent the Beales from being tel service attendant living and working in is an overlong ensemble evicted by local authorities, but there is ample , wakes up to his own inner joy over piece interweaving the lives of characters in footage of the two Edies talking to Radziwill American pop culture. Opening a drawer an old apartment complex outside of Rome. about the past, bickering with one another, full of sunglasses similar to those worn by Marcello (Vinicio Marchioni) is a do-nothing and complaining about their home and lives his hero, Tom Cruise, Toto dons a pair rem- bodybuilder who relies on his wife, Chiara being invaded. This fascinating complement iniscent of Cruise’s shades in Jerry Maguire (Anna Foglietta), to support the two of to leads up to Big Edie’s rendi- (“You complete me,” Toto tells himself in a them. He’s having an affair with downstairs tion of “September Song”—a perfect close mirror). Well, not quite complete. Driven by neighbor (Vincenzo Salemme), an to what has become a multi-chapter saga. a dream to find fame and fortune in the U.S., author who helps Marcello now and then Recommended. (F. Swietek) Toto applies for a visa but is turned down. with debts, including money owed to local Frustrated and thwarted, he follows a friend’s cocaine kingpin Carmine (Nuccio Siano). Three Identical Strangers advice about appearing to come from a family Another neighbor, Mauro (Marizio Tesei), HHH1/2 of aristocratic bluebloods. In reality, his own tries to make ends meet by working for Car- Universal, 97 min., PG-13, father is a bit of a nut and his mother is a mine, but intervenes when the latter’s crew DVD: $22.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 complaining crank, so Toto constructs a false gives Marcello a beating for not paying his What if on your first day family made up of handpicked friends and coke bill, after which Mauro and Marcello as a college freshman you strangers. The central question becomes how become unlikely friends. A number of minor were greeted by people as if far Toto will go to get what he wants, which characters appear throughout and a time they knew you, girls kissed sounds interesting on paper, but director John jump of three years forward halfway through you, and everyone called you Eddy, although Paul Su turns the film into a series of lurching the film eliminates some characters and adds your name was Bobby? That’s what happened jokes and unwieldy clashes. Su shoots scenes others (it’s hard to keep track of everybody). to 19-year-old Robert Shafran in 1980, who with an undisciplined whimsicality that not The story’s anchors, Mauro and Marcello, eventually discovered that he was one of only grates but also seems remote from the have undergone changes of fortune, but also identical triplets who had been separated at high-stakes game that Toto is playing. Not magnified their self-destructiveness along the birth and adopted by three different families. recommended. (T. Keogh) way. The directing team of Matteo Botrugno Robert’s brother Eddy attended New York’s and Daniele Coluccini bring a strong visual Sullivan County Community College the Venus HHH sensibility to the narrative, including a long, year before. In New York on July 12, 1961, Wolfe, 95 min., not rated, uncut shot of Mauro moving around a club. an unmarried Jewish woman gave birth to DVD: $26.99 But while one can admire the complicated triplets and then relinquished the trio to what Sid (Debargo Sanyal), a logistics of this scene, it would have been nice was considered the top Jewish agency, Lou- first-generation American if that extended moment mattered somehow. ise Wise Services, which placed the babies. born to Indian parents, is a Optional. (T. Keogh) Reunited by chance, the brothers—Shafran, transitioning woman who David Kellerman, and Edward Galland—be- has already leaped some of That Summer HHH came friends, a media sensation, and opened the tougher hurdles in revealing his gender MPI, 80 min., not rated, DVD: $24.99 a restaurant. But there is a sinister backstory: identity to mom and dad, colleagues, and One would not expect that a documentary the adoptive parents were never told that friends. For her, nothing can change the path

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 32 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 forward. But then 14-year-old Ralph (Jamie and in 2006 was named a Dame of the Brit- with Kevin Costner and Houston’s famous Mayers) shows up one day and announces ish Empire). Tucker introduces Westwood as rendition of the national anthem at Super that Sid is his father—the result of a liaison a spiky septuagenarian who is unwilling to Bowl XXV. More compelling is a sad segment between Sid and one-time best friend Kirsten talk about much of her career, including her about Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina (Amber Goldfarb). Ralph shrugs off Sid’s deni- partnership—in both domestic and business “Krissy” Brown, who died at age 22. Hous- als, becoming over time a beloved, buoyant terms—with Malcolm McLaren, manager of ton’s ex-husband, R&B star Bobby Brown, fixture in Sid’s life. Deeply curious about Sid’s the archetypal punk band the Sex Pistols. and former label boss L.A. Reid are obviously transition, Ralph begins experimenting to see Tucker combines archival material, on-the-fly uncomfortable here discussing her cocaine what it feels like to wear women’s clothes. footage of Westwood interacting (sometimes addiction/drug abuse. While Macdonald And sooner or later, Kirsten will get into this contentiously) with her employees, and details the arc and highlights (and lowlights) picture, setting up high emotional stakes for excerpts from interviews with colleagues, of her life, however, Houston herself remains everyone. Writer-director Eisha Marjara pours fashion experts, Westwood’s son Joseph, and something of a cipher. A strong optional on the humor with Sid’s intractable folks (who her second husband and close collaborator purchase. (S. Granger) take a shine to their unexpected grandson) Andreas Kronthaler to draw a portrait of a and Ralph’s puppyish energy. But there is strong, self-confident woman who hailed The Yellow Birds HH plenty of drama here, too, as lives are thrown from a working-class background, was em- Lionsgate, 95 min., R, DVD: into turmoil. Recommended. (T. Keogh) ployed for a while as a schoolteacher, is largely $19.99, Blu-ray: $21.99 self-taught in design, and has always marched Alexandre Moors’s ad- Watch the Sky H1/2 to her own drummer. That latter character- aptation of Kevin Powers’s Breaking Glass, 87 min., not ization also extends to Westwood’s political titular novel follows two rated, DVD: $24.99 activism, where her views on climate change young soldiers from Vir- A deliberate though hol- led to her joining a Greenpeace mission (the ginia, 18-year-old Murph low subversion of early-pe- film includes clips of Westwood on deck, (Tye Sheridan) and 20-year-old Bartle (Alden riod Steven Spielberg sci-fi, watching an ice pack crumble into the sea). Ehrenreich), who are preparing to ship out to the family movie Watch A final montage finds a beaming Westwood Iraq. Ahead of their deployment, they attend the Sky tees up one familiar basking in applause after taking to the cat- a party where Murph’s mother (Jennifer narrative device after another and cranks walk following premieres of her collections, Aniston) makes Bartle promise that he will each to the border of irony—although not capping what amounts to another round of personally deliver news to her if something parody. A young boy named Shawn (Miles cheers for a woman whose impact on mod- happens to her son while in combat. This, of Muir) is part isolated brainiac, part UFO nerd, ern fashion is undeniable. Recommended. course, is a too-obvious signal that tragedy and all grieving son following the death of (F. Swietek) lurks ahead. Not surprisingly, when Bartle his mother. His father Steve (Luke Albright) is returns home without Murph but with an sheriff of their small town and becoming less Whitney HH1/2 obvious case of PTSD, the question of Murph’s tolerant of Shawn’s depression-fueled with- Lionsgate, 120 min., R, DVD: fate and Bartle’s role in his disappearance drawal from life. Shawn and his indulgent, $19.99, Blu-ray: $24.99 lead to flashbacks pointing to a somewhat loving older brother Michael (Karson Kern) broke foregone conclusion. While the film features set out one day to pasture land where Shawn more music industry records a strong supporting cast—including Toni can conduct an experiment sending a video than any other female singer Collette as Bartle’s volatile mother and Jason camera, via balloon, just above the upper in history. With more than Patric as an officer investigating what hap- atmosphere for glimpses of space. Meanwhile, 200 million album sales pened to Murph—the two young leads give the mysterious disappearance of a cranky old worldwide, she was the only artist to chart strangely unmoving performances, creating man leads to an investigation by Steve that seven consecutive U.S. #1 singles. But who an emotional void at the center of the story. seems to point to something unearthly going was Whitney Houston, the woman? Where Moors does a decent job of re-creating the on (the sudden arrival of zip-mouthed army did she come from? And what torpedoed her horrors of the war zone, but is less secure soldiers certainly suggests that something is career and ultimately her life at age 48 in plumbing the psychological issues that can up). Steve’s path will ultimately intersect with 2012? Combining never-before-seen home follow. Optional. (P. Hall) that of his two sons in writer-director Alexan- movies, archival footage, and interviews with der Murillo’s homage to Spielberg (complete those who knew her best, documentary film- with soaring music in a John Williams style). maker Kevin Macdonald strives to unravel Classic Films In more sure hands, this could have been a the mystery behind “The Voice.” Beginning brash comedy, but this one falters right up at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ, The Ballad of Gregorio through the wildly unsatisfying end. Not the documentary notes that Whitney was a recommended. (T. Keogh) Cortez HHH1/2 shy tomboy who her friends and family called Criterion, 106 min., in English Nippy. Arista Records’ mogul/mentor Clive & Spanish w/English subtitles, Westwood: Punk, Icon, Davis recalls hearing Houston perform for not rated, DVD: $29.95, Blu- Activist HHH the first time: “You got that spine tingle when ray: $39.95 MPI, 84 min., not rated, DVD: you know you’re in the presence of genius.” This 1982 independent $24.99 The most shocking disclosure is that Houston feature, financed in part Lorna Tucker’s biograph- was a victim of childhood sexual abuse by by PBS and broadcast on American Playhouse ical documentary profiles her cousin, vocalist Dee Dee Warwick, sister before it was released in theaters, is inspired fashion designer Vivienne of Dionne Warwick. Dee Dee often cared for by a ballad and also based on a true story. Westwood, a countercultur- Houston and her brothers, Michael and Gary, stars as Gregorio Cortez, al outsider who the establishment eventually while their mother, Cissy, worked as a backup a Mexican-American farmer in 1901 Texas had to embrace after her designs, reflective singer. Whitney’s assistant Mary Jones recalls who goes on the run after a miscommunica- of the 1970s British punk scene, earned her Houston saying, “Mommy don’t know the tion ends with a shootout and the killing of fame and influence (Westwood has twice things we went through.” Macdonald almost an American sheriff, successfully eluding a won the British Designer of the Year Award, dutifully includes clips from The Bodyguard posse for two weeks in what was the biggest

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 33 VIDEO LIBRARIAN manhunt in Texas history at that time. Olmos a 2007 audio commentary by Stamp and film- for capturing the realism of rural settings and also shepherded the project as a producer and maker Steven Soderbergh. A strong optional people facing difficult circumstances in this brought director Robert M. Young aboard, purchase. (S. Axmaker) provocative drama that wears its themes on whose documentary background helped him its sleeve and mythologizes family farming shape the film into a quiet, low-key, natu- Bloody Spear at Mount but also gives voice to the anxieties of rural ralistic drama that explores themes of race, Fuji HHH America during an era of transformation culture, and prejudice. Bruce McGill plays a , 94 min., in Japanese w/ into agribusiness. Extras include audio reporter accompanying the manhunt whose English subtitles, not rated, Blu- commentary by film historian Lee Gambin. questions guide the flashback structure, ray: $39.99 Recommended. (S. Axmaker) which gives the story both an investigative A 1955 samurai fable di- quality and a sensibility due to rected by Tomu Uchida, The Day After HHH1/2 different perspectives on key events. It’s a Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji tells the story of a Kino Lorber, 2 discs, 127 min., provocative film with superb performances master named Kojuro (Eijiro Kataoka), who not rated, DVD: $19.99, Blu- from a cast of excellent character actors, travels the road to Edo with two servants— ray: $29.99 including James Gammon, Brion James, and Genta (Daisuke Kato) and Genpachi (Chiezo Filmmaker Nicholas Mey- Barry Corbin. And Young enhances the cul- Kataoka)—the latter a spear carrier. Along the er’s 1983 TV movie wasn’t tural divide by withholding subtitles in the way, they encounter all sorts of people and the first film to imagine sections, which puts En- situations: a pilgrim, a policeman looking for nuclear war but it was the glish-speaking audiences in the same position a thief, a father intent on selling his daughter first American attempt to realistically depict as the Texan characters. Newly remastered into prostitution, and a singer with her child. modern nuclear warfare, from the firestorms in 2K, extras include new interviews with A young orphaned boy, Jiro (Motoharu Ueki), wiping out millions of people at ground zero Olmos and historian Chon A. Noriego, a 2016 begins traipsing after Genpachi, finally re- to the lingering effects of radiation poisoning reunion panel discussion with cast and crew, vealing that he wants to grow up as a spear and nuclear fallout. Centered in the rural and an essay by film scholar Charles Ramírez carrier. Genpachi takes Jiro under his wing, town of Lawrence, KS, the story follows the Berg. A film that has not only aged well but and the road movie is soon enlivened with lives of ordinary men, women, and families feels even more timely today, this is highly many comic and dramatic circumstances, during the escalation of Cold War hostilities recommended. (S. Axmaker) including a roadside tea break for three silly between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries in nobles who hold up foot traffic, and a grim Europe. The Lawrence setting is effective for Billy Budd HH1/2 showdown between Kojuro and a militant both the message and the drama since it is a Warner, 123 min., not rated, band of samurais over a breach in class-con- college town, a hub in farming country, and Blu-ray: $21.99 scious decorum. Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji is is located near a major missile site, making Peter Ustinov produced, an engaging itinerant tale featuring travelers it a target. It is still shocking to see nuclear directed, co-wrote, and with diverse motivations, needs, and morals. missiles rocket up into the sky almost an starred in this 1962 screen Extras include audio commentary by Japa- hour into the story. Minutes later, the Soviet version of Herman Mel- nese cinema expert Jasper Sharp, interviews, bombs detonate in Kansas and the remainder ville’s allegorical 1891 novel, adapted in part and a discussion of director Uchida by French of the film follows the survivors in a world from the stage play by Louis O. Coxe and film critic and programmer Fabrice Arduini. poisoned by fallout. Jason Robards, JoBeth Robert H. Chapman. Those stage origins show Recommended. (T. Keogh) Williams, John Cullum, Steve Guttenberg, in this slow, archly serious, heavy-handed Bibi Besch, and star in this film drama. Robert Ryan receives top billing Country HHH that became a major cultural event—seen by as the sadistic master of arms who enjoys Kino Lorber, 109 min., PG, an estimated 100 million viewers—which punishing and torturing the sailors, Ustinov DVD: $14.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 sparked public discussion about nuclear is the captain who allows the abuse under Jessica Lange produced weapons and the arms race and encouraged his command, and Terence Stamp (in his and starred in this 1984 government action on an arms treaty with film debut) plays the innocent Billy Budd, rural drama centered on the the Soviet Union. The Day After remains the a guileless, honest young merchant seaman plight of American farms highest-rated American TV movie to date, conscripted into military service. Billy’s child- in the 1980s, as food prices while a slightly longer version was released like optimism drives the master of arms to dropped, farmers floundered in debt, and the to theaters in other parts of the world. Both break his spirit to justify his own pessimistic FHA foreclosed on family farms all over the versions are featured here, along with extras view of humanity. Billy Budd is beautifully country. Lange plays Jewell Ivy, a wife and including audio commentary by film his- shot in black-and-white by Oscar-winning mother who runs an Iowa farm that has been torian Lee Gambin and comic artist/writer cinematographer Robert Krasker, who brings in her family for generations along with her Tristan Jones, and interviews with Meyer and a majestic beauty to scenes shot on working husband Gil (Sam Shepard), father Otis (Wil- Williams. Highly recommended. (S. Axmaker) ships and he photographs Stamp with an ford Brimley), and teenage son Carlisle (Levi angelic glow. But Ustinov’s direction is stagey, L. Knebel). At the government’s urging, they The Day of the Jackal with measured performances and scenes that took out loans to expand their family spread, HHH are framed like a chamber drama as he under- but years of falling grain prices have left Arrow, 107 min., PG, Blu-ray: lines the themes—the letter of the law versus them financially farther behind, and when $39.99 justice, cruelty versus kindness, the respon- a tornado destroys much of their corn crop The titular “Jackal” in sibility of power—in long, dialogue-heavy (and almost kills one of them in the dramatic this 1973 conspiracy classic sequences. plays the Danish opening scene), their loan is abruptly called is the code name of a pro- sailor who serves as a Greek chorus and John in, which leaves the family no viable options. fessional assassin hired by a cabal of French Neville and David McCallum also costar. Jewell is who not only holds things dissidents in 1963 who plot to assassinate All in all, this is still a well-produced and together but also organizes the resistance to French President Charles de Gaulle. Edward faithful adaptation, featuring an impressive, the foreclosure while Gil retreats into drink Fox plays the otherwise unnamed assassin, a Oscar-nominated performance by Stamp. as he sees everything slip away. Director meticulous professional who reaches out to Presented with a new 2K scan, extras include Richard Pearce (Heartland) displays his gift experts for every tool in his arsenal, from his

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 34 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 custom-designed sniper rifle to his identity Hocus Pocus HH1/2 historians Joseph McBride and Kat Ellinger. papers and travel documents. While he puts Disney, 96 min., PG, Blu-ray: Recommended. (S. Axmaker) his plan in place, the authorities follow the $19.99 slimmest clues to uncover the conspiracy This 1993 near-misfire and identify this ghost of a killer. The A Minute to Pray, a from Disney cried out for a Second to Die HH screen adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s more imaginative director bestselling 1967 novel (which was inspired Kino Lorber, 99 min., R, DVD: than (of High $19.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 by a real-life assassination attempt) is direct- fame). But it has a saving grace: School Musical This minor 1968 spaghet- ed by Oscar-winning Hollywood veteran a wonderful trio of funny actresses—Bette ti Western stars American Fred Zinnemann with a matter-of-fact di- Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Na- actor Alex Cord as Clay Mc- rectness in the manner of a police procedur- jimy, as Salem, MA, sister-witches named Cord, an outlaw on the run al, making for a dispassionate rather than the Sandersons, who were put to death in who is suffering from epilepsy and hopes to thrilling film, with everything observed at 1693. The mischievous (and not too smart) hang up his guns and take up an offer of am- a remove, bringing an old-fashioned sense sisters are accidentally revived 300 years later nesty from the governor of New Mexico (Rob- of dogged professionalism to both the story when a virgin teen boy, Max (Omri Katz), ert Ryan). All he has to do is reach the town and the storytelling. Although the ending enters their haunted cottage on Halloween of Tuscosa before the bounty hunters catch up is never in doubt (de Gaulle died in 1970 night, triggering their return. Magically with him, but Tuscosa is surrounded by killers of natural causes), The Day of the Jackal sapping the youth out of children to keep waiting to pounce on anyone with a price on remains compelling in its accumulation of themselves alive, the Sandersons are on the his head before amnesty can be granted, so detail, although modern viewers raised on prowl for kids, and many are on the street in McCord heads for an outlaw refuge in the rapidly-paced thrillers may find it a bit plod- trick-or-treat costumes. Max, his little sister mountains. The film is directed by Franco ding. Fox is the least showy of big screen (Thora Birch), and a new girlfriend (Vinessa Giraldi with all the ruthless violence expected assassins, a man with military precision Shaw) are out to stop them, but have trouble from the genre—bounty hunters murder a and a personal manner to match: crisp, getting anyone to believe their story. Ortega priest before laying a trap for McCord—but professional, and confident, but without can’t seem to capture any real sense of witch none of the mythic style of Sergio Leone, and arrogance. The fictional character inspired magic, but he does encourage Midler, Parker, Cord lacks the larger-than-life presence of the a real-life revolutionary to adopt the name and Najimy to be loose with quips, singing, genre’s top leading men. Arthur Kennedy Carlos the Jackal. Extras include two rare and ding-a-ling antics. Extras include cast plays the town marshal who is handing out archival clips from the film set (including and crew commentary, deleted scenes, be- an interview with Zinnemann), and a new the pardons (a task he does grudgingly), and hind-the-scenes secrets, fun facts and trivia, Nicoletta Machiavelli costars as an outcast interview with author Neil Sinyard. Recom- concept art and storyboards, and a vintage mended. (S. Axmaker) woman who cares for Clay, but it is Ryan featurette. A strong optional purchase. who dominates the film in his brief scenes, (T. Keogh) Gold HH projecting a morality and strength of will in an underplayed performance while the rest Kino Lorber, 124 min., PG, Irma la Douce HHH DVD: $14.95, Blu-ray: $29.95 of the cast either overacts or strives to be Kino Lorber, 143 min., not enigmatic. Extras include audio commentary Roger Moore played sev- rated, Blu-ray: $29.95 by filmmaker and spaghetti Western fan Alex eral roles on TV (The Saint, Billy Wilder reunited the Cox, and the extended ending found on the etc.) before becoming James stars of his Oscar-winning international version. Optional. (S. Axmaker) Bond in 1973 for the first The Apartment for this racy of seven film adventures. yet sweet 1963 sex comedy. O Fantasma HH Whatever Moore’s humble beginnings in real Shirley MacLaine stars as Irma la Douce, a life, he came off onscreen as patrician—an Strand, 92 min., in Portuguese superstar streetwalker in yesteryear Paris, and w/English subtitles, not rated, aristocrat with a mid-Atlantic accent and Jack Lemmon is the rookie gendarme who DVD: $19.99 unruffled demeanor. Which makes it hard to loses his job when he arrests the local ladies This 2000 debut feature take him seriously in 1974’s Gold as Rod Slat- of the evening and their clients (including by provocative Portuguese er, a genteel rascal who woos the ladies and his boss) and ends up becoming the most writer-director João Pedro happens to be the rough-and-tumble general successful pimp in Paris—all in the same day. Rodrigues stars Ricardo manager of a South African goldmine. Moore Wilder adapted the hit French stage musical Meneses as Sérgio, a young Lisbon sanita- makes no effort to give the blue-collar charac- with his regular collaborator I.A.L. Diamond, tion worker whose existence is centered on ter authenticity (aside from leaving his shirt removing the songs and replacing them with extreme self-gratification. He does show open). The story revolves around an interna- the Wilder slyness and spoofing the sweetness affection for the department’s pet dog, and tional conspiracy to flood a major goldmine bubbling under the colorful underworld of a pretty co-worker is obviously infatuated and thereby drive up the value of available this Hollywood fantasy of Gay Paree. It’s with him (even though she’s involved with gold. Susannah York is largely wasted as Ter- like a farcical remake of The Apartment with their boss), but Sérgio spends virtually all of ry Steyner—wife of one of the conspirators Lemmon’s character pushed to even more his free time seeking out meaningless trysts (she doesn’t know he’s a bad guy)—who falls extremes as a straight-laced innocent so jeal- with men in public restrooms, masturbating for Slater, despite his aggravating penchant ous of his lover’s clients that he poses as one in the shower (using auto-asphyxiation to for reverse psychology. Directed by Peter R. himself. Lou Jacobi is earthy yet somehow increase pleasure), and stalking a handsome Hunt, long associated with the James Bond above it all as the philosophical barman who motorcyclist. When the object of his ob- series as an editor and then as director of serves as narrator and master of ceremonies. session rebuffs him, Sérgio breaks into the 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the film Pushing the boundaries of bourgeois morality man’s house dressed in a black latex cat’s is full of quick cuts and rapid action, but it with a mix of ribald suggestion and fairy-tale costume and kidnaps him. After leaving his is ultimately more wearisome than exciting. innocence, Irma la Douce was a big hit that victim in an alley, Sergio lopes like a feline Extras include an audio commentary by film earned MacLaine an Oscar nomination. through the city’s streets towards an ending historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Presented with a new 4K scan, extras include that reeks of emotional nihilism. Largely Thompson. Optional. (T. Keogh) separate audio commentary tracks from film because of Meneses’s blank performance, the

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 36 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 sexually-explicit O Fantasma is as boring as it this self-financed American indie take on formed most of their own stunts. Lollobrigida is unenlightening. Not a necessary purchase. All About Eve, which is shot on the streets of was a major sex symbol in the ‘50s and her (F. Swietek) New York—including scenes at the famed hourglass figure is put on display in tights Peppermint Lounge—and energized by and revealing outfits, both as a hallmark of The Poetic Trilogy HHH DIY aesthetics. Smithereens became the first her character (she is determined to become Arrow, 2 discs, 232 min., in American indie to compete for the top prize a circus star at all costs, despite her limited Persian & English w/English at the . Extras include a talent) and as cheesecake spectacle for au- subtitles, not rated, DVD: 2004 audio commentary by Seidelman, new diences, but there’s no sense of passion in $49.99 interviews with Seidelman and Berman, two the romantic scenes. British director Reed Mohsen Makhmalbaf, early short films by Seidelman, and an essay shot much of the film on location with the one of the most important by critic Rebecca Bengal. Recommended. Paris-based Cirque d’Hiver, which gives the and expressive filmmakers of the Iranian New (S. Axmaker) big-top scenes an authentic sense of profes- Wave, proclaimed that his 1996 film Gabbeh sionalism and showmanship, but there’s not was his first “poetic film,” employing bold, H1/2 much to the simplistic story and the subplot brilliant images and saturated hues. Drawn Warner, 125 min., not rated, featuring Katy Jurado as an equestrian whose from the folk culture of the nomadic tribes of Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $21.99 horse is injured is underdeveloped. Still, this southeastern Iran, Gabbeh is a richly textured This 1984 big-budget flop is a colorful film, and Lancaster (who also tale of passionate forbidden love told through stars Helen Slater as Kara, a produced) and Curtis exhibit a convincing a narrative woven into a folkloric story carpet bored teenager living in the rapport. Extras include audio commentary by known as a “gabbeh.” Makhmalbaf followed crystalline city of Argo, who film historian Kat Ellinger. A strong optional that film with The Silence (1998), which is ventures out on a mission to planet Earth to purchase. (S. Axmaker) about the sensory world of an impoverished save her people. She’s the (in red blind boy (Tahmineh Normativa). Supporting and blue leotards) in this superhe- The Trip to Bountiful his mother with a job tuning instruments ro movie-as-fairy-tale, which pits Kara against HHH in a city music shop, the boy has five days a witch (). Hart Bochner is the Kino Lorber, 108 min., PG, to come up with rent money before they are hunky gardener who falls in love with her DVD: $19.95, Blu-ray: $29.95 evicted, but he’s also just a kid who loves (thanks to a magical mishap), Marc McClure Adapted by Horton Foote to get lost in the aural quilt of the city. The reprises his role as from the from his titular play, 1985’s Silence does for sound what Gabbeh did for Superman movies, and The Trip to Bountiful is given color: Makhmalbaf isolates and exaggerates , Peter O’Toole, and Mia Farrow its soul and charm by lead sounds, crafting an internal symphony in an costar. Director Jeannot Szwarc has no sense actress Geraldine Page in an Oscar-winning impressionistic attempt to recreate the boy’s of wonder, little sense of humor (although performance for Best Actress. Page plays elder- world. Over a decade later, after leaving Iran, sardonic sidekick Brenda Vaccaro brings out ly Mrs. Watts, a widow living in 1947 Houston Makhmalbaf made The Gardener (2012)—the the self-parodying ham in Dunaway), and with her overprotective son (John Heard) trilogy’s final film—a documentary tracing none of the technical chops needed to pull off and his bullying wife (Carlin Glynn). Yearn- the root of the Baha’i faith. Here, Makhmal- a special-effects spectacle. Supergirl is simply ing to return to her rural, farming roots in baf himself debates religion with his son silly and sloppy, and would be of interest only Bountiful—a small town near the Texas Gulf in a vibrant production shot on location in to completists. Featuring both the 125-min- Coast—Mrs. Watts is prevented from travel- Israel in the expressionist style of the earlier ute international version and a bonus DVD ing there by her son and daughter-in-law, films. Extras include audio commentary on with the 139-minute director’s cut, extras who know that Bountiful has been hollowed Gabbeh by critic Godfrey Cheshire, new and include audio commentary by Szwarc and out by World War II-era conscription and the archival interviews with Makhmalbaf, and special project consultant Scott Michael Bos- draw of big cities looking for wartime factory a stills gallery. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) co, and a vintage “making-of” featurette. Not workers. But Watts is unpersuadable, and a necessary purchase. (S. Axmaker) when she sneaks off to catch a train, she soon Smithereens HHH learns that there is no longer a stop in Bounti- Criterion, 93 min., R, DVD: Trapeze HH1/2 ful. Actor-director Peter Masterson gives Page $29.95, Blu-ray: $39.95 Kino Lorber, 106 min., not plenty of room to deliver her affecting turn One of the defining films rated, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: as a determined woman with a dying of film- $29.99 and an array of emotions. Richard Bradford making scene that flowered stars as shines as a sheriff who is kind to Watts and in 1980s New York, this former trapeze legend Mike helps her find resolution, while Rebecca De 1982 debut feature by Susan Dribble, who has turned his Mornay is terrific as her traveling companion. Seidelman follows restless Jersey girl Wren back on performing after Extras include the 2005 short documentary (Susan Berman) as she attempts to become being crippled in a dangerous maneuver. Return to Bountiful. Recommended. (T. Keogh) part of the Big Apple’s art scene. With no Tony Curtis is rising star Tino, who tracks discernable talent, she promotes herself Mike down to learn from the master in this with xeroxed flyers papered all over the glossy 1956 big-top melodrama directed by Online city while ruthlessly using everyone in her . When Mike sees Tino’s talent in circle of friends and acquaintances. While action he comes out of retirement to coach Visit Video Librarian Online (www. she attracts the attention of Paul (Brad Rijn), the kid and serve as his catcher as the latter videolibrarian.com) during November and December for DVD/Blu-ray-specific a nice guy from Montana who is living out masters the legendary triple somersault. A comments added to the video movies of his van, she tries to attach herself to Eric romantic triangle is formed when Lola (Gina reviewed here, as well as new reviews of (real-life punk pioneer Richard Hell), a mer- Lollobrigida) seduces Tino and then falls in current and classic films, including: The cenary punk rocker who is trying to raise love with Mike. Lancaster was actually a Darkest Minds, The Little Stranger, Mandy, money to get to Los Angeles. Seidelman circus acrobat before turning to acting, and The Meg, Mile 22, Never Goin’ Back, Puzzle, drew from the street culture she discovered he and Curtis—adorably naïve and earnest Support the Girls, and much more! as a student from Pennsylvania at NYU for as the ambitious, hard-working kid—per-

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TV on Video Arrow: The Complete a behind-the-scenes featurette (the Blu-ray that his wife is one of these agents. Coun- Sixth Season HHH release has a bonus featurette), deleted scenes, terpart is an intelligent, gripping show, with Warner, 970 min., not rated, and a gag reel. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) Simmons superb as the two Silks who come DVD: 5 discs, $44.99; Blu-ray: to mistrust and even despise one another as 4 discs, $49.99 Bull: Season Two HH1/2 they end up swapping identities. Presenting The longest-running se- Paramount, 6 discs, 954 min., all 10 episodes from the 2017-18 debut season, ries in the CW network’s not rated, DVD: $46.99 extras include behind-the-scenes featurettes. interconnected superhero Michael Weatherly is Highly recommended. (S. Axmaker) universe of DC Comics characters is still the back as Dr. Jason Bull, the darkest. This season opens with Oliver Queen brilliant but often insuffer- The Flash: The Complete (Stephen Amell) serving as both mayor and ably arrogant trial consul- Fourth Season HHH self-appointed vigilante hero to tant who runs Trial Anal- Warner, 1,096 min., not rated, the crime-ridden metropolis of Star City while ysis Corporation (TAC), a New York firm DVD: 5 discs, $49.99; Blu-ray: also raising his son following the death of the that advises legal teams on jury selection 4 discs, $54.99 boy’s mother. The strain takes its toll and his and strategy. The show capitalizes on the The fourth season of the lone-wolf impulses collide with his support charm of longtime NCIS star Weatherly as most upbeat and optimistic team and even threaten his relationship with a sly, wisecracking genius who reads people of CW’s DC Comics super- Felicity (), the woman he through their body language and other cues hero shows pits Barry Allen, aka The Flash loves, as a new villain rises: hacker genius and acts on his instincts, often without con- (), and his team against a new Cayden James (Michael Emerson), a man sulting his team (attorney Freddy Rodríguez, nemesis: Clifford DeVoe, aka The Thinker whose mission of vengeance imperils the neurolinguistics expert Geneva Carr, investi- (Neil Sandilands), a brilliant supervillain who entire city. But that’s just the first half of the gator Jaime Lee Kirchner, hacker Annabelle is killing metahumans and absorbing their season and another threat arises when one of Attanasio, and witness coach Christopher powers in order to frame Barry for murder. Cayden’s criminal associates (Kirk Acevedo) Jackson). This season takes half-hearted The season opens with Team Flash—Cait- takes over to build a new criminal empire— stabs at personal dramas—Bull’s drinking lin Snow/Killer Frost (Danielle Panabaker), with a plan that involves putting Queen on gets worse, his second-in-command is taken Cisco/Vibe (Carlos Valdes), Wally/ trial and behind bars. Arrow is a series marked in by a con artist, his witness coach reveals (Keiynan Lonsdale), and Harrison Wells (Tom by internal conflict and strife and has a visual that he has a daughter—but the focus is on Cavanagh) under the driven leadership of style to match, with most of the action set at the twists and turns of the trial-of-the-week Barry’s fiancée Iris ()—creat- night. Presenting all 23 episodes from the as the consultant team plays detective and ing a whole new generation of metahumans 2018 sixth season, extras include crossover solves cases (and they never seem to take on when they rescue Flash from the Speed episodes, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and a guilty client). Brad Garrett guest stars as an Force. New to the team is disgraced detective a 2017 Comic-Con panel featurette. Recom- underdog attorney hired to represent Bull Ralph Dibny (Hartley Sawyer), an irreverent mended. (S. Axmaker) (who naturally makes a lousy client), and screw-up who becomes the rubbery Elongat- Jill Flint is back as a rival attorney who has ed Man and evolves into a hero in his own The Blacklist: The a romantic history with Bull. Presenting all right during the season. Barry’s energetic Complete Fifth Season 22 episodes from the 2017-18 second season, enthusiasm and emotional investment in his extras include behind-the-scenes featurettes, crime-fighting family helps make this bright, HHH deleted scenes, and a gag reel, A strong op- colorful, zippy show the most family-friendly Sony, 5 discs, 946 min., not tional purchase. (S. Axmaker) rated, DVD: $45.99, Blu-ray: superhero series on TV. Presenting all 23 epi- $55.99 sodes from the 2017-18 fourth season, extras include crossover episodes, behind-the-scenes The fifth season of the Counterpart: The featurettes, deleted scenes, and a gag reel. high-concept thriller star- Complete First Season Recommended. (S. Axmaker) ring James Spader as international crime king- HHH1/2 pin Raymond “Red” Reddington, who helps Lionsgate, 3 discs, 547 min., the FBI bring the most dangerous criminals not rated, DVD: $34.99, Blu- The Good Karma in the world to justice with of his FBI ray: $39.99 Hospital: Series 2 HHH profiler daughter Liz Keen (Megan Boone), The talented J.K. Sim- RLJ, 2 discs, 288 min., not opens with his network dismantled and his mons plays dual roles in this rated, DVD: $39.99 fortune gone. It makes this season more fun as clever political thriller featuring a sci-fi twist. This British medical dra- Red puts together an eccentric new coalition Set in modern-day Germany, the -aired ma set in an underfunded of associates and pulls off a series of elaborate Counterpart imagines a new Cold War with an and understaffed rural hos- scams with long-con endgames to rebuild his Earth from a parallel dimension. Simmons is pital on the coast of South- empire and replenish his coffers with the help Howard Silk, a quiet, low-level intelligence ern India continues with Dr. Ruby Walker of Liz, who enjoys the family business more agent who becomes privy to the secret when (Amrita Acharia), a London doctor doing than she expected. When her husband (Ryan he’s introduced to his “Other Side” counter- her internship in a country that is foreign Eggold) is murdered, she returns to the FBI to part, a ruthless, high-ranking field agent who to her despite her Indian ancestry, taking on track down his killers, with the trail leading has crossed over through “the tunnel,” the greater responsibilities, and Dr. Lydia Fonseca to a corrupt U.S Marshal running an inter- sole connection between the worlds. The two (Amanda Redman), the practical administra- national drug ring who has the mysterious sides have evolved along different trajectories tor and head doctor, keeping the enterprise suitcase that Red has been desperate to recov- since splitting off 30 years ago, maintaining running. The show touches on poverty, local er. The show delivers top-notch action and a wary détente and trading inventions and suspicions regarding Western medicine, and visual spectacle, but is ultimately sustained discoveries, but the Other Side has sent deep the culture of tourism and often arrogant by Spader’s mix of charming ruthlessness, cover agents to “Earth One” in a plot that puts Western visitors, but otherwise this is a light personal loyalty, and dark wit. Compiling Silk One’s wife (Olivia Williams) in the cross- drama. There are stories of romance, both all 22 episodes from the 2017-18 fifth season, hairs. Harry Lloyd costars as Peter Quayle, a Ruby’s no-strings situation with the local bar extras include episode audio commentaries, ranking intelligence official who discovers owner (Neil Morrissey) and Ruby’s growing

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 40 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 relationship with the handsome but aloof Dr. target her as the prime suspect in his murder parents are attending a wed- Gabriel Varma (James Floyd), and of family, (never mind that there’s no body), a grateful ding below) and becomes a as Ruby meets the father who abandoned her client with a criminal past (Mark Lewis Jones) witness to murder. Instead as an infant. Philip Jackson, who played the appoints himself her protector, looking into of killing this helpless by- widower husband of a dying woman who Evan’s underworld ties and trying to keep stander, the killer saves her chose to spend her last days in India, returns criminals and corrupt cops alike from Faith’s life, but keeps tabs on her to grieve the love of his life. Compiling all family. Keeping Faith is as much compelling after he discovers that she is six episodes from the 2018 second season, character drama as mystery, with Myles play- the daughter of psychologist extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette. ing a woman on the verge of a breakdown, and former FBI profiler Inger Johanne Vik Recommended. (S. Axmaker) emotionally frayed and exhausted but still (Melinda Kinnaman), a consultant investi- trying to hold her business and family to- gating the murders that he is committing. Hillary HH1/2 gether. An intelligent and involving series, Based on the novels of Finnish crime author PBS, 2 discs, 265 min., not shot in Wales, this is more intimate than most Anne Holt, this is prime Scandinavian noir, rated, DVD: $34.99 British crime dramas, with themes of family, a dark drama about a brutal conspiracy tied Sir Edmund Hillary was responsibility, and loyalty, as even Faith’s up in hate crimes against gay and lesbian arguably the most famous mother-in-law turns against her. Compiling individuals and set in of winter, com- New Zealander of the 20th all eight episodes from 2017, extras include plicated by a child in peril who is unable to century, thanks to his his- a behind-the-scenes featurette and character communicate her situation or her anxieties. toric conquest of Mount introductions. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) Henrik Norlén costars as the lead investigator Everest. This New Zealand TV miniseries who teams up with Inger professionally and follows Hillary’s initial fascination with the Lucifer: The Complete personally. The story has an international reach—all the way to a Texas-based reac- Himalayas while he helped with his father’s Third Season HH1/2 beekeeping business (and an interlude in the Warner, 5 discs, 1,140 min., tionary religious sect and the FBI, although air force during World War II, which allowed not rated, DVD: $39.99, Blu- American audiences may find fault with the him to see more of the world). Hillary and ray: $47.99 unconvincing Texas drawls. But otherwise his climbing partner George Lowe plan an The third season of this the series is beautifully shot and well-acted audacious route up Everest, but are nearly supernatural fantasy de- and should appeal to fans of Scandinavian thwarted by a Swiss expedition that gets tective series follows the noir and edgy crime dramas. Presenting all to the mountain first. When the Swiss fail, unlikely partnership between LAPD detective eight episodes from the 2015 first season, this Hillary is joined by Nepalese mountaineer Chloe Decker (Lauren German) and nightclub is highly recommended. (S. Axmaker) Tenzig Norgay to achieve the most elusive impresario Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis), goal in the world. Hillary quickly earned fame the flamboyantly arrogant fallen angel who The Walking Dead: The and fortune, and also found the courage to is on a long vacation from Hell and discov- Complete Eighth Season propose to his longtime sweetheart Louise. ers that he enjoys playing detective. Season HHH But adjusting to life after Everest is difficult, three opens with Lucifer determined to find Lionsgate, 5 discs, 805 min., and Hillary faced an even greater challenge in out who restored his angel wings (he cut not rated, DVD: $70.99, Blu- coping with the 1975 deaths of his wife and them off long ago) and stole his “devil face.” ray: $80.99 daughter in a plane crash. Directed by Danny Meanwhile, his brother Amenadiel (D.B. Another of the original Mulheron, Hillary is a handsomely-crafted Woodside), an angel originally sent to bring cast members of AMC’s production that features a magnificent recre- Lucifer back to Hell, loses his own wings and -hit zombie series bites the dust in ation of the Everest ascent and a subtle lead searches for his purpose, and the precinct gets this 2017-18 season (and is given an extended, performance by Andrew Munro. But the series a new captain who, it turns out, is Cain (Tom heartfelt send-off midway through the run). does begin to drag a bit after the summiting Welling), the world’s first murderer, cursed Otherwise, this season’s overall narrative, of Everest as it chronicles the more mundane to live for eternity. Very loosely based on the based on the “All Out War” volumes of Robert aspects of Hillary’s life. Compiling all six character created by Neil Gaiman in Sandman Kirkman’s long-running comic book series episodes from 2016, this is a strong optional and the comic book series by Mike Carey, The Walking Dead, centers on the decisive purchase. (P. Hall) Lucifer presents the devil not as a malevolent battle uniting Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) demon but rather as a fallen angel with Daddy and his survivors, along with allies from the Keeping Faith HHH issues, and it treats the dysfunctional relation- Alexandria Safe-Zone, the Hilltop Colonists RLJ, 3 discs, 480 min., not ships of the celestial family in human terms. under Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan), and rated, DVD or Blu-ray: $49.99 And there is plenty of whimsical humor in the led by King Ezekiel (Khary Eve Myles stars as Faith this often silly but usually entertaining crime Payton)—as well as the Scavengers in the Howells, a lawyer and hap- fantasy, although some communities might latter stages—against the brutal Saviors, who pily married mother of three find its cheeky treatment of biblical themes are directed by the nefarious Negan (Jeffrey who comes back from ma- objectionable. Compiling all 26 episodes Dean Morgan). The conflict allows for plenty ternity leave and returns to from the 2017-18 third season, extras include of the usual graphic violence, but the writers the Welsh law firm that she founded with behind-the-scenes featurettes, interviews, de- also make room for numerous sideline stories her husband Evan (Bradley Freegard), who leted scenes, and a gag reel. A strong optional showcasing the show’s regular and subsidiary disappears the very same day. Suddenly the purchase. (S. Axmaker) characters, and the ending opts for an act on easygoing, fun-loving Faith is stretched to Rick’s part that underscores his continuing the breaking point, juggling childcare and Modus: Season 1 HHH1/2 humane inclinations. While obviously not legal cases with efforts to find her spouse, Kino Lorber, 2 discs, 360 min., in Swedish w/ a good starting point for newcomers to the eventually discovering an entire secret life English subtitles, not rated, DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray: series, die-hard fans will not be disappointed. that he’s hidden from her. The firm is on the $34.99 Presenting all 16 episodes from the 2017-18 verge of bankruptcy and Evan was engaged In the opening scene of this Swedish crime eighth season, extras include episode audio in extramarital affairs and involved with series, autistic pre-teen Stina (Esmeralda commentaries and behind-the-scenes fea- the local crime syndicate. While the police Struwe) wanders from her hotel room (her turettes. Recommended. (F. Swietek)

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graphic-animated adaptation of author Alison behind a painting, a creepy groundskeeper Ordering information for the titles reviewed in Donald and illustrator Alex Willmore’s 2018 red herring, a slick real estate developer, Vel- picture book adaptation finds a group of ma’s fleeting loss of her glasses (“Can we talk this section can be found in the “Distributor children waiting in the kids’ corner for regular about Lasik?” asks an exasperated Daphne), Addresses” listings at the back of the magazine. librarian Miss Merryweather to show up for and chase scenes punctuated by the Great story time. But when she is late they embark Dane and his BFF’s gargantuan appetites. HHHH= Excellent on a search, following mysterious pawprints Also including three bonus cartoons, this in the library while also exercising their imag- inventive entry in the long-running series HHH= Good inations. A desk with shredded books leads is recommended. Aud: P. (J. Williams-Wood) HH= Fair to a new librarian, who only wants to “read” H them a book about bears—with realistic roar- Unikitty: Sparkle Party—Season One, = Poor ing, growling, and stomping that the kids en- Part One HH PPR = Public Performance Rights joy. When the real Miss Merryweather shows (2018) 2 discs. 224 min. DVD: $18.95. Warner up—her being late attributed to a volcano Bros. Home Entertainment (avail. from most DRA = Digital Rights Available erupting in the ancient history section—the distributors). SDH captioned. Aud = Audience story ends with a somewhat flat twist. But Based on a character from , given the library theme, this tale—which this Cartoon Network series follows the esca- K = Preschool-Kindergarten also includes a read-along option—should be pades of manic unicorn-cat Unikitty, princess considered a strong optional purchase. Aud: E = Elementary (grades 1-3) of Unikingdom. Compiling 20 episodes from K, P. (J. Williams-Wood) the 2017-18 debut season, Sparkle Party serves I = Intermediate (grades 4-6) up hyperkinetic neon animation and features Scooby-Doo! And the Gourmet Ghost a metal theme song. The opener, “Spooooky J = Jr. High (grades 7-8) HHH Game,” finds Unikitty and her brother Pup- H = High School (grades 9-12) (2018) 77 min. DVD: $19.98. Warner Bros. Home pycorn competing in a creepy game night Entertainment (avail. from most distributors). SDH where they and some friends are transported C = Colleges & Universities captioned. to a cursed world; “Sparkle Matter Matters” P = Public Libraries At some point, I do expect to see an actual features castle scientist Dr. Fox and an exper- episode in which Fonzie, Scooby, and Shaggy iment gone wrong that adversely affects grey jump a ghost shark, but in the meantime LEGO brick palace caretaker Richard. Richard this latest addition to the library of Mystery also gets the short end of the brick in “Kitchen Inc. animated movies is entertaining. Here, Chaos,” as he hurts his back and the gang CHILDREN’S the gang visits Fred’s Uncle Bobby, who Fred tries to chip in with cleaning. Also including doesn’t realize is celebrity chef Bobby Flay— “Stuck Together” (in which Unikitty taps into but forever-hungry foodies Scooby-Doo and her dark side, helping out villainous Master Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids! Shaggy do and they drool and make fancy Frown, who does things like stealing book- Vol. 6: Foxes HH requests for herb-crusted lamb chops and marks) and “Unikitty News” (a spoof with (2017) 30 min. DVD: $12.95 ($14.95 w/PPR). Beef right away. Uncle Bobby network-style segments and commercials), Marshall Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-936134-74-8. has restored the family property—site of a Unikitty serves up simplistic storylines (with In this latest entry in the educational series “Red Ghost” threat in the Colonial era that little in the way of guidance lessons) built for children, the live-action shots of kids he doesn’t like to talk about—into a high- around a gratingly obnoxious protagonist. raptly listening to host Danni Donkey shar- tech cooking arena fantasy camp that also Optional. Aud: P. (J. Williams-Wood) ing animal facts appear to be recycled from features chefs Giada De Laurentiis and Marcus other volumes (which is a bit disappointing Samuelsson as versions of themselves. A live The Very Very Very Long Dog HHH for anyone watching the programs back-to- TV promotion of the resort is ruined by the (2018) 7 min. DVD: $38.99. Dreamscape Media. back). Here, Miss Danni interacts with various Red Ghost in this fan-friendly film featuring PPR. Closed captioned. ISBN: 978-1-97480-2-699. cartoon mammals including an English fox common series tropes such as eyes moving Author and illustrator Julia Patton’s 2017 (who reminisces about late nights at the park with Danni when they went to university together), a nocturnal badger with a nod to Saving Fiona HHHH Wind in the Willows, Parisian cathedral bats (2018) 22 min. DVD: $24.99. Dreamscape Media. PPR. Closed captioned. (“We hang around!”) who have “big pointy ISBN: 978-1-97490-1-586. ears and button noses/always dressed in lovely Based on Thane Maynard’s titular 2018 children’s picture book, black clothes-es,” and Transylvanian wolves which uses real photos to explore the story of a young baby hippo (Danni falsely claims that there has never born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden where Maynard been a recorded incident of a wolf attacking is director, Saving Fiona tells an excellent nature story. After the a human). Also featured are a Catalan Ibex construction of a highly-requested new hippo enclosure with wearing a dress, Lapland reindeer, and a song a 100%-rainwater-filtered environment, adult hippos Bibi and about confidence, all of which seemed some- Henry were added and “everyone hoped that Bibi and Henry what out of place and not related to foxes. would get along” (wink-wink). In January 2017 their squirming Still, this should be considered an optional baby was born prematurely (graphically shown here), and at only 29 pounds was much purchase for those collecting the series. Aud: too weak. Outlining the trial-and-error steps taken by staff to save baby Fiona—named P. ( J. Williams-Wood) after the Shrek character for her wiggly ears—the story chronicles the eventual victory of the specialized caregiving team and Fiona’s emergence as a social media star. Also The New LiBEARian HH1/2 including “Hurray for Hippos” bonus facts, and first birthday party pix of “symbol of (2018) 10 min. DVD: $38.99. Dreamscape Media. hope” Fiona, this informative and heart-tugging adaptation is highly recommended. PPR. Closed captioned. ISBN: 978-1-97491-4-296. Editor’s Choice. Aud: E, I, P. (J. Williams-Wood) Narrated by Alison Larkin, this icono-

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folks begin shaking off the shackles that bogged down with a demanding customer bind them to the past. An inspiring holiday but very worried when a sudden snowstorm ‘Tis the Season tale, this is recommended. Aud: P. (T. Keogh) threatens to keep her apart from her best The Chosen: The Story friend dog sidekick Doodle. Also includ- Holiday Heroes Save ing the bonus Nella story “Let It Snow,” of the First Christmas as well as three segments from the genie HHH Christmas HHH (2018) 18 min. DVD: $29.99. fantasy series Shimmer and Shine (“Snow (2018) 22 min. DVD: Dreamscape (avail. from Place We’d Rather Be” takes the trio to an $14.99. DRA. Vision most distributors). Closed ice palace in search of a Snowflake Gem), Video (avail. from most captioned. ISBN: 978-1- this compilation is recommended. Aud: P. distributors). 97492-081-5. (J. Williams-Wood) Dallas Jenkins, produc- This iconographic-an- er and director of the winning 2010 faith- imated adaptation of the 2018 picture based feature What If… is the talent behind book by author Adam Wallace and illus- New to DVD The Chosen: The Story of the First Christmas, trator Shane Clester features a jingle-jangly part of a projected series on the life of soundtrack and a variety of voice actors, Blaze and the Monster Jesus. Buoyed by financial support from including George Newbern and Qarie Mar- Machines: Blaze Saves a successful crowdfunding campaign, The shall, whose characters pitch in for Santa Christmas (Paramount, Chosen takes an interesting angle on the Claus when an illness threatens his special DVD: $10.99). Turbo Sled Gospels: Christ’s time on Earth is witnessed holiday. The story kicks off with cute fac- Blaze needs assistance to through the eyes of others. This initial epi- toids about Santa and the members of the rescue all the gifts from sode focuses on a disabled shepherd who is fantasy “holiday heroes” squad, noting that Snowball Mountain in an outcast among other, more prosperous Santa likes swimming with sharks and is this holiday-themed ad- sheep herders. The night that Jesus is born good at bionic burps, the Tooth Fairy’s real dition to the animated proves to be redemptive for the challenged name is “Esmerelda Floss,” the Witch is a series. hero, changing his perception of both him- broom-flying racing star, the Easter Bunny is self and the world’s possibilities. Jenkins’s a great hip-hop dancer, and the Leprechaun Home for the Holidays wise take on the Nativity scene also bucks is also known as “Seamus O’Brien.” The (Universal, DVD: $14.99). tradition with a multiethnic cast. A fine gang learns of Santa’s sickness three days Featuring the voice of Kel- rendition of the “first Christmas,” this is before Christmas and they immediately ly Clarkson and others, recommended. Aud: P. (T. Keogh) undertake some crash course training. Of this animated holiday course, when the big night comes, trouble movie follows an alien Christmas at follows—not only with landing the Super who celebrates human Rosemont HHH Sleighmobile 3000 but also some issues Christmas traditions for (2015) 95 min. DVD: with the heroes using their regular powers the first time. $14.99. Strand Releasing in not-so-appropriate ways (Witch turns (avail. from most distributors cookie offerings into spiders; Leprechaun A Nashville Christ- on Dec. 4). scavenges for loose change). It’s fun to see mas (Sony, DVD: $6.99). Two people are driving regular holiday characters outside-the-box Filmed in Nashville, this through the Rocky Moun- in a different setting. Recommended. Aud: holiday-themed musical tains at night in a blinding snowstorm. K, P. (J. Williams-Wood) special includes perfor- What could possibly go wrong? After skid- mances by Emmylou Har- ding off the road, Brad (Brendan Michael Snow Awesome! HHH ris, Wynonna Judd, Pam Coughlin), a professional snowboarder (2018) 92 min. DVD: Tillis, Lorrie Morgan, and on his way to Colorado to see his fiancée, $9.99. Paramount Home others. and Lisa (Ayla Kell), large with child and Entertainment (avail. from hitching a ride with Brad to get away from most distributors). Closed Nature Cat: Winter the baby’s father, seek shelter in a creepy captioned. Dance Party (PBS, DVD: old hotel that has been out of business for This compilation of $6.99). Backyard adven- decades. Two elders live there, played by -aired pro- turer Nature Cat and actors who are strongly associated with grams exudes a festive air with several sea- friends celebrate the win- some weird characters: Josephine (Grace sonal episodes. The opening double-length ter solstice in this latest Zabriskie of Twin Peaks fame) and Abe (Brad special, Nella the Princess Knight’s “The addition to the PBS Kids- Dourif, voice of “Chucky”). But this is not Knight Before Christmas,” finds Nella aired series that features a setup for a horror film; in fact, the only and her friends halting their singing and the voices of Taran Killam, thing spooky here is the extent to which decorating activities when they see Santa Kate McKinnon, and Bobby Moynihan. Josephine is emotionally haunted by a being chased down by purple ice dragons terrible personal loss years ago, a tragedy who make off with his bag of gifts. With Pat Boone and Family: that compelled her to shut down her hotel, the presents for the town in jeopardy, Nella Christmas & Thanksgiv- freezing it in time. The out-of-the-blizzard and company follow the “Frostbite Broth- ing Specials (MPI, DVD: arrival of Craig and Lisa at Christmas ers”—who sound like Bowery Boy knockoffs $19.98). Singer Pat Boone ushers in youth, life, and love, especially (“Yowza! Ya got in!”)—to their lair and use and friends—including after the birth of Lisa’s infant. Directed by problem-solving to get the holiday back on Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, Daniel Petrie Jr., Christmas at Rosemont is a track for the people of Castlehaven. From Rosemary Clooney, and handsome-looking film (lots of snow and Sunny Day, the double-length “Best Christ- Yogi Bear—are featured trees) that can’t help but charm as the old mas Ever” finds hair salon head Sunny in these holiday specials.

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 46 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 children’s book is adapted in this icono- several successful art shows—featuring his stated that Chinese modern art is presently graphic-animated short narrated by Nick robots displaying heartfelt emotions—Leon- in a transition between original visions Podehl. A sprightly soundtrack backs the ard decided to begin a “Happy” campaign, and imitations of Western trends, with wholesome escapades of waggy-tailed dachs- painting posters and creating stickers that considerable social pressure (credited to hund Bartleby, who lives in an old bookstore wound up all over the world. While Leonard Deng Xiaoping’s free-market revolution) and wears glasses while he reads. The only recognizes that his recovery will be ongoing, to attain international success and prestige bane of Bartleby’s existence is his limo-like he has also come to realize that he can choose for the mainland. Artists everywhere may stretched body, which causes calamities as he to be happy. An inspirational story, this is relate to academic Cui Cancan, who hailed walks around town. A trio of kid friends tag recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Root) from an insular village and could only along with the canine as his “reckless rear” find fulfillment in cosmopolitan Beijing. gets into more trouble, but when he becomes Other issues are particular to China, such discouraged and cries to stay at home, his pals RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY as the men rebelling against convention come up with a solution. Drawn in a comic and tradition in letting their wives take scribble style with colored pencil, this simple command of business affairs—or, in the tale about acceptance is recommended. Aud: The Animated Bible Series—Episode 1: case of the renowned artist Xia Xiaowan, K, E, P. (J. Williams-Wood) The Creation HHH taking a teenaged student protégé (Chen (2018) 23 min. DVD: $12.99. DRA. Vision Video Hui, now a painter in her own right) as his (avail. from most distributors). mate. While there are mentions of the Tian- PSYCHOLOGY & SELF-HELP The first installment of an ambitious series anmen Square crackdown, an old comrade of animated graphic-novel-style productions who committed suicide, and complaints that will tell the entire narrative presented in by Cancan of pressure to officially join Happy HHH the Bible, Creation offers a visually appealing the Communist Party, stories of outright (2018) 77 min. DVD: $99: public libraries; synopsis of chapters 1-3 of the book of Gene- dissent and persecution are muted (no $295 w/PPR: colleges & universities. Seventh Art mention is made of protest-art, specifically Releasing. sis, as God makes the heavens, earth, waters, plants, and animals, before creating man and works widely exhibited by artists sympa- Filmmaker Michael Patrick McKinley’s woman—humankind’s progenitors Adam thetic to the Falun Gong sect). Still, while Happy tells the story of a man who lost a loved and Eve. The serpent who tempts the latter not all-encompassing, Art in Smog presents one and was able to overcome his grief and to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and an illuminating snapshot of a developing depression through art. Leonard “Porkchop” evil is no simple snake as is often represented, cultural scene. Recommended. Aud: C, P. Zimmerman grew up in Augusta, GA. His but rather a dazzling serpent such as might be (C. Cassady) parents described him as a joyous, curious, portrayed in a comic book, while the Garden and very active boy who had a talent for art of Eden is an eye-popping paradise. Clearly From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of at an early age. After high school, Leonard designed to appeal to youth audiences, this HHH attended the Savannah College of Art and the Cairo Geniza 1/2 is recommended. Aud: P. (T. Keogh) (2018) 92 min. DVD: $125: public libraries; $395: Design, where he found love with Brian colleges & universities. DRA. D-Facto Filmstudio. Malone. The pair lived together in Atlanta for HHH PPR. Closed captioned. several years until Brian died from a severe Art in Smog (2018) 76 min. In Mandarin w/English subtitles. In 1896, the Romanian-born Cambridge strain of meningitis, after which Leonard DVD: $24.99: individuals; $95: public libraries; University professor Solomon Schechter came returned home to his family and began $265: colleges & universities. Innervisions25. PPR. upon an extraordinary discovery: a vast stor- sketching as a therapeutic way of expressing Filmmaker Lydia Chen examines the age room (geniza) containing sacred ancient his feelings of pain. Leonard joined Artzilla, state of modern art in industrial-power- religious texts, manuscripts, and letters with- a local art group, made friends, and began to house China via four particular artists in a rundown Cairo synagogue. Filmmaker paint; Leonard signed his name “Porkchop,” (who often blur the lines of instructor, Michelle Paymar’s documentary details how the nickname given to him by Brian. After curator-gallery owner, and collector). It is Schechter located this amazing treasure trove, which included many original documents handwritten by the influential physician The S Word HHH1/2 and philosopher Moses Maimonides, as well (2017) 93 min. DVD: $129: high schools & public libraries; $349: colleges as more commonplace correspondence and & universities. DRA. Good Docs (avail. from www.gooddocs.net). PPR. lists that detailed the ebb and flow of life in The “S” word is “suicide” in filmmaker Lisa Klein’s sensitive medieval Egypt during a period when Jewish, documentary. Klein, who lost both her father and brother to Muslim, and Christian communities existed suicide, draws intimate confessions out of people who suffer from in peaceful cooperation. While many of the suicidal depression, as well as individuals who are involved in documents were intact, countless others suicide outreach, prevention, and awareness. Her primary subject, existed in fragmentary states and required Dese’Rae Stage, is a rock photographer and still-struggling suicide endless hours to piece together and decipher survivor, who embarks on a multimedia gallery project exhibiting (written in , Greek, and other languages portraits of others who have tried to kill themselves. Leah, who using Hebrew letters). The film also chronicles is now a psychologist, was the daughter of a schizophrenic mother who was institu- ongoing efforts to digitize the documents tionalized and dismissed as a hopeless case as a teenager. Friends and family remember found in Cairo and make them available to Brandon Toh, a charismatic musician and—sadly ironic—a suicide counselor at a call scholars studying the history of Egypt’s Jew- center, who hanged himself. Military veteran suicides and the lack of suicide-prevention ish community. While the subject matter is programs for African Americans are also addressed. And a surprise sympathetic cameo scholarly, Paymar presents this material in a comes from conservative media figure Glenn , who spotlights the openly lesbian user-friendly manner that places old Cairo, Stage on his network. Presented in both its full-length version and a one-hour abridged Schechter’s 19th-century academic world, edition, this powerful film about a tragically perennial mental health issue is highly and contemporary historical research into recommended. Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady) fascinating context. Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall)

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 47 VIDEO LIBRARIAN The Heretic HHH1/2 nature of human reflection. Presented in (2018) 71 min. DVD: $350. Bullfrog Films. PPR. both a full-length version and a 38-minute SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES SDH captioned. 1-948745-02-X. abridgement, this is recommended. Aud: P. Who is Rob Bell, and why do evangelical (T. Keogh) Christians denounce and condemn him? Breaking Silence HHH As viewers learn in filmmaker Andrew Mor- My Coffee with Jewish Friends HH1/2 (2016) 40 min. DVD: $89: public libraries; $350: gan’s documentary, the former pastor who (2017) 97 min. DVD: $375. DRA. Grasshopper colleges & universities. Women Make Movies. PPR. co-founded (with his wife) a church in Grand Film. PPR. Filmmaker Nadya Ali’s documentary Rapids, MI, gave up his job to become a full- Film editor turned director Manfred gives voice to Muslim women who have time author and lecturer with a disruptive Kirchheimer acknowledges a debt up front experienced sexual assault, including Sarah point-of-view about Jesus and Christianity. to Louis Malle’s My Dinner with Andre in (by a friend’s uncle) when she was eight; Tall, middle-aged, yet also naturally youthful his reductionist documentary built around Navila (by a cousin) when she was 12 or 13, and buoyant, Bell teaches that “somewhere a simple sit-down with Jewish colleagues and Zahra (by five young men) at the age along the way, the Jesus movement was hi- from the arts (and other disciplines) along of 15 (her family was visiting South Asia at jacked.” It takes a little while to realize that with some students to discuss their Judaism the time). Once Sarah learned about sexual Bell isn’t referring to the 1970s take on a (although one interviewee is the son of a assault in school, she realized it was what peace, love, and hippie-dippy version of Jesus, Jewish-Christian upbringing). Religion is had happened to her and she told a guidance but rather the cumulative interpretations and an early topic, with Kirchheimer himself a counselor, who made her tell her mother, perversions of Christ’s message over millen- onetime convert to Orthodoxy who became although neither woman offered much in the nia. Christ’s whole point in being here, Bell an atheist in response to God’s silence over way of support. Both advised her to get over says, was to push the envelope on what it the Holocaust. “We don’t do God in this it and move on, but the burden didn’t start means to be human and explore big questions house” is a quote from some regarding their to lift until she told a therapist. For similar about our own purpose on Earth. What are upbringing, but prolific cinematographer reasons, Navila didn’t tell her story to anyone we doing here? What is the best way to live? Tom Hurwitz went from being an ardent for 16 years. “We don’t talk about sex in a How do we forgive others who wrong us? Bell non-believer to an observant Jew who re- Muslim Desi household,” she explains. Once chastises churches for twisting Christ’s real grets his previous cynicism. Others reject she spoke up, her mother was sympathetic, intentions—i.e., showing us how to live ful- faith but embrace Israel as the wellspring of but reasoned that something that doesn’t ly—into arbitrary rules while wielding power Jewish identity and self-protection. Some kill you makes you stronger. When she was over ordinary people and spreading fear with Zionists here come across as inhumane (an assaulted while pursuing her master’s degree, talk of spending eternity in Hell. None of that irony of which they seem well aware) in their she didn’t hesitate to report the incident, but matters, Bell preaches, nor does any of it teach blanket condemnation of Arabs and support the authorities proved to be more judgmental us how to approach life with joy and curiosity. of West Bank settlers. Musician Walter Hess than helpful. For Zahra, her multi-assailant Bell’s public appearances are protested by says he does not want their conversation to ordeal represented her first sexual experience, people who call him a liar and heretic, but devolve into “Orthodox bashing,” but his which made it even harder to talk about. In- (at least on camera) he lets everything roll off wife Hannah prefers to consider the criticism stead, Zahra had nightmares, questioned her his back and de-stresses through surfing in fanaticism-bashing. In the end, Kirchheimer faith, and lashed out at family members, but Southern . Although eventually one admits that no firm conclusions are reached, the situation improved after she shared her can detect a slight sense of strain behind his while many opinions seem intractable— story with a sympathetic female high school boyish grin, Bell is certainly making a mark which, he says, is very Jewish. Although teacher. Although Ali wisely keeps the focus in a challenging time. Highly recommended. somewhat scattershot, this snapshot portrait on her subjects, she also incorporates the Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) of contemporary opinions on issues related perspective of Imam Khalid Latif, executive to Judaism should be considered a strong director of the Islamic Center at New York More Than My Brain HHH optional purchase. Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady) University, who takes issue with men who cite (2018) 54 min. DVD: $19.99. DRA. Vision Video (avail. from most distributors). Presenting a Christian perspective on the Defiant Lives HHH1/2 greater mysteries of the human brain, this (2017) 85 min. DVD: $89: public libraries; $395: colleges & universities. documentary begins with a look at empirical Women Make Movies. PPR. knowledge of how the brain works, and then Filmmaker Sarah Barton’s documentary chronicles the rise of gradually zooms out to ask questions about the disabled rights movement, primarily focusing on endeavors how the brain’s billions of neurons process in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. Among the demographic groups identity, choice, personality, and our expe- seeking social and political equality, people with disabilities riences of God. These areas of metaphysical seem to face some of the greatest struggles. For too many years, questioning suggest the limitations of neu- those with severe disabilities were warehoused in institutions roscience—which doesn’t concern itself with where the quality of care often ranged from dismal to horrifying. what a person is thinking—when it comes to Even worse, those who claimed to advocate on behalf of these what it can tell us about higher functioning. Is individuals often presented their subjects as objects of pity who could not care for the soul a facet of the brain? Are transcendent themselves and needed the able-bodied to provide for their needs. The most notable encounters of God’s presence real or are they example was the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethons hosted by Jerry chemical in nature? Inevitably, the subject of Lewis, although similar telethons for British and Australian TV rivaled Lewis’s annual artificial intelligence comes up, with queries efforts both for tackiness and political incorrectness. People with disabilities also about whether computers will one day repli- faced challenges in charting a course for their own lives, gaining employment, and cate the rationality of the human brain. All enjoying access to public spaces. Barton offers a rich mix of interviews and archival of these subjects are explored in an interdisci- footage from three different continents, noting the similarities faced in overcoming plinary fashion by scientists, theologians, and stereotypes and garnering respect in this universal fight that still continues. Highly philosophers in this speculative documentary recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) that raises interesting questions about the

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 48 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 the Quran in defense of sexual assault. For all three women, finding acceptance from their families and mentoring other young women has helped with their healing process. Rec- ommended. Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) Bullied HHH (2016) 114 min. DVD: $24.99 ($199.99 w/PPR). Dreamscape Media. Closed captioned. Over two million kids are bullied every year, both in face-to-face encounters with tormentors and through the more anony- mous cruelty of social media. More than 4,000 commit suicide every year, worn down by the abuse coming from all directions, including humiliation, death threats, and the sheer persistence of hate unchecked by conscience or empathy. The multi-part Bullied offers no magic bullet to solve this global social problem, but it does talk about what responsible adults can do. Among the interviewees is a well-spoken teen boy who was harassed by anti-gay bullies and got little relief; several high school principals, counselors, and other educators trying to create an atmosphere of tolerance and un- derstanding; and a few parents. Along the way, Bullied spotlights meaningful efforts by schools to bring LGBTQ students and others together in demonstrative, warm support of one another, which is heartening to see after so much testimony about unimaginable pain. Recommended. Aud: J, H, P. (T. Keogh) Keep Talking HHH (2018) 79 min. DVD: $24.95 ($295 w/PPR). Vision Maker Media. Closed captioned. The historical mistreatment of indige- nous peoples is heartbreaking, particularly in the way that native cultures are drummed out through suppression and punishment. Filmmaker Karen Lynn Weinberg’s docu- mentary explores the tragic consequences of past U.S. policies toward a specific group of indigenous people in Alaska, but also holds out signs of hope. The film focuses on the efforts of four Native women from Alaska who are desperately trying to keep alive an old, vanishing language called Alutiiq. When they begin their mission to save Alutiiq, only 40 community elders remain who still speak it fluently—a testament to the success of policies to eradicate it (one Native man says that parents were given the choice of speaking only English at home or shipping off their kids to boarding schools, where children were hit for speaking Alutiiq). The women set out to teach a new generation the importance of saving their culture, although not in a typical classroom setting: linking Alutiiq with other aspects of cultural identity, these teachers employ dance, music, and stories. In time, many of the kids come to embrace Alutiiq strongly, identifying with this once lost but now resurrected heritage. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh)

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 49 VIDEO LIBRARIAN stop but it did not halt and Willson was run drawings and written thoughts, to capture Little Stones HHH their triumphs and disappointments as they (2017) 87 min. In English, Portuguese, Bengali, over, losing both of his legs. After being fitted French, Swahili, Pulaar, Wolof & German. DVD: with prosthetic limbs, Willson continued to struggle to overcome illness, seek resettle- $50 ($125 w/PPR): public libraries; $295 w/PPR: be a prominent presence in anti-war protests ment in other countries (including the United colleges & universities. DRA. Collective Eye Films. around the country. While Willson is a States and Australia) with opportunities to Closed captioned. charismatic and often intense personality, study, and strive to make the rest of the world Sophia Kruz takes the title of her documen- the film strays to incorporate interviews with aware of the plight of refugees. The joint tary from a saying by suffragist Alice Paul prominent figures who have been featured in portrait affectingly conveys the resilience about the women’s movement being like the other activism-focused documentaries, in- that these young women have shown under stones that make up a mosaic. Fatou Diatta, cluding Daniel Ellsberg, Martin Sheen, Alice terrible hardships, while also serving as a aka Sister Fa, uses hip-hop to shed light on the Walker, Phil Donahue, and Cindy Sheehan. testament to the camp volunteers who work cultural practice of female genital mutilation. While their input is articulate, they also keep to make a positive difference in the lives of On a radio show, she explains that she moved Willson offscreen for too long. Extras include those fleeing war and poverty. Recommend- from Dakar to Berlin to be with her Austrian a featurette following Willson on a 2014 trip ed. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) husband, but her travel schedule contributes to Nicaragua. A strong optional purchase. to their separation during the film. Panmela Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) Shadow Nation HHH Castro, a graffiti artist in Rio de Janeiro, (2017) 67 min. DVD: $24.99 ($199.99 w/PPR). describes Brazilian street culture as a macho Sauti (Voice) HHH Dreamscape Media. Closed captioned. scene, but she has earned the respect of her (2017) 73 min. DVD: $35: public libraries; $250: Filmmaker-guitarist George Lynch’s Shad- male compatriots, bringing other women community colleges; $325: universities. NeeNee ow Nation combines a tour film with a doc- along with her. Panmela’s independence Productions. PPR. umentary about Lynch’s interest in Native stands in stark contrast to a past dominated In Sauti—which means “voice” in Swahi- American history. Lynch (Dokken, Lynch by domestic abuse, but since Brazil had not li—Gayle Nosal profiles five young women Mob), seen with ever-present cigarette at yet enacted domestic violence legislation, her who came to ’s Kyangwali Refugee hand, serves as onscreen host. During a tour ex-husband never faced any legal ramifica- Camp as children. Now approaching adult- though the West, he and band mates from tions. Sohini Chakraborty, a dance movement hood, they are working to make their dreams his 2015 CD Shadow Train—Vinnie Nicastro, therapist in Kolkata, believes that dance can for a better life a reality. The quintet—Fa- Gabe Rosales, Gregg Analla, and Donnie prove helpful to victims of sexual abuse. vourite, Peninah, Beatrice, Betty, and Nap- Dickman—speak to people they meet along Over the past 10 years, she has trained five ona—come from various troubled countries the way (when Vinnie has to drop out, Jim- students to become instructors themselves. (Rwanda, South , the Democratic Re- my D’Anda steps in). Lynch also speaks with Anna Taylor, who founded the clothing public of Congo) and differing circumstances fellow musicians, including Serj Tankian of company Judith & James, works exclusively (some are orphans, while others arrived System of a Down, and historians such as with seamstresses in . Although she with relatives they must help care for). All, Noam Chomsky. The journey begins in the hails from Little Rock, AR, she spent much however, face the challenge of completing farming community of Paguate, NM, where of her youth in Kenya, inspiring her to cre- their secondary education in the camp and Ritchie Anderson, a Navajo, talks about the ate job opportunities for women in the area. passing the required examination that will pride he takes in four years of sobriety. In Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director allow them to continue their studies. Made Borrego Pass, Navajo activist Clayson Benally of United Nations Women, believes that art between 2013 and 2016, the documentary notes the neighbors and livestock afflicted is an empowering mechanism, because it is employs on-the-fly footage and substantial by birth defects and cancer due to uranium universal. While the profiled women have interview segments, along with the girls’ poisoning from the nearby mines. Although had to make personal sacrifices during their careers, they have all found ways to help other women through their art. An inspiring HHH documentary, this is recommended. Aud: C, What Lies Upstream 1/2 (2017) 85 min. DVD: $95: high schools & public libraries; $350 w/PPR: P. (K. Fennessy) colleges & universities. DRA. Ro*co Films Educational. Closed captioned. Aired on PBS’s Independent Lens series, this extremely troubling Paying the Price for Peace HH1/2 docu-exposé from filmmaker/onscreen investigator Cullen Hoback (2016) 96 min. In English & Spanish w/English subtitles. DVD: $19.95. Cinema Libre Studio (avail. extrapolates from one pollution scandal to suggest an enormous from most distributors). health risk in the American water supply. In 2014, inhabitants of the Elk River watershed in rural West Virginia found their water Filmmaker Bo Boudart’s documentary tainted by a foul chemical leaking from a ruptured holding tank. focuses on the activism of S. Brian Willson, a After initial quick EPA responses and alarming verdicts from doc- Vietnam War veteran who vowed to dedicate tors, the regulation that would have supposedly remedied such his post-military life to anti-war activism. disasters was stymied by powerful corporate lobbyists and the coal-mining state’s con- Willson gained public prominence in the servative mindset that put jobs/big business ahead of any other considerations. What is mid-1980s while protesting the Reagan ad- alarming, according to Hoback, is that West Virginia on the whole actually has a better ministration’s backing of the Contra rebels clean-water record than many other regions of the U.S. Bad science, redacted reports, EPA in Nicaragua. He was part of a 40-day hunger cover-ups, and bought-off legislators are the rule not the exception—including during strike by World War II and Vietnam veterans the Obama administration—and the subsequent lead-poisoning disaster in Flint, MI, against the government’s efforts in Central may be just a portent of worse to come. The foregone conclusion here is the appointment America, generating attention that ultimately of (now disgraced and former) EPA chief Scott Pruitt within the administration of Don- helped persuade Congress to cut off funding ald Trump, whose open hostility to the EPA—and by extension, the environment—is to the Contras. In 1987, Willson was part of mirrored by many state and local conservatives. All of the ingredients are in place for a a group of protestors who tried to block a rail ticking toxic time bomb of major consequences. Presented in both its full-length version shipment of arms to the Contras from the and a 60-minute abridgement, this documentary serving up a powerful health warning Concord Naval Weapons Station outside of is highly recommended. Aud: C, P. ( ) San Diego—a train that protestors tried to C. Cassady

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Lynch acknowledges oppositional political beliefs, he also meets with rocker Ted Nugent, who expressed sympathy for Native Americans Zero Weeks HHH in the 1987 song “Great White Buffalo.” Since (2017) 86 min. DVD: $89: public libraries; $295: colleges & universities. DRA. The Video Project. PPR. Closed captioned. then, Nugent has transformed into a blowhard who believes that laziness rather than struc- The United States is the only so-called developed country that tural inequities explains the inability of some does not offer paid family leave. President Clinton signed into ef- Americans to get ahead in life. Lynch has a fect an unpaid Family and Medical Leave Act allowing individuals more productive conversation with Santee 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but many cannot afford to go without Sioux poet and singer John Trudell, who speaks pay for that long, and businesses with under 50 employees are not about the U.S. government’s history of broken required to obey this law. Filmmaker Ky Dickens’s documentary treaties, which is followed by a visit to Alcatraz Zero Weeks takes a candid look at the struggles that individuals Island where Native Americans made a stand face when having a sick relative to attend to, a new baby to care for better living conditions in 1969. While it for, or if they get sick themselves. In Maryland a young mother is forced to quit her sometimes feels like two tangentially related daycare job—with little hope of returning—to care for her new baby. In Georgia a couple projects combined into one, Lynch’s desire to experience the premature loss of twins; sadly, the father can only take six days to care interest rock fans in Native American history is for his grief-stricken wife. In Washington, D.C., a mother must deal with the effects of worthy. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) breast cancer radiation while also caring for her young daughter. Unable to afford to go on disability—which pays less than her job—the mother returns to work after each Whipping Zombie HHH treatment with the strain evident on her face. Doctors admit that what is best for the (2017) 30 min. DVD: $99.95: public libraries; patient often runs up against current economic realities. Other policy experts, along $250: colleges & universities, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: with activist Ellen Bravo, argue that paid family leave is good for business, as companies $300. The Cinema Guild. DRA. PPR. Closed are able to retain more people for the long run. A few states now offer paid family leave captioned. ISBN: 0-7815-1573-4. (including Washington, D.C., and New York) and its clear from the film that there is Cinematography takes precedence over widespread support among the populace. A thought-provoking documentary about a narrative in Italian visual artist Yuri Ancara- pressing social issue, this is recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Root) ni’s impressionistic ethnographic documen- tary revolving around a Haitian ritual that is called “kale zonbi” or whipping zombie. phine Prunault’s documentary—originally the focus of this new addition to the Teens in After an unidentified narrator sets the scene, broadcast on French TV as Refugees: A Market Treatment series (see review of The Warning Ancarani lets scenes play out devoid of sub- Under Influence—serves up a bizarre report Signs of Addiction in VL-9/18). Looking at the titles or conventional score: goats explore a on the world’s refugee camps, arguing that consequences of drug use—including crimi- colorful cemetery, crustaceans amble along they partially serve as profit centers for nal charges and physical effects (“the sick part a littered beach, a woman pours water over enterprising international companies. The of my brain tells me that I can control some- a boy’s head, shirtless men hammer patterns film focuses on efforts by the United Nations thing when I can’t”), Life Beyond Getting High into metal plates, and flames rise up out of an High Commissioner for Refugees to bring examines the causes of drug or alcohol ad- oil can (the flattened oil cans provide material modern technology to the camps, even diction (such as anxiety or panic attacks and for exquisite metal pieces). Ancarani then hosting a trade show in which corporations family or peer group behaviors), various types turns to dancers, none of whom act or dress display everything from biometric software of treatment, and multi-systematic therapies like the zombies of popular entertainment, to an IKEA-produced refugee residence. that are available. Also touched on are healthy and whose moves vary from person to person A lengthy segment centers on a Cayman coping skills as well as acknowledging that while drumming and the occasional chant Islands-registered Jordanian company that relapse can still be part of the eventual path accompany every routine. In one instance, a created an eye-recognition program used by to success. Several addicts and professionals man whips another, mostly around the arms Syrian refugees who shop in a fully-stocked (none of whom are named) offer comments and the posterior; the former looks like a vi- supermarket inside a refugee camp in Jordan. on rising above this “cycle of pain.” A cau- cious combatant attacking a hapless victim, While the stakeholders involved insist their tionary program that could inspire someone since the latter makes no attempt to protect efforts are purely humanitarian and that any to get needed help, this is recommended. Aud: himself. In another instance, two participants profit margin is extraordinarily miniscule, H, C, P. (J. Williams-Wood) whip each other while jumping up and down; their activities can give the impression that this pair appear to be more equally matched, there is a greater push on maintaining the although male aggression pervades every camps—where more than 12 million people LAW & CRIME configuration. Gradually, the drumming, live—rather than solving world crises and whipping, and hammering combine to cre- working to bring the refugees back to safety ate a symphony of percussion as Ancarani and security in their homelands. An inter- Circle Up HHH1/2 cuts from scene to scene. At times, he slows esting documentary about the intersection (2017) 69 min. DVD: $150: high schools & public things down in order to focus on the faces of of global capitalism and the socioeconomic libraries; $325: colleges & universities. New Day specific participants and audience members, aspects of the world’s refugee crises, this is Films. PPR. Closed captioned. and while it isn’t obvious at first, it eventually highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi’s documentary becomes clear that the dancers stand in for centers on Janet Connors, a Dorchester, MA, masters and slaves who are collectively reliv- mother whose young adult son Joel was ing and exorcising the trauma of the island’s TEEN ISSUES murdered. Four men were arrested and tried; slave trade past. A unique, troubling film, three were convicted and sentenced to 10 this is recommended. Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) years in prison, while the fourth—who may have been the one responsible for physically Who Benefits from the Camps? The Life Beyond Getting High: Rehab HHH taking Joel’s life—went free when the jury Refugee Crisis HHH1/2 (2017) 30 min. DVD: $64.95. DRA. TMW Media found him not guilty based on reasonable (2017) 52 min. DVD: $225. DRA. Film Ideas. PPR. Group. PPR. Closed captioned. doubt. Connors dealt with her grief and anger Filmmakers Nicolas Autheman and Del- Substance dependence and treatment are through reaching out to others who lost loved

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 52 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 12 Days HHH1/2 (2017) 3 discs. 87 min. In French w/English subtitles. DVD: $36.98. Icarus Films Home Video. A 2013 French law mandates that anyone involuntarily com- mitted for mental health treatment in the country must have a hearing before a judge after 12 days to determine whether their confi nement should be extended. Filmmaker Raymond Depar- don’s documentary, shot at the Le Vinatier psychiatric hospital near Lyon, offers a glimpse of the process in a series of sessions before several of the so-called “judges of liberties and detention,” who converse with patients and study their psychiatric reports before making decisions (appeals of which are always permitted). The camera also prowls the institution’s hallways and grounds, occasionally providing glimpses of residents walking about (or capturing the sounds of screaming behind closed doors). The proceedings are fascinating, as the judges—who repeatedly point out they are not physicians—prod patients to discuss why they, for example, attacked strangers on the street or attempted suicide. Almost invariably the patients ask to be released, claiming either that their motives have been misunderstood, or their personal crises are over, or they would benefi t more from outpatient services elsewhere. In virtually every case, however, the decision goes against them; in one case, a judge observes, a man loudly objected to being persecuted and asked to return to live with his father, who he later killed. 12 Days offers a poignant portrayal of psychologically damaged people and one society’s efforts to provide humane treatment. Also included here are two more feature-length documentaries by Depardon: Jounral de France (2012) and France (Les Habitants) (2015). Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) ones in violent deaths. Circle Up follows her as sensitive dependent ecosystems. Filmmaker she participates in counseling groups and de- Britton Caillouette’s Blue Heart calls attention livers lectures in high schools on coping with to these dire plans for making a lot of money the murder of a family member. Connors by plundering and ruining another natural attempted to contact and form a connection resource. The location footage is beautiful with one of the three men sent to prison for as cameras follow the path of the Vjosa and Joel’s death, but their bond of communica- its multiple tributaries. The grandeur of this tion seems uneasy, and the ex-convict (who natural treasure is awe-inspiring and the does not allow himself to be shown on cam- man-made problems evoke outrage. A stirring era) appears uncomfortable with Connors’s environmental documentary on the fi ght to outreach. Connors’s desire to help others who save the Vjosa, this is recommended. Aud: have similarly suffered is cathartic and altru- C, P. (T. Keogh) istic, and this fi lm does a fi ne job of detailing her crusade to bring understanding and hope Cielo HHH to those facing the cruelest imaginable loss. (2018) 78 min. In English, Spanish & French w/ Extras include a short fi lm about Connors. English subtitles. DVD: $349. DRA. Juno Films. Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) PPR. Closed captioned. The wonders of the heavens are breathtak- ingly captured in Alison McAlpine’s visually NATURE, MATH & SCIENCE stunning documentary fi lmed at and around the observatories in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, where the clearness of the Blue Heart HHH air and absence of artifi cial light make for an (2018) 43 min. DVD: $59.95 ($250 w/PPR from unimpeded view of the sky. Cielo uses time- edu.passionriver.com). Passion River (avail. from lapse photography, along with some special most distributors). effects, to convey the majesty of the star- The last wild river in Europe, the Vjosa fi lled night and shimmering magnifi cence begins in the Pindus mountains of Greece, of the sun and the moon during the day. fl ows into Albania, and makes its way through McAlpine juxtaposes these visuals with her the Balkan mountains before spilling into own voiceover ruminations as well as excerpts the Adriatic. From the river’s broad basin, from interviews of people living in the area. tributaries branch off in multiple directions, The astronomers’ descriptions of their work helping to sustain life. Energy companies and are interesting, but the locals are even more global banks want to build nearly 3,000 dams fascinating. Among those musing on the across the river network—adding to the 1,200 mysteries of the skies are an elderly couple that either exist now or are being construct- who debate the shape of the earth and the ed—and environmental activists argue that laws of gravity, a man who associates one all those dams will dry out the river regions, particular star with the spirit of his deceased destroying wildlife and habitats, as well as daughter, and various miners, ranchers, and

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 53 VIDEO LIBRARIAN algae-collectors. McAlpine resists adding reminiscences and testimonials from peers. vendor carts or swiping a carelessly placed any larger social or political context (which In this anthology, Erdos 100 is accompanied human lunch. On Christmas Island, coconut some will consider a strength and others a by four substantial interviews that Csicsery crabs pilfer anything resembling food, even weakness), but her crystalline views of the sky conducted with Erdos between 1988-91, as boosting a hat or pistol. Mountain pikas, a are absolutely awe-inspiring. Recommended. well as four 2018 featurettes on particular small cousin of the rabbit, feather their nests Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) elements of Erdos’s work (“On Erdos-Bacon with hay or grass stolen from a neighbor’s Numbers,” “The Rise of Combinatorics,” nesting holes. Pygmy falcons employ a “pro- Decoding the Weather Machine HHH “Large Gaps Between Primes,” and “A Brief tection racket,” discouraging other predators (2018) 120 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). History of the Probabilistic Method”). The who would attack other bird’s nests, while PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317- final film in this collection,Something New casually claiming a few chicks for them- 0 479 -7. Every Day (2015), centers on Ronald Graham, selves. Dexterity and a keen sense of smell Each year in the recent past has found Professor of Computer Science and Engi- increase the chance of survival, although the Earth wracked by more frequent, severe, and neering at the University of California San fur and feces of the slow-moving three-toed destructive storms, hurricanes, and wildfires. Diego—a major force in discrete mathematics sloth offer a smelly but tempting haven for Filmmaker Doug Hamilton’s PBS-aired NOVA and a friend and admirer of Erdos. Taken breeding moths. Peacocks use a strategy of documentary investigates changes in the together, Csicsery’s films offer a profile of a “fans, feathers, and flamboyance,” while the world’s “climate machine.” Experts draw cores man not only devoted to his discipline but female praying mantis devours the male after from Antarctica’s glaciers, revealing escalating also one who encouraged younger members mating. Monkeys of Gibraltar engage in an carbon dioxide levels in the compressed ice to tackle math’s most difficult problems. But elaborate baby-stealing plot as an improbable sheets, which date back thousands of years, unlike N is a Number, this will be of interest way of reducing conflict, but hyena pups are while marine biologists study seashells and primarily to specialists rather than a general known to kill siblings and mothers allow ancient mud found on deep ocean floors. The audience. A strong optional purchase. Aud: starvation to promote survival of the fittest. goal is to take a snapshot of today’s climate C, P. (F. Swietek) Underscoring the fact that the natural world versus the past, and the not-surprising conclu- is an unforgiving place, this documentary sion is that fossil fuel burning is affecting the Natural Born Rebels HHH1/2 features fascinating footage, informative world’s temperatures and heat distribution. (2018) 160 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). commentary, and—when appropriate—wel- However, the real alarm is just how fast the PBS Video. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0473-5. come humor. Highly recommended. Aud: H, Earth’s climate is changing. Coral reefs are One constant in the animal kingdom is C, P. (S. Rees) dying, sea levels are rising, and low-lying ar- the search for food, while a close second is eas like Norfolk, VA, and the Marshall Islands the goal of increasing the odds of species Searching for the Gold Spot: The Wild are threatened. In the near future, Miami survival by finding the right mate. To achieve After Wildfire HHH could find itself underwater, creating massive these ends, animals use problem-solving, (2017) 30 min. DVD: $39: public libraries; $79: population disruption and national security shared information, brute force, and even high schools; $149: colleges & universities. DRA. threats. As the film explains, current options cannibalism. Filmmakers Hannah Gibson Green Planet Films. PPR. SDH captioned. are to suffer, adapt, or mitigate. Proposed and Joanne Ashman’s three-part PBS-aired While ever-enlarging wildfires have be- alleviating ideas include reducing carbon Nature documentary explains the “hunger come a fact of life in modern America, plenty dioxide emissions, “carbon capture” and re- wars,” which often lead to a life of stealth of evidence suggests that our policies toward cycling, increased planting of trees, and “no and crime. Macaque monkeys thrive in ur- forest maintenance and fires is shortsighted. till” field farming. Sadly, we are gripped by ban environments by brazenly stealing from Filmmaker Maya Rani Khosla’s documenta- an astonishing inertia on the political level. As scientists, including the conservative and former climate change skeptic meteorologist Paul Douglas notes, delays will only increase Ocean Cities HHH1/2 costs and make solutions more difficult. Al- (2018) 56 min. DVD: $39: public libraries; $89: high schools; $195: though the world might well survive, life on colleges & universities. DRA. Green Planet Films. PPR. SDH captioned. Earth would radically change. Issuing a timely Co-directed by Chuck Davis and University of Virginia profes- environmental warning, this is recommend- sor Tim Beatley, Ocean Cities follows the latter as he visits cities ed. Aud: H, C, P. (S. Rees) situated on the ocean shore in both America and abroad. Part one looks at the community connection to the sea by focusing on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, where several initiatives are drawing Erdos 100 Plus HH1/2 (2018) 180 min. DVD: $24.95, Blu-ray: $29.95: urbanites to the waterfront for kayaking, clean-up, and the pro- individuals; DVD: $129.95, Blu-ray: $134.95 motion of a healthy harbor. Using hydro power from the river’s w/PPR: institutions. Zala Films. ISBN: 978-0- current along with solar energy, “Mr. Trash Wheel” sits in the 9855347-3-8 (dvd). river and pulls trash up on its moving belts. And in Miami, students from Title I schools Paul Erdos (1913-1996), a recognized pi- take day trips to explore ocean life in Biscayne Bay. In part two, Beatley examines oneer in probabilistic number theory and sustainable seafood at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, where non-profit groups discrete mathematics, was also known for are convincing restaurant owners and individuals to source food that is not harmful his peripatetic lifestyle. His nearly constant to the ocean environment. Part three looks at rising sea levels and efforts to plan for travels—with all of his belongings packed a future that could witness an elevation of over four feet this century. In Miami, new in a single suitcase—included visits to 500- pumps, larger storm drains, and elevated streets have been constructed, while in nearby plus colleagues, and he was the most prolific Coral Gables the mayor is identifying what is critical for the city to save. Part four looks mathematician of his time, with more than at new ways of constructing water drainage systems and buildings. In Rotterdam, for 1,500 publications to his credit. Documen- example, multiple-use design involves amphitheater structures, underground parking, tarian George Paul Csicsery, who made and other concrete pool-like areas that will allow for water collection when necessary. an excellent film about Erdos calledN is a And in Amsterdam, floating houses have been built using concrete hulls filled with Number (VL-11/04), also helmed Erdos 100 water. A timely look at the challenges facing coastal cities in an era of climate change, (2013)—a half-hour portrait celebrating the this is highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (T. Root) centenary of Erdos’s birth—which includes

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 54 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 ry takes viewers on a tour of forest land in the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and other The Mayo Clinic: Faith-Hope-Science HHH1/2 mountain ranges, as experts illustrate how (2018) 115 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR), Blu-ray: $29.99 ($54.99 w/ fire is an essential part of nature’s self-man- PPR). PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0515-2 (dvd), 978-1- agement. When a fire burns vegetation, the 5317-0788-0 (blu-ray). door opens to a section of forest reinventing Ken Burns combines a history lesson with contemporary testi- itself. Beetles and woodpeckers carve out new monials in this PBS-aired documentary about the world-famous homes in charred trees and logs, beginning a medical center in Rochester, MN, which traces its roots back to new cycle of biodiversity. And the same is true humble beginnings in 1883 when a tornado struck the area. Dr. for new growth in trees, brush, and plants, William Worrall Mayo led the relief effort along with his doctor as well as animals that thrive in a nascent, sons Will and Charlie, enlisting Sister Mary Alfred Moes, Mother up-and-coming forest. But instead of letting Superior of the local Franciscan community, to open rooms in her nature take its course, current policies allow convent to patients. Moes then proposed that they join forces to found a hospital, which loggers to clearcut trees, both before and after a vision told her would become renowned throughout the world. Using a wide range of wildfires, leaving huge unproductive holes in archival materials—including footage of a visit by President Franklin Roosevelt—Burns the forest—an unsuitable habitat for wildlife and co-directors Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers follow the history of the facility that would have survived and even flourished over the generations, with stars like Tom Hanks voicing the words of principal players in a torched environment. At the same time, while Peter Coyote serves as general narrator. Emphasis is placed on the technological the encroachment of homes onto wildlands advances that the Mayo Clinic has spearheaded over the decades, as well as the intensely that require regeneration is a major contrib- collaborative ethos of its physicians, who work on salary. Interspersed with the historical uting factor to loss. A timely documentary, narrative is praise from patients. Some are famous—the Dalai Lama, Tom Brokaw, the this is recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (T. Keogh) late John McCain—while others have unusual stories, including a father who brought his toddler daughter in for treatment of a brain tumor with proton-beam therapy, and a violinist whose hand tremor is resolved through experimental brain stimulation that HEALTH & FITNESS he controls with a phone-sized device (the film also emphasizes that miraculous cures are, of course, not always achieved). Extras include deleted scenes and a behind-the- scenes music video. Offering a skillful tribute to a remarkable institution, this is highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (F. Swietek) Cholesterol: The Great Bluff HH1/2 (2016) 82 min. In French & English w/English subtitles. DVD: $29.98 ($390 w/PPR from researchers as well as journalists and aca- brought to the world’s attention in a hu- www.icarusfilms.com). Icarus Films Home demics—deserve a hearing. A strong optional manitarian information campaign that Video (available from most distributors). Closed captioned. purchase. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) featured many celebrities. But another in the nearby Nuba Mountains of the coun- As the title indicates, Anne Georget’s docu- HHH try’s South Kordofan province is less well- mentary challenges the assumption common Fentanyl: The Deadliest Opioid (2018) 18 min. DVD: $149.95 (study guide known. Filmmaker Kenneth A. Carlson’s in medical circles that high levels of LDL cho- included). Human Relations Media. PPR. Closed documentary puts the spotlight on the lesterol are the major factor in cardiovascular captioned. ISBN: 978-1-62706-107-0. war that Omar al-Bashir’s government is disease, which she believes has led doctors to Another entry in Human Relations Media’s waging (largely by air) on tribes in the re- overprescribe statins—a practice that drug opioid-related programs (see The Opioids gion through a portrait of Tom Catena, an companies happily encourage in order to keep Epidemic: How I Became a Heroin Addict in American at the Mother of Mercy Hospital profits high. She traces the origin of current VL-1/17 and Opioids: Addiction, Overdose and who is the sole doctor providing medical theory to the prevalence of heart disease in Death in VL-1/18), this latest title looks at the treatment to the area population (estimated the , focusing in particular on the heart synthetic painkiller fentanyl. Originally de- at nearly one million). Carlson provides a attack that President Eisenhower suffered signed as an anesthetic for cancer patients and sketch of Catena’s life—including his child- in 1955, which fostered a change in diet, end-of-life care, fentanyl is many times more hood in upstate New York and outstanding especially a reduction in the consumption dangerous than heroin or morphine (both of football career at Brown University—to- of fatty foods, to reduce risk. This led to the which can be derived naturally from opium) gether with observations from parents and development and heavy promotion of low-fat and is different from semi-synthetic opioids siblings as he follows Catena home for a food alternatives, and eventually the wide use such as Percocet and Oxycodone in that rare visit. Most of the film, however, is shot of statins as a preventative medicine. Georget inexperienced street dealers now cut their in Sudan with Catena, who indefatigably marshals an array of experts—many French, regular drugs with fentanyl for profit (since it’s attends to patients suffering from illness some American—who cite studies undermin- cheaper). Comments from a knowledgeable and injury, talks about his commitment ing the notion that high “bad” cholesterol host, relevant diagrams, and clips from news to service, admits his personal loneliness, is the main factor behind cardiovascular and law enforcement footage are combined and takes shelter in foxholes along with disease. Included as an extra, Georget’s com- with interviews of affected family members. others who cluster around the facility when panion film Branding Illness expands on The Also covered is an even more hazardous com- government planes bomb the countryside. Great Bluff by arguing that pharmaceutical panion drug called carfentanil (which is used Catena’s seemingly endless energy is in- companies are not really in the business of on elephants). The bottom line: fentanyl kills spiring, as is his upbeat attitude, which making medicines to treat actual illnesses, and can be added to common street drugs darkens only when he bemoans the world’s but instead use advertising to publicize the without the end user’s knowledge. Recom- indifference to brutality being inflicted on widespread existence of nebulous “condi- mended. Aud: J, H, C, P. (J. Williams-Wood) the innocent residents of the region by a tions” in order to encourage people to seek criminal regime, simply because of area out relief—which their products promise to The Heart of Nuba HHH mineral riches. The encomia heaped upon provide. For American audiences the ideas (2018) 85 min. DVD or Blu-ray: $95: public Catena by colleagues and supporters in that Georget presents, which run counter libraries; $395: colleges & universities. DRA. Tugg. interview excerpts here seem to be quite to medical orthodoxy, will be provocative, PPR. richly deserved. Recommended. Aud: C, but her experts—who include doctors and The Darfur catastrophe in Sudan was P. (F. Swietek)

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 55 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Qi Gong for Headaches HHH1/2 the wild mane,” and “lifting the moon”), sitions, overall Your Health: A Sacred Matter (2018) 36 min. DVD: $29.95. YMAA Publication and a cool-down. During the workouts, Ross offers a broad and quite well-balanced survey Center. describes each form as he demonstrates and on a significant subject. Recommended. Aud: No matter the reason—from body ten- is accompanied by C.J. McPhee, who also per- C, P. (F. Swietek) sion to overindulging in drink or screen forms the movements. Highly recommended. time—this latest program in instructor Lee Aud: P. (T. Root) Holden’s Qi Gong series looks to provide a FOOD & SPIRITS natural remedy for headaches. A gorgeous Your Health: A Sacred Matter HHH mountain backdrop sets the scene for Hold- (2017) 116 min. DVD: $29.95: individuals; $99.95: en’s assured moves and overlaid narration institutions. Auteur Productions. PPR. The Oyster Farmers HHH in this program that includes both full and The relationship between religious faith (2017) 70 min. DVD: $39: public libraries; $89: short versions of routines that are suggested and medical treatment is explored in Ger- high schools; $195: colleges & universities. DRA. not only for urgent headaches but also as a ald Krell’s documentary, which begins and Green Planet Films. PPR. SDH captioned. prevention tool. From breathing techniques concludes with ceremonies: the White Coat Filmmaker Corinne C. Ruff’s encouraging to soothe the nervous system, to massaging Ceremony at the Icahn School of Medicine documentary shows what can happen when acupressure points at the base of the skull, at Mount Sinai, marking the official entry of a dying industry gets smart about cultivating jaw, and temples, Qi Gong for Headaches in- medical students into training, and the grad- as well as harvesting nature’s products. The cludes relaxing moves such as “spreading the uation celebration at the George Washington Oyster Farmers looks at the resurgence of feathers” and “releasing the stones.” Holden’s University School of Medicine, in which Eastern oysters off the Northeastern seaboard genuine appreciation for his art is near pal- the Hippocratic Oath is recited. In between, of the United States, where over-exploita- pable (and, after watching, I think my head Your Health is divided into two parts, the first tion (beginning in the 19th century), raw already feels better). Highly recommended. concentrating on the need for sensitivity on sewage, destruction of habitat, and other Aud: P. (J. Williams-Wood) the part of physicians dealing with patients human-made problems began to wipe out of different (or no) faith systems, while also once-plentiful oysters as far back as the Qi Gong for High Blood Pressure HHH discussing studies suggesting that religious 1920s. With a particular focus on Barnegat (2018) 44 min. DVD: $29.95. YMAA Publication belief can be a positive factor in encouraging Bay on the New Jersey coast, which was once Center. hope in time of illness. The section concludes full of oysters, the film reveals how few beds Featuring full, extended, and short rou- with the question of whether clergy should remain for “baymen” to scoop up the briny tines, this recent addition to instructor Lee take a greater role in the religious component delicacy (it takes two years for an oyster to be Holden’s extensive Qi Gong series features the of treatment, following a pediatric chap- mature enough to be consumed in a matter host standing in a riverbed in the Redwood lain in her rounds to provide insight. The of seconds). But a new generation of so-called Forest while demonstrating moves designed second part begins with a historical sketch oyster farmers are as concerned about ensur- to alleviate high blood pressure. After suggest- of the development of hospital facilities in ing the longevity of their trade as they are ing that viewers check their blood pressure America—many started by religious denom- about making a profit. Thanks to no-brainer before and after the program, Holden presents inations—and discusses the importance of techniques such as recycling empty oyster moves that include “water waves,” “the boa” culturally sensitive care, using as examples a shells back into the water (to fortify oyster (“like a snake shedding its skin”), “swimming Navajo medical practitioner and the expecta- beds with nutrients) and restricting access dragon” (which kind of looks like a Beyoncé tions of Muslim patients. It then turns to the to harvesting waters, the Eastern oyster now move), “repulse the monkey,” and “pulling role of caregivers, spotlighting an innovative has an opportunity to rebound. Shot with the sky down in six directions.” Focusing on program in parish-nursing while also looking great energy (the camera is often out on the positive side effects of released stress— at the particular demands of hospice care and narrow, crowded boats capturing baymen, including pain reduction, better sleep, and rehabilitative practice. While the wide range baywomen, and their obligatory boat dogs improved mood—this gentle workout is of subjects makes for some awkward tran- in action), the film effectively captures the recommended. Aud: P. (J. Williams-Wood)

Tai Chi Fusion: Iron HHH1/2 The Story of Spice HHH1/2 (2018) 60 min. DVD: $29.95. YMAA Publication (2017) 49 min. DVD: $16.95: individuals; $26.95 w/PPR: institutions. Center. ISBN: 978-1-59439-582-6. Film & Television Productions. Instructor David-Dorian Ross combines tai This latest addition to Globe Trekker’s well-produced The Story chi movements with resistance training in of… series focuses on the origins, history, and contemporary usage Tai Chi Fusion: Iron. Although tai chi offers a of spices. Celebrating these flavor-adders that “flatter our senses,” comprehensive exercise program, Ross feels host Judith Jones and other Trekkers travel the globe, exploring that weight training is especially important the spice phenomenon that has its roots in Alexander the Great’s for muscle retention as people age. Here, Ross 327 A.D. Indian military campaign, which left his Macedonian encourages viewers to be mindful while alter- soldiers with newly seasoned taste buds. Commentary from nating between tai chi movements and work experts such as historian author John Key and horticulturalist with weighted wooden stix (sticks), which are Joe Archer from London’s Kew Gardens add informative background, while maps 3-to-4 pounds and contain a core of steel. As are used to outline the spice wars and trade routes involving super-producers such as in other programs, Ross emphasizes going India (responsible for 3/4ths of the world’s spice) and Mexico (which has more than slow, being attentive to breathing, and letting 300 varieties of chili peppers). Also covered are ancillary facets of spices, such as their yourself enjoy the slow flowing movements. medicinal properties (including the use of star anise in China). And, of course, there’s Rather than memorizing the forms, Ross food: several Trekkers meet up with aficionado chefs for heady concoctions including suggests that viewers should simply follow his a Lamb Rogan Josh at Chor Bizarre in New Delhi, spicy chicken at Mama’s Jerk Station moves with proper breathing. Iron features a in London, and fish and with Ireland-based Green Saffron spice company head short warm-up, two separate workouts (with Arun Kapil. Serving up a mouthwatering primer on a precious commodity, this is highly moves including “the single whip,” “playing recommended. Aud: C, P. (J. Williams-Wood) the peapod,” “chasing the snake,” “taming

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 56 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 hard forward-looking work of oyster farming. Show Me Science: Advanced—Technology series, another walked away from professional surf- Recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) traces history related to coding, including its ing to raise his family on an organic potato weaving industry origins in the 1800s with farm—but these individuals tend to be most Joseph Jacquard’s loom cards, the 1890 U.S. interesting when they are standing on a BEAUTY & FASHION census, IBM, the rise of bit sequentials, byte surfboard. Surfing icon Shane Dorian turns strings, the 1960 first ASCII code, and other up briefly, but is never directly interviewed. programming and compiling languages up A fantastic-looking if also somewhat mean- Badass Beauty Queen: The Story of to the present. Exploring the building blocks dering surfing documentary, this is a strong Anastasia Lin HH1/2 of system, architectural, and application optional purchase. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) (2018) 65 min. DVD: $99: public libraries; programming languages, the film features $295 w/PPR: colleges & universities. Seventh Art encouraging remarks from moguls Steve Releasing. Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, and THE ARTS As the title of Theresa Kowall-Shipp’s touches on further topics such as “white hat” documentary profile makes clear, Anastasia and “black hat” hackers, non-profit “Hour of Lin, Miss World Canada 2015, is no ordi- Code” learning opportunities, the high-pay Fire & Ashes: The Making of the Ballet nary beauty queen. Lin’s father, who lives technological future, and unique job choices RAkU HHH1/2 in China, is a staunch Communist, and she available in the field. Recommended. Aud: J, H, C, P. (J. Williams-Wood) (2017) 64 min. DVD: $149 ($349 w/PPR). DRA. remembers singing pro-Communist songs Juno Films. Closed captioned. in school, which she now sees as a form of Yuri Possokhov’s 2011 ballet RAkU takes brainwashing. After her parents divorced, its title from a style of Japanese pottery Lin and her mother moved to Toronto where SPORTS, GAMES & RECREATION she got involved with Falun Gong, a group characterized by a firing technique in which banned by China, and sought out acting roles items are removed from the kiln red-hot (and in films about Chinese persecution. Inspired Between Land and Sea HH1/2 sometimes placed in a container of combusti- by Iranian-Canadian activist Nazanin Af- (2018) 94 min. DVD: $24.95. Film Movement ble material to cool). But its plot was inspired shin-Jam, who was Miss World Canada 2003, (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. by a 1950 incident in which a novice monk Lin became a pageant contestant to speak out Ross Whitaker’s documentary on a year burned down Kyoto’s famed Zen Buddhist about religious freedom. At first, the Chinese in the Irish surfing mecca of Lahinch should Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Gary Wang’s government celebrates her win, but when be required viewing for anyone interested in libretto pushes the action back to the feudal they find out about her politics, they make studying cinematography. The camerawork period and turns the story into a tragic ro- her father’s life miserable. After the 2015 by Whitaker, Kev L. Smith, and Brian Moore mance that opens with a princess and her Miss World pageant moves from Australia to is simply stunning, with striking views of husband dancing a pas de deux before he goes China, she looks forward to speaking out, but majestic yet also tumultuous coastline and off to battle accompanied by four warriors. then she is barred from entering the country. breathtaking presentations of amazing surfers While he is away, the princess is violated by She spends the rest of the year giving speeches riding extraordinary waves. Unfortunate- a monk, who then sets the temple ablaze as around the world. In 2016, Lin re-enters the ly, the glorious camerawork covering the the soldiers return with the ashes of the dead pageant to speak out about involuntary organ aquatic feats of man and nature is stuck in a prince. Shirley Sun’s 2017 film consists of harvesting. But since the London-based Miss lackadaisical narrative following the surfers two parts. The first follows preparations by World organization receives support from who descend on Lahinch and travel along Possokhov, composer Shinji Eshima, and the Chinese sponsors, Lin loses her dressmaker, the Irish coast in search of the perfect wave. chief dancers of the San Francisco Ballet— although a local designer steps in to offer his Viewers do get a glimpse into their lives away Yuan Tan (the Princess), Damian Smith (the services. When the pageant forbids her from from the beach—one is a freelance mining Prince), and Pascal Molat (the Monk)—that speaking to the press, word gets out, and a engineer married to a designer soap maker, include discussions and rehearsal footage. compromise is struck. But by then, the fix is in, and she doesn’t fare as well as the year before. Unfortunately, by focusing so intently Alone on the Island of the Blue Dolphins HHH on Lin, the abuses at the heart of her protest (2018) 53 min. DVD: $19.95. First Run Features (avail. from most receive short shrift in Kowall-Shipp’s film, distributors). SDH captioned. although China’s distrust of Western media Every November hundreds of thousands of 4th-graders may have complicated her efforts in that read Scott O’Dell’s Newbery Medal winning 1960 children’s regard. A strong optional purchase. Aud: C, novel Island of the Blue Dolphins. Filmmaker Paul Goldsmith’s P. (K. Fennessy) documentary focuses on the real-life figure behind the book: the “Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island”—later Anglicized to “Juana Maria”—who was thought to be left behind on a remote COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY California island and lived alone for nearly 20 years after she (according to various suppositions) missed the boat when her tribe was shipped to the mainland. Different romanticized stories of the “female Rob- Computer Science: The Importance of inson Crusoe” are touched on here, including an archaeological examination of her Coding HHH homemade tools (such as a water jug and hairpin). Several experts chime in, as well (2018) 18 min. DVD: $44.95. DRA. TMW Media as author Sara L. Schwebel (who edited a critical edition of O’Dell’s book and says he Group. PPR. Closed captioned. probably “stretched the truth”) and Chumash elder Ernestine De Soto, who suggests The invention of the smartphone and its that Juana Maria would likely have fared better living with a native family instead of effects on travel, manufacturing, entertain- “discoverer” and expedition leader George Nidever (Juana Maria only lived for seven ment, and finance are touted in this primer weeks after being taken from the island). Extras include additional related short films. on coding and the demand for programmers A thought-provoking look behind a classic children’s novel, this is recommended. Aud: in the contemporary job market. Computer Sci- H, C, P. (J. Williams-Wood) ence: The Importance of Coding, an entry in the

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 57 VIDEO LIBRARIAN The second presents the full ballet, which received a mixed critical reception when it Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami HHH premiered, but has since been performed (2018) 120 min. In English & French w/English subtitles. DVD: $29.95, by a number of companies. With its fine Blu-ray: $34.95 ($349 w/PPR from www.kinolorberedu.com). DRA. Kino combination of background information and Lorber (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. elegant finished production, Sun’s film makes Filmmaker Sophie Fiennes spent a decade working on this a strong case for RAkU. Highly recommended. observational profile of the indomitable singer Grace Jones. Al- Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) though this isn’t a conventional concert film, Fiennes builds the documentary around full-length stage performances of songs, Full Circle: The Birth, Death & Rebirth of eschewing archival film and video clips in favor of present-day Circle of Dust HHH material. Jones, who recently turned 70, is as imposing as ever. (2018) 2 discs. 213 min. DVD: $22.95. Music Onstage, the actress-musician- wears high heels, velvet Video Distributors (avail. from most distributors). corsets, sequin jackets, and glittery lace and feathered hats by Philip Treacy. When Full Circle looks at the career of New she isn’t performing, Jones spends time in the studio, plays dates in Europe, and visits York industrial metal band Circle of Dust family members in Jamaica. While working on her last album, 2008’s Hurricane, she through the eyes of leader . Musi- grows exasperated when Sly and Robbie, the production duo who helped shape her cian Bret Autrey describes their story as “ev- classic ‘80s Island albums, pull a disappearing act. She also argues with the producers erything that possibly can go wrong does go of a French TV program who insist on surrounding her with scantily clad dancers. Jones wrong.” Initially, Klay seems happy to have has a much less stressful relationship with her band member son, Paulo, who becomes moved on (“I was over Circle of Dust”) as he a father during filming. Throughout, her accent changes depending on the locale, shows the camera crew around his Michigan from British to Jamaican to French (her ex-husband, photographer Jean-Paul Goude, is home, which includes t-shirts, flyers, and French). Fiennes captures Jones in candid moments (many revolving around the artful other mementos that he didn’t set on fire. application of makeup) but offers little in the way of facts and figures about her career. Klay, who credits his love of music to his Still, the filmmaker’s unfettered access allows for an intimate profile of the day-to-day grandfather, started out by playing drums in life of an icon. Extras include two audio commentaries featuring Jones, Fiennes, and the fashion of favorites such as others, and a Q&A with Jones. Recommended. Aud: P. (K. Fennessy) Metallica and Anthrax. From drums, he seg- ued to guitars and sequencing. After R.E.X. friend Geoff Notkin recalls the pair making burst of creativity in Russian art that was Records signed Klay, they released his 1992 comics, a practice their teachers treated soon suppressed by the doctrine of socialist debut, at which point he brought in other with disdain. In his younger days, Gaiman realism dictated by Joseph Stalin. The me- players, including drummer Jason Tilton, also played in a punk band, which may teoric rise and sudden fall of this artistic for touring purposes. When R.E.X. got a dis- have factored into his relationship with experimentation that was unleashed by the tribution deal with Relativity, Circle of Dust cabaret-punk musician Amanda Palmer, an was able to reach more listeners, but then dream of remaking the world is the subject occasional collaborator. Once Gaiman de- the label filed for bankruptcy. Klay would of Margy Kinmonth’s documentary, which cided that he wanted to write professionally, continue to experience similar setbacks over also celebrates works that have survived and nothing was going to stop him, and Meaney the years, leading him to pull the plug in reveals the fate of their creators through looks at signature works such as Violent Cases 1998. But then he bought back his material interviews, especially with descendants. and From comics, Gaiman segued in 2015, and got a second chance to remix, Sandman. Kinmonth establishes the historical context remaster, and re-release the Circle of Dust to novels with the Terry Pratchett collabo- through archival materials, beginning with catalog on his own terms, which led to new ration Good Omens (Pratchett, who appears Viktor Bulla’s photograph of Provisional music in 2016. Although some interviews here, passed away in 2015). About the U.S., Government troops firing on demonstrators were shot in person, others were conducted the author of the bestsellers American Gods, in July before turning to Lenin’s October via Skype, which isn’t aesthetically ideal but The Graveyard Book, and Coraline muses, “I coup and the new regime’s employment of seems in keeping with the band’s scrappy thought I understood America, and then art as a means of communicating with a career. Extras include featurettes, bootleg I moved out to America, and went, ‘This largely illiterate population. Innovative art- VHS concert performance footage, and place is weird’,” but the weirdness continues work, often abstract in nature, was initially music videos. As much a tribute to Klay’s to feed his creativity. Dream Dangerously encouraged, represented by the geometric tenacity as his talent, this is recommended. also features notable fans and collaborators paintings of Wassily Kandinsky and the Aud: P. (K. Fennessy) including Grant Morrison, George R.R. enigmatic “Black Square” canvases of Su- Martin, Bill Hader, and Michael Sheen, prematist Kazimir Malevich. But support HH who stars in the upcoming adaptation of for such works collapsed with Stalin, who Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously 1/2 Good Omens. By the end of the three-month (2018) 74 min. Blu-ray: $29.99. BRINK (avail. from demanded depictions of happy Soviet work- most distributors). ISBN: 0-7815-1588-2. tour, Gaiman estimates that he has signed ers. Although some artists, including Marc books for 150,000 people...and now he just Neil Gaiman’s 2013 signing tour serves Chagall, emigrated while they still could, wants to write. A strong optional purchase. as a framing device for Patrick Meaney’s others were ostracized, sent to the gulag, [Note: this is also available for $99.95: public lively (if also somewhat superficial) look at or executed, with many of their works de- libraries and $295: colleges and universities the author’s career. According to manager stroyed (although some were secreted away with public performance rights from The Cat Mihos, Gaiman signed so many books and are now being unearthed). Kinmonth Cinema Guild, www.cinemaguild.com.] that he would lose feeling in his hand, so he focuses on painting, and to a lesser extent Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) takes to icing it after long days, but clearly photography, architecture, and cinema, values the closer-than-usual relationship and while her narration is rather flat and with his readers. Although he’s now based Revolution: New Art for a New World her use of dramatic re-creations sometimes in the United States, the tour includes a trip HHH falters, overall this is a fine introduction to to Portsmouth, England, where he grew up. (2018) 85 min. DVD: $24.95. Film Movement an important episode in the development of Gaiman doesn’t remember a time when (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. modern art. Extras include additional foot- he didn’t want to be a writer. Childhood The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution inspired a age. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek)

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 58 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 Serenade for Haiti HHH described her as a traitor or dissident rather In this PBS-aired Frontline documentary, (2016) 70 min. In Haitian Creole & French w/ than an artist. “Truth,” Dr. Ochberg notes, “is correspondent Martin Smith reports on the English subtitles. DVD: $129: high schools & the enemy of the dictator.” The director also longstanding war between these Islamic ad- public libraries; $349: colleges & universities. DRA. looks at previous Bruguera projects, including versaries. With their sacred shrines in Mecca Good Docs (avail. from www.gooddocs.net). PPR. 2009’s Tatlin’s Whisper #6 and 2012’s Surplus and Medina, the Saudis view themselves as Director Owsley Brown’s documentary be- Value, while Ochberg helps Bruguera to see the proper guardians of Islam, while scorning gins in 2007, four years before the earthquake how much she had in common with her late Shia Islam as illegitimate. Iran’s ayatollahs that would devastate Haiti. After establishing father, a member of the secret police who despise Middle Eastern monarchies and curse the particulars of Port-au-Prince’s Sainte helped to bring Fidel Castro to power. Despite the Saudis as pro-Western American pup- Trinité Music School and introducing sev- their political differences, he was proud of pets. For almost 40 years the two sides have eral of the students and teachers, he returns his daughter’s courage. Tania Libre is book- squared off over issues including terrorist twice over the next seven years to check in. ended with readings by Tilda Swinton from funding in Lebanon and Syria, Saddam Hus- Built in 1913, the school has been providing Bruguera’s 2012 manifesto on art. “Artists,” sein’s expansionist aims, and Syria’s brutal children with a musical education since the she says, “not only have the right to dissent, crackdown on insurgents. In the early ‘80s, 1950s. Many students hail from low-income but the duty to do so.” A provocative portrait Iran fought Iraq in a war that threatened to households, like 9-year-old Marc Valens of the artist, this is recommended. Aud: C, P. spill over into nearby countries, introducing Louis Charles, whose home lacks electricity. (K. Fennessy) new terror tactics and technology. Atrocities A large number also come from one-parent were committed on both sides, with Iraq’s use households as a result of political violence. of chemical weapons, and Iran’s deployment Brown films the students singing in the choir, HISTORY & CURRENT EVENTS of boy soldiers as young as 10 as human taking drum lessons, and playing in the band. shields. When tribal war recently broke out School director Father David César, percus- in , Iran backed the ruling regime, sion department head Pierre Jean Jeoboham, Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia while the Saudis took the unusual step of and cello teacher Bernadette Stella Williams HHH bombing the country using U.S. supplied all began as students themselves. Once the (2018) 180 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). weapons, killing many women and children quake hit, the school was destroyed and six PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317- (civilian populations in conflicted countries teachers died. Altogether, approximately 0445-2. are coldly calculated as mere collateral dam- 300,000 Haitians perished and 1.5 million Since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, that age). As one official notes, “When elephants were displaced. During the rebuilding pro- country and Saudi Arabia have dueled for fight, it’s the grass that suffers.” This two-part cess, teachers continue to teach and students control, reflecting not only a centuries-old documentary combines testimony from gov- sing and play in makeshift classrooms. When schism between the Shiites (Iran) and the ernment officials on both sides with plenty Brown catches up with 13-year-old Marc, the Sunnis (Saudi Arabia), but also the waging of of graphic footage and descriptions of the boy says that he feels alive when he’s on stage. a battle over the future of Islam and of the carnage. Sadly, no solutions are offered, and As the film comes to an end, the school has Middle East—a conflict that has boiled over no end seems to be in sight. Recommended. been rebuilt, the music continues, and now- in bloody proxy wars in neighboring nations. Aud: C, P. (S. Rees) 16-year-old Marc looks forward to passing on his knowledge to the next generation. Although Brown doesn’t push the analogy The Chinese Exclusion Act HHH1/2 too hard, Sainte Trinité obviously symbolizes (2017) 160 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS Video. SDH Haiti itself, working to overcome seemingly captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0488-9. insurmountable odds while preserving its In 1882, a few years before the installation of the Statue of best qualities, including a passion for mu- Liberty, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclu- sical expression. Recommended. Aud: C, P. sion Act, which decreed that Chinese people could not become (K. Fennessy) American citizens, while also placing draconian limits on Chinese immigration to America. This was the first time a people had Tania Libre HHH been singled out for exclusion by name, and the act remained (2017) 73 min. In English & Spanish w/English in force for 60 years. Directed by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu, this subtitles. DVD: $145: high schools & public libraries; $395: colleges & universities. DRA. PBS-aired American Experience documentary describes the origins PRAGDA. PPR. and effects of the law, which was the result of long-simmering resentment by labor Art and politics entwine in filmmaker organizations and immigrant groups in California, who were aided by ambitious poli- Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Tania Libre, which ticians. In addition to outright prejudice against the “heathen Chinee,” who were often draws on a controversial performance piece depicted as subhuman and incapable of being assimilated, people feared that an influx to open a window into an artist’s career. In of Chinese would depress wages. The Chinese originally came seeking opportunities 2014, Tania Bruguera set out to restage a in California’s gold fields and later worked as builders of the transcontinental railroad. 2009 work in which she gave participants an Immigrants were initially protected by the terms of an 1849 treaty that was passed as uncensored platform to discuss freedom in a way of securing favorable terms for America’s trade with China. Gradually, however, Cuba. Two hours before the performance, she depictions of Chinese as servile coolies led to restrictions and petty exclusions and was arrested, faced criminal charges, and had later to killings (including lynchings), home burnings, and ever more strict limits on her passport revoked. During her detention, Chinese protection under the law (even banding together in Chinatowns couldn’t activists around the world staged protests on guarantee safety). Denied access to voting booths, Chinese immigrants sought relief her behalf. The filmmaker catches up with from the courts, with only limited success. Only with the coming of WWII, shifting Bruguera upon her release as she travels to alliances, and changing attitudes, was the prejudicial law finally repealed. The film New York to meet with Dr. Frank Ochberg, features insights from historians and contemporary Chinese-Americans, as well as a psychiatrist specializing in PTSD. Much of readings from vintage diaries and Chinese letters to newspapers. Extras include addi- the film consists of a conversation between tional scenes. A timely documentary as the immigration debate continues to rage, this the two. In order to build a case against her, is highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (S. Rees) Bruguera tells Ochberg, the government

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 59 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Blackout in Puerto Rico HHH spaces, and a means of establishing legitima- traffic at one time. Still, it is astonishing to (2018) 60 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS cy for leaders. And cities have become our imagine that an army traveling with horses Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0512-1. “collective brain” and “engine of invention,” and elephants could have maneuvered along With 155 mph winds and 20 inches of rain, satisfying the human need to be sociable and treacherously narrow paths while fighting off 2017’s Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto learn from each other. Drawing on exam- the cold, loss of supplies, and attacks from Rico, cutting off power and leaving the island ples from ancient Iraq and modern Tokyo, local tribes who were not happy to see this like a “war zone,” with little water, food, or the documentary shows that cities create North African military caravan marching medical supplies. Puerto Rico’s rescue efforts specialization and fosters the rise of ruling through their land. Serving up a fascinating were hampered by logistical challenges (its elites, who have the challenge of providing mix of ancient history, modern geology, and island location and distance from the U.S. for the common good. Finally, trade requires travelogue-worthy cinematography, this is mainland) and bureaucratic delays (resources trust, which results in the free flow of ideas, highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (P. Hall) were stretched thin after earlier hurricanes shared prosperity, and peace. No civilization in Florida and Texas), but perhaps most of lasts forever, as is demonstrated here with The Jazz Ambassadors HHH all by the fact that Puerto Rico was poorly the decline of the Indus Valley, which was (2018) 90 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS prepared, with an aging infrastructure and doomed by disease, climate change, and the Video. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0500-8. a debt-laden economy. Almost a year after loss of social cohesion. Offering a clear expla- During the Cold War, jazz musicians repre- Maria, correspondent Laura Sullivan returns nation of why and how civilizations rise, fall, sented more than a musical style when they to the island in this PBS-aired Frontline doc- or undergo significant upheaval and change, played outside of the United States. Through umentary directed by Rick Young. The island this is recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (S. Rees) photographs, performance footage, and in- has long been known as the “poorhouse of terviews with authors and historians, Hugo the Caribbean,” with power plants suffering Hannibal in the Alps HHH1/2 Berkeley’s PBS-aired documentary examines from a lack of maintenance, and an economy (2018) 60 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS a State Department initiative in which jazz crippled by debt, borrowing, government Video. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0497-1. musicians doubled as diplomats. Combined bailouts, and Wall Street financing that some Filmmaker Giulia Clark’s documenta- with its history of segregation, America in have compared to a Ponzi scheme. Once ry—part of the PBS-aired series Secrets of the the days following the murder of 15-year-old the storm hit, there was a slow, inadequate Dead—attempts to resolve an issue that has Emmett Till attracted international criticism. response, and even essential items like roof bedeviled historians for centuries: namely, New York Congressman Adam Clayton Pow- tarps to keep the rain out were in short supply. what route did Hannibal take in 218 B.C. ell Jr., husband of pianist Hazel Scott, felt that Sullivan interviews long-suffering residents, when he led his Carthaginian army of 38,000 sending mixed-race bands out into the world local government officials, and some FEMA infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 38 elephants would help present a more positive image. personnel and Wall Street figures. President across the French Alps for a surprise attack Powell recommended Dizzy Gillespie as the Trump (who quite inaccurately rated his on the Roman Empire in the Second Punic first jazz musician to continue the work Pow- administration’s response with an A-plus War? There were no surviving records of the ell began at 1955’s Afro-Asian Conference. grade) and other top officials are conspicu- account from campaign participants, and the Although Gillespie’s politics leaned to the ously absent. Perhaps the biggest problem earliest write-up—by the historian Polybius left, his popularity assuaged any govern- here is Puerto Rico being viewed as part of years after the spectacular mountain march— mental concerns. Drummer Charlie Persip America’s imperialist past, and therefore not failed to include specific geographical details and arranger Quincy Jones remember their truly American, which is wrong on a number on how Hannibal pulled off this military feat. seven-country tour through the Middle East of levels. A timely documentary that offers a This film argues that Hannibal could have with fondness, with the exception of a few sobering warning of what can happen in our taken one of four potential routes, with the close calls with snake charmers in Pakistan era of climate change, this is recommended. most evidence pointing to what might have and student protests in Greece. Louis Arm- Aud: H, C, P. (S. Rees) actually been the most dangerous option, strong, the next ambassador, visited the Gold across icy and rocky terrain. Although no fos- Coast (the future Ghana) where he performed First Civilizations HHH sils or artifacts from the Carthaginians’ cam- in front of 1,000 people. Although he lost out (2018) 2 discs. 220 min. DVD: $29.99 ($59.99 paign has been found, sampling of bacterial on a trip to the U.S.S.R. over his criticism of w/PPR). PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1- soil points to signs that this route might have President Eisenhower’s handling of school 5317-0501-5. seen an abnormally large amount of equine desegregation in Little Rock, he later visited Can war help advance civilization? Surpris- ingly, this four-part PBS documentary series says “yes.” First Civilizations surveys the roles One October HHH1/2 of war, religion, the growth of cities, and (2017) 56 min. DVD: $59.95 ($299 w/PPR from edu.passionriver.com). expansion of trade in driving human destiny. Passion River (avail. from most distributors). For most of humankind’s time on Earth, no Some people ask others a lot of questions out of genuine interest armies, churches, or non-nomadic commu- in the lives and narratives of fellow humans. One such curious nities existed. After early hunter-gatherers listener is Clay Pigeon, an Iowan transplanted to , discovered that they could produce food by where he works as a radio personality with a calming voice, per- farming, they also quickly learned that being forming free-form monologues. In this documentary, Pigeon and tied to one place meant that villages and filmmaker Rachel Shuman take to the streets of New York with cropland had to be defended. Before long, a microphone. Pigeon converses with passersby, asking probing, a class of haves and have-nots sprang up as personal questions with an easygoing sincerity that causes people powerful individuals took the greater share to become increasingly frank. Shuman also roams beyond Manhattan, capturing the in return for promises of protection. Using diversity and mixed cultures of all the boroughs. What’s most interesting here is the early civilizations in Egypt and Mexico as timeframe: One October was shot a month before the 2008 election of Barack Obama, examples, the series illustrates how “destruc- a time when hope was in the air. What emerges are sometimes electrifying moments tive creation” has played a role in developing from a pivotal time in America when the country was not so obviously divided. Highly weapons and technology. Religion created a recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) shared narrative, rituals, ceremonies, sacred

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14 African nations. Other jazz ambassadors included Dave Brubeck, Benny Goodman, A Star-Spangled Story: Battle for America HHH1/2 and Duke Ellington. After the assassination (2014) 51 min. DVD: $19.99. Smithsonian Channel (avail. from most of President Kennedy in 1963, the program distributors). SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0483-4. largely came to an end. The Jazz Ambassadors Before the War of 1812, the Stars and Stripes flag was more takes an interesting look at a little-known, of a military emblem than a national symbol, but that changed decades-old program that arose to alleviate in 1814 when British warships bombarded Fort McHenry in problems with the U.S. image—ones that Baltimore Harbor. Filmmaker Molly Hermann’s Smithsonian are still ongoing. Recommended. Aud: C, P. Channel-aired documentary recounts the almost chance series (K. Fennessy) of events that changed American history and helped unite the young nation. This now obscure conflict came to a head after Navajo Code Talkers of World War II Britain’s war with France, aggravated by England’s seizing of HHH American sailors at sea, Britain’s designs on Canada, attempts to block America’s (2018) 68 min. DVD: $19.99. DRA. Vision Video westward expansion, and (likely) a desire to settle old scores from the American Revolu- (avail. from most distributors). tionary War. The best remembered event was when British troops invaded Washington The handful of Navajo war veterans who D.C., torched the Library of Congress and other federal buildings, and then sacked participated in filmmaker George Colburn’s and tried to burn the White House. America was not prepared for the invasion, and documentary were not especially keen to when England set its sights on Baltimore, a young lawyer named Francis Scott Key— do so, as it meant returning to the islands who was on board a British warship attempting to secure the release of an American of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Saipan, and Guam, prisoner—became an eyewitness to a fierce nighttime shell bombardment of Fort which were conquered by the U.S. and its McHenry. The next morning the tattered flag still flew over the fort and, in a burst of allies during World War II at the cost of many patriotism and inspiration, Key composed the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry” (aka lives and much bloodshed. Still, the Native “The Star-Spangled Banner”). Surprisingly, that flag (missing some pieces) survives in American vets were lured back with the aim a light-and-temperature controlled environment at the Smithsonian’s National Muse- of helping their young family members and um of American History. The documentary describes the 1812 war, and how the flag military personnel understand what hap- was designed and later preserved, while singer Renee Fleming explains her feelings pened in those battles, and how Navajo code performing this notoriously difficult song. Most importantly, the film surveys the talk was so crucial to the overall war effort. flag’s role in boosting the nation’s morale, as in the cases of the Iwo Jima flag-raising The story of the code is itself fascinating, and the view of the American flag as it was hoisted over the ruins of the World Trade especially given that these men, along with Center after 9/11. Highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (S. Rees) many other indigenous Native Americans, were forced to give up their native language are scattered on the festival grounds, such Thompson murdered the white patriarch of in school and speak English only. So it was as on the scene of a battle. People look for an estate called Edenhurst. The victim, Henry more than ironic that the U.S. government cover and take chances trying to run to cover, Baxley Sr., was beaten to death, and his wife, asked them to enlist in the military and use while police and concert security attempt to Mamie Baxley, was dragged away to a nearby their unwritten Navajo language to create an shepherd people to safety. Minn interviews a forest, raped, and left for dead (but survived). indecipherable code that the enemy could number of survivors about what they thought The reasons for Thompson’s viciousness re- never break. The small group of vets spend and felt and did in that situation, and some main unclear to this day, although there has a fair amount of time talking about their remarkable stories emerge. Less positive are always been speculation that Thompson, a subsequent lives and the ghosts that continue the film’s final chapters, which delve into World War I veteran, was angered by Mamie to haunt them from their war years, and the what appears to be a failure by Las Vegas scolding him over his treatment of his own family members accompanying them on this police to respond more quickly to an active wife, who cooked for the Baxleys. A massive trip are grateful for the opportunity to hear shooter despite knowing from hotel security manhunt followed the violence, and two these stories that are so hard to tell. Recom- the precise location of the killer’s room. And months later Thompson was found lynched mended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) there is much to suggest that MGM—owner and decomposing. In a rush to provide a of the Mandalay and the festival grounds— legal cover-up, the county coroner declared One October: A Nightmare in Las Vegas quickly went into bunker mode, obscuring Thompson’s death a suicide, although an HHH and repressing information that could bring abundance of gruesome evidence suggested (2018) 95 min. DVD: $24.99 ($199.99 w/PPR). legal exposure. Given MGM’s recent, despi- otherwise. The fascinating part of this film Dreamscape Media. Closed captioned. cable legal maneuvers to sue victims of the lies in the story’s telling, which is largely The massacre of 58 people and shooting shootings as a preemptive strike against any related through passed-along lore from de- injuries of hundreds more at an outdoor lawsuit, it’s not surprising to learn of the scendants of the Baxleys and Thompsons, music festival in Las Vegas on October 1, company’s misdeeds. A powerful recounting as well as from amateur historians who have 2017, is the grim subject of this documenta- of a terrible, tragic event in recent history, this assiduously chased down the facts for years. ry by former reporter Charlie Minn. Taking is recommended. Aud: P. (T. Keogh) A fascinating documentary about heinous a painstakingly thorough approach, Minn crimes whose legacy still appear to hang reconstructs the shocking events that left The Other Side of Eden: Stories of a over this Virginia community, this is highly thousands fearing for their lives and also Virginia Lynching HHH1/2 recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) spurred acts of heroism, compassion, and (2018) 57 min. DVD: $29.95: individuals; $49.95: self-sacrifice. Drawing on an abundance of public libraries: $249: colleges & universities. The Other Side of Everything HHH1/2 video footage shot on smartphones by festi- Davenport Films. PPR. ISBN: 978-1-88852-239-6. (2017) 104 min. In Serbian w/English subtitles. valgoers and others, One October shows how Directed by Tom Davenport, along with DVD: $398. Icarus Films. PPR. the standing audience initially reacted to the Shawn Nicholls and Dylan Nicholls, this A century of Serbian history is sketched pop-pop-pop of the murderer’s weapons, as unsettling documentary reconstructs ter- from a highly personal perspective in Mila he fired away from a 32nd-floor room at the rible events that occurred in and around Turajlic’s absorbing documentary, which nearby Mandalay Bay resort. Gradually, the Markham, VA, in 1932, when a 39-year-old focuses on her mother Srbijanka and the Bel- images become more horrifying as bodies African-American man named Shedrick grade apartment their family has resided in

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 62 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 since it was purchased by Mila’s great-grandfa- shop while a street vendor custom-designs a ther in the early 1900s. In 1947, the apartment TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY ready-made shirt. To sample Rwanda’s artistic was divided up by Marshal Josip Broz Tito’s heritage, the pair visit an exhibit of native art Communist regime into separate units, and at a modern Rwanda public library. Rwanda: in 2017 a locked door still divided Srbijan- Rwanda: The Royal Tour HHH1/2 The Royal Tour consistently offers unusual ka’s rooms from another where an elderly (2018) 55 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS sights, including rare longhorn cows grazing Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0485-8. woman named Nada lived (Nada is briefl y at Kagame’s country estate (where Greenberg interviewed for a census, describing herself In 1994, the world was shocked by Rwan- joins the president in a game of tennis). A as a “true proletariat”; her death occasions da’s genocidal tribal wars, which resulted fascinating look at a once deeply-torn African prying the door open at last). The fi lm uses in the loss of almost a million lives, while country, this is highly recommended. Aud: feisty Srbijanka’s career to sketch Serbia’s re- also decimating the country’s economy and H, C, P. (S. Rees) cent history. As a professor at the University natural resources. Almost 25 years later, of Belgrade, Srbijanka became an outspoken travel expert Peter Greenberg joins Rwanda’s member of the opposition to Slobodan Mi- President Paul Kagame in fi lmmaker John BIOGRAPHY loševic, the country’s notorious president Feist’s PBS-aired travelogue fi lmed in Africa’s during the 1990s. After he was forced from “land of 1,000 hills,” now transformed into power in 2000, she served as Deputy Minister a modern and prosperous land of adventure Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story of Higher Education in the new government tourism. After Kagame describes the war, his HHH formed by the Democratic Party of Serbia. role as a guerilla leader, efforts to reconstruct (2018) 103 min. DVD: $24.95 ($350 w/PPR from Today she sees the nation sliding once more the country, and his hopes for the future, the edu.passionriver.com). Passion River (avail. from most distributors). into nationalistic authoritarianism, and while two men explore the country’s numerous at- she is celebrated in some circles for her past tractions, including encounters with the rare Fashion documentaries existed before activism in pursuit of democracy, she now and endangered mountain gorillas, jet-skiing 1995’s Unzipped, Douglas Keeve’s fizzy urges the younger generation to take up the on Lake Kivu, and motorbiking to visit tea profile of fashion designer Isaac Mizra- torch even as her own thoughts about the plantations, waterfalls, and safari territories. hi, but that was the point at which they future turn increasingly pessimistic (when Wildlife also suffered badly in the recent exploded in popularity. The difference receiving an award, she wryly observes that war, but the country now emphasizes the with Larger Than Life, a portrait of Kevyn she is being honored for her failures). At once economic values of tourism over poaching, Aucoin (1962-2002), is that documentaries an intimate portrait of an admirable woman including observing wildlife from a long sus- about makeup designers are much rarer. and a broader look at a troubled land, this is pension bridge or ziplining high over jungle By the age of 11, Aucoin set out to build highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) canopies. At a colorful urban market, one can his life around women. While growing up

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 63 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Ted Williams HHH1/2 Series Update (2018) 60 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0605-0. The following titles are new additions Ted Williams, nicknamed “The Splendid Splinter,” was a to series previously recommended. Titles larger than life figure, quick to anger and one to hold grudges, are available from most distributors un- conducting lengthy feuds with reporters, yet also a man with a less otherwise noted. perfect swing who made an art and science of hitting. Filmmaker Rick Davis’s PBS-aired American Masters documentary, narrated Produced by the by Jon Hamm, reveals a man dogged by doubts, raised in poverty Smithsonian Channel by indifferent parents, and conflicted over his Mexican-Amer- and available from PBS, ican background. Baseball was where he pursued perfection, the latest addition to particularly long ball hitting, which he emphasized almost to the exclusion of other The Real Story series is aspects of the game. Coming to the majors in 1939, within a couple seasons Williams The Real Story: The Da would achieve a mighty season batting average of over .400, a record that still stands Vinci Code (45 min., almost eight decades later (and may never be broken). His records would be even more DVD: $14.99), which impressive had he not served as a Marine pilot in WWII and Korea. Although he some- features comments by code breakers, what resented his absence from the playing field, Williams served with distinction, Renaissance experts, and religious pro- and made a seamless return to baseball both times. He could be harsh and profane fessors who examine controversial ele- with fans, wives, and family, but his softer side came out when he was fly fishing or ments in Dan Brown’s 2003 thriller The helping children’s charities. Baseball experts like Bob Costas along with Williams’s Da Vinci Code and the 2006 feature film. daughter recall the man, and Williams appears in vintage film clips, offering mostly See review of The Real Story: Saving Private mellow reflections. A surreal postscript is the possible life after life tale of the cryonic Ryan in VL-3/18. freezing of Williams’s body. Extras include additional scenes. A fascinating portrait of an unforgettable character, this is highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (S. Rees) Also available from PBS Distribution is Art in the Twenty-First Century: in Louisiana, he collected Barbra Streisand awkward advances toward women. More Season Nine (165 min., DVD: $24.99), ephemera and drew pictures of actresses and crew members (including the 2018 latest season of the PBS-aired and other stylish icons. His adoptive father, , in Weinstein’s A-list Peabody Award-winning art education a baseball coach, wasn’t happy about it, nor ) have been rumored series, featuring artists from Johannes- were his teachers and classmates. Everyone to be victims of grotesque and unwanted burg, Berlin, and the San Francisco Bay assumed he was gay, which in fact he was. seductions (the producer materializing in Area. See review of Art: 21—Art in the After moving to New York in the 1980s, a bathrobe and demanding a “massage” Twenty-First Century, Seasons One & Two Aucoin worked on porn shoots and used being a serial modus operandi). in VL Online-3/04. his connections to segue to high fashion. star Sean Young claims that a resentful Paulina Porizkova and other top models Weinstein helped torpedo her career. The Recently released by Paramount praise his transformative talents, while col- documentary charges that Hollywood’s Home Media Distribution is SpongeBob laborators cite his control freak tendencies. power structure and corrupt values drew SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-kini Makeup artist Tiffany Bartok’s directorial a curtain of silence around Weinstein’s Bottom (23 min., DVD: $14.99), an all- debut takes direct aim at readers of Vogue alleged depredations (Weinstein’s role as a new stop-motion animated Halloween (although it also includes recording artists major Democratic Party fundraiser is only special based on the long-running Nick- such as Cher and Tori Amos). Bartok revels briefly acknowledged), with the full scope elodeon animated series. See review of in the glamour, the dish, and recognition of the scandal being cinema’s worst-kept It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! in VL-11/13. for an art so omnipresent that it’s easy to secret until a New Yorker investigation by take for granted. Aucoin wielded paints Ronan Farrow was published in 2017. Left Dreamscape has just released Click, and powders in an era not yet overtaken out of this inquest is any larger picture of Clack, Quack to School (10 min., DVD: by Botox and other marvels of our quick- the “Me Too” movement that came in the $38.99), an adaptation of the 2018 chil- fix age, making this film both an elegy for wake of the Weinstein scandal. Current dren’s picture book by Doreen Cronin a man and a world that no longer exists. only to early 2018, this too-staid treatment and Betsy Lewin that follows barnyard Recommended. Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) of a tawdry subject, this is an optional pur- creatures on a visit to a school—unbe- chase. Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady) knownst to their owner Farmer Brown. Weinstein HH See review of Click, Clack, Moo Cows That (2018) 60 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS Type in VL-3/02. Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0608-1. Filmmakers Jane McMullen and Leo Also newly available Telling’s drily proper PBS-aired Frontline from Dreamscape is Visit Video Librarian Online (www. How to Catch a Turkey documentary feels unintentionally hu- videolibrarian.com) for more reviews morous in its summary of lurid sexual (9 min., DVD: $38.99), a during November and December, holiday-themed icono- harassment charges brought against Hol- including: The Coolest Guy Movie Ever, lywood mega-producer Harvey Weinstein graphic-animated ad- Going to War, Hollywood Beauty Salon, aptation of the 2018 (perhaps one should render unto TMZ what King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Sto- belongs on TMZ). Before his Oscar-strewn picture book from the ry, Myanmar’s Killing Fields, One Day How to Catch series by author Adam career flourished, Harvey Weinstein entered in Aleppo, The Red Soul, Trafficked in moviedom via the grotty 1980 slasher flick Wallace and illustrator Andy Elkerton. America, Triple Divide [Redacted], and See review of How to Catch the Tooth Fairy The Burning, shot in upstate NY, where a much more! female PA complained about Weinstein’s in VL-7/17.

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 64 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 Japanese Anime Armed Girl’s 14, this is an optional purchase. (C. Cassady) warlike religious fanatics; and flashbacks divulge horrors of a WWII/Holocaust-like Machiavellism: conflict that once raged between fascistic Complete Collection Black : Season 1, centaurs and two-legged species that they HH1/2 Part 1 HHH deemed inferior. A Centaur’s Life is a wildly (2017) 2 discs. 325 min. Blu- (2017) 4 discs. 250 min. Blu- uneven series, albeit one that belongs in the ray/DVD Combo: $54.98. ray: $69.98. Sentai Filmworks something-you-don’t-see-everyday category. (avail. from most distributors). Funimation (avail. from most distributors). Presenting all 12 episodes from 2017 in a This lurid classroom “” actioner dual-language Blu-ray/DVD Combo set, rated (derived from manga) is tongue-in-cheek, This anime series takes place in a quasi-medieval past where the TV-MA, this is a strong optional purchase. but the Tarantino-lite approach eventually (C. Cassady) starts to drag. Aichi Coexistence Academy orphaned twin teenage brothers Asta and Yuno live in the Clover Kingdom. Here, ev- was once an all-girl high school. After going Eureka Seven Hi- co-ed, the scandalized girl students learned eryone can perform magic using personalized super-sword-fighting in order to defend spell books known as Grimoires. Yuno is the Evolution 1 HH themselves (there is also a giant trained bear more introverted of the pair and possesses a (2017) 93 min. Blu-ray/DVD Grimoire with a rare four-leaf clover cover, Combo: $34.98. Funimation on patrol). Now, the boys who are admitted (avail. from most distributors). are actually troublemakers being punished. while Asta is the more aggressive and phys- The classic 50-episode Flirtatious and cocky new transfer Fudou ically powerful (but less magically talented) anime series Eureka Nomura possesses legendary martial-arts brother. The siblings each want to become the Seven has been reconfigured into a feature skills himself, pushing the boundaries of Wizard King and they engage in a friendly film trilogy. Viewers with no previous acceptable behavior while painfully winning competitive process termed the Magic Knight knowledge of the series may find much of the respect and friendship of his new she-de- exam, but their lowly social status earns scorn the action confusing, while even die-hard mon peers. Confusing secret identities, con- from the more affluent candidates. Yuno’s fans might be a little surprised. This opening spiracies, and big doses of fan-service cleav- abilities, in particular, arouse jealousy from 2017 film begins with a half-hour sequence age dominate the narrative, while a naked the nobles in his classes, who cannot fathom that wasn’t in the original series: military swordfight (complete nudity is blocked from how a commoner can be so talented. They researcher Adroc Thurston and his two view, like an Austin Powers gag) takes up an also encounter Noelle Silva—a daughter in mecha pilots are involved in an experiment entire episode. Longstanding anime fans will a wealthy clan—who is eager to further her that spins dangerously out of control, forcing get a kick out of the kooky mock-seriousness magic studies. The series feels like a mix of Adroc to sacrifice his life in order to save the and S&M-tinged bloody violence, but Prison Harry Potter adventures with a slight touch world. This incident becomes known as the School (VL-3/17) did this sort of raunch-com of Tolkien and doses of sometimes heavy “Summer of Love,” laying the foundation for better. Presenting all 12 episodes from 2017 in social commentary, although the characters the series’ focus on Renton, the teenage son a dual-language Blu-ray edition, rated TV-14, are appealing. Presenting the first 12 episodes of Adroc, who leaves his adoptive parents’ this is a strong optional purchase. (C. Cassady) from the 2017 debut season in a dual-lan- guage Blu-ray/DVD Combo set, rated TV-14, home to have his own adventures involving the female alien known as Eureka. The film Battle Girl High School: extras include select episode commentaries, a cast and crew roundtable discussion, behind- slices and dices material from the series into Complete Collection the-scenes featurettes, and “Clover Clips” its storyline, shuffling some aspects of the HH animated shorts. Recommended. [Note: Black tale into a confusing new order while keep- (2017) 2 discs. 300 min. In Clover: Season 1, Part 2 is slated for release on ing the original 4:3 aspect ratio from the TV Japanese w/English subtitles. Nov. 6.] (P. Hall) broadcast for the Renton-Eureka storyline— Blu-ray: $59.98. Sentai which is visually jarring after the stylish Filmworks (avail. from most cinematic opening segment. Presented in a distributors). A Centaur’s Life HH1/2 (2017) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu- dual-language Blu-ray/DVD Combo edition, In what feels like a cut-and-paste job from rated TV-14, extras include an interview with various lookalike superpowered-schoolgirl ray/DVD Combo: $64.98. Funimation (avail. from most the filmmakers and music videos. Completist Japanimation franchises, viewers may wait distributors). fans may appreciate this, but it is otherwise for some kind of hint that this is a parody of not a necessary purchase. (P. Hall) genre clichés, but it never comes. Based on This peculiar anime takes a video game, the premise of this future-set place in an alternative world series is that mysterious biomechanoid where many different spe- Frame Arms Girl: The “Irousu” monsters have conquered Earth, cies co-exist as human-animal hybrids, Complete Collection only to be tentatively beaten back by the including cat-people, goat-people, bird-folk HH Hoshimori, a sisterhood of adolescent female (resembling angels, complete with halos) and (2016) 2 discs. 300 min. In warriors. At a special high school for the dragon-people (more or less winged demons). Japanese w/English subtitles. adolescent Hoshimori, young ladies learn Dealing with each other in a multicultural Blu-ray: $59.98. Sentai teamwork, monster-fighting transformations, school setting is a challenge for girl centaur Filmworks (avail. from most distributors). culture-festival activities, and even pitch in Himeno, who is a novelty even to her class- to help a few Hoshimori who moonlight after mates (Himeno and some girlfriends inspect Movies and TV series made to promote class as “idol” singing stars between monster each other’s privates, non-explicitly). The toys are ubiquitous in Japan as well as the battles. A little bit of interest is generated in largely plotless and lighthearted tone turns United States. The Frame Arms Girl model the closing episodes, which reveal a new, dark, bizarre, and positively Lovecraftian in kits are an offshoot of the Frame Arms mecha more human-like nemesis, but there is very latter episodes: the mermaid-people (females robot figurines sold by Japan’s Kotobukiya little here that hasn’t been seen already (in- being abundantly bare-breasted for the company—robot girl action figures that cluding occasional visits to the beach or hot sake of fan service) find their sea god Tagon can be equipped with armor and weapons springs for fan-service cleavage). Presenting impersonated in a strategy by a mysterious conveying their special powers in battle. all 12 episodes from 2017 in a Blu-ray edition, race of Antarctic snake people; a jungle tribe The toy line was turned into a manga series in Japanese with English subtitles, rated TV- of frogmen are revealed to be insular and by Tsuneo Tsuneishi in 2016, which then

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 65 VIDEO LIBRARIAN served as the basis for this anime adaptation, too clumsy to try riding herself. Aoi encour- rated (but clearly for adult audiences), extras in which a young girl named Ao Gennai is ages Ami to buy a cute folding bike, which include select scene commentary from Yu- unexpectedly sent a prototype of a new fig- changes both of their lives. Long Riders! could asa, a feature-length animatic storyboard, urine called Gourai that she is tasked with be accurately titled “How I Stopped Worrying and production artwork galleries. A strong helping to develop her fighting technique and and Learned to Love the Bike.” With no real optional purchase. (F. Swietek) to understand humans. Other Frame Arms plot, the story follows Ami over the course of Girls show up to challenge Gourai and share a year as she gains proficiency and confidence Vatican Miracle their experiences, while Ao inevitably learns in bicycling. Along the way she and Aoi join Examiner: Complete important life lessons from her interaction three other female cyclists, who are eager to HH1/2 with the gals. The animation is pastel bright help Ami and welcome her to the cycling life. Collection While they inevitably form a team, this isn’t (2017) 2 discs. 325 min. In but oddly ineffectual, especially since the Japanese w/English subtitles. battle sequences are for the most part indif- a typical sports anime with an eye toward Blu-ray: $59.98. Sentai ferently presented. Overall, this is a peculiar competition and the big win. The girls do Filmworks (avail. from most but not very satisfying series, although it hope to race in Paris someday, but right now distributors). fulfills its basic function as a merchandising they are happy to simply bike together. With Based on Rin Fujiki’s series and gambit. Presenting all 12 episodes from 2017 no real drama, high stakes, or personality the manga adaptation by Eiji Kaneda, this in a Blu-ray edition, in Japanese with English clashes, Long Riders! relies on building posi- anime series is a bit of a curiosity in that it subtitles, rated TV-14, this is not a necessary tive thinking (with a hint of crush) coupled is a Japanese story about a Western religious purchase. (F. Swietek) with the occasional dash of didacticism institution, the Roman Catholic Church. The (bike maintenance and the monetary and protagonists are two young priests, Josef Kou In Another World With physical costs of cycling are often touched Hiraga and Roberto Nicholas, who travel the HH on). Based on a long-running manga, this is world to analyze purportedly miraculous My Smartphone a laidback and loving paean to biking with events for possible papal action, assisted oc- (2017) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu- ray/DVD Combo: $64.98. friends. Presenting all 12 episodes from 2016 casionally by a master computer hacker who Funimation (avail. from most in a Blu-ray edition, in Japanese with English is now a prisoner working for the Vatican. The distributors). subtitles, rated TV-14, this is recommended. series encompasses three arcs that ultimately This anime property be- Aud: P. (L. Martincik) link together. The first, set in Mexico, involves gan life as an online novel the reported pregnancy of a nun by immacu- that was later spun off into manga adapta- Mind Game HH1/2 late conception, which morphs into a murder tions. Unfortunately, its promising opening (2004) 103 min. In Japanese w/ investigation and then a case of demonic pos- merely leads to a fairly standard “harem” fan- English subtitles. Blu-ray/DVD session that turns out to have bizarre histori- Combo: $22.99. Shout! Factory tasy-comedy. God (the traditional bearded old cal implications. The second takes the men to (avail. from most distributors). Africa, where the incorruptibility of a priest’s guy) summons 15-year-old Touya Mochizuki SDH captioned. to apologize for accidentally killing the boy corpse might provide a basis for sanctifica- Anime often boasts wild tion, although this leads to a psychological (offscreen) with a lightning bolt. God makes plots and bizarre imagery, restitution by bodily resurrecting the teen, crisis for Roberto and points toward a larger but this 2004 cult feature from director Ma- threat that is taken up in the third arc, which but even the deity cannot return Touya to his saaki Yuasa outdoes itself in both areas. After former reality. Instead, Touya goes to a mystic is set in an Italian village where a number an initial mad montage under the opening of extraordinary events ultimately result in world that is an amalgamation of many cul- credits, Mind Game settles into a wacky story the discovery of a secret organization that tures (including a lazy copy of Japan’s feudal about Nishi, a nerdy would-be manga artist has long been engaged in efforts to achieve Tokugawa Era). Magic works here, God grants pining for his childhood crush Myon. When immortality for its members. Integrated with Touya superior powers, and he has his prized Nishi unwisely intervenes to protect her these narratives are plot threads involving smartphone (which, despite the billing, from a couple of thugs, he is shot in the butt the men’s private lives, especially the fate figures little in the antics). Soon, Touya is a and the bullet goes all the way up through of Hiraga’s younger brother Ryota, who is fortune-hunter, undertaking magic errands his head, after which the dead Nishi winds suffering from terminal cancer and confined with seven fetching girls, who ultimately all up facing a kaleidoscopic, whimsical God. to a wheelchair. Marked by very dark visuals vie to be his bride. Breast gags and swimsuit Nishi escapes from the afterlife by running and a somber tone, Vatican Miracle Examiner episodes begin to replace adventure as the furiously away from the light, emerging as a has the virtue of novelty but is also likely too series goes slumming, with wrap-up segments reckless risk-taker who takes off with Myon odd to be of larger interest. Presenting all 12 addressing how Touya will handle his excess and her older sister in the gangster’s car, only episodes from 2017 in a Blu-ray edition, in of fiancées (plus a beautiful robot girl who to be swallowed—vehicle and all—by a whale. Japanese with English subtitles, rated TV-MA, insists on appearing before him undressed Here they meet an old man who has been extras include a bonus OVA episode. A strong below the waist). Presenting all 12 episodes living inside the belly of the beast for 30 years, optional purchase. (F. Swietek) from 2017 in a dual-language Blu-ray/DVD and this extended Jonah (or is it ?) Combo set, rated TV-14, extras include ep- segment includes colorful psychedelic dance More Pokémon isode commentaries. Optional. (C. Cassady) numbers and many food-preparation scenes. Eventually, they all escape into the “real” The latest entry in the Long Riders! Complete world for the final act. This weird summary long-running Pokémon an- Collection HHH barely scratches the surface of Mind Game, ime franchise, Pokémon— (2016) 2 discs. 300 min. In which employs radical shifts in pacing and The Series: Sun & Moon (Viz, Japanese w/English subtitles. pictorial styles, sudden flashbacks from major DVD: 6 discs, $49.99) is a Blu-ray: $59.98. Sentai and minor characters, and scads of sexual 43-episode boxed set that Filmworks (avail. from most imagery to create a constantly surprising, follows Ash Ketchum on distributors). expressionistic world that is truly unique—a what begins as a summer vacation in the In her first year at uni- sort of head-trip “Nishi in Wonderland.” tropical Alola region but soon turns into the versity, Ami Kurata admires her friend Aoi’s Presented in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo edition, next exciting chapter in Ketchum’s dream bicycle and the freedom it brings but feels in Japanese with English subtitles, and not quest to become a Pokémon Master.

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 66 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 Music Dance Joni Mitchell: Both Sides to sneak into her castle disguised as a nun—a and interview outtakes. Recommended. Now—Live at the Isle scheme the count adopts after his hermit im- (K. Fennessy) posture is exposed. The return of the Crusad- of Wight Festival 1970 ers dashes the hopes of both, although in this Yes: Live at the Apollo HHH1/2 2015 production from the Malmö Opera the HHH (2017) 132 min. DVD: $17.99, knights suddenly drop dead of their wounds (2017) 120 min. DVD: $15.98, Blu-ray: $21.98. Eagle Rock upon arrival, leaving the countess free to take Entertainment (avail. from most distributors). Blu-ray: $21.98. Eagle Rock a new husband as the curtain falls. There are Entertainment (avail. from Documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner a few other oddities in Linda Mallik’s staging, most distributors). died in 2017 at age 90. Just before passing, he but for the most part her choices are witty, The schizophrenic nature readied this release capturing Joni Mitchell’s and the sets and costumes are eye-catching. of this 50th anniversary troubled set at the disastrous Isle of Wight Conductor Tobias Ringborg leads a scintil- concert (one of two different Yes lineups Festival in 1970—the third and last folk- lating reading of the score, and the vocalism launching celebratory tours) filmed live at and- festival there, which drew is excellent, with Leonardo Ferrando’s high England’s 02 Apollo Manchester theatre is more than a half-million fans to a multi-day tenor and gift for farce perfect for Count Ory, reflected in the 12-song split: six hail from concert extravaganza. By 1970, residents of Erika Miklósa charming as Adèle, and Daniela the classic Yes era (1969-78) and six from the Isle of Wight were no longer tolerant Pini engaging in the trousers role of Isolier. the ‘80s Yes period (specifically 1983-91), of the annual hippie invasion on rented Lars Arvidson exhibits a rather wooly tone farmland, and local government set out to the latter dominated by /guitarist as Ory’s tutor, but apart from him the solo Trevor Rabin. Yes: Live at the Apollo features make the producers, artists, and audience feel and choral work is expert. Overall, this is a uncomfortable and unwanted. The result was only two members from the classic Yes days: first-rate version of a very enjoyable and too still-angelic-voiced lead singer Jon Ander- growing discord within the pop-up city that often overlooked example of Rossini at his arrived to camp out and hear a remarkable son and literally-surrounded-by-keyboards bubbly best. Presented in PCM stereo, this is Rick Wakeman (guitarist Steve Howe and slate of top musicians and singer-. highly recommended. (F. Swietek) Almost 30 years later, Lerner began drawing drummer Alan White play for the other Yes, from his extensive footage of the 1970 festi- original drummer Bill Bruford is retired, val, releasing several DVD and Blu-ray discs The US Festival: 1982 and bass legend Chris Squire passed away featuring the live sets of individual artists, The US Generation in 2015). The pair are joined by Rabin, Lee including Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Doors, HHH Pomeroy on bass, and Louis Molino III on the Moody , and Leonard Cohen. In this (2018) 96 min. Blu-ray/ drums for a set that seesaws back and forth 11-song set from Joni Mitchell, viewers will DVD Combo: $29.95. MVD between Yes’s early prog rock classics (“I’ve witness the tension, caught in the distraught Entertainment Group (avail. Seen All Good People,” “And You & I,” “Long from most distributors). looks on Mitchell’s face and in her emotional Distance Runaround,” “Heart of the Sunrise”) plea to the audience to respect the performers Glenn Aveni’s documentary recounts the and ‘80s pop (“Hold On,” “Rhythm of Love,” (who had become convenient targets of the steps that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak “Changes”), closing appropriately with the crowd’s noisy wrath). But of course what truly took to put together the US Festival, a three- biggest hits from the two respective periods shines is the music of Mitchell, who was then day “Woodstock of the ‘80s.” Woz remembers of Yes: “Roundabout” and “Owner of a Lone- in the early years of her brand of enchanted, growing up on Americana music, but felt ly Heart.” Musically, the band sounds very romantic, and sometimes confessional folk that major festivals never gave the form its good (although classic Yes fans will wince songs. Fans will appreciate this set, which due (although he also incorporated punk at Rabin’s choppy guitar—channeling ’s includes some of her greatest hits: “Chelsea and new wave). Inexperienced in concert Edge—on “Long Distance Runaround”), led Morning,” “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Woodstock,” promotion, Woz hired people he trusted, gave by Anderson’s amazingly strong voice, Wake- and the titular classic. Viewers have the op- them $2 million, and formed Unuson, short man’s nimble fingers, and Rabin’s blistering tion of watching the concert itself, or with for Unite Us in Song. As the Grateful Dead’s fretwork. Presented in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital clips of Mitchell from 2003 commenting Mickey Hart puts it, “He had the vision and 5.1 and stereo on DVD, and DTS-HD 5.1 and on what happened during her appearance. the money.” Unuson President Dr. Peter Ellis LPCM stereo on Blu-ray, this is recommend- adds that Steve Jobs wasn’t happy about it, but Presented in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and ed. (R. Pitman) stereo on DVD, and DTS-HD 5.1 and LPCM Woz had no interest in making US an Apple stereo on Blu-ray, this is highly recommend- event. When he selected a San Bernardino ed. (T. Keogh) location that lacked a natural amphitheater, Rock On Woz spent $10 million to carve one out of a hill. He also hired veteran concert promoter Le Comte Ory HHH1/2 Following up on their (2015) 142 min. In French w/ Bill Graham, who clashed with the Unuson Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in English subtitles. DVD or Blu- people, but proved invaluable. Marky Ramone Concert (VL-7/18), which ray: $24.99. Naxos (avail. from (the Ramones), Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood compiled the 2014-17 Rock most distributors). Mac), and other artists add to the commen- & Roll Hall of Fame induc- Rossini’s penultimate op- tary alongside full-length performances, tion ceremonies in their era, written a year before he including the B-52’s with “Strobe Light” and entirety, Time Life has abruptly retired at the age of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers playing released Rock & Roll Hall 37, has never attained the popularity of his “Refugee,” as well as songs by The , The of Fame in Concert: Encore (DVD: 4 discs, best-known works, but it offers a remarkable Police, and Santana. Despite the oppressive $34.99; Blu-ray: 2 discs, $39.99), featuring blend of sophistication, sensuality, bawd- heat, staffers kept concertgoers hydrated with the 2010-13 ceremonies. Inductee perform- iness, and warmth. The title character is a water bottles and sprinklers. Woz hoped for a ers include Genesis, The Stooges, ABBA, womanizing nobleman disguised as a holy peaceful weekend, and that appears to be how Dr. John, Darlene Love, Alice Cooper, Tom hermit in order to seduce Countess Adèle, things played out. If Woz lost several million Waits, , , , who has sworn to be faithful to her husband, dollars, he expresses no regrets in Aveni’s up- , , Randy a long-absent Crusader. Ory’s page Isolier is beat film. Presented in Dolby Digital stereo, Newman, , Heart, Quincy Jones, himself in love with the countess, and plans extras include audio commentary by Aveni, Public Enemy, and Rush.

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Video Librarian’s Index is arranged by Subject Index 69 Computers & Technology 70 both title and subject, and covers all of the titles reviewed in Volume 33, Issues 1-6 (cal- Children’s 69 Sports, Games & Recreation 70 endar year 2018). Each entry in the index Psychology & Self-Help 69 includes title, star rating, issue number, and The Arts page number. Titles which were deemed to 71 be Editor’s Choice titles are highlighted in Religion & Philosophy 69 History & Current Events 71 bold. For example, the entry Dunkirk (4), Social & Political Issues 1-19 is interpreted thus: the bold listing 69 Travel & Geography signifies an Editor’s Choice title which Teen Issues 71 received four stars (4), and was reviewed in 70 Vol. 33, No. 1 on page 19 (1-19). A graphic Education 70 Biography 71 example is shown below. Law & Crime 70 Japanese Anime 71 Nature, Math & Science 70 Sample Dunkirk (4), 1-19 Music/Dance 72 Entry: Health & Fitness 70 Video Movies 72 Relationships & Sexuality Bold=Editor’s Choice 70 Classic Films 74 Holidays & Celebrations 70 (4)=Star rating Food & Spirits 70 TV on Video 74 4= Excellent, (1-19)= 3= Good, Issue No. Beauty & Fashion Title Index 2= Fair, 1, page 19 70 75 1= Poor Business & Economics 70

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Controlling Anger Before It Controls You (3), 3-46 Dogs of Democracy (3), 2-49 CHILDREN’S Crazywise (3.5), 2-46 Driving with Selvi (3), 3-48 Departure, The (3.5), 3-46 Estate: A Reverie (3), 1-55 Happy (3), 6-47 Exodus: The Journey Continues (3.5), 5-52 Adventure Time: Complete Seventh Season (3), 1-52 Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (3), 5-50 Farewell Ferris Wheel (3.5), 1-55 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (2.5), 3-44 In Pursuit of Silence (3), 5-50 Fight Hate with Love (3.5), 2-49 Albert: A Small Tree with a Big Dream (1), 1-52 InnSaei: The Power of Intuition (2.5), 1-53 Following the Ninth (3), 4-51 Before She Was Harriet (2.5), 4-46 Mile Marker (3), 5-50 For Ahkeem (3), 3-49 Ships (3.5), 5-48 Mindfulness Goes Mainstream: Techniques (3), 3-47 Forgotten (2), 1-55 Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (2.5), 3-44 Reclaiming Life: Faith, Hope, and Suicide Loss (3), Freedom to Marry, The (3.5), 4-52 Du Iz Tak? (3.5), 4-46 4-49 Gang Crackdown, The (3), 5-52 Freedom in Congo Square (3.5), 2-44 S Word, The (3.5), 6-47 Geek Girls (3), 4-52 Freedom Over Me (3.5), 2-44 There Is a Place (3.5), 1-53 Gender Troubles: The Butches (3), 2-49 French for Kids—L’anniversaire de Fritzi (3), 3-44 We Breathe Again (3), 4-50 Ghosts of Our Forest (3), 2-49 Gobi: A Little Dog with a Big Heart (3), 1-52 Work, The (4), 3-47 Good American, A (2.5), 5-52 Gravity Falls: Complete Series (3.5), 5-49 Good Postman, The (3), 1-55 Harriet Tubman Story, The (3.5), 2-46 Good Things to Do (3), 2-50 Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie (3), 4-46 Grammar of Happiness, The (3.5), 3-49 I’m New Here (3), 1-52 RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY Gulîstan, Land of Roses (3), 1-55 JoJo Siwa: My World (3), 3-44 Gun Shop, The (2.5), 5-52 LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (2.5), Hippie Family Values (3), 4-52 3-46 Leo: A Ghost Story (3), 2-44 500: Impact of the Reformation Today (3.5), 1-53 I Am Another You (3.5), 5-53 Little Women (Animated) (2018) (2.5), 4-46 American Yogi (2.5), 3-47 I Am Jane Doe (3.5), 2-50 Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids! Vol. 2: Whales Animated Bible Series—Episode 1: Creation (3), 6-47 If You Could Walk in My Shoes (2.5), 1-56 (3), 2-44 Art in Smog (3), 6-47 In His Own Home (2.5), 2-50 Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids! Vol. 3: Birdies C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert (3), Keep Talking (3), 6-49 (3), 3-46 4-50 Lake of Betrayal (3.5), 3-50 Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids! Vol. 4: Froggies C.T. Studd: Gifted Athlete and Pioneering Missionary Last Refugees, The (3), 4-52 (3), 4-46 (3), 3-47 Little Stones (3), 6-50 Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids! Vol. 5: Come Alive (3), 2-47 Long Shadow, The (3), 5-53 Donkeys (3), 5-48 Come Before Winter (3), 1-53 Machines (3.5), 1-56 Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids! Vol. 6: Foxes Fatima: The Ultimate Mystery (2), 4-50 Mama Colonel (3), 2-50 (2), 6-44 From Cairo to the Cloud (3.5), 6-47 Many Loves One Heart (3), 5-53 Lots & Lots of Learning Fun! All About Trains (3), Heretic, The (3.5), 6-48 Mayors of Shiprock, The (3), 4-52 5-48 Jesus: Countdown to Calvary (3), 5-51 Motherland (3), 1-56 Lots & Lots of Really Big Trains (3), 4-46 Jesus: Dead and Buried? (3), 5-51 Mully (3.5), 3-50 Lots & Lots of Truck Songs for Kids (3.5), 2-44 Jesus Meets the Gay Man (3), 3-47 My Brothers and Sisters in the North (3), 1-56 Loud House: It Gets Louder—Season 1, Volume 2 Last Days of Jesus, The (3.5), 1-53 Nat Bates for Mayor (3), 2-51 (3.5), 4-47 Man Named Martin, Part 3: Movement (2.5), 1-53 New Radical, The (3), 3-50 Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2.5), 5-48 More Than My Brain (3), 6-48 Newtown (4), 3-49 Miguel’s Brave Knight (3), 5-48 My Coffee with Jewish Friends (2.5), 6-48 Occupation of the American Mind (3), 1-56 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: It’s a Beautiful Day (3), One Mind (3), 3-48 Paying the Price for Peace (2.5), 6-50 4-47 Return to Grace: Luther’s Life and Legacy (3.5), 2-47 Pennhurst (3), 5-53 Mother Bruce (3), 2-44 Robert Hicks Story, The (3), 3-48 Politics of Hate, The (3), 4-53 Much Ado About Nothing (3), 4-47 Savior, The (3), 4-50 Polluting Paradise (3), 4-53 Nanette’s Baguette (2.5), 4-47 Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village (3), 5-51 Pornocracy (3), 3-50 Nature Cat: Onward + Pondward! (3), 5-48 There Are Jews Here (3), 3-48 Pride Denied (3), 5-53 Nella the Princess Knight (3), 2-46 Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the Quest for Quest (4), 3-3 New Big Plane Trip, The (3.5), 5-49 Meaning (3), 2-47 New LiBEARian, The (2.5), 6-44 Ramped Up (3.5), 1-57 OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes: T.K.O. (2.5), 5-49 Torchlighters: Adoniram and Ann Judson Story (3), Rape of Recy Taylor, The (3), 3-51 Pinkalicious & Peterrific: Pinkamagine It! 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VIDEO LIBRARIAN 74 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 I’m Dying Up Here: Season One (2.5), 5-46 Act & Punishment: Pussy Riot Trials (3), 3-49 Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, The (3.5), 6-33 iZombie: Complete Third Season (3), 1-45 Actor’s Revenge, An (3.5), 3-30 Ballad of Lefty Brown, The (2.5), 2-20 Janet King: Series 3—Playing Advantage (3), 1-45 Adventure Time: Complete Seventh Season (3), 1-52 Barry Lyndon (3), 1-30 Jessica Jones: Season 1 (3.5), 1-45 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (2.5), 3-44 Basket Case (3), 3-32 Keeping Faith (3), 6-41 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (3.5), 5-36 Batman vs. Two-Face (2.5), 1-16 Kevin Can Wait: Season One (2.5), 1-45 After Auschwitz (3.5), 5-65 Battle Girl High School: Complete Collection (2), 6-65 Legend of Bruce Lee: Volume Three (2), 1-45 After Circus (2.5), 1-63 Battle of the Sexes (3), 1-16 Little Women (3.5), 4-3 After Fire (3), 2-47 Be Right Back (2.5), 2-63 Loch Ness: Series 1 (2.5), 1-46 After Love (3), 2-18 Beast (3), 5-18 Lost Worlds of Gerry Anderson, The (2), 2-42 Afterimage (3), 2-18 Beauty and the Dogs (3), 4-14 Love, Lies & Records (2), 3-42 Age of Innocence, The (3.5), 3-32 Before She Was Harriet (2.5), 4-46 Lucifer: Complete Third Season (2.5), 6-41 Madam Secretary: Season 3 (3), 1-46 Aida’s Secrets (3), 3-14 Before We Vanish (3), 4-14 Major Crimes: Sixth and Final Season (3), 3-43 Albert: A Small Tree with a Big Dream (1), 1-52 Behind the White Glasses (3), 1-69 Marcella: Season One (2.5), 1-46 Alderamin on the Sky (2), 2-67 Beirut (2), 4-16 Maximilian and Marie de Bourgogne (3), 5-46 Alias María (3), 2-18 Belle Epoque (3.5), 3-32 Menace and Murder (2.5), 5-46 Aliens Ate My Homework (3), 3-14 Benvenuto Cellini (3.5), 5-73 : Complete Eighth Season (3), 1-46 All I See Is You (1), 1-14 Berserk: Season I (3.5), 3-67 Modus: Season 1 (3.5), 6-41 All Male, All Nude (2), 2-55 Best of the Supremes on The Ed Sullivan Show (2.5), 4-70 Murder on the Orient Express (3), 1-46 All Out!! Part 1 (2.5), 3-67 Better Call Saul: Season Three (3), 2-41 Mystery Science Theater 3000: Season 11 (3), 4-45 All Saints (2.5), 2-18 Better Man, A (3), 4-51 Ned and Stacey: Complete Series (2), 1-47 All the Money in the World (3), 3-14 Better Watch Out (2), 1-18 Newton’s Law: Season 1 (3), 3-43 Alone on the Island of the Blue Dolphins (3), 6-57 Between Land and Sea (2.5), 6-57 One Day at a Time: Complete Series (3), 2-42 Alpha (3), 6-14 Beuys (2.5), 4-65 : Season 5 (3.5), 5-47 AlphaGo (3), 5-63 Beyond the Hills (3), 5-18 Orphan Black: Season Five (3), 1-47 Always at the Carlyle (2.5), 5-16 Beyond the Wall (3.5), 5-56 Outlander: Season Three (3.5), 4-45 America: Promised Land (3), 1-66 Big Country, The (3.5), 5-36 Poldark: Complete Third Season (3), 1-47 American Animals (2.5), 5-16 Big Fish & Begonia (3), 6-14 Preacher: Season Two (3), 1-47 American Assassin (2), 1-14 Big Pacific (3.5), 1-59 Rebecka Martinsson: Series 1 (2.5), 3-43 American Gods: Season One (3.5), 1-42 Big Sonia (3), 4-65 Riverdale: Complete First Season (3), 1-47 Salvation (2), 2-42 American Horror Story Roanoke: Complete Sixth Big Voice (3), 1-63 Silicon Valley: Complete Fourth Season (3), 1-48 Season (3), 2-41 Bill Nye: Science Guy (3.5), 4-65 Sinner: Season One (3.5), 3-43 American Made (3), 1-14 Billy Budd (2.5), 6-34 Son: Complete First Season (2.5), 2-43 American Valhalla (3), 3-59 Biology: The Science of Seeds (3), 4-56 Striking Out: Series 2 (3), 5-47 American Yogi (2.5), 3-47 Biology & Chemistry: Science of Forensics (3), 5-56 Taken: Season One (2), 1-48 Americans: Complete Fifth Season (3.5), 4-44 Bird Brain (3.5), 3-53 This Is Us: Complete First Season (4), 1-48 America’s Untold Story (3), 4-62 Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (3), 3-16 Tower, The (3), 2-43 Anastasia (2.5), 2-70 Birthright: A War Story (3.5), 1-54 Tunnel—Vengeance: Complete Third Season (3.5), Ancient Law (Das alte Gesetz) (3.5), 5-36 Bitter Money (2.5), 3-58 5-47 And Then I Go (3), 4-14 Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (3), 6-59 Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (3.5), 2-43 And Then They Came for Us (2.5), 1-66 Black Clover: Season 1, Part 1 (3), 6-65 : Complete Sixth Season (3), 1-48 Angry Inuk (2.5), 2-48 Black Eagle (2.5), 4-36 Victoria: Complete Second Season (3), 3-43 Animal Kingdom: Complete Second Season (3), 3-42 Black Girl in Suburbia (3), 2-48 Walking Dead: Complete Eighth Season (3), 6-41 Animated Bible Series—Episode 1: Creation (3), 6-47 Black Lightning: Complete First Season (3), 5-45 Westworld—Season One: The Maze (3.5), 2-43 Ant-Man and The Wasp (3), 6-14 Black Sabbath: The End (3), 1-73 Will & Grace: Revival, Season One (3), 5-47 Antony and Cleopatra (3), 4-60 Black Scorpion, The (2.5), 4-36 Aquarius (3), 1-14 Black Venus (3), 4-16 Architects of Denial (3), 2-60 BlacKkKlansman (4), 6-14 Arctic Wolf Pack (3), 4-55 Blacklist: Complete Fifth Season (3), 6-40 Title Index Are We Not Cats (2.5), 4-14 Blackout in Puerto Rico (3), 6-60 Armed Girl’s Machiavellism: Complete Collection Blade of the Immortal (3), 3-16 #artoffline (2.5), 3-59 (2.5), 6-65 Blade Runner 2049 (2.5), 1-18 1.5 Stay Alive (4), 3-54 Arminio (3.5), 5-73 Bleeding Steel (2), 6-16 2e2: Teaching the Twice Exceptional (3), 5-56 Arrow: Complete Sixth Season (3), 6-40 Blockers (2.5), 4-16 4 Days in France (2), 2-18 Art in Smog (3), 6-47 Blood Business (3), 3-49 4 Wheel Bob (3), 5-58 Art of the Prank (3.5), 1-68 Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (3), 6-34 8 Borders 8 Days (3), 3-61 Ask the Sexpert (3), 4-57 Blue Desert (1.5), 5-18 11/8/16 (2.5), 3-48 Assistant, The (3), 3-14 Blue Eyes (2.5), 1-42 12 Days (3.5), 6-53 Atom: The Beginning—Complete Collection (2), 5-70 Blue Heart (3), 6-53 12 Strong (2.5), 3-14 Augie (2.5), 4-64 Blue Planet II (3.5), 4-55 13 Reasons Why: Season 1 (3), 4-44 Avanti! (3.5), 1-30 Bobbi Jene (3), 3-64 14 Cameras (1.5), 6-14 Avengers: Infinity War (3), 5-16 Body Electric (Corpo Elétrico) (2), 2-20 19-2: Season 4 (3), 1-42 Aviatrix: Katherine Sui Fun Cheung Story (3), 1-68 Bombing of Wall Street, The (3), 4-63 25 in 24 (3), 4-58 B&B (3), 1-14 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (3), 4-65 44 Pages (2), 4-59 Baal (3), 3-32 Bones of Contention (3), 3-61 49 Pulses (3), 3-61 Baby Steps (2.5), 1-16 Book Club (3), 5-18 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (3), 4-59 Back to Burgundy (3.5), 5-16 Borderline (3), 5-50 91 Days: The Complete Series (3.5), 2-67 Backstabbing for Beginners (2), 4-14 Borg vs. McEnroe (3), 5-18 100 Men (1), 3-57 Backyard Sports (3), 5-63 Boris Without Beatrice (2.5), 1-18 500: Impact of the Reformation Today (3.5), 1-53 Bad Batch, The (2), 1-16 Boston: The Documentary (3), 4-58 2017 World Series, The (3.5), 2-57 Bad Day for the Cut (3), 2-20 Boxcar Children: Surprise Island (3), 5-20 Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (3), 1-62 Bad Kids, The (3), 2-53 Boy Downstairs, The (2), 4-16 ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (3.5), 4-67 Bad Lucky Goat (2), 2-20 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (3.5), 2-3 Accident, The (2), 4-44 Bad Moms Christmas, A (2), 1-16 Brad’s Status (2), 1-18 Ace Attorney: Part 1 (3.5), 3-67 Bad Samaritan (1.5), 5-16 Brainstorm (3), 1-59 Acorn and the Firestorm (3), 4-62 Badass Beauty Queen (2.5), 6-57 Brawl in Cell Block 99 (3), 2-20

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 75 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Breadwinner, The (3), 3-16 Containment (3), 1-54 Driving with Selvi (3), 3-48 Breaking Balls (2.5), 3-58 Controlling Anger Before It Controls You (3), 3-46 Du Iz Tak? (3.5), 4-46 Breaking Silence (3), 6-48 Così fan tutte (2.5), 3-70 Dumb Girl of Portici, The (3), 3-34 Breathe (2), 1-18 Così fan tutte (3.5), 5-73 Dunkirk (4), 1-19 Brillo Box (3¢ Off) (3), 2-58 Counterpart: Complete First Season (3.5), 6-40 Durrells in Corfu: Complete Second Season (3), 1-43 Brimstone & Glory (3), 3-57 Country (3), 6-34 Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (3.5), 1-3 Broken Lines: A Story of Addiction (2.5), 5-55 Court (3), 3-16 Earth Seasoned: #Gap Year (3), 5-57 Brotherly Love (2), 6-16 Covered Wagon, The (3), 3-32 Earth’s Furies: Earthquakes (3), 5-57 Bugs (3), 3-58 Cracking Cancer (3.5), 2-55 Earth’s Furies: Volcanic Eruptions (3), 5-57 Bull: Season Two (2.5), 6-40 Crazy Rich Asians (3), 6-16 East West 101: Series 1 (3), 3-42 Bullets on the Border (3), 5-51 Crazywise (3.5), 2-46 East West 101: Series 2 (3), 5-45 Bullied (3), 6-49 Crown: Complete First Season (4), 1-43 Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive (3.5), 2-64 Bungo Stray Dogs (2), 4-67 Crown Heights (3), 1-19 Eight Films by Jean Rouch (3.5), 2-58 Burgundy: People with a Passion for Wine (3.5), 2-56 Cruel and Unusual (3.5), 3-52 Eighth Grade (3.5), 6-18 By Blood (3), 2-48 Cult of Chucky (2.5), 1-19 El Sur (3.5), 5-38 By the Time It Gets Dark (2.5), 1-18 Culture Clash (3), 2-48 Elis (3), 5-21 Bye Bye Germany (3), 5-20 Curb Your Enthusiasm: Complete Ninth Season (3), 4-44 Empire: Complete Third Season (3), 2-41 C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert (3), Curse of the Cat People, The (3), 5-38 Empire of Red Gold, The (3), 3-58 4-50 Cyborgs Among Us (3), 3-55 Endless, The (3), 5-21 C.T. Studd: Gifted Athlete and Pioneering Missionary Cymbeline (2.5), 2-58 Endo What? (3), 3-56 (3), 3-47 Dalya’s Other Country (3.5), 1-55 Erdos 100 Plus (2.5), 6-54 Cage Fighter, The (3.5), 5-63 Dance with Devils (2), 1-71 Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2.5), 5-68 Cakemaker, The (3), 6-16 Daphne & Velma (2.5), 5-20 Ernani (3), 3-70 Call Me by Your Name (3), 2-20 Darkest Hour (4), 2-22 Ernie Kovacs: Take a Good Look (2.5), 1-43 Camilla Läckberg (2), 1-42 Das Land des Lächelns (3), 5-73 Escape, The (2), 6-18 Campaign of Their Own, A (3), 4-50 Daughter of the Nile (3), 4-37 Estate: A Reverie (3), 1-55 Candy Apple (2.5), 1-19 Dawson City: Frozen Time (3), 1-63 Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 1 (2), 6-65 Canine Soldiers (3), 4-63 Day After, The (3.5), 6-34 Every Day (2), 4-18 Care (3.5), 3-54 Day of the Jackal, The (3), 6-34 Evolution of Organic (2.5), 5-62 Carmen (3), 1-73 Day the Dinosaurs Died, The (3), 4-56 Exodus: The Journey Continues (3.5), 5-52 Carry Me Home: A Remember America Film (3), 5-67 Dayveon (2.5), 4-18 Faces Places (4), 2-24 Castle in the Sky (3), 1-71 Dazzle Ships (3.5), 5-48 Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2), 4-67 Cat Returns, The (3.5), 2-67 Deadpool 2 (3), 5-20 False Confessions (2.5), 1-20 Celling Your Soul (3.5), 1-54 Dealt (2.5), 3-59 Family I Had, The (3.5), 5-56 Centaur’s Life, A (2.5), 6-65 Dear Dictator (2), 4-18 Farewell Ferris Wheel (3.5), 1-55 Champion, The (3), 1-64 Dear Murderer: Series 1 (3), 5-45 Fargo: Year 3 (3), 2-41 Channel Zero—Candle Cove: Season One (2.5), 1-42 Death Laid an Egg (3), 2-34 Farthest: Voyager in Space (3.5), 2-54 Chaos;Child: Complete Series (3.5), 4-67 Death of Superman, The (3), 6-17 Fatima: The Ultimate Mystery (2), 4-50 Chasing the Dragon (3), 2-22 Death Wish (1), 4-18 Félicité (3), 2-24 Chavela (3.5), 2-22 Decoding the Weather Machine (3), 6-54 Female Trouble (2.5), 5-42 Cheer Boys!! Complete Series (2.5), 3-67 Deconstructing the Beatles: Sgt. Pepper (3), 1-63 Fencer, The (3), 4-20 Chicago: The Terry Kath Experience (3.5), 2-64 Deej (3.5), 2-50 Fentanyl: The Deadliest Opioid (3), 6-55 Chicago Justice: Season One (2), 1-42 Defiant Lives (3.5), 6-48 Fight Hate with Love (3.5), 2-49 Chihayafuru: Season 1 (3.5), 3-67 Defiant Ones, The (3), 2-41 Film Critic, The (2.5), 2-24 Child in Time, The (3), 4-16 Defining Hope (3.5), 5-59 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (3), 3-18 Children of the Corn (2), 1-30 Delay, Deny, Hope You Die (3), 5-58 Filmworker (2.5), 6-18 Chinese Exclusion Act, The (3.5), 6-59 Delicious: Series 2 (2.5), 5-45 Final Year, The (3.5), 4-62 Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg, The (3), 5-67 Democracy Road (3.5), 5-52 Finding Joseph I (3.5), 2-64 Cholesterol: The Great Bluff (2.5), 6-55 Departure, The (3.5), 3-46 Finding Kukan (3), 1-64 Chosen: The Story of the First Christmas (3), 6-46 Desert Bride, The (3), 5-20 Fire & Ashes: Making of the Ballet RAkU (3.5), 6-57 Christmas at Rosemont (3), 6-46 Destination Unknown (4), 2-60 First Civilizations (3), 6-60 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street: Season 1 (3), 4-57 Destruction of Memory, The (3.5), 4-64 Fistful of Dynamite, A (2.5), 3-34 Christopher Robin (3), 6-16 Detectorists: Season 3 (3.5), 5-45 Flamingo Kid, The (3.5), 1-32 Church, The (2.5), 4-36 Deuce: Complete First Season (3.5), 3-42 Flash: Complete Fourth Season (3), 6-40 Ciambra, A (3), 5-20 Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2.5), 4-51 Flip Flappers: Complete Collection (2.5), 4-68 Cielo (3), 6-53 Didone Abbandonata (2.5), 3-70 Florida Project, The (2.5), 2-24 Cinema Novo (3), 5-64 Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood (4), 5-38 Flying Witch: Complete Collection (2.5), 2-67 Circle Up (3.5), 6-52 Dina (3), 3-57 Following the Ninth (3), 4-51 Clash (3.5), 1-19 Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Season One, Part 1 (3.5), 4-67 For Ahkeem (3), 3-49 ClassicaLoid: Complete Collection (2.5), 4-67 Discoveries…America National Parks: Acadia National Force, The (3), 2-53 Claws: Complete First Season (2.5), 4-44 Park & Historic New England (3), 4-61 Forever, Chinatown (3), 4-60 CMA Awards Live: Greatest Moments 1968-2015 (3), Disobedience (2.5), 5-21 Forgiven, The (2), 4-20 2-70 Divine Divas (2), 1-64 Forgotten (2), 1-55 Coach Jake (3.5), 5-63 Divine Order, The (3), 4-18 Founders, The (3), 1-63 Coco (3), 2-22 Do No Harm: Opioid Epidemic (3), 5-59 Frame Arms Girl: Complete Collection (2), 6-65 Code Geass: Akito the Exiled (2), 1-71 Dog Days (1.5), 6-17 Frank & Eva (2.5), 5-42 Cold Turkey (3.5), 5-38 Dogs of Democracy (3), 2-49 Frank Serpico (3.5), 3-65 Collection, The (2), 1-43 Dolores (3), 3-64 Frank Zappa Summer ’82 (3), 2-70 Color of Pomegranates, The (3), 4-37 Don Quixote (3.5), 2-70 Freak Show (2.5), 5-22 Come Alive (3), 2-47 Don’t Call Me Son (2), 3-16 Freaky Friday (2.5), 6-18 Come Before Winter (3), 1-53 Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (3), 4-70 Free Lunch Society (2), 2-56 Coming Full Circle (2), 2-48 Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (2.5), 3-44 Free to Rock (3.5), 2-58 Complete Sartana, The (3), 5-38 Down a Dark Hall (2.5), 6-17 Freedom in Congo Square (3.5), 2-44 Computer Science: Importance of Coding (3), 6-57 Downsizing (2), 2-22 Freedom Over Me (3.5), 2-44 Conor McGregor: Notorious (2), 2-64 Dream Big: Engineering Our World (3), 5-63 Freedom Runners (3), 2-57 Constructing Albert (3), 3-57 Dries (3), 1-69 Freedom to Marry, The (3.5), 4-52 Constructing the Terrorist Threat (2.5), 1-54 Drifters (3), 2-67 French for Kids—L’anniversaire de Fritzi (3), 3-44

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 76 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 Friar Alessandro: Voice from Assisi (3), 1-73 Harmonium (2.5), 2-25 Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt, The (3), 3-64 Fritz Lang: The Silent Films (3.5), 2-35 Harold and Lillian: Hollywood Love Story (3), 1-20 Inflame (2.5), 5-24 From Cairo to the Cloud (3.5), 6-47 Harper (3), 4-37 Ingmar Bergman Through the Choreographer’s Eye From the Land of the Moon (3), 1-20 Harriet Tubman Story, The (3.5), 2-46 (3), 4-70 From This Day Forward (3), 1-61 Havana Time Machine (4), 3-70 Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years (3), 4-37 Full Circle (3), 6-58 Have a Nice Day (3), 4-20 Ingrid Goes West (3), 1-22 Gabriel and the Mountain (3), 6-18 Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto (3.5), 2-68 Inheritance (2.5), 1-22 Game Night (2), 4-20 Heart Guy: Series 1 (2), 1-44 Initial D Legend 1: Awakening (3), 2-68 Game of Thrones: Complete Seventh Season Heart of Nuba, The (3), 6-55 Innocent Blood (2.5), 1-32 (4), 2-42 Heartstone (3), 1-22 InnSaei: The Power of Intuition (2.5), 1-53 Gang Crackdown, The (3), 5-52 Heat and Dust (3), 2-35 Inside Peace (3), 2-53 Geek Girls (3), 4-52 Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (3), 5-50 Interviews with Monster Girls (3), 5-70 Gender Troubles: The Butches (3), 2-49 Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul (3.5), 3-64 Into the Amazon (3), 3-62 Gene Doctors, The (3.5), 3-55 Henry Miller: Asleep & Awake (3), 4-60 Into the Night (3), 1-32 Generation Wealth (2.5), 6-20 Heretic, The (3.5), 6-48 Irma la Douce (3), 6-36 Generation Zapped (3), 3-55 Hermia & Helena (2.5), 1-22 Ishi’s Return (3.5), 2-60 Genetically Modified Children (2.5), 5-59 Hero, The (3), 3-34 Ismael’s Ghosts (3), 5-24 Genocidal Organ (2), 2-67 Hey Arnold! 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(3), 5-51 Golden Age. 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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 79 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Stage Struck (3), 4-43 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (3.5), 2-32 Wait for Your Laugh (3.5), 5-69 Staging Post, The (3), 4-53 Three Identical Strangers (3.5), 6-32 Walking Dead: Complete Eighth Season (3), 6-41 Star-Spangled Story (3.5), 6-62 Three-Way Wedding, The (1.5), 5-34 Wall, The (3.5), 5-35 Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (3), 2-32 Tibetan Dog, The (3), 5-71 War on the EPA (3), 3-50 Step (3), 1-28 Tidewater (3), 2-55 Warning Signs of Addiction, The (2.5), 5-56 Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris (3.5), 1-75 Tierra (3), 3-40 Wasted! The Story of Food Waste (3), 1-62 Stopover, The (3), 1-29 Tiger Hunter, The (3), 2-34 Watch the Sky (1.5), 6-33 Stopping Traffic: Movement to End Sex Trafficking Time to Die (3), 2-40 Water Makes Us Wet (3), 5-58 (2.5), 2-52 Time Travel Girl (3), 3-69 Water Princess, The (3), 5-49 Story of Spice, The (3.5), 6-56 Tipping Point (3), 5-58 Watershed Guardians of the Fraser River (3.5), 4-56 Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image (3), 5-62 Titanic (3), 1-39 We Breathe Again (3), 4-50 Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village (3), 5-51 Titanic’s Tragic Twin: The Britannic Disaster (3.5), 4-64 We Found a Hat (2.5), 4-48 Strange Victory (3.5), 5-54 To Auschwitz and Back: The Joe Engel Story (3.5), 5-69 We’re Going On a Bear Hunt (3), 4-49 Strangers: Prey at Night (1), 4-32 Tokyo Ghoul (1.5), 4-34 Weekend in Havana (3), 1-68 Streets of Vengeance (1.5), 6-30 Tokyo Idols (3), 2-52 Weinstein (2), 6-64 Striking Out: Series 2 (3), 5-47 Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the Quest for Welcome to Refugeestan (3), 4-54 Student, The (3.5), 1-29 Meaning (3), 2-47 West of the Jordan River (3), 5-35 Stumped (3), 5-60 Tomb Raider (2), 4-34 Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (3), 6-33 Subversives, The (3), 5-66 Tommy Shaw: Sing for the Day! (2.5), 5-75 Westworld—Season One: The Maze (3.5), 2-43 Suffering of Ninko (2.5), 6-30 Tomorrow (3), 1-29 Whales of August, The (3), 2-40 Sugar Coated (3), 2-55 Topaze (3), 3-40 What About ME? (3), 1-61 Suitable Girl, A (3), 4-53 Torchlighters: Adoniram and Ann Judson Story (3), 5-51 What Doesn’t Kill Me (3), 5-55 Summer 1993 (3), 5-32 Toto (1.5), 6-32 What Is Philanthropy? (3), 1-58 Summer Night (3), 1-38 Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru (2.5), 5-71 What Lies Upstream (3.5), 6-50 Sunny Day (2.5), 4-48 Tower, The (3), 2-43 When Patsy Cline Was…Crazy (3), 2-66 Sunstroke (2.5), 3-28 Town Called Panic: The Collection (3), 2-46 When the Saints (2.5), 3-51 Super Lovers: Season One + OVA (2.5), 2-69 Tragically Hip: A National Celebration (3.5), 2-72 Where Justice Ends (3), 2-54 Superfly (2), 5-32 Tragically Hip: Long Time Running (3.5), 2-72 Where’s Daddy? (3), 3-52 Supergirl (1.5), 6-38 Train Driver’s Diary (3), 3-30 While the City Sleeps (2), 4-43 Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living (3.5), 5-60 Trapeze (2.5), 6-38 Whipping Zombie (3), 6-52 Survivalist, The (3), 1-29 Travel Safe, Not Sorry: Discover Mexico (2.5), 1-68 Whispering Shadows and The Devil’s Assistant (2), 1-39 Suspicious Death of a Minor, The (2), 1-38 Travel Safe, Not Sorry: Discover Rugged Canada (3.5), White Sun (3.5), 4-34 Sweatin’ to the Oldies: 30th Anniversary Edition 4-62 Whitney (2.5), 6-33 (3.5), 1-60 Travel Safe, Not Sorry: Discover the Great Lakes (3.5), Who Benefits from the Camps? (3.5), 6-52 Sweet Escape, The (3), 4-32 2-63 Who Put the Klan Into Ku Klux Klan (3), 3-64 Sweet Virginia (2), 4-32 Trickster: Part One (2), 3-69 Who—Tommy: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2), 1-75 Swift Feet (3), 2-57 Trip to Bountiful, The (3), 6-38 Why Are We Fat? (3), 3-56 Swim Team (3.5), 3-59 Trip to Spain, The (3), 1-29 Wilby Conspiracy, The (2.5), 3-40 Syndrome, The (3), 1-60 Troll Inc. (2.5), 5-55 Will & Grace: Revival, Season One (3), 5-47 Syria: Children at War (3.5), 5-66 Trophy (3), 3-51 Winchester (2), 3-30 Taboo Tattoo: Complete Series (3), 3-69 Trouble Is My Business (3), 4-34 Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas True Love Ways (2.5), 2-34 (3), 4-43 (3), 4-32 Trump: The Art of the Insult (2), 2-52 Winds of Downhill, The (3), 2-53 Tai Chi Fit: 24 Form (3.5), 5-60 Trumping Democracy (2.5), 2-52 Wizard of Lies, The (3.5), 1-30 Tai Chi Fit in Paradise (2.5), 4-57 Truth or Dare (1.5), 5-34 Woman in Red, The (2.5), 1-39 Tai Chi Fusion: Bamboo (3), 3-56 Tsukiuta—Animation: Complete Series (2), 1-72 Woman Walks Ahead (3), 5-35 Tai Chi Fusion: Fire (3), 5-62 Tunnel—Vengeance: Complete Third Season (3.5), 5-47 Woman Who Left, The (2.5), 3-30 Tai Chi Fusion: Iron (3.5), 6-56 Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (3.5), 2-43 Women in Love (3.5), 4-43 Tainted Souls (2), 6-32 Typhoon Noruda (3), 4-69 Women’s March (3), 3-52 Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton (3), 3-65 Uncle Drew (2.5), 5-34 Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (4), 5-3 Take My Nose… Please! (3), 4-58 Understanding the Opioid Epidemic (3.5), 5-62 Woodpeckers (3), 2-34 Take the Money and Run (2.5), 1-38 Unikitty: Sparkle Party—Season One (2), 6-44 Woodshock (1), 1-30 Taken: Season One (2), 1-48 Unstoppable (3), 1-70 Work, The (4), 3-47 Tale of Tsar Saltan, The (2.5), 3-71 Unstuck: An OCD Kids Movie (3.5), 1-61 Workers Cup, The (2.5), 5-64 Tamako Love Story (2), 1-72 Unsupersize Us (2.5), 1-61 Workshop, The (3), 4-34 Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (3.5), 4-69 Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, The (3), 3-66 World Awaits, The (2.5), 1-58 Tania Libre (3), 6-59 Upgrade (2), 5-34 Wound, The (3), 2-34 Taste of Phobia, A (1), 5-32 Urara Meirocho (2.5), 5-71 Wrestling Jerusalem (2.5), 3-61 Taxi Driver, A (3), 4-32 US Festival: 1982 The US Generation (3), 6-67 Wrinkle in Time, A (2.5), 4-36 Teach Us All (2.5), 2-53 Ushio & Tora: Complete TV Series (3), 2-69 Wrong Light, The (3), 5-55 Teacher, The (3), 2-32 VA: The Human Cost of War (3), 4-64 Yamada-kun & the 7 Witches (2.5), 4-69 Ted Williams (3.5), 6-64 Van Morrison in Concert (4), 4-72 Yellow Birds, The (2), 6-33 Teenage Cocktail (2.5), 3-28 Vatican Miracle Examiner: Complete Collection (2.5), Yes: Live at the Apollo (3), 6-67 Tehran Taboo (3), 5-34 6-66 Yona Yona Penguin (3), 5-71 Tell Them We Are Rising (3.5), 3-63 Vazante (2.5), 5-34 You Were Never Really Here (2), 5-35 Thank You for the Rain (3), 3-51 Veep: Complete Sixth Season (3), 1-48 You Will Be Mine (3), 5-35 That Summer (3), 6-32 Venus (3), 6-32 Young in Heart, The (2.5), 2-40 Thelma (3), 3-28 Verdi: Messa da Requiem (3), 2-72 Young Karl Marx, The (2.5), 3-30 There Are Jews Here (3), 3-48 Very Very Very Long Dog, The (3), 6-44 Your Health: A Sacred Matter (3), 6-56 There Is a Place (3.5), 1-53 Victoria: Complete Second Season (3), 3-43 Your Name (3), 2-69 They All Saw a Cat (3.5), 3-46 Villainess, The (2.5), 1-30 Yuri!!! On Ice (3), 3-69 Thirsty (3), 3-30 Violent Life, A (2.5), 4-34 Zama (3.5), 5-36 This is Bob Hope... (3.5), 3-66 Visions of New York City (3), 2-63 Zero Weeks (3), 6-52 This Is Us: Complete First Season (4), 1-48 Viva L’Italia (3), 3-40 Zombies (3), 4-36 Thomas Crown Affair, The (2.5), 3-36 Voice of the Moon, The (2), 1-39 Zoo (3), 5-36 Thoroughbreds (2.5), 4-32 Wacky Races: Start Your Engines! (2.5), 4-48 Zoology (3), 2-34

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 80 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 Distributor Addresses

Contact information for distribu- Grasshopper Film Pilot Film & Television Productions 12 East 32nd St., 4th Fl. 5176 Santa Monica Blvd., Ste. 205 tors of titles reviewed in this issue New York, NY 10016 Los Angeles, CA 90029 are listed below. Some titles must Tel: (646) 586-3060 Tel: (323) 741-8404 be ordered direct, while others are Web: grasshopperfilm.com Web: globetrekkertv.com available from a wide variety of Green Planet Films PRAGDA distributors. P.O. Box 815 302 Bedford Ave., #136 Stonington, CT 06378 Brooklyn, NY 11249 Tel: (415) 377-5471 Tel: (718) 473-0647 Web: greenplanetfilms.org Web: pragda.com

Auteur Productions Human Relations Media Ro*co Films Educational 10010 Newhall Rd. 59 Kensico Dr. 80 Liberty Ship Way, Ste. 8 Potomac, MD 20854 Mt. Kisco, NY 10549 Sausalito, CA 94965 Tel: (301) 299-6554 Tel: (800) 431-2050 Tel: (415) 332-6471 Web: yourhealthasacredmatter.com Web: hrmvideo.com Web: rocoeducational.com

Bullfrog Films Icarus Films Seventh Art Releasing P.O. Box 149 32 Court St., 21st Fl. 6579 Pickwick St. Oley, PA 19547 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Los Angeles, CA 90042 Tel: (800) 543-3764 Tel: (800) 876-1710 Tel: (323) 259-8259 Web: bullfrogfilms.com Web: icarusfilms.com Web: 7thart.com

Cargo Film & Releasing Innervisions25 TMW Media Group 611 Broadway Ste. 632 23 Pembroke St., #1 2321 Abbot Kinney Blvd. New York, NY 10012 Newton, MA 02458 Venice, CA 90291 Tel: (212) 995-8139 Tel: (617) 455-1331 Tel: (800) 262-8862 Web: cargofilm-releasing.com Web: artinsmog.com Web: tmwmedia.com

The Cinema Guild Juno Films Tugg 2803 Ocean Ave. 940 Princeton Kingston Rd. 4210 Spicewood Springs Rd., Ste. 200 Brooklyn, NY 11229 Princeton, NJ 08540 Austin, TX 78759 Tel: (800) 723-5522 Tel: (609) 933-1806 Tel: (855) 321-8844 Web: cinemaguild.com Web: junofilms.com Web: edu.tugg.com

Cinema Libre Studio Kino Lorber Edu The Video Project 120 S. Victory Blvd., 1st Fl. 333 W. 39th St., Ste. 503 145 Ninth St., Ste. 230 Burbank, CA 91502 New York, NY 10018 San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel: (818) 588-3033 Tel: (800) 562-3330 Tel: (800) 475-2638 Web: cinemalibrestudio.com Web: kinolorberedu.com Web: videoproject.com

Collective Eye Films Marshall Publishing Vision Maker Media 1315 SE 20th Ave., #3 1075 Bradford Ct. 1800 N. 33rd St. Portland, OR 97214 Elgin, IL 60120 Lincoln, NE 68503 Tel: (971) 236-2056 Tel: (888) 300-3455 Tel: (402) 472-3522 Web: collectiveeye.org Web: marshallpublishinginc.com Web: visionmaker.org

D-Facto Filmstudio Music Box Films Vision Video 805-1328 Pender St. W 173 N. Morgan St. P.O. Box 540 Vancouver, BC V6E 4T1 CANADA Chicago, IL 60607 Worcester, PA 19490 Tel: (778) 885-7940 Tel: (312) 241-1320 Tel: (800) 523-0226 Web: cairotothecloud.com Web: musicboxfilms.com Web: visionvideo.com

Davenport Films Naxos of America Women Make Movies 11324 Pearlstone Ln. 1810 Columbia Ave., Ste. 28 115 West 29th St., Ste. 1200 Delaplane, VA 20144 Franklin, TN 37064 New York, NY 10001 Tel: (540) 592-3701 Tel: (615) 771-9393 Tel: (212) 925-0606 Web: squareup.com/store/davenportfilms Web: naxos.com Web: wmm.com

Dreamscape Media NeeNee Productions YMAA Publication Center 1417 Timberwolf Dr. 5818 Orchard Creek Ln. P.O. Box 480 Holland, OH 43528 Boulder, CO 80301 Wolfeboro, NH 03894 Tel: (877) 983-7326 Tel: (720) 250-7987 Tel: (800) 669-8892 Web: dreamscapeab.com Web: sautifilm.org Web: ymaa.com

Film Ideas New Day Films Zala Films 308 N. Wolf Rd. 350 N. Water St., Unit 1-12 P.O. Box 22833 Wheeling, IL 60090 Newburgh, NY 12550 Oakland, CA 94609 Tel: (800) 475-3456 Tel: (888) 367-9154 Tel: (510) 428-9284 Web: filmideas.com Web: newday.com Web: zalafilms.com

Film Movement Passion River 237 West 35th St., Ste. 604 154 Mt. Bethel Rd. New York, NY 10001 Warren, NJ 07059 Tel: (866) 937-3456 Tel: (732) 321-0711 Web: filmmovement.com Web: passionriver.com

First Run Features PBS Video 630 Ninth Ave., Ste. 1213 2100 Crystal Dr. New York, NY 10036 Arlington, VA 22202 Tel: (800) 229-8575 Tel: (800) 531-4727 Web: firstrunfeatures.com Web: pbs.org

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 81 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Title Index

12 Days ...... 53 Counterpart: Complete First Season ...... 40 More Than My Brain ...... 48 14 Cameras ...... 14 Country ...... 34 Mountain ...... 26 Alone on the Island of the Blue Dolphins ...... 57 Crazy Rich Asians ...... 16 My Coffee with Jewish Friends ...... 48 Alpha ...... 14 Day After, The ...... 34 My Life with James Dean ...... 26 Animated Bible Series—Episode 1: Creation ...... 47 Day of the Jackal, The ...... 34 Natural Born Rebels ...... 54 Ant-Man and The Wasp ...... 14 Death of Superman, The ...... 17 Navajo Code Talkers of World War II ...... 62 Armed Girl’s Machiavellism: Complete Collection .... 65 Decoding the Weather Machine ...... 54 Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously ...... 58 Arrow: Complete Sixth Season ...... 40 Defiant Lives ...... 48 New LiBEARian, The ...... 44 Art in Smog ...... 47 Dog Days ...... 17 Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart ...... 26 Badass Beauty Queen ...... 57 Down a Dark Hall ...... 17 O Fantasma ...... 36 Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, The ...... 33 Eighth Grade ...... 18 Ocean Cities ...... 54 Battle Girl High School: Complete Collection ...... 65 Erdos 100 Plus ...... 54 One October ...... 62 Between Land and Sea ...... 57 Escape, The ...... 18 One October: A Nightmare in Las Vegas ...... 62 Big Fish & Begonia ...... 14 Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 1 ...... 65 Other Side of Eden: Stories of a Virginia Billy Budd ...... 34 Fentanyl: The Deadliest Opioid ...... 55 Lynching ...... 62 Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia ...... 59 Filmworker ...... 18 Other Side of Everything, The ...... 62 Black Clover: Season 1, Part 1 ...... 65 Fire & Ashes: Making of the Ballet RAkU ...... 57 Oyster Farmers, The ...... 56 BlacKkKlansman ...... 14 First Civilizations ...... 60 Paper Store, The ...... 26 Blacklist: Complete Fifth Season ...... 40 Flash: Complete Fourth Season ...... 40 Papillon ...... 26 Blackout in Puerto Rico ...... 60 Frame Arms Girl: Complete Collection ...... 65 Paying the Price for Peace ...... 50 Bleeding Steel ...... 16 Freaky Friday ...... 18 Poet and the Boy, The ...... 28 Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji ...... 34 From Cairo to the Cloud ...... 47 Poetic Trilogy, The ...... 38 Blue Heart ...... 53 Full Circle ...... 58 Porcupine Lake ...... 28 Breaking Silence ...... 48 Gabriel and the Mountain ...... 18 Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich ...... 28 Brotherly Love ...... 16 Generation Wealth ...... 20 Qi Gong for Headaches ...... 56 Bull: Season Two ...... 40 Ghost Stories ...... 20 Qi Gong for High Blood Pressure ...... 56 Bullied ...... 49 Godard Mon Amour ...... 20 Revolution: New Art for a New World ...... 58 Cakemaker, The ...... 16 Gold ...... 36 Rwanda: The Royal Tour ...... 63 Centaur’s Life, A ...... 65 Goldstone ...... 20 S Word, The ...... 47 Chinese Exclusion Act, The ...... 59 Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum ...... 20 Sauti (Voice) ...... 50 Cholesterol: The Great Bluff ...... 55 Good Karma Hospital: Series 2 ...... 40 Saving Fiona ...... 44 Chosen: The Story of the First Christmas ...... 46 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami ...... 58 Scooby-Doo! And the Gourmet Ghost ...... 44 Christmas at Rosemont ...... 46 Great Game, The ...... 21 Searching for the Gold Spot ...... 54 Christopher Robin ...... 16 Guardians, The ...... 21 Serenade for Haiti ...... 59 Cielo ...... 53 Hannibal in the Alps ...... 60 Shadow Nation ...... 50 Circle Up ...... 52 Happy ...... 47 Skyscraper ...... 28 Computer Science: Importance of Coding ...... 57 Happytime Murders, The ...... 22 Slender Man ...... 28 Heart of Nuba, The ...... 55 Smithereens ...... 38 Heretic, The ...... 48 Snow Awesome! ...... 46 Hillary ...... 41 Sollers Point ...... 28 Advertiser Directory Hocus Pocus ...... 36 Sorry to Bother You ...... 30 Holiday Heroes Save Christmas ...... 46 Speed Walking ...... 30 Action! Library Media Service ...... 53 Homestate ...... 22 Spy Who Dumped Me, The ...... 30 Baker & Taylor Entertainment...... 2 I Am a Hero ...... 22 Star-Spangled Story, The ...... 62 Breaking Glass Pictures ...... 29 In Another World With My Smartphone ...... 66 Story of Spice, The ...... 56 Incredibles 2 ...... 22 Streets of Vengeance ...... 30 Collective Eye ...... 4 Indivisible ...... 22 Suffering of Ninko ...... 30 Criterion ...... 39 Irma la Douce ...... 36 Supergirl ...... 38 Dark Hollow Films ...... 6 Jazz Ambassadors, The ...... 60 Tai Chi Fusion: Iron ...... 56 Dreamscape ...... 45 Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now ...... 67 Tainted Souls ...... 32 EPF Media ...... 51 Keep Talking ...... 49 Tania Libre ...... 59 Film Movement ...... 15, 17, 68 Keeping Faith ...... 41 Ted Williams ...... 64 Films Media Group ...... 49 Kid Like Jake, A ...... 23 That Summer ...... 32 First Run Features ...... 7 Kin ...... 23 Three Identical Strangers ...... 32 Green Planet Films ...... 53 La Madre, El Hijo Y La Abuela ...... 23 Toto ...... 32 Landing, The ...... 23 Trapeze ...... 38 Icarus Films ...... 27 Larger Than Life: Kevyn Aucoin Story ...... 63 Trip to Bountiful, The ...... 38 IndiePix Films ...... 19, 21 Le Comte Ory ...... 67 Unikitty: Sparkle Party—Season One ...... 44 Kino Lorber Education ...... 9 Life Beyond Getting High: Rehab ...... 52 US Festival: 1982 The US Generation ...... 67 Marcusceccu Investors ...... 63 Little Stones ...... 50 Vatican Miracle Examiner: Complete Collection ...... 66 Midwest Tape ...... 84 Long Riders! Complete Collection ...... 66 Venus ...... 32 Music Box Films ...... 35 Lost Child ...... 23 Very Very Very Long Dog, The ...... 44 MVD Entertainment Group ...... 11 Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids! ...... 44 Walking Dead: Complete Eighth Season ...... 41 National Media Market ...... 61 Lou Andreas-Salomé: Audacity to be Free ...... 23 Watch the Sky ...... 33 NCircle Entertainment ...... 42, 43 Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story ...... 3 Weinstein ...... 64 Lucifer: Complete Third Season ...... 41 Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist ...... 33 Oscilloscope Pictures ...... 31 Mambo Cool ...... 24 What Lies Upstream ...... 50 Passion River Films ...... 83 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again ...... 24 Whipping Zombie ...... 52 PBS Video ...... 5 Mayo Clinic: Faith-Hope-Science ...... 55 Whitney ...... 33 Strand Releasing ...... 25 Mind Game ...... 66 Who Benefits from the Camps? ...... 52 Vision Video ...... 13 Minute to Pray, a Second to Die, A ...... 36 Yellow Birds, The ...... 33 Wolfe Video ...... 37 Misandrists, The ...... 24 Yes: Live at the Apollo ...... 67 YMAA Publication Center ...... 4 Mission Impossible: Fallout ...... 24 Your Health: A Sacred Matter ...... 56 Modus: Season 1 ...... 41 Zero Weeks ...... 52

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