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November-December 2017

VOL. 32 THE VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE FOR LIBRARIES N O . 6

IN THIS ISSUE One Week and a Day | Poverty, Inc. | The Apology | The B-Side | Night School | : Tour | Betting on Zero scene & heard

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One Week and a Day and target houses that are likely to be empty while mourners are out. Eyal also goes to the HHH1/2 hospice where Ronnie died (and retrieves his Oscilloscope, 98 min., in Hebrew w/English son’s medical marijuana, prompting a later subtitles, not rated, DVD: scene in which he struggles to roll a joint for Publisher/Editor: Randy Pitman $34.99, Blu-: $39.99 the first time in his life), gets into a conflict Associate Editor: Jazza Williams-Wood Wr i t e r- d i r e c t o r with a taxi driver, and tries (unsuccessfully) to in the bushes when his neighbors show Editorial Assistant: Christopher Pitman Asaph Polonsky’s One Week and a Day is a with a salad. And Eyal has some unlikely Graphic Designer: Carol Kaufman hard-to-categorize and sometimes hilarious adventures with Marketing Director: Anne Williams comic drama concern- twentysomething goofball Zooler (Tomer ing two individuals who cope with grief Kapon). Eyal and Vicky’s geometrically in starkly different ways. Set in Israel and fascinating house essentially plays another Contributing Writers beginning in the first hour after a week of character, as the director uses glass doors, sitting shiva—a period of mourning follow- bedrooms, a foyer, and a backyard to reflect a Carson Block, formerly with heavy emptiness that is also laced with farce. Poudre River Public Library District ing the death of a loved one—the story finds middle-aged married couple Eyal (Shai Avivi) Capturing both the comedy and tragedy of Kathleen C. Fennessy, Reviewer, and his wife Vicky (Jenya Dodina) starting on life, this is highly recommended. (T. Keogh) The Stranger the difficult path to resume normal life after Susan Granger, SSG Syndicate their 25-year-old son Ronnie dies. Of course, Best Docs Donald Liebenson, Reviewer, there is no timetable for grief, and people deal , Amazon.com with devastating loss in various ways. Vicky Be sure to check out Stephen Rees, Librarian, formerly with wraps up things at home and at the cemetery the upcoming January/ Bucks Co. Free Library, Levittown, PA with a frozen expression of weary determi- February issue for Video nation. A schoolteacher, she also shows up Librarian’s annotated Frank Swietek, Associate Professor unexpectedly at work, causing a minor flap list of the Best Docu- of History, University of Dallas, TX when she tries to oust a substitute who has mentaries reviewed in already begun class. For Eyal, however, grief the magazine and on- Additional Contributors: is more like an episode of Larry ’s Curb line this year. Your Enthusiasm. Instead of going to the cem- Sean Axmaker etery, Eyal claims that he needs to guard their Cover Photo: One Week and a Day poster Charles Cassady home from thieves who track obituary notices art, courtesy of Oscilloscope Pictures Jose Cruz Phil Hall TABLE OF CONTENTS Tom Keogh Lisa Martincik Video Newsbriefs 6 Relationships & Sexuality 60 Phil Morehart Books Into Movies 8 Pets 60 Michael Sandlin Mixed Media 10 Business & Economics 60 Video Movies 16 Computers & Technology 60

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The following films based on books 2008 historical nonfiction on Molly Bloom’s 2014 are slated to open during November and book. Directed by Bharat memoir, subtitled “From December. Movie release dates are subject Nalluri, the period drama Hollywood’s Elite to Wall to change. stars Christopher Plum- Street’s Billionaire Boys mer, Jonathan Pryce, Mir- Club, My High-Stakes Coming in November iam Margoyles, and Dan Adventure in the World Stevens as author Charles of Underground Poker.” Last Flag Flying (Nov. . Marking Aaron Sorkin’s 3) is based on co-writer feature film directing Darryl Ponicsan’s 2005 Call Me By debut, the film stars Jessica Chastain, Idris novel (and is a sequel to (Nov. 24) is adapted from Elba, and Kevin Costner. Hal Ashby’s 1973 film writer André Aciman’s The Last Detail). Directed 2007 gay coming-of-age Also arriving in Janu- by Richard Linklater, novel. Directed by Luca ary is The Leisure Seek- the dramedy stars Bryan Guadagnino, the film stars er, based on Michael Za- Cranston, Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet and doorian’s 2009 romantic Laurence Fishburne, and Cicely Tyson. Armie Hammer. road comedy novel. Di- rected by Paolo Virzì, My Friend Dahmer Coming in December the film stars Donald (Nov. 3) is based on artist Sutherland and Helen John “Derf” Backderf’s The Tribes of Palos Mirren. 2012 graphic memoir. Verdes (Dec. 1) is based on Directed by Marc Mey- Joy Nicholson’s 1997 book. Also coming in ers, the biographical Directed by Emmett Malloy January is Run- drama stars Ross Lynch and Brendan Malloy, the ner: The Death Cure, as serial killer Jeffrey coming-of-age suburban based on James Dash- Dahmer, along with drama stars Maika Monroe, er’s 2011 final book in Alex Wolff, Vincent Kartheiser, and Cody Fern, Jennifer Garner, his YA post-apocalyptic Anne Heche. and Justin Kirk. sci-fi trilogy. Directed by Wes Ball, the film Murder on the Ori- The Disaster Artist brings back stars Dylan ent Express (Nov. 10) (Dec. 8) is adapted from O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and is based on the classic Greg Sestero and Tom Kaya Scodelario. 1934 Agatha Christie Bissell’s 2013 nonfiction mystery novel. Directed chronicle, subtitled “My Slated for February Life Inside The Room, The by Kenneth Branagh, is Every Day, based on Greatest Bad Movie Ever the film stars Penélope David Levithan’s 2012 Made.” A dramatization of Cruz, Willem Dafoe, YA romance. Di- the “making-of” Tommy Judi Dench, Johnny rected by Michael Sucsy, Wiseau’s The Room, the film is directed by Depp, and Branagh as Belgian sleuth the film stars Angourie , who also stars alongside Dave Rice, Debby Ryan, and Hercule Poirot. Franco, Seth Rogen, and Zac Efron. Maria . The Breadwinner November Criminals (Nov. 17) is an animated (Dec. 8, in limited release) Also arriving in Feb- adaptation of Deborah is based on Sam Munson’s ruary is Fifty Shades Ellis’s 2000 children’s 2010 YA novel The Novem- Freed, based on author novel set in war-torn Af- ber Criminals. Directed by E.L. James’s 2012 third ghanistan. Directed by Sacha Gervasi, the crime entry in the erotic ro- Nora Twomey, the film drama stars Ansel Elgort, mance series. Directed is produced by Angelina Chloë Grace Moretz, and by James Foley, the film Jolie, among others. Catherine Keener. features the return of stars , Wonder (Nov. 17) is Ferdinand (Dec. 15) is , and Kim Basinger. based on R.J. Palacio’s a 3D-animated adaptation 2012 children’s novel of Munro Leaf’s 1936 chil- Also coming in Feb- about a who learns dren’s book The Story of Fer- ruary is Annihilation, to accept his facial de- dinand. Directed by Carlos based on the 2014 first formity. Directed by Ste- Saldanha, the film features novel in author Jeff Van- phen Chbosky, the film the voices of John Cena, derMeer’s sci-fi horror stars Julia Roberts, Owen Kate McKinnon, Gina Rod- fantasy “Southern Reach Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, riguez, and Anthony Anderson. Trilogy.” Directed by and Mandy Patinkin. Alex Garland, the film Looking Ahead stars Natalie Portman, The Man Who Invented Christmas Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac, and (Nov. 22) is adapted from Les Standiford’s Slated for January is Molly’s Game, based Gina Rodriguez.

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LINDY LOU, JUROR MACHINES NUMBER 2 LABOR STUDIES | GLOBALIZATION CRIMINAL JUSTICE | AMERICAN POLITICS Marrying stunning visuals with social advo- HUMAN RIGHTS cacy, Rahul Jain’s debut documentary takes An illuminating look at the criminal jus- audiences into the labyrinthine passages tice system in America from the perspec- of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, tive of a juror on a trial that resulted in India. Jain’s camera wanders freely be- a death penalty sentence. Lindy, the juror, tween pulsating machines and bubbling begins a journey through rural Mississippi vats of dye to create a moving portrait of looking for the 11 other jurors she sat be- the human laborers who toil away there for side twenty years ago in the trial of Bobby 12 hours a day to eke out a meager living Wilcher. While on death row, Lindy was for their families back home. Interviews with the only person to visit Wilcher, and she these workers and the factory owners who ultimately befriended him. The feelings employ them reveal the stark inequality of guilt she has lived with since his death and dangerous working conditions brought sentence inspires her to seek answers about by unregulated industrialization in from her fellow jurors. The film follows her the region. This political message is de- journey, which questions the impact the livered amidst the unsettling beauty of the factory’s mechanical underworld and the sentence had on the jurors who decided it. colorful, billowing fabrics it produces. “One of the most sobering and pow- erful documentaries about a political “Five stars! Astonishing. A dignifying issue I’ve seen in years” hymn to the common worker.” – Kansas City Star – –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– RUMBLE: THE INDIANS THE FORCE WHO ROCKED THE WORLD CRIMINAL JUSTICE | AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES | MUSIC POLITICS|HUMAN RIGHTS AMERICAN HISTORY At a powderkeg moment in Amer- This revelatory documentary brings ican policing, The Force goes deep to light the profound and over- inside the embattled Oakland Police looked influence of Indigenous Department as it struggles to con- people on popular music in North front federal demands for reform, America. Focusing on music icons the rise of and like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy an explosive scandal. Winner of the Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Documentary Directing Award at the Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bai- 2017 Sundance Film Festival, film- ley, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robert- maker Peter Nicks embedded with son, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: the department over the course of The Indians Who Rocked the World two years to follow its serial efforts shows how these pioneering Native to recast itself. American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives. “An urgent chronicle that captures the deep ruptures in our communi- “Revelatory in almost every sense. ties. Riveting and resonant.” Astoundingly rich and resonant.” – Indiewire – Justin Lowe, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– BUGS HAROLD & LILLIAN SUSTAINABILITY | FOOD | CLIMATE CHANGE FILM STUDIES GLOBALIZATION Working largely uncredited in the With global food shortages on the horizon, forward-thinking chefs, environmentalists and Hollywood system, storyboard artist food scientists are turning toward an unex- Harold and film researcher Lillian pected source of protein: insects. Bugs is an left an indelible mark on classics by artful and thoughtful new documentary that , , provides a perfect entry point to insect cui- Mel , Stanley Kubrick, Roman sine. For three years, a cast of charming and brave food adventurers traveled the world to Polanski and many more. Through an learn what some of the two billion people who engaging of love letters, film clips already eat insects had to say. Filmmaker An- and candid conversations with Harold dreas Johnsen followed them as they foraged, and Lillian, Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks, farmed, cooked and tasted everything from re- vered termite queens to desert-delicacy honey and others, this ants. Equal parts travelogue, nature documen- deeply engaging documentary from tary, food porn and political treatise, Bugs is a Academy Award®-nominated director beautifully shot film that makes a convincing Daniel Raim offers both a moving argument for the inherent flavor of insects and raises important questions about the future of portrait of a marriage and a celebra- our food culture along the way. tion of the unknown talents that help “Fun and illuminating. Andreas shape the films we love. Johnsen’s globetrotting documentary “Truly charming...A terrifically mov- provides much food for thought.” ing human story!” –Vanity Fair – Star For information about exhibition, public performance rights or streaming, please go to www.kinolorberedu.com or call (212) 629-6880 A Classroom rights: $149 • With PPR: $349 • DSL Streaming $499 fashion magazine stars Laura San Giacomo, tor fiancée (Erica Durance) and hospital discs, $54.99). Set in 1794, this 2017 third David Spade, Wendie Malick, and George co-workers in this 2017 fifth and final season of the drama based on the novels by Segal. season of the Gemini Award-winning Winston Graham stars Aidan Turner and supernatural medical drama. Eleanor Tomlinson. The Last Kingdom: Season One (BBC, Blu- Sharpe: Complete Season Two (BBC, Westworld: Season ray: 3 discs, $39.98). The DVD: $24.98). The Napoleonic Wars of One—The Maze (HBO, story of King Alfred the 19th-century Spain are the setting for this DVD: 3 discs, $49.99; Blu- Great is merged with fic- adventure series adapted from the novels ray: 3 discs, $54.98). Based tional elements in this by Bernard Cornwell, with Sean Bean on author Michael Crich- 2015 adaptation of Ber- starring in this second season of episodes ton’s 1973 sci-fi thriller, nard Cornwell’s historical from 1994. this drama set at a fu- novel series, newly available on high-defi- turistic amusement park nition Blu-ray. The Son: The Com- stars Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, plete First Season (Li- Jeffrey Wright, and Luke Hemsworth. Legend of Bruce Lee, Volume Three onsgate, DVD: 3 discs, (Well Go USA, DVD: 3 discs, $24.98). Star- $29.98). Spanning three November 14 ring Danny Chan as the titular arts generations of Mc- champion, this third volume concludes Culloughs, this 2017 first D.C. Follies: The Complete Series China’s 2008 CCTV-1 network series, here season of the clan saga (Shout! Factory, DVD: 4 discs, $34.99). Fred following Bruce Lee to Hollywood success. based on the Pulitzer Willard stars as a bartender serving puppet Prize finalist 2013 book by Philipp Meyer caricatures of politicians and showbiz stars Ned and Stacey: The Complete Series stars Pierce Brosnan, Henry Garrett, and in this 1987-89 sitcom produced by Sid and (Shout! Factory, DVD: 6 discs, $44.99). This Jess Weixler. Marty Krofft, featuring guest appearances 1995-97 Fox-aired sitcom stars Emmy-win- by Martin Mull, Robin Leach, , ner Debra Messing and Oscar-nominee Top Gear America: Season One (BBC, and . Thomas Haden Church as a kooky couple DVD: 2 discs, $24.98). This 2017 first season perpetrating a sham marriage. U.S.-based version of the popular British Preacher: Season Two (Sony, DVD: motoring series is hosted by William Ficht- 4 discs, $35.99; Blu-ray: 4 discs, $45.99). The Paper Chase: Season Three (Shout! ner and Antron Brown. Co-developed by Seth Rogen, this 2017 Factory, DVD: 3 discs, $29.95). This 1985 sophomore season of the AMC-aired black penultimate third season of the Harvard-set November 7 dramedy series—adapted from comic law school drama stars John Houseman, books—stars Dominic Cooper, Joseph James Stephens, and Lainie Kazan. 19-2: Season 4 (Acorn, DVD: 3 discs, Gilgun, and Ruth Negga. $49.99). This 2017 fourth and final season Ransom: The Com- of the Canadian police procedural drama Rake, Series 4 (Acorn, DVD: 3 discs, plete First Season (En- stars Adrian Holmes and Jared Keeso. $39.99). Richard Roxburgh stars as Syd- tertainment One, DVD: 4 ney-based barrister Cleaver Greene in discs, $38.99). A hostage The Crown: The Com- this 2016 fourth season of the Australian negotiator helps solve plete First Season (Sony, dramedy series. crimes in this 2017 debut DVD: 4 discs, $45.99; season of the drama series Blu-ray: 4 discs, $55.99). November 21 starring Luke Roberts, Sar- Produced by , this ah Greene, Brandon McLaren, and Nazneen 2016 debut season of the The Fall: Series 3 (Acorn, DVD or Blu- Contractor. biographical drama series ray: 2 discs, $39.99). DSI Stella Gibson focuses on the early reign () wraps up a case on a Rhoda: The Final Season (Shout! Facto- of Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy), and also Belfast serial killer (Jamie Dornan) in this ry, DVD: 2 discs, $22.98). Valerie Harper’s stars Matt Smith, Vanessa , and John 2016 third season of the psychological stint as buoyant divorcée Rhoda Morgen- Lithgow. thriller series. stern comes to an end with the 1978 fifth and final season of this spin-off fromThe Family Guy: Season Fifteen (Fox, DVD: The Librarians: Sea- Show. 3 discs, $29.98). Seth MacFarlane’s raunchy son Three (Sony, DVD: 3 is back with this 2016-17 discs, $30.99). A chaotic Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The 15th season that features guest voices by Egyptian spirit attempts Complete First Season (Time Life, DVD: Flea, , and David Tennant. to unleash evil in the 4 discs, $24.95). Hosted by Dan Rowan 2016-17 third season of and Dick Martin, this 1968 debut season The Good Karma Hospital: Series 1 this fantasy-adventure of the unique variety series includes guest (Acorn, DVD or Blu-ray: 2 discs, $39.99). series starring Rebecca appearances by Cher, Richard Dawson, Former U.K. doctor Ruby Walker takes a Romijn, Christian Kane, and Lindy Booth. Sally Field, and John Wayne. new post in rural India in this first season of the 2017 ITV drama starring Amrita Ach- Red Dwarf XII: The Complete Twelfth Saving Hope: The Complete Fifth , Amanda Redman, and James Floyd. Series (BBC, DVD: $34.98). This 2017 12th Season (Entertainment One, DVD: 5 discs, season revival of the British sci-fi comedy $39.99). 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November 28 (Kris Marshall) island home in this 2017 P o l i c e W o m a n : sixth season. Third Season (Shout! The Defiant Ones (Universal, DVD: Factory, DVD: 6 discs, 2 discs, $29.98; Blu-ray/DVD Combo: 4 Doc Martin: Series 8 (Acorn, DVD $34.99). A spin-off of discs, $34.95). Directed by Allen Hughes, or Blu-ray: 2 discs, $39.99). The fictional Police Story, this 1976- this 2017 HBO-aired docu-series exploring seaside village of Portwenn remains the 77 penultimate third the career partnership of superproducer Dr. setting for this 2017 eighth season of the season follows , Dre and Interscope co-founder Jimmy Io- medical dramedy starring Martin Clunes. sexy undercover cop Sgt. vine features commentary by Bono, David Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) and Geffen, Trent Reznor, , Snoop Father Brown: Season Five (BBC, DVD: features guest appearances by Joan Col- Dogg, and others. 3 discs, $39.99). Father Brown (Mark Wil- lins, Bruce Davison, Robert Loggia, and liams) solves small-town crimes in this Cheryl Ladd. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (War- 2016-17 fifth series based on the short ner, DVD: 2 discs, $24.98). Stars Lauren stories by G.K. Chesterton. Salvation (Paramount, DVD: 4 discs, Graham and Alexis Bledel are back in this $39.98). An MIT grad student (Charlie 2016 Netflix-aired revival of the 2000-07 House: The Complete Second Rowe) works with a billionaire (Santiago dramedy series, set nearly a decade later. Season (Warner, DVD: 2 discs, $24.98). Cabrera) to help the government stop In this 2016 sophomore season of the an collision and uncover a con- December 5 re-boot of the 1987-95 sitcom, the Tanner spiracy in this 2017 debut season of the daughters (Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie suspense drama series. Dickensian (BBC, Sweetin) and family friend Kimmy Gibler DVD: 3 discs, $34.98). (Andrea Barber) raise their children in the December 26 This 2015-16 series rein- San Francisco house they grew up in. vents a variety of memo- Acceptable Risk: Series 1 (Acorn, DVD rable characters from the Game of Thrones: or Blu-ray: 2 discs, $39.98). A dead phar- world of novelist Charles The Complete Seventh ma exec is at the center of this 2017 first Dickens, and stars Peter Season (HBO, DVD: 4 season starring Elaine Cassidy, Morten Firth, Tuppence Middle- discs, $59.99; Blu-ray: Suurballe, and Angeline Ball. ton, Joseph Quinn, Sophie Rundle, Stephen 3 discs, $74.99). Nearly Rea, and Pauline Collins. every character schemes, Looking Ahead kills, is murdered, or gets Fargo: The Complete Third Season naked in this 2017 sev- In January, look for the sophomore (Fox, DVD: 4 discs, $39.98). Inspired by enth season of the extremely popular series season of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detec- the classic Coen Brothers feature film, this adapted from the fantasy novel series by tive Agency, and the fourth seasons of 2017 third season (this time not set in the George R.R. Martin. Doctor Blake Mysteries and Last Tango titular North Dakota town) stars Ewan in Halifax. Slated for February is the McGregor (in a dual role), Mary Elizabeth The Strain: The Complete Fourth 2017 holiday special Doctor Who: Twice Winstead, and David Thewlis. Season (Fox, DVD: 3 discs, $39.98). This Upon a Time. 2017 fourth season compiles the last 10 One Day at a Time: The Complete episodes of the FX-aired horror drama se- Series (Shout! Factory, DVD: 27 discs, ries co-created by Guillermo del Toro and Re-priced or New to DVD/Blu-ray $129.99). An Indianapolis divorcée (Bonnie starring Corey Stoll as CDC Dr. Ephraim Franklin) struggles with raising her teen Goodweather. daughters (Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Dare to Drum (Kino Lorber, DVD: Bertinelli) in this 1975-84 sitcom created Zoo: Season Three $29.95). Filmmaker John Bryant’s 2016 by Norman Lear. (Paramount, DVD: 4 documentary (VL-7/17 HHH) captures a discs, $39.98). Now set collaboration between a Dallas drum col- The Simpsons: The in 2027, this 2017 third lective and Stewart Copeland, drummer Eighteenth Season (Fox, season of the action se- for The Police. Bonus features on the newly DVD: 4 discs, $49.98). ries based on the thriller re-priced program include a full concert Matt Groening’s popular by James Patterson stars performance with the Dallas Symphony. Springfield family is back James Wolk, Kristen Con- in this 2006-07 18th sea- nolly, and Alyssa Diaz. Everybody Knows… son that features guest Elizabeth Murray (Kino voices by Metallica, Gore December 19 Lorber, DVD: $29.95). Vidal, Ludacris, Kiefer Sutherland, and Newly re-priced for home Betty White. Lucky Man: Season One (Universal, video, Kristi Zea’s docu- DVD: 3 discs, $29.98). Co-created by mentary profile (VL-9/17 December 12 , this 2016 debut season of the HHH) of artist Elizabeth British detective series following gambling Murray (1940-2007) fea- Death in Paradise: Season Six (BBC, addict DI Harry Clayton (James Nesbitt) tures excerpts from Murray’s diaries read DVD: 2 discs, $34.98). An erstwhile pos- and his supernatural lucky bracelet also by Meryl Streep. Bonus features include sible love interest (Sally Bretton) travels stars Eve Best, Sienna Guillory, and Steven additional interviews, and behind-the- from to DI Humphrey Goodman’s Mackintosh. scenes featurettes.

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Come Before Winter Heavens to Betsy Storm During the dying days of Reich, All Betsy Simon wanted was a little success. An and Luther’s Forbidden Letter two men, Sefton Delmer and Pastor Dietrich aspiring author of children’s books featuring her When his father is arrested for printing a Bonhoeffer, helped bring about the fall of cat, “Wishes,” Betsy believes she is about to get forbidden letter written by controversial Hitler’s regime in very different ways. In her big break. But when she is turned down by reformer Martin Luther, 12-year-old Storm Germany, Bonhoeffer spoke boldly against a major book publisher, she is devastated. In escapes with the original. On the run from the evil of Nazism and called the church to frustration she cries out to God, “Why have you the authorities, Storm finds unexpected turn away from its complacency. In England, never answered even one of my prayers?” The help from Maria, a young girl who lives in Delmer ran a secret operation, transmitting moment the words escape her lips, Betsy is the city’s underground tunnels. In a race “black propaganda” into Germany in order transformed into a rich and famous author who against time, Storm tries to save his father to demoralize the Nazis. Their stories lives in a mansion with her filmmaker husband. from execution and get into safe intertwine as they work to end the war. Caught in this alternative universe, Betsy is hands. But whom can he trust? What starts Drama, 75 minutes. about to find out why some prayers are best out as a fearful flight, becomes a bold fight left unanswered! Drama, 102 minutes. for freedom. Drama, 101 minutes. #501773D, $14.99, UPC 7 27985 01773 0 #501750D, $14.99, UPC 7 27985 01750 1 #501772D, $14.99, UPC 7 27985 01772 3

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Each review includes pricing information, here are just ordinary guys $35.99 as well as running time, rating, subtitling infor- trying to fit into social True-life paranormal in- mation, and street dates for yet-to-be-released norms and relationship vestigator Lorraine Warren titles. Most titles reviewed here are widely expectations before ma- keeps Annabelle available through most distributors. turity kicks in. Art students Kris (Krysztof housed in a protective glass cabinet in the Baginski) and Michael (Michal Huszcza) home that she shared with her late husband roam the streets of their city during the HHHH= Excellent Ed in Monroe, CT. The real Annabelle is a wee hours every night, speculating about plain-looking, vintage Raggedy Ann-type HHH= Good everything and nothing (but without any doll, unlike the film’s garishly painted toy kind of compelling theme or inquiry). At that was depicted in James Wan’s 2013 thriller HH= Fair times they act like impulsive schoolboys; at The Conjuring. After that film and its sequel’s H= Poor others they probe issues related to work or success, this new installment serves as an romance. Somehow they always manage to origin prequel. Twelve years after toymaker find a party in progress or a crowd of peers Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) and his drinking and dancing in public. Unfortu- wife Esther (Miranda Otto) lost their 7-year- Current Films nately, this repetitiveness wears the viewer old daughter Annabelle in a tragic accident, down, and even when a breach occurs in the they open their sprawling country house to bond between Kris and Michael, the film Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) and a After the Storm HHH doesn’t become more dramatically interest- Film Movement, 117 min., in group of six girls from a local Catholic or- Japanese w/English subtitles, ing. You get the feeling that director Michal phanage, including Janice (Talitha Bateman), not rated, DVD: $24.99, Blu- Marczak wanted to make a defining work for who is partially crippled from polio, and her ray: $34.99 a generation, but it’s just too empty to mean plucky best friend Linda (Lulu Wilson). The Japanese filmmaker Hi- much of anything. Optional. (T. Keogh) other girls are older and share a communal rokazu Kore-eda (Still Walk- bedroom, while Janice and Linda are rel- ing) is known for making Amnesia HHH egated to bunk beds in the sewing room. perceptive and compas- Film Movement, 96 min., in Although the pair are forbidden to enter the sionate films about strains within families. English, German, French & locked bedroom that once belonged to the Spanish w/English subtitles, not After the Storm is one of his most understated rated, DVD: $24.99 Mullins’ deceased daughter, that is just where dramas, a lovely, low-key film about di- they go, opening a Victorian wardrobe con- vorce and disappointment that, as the title Set against dreamy, taining a large, wooden doll that is wearing suggests, looks at how people pick things panoramic views of a jew- a white dress. When that demonic doll inex- up in the aftermath. Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) el-blue Mediterranean Sea plicably begins to appear in different places off the coast of Ibiza, the is an award-winning novelist who missed around the house, Janice becomes panicked, curious and appealing Amnesia plays like out on literary success and now works as a although Sister Charlotte and the others a spare theater piece opened up cinemat- private eye who makes money on the side aren’t yet convinced of the shadowy doll’s ically to dazzling coastal cliffs, with the by extorting his victims. Ryota is also an satanic connection. A reasonably spooky tale, story’s two major characters living in inveterate gambler who is months behind this is a strong optional purchase. (S. Granger) neighboring houses. The year is 1990, and on child support for his shy son, who still Martha (Marthe Keller), a non-Jewish Ger- idolizes him. Ryota apparently takes after man who fled her native country during HHH his own father, who his widowed mother the Holocaust as a teen—accompanied by Universal, 114 min., R, DVD: () seems glad to be shut of. All of $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: her Jewish cello teacher—lives a mellow, $34.99, Nov. 14 these issues come to a head when Ryota’s isolated existence obscuring an angry ex-wife and son are stuck with him in his withdrawal from her roots. She refuses to As the Berlin Wall crum- mom’s apartment during a typhoon. Rather speak German, drink German wine, or even bled in 1989, a behind-the- than dramatic fireworks, however, there is a ride in a Volkswagen, extreme positions scenes spy saga was un- gentle coming to terms and self-realization that initially baffle Jo (Max Riemelt), the folding, revolving around that suggests hope for better days. There is 25-year-old DJ from Berlin who has moved undercover MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton plenty of witty humor running throughout in next door and developed an unlikely (), who was dispatched to the film’s portrait of troubled characters bond with Martha. The rocky and some- retrieve information vital to the safety of and frustrated dreams but at heart Kore-eda what dangerous path between their homes Western intelligence. As she’s being debriefed is a humanist whose innate compassion serves as an apt metaphor for their tricky by her handlers (Toby Jones, ), looks for the best even as he reveals the relationship: platonic but teetering on in- it is revealed that another MI6 agent had a list worst in the scheming divorcee dad. Fans timacy. And then Jo’s father (Bruno Ganz) of every espionage officer in the city on both of foreign cinema featuring subtle stories arrives, a congenial man with a hidden sides of the Cold War conflict—and when he with nuanced and contradictory characters role during the Nazi atrocities. Directed was killed, that list went missing. MI6 wants will appreciate. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) by acclaimed filmmaker Barbet Schroder, it back since it contains the identity of an Amnesia is hardly the first film to explore infamous double-agent named Satchel. In or- All These Sleepless Nights HH questions about culpability, memory, and der to achieve her objective, Broughton must Passion River, 103 min., in Polish w/English relative guilt among Germans regarding singlehandedly battle not only the KGB but subtitles, R, DVD: $59.95 the Holocaust, but it deftly connects that also Stasi operatives, Allied spies, and even Part documentary, part drama, the War- 20th-century nightmare to the director’s rogue members of her own organization, such saw-set All These Sleepless Nights tries to cap- pet themes concerning pathology and as self-serving psychopathic David Percival ture that rarefied experience during young responsibility. Recommended. (T. Keogh) (James McAvoy) and predatory Delphine

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Dressed in a rain slicker, about salvaging a marriage through music. months to embody the emotionless, enigmat- Mickey pedals about on a bike and sells urine Lister-Jones stars as Anna, a ride-sharing ic, fictional heroine who engages in kinetic samples to fellow students so they can pass driver, wannabe author, and maudlin wife fight sequences set to the beat of ‘80s Euro- campus drug tests. He is also smothered by whose life and ambitions are stalled follow- pop. A steely, stylish, adrenaline-propelled his single mother (Agnieszka Podsiadlik), ing a failed book deal and miscarriage. Her thriller, this is recommended. (S. Granger) who seems blind to the fact that the boy equally repressed husband, Ben (Adam Pally), is growing increasingly aware of—and per- a talented artist, is stuck in a dead-end job The B-Side: Elsa plexed by—his sexuality. Baby Bump eschews and he shares Anna’s distress when they are Dorfman’s Portrait conventional narrative, presenting a cascade in the company of friends with kids. With HHH of disconnected phantasmagoric episodes their love at an impasse, the pair decide to Photography 1/2 dealing with Mickey’s home and school life, Virgil, 76 min. R, DVD: $19.99 channel their mixed emotions through mu- featuring characters that are alternately weird sic, becoming a tuneful rock-and-roll band “I don’t like to take pic- and frightening, as he tries to cope with var- with the addition of a weird neighbor (a very tures of people who are ious fears and feelings, often escaping into funny Fred Armisen) on drums. Anna and sad. And I don’t like to take fantasy as a last resort. Throughout, Czekaj Ben’s music is actually pretty good, and one pictures of people who are employs every cinematic trick available—split can see a growing spark that suggests a re- brokenhearted,” says Polaroid portrait pho- screens, graphic inserts, exaggerated close- vival of romance. But the film’s title has two tographer Elsa Dorfman, the charming ups, hyperkinetic editing, and animated meanings, one of which refers to an unrealis- subject of filmmaker Errol Morris’s low-key segments—while also adding explicit sexual tically simple fix for profound problems that documentary. Built around a lengthy inter- imagery and periodic bursts of comic vio- have to be met head-on. Lister-Jones does view that Morris conducts with Dorfman lence. With appropriate caveats, this should an admirable job of balancing jokes with as she shares archival photos from her files, be considered a strong optional purchase for palpable desperation, and absurdity with The B-Side chronicles Dorfman’s journey as a adventurous collections. (F. Swietek) vulnerability. She also has a striking sense budding photographer who was friends with of the power of her own image on screen, the exceptionally photogenic HHH which is relatively rare in actor-directors. and took pictures of iconic figures including Sony, 112 min., R, DVD: Recommended. (T. Keogh) , Jorge Luis Borges, Bob $30.99, Blu-ray: $34.99 Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Anaïs Nin, and others. But Dorfman found her true calling in 1980 Writer-director Batman and Harley when she discovered the Polaroid Land 20 Wright puts the pedal to Quinn HHH x 24 camera (the company only made a the metal in this propul- Warner, 74 min., PG-13, DVD: sive, music-driven crime $19.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: handful). Dorfman spent the next 35 years $24.99 photographing individuals, families, and caper. The titular Baby celebrities, and she shows Morris many of (Ansel Elgort) is paying off a debt to crime The 29th DC Universe the large-scale family photos, including the boss Doc (Kevin Spacey) by working as animated original movie “mistakes.” Mistakes? asks an incredulous his rubber-burning getaway driver. Doc is gives Harley Quinn, devoted Morris. Dorfman explains that all of the the ruthless, short-tempered mastermind henchwoman of The Joker, center stage after family pictures are mistakes: she takes two behind a series of robberies in . Ba- she is recruited by Batman and Nightwing photos; the family picks one, and she keeps by’s backstory involves a tragic automobile (Dick Grayson’s superhero identity after the other, which she calls the “B-side.” Of- accident in which his parents were killed, retiring as Robin) to stop her old friend and ten, it is this rejected photo that is the more leaving him with chronic tinnitus—a “hum sometime partner in crime Poison Ivy from artistic picture. Along the way, viewers learn in the drum,” according to Doc—meaning unleashing a plot that threatens all life on a bit about Dorfman’s life with her husband that Baby functions best when Earth. Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory) Harvey (who traditionally gives her black bal- is blaring from his iPod into his earbuds. voices Harley, and iconic voice actors Kevin loons on her birthday) and son Isaac, but the Doc’s trusted crew includes coked-up Bud- Conroy and Loren Lester (from the original main focus is on Dorfman and her amazing dy (Jon Hamm), his wife Darling (Eliza Batman: The Animated Series) are reunited as oeuvre. And she is a wonderful interviewee, at González), and menacing, trigger-happy Batman and Nightwing, while Paget Brewster one point claiming, “Everything I did made Bats (Jamie Foxx). When he’s not involved costars as Poison Ivy. It’s really a showcase sense, if you knew me.” Words to live by. in high-speed car chases, Baby hangs out for Harley, who developed from supporting Highly recommended. (R. Pitman) at the diner where his mother worked. And comic relief on the animated series into a fan that’s where he falls for dreamy waitress favorite and eventually was adopted into the Baby Bump HH1/2 Debora (Lily James), who just wants “to comic book universe, where she was given a Altered Innocence, 86 min., in Polish & English w/ head west… in a car we can’t afford, with tragic backstory. Here, she has finally broken English subtitles, not rated, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: a plan we don’t have.” Wright expertly free of the Joker’s sway and wants to steer clear $22.99 synchronizes the symphony of automotive of the costumed culture but agrees to help out Polish writer-director Kuba Czekaj’s movie action with the energetic rhythm of what’s due to her affection for Poison Ivy (and to let is a coming-of-age story that in a typically playing on Baby’s mixtape in this film her wild side free again). Unlike most of the syrupy genre opts instead for bizarre surre- named after a Simon & Garfunkel song. animated DCU features, this is an original alism, with intriguing if also mixed results. Recommended. (S. Granger) story by Bruce Timm, who co-created the

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FM2_Nov_VidLIBr.indd 1 10/12/17 2:13 PM character, and it takes a lighter, more whim- Steve McKee (Billy Magnussen), and a young after visiting, Byun is determined to find sical approach to the material (including fart Chinese girl (Jingjing Qu) who is working evidence of crimes. But what appears to be a jokes), incorporating a saucy sense of humor to pay off her immigration debt while being serial killer mystery shifts into psychodrama and cheeky sexual innuendo. Recommended. groomed as a prostitute by the gangster Triad’s as viewers question the increasingly unstable (S. Axmaker) Auntie Blossom (Jin Xing). Lee, who went hero’s point of view when other witnesses on to become a and guru to stars chime in with contradictory stories. This is The Beguiled HHH including Chuck Norris and Steve McQueen, the second feature from South Korean film- Universal, 94 min., R, DVD: died in 1973 after suffering a brain edema maker Lee Soo-youn (and her first in over a de- $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: believed to be caused by an adverse reaction cade), who creates an effective atmosphere of $34.98 to pain medication. A disappointing film, this mystery and suspicion that shifts throughout Stylish filmmaker Sofia is optional, at best. (S. Granger) the story. It’s a film full of surprises and revela- Coppola’s remake of Don tions that constantly reframe the perspective, Siegel’s lurid 1971 Clint East- A Blast HHH1/2 but it also explores, however obliquely, issues wood Western—based on IndiePix, 83 min., in Greek w/ of status, success, and self-image that plague Thomas P. Cullinan’s pulpy 1966 novel—is English subtitles, not rated, the doctor. Unfortunately, Bluebeard is also set in war-ravaged Virginia in 1864. The story DVD: $24.99 overlong and overburdened with narrative begins with wounded Union solder Corporal Angeliki Papoulia de- twists, blurring the border between night- John McBurney (Colin Farrell) collapsing near livers a raw and gripping mare and reality (the only scenes viewers Miss Farnsworth’s Seminary for Young Ladies, performance as Maria, a can fully trust are two caught on surveillance where he’s spotted by curious Amy (Oona woman teetering on the video) while leaving some questions hanging. Laurence) as she is gathering mushrooms in edge of a social precipice in filmmaker Syllas An interesting if also uneven thriller, this is a the woods. Since the Civil War’s onset, the Tzoumerkas’s A Blast. Told in a fragmentary strong optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) plantation house inhabitants have not laid fashion that jumps back and forth in time, the eyes on a man. “You are a most unwelcome story follows Maria’s life from her years as a Bushwick HH visitor,” declares matriarchal Miss Martha promiscuous college dropout living with her RLJ, 94 min., not rated, DVD: (). Indeed, McBurney’s pres- boorish sister Gogo (Maria Filini) and afflu- $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: ence immediately ignites a toxic brew of ent—albeit shady—parents (Themis Bazaka, $34.98 desire and jealousy, particularly between gull- Yorgos Biniaris), to her budding, intensely In this video-game-style ibly romantic teacher Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) sexual relationship with handsome sailor action flick, Lucy (Brittany and saucy teenager Alicia (Elle Fanning). Yannis (Vassilis Doganis). But after having Snow) and her fiancé arrive Tackling the vengeful headmistress role three children, discovering her family’s secret at the titular sub- originated by Geraldine Page, Kidman slyly debts, watching her sister marry a fascistic way stop only to find that the neighborhood embodies simmering, repressed sexuality, and cretin (Makis Papadimitriou), and desperately is under violent military siege. Coppola tastefully captures the muted, can- longing for physical love, the emotional is quickly killed, but Lucy links up with a dle-lit Southern Gothic atmosphere. A subtle time bomb that resides within Maria begins well-muscled janitor (ex-pro wrestler Dave potboiler with an empowering feminist per- its inexorable countdown. Shot with expert Bautista), and together the pair make a run spective, this is recommended. (S. Granger) technical proficiency, A Blast hinges on for it, along the way encountering black- Papoulia’s stunning portrayal of a wife and garbed killers, looters, and self-styled resis- Birth of the Dragon HH mother slowly coming to the realization that tance fighters—as well as plenty of corpses. Universal, 96 min., PG-13, she is damaged goods and that her life does The identity and motive of the invaders are DVD: $22.98, Blu-ray/DVD not at all resemble what she thought it would revealed about halfway through in a script Combo: $29.98, Nov. 21 be. By turns naturalistically crass, considerate, that is rather behind the political curve Charismatic martial arts and carnal, Papoulia’s Maria is a beautifully (Bushwick would have made much more legend Bruce Lee is at the realized role, worth the price of admission sense in the pre-Trump era). But even though center of this biopic set in alone. Featuring sexually explicit imagery, co-directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan San Francisco’s Chinatown this is highly recommended for more adven- Milott’s film is absurd on virtually every lev- in 1964, a time when cocky Lee was trying turous collections. (J. Cruz) el (Lucy morphs with uncanny speed from to promote himself as a superstar. Filmmaker a girl who knows nothing about guns into a hellion who can take out several foes with George Nolfi’sBirth of a Dragon presents a fic- HH1/2 Bluebeard a single bullet), video-game aficionados will tionalized account of a mythic bout between Well Go USA, 117 min., in Lee and Shaolin master Wong Jack Man, who Korean w/English subtitles, not likely enjoy the way much of the action is resented Lee’s determination to teach kung rated, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: filmed as the intrepid duo and comrades they fu to Americans. “You fight for ambition and $18.99 add along the way continually run forward, pride,” Wong told Lee, “but you do not fight A meek, newly-divorced picking off enemies as they go (the quieter, with your soul.” Although Lee (Philip Ng) doctor starting over as a more introspective interludes, however, are had been a strict practitioner of the Wing junior staff physician at a hobbled by silly dialogue and bad acting). Chun method, following his encounter with clinic that serves a largely elderly population A slickly-made but brainless exercise in the more spiritual, acrobatic Wong (Xia Yu), becomes the unwitting witness to what ap- violence that will likely appeal to only the he changed not only his style of fighting but pears to be a confession to a series of unsolved most undemanding action movie fans, this also his combat philosophy. Their infamous serial killings by an old man under sedation. is optional, at best. (F. Swietek) match was a private one, likely in a ware- Dr. Byun Seung-hoon (Jo Jin-woong), who house in nearby Oakland. Riffing off a 1980 is already suffering from depression, grows Captain Underpants: The First Epic article in Official Karate magazine by Michael increasingly paranoid because is Movie HH1/2 Dorgan, screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and the father of his landlord, an amiable butcher Fox, 90 min., PG, DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Christopher Wilkinson have added an un- whose shop just may be hiding evidence of Combo: $36.99 necessarily pulpy, East/West romantic subplot murder. When the butcher’s wife suddenly Dav Pilkey’s hugely popular series of chil- that involves Lee’s struggling apprentice, goes on a trip and his own ex-wife disappears dren’s books about an obese superpower-en-

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 20 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 dowed dimwit who rocks tighty-whities and a red cape inspired this frantic, colorful animated film that sports a subtitle clearly indi- cating the hopeful start of a franchise. The first third, devoted to fairly ordinary elementary-school high-jinks, is the best, focusing on George (voiced by Kevin Hart) NEW! and Harold (Thomas Middleditch), incor- rigible fourth-grade pranksters who drive Principal Krupp (Ed Helms) crazy. Using a hypnotic ring, George turns Krupp into the Captain, and morphs into a tepid spoof of the superhero genre as arch-villain Professor Pippy P. Poopypants (Nick Kroll)—a character name that indicates the level of humor found here—aims to take over the town with a giant robo-toilet. The amusing set-up gives way to tedious action featuring the stumblebum Captain and Professor P., whose one-liners are surprisingly flat. The CGI animation is fine and work enthusiastic, but the action drags on and on with material that seems better suited to a kids’ cable series than a feature-length movie. Hundreds of full-length feature fi lms Still, Pilkey’s books have a large fan base, so this should be considered a strong optional for classroom use! purchase. (F. Swietek) u High-interest streaming video collection Citizen Jane: Battle for the City HHH1/2 for educational instructional purposes MPI, 93 min., not rated, DVD: $24.99 u Current and hard-to-fi nd titles Director Matt Tyrnauer tells a remarkable David u Literary adapta tions, blockbusters, classics, and Goliath tale in this environmental titles, foreign fi lms, social exceptional documentary ® about the battle that Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) issues, animation studies, Academy Award waged during the 1960s against the grandiose winners, and more schemes of Robert Moses, a construction mogul who had dominated New York City’s u Easy-to-use search feature or browse urban planning program for decades. Having 20+ popular genres developed a kaleidoscopic vision of the city’s vibrant textures and rhythms that was totally u MARC records available at odds with Moses’s sterile conception of a metropolis with high-rise housing projects u and expressways slicing neighborhoods in Same-language subtitles half, Jacobs first articulated her objections to u Moses’s philosophy in 1961’s The Death and Available in the United States only Life of Great American Cities, going on to be- come a public crusader against a succession of u A great complement to the his projects: to extend Fifth Avenue through U.S. Films On Demand Washington Square Park, to bulldoze Green- wich Village’s historic buildings, and finally subscription as a stand-alone collection to bisect lower Manhattan with a high-speed expressway. Tyrnauer tells the story of their For more information or a demo, contact struggle—which resulted in a radical shift in the concept of urban renewal—using a (800) 322-8755 or [email protected]. combination of archival material (including news footage and substantial excerpts from interviews with Jacobs and Moses), readings from their writings by Marisa Tomei and Vincent D’Onofrio, and incisive commentary by journalists and scholars. It is not hard to WWW. INFOBASE . COM discern where Tyrnauer’s sympathies lie, but

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 21 VIDEO LIBRARIAN he has imbued what might have been a dry where he made his first feature,Eraserhead island prison by Ben, peace-making prince historical account with extraordinary vitality, (1977). Given the often nightmarish visions of the blissful kingdom of Auradon, so that and he adds a powerful warning that China of his movies, some will be surprised to learn they could attend school with the children is now not only making the same mistakes that Lynch had loving and supportive parents of Disney heroes and heroines. Here, they that New York did under Moses, but doing so and a generally happy childhood. Along with worked through the trauma of fitting in and on a much larger scale. Highly recommended. the usual archival photos and home movie overcame demands by their wicked parents (F. Swietek) footage, Nguyen shows Lynch at work paint- to steal a magic wand that would lead to more ing in his studio and at rest with his young evil. Now, Mal (Dove Cameron), daughter of The Dark Tower H1/2 daughter—chain smoking and drinking cof- Maleficent, is the girlfriend of Ben (Mitchell Sony, 95 min., PG-13, DVD: fee just as he imagined as a teenager. The film Hope), who is newly crowned as king, but $30.99, Blu-ray: $34.99 is a mix of autobiography and documentary after the pair have a falling out over her If you have read Stephen with personal reflections on what shaped continued use of magic, she flees back to the King’s epic 30-years-in-the- Lynch as an artist, and it features clips from Isle of the Lost, which is now ruled by Uma making sci-fi fantasy novel his early short films, which he approached (China Anne McClain), daughter of Ursula series, you may understand as “a moving painting with sound.” While the Sea-Witch. When Ben tries to persuade what’s happening onscreen. hardly a Rosetta Stone to Lynch’s thinking, Mal to come back, he is captured, and the If you haven’t, this will be a sullen, superficial the film does illustrate Lynch’s lifelong com- aforementioned wand becomes the price for slog. The story begins in earthquake-plagued mitment to creating art, his youthful drive his safe return. So Mal and her friends must Manhattan, where teenage Jake Chambers in old age, and an imagination that remains confront Uma and her henchmen aboard a (Tom Taylor) is suffering horrific nightmares fecund. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) pirate ship while staging a rescue. Directed by following the death of his firefighter father. veteran Kenny Ortega (High School Musical), When his mother (Katheryn Winnick) sends Dean HH1/2 Descendants 2 is a colorful but bland sequel him to an asylum for psychiatric evaluation, Lionsgate, 93 min., PG-13, that is more frantic than energetic, featur- Jake escapes. Apparently, Jake has vaguely DVD: $19.99 ing effects that underwhelm and instantly defined but formidable psychic powers, and The directorial debut of forgettable musical numbers. Still, the first he feels compelled to document his terrifying comedian and author Demi- movie was a big hit with young viewers, so apocalyptic visions in spooky sketches that tri Martin, Dean is a comic this should be considered a strong optional include a mysterious Man in Black and an drama exploring loss and purchase. (F. Swietek) impassive hero known as the Gunslinger. grief with a sense of humor. Finding his way to an abandoned house in Martin plays the title character, a New York Despicable Me 3 HH Brooklyn, Jake stumbles through a portal into cartoonist facing a creative block after the Universal, 90 min., PG, DVD: a surreal dimension known as Mid-World, death of his mother. costars as $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: where he encounters the trench-coat-wearing his widower father, who is trying to move $34.99, Dec. 5 Gunslinger () and the demonic Man ahead by selling the family home, something Gru and his mischievous in Black (Matthew McConaughey). “His Shine his son refuses to consider or discuss. Dean yellow Minions have con- is pure,” marvels the Man in Black. Which wallows in denial, struggling with cartoons quered the Chinese box- means Jake’s brain contains the power to that constantly turn into dark, sardonic office! According to Chi- topple the Dark Tower, a spire that protects pieces featuring the Grim Reaper as well as na’s tracking company Entgroup, this third not only our , here called Keystone the fiancée he bailed on. Overwhelmed, Dean installment opened as the country’s biggest Earth, but also other parallel worlds within runs away on a business trip to the West animated hit ever. The story follows former the galaxy. Meanwhile, the righteous Gun- Coast, where he falls in love with a sunny, bad-guy-turned-secret-agent Gru (Steve slinger keeps repeating a mantra: “I do not free-spirited woman (Gillian Jacobs), extend- Carell) and his agent wife Lucy Wilde (Kris- kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun ing his stay in order to get closer to her. Dean ten Wiig), along with their three adopted has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with is one of those mopey, nerdy characters we’re daughters—maturing Margo, unicorn-ob- my heart.” Whatever. Built on a completely supposed to like even though he is completely sessed Agnes, and playful Edith— who confounding, mythological patchwork, Dan- self-involved and inconsiderate and it’s to travel to Freedonia to meet Gru’s long-lost, ish director Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower is Martin’s considerable credit as a performer ostentatiously wealthy twin brother Dru (also a choppy, incoherent hodgepodge of surreal that we actually do. The more interesting voiced by Carell), who wants Gru to return to chase/action sequences, and little more. Not story, however, belongs to Kline and Mary villainy. Having been unceremoniously fired recommended. (S. Granger) Steenburgen as the real estate agent who starts by the new Anti-Villain League boss (Jenny the widower pondering: is he ready to move Slate) and deserted by his sinister Minions, re- David Lynch: The Art Life on with another relationship? The character formed Gru and clumsy Dru take on Balthaz- HHH of Dean may be snarky and judgmental but ar “Evil” Bratt (Trey Parker). Bratt is a resentful Criterion, 88 min., not rated, Martin’s film is compassionate and sweet, if ‘80s-obsessed child TV star-turned-diamond DVD: $19.95, Blu-ray: $29.95 also overly precious and obvious. A strong thief, who has a sassy robot on call, a trusty Director Jon Nguyen’s optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) keyboard guitar, a penchant for Rubik’s Cube, portrait of filmmaker David and a fervent desire to destroy Hollywood. Lynch looks at his early life, Descendants 2 HH1/2 Tossing bubble-gum bombs, Bratt endlessly beginnings as a painter and Disney, 90 min., not rated, repeats his tagline: “I’ve been a baaaad boy!” visual artist, and first experimental short DVD: $26.99 Julie Andrews vocalizes Gru and Dru’s rotten films. Lynch provides the narration, offering The first Descendants— mother Marlene. Co-directors Kyle Balda and remembrances of growing up in the “green also a made-for-cable Pierre Coffin (who also voices the babbling, grass” of Idaho and Washington state, his first live-action Disney musi- nonsensical Minions) maintain a frantic pace forays into painting (“I had this idea that you cal—introduced a quartet in this disjointed film filled with inoffensive drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you of adolescent offspring of jokes and colorful sight gags. The weakest of paint. And that’s it.”), and his experiences at villains from the studio’s classic animated the three franchise entries to date, this is an art school and the American Film Institute, movies. The four were freed from their optional purchase. (S. Granger)

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Do You Take This Man buddy Hi-5 () search for help. in awkward confrontations. A soap salesman HH Eventually, an error involving a punk hacker asks people to smell his fragrant product, Breaking Glass, 93 min., not dubbed Jailbreak () catapults Gene which renders them unconscious and allows rated, DVD: $24.99 on a life-changing trip. Product placements him to rob them. An alleged Buddhist monk The promising subject of abound, including Facebook, YouTube, offers talismans at ridiculous prices. A man writer-director Joseph Tu- , Candy Crush, Just Dance, , who works for road and bridge authorities nick’s earnest dramedy—an Dropbox, and the Cloud, while esteemed frets over a missing tree. And so on. Geng evening of crises and doubts British actor Sir disgraces adopts a somewhat formalist take in terms before a gay wedding—proves too large for his himself as the poop . Mind-numbing of studied composition, but the effort only low-key, low-budget approach, which leaves cinematic malware, this total time-waster is underscores the artificiality of the ghost town viewers feeling claustrophobic within the not recommended. (S. Granger) backdrop. In the end, the film is a bit of a slog four walls of Tunick’s single setting (a well-ap- with a few funny moments, but never really pointed house). Daniel (Anthony Rapp) is England Is Mine HH comes together. Optional. (T. Keogh) a starched shirt who prefers to stay home Cleopatra, 94 min., not rated, rather than socialize with younger partner DVD: $24.95, Blu-ray: $29.95, A Ghost Story HHH1/2 Dec. 12 Christopher (Jonathan Bennett) and his hip Lionsgate, 92 min., R, DVD: friends. While Christopher confesses to some Singer- Mor- $19.99, Blu-ray: $24.99 anxiety over his age and energy difference rissey was unquestionably Writer-director David with Daniel, the latter is doing the same an important force in En- Lowery imbues the horror while prepping all of the food (no caterer for glish music during the genre with a rare degree of control freak Daniel) for the rehearsal dinner. 1980s, but in Mark Gill’s film about the art- poetic elegance while also A big chunk of the film is built around that ist’s formative years in , he comes ruminating on the nature dinner, where Daniel’s wonderful parents across as rather obnoxious—and, at least here, of time, memory, and grief in this small but (Sam Anderson, Lee Garlington) welcome boring. Jack Lowden plays young Steven, affecting film. An unnamed young couple a teary Christopher (who is estranged from initially (in the late ‘70s) with a mop of long (Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara) move into his mother and father), and sundry other hair and then (in the early ‘80s) with a much a house, where they are woken by strange relatives and chums (Alyson Hannigan and shorter cut. But while the hairstyle changes, sounds. After the husband dies in a car crash, Thomas Dekker among them) reveal hidden he remains the same morose, taciturn figure and goes to identify the body in the histories and long-running anxieties. The throughout. A shy 17-year-old trapped in a morgue—covering him with a sheet before talk produces enough red flags to create stifling middle-class family, Steven spends she leaves—the camera lingers on the gurney doubts in the engaged couple. Viewers are his days scribbling lyrics in his notebook and until his “ghost” (literally the sheet with expected to take some things on faith (e.g., writing critiques of local rock bands. black eyeholes) rises and glides through the the puppyish Christopher is supposedly a gal- Eventually he meets Billy Duffy (Adam Law- hospital corridors, over the fields, and back to lery-approved painter of stirring depth) and rence), with whom he founds The Nosebleeds, the house, where he watches his wife mourn. are advised to bring fairly low expectations but Duffy soon leaves for greener pastures, A Ghost Story is a haunted house story told to the celebration, which does feature some forcing Steven to endure first a dreary desk job from the ghost’s perspective: unable to com- appealing performances by the supporting under an odious boss and then a stint as an municate (except with the ghost who haunts cast. Optional. (T. Keogh) orderly in a hospital (where he encounters an the house next door), the spirit continues to old high school sweetheart dying of cancer), watch as events move forward and then back- H until Johnny Marr (Laurie Kynaston) shows ward in time. Although it may sound some- Sony, 86 min., PG, DVD: up at his doorstep one day, asking whether what plot-driven, A Ghost Story is primarily a $30.99, Blu-ray: $34.99 he’d like to join a new band. The Smiths mood piece, a reverie about the human need For technology luddites are born! One can sympathize with Gill’s for connection, the inevitability of change, and anyone left without a difficulty making a film about Morrissey the pain of loss, and eventual resignation. smart phone, “emoji” are without the subject’s permission or access to While it is unlikely to scare viewers, Lowery’s pictographs and ideograms The Smiths music catalogue, but England Is mournful, moving film will probably haunt often used in electronic text Mine feels like a long, turgid prologue, a film them. Highly recommended. (F. Swietek) messages. Originating on Japanese mobile that might more accurately be titled A Portrait phones in the late 1990s, were popu- of the Artist as an Insufferable Young Twit. Not HH larized by Apple’s iPhone and quickly adopted recommended. (F. Swietek) Lionsgate, 127 min., PG-13, by Android and other mobile operating sys- DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD tems (their addictive popularity even led to Free and Easy HH Combo: $39.99, Nov. 7 inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary). FilmRise, 99 min., in Mandarin In filmmaker Destin While their meanings can be culture specif- w/English subtitles, not rated, Daniel Cretton’s adaptation ic, their use is now almost universal. This DVD: $19.95, Blu-ray: $24.95 of Jeannette Walls’s 2005 animated feature co-written and directed An absurdist comedy bestselling memoir about by is set in Textopolis, a fan- built on little more than a a dysfunctional childhood, Walls’s abusive, ciful workplace within an adolescent boy’s sketch premise that quickly alcoholic father Rex is all-too-often seen . The story revolves around Gene loses its novelty, the Chinese through rose-colored glasses, or perhaps it (voiced by T.J. Miller), an emoji created with- film Free and Easy is set in a deserted, decay- just seems that way due to ’s out a filter, meaning that he’s a nonconform- ing town that once supported factory work, colorful, manipulatively roguish interpreta- ist who is able to express multiple emotions. where a scattered group of crooks, imbeciles, tion. Working as a 1980s Manhattan gossip Gene’s task is to be the “meh” (or disinterest) worriers, and corrupt cops mill about and columnist, riding in a taxi after dinner with symbol, but he aspires to be more, which have odd encounters. Co-writer and director her financier fiancé (Max Greenfield), Walls leads to his being terminated by his sinister Geng Jun, working with nonprofessional () spots her grubby, itinerant supervisor Smiler (). Unwilling actors, sets up a series of vignettes in which parents dumpster-diving on the Lower East to accept his fate, Gene and his once-popular his slow-moving, laconic characters end up Side—a sight that ignites a series of flash-

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Living in extreme poverty performance by Seann William Scott as a human interconnectedness and the circle of in rural West Virginia, the Walls family childlike bouncer hired to be the enforcer life. Highly recommended. (F. Swietek) eventually squatted in a shack that lacked on a minor-league Canadian hockey team. plumbing, heat, or electricity. To say that Despite the return of virtually all of the orig- Heavens to Betsy HHH the kids were neglected and malnourished inal cast, this sequel not only fails to score Vision, 115 min., not rated, is an understatement. But instead of being a goal, it barely approaches the net. Scott’s DVD: $19.99 resentful about her reprehensibly uncon- Doug Glatt is still the enforcer for the Halifax What happens after God ventional upbringing, Jeanette maintains Highlanders, pummeling opposing players suddenly grants every single that it made her and her three siblings re- who hurt his teammates, but also coming wish one has prayed for silient and self-reliant. Unfortunately, that across as an extraordinarily nice guy, even over a lifetime? That’s the doesn’t translate here cinematically, since apologizing while he beats up his victims. premise of this charming, the impoverished Walls kids appear to have But he meets his match in Anders Cain (a wise comedy, in which an aspiring children’s enjoyed excellent health, perfect teeth/ snarling Wyatt Russell), the enforcer for an book author and single woman named Betsy , and clean clothes, and are rarely seen opposing team, who clobbers him so badly ( Lesiewicz) complains to the Lord that suffering or struggling—which contradicts during a rink altercation that his career is she has never received anything she’s asked the grim truth of Walls’s candid autobiog- for. Stuck in a dead-end job and out oodles raphy, diluting its emotional potency. Slick ended. When the Highlanders’ sleazy owner hires Cain as Doug’s replacement, however, of money after turning to a swindling vanity and sanitized, this film version succumbs to press, a wits-end Betsy suddenly and mirac- sentimentality. Optional. (S. Granger) Doug persuades veteran enforcer Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber)—the villain from the original ulously finds that she is wealthy, successful, movie—to train him to fight as a lefty so he popular with child readers, looked after by Good Time HH can make a comeback. You would have to personal assistants in her own mansion, and Lionsgate, 93 min., R, DVD: married to her eighth-grade crush. What’s $19.98, Blu-ray: $24.99, Nov. be as dull-witted as Glatt not to absolutely 21 know that a showdown is inevitable in the more, her late sister is alive and well, and most important game of the season. This ready for the loving relationship that Betsy British actor Robert unpromising scenario plays out with far more has always wanted. As with other dreams- Pattinson (Twilight) stars raunch than humor, featuring violence that come-true scenarios, however, there turns as a small-time criminal out to be a price for perfection: you lose a part determined to break his has exponentially increased from the first of yourself when life presents no challenges. mentally-challenged younger brother out Goon. Not recommended. (F. Swietek) Writer-director Robert Alaniz’s faith-based of custody in this gruesome, violent crime film ultimately reminds viewers that life drama from street-savvy, New York guer- Heal the Living HHH1/2 doesn’t let any of us off easy, no matter how illa-filmmaking siblings Josh and Benny Cohen, 104 min., in French w/ Safdie. The brothers are outspoken advo- English subtitles, not rated, many wishes come true. Recommended. DVD: $25.99, Blu-ray: $30.99 cates of cinema vérité, which here translates (T. Keogh) into shaky handheld camerawork, natural Writer-director Katell lighting, and unlikable, distressed char- Quillévéré here sensitively Hickok HH acters mumbling insignificant dialogue adapts Maylis de Kerangal’s Cinedigm, 88 min., not rated, while wallowing in depravity. The pulpy, 2013 novel Réparer les vivants DVD: $14.99, 4K/Blu-ray: $29.99 rambling story begins as Constantine “Con- for the screen. When teenaged Simon (Gabin nie” Nikas (Pattison) rescues his troubled Verdet) is declared brain-dead after an auto Luke Hemsworth, older brother Nicky (co-director Benny Safdie) accident outside , his grief-stricken brother of action movie from a psychiatric evaluation concerning parents (Emmanuelle Seigner and Kool Shen) stars Chris (Thor) and Liam an incident involving their abusive grand- are approached by hospital administrator (The Hunger Games), stars mother. Connie wants Nicky at his side Thomas (Tahar Rahim) about possible organ as Wild Bill Hickok in this anemic Western during a bank robbery, which goes wrong donation. After some soul-searching, the centering on the frontier legend’s stint as when a dye-pack explodes as they make couple agree. The focus then shifts to Claire marshal of Abilene, KS. Hickok is presented their getaway, dousing them both in red. (Anne Dorval), a musician with degenerative as a scoundrel, thief, and gunman whose Connie flees, but panicked Nicky is arrest- heart disease being cared for by her two sons reputation precedes him when he arrives in ed. Dwelling in a squalid, shadowy under- (Finnegan Oldfield and Théo Cholbi). The town—which is all true enough, but the script ground culture of drugs and thugs, scumbag harvesting of the boy’s heart, the selection then tells a thoroughly fictionalized tale of Connie manipulates his girlfriend (Jennifer of Claire as recipient, the quick transport of his exploits, in which he transforms from op- Jason Leigh) to max out her mother’s credit the organ from coastal Normandy to Paris, portunist to moral force, ostensibly inspired cards for Nicky’s bail, but a brawl with an- and Claire’s surgery are all handled with by a tow-headed kid who idolizes Hickok as a other inmate at Rikers Island sends Nicky near-documentary rigor but in a luminously hero. Country western recording artist Trace into a hospital. Ultimately, these misfits fluid style. What sets Quillévéré’s film apart Adkins costars as the town saloon owner will end up hiding out in a dingy, deserted is the skilled characterization—seen even who puts a price on Hickok’s head when the Adventureland theme park. A far-fetched in peripheral figures like Thomas and his rough-edged rogue starts mending his ways. tale presented with lots of in-your-face un- colleagues, or the ex-lover whom Claire Hemsworth lacks both the screen charisma pleasantness, this is an optional purchase. visits before entering the hospital—while a and the acting chops of his younger brothers (S. Granger) remarkable prologue centered on a vibrant and Kris Kristofferson looks like he rose from

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S.( Axmaker) eventually. Of course, it would probably help the 2011 French box office if Pierre spent less time with Elisabeth (Léna smash Intouchables. In this version (credited The Immortal Life of Paugam), the grad student who he’s been to original writer-directors Eric Toledano and seeing on the side. If the affair is strictly phys- Henrietta Lacks HH1/2 Olivier Nakache), the characters are not from HBO, 90 min., TV-MA, DVD: ical for him, it means more to her—to the different races or countries, but the class di- $19.99, Blu-ray: $24.99 extent that she spies on Pierre and Manon, vision remains. Manual laborer Tito (Rodrigo Based on the popular discovering that the latter is also cheating on de la Serna) meets quadriplegic businessman 2010 titular nonfiction book Pierre, and she tells him so. As far as Pierre is Felipe (Oscar Martínez) when the former does by Rebecca Skloot, filmmak- concerned, it’s natural for men to cheat, but some gardening work for the widowed latter. er George C. Wolfe’s HBO- not women, and so he withdraws even fur- And when Felipe finds himself in need of aired The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is ther. This is the kind of nuanced film where an attendant, he rejects all of the applicants an intense true drama about a strange and there are no real villains, although director that associate Yvonne (Alejandra Flechner) outrageous historical episode. When a young Garrel is more sympathetic to the women, sends his way, preferring Tito—who has mother named Henrietta Lacks died in 1951 who may not be perfect, but are a lot easier no experience—because Tito talks to him of cervical cancer, cells were taken from to like. Recommended. (K. Fennessy) like an equal rather than an object of pity. her body and preserved at Johns Hopkins Nonetheless, Felipe bets Tito that he won’t last Hospital without her family’s knowledge or An Inconvenient Sequel: two weeks. And Tito can’t afford to refuse the consent. Over the ensuing decades, countless Truth to Power HHH offer since his aunt just kicked him out of her lines of other cells were derived from Lacks’s Paramount, 98 min., PG, DVD: apartment. Tito also has his eye on Verónica and used in research that yielded profitable $16.99, Blu-ray: $26.99 (Carla Peterson), Felipe’s comely assistant, breakthroughs for doctors and companies. Shortly after President but she rebuffs his crude advances. Other Lacks’s relatives received no compensation announced than the potential for romance, Inseparables for this exploitation. In the film, Skloot (Rose that the United States would generates little suspense, since Felipe and Tito Byrne) is trying to construct a portrait of withdraw from the historic get along pretty well right from the start. Tito Lacks, tracking down one daughter, Deborah 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, a crack in makes lots of mistakes (which the director (Oprah Winfrey, who bought the rights to Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf caused a plays for comedy), but learns quickly enough, Skloot’s book). Psychologically and emo- 1.1-trillion-ton block of ice to calve, forming and the men enjoy comparing notes about tionally troubled, Deborah turns out to be a a colossal iceberg which is already breaking (and sometimes ogling) women, smoking handful for Skloot, initially reluctant to help into huge chunks. Add that to the increasing cigarettes, and racing around town in Felipe’s the writer and then subject to wild swings threat of mega-fires, destructive hurricanes, sports car. Although inspired by a true story, between trust and manic paranoia. True as deeper droughts, and worldwide temperatures much of this plays like fantasy (an American this might have been in real life, such extreme hitting a record high for the third year in a version starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin vacillations grow tedious after awhile, and row. To call this documentary follow-up to Hart is scheduled for release in 2018). A strong Winfrey’s powerful performance begins to 2006’s Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth optional purchase. (K. Fennessy) feel diluted. And as Skloot meets more mem- timely is a bit of an understatement. Former bers of the family, it becomes a bit confusing Vice-President and Nobel Peace Prize-recip- Kedi HHH trying to figure out who is who in relationship ient Al Gore updates his dire observations, Oscilloscope, 80 min., in to Lacks. Still, it’s nice to see Leslie Uggams, while also looking at enlightened global Turkish w/English subtitles, not Rocky Carroll, and Reg E. Cathey, among energy policies and the latest in technology. rated, DVD: $34.99, Blu-ray: others, in memorable roles here. Although it Says Gore, “Mother Nature is telling us, and $39.99, Nov. 14 threatens at times to become over-the-top due people are noticing it.” Gore believes that Cats have been roaming to Winfrey’s whipsaw performance, this will global warming is the most threatening as- freely through the streets of definitely appeal to Winfrey’s legion of fans, pect of our ecological crisis because the thin Istanbul for centuries. The and should be considered a strong optional atmospheric shell surrounding our planet is unusual documentary Kedi—an art house purchase. (T. Keogh) the most vulnerable part of Earth’s system. hit—captures the unique relationship that Gore argues that Trump’s decision to leave the the city’s dwellers and small businesses have In the Shadow of Women Paris agreement has isolated the United States with stray felines. Filmmaker Ceyda Torun HHH in the world community and opened the door presents her visual essay in an overall shape- Icarus, 73 min., in French w/ for a China ready to assume a leadership role. less, random style, but she’s also set herself a English subtitles, not rated, He also notes the real risk of other countries mighty task: chasing cats around streets and DVD: $26.99 retaliating by trading among themselves, markets to successfully obtain enough usable Although it was made in creating advances in solar and wind energy, footage to tell stories about individual kitties 2015, In the Shadow of Wom- and placing barriers on U.S. products that and their relationships with multiple, caring en has the feel of a French contribute to carbon pollution. An effective humans. Everyone in Istanbul has a running New Wave film from the 1960s, shot in black- and impassioned documentary, filmmakers tab with a veterinarian, one man says, talking and-white and featuring an omniscient narra- Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk’s An Inconvenient about how compassionate strangers take ail- tor voiced by Louis Garrel, the son of director Sequel illustrates how environmentally-con- ing strays in for treatment. Kedi introduces a . Pierre (Stanislas Merhar), a scious citizens and their governments are lot of folks who sell fish or run delis or wait on sad-eyed documentarian, is making a film struggling with consequential climate chal- café tables, and captures how they relate with about the French Resistance with his wife, lenges. Recommended. (S. Granger) genuine affection to the cats who wander in

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 28 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 and out, feeding them, rubbing their tum- her battered vehicle. Eventually, Karla will ers—including Kiki co-writer Pucci mies, or brushing their fur. But the film isn’t discover that the abductors (Chris McGinn, Garcon—as they practice, prep, and compete just about semi-pet-worship: there is plenty of Lew Temple) are a crazy, confrontational in balls. The scenes are electric and inspiring, philosophical musing here about cats being backwoods couple who are operating a child with dancers busting often-acrobatic moves a bridge to God and serving to remind us of trafficking ring. Working from Knate Lee’s while decked out in truly original costumes. our best selves. Sure to appeal to cat lovers, pulpy, often logic-defying script, director Luis But Kiki is about much more than just dance, this is recommended. (T. Keogh) Prieto amps up the frenetic suspense, as Karla telling a tale of community and activism as vows, “You messed with the wrong mother!” the open and accepting kiki world serves as a Kept Boy HHH Optional. (S. Granger) safe haven, providing structure and family for Breaking Glass, 89 min., not many kids who have been ostracized by par- rated, DVD: $24.99 Kiki HHHH ents and peers for being gay. It also provides For his 30th birthday, MPI, 94 min., not rated, DVD: a forum to fight for causes affecting their Dennis (Jon Paul Phillips) $24.99 lives, with the kiki youth here advocating receives an ultimatum from The classic 1990 docu- for LGBTQ issues and hosting support groups his older lover, Farleigh mentary Paris Is Burning with as fierce an intensity as they bring to the (Thure Riefenstein): namely, presented an unprecedented dance floor. Highly recommended.Editor’s start earning his keep. An interior designer look inside New York City’s Choice. (P. Morehart) and reality TV star with a penchant for col- underground drag ball cul- lecting beautiful things, Farleigh has “kept” ture in the mid-to-late 1980s, where Afri- Kung Fu Yoga HH1/2 Dennis for some time at home as a reliable can-American and Latino gay, transgender, Well Go USA, 108 min., in boy toy. But when Farleigh’s ratings start and transsexual communities came together Mandarin & English w/English to go down and advertising revenue drops, to throw elaborate costumed runway dance subtitles, not rated, DVD: there is less money to go around, so Dennis competitions (their dance moves eventually $24.98, Blu-ray: $29.98 has to join the ranks of the working. With a became mainstream thanks to Madonna’s Jackie Chan returns to thin resume, Dennis ends up on the skeletal 1990 single “Vogue”). Drag balls are still very the Indiana Jones-inspired crew of Farleigh’s traveling production, which much alive in NYC, full of vibrant young adventure comedy of his includes a trip to the sunny Colombian dancers who are not only breathing new 1986 hit Armour of God, albeit as an older, coast. But there’s an added wrinkle: Farleigh energy into the scene but also creating their more modest archeologist adventurer in suddenly has eyes for Jasper (Greg Audino), own sub-culture called kiki. Sara Jordenö’s this Chinese-Indian co-production. Chan sparking a competition with Dennis that documentary Kiki shifts between raw footage plays Professor Jack Chan, who joins an will resolve only if possession transforms and staged set pieces as it follows several danc- Indian archeology professor (Disha Patani) into love. Director George Bamber ultimately steers this smart dramedy away from gay stereotypes to a more introspective, soulful vision of mature bonding, capturing along the way some pleasing Columbian sights. Recommended. (T. Keogh) Kidnap HH Universal, 82 min., R, DVD: $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $34.98 A single mother work- ing as a waitress in a New Orleans-area diner, Karla Dyson (Halle ) is de- voted to her 6-year-old son Frankie (Sage Correa). While at a nearby amusement park, Karla takes an important phone call from her attorney—apparently, her ex-husband is suing for sole custody—and when she looks up, Frankie’s gone. She spies a woman shoving Frankie into a teal-colored Mustang GT. Running after the kidnapper, distraught Karla climbs into her red Chrysler minivan and takes off in pursuit. “As long as my son is in that car, I will not stop,” she vows. “Wher- ever you go, I will be right behind you.” Karla recklessly weaves in and out of traffic on Louisiana’s highways and back roads, leaving not only wrecked cars in her wake but also critically-injured bystanders, including a motorcycle policeman. When she stops at a local sheriff’s office, the desk officer tells her to wait. Looking at a bulletin board filled with photos of missing children, Karla realizes she hasn’t a moment to spare and darts back to

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 29 VIDEO LIBRARIAN to search for a lost treasure using an ancient Leap! HH also try to reconnect with their families map. Accompanied by their young teaching Lionsgate, 89 min., PG, DVD: and other acquaintances (the reason for assistants and a wily treasure hunter, they $29.95, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: Donatella’s depression—her separation from set off to the ice-covered mountains of Tibet, $39.99, Nov. 21 her son, who is now living with foster par- where they battle a prince (Sonu Sood) who Aimed specifically at pre- ents—eventually takes center stage). For the lays claim to the fortune. The title references teens, this animated feature most part, the balance between humor and the meeting of two cultures: the martial arts was originally a French/ drama is sensitively maintained, and the lead of China (as practiced by the men here) and Canadian co-production performances are excellent, with Tedeschi the yoga traditions of India (followed by the titled Ballerina that performed well in Europe having a field day playing a character who women, including a Chinese archeology last year. Unfortunately, the Americanized might have stepped out of Auntie Mame, and student). The sprawling story also tosses in a version lost its magic somewhere over the Ramazzotti managing to earn our sympathy battle in an underground ice cave, a car chase mid-Atlantic. Set in the French countryside without ever descending into mawkishness. with a roaring lion in the backseat, a pit of of Brittany in the late 19th century, the story Recommended. (F. Swietek) hyenas, lots of free-for-all battles with armies begins at a dreary orphanage, where spirited of henchmen, plenty of slapstick comedy, 11-year-old Felicie (voiced by Elle Fanning) The Limehouse Golem and a climactic Bollywood dance number. and her scruffy friend Victor (Nat Wolff) HHH Chan shows off his talents in some marvel- decide to run away to Paris, where Felicie ous, cleverly choreographed sequences that RLJ, 109 min., not rated, DVD can become a famous ballerina and Victor or Blu-ray: $29.99, Nov. 7 showcase his dexterity and comic grace, while an accomplished inventor. After escaping the younger stars carry the more acrobatic Juan Carlos Medina’s from the surly supervisor, Monsieur Luteau challenges. Although the stunts are physical, gruesomely enjoyable piece (Mel Brooks), they arrive in the City of Light, the film leans on digital effects for the animal of period pulp based on the where they accidentally become separated. scenes, car chases, and epic sets. It’s big and 1994 novel by Peter Ack- Victor lands a menial job as an apprentice in splashy but also sloppy, and Chan has made royd mixes historical figures and fictional the prestigious workshop of Gustave Eiffel better films. Still, this should be considered a characters in a Victorian-era serial-killer (the Eiffel Tower is under construction). After strong optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) melodrama recalling Jack the Ripper’s spree wandering the streets, Felicie sneaks into the (but with an added touch of Agatha Christie). H Paris Opera Ballet, where she’s befriended The convoluted plot follows dogged efforts by The Last Face by the custodian, Odette (singer Carly Rae Scotland Yard Inspector Kildare (Bill Nighy) Lionsgate, 131 min., R, DVD: Jepsen), who also works for evil restaurateur $19.99, Blu-ray: $24.99 to track down the perpetrator in a string of Régine Le Haut (Kate McKinnon). Madame brutal murders in the Limehouse district of When Robin Wright was Regine’s daughter Camille (Maddie Ziegler) fog-shrouded London—a killer who has left married to Sean Penn, she is also an aspiring ballerina, and Felicie de- behind cryptic messages identifying him- optioned this concept as a viously wangles her way into Ballet Academy self with the titular clay creature of Jewish “passion project,” involv- auditions by impersonating snotty, selfish Ca- lore. Kildare is also busy making an equally ing both Penn and Javier mille. Although Felicie yearns to play Clara in Bardem, but funding fell through. After determined attempt to exonerate Lizzie The Nutcracker, she has a problem. As Master (Olivia Cooke), who is accused of poisoning Wright and Penn divorced, Penn obtained Merante (Terrence Scammell) puts it, Felicie the property and cast his then-fiancée, Char- her husband, playwright John Cree. The link has “the energy of a bullet and the lightness between the two plot threads is that Cree was lize Theron, in the role Wright had wanted. of a depressed elephant.” Not only is Leap! a Unfortunately, Penn is so besotted with one of Kildare’s chief suspects—along with thinly-scripted, formulaic story with an often Karl Marx, novelist George Gissing, and music Theron’s beauty that he rapturously photo- anachronistic underdog plot, it’s historical graphs her like a glamorous fashion model, hall comic Dan Leno (who Lizzie worked with basis is bunk, since The Nutcracker did not in her former career on the stage). As Lizzie’s not the altruistic doctor she plays, diluting premiere until 1892 and was not performed the veracity of this fragmented, savagely trial draws to a close, the detective’s pursuit outside of Russia for many years after that. realistic depiction of war-ravaged people. The of the killer grows increasingly desperate. The Optional. (S. Granger) melodramatic plot revolves around Dr. Wren Limehouse Golem is the modern equivalent Petersen (Theron)—uptight daughter of the of a Victorian penny dreadful, a goofily en- famous humanitarian founder of Médecins Like Crazy HHH tertaining tale that is crammed to the brim du Monde—who meets roguish surgeon Mi- Strand, 118 min., in Italian w/ with plot—including a couple of wicked final English subtitles, not rated, twists. And the actors eagerly sink their teeth guel Leon (Bardem) at a Monrovian refugee DVD: $27.99 camp. Sparks ignite! “Before I met Miguel, I into these succulently overripe roles. Recom- was an idea I had. I didn’t really exist,” she Paolo Virzì’s comedy-dra- mended. (F. Swietek) muses. Years later, when Wren has become ma inevitably invites com- director of an international aid agency, their parison to Thelma & Louise Louise by the Shore paths cross again in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and since both are about two HHH1/2 South Sudan, where Wren joins Miguel and women on the run from authorities. Beatrice First Run, 75 min., not rated, his blood-soaked cohorts (Jean Reno, Jared (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and Donatella (Mi- DVD: $24.95 Harris) as they desperately try to save lives caela Ramazzotti) are escapees from a Tuscan In this charming, short amid barbarism. In his first directorial effort mental institution (where both were placed animated feature, 75-year- since 2007’s Into the Wild, Penn relies on Erin by judicial order). Beatrice is the extrovert, old Louise finds herself Dignam’s shallow, preachy script, which is a wild, flamboyant fashion plate who takes stranded in a small resort filled with whispered, often incoherent dia- morose newcomer Donatella under her wing town on the coast of France after missing the logue. While a prologue notes the “impossible and encourages her to hop on a public bus final train out for the summer season. Left brutality” of the West African conflict, Penn and go on an adventure when the hospital’s to her own devices amongst deserted stores, focuses on the love between a man and wom- van is late picking them up from a communal hotels, and homes for the winter, Louise an, as if the stench of death were some kind outing. The pair engage in wacky behavior— creates her own dreamlike world where dogs of an aphrodisiac. A gruesome, disappointing stealing a car, feasting at an elegant restaurant talk, and memories of past experiences and film, this is not recommended. S.( Granger) and then fleeing without paying—but they loves float all around her.Louise by the Shore

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Hollow Creek Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. When Angelica disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.

MVD0497D UPC: 760137049791t SRP: 19.95 Street Date: 12/12/17 PreBook Date: 11/07/17 owes much to “Time Enough at Last,” the from his alcoholic mother, the story shifts the murder of a singer-prostitute in the posh famed Twilight Zone episode starring Burgess to a coastal fishing village where the boy has Hilton hotel, a crime that his superiors want Meredith as a man alone in his hometown taken a job as a chef’s assistant. The narrative to cover up as a suicide. Noredin connects the after an atomic bomb blast, but here instead follows him as he engages in horseplay with woman’s death to a powerful businessman of despair, Louise experiences quiet introspec- local youth and becomes involved with a who is also a member of parliament and tion, as she befriends a stray dog—voiced by new waitress, until he is suddenly assaulted therefore untouchable. But there’s a witness: the director, Jean-François Laguionie—and at a celebration in honor of St. Anne—the a Sudanese maid who saw the killer but fled paints, explores the town, and retreats into patroness of Brittany—by a man wielding a the scene, eventually becoming involved in bittersweet memories from her youth. Such chainsaw, who cuts off Mouton’s arm. And a blackmail attempt. After Noredin uncovers solitude might well lead some to madness, then suddenly Mouton disappears from the evidence that the dead woman was a black- but Louise takes it all in stride. An affecting film, which now follows local residents—after mailer as well, he tries to find the witness and unassuming portrait of strength and re- the trial in which the perpetrator is sent off while becoming involved with one of the silience, this rare animated feature film aimed to prison—going about their daily routines, victim’s friends, another high-priced hooker. at older viewers is highly recommended. although Mouton’s fate is ultimately revealed. A Chinatown vibe grows increasingly obvious (P. Morehart) The film’s deliberate pace, gritty visuals, as Noredin tries to unravel the mystery—the and meandering style require patience, but solution is revealed to viewers early on—in Maudie HHH Mouton gradually builds a powerful sense of an atmosphere where corruption is pervasive Sony, 116 min., PG-13, DVD: place. Recommended. (F. Swietek) and no one can be trusted. Some will con- $25.99 sider the film cynical and others will think Sally Hawkins delivers Never Let Go HHH1/2 it is simply realistic. Incidentally, Saleh was an exquisite performance Sony, 94 min., R, DVD: $14.99 refused permission to film in Cairo, and was as real-life eccentric Ca- Action movie aficionados forced to use Casablanca as a substitute. Rec- nadian folk artist Maud who can’t get enough of ommended. (F. Swietek) Lewis. Set in the late 1930s take-charge female heroes in rural Nova Scotia, Maud—crippled since will enjoy filmmaker How- Nise: The Heart of childhood with rheumatoid arthritis—has J. Ford’s Morocco-set Madness HHH been cheated out of her inheritance by her Never Let Go, which centers Strand, 106 min., in Portuguese selfish brother (Zachary Bennett), and sent on single mother Lisa Brennan (Angela Dix- w/English subtitles, not rated, to live in Digby with her stern, spinster aunt on), on holiday with her 5-month-old baby DVD: $24.99 (Gabrielle Rose), who treats Maud as if she’s (the child’s father is a married man of great Roberto Berliner’s biopic feebleminded. Determined to make her own importance). During , the baby is is an uplifting crowd-pleaser way in the world, indefatigably optimistic abducted. But Lisa is a former FBI agent who about Dr. Nise da Silveira Maud spies a “help wanted” ad in the general employs her significant training while track- (Glória Pires), who was instrumental in trans- store and trudges several miles on a dirt road ing down the kidnappers. Not surprisingly, forming the treatment of the mentally ill in to a tiny ramshackle cottage owned by surly more than a few obstacles are thrown in Lisa’s the Brazilian healthcare system during the fish-peddler Everett Lewis (), path, not least being that she is implicated 1940s. One of the first women to study med- applying for a job as his live-in housekeeper. in a suspicious murder, but Lisa is not one to icine in the country and a follower of the psy- Grumpy Everett grudgingly hires Maud, stop and argue the niceties of law. While Never chological theories of Carl Jung, she was jailed although he constantly berates her, curtly Let Go seems to have taken more than a little for her Marxist beliefs and after her release claiming that his dogs and chickens are more inspiration from the popular Liam Neeson joined the staff of a psychiatric hospital in Rio valuable to him than her. Resolutely cheerful thriller Taken, the film is fueled by Ford’s de Janeiro, but refused to participate in the and creative, Maud slyly finds time to paint, bravura use of Marrakech as the part-exotic, institution’s preferred modes of treatment— dabbing colorful flowers and vibrant birds part-dangerous backdrop for Lisa’s wild chase lobotomies and electroshock therapy—so she on the shelves and walls of Everett’s 10’ x 12’ in pursuit of her missing baby. Leading lady was relegated to the occupational therapy house (and any scraps of wood she can find). Dixon, a British actress mostly unknown on unit, where neglected patients were allowed Everett’s verbal abuse of Maud continues until this side of the Atlantic, invests her starring to wander about virtually unsupervised. Da a visitor (Kari Matchett) from New York City role with energy and tenacity. Highly recom- Silveira introduced innovative techniques, buys some of her decorative artwork. Sensi- mended. (P. Hall) including what today might be called service tively directed by Aisling Walsh, the story dogs for her “clients” (as she referred to them) of Lewis’s spirited plight strikes a poignant The Nile Hilton Incident for emotional bonding, as well as painting chord. Recommended. (S. Granger) HHH as a means of encouraging clients to express Strand, 107 min., in Arabic & themselves in ways that could be interpreted Mouton HHH Dinka w/English subtitles, not in Jungian terms. The resulting artwork at- IndiePix, 100 min., in French rated, DVD: $27.99, Nov. 21 tracted the notice of regional critics, which w/English subtitles, not rated, Filmmaker Tarik Saleh’s led to gallery exhibitions and the eventual DVD: $24.99 modern film noir is a ni- embrace of da Silveira’s methods, despite the No one will accuse Gilles hilistic tale of crime and objections of her hidebound male colleagues. Deroo and Marianne Pi- corruption set in Cairo just prior to the Tahrir Although Berliner’s focus remains on the stone’s Mouton of being a Square demonstrations that brought down doctor, much of the film’s success depends slick studio product: the the Mubarak regime in 2011. Fares Fares on the fine actors who play her patients. camerawork vacillates from raggedly jerky stars as the antihero, Noredin, a detective Recommended. (F. Swietek) to dully static, with images that are often working in a precinct supervised by his uncle. blurry, and many oppressive close-ups. At A burned-out man still devastated by the The Ornithologist HH1/2 the same time, however, it is very carefully departure (or perhaps death) of his wife and Strand, 118 min., in Portuguese, Mandarin & structured. After a brief prologue showing a son, Noredin is happy to extort money from English w/English subtitles, not rated, DVD: $27.99 scruffy teenager (David Mérabet) nicknamed civilians to pay for beer and cigarettes, but In the vein of determined hell-raisers Luis Mouton (“Sheep”) being legally liberated whatever is left of his conscience is piqued by Buñuel and Jean-Luc Godard, Portuguese

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FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT RICHARD ROSS AT [email protected] VISIT US AT BGPICS.COM writer-director João Pedro Winner of the FIRPRESCI Prize, Red Leaves is his sweeping orchestral score for King Kong Rodrigues serves up a mod- a powerful addition to Israeli cinema. Highly (1933), which made lush multi-instrumental ern reworking of the tradi- recommended. (P. Hall) music a mainstay in film, finding its contem- tional hagiography about porary apex in the music of John Williams 12th-century Franciscan Risk HH1/2 (Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, ), saint Anthony of Lisbon (or Virgil, 93 min., not rated, DVD: who is the most famous and influential film Padua). Some will find the $19.99 composer alive today. Schrader pays tribute result cheekily amusing, Filmmaker Laura Poitras, to the greats of yore—including Bernard others will call it blasphemous. Fernando director of the Oscar-win- Herrmann (Psycho), Alfred Newman (How (Paul Hamy)—later called Anthony—is an ning 2014 documenta- the West Was Won), Alex North (A Streetcar ornithologist researching storks in a remote ry on Edward Named Desire), Ennio Morricone (The Good, area of . When his kayak capsizes, he Snowden, here turns her the Bad, and the Ugly), and Jerry Goldsmith is thrown off course—as was Anthony—but camera on controversial WikiLeaks founder (Planet of the Apes)—while also interviewing unlike the saint he is captured, stripped to his Julian Assange, who she filmed on and off contemporary masters such as underwear, and bound to a tree by a couple between 2011-16. Much of the focus of this (Edward Scissorhands), Hans Zimmer (The Dark of Chinese Catholic pilgrim girls who plan scattershot Showtime-aired film is on As- Knight), Rachel Portman (Chocolat), Howard to castrate him. Escaping into the forest, he sange’s time spent in the Ecuadorian embassy Shore (The Lord of the Rings), Trent Reznor first encounters a bunch of strange blood- in London while awaiting further action by (The Social Network), and Randy Newman (Toy thirsty creatures dancing maniacally around Swedish authorities regarding sexual assault Story), backed by numerous illustrative film a campfire and then a deaf-mute shepherd charges. Poitras interviews Assange at vari- clips. The Newmans actually form something named Jesus (Xelo Cagiao), with whom he ous times (the chronology is incoherent as of a film-composing dynasty that includes shares a homoerotic tryst. The fact that the Assange’s haircut and facial hair constantly besides Alfred’s nephew Randy his own sons director himself eventually assumes Hamy’s shift) and he shares some of his philosophy Thomas (American Beauty) and David (Ice place suggests that this admittedly bizarre regarding global transparency while also act- Age). Also featuring a remembrance of the late narrative represents Rodrigues’s own journey ing somewhat paranoid. But a fair amount of James Horner (Titanic), this entertaining and of self-discovery, portrayed via deliberately Risk is presented cinema vérité, with Assange insightful history will make viewers listen provocative transformations of iconic tales peeking out windows or engaging in fur- more closely as they watch movies. Highly that are drawn from a Catholic tradition that tive-feeling phone conversations (the viewer recommended. (R. Pitman) is part of the Portuguese heritage he naturally can hear only Assange’s side, and that is often shares. The Ornithologist boasts many striking banal). Other members of Assange’s team are HHH images, but ultimately this artsy exercise is also followed, including Sarah Harrison and , 120 min., in more bewildering (and perhaps antagonistic) Jacob Appelbaum, the latter appearing in a Japanese w/English subtitles than enlightening. Still, it should be consid- long sequence berating Egyptian telecom rep- and English-dubbed, not rated, ered a strong optional purchase. (F. Swietek) DVD: $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD resentatives over censorship during a panel Combo: $34.99 discussion (this odd sequence raises further Following the 2014 Amer- HHH1/2 questions when Poitras later admits to being Red Leaves ican reboot of Godzilla, IndiePix, 88 min., in Amharic briefly “involved” with Appelbaum, who is —the Japanese film & Hebrew w/English subtitles, hit with charges of sexual harassment by studio that produced the original 1954 not rated, DVD: $24.99 others). Even more pointless is a segment with Godzilla and dozens of sequels—revived the The experience of Ethi- Lady Gaga interviewing Assange: the latter series after a 12-year hiatus. Shin Godzilla opian Jews in Israel is the doesn’t say much and the former isn’t really (roughly New Godzilla) was Japan’s top live-ac- subject of this provocative listening. Since so much of Assange’s story is tion film in 2016 and their highest-grossing and emotionally challeng- already well-worn news, there is not much Godzilla film ever. Where previous revivals ing drama from Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker that is surprising here. While not as current, a have offered sequels, this one presents the Bazi Gete. The central character is 74-year-old better film about Assange is Alex Gibney’sWe rise of the giant lizard as an origin story. widower Meseganio Tadela (Debebe Eshetu), Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (VL-11/13). Godzilla evolves from a massive wormlike who immigrated to Israel with his family Still, given Poitras’s name recognition and sea creature crawling through Tokyo into from Ethiopia 28 years earlier but has barely high-profile subject, this is a strong optional the more dinosaur-like lizard king, sprouting assimilated—he hardly speaks Hebrew and purchase. (R. Pitman) legs and arms and spiny dorsal fins that will prefers the old country culture over the West- eventually shoot laser beams powered by an ernized contemporary vibe of today’s Israel. Score: A Film Music organic atomic-fusion heart. Where the 1954 Meseganio sells his apartment and decides Documentary HHH1/2 film was a metaphor for the atomic bomb, he will live out his remaining years in a King Gravitas Ventures, 93 min., not this one evokes the 2011 Tohoku earthquake Lear-style arrangement by traveling between rated, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Di- the homes of his two sons. Not unlike Lear, $24.99 rector Hideaki Anno’s rapid cutting creates he quickly wears out his welcome with family, “The composer is a story- urgency while the stumbling government and his inability to enforce a patriarchal au- teller,” says film composer response humanizes the ordeal in unexpect- thority creates domestic turmoil (at one point Marco Beltrami (Logan) in ed ways as scientists collide with a he threatens a daughter-in-law with physical filmmaker Matt Schrader’s engaging and slow-moving bureaucracy (that is fending off violence for perceived insubordination). illuminating documentary Score, which takes international threats of unilateral action)—all Meseganio’s presence spurs a severe culture viewers behind-the-scenes to explore both while the giant monster unleashes chaos and clash with his sons’ families that leaves him the art and craft of composing film scores. epic destruction (this is also the first Japanese a virtual stranger in a country that he never Originally, film music served a quite differ- Godzilla film to use motion capture and CGI truly embraced. Meseganio’s struggle to retain ent purpose: in the early days of silents, the instead of a man in a suit stomping through his heritage and sense of value is often hard to playing by the pianist or organist was used elaborate miniature cityscapes). A solid watch—the character can be extremely - to cover up the sound of the projector. Max reinvention of a sci-fi horror classic, this is sive—but Eshetu’s performance is excellent. Steiner changed the course of film music with recommended. (S. Axmaker)

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Sin Alas HH1/2 easy with his fractured approach. Still, this is tably, Bo realizes he is owned body and soul Kino Lorber, 84 min., in a remarkable story, making this film a strong by Angelo, and the trick will be how to get Spanish w/English subtitles, not optional purchase. (T. Keogh) out. While all of this might sound intriguing, rated, DVD: $29.99 the problem with Sleight is that it feels like Billed as the first Cu- Slack Bay HH1/2 a shotgun marriage of different movies. Bo ban-USA commercial film Kino Lorber, 122 min., in impressively gets out of a tight spot with cops collaboration in 50 years, French w/English subtitles, not by making physical evidence vanish in thin writer-director Ben Chace’s rated, DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray: air, but Sleight strains credulity when he uses magical-realist feature debut claims inspira- $34.99 his magic skills to deal with a life-and-death tion from Jorge Luis Borge’s short story “The Once a chronicler of mis- crisis. Optional. (T. Keogh) Zahir.” In 2012 Havana, old journalist Luis ery, alienation, and violence (Carlos Padrón, leading an all-Cuban cast) in rural France, filmmaker Smurfs: The Lost Village Bruno Dumont has since learns that a once-celebrated dancer he had a H1/2 become a director of odd comedies with dark taboo adulterous affair with has died. Haunt- Sony, 90 min., PG, DVD: ed by her timelessly beautiful apparition edges. Slack Bay is set in 1910 on the coast of $19.99, Blu-ray: $25.99 France, where the eccentric and wealthy Van (Yulisleyvís Rodriguez) and his own failings, Remember when chil- Peteghem family arrives to spend the summer he softens his socialist-materialist views and dren’s movies actually told in their vacation beach manor, and the local tries to save another relationship between stories instead of simply Brufort family gets by providing transporta- young lovers endangered by circumstance serving up a relentless tion for the tourists through the marshes and (including the allure of America, although the stream of action sequences, each more cha- across the bay. While the condescending Van political angle is handled gingerly). Chace’s otic than the one before? Filmmaker Kelly Peteghem adults maintain their distance from shooting on Super 16mm film lends the work Asbury’s Smurfs: The Lost Village is all eye an especially nostalgic color palette and the locals, teenagers Billie Van Peteghem and candy, delivering tedious never-ending action ambiance, and the project’s cultural novelty Ma Loute Brufort start seeing one another, within a bare, unsatisfying framework of compensates somewhat for a muddled and much to the alarm of Billie’s melodramatic sketchy narrative and character conflict. In disconnected (albeit lyrical) narrative. A mother. Meanwhile, a pair of bumbling the familiar Smurf village of old, every occu- strong optional purchase. (C. Cassady) comic cops investigate the disappearance of pant is male, except one: Smurfette (voiced by tourists. Dumont casts major French stars as Demi Lovato), a girl who was in fact fashioned The Skyjacker’s Tale the Van Peteghem adults—Fabrice Luchini as by the evil wizard (Rainn Wilson) the hunchback father, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi HH1/2 to provide him with the means to capture all Strand, 75 min., not rated, as his nervous hysterical mother, and Juliette of and steal their magic. Becoming DVD: $27.99 Binoche as his flighty sister (Billie’s mother), suddenly aware that beyond a forbidding The true story of a con- all playing their roles in big, broad perfor- rock wall at the edge of the Smurfs’ forest fessed murderer turned mances—and non-actors as the locals in order lies another (unknown) Smurfs village, Smur- successful skyjacker and to create contrast, and he directs with a sense fette sets out with three pals to warn their now a happy family man of whimsy, only becoming serious when the neighbors about Gargamel’s plans. In the (albeit longtime fugitive), The Skyjacker’s Tale story explores the relationship between the ensuing encounter between tribes, Smurfette centers on Ishmael Muslim Ali, who—under teenage characters. But the film eventually eventually learns something about her true his original name of Ishmael LaBeet—is one brings in cannibalism, incest, and characters identity, but instead of exploring that pivotal of five black men who were charged with who float in the air like giant balloons (all discovery, the film spends most of its running killing seven white employees and tourists without backstory or explanation). It’s all time on sequences with lethal flowers, raging (plus one non-white victim) at a golf resort very strange, surreal, and whimsical, but the rivers, and a stampeding herd of neon-green in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, in 1972. These mix of dark themes and goofy humor may rabbits. Yes, there’s a bit of a wow factor to the murders preceded Ali’s commandeering of prove too offbeat for some viewers. A strong visuals, but ultimately it’s all empty calories. an American Airline flight. Whether the optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) Not recommended. (T. Keogh) grisly crime was racially motivated or just a botched robbery has never been adequately Sleight HH Spider-Man: resolved. But unsetting background details Universal, 90 min., R, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: $22.99 Homecoming HH about simmering racial strife on an island Sony, 133 min., PG-13, DVD: playground for white visitors served by black Co-writer and director $30.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: residents is certainly a part of filmmaker J.D. Dillard’s Los Angeles-set $38.99 Jamie Kastner’s scattershot film. The story drama centers on Bo (Ja- This scrappy Spider-Man bounces around both chronologically and cob Latimore), a college-age origin story finds the geographically, presenting a cheerful, modern drug-dealer-cum-magician web-slinger joining other Ali in today’s Havana awkwardly interspersed who turned down a science scholarship to a characters in Marvel’s cinematic universe, with his history as a U.S. Army soldier who university in order to take care of his younger cavorting with the Avengers’ and was released with a dishonorable discharge; sister following the death of their parents. Bo Captain America, while also evoking memo- his time as a late-1960s black militant; is passionate about performing magic and he ries of the adolescent angst in John Hughes’s distracting recreations of the murders and makes a few bucks entertaining small crowds, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Frantic 15-year-old skyjacking (Ali took a gun aboard a flight but he earns more money selling the drug high-school sophomore Peter Parker (Tom that was returning him from a Virgin Islands “molly” on the street for smiling brute Angelo Holland) is frustrated because even though court to prison in St. Croix); and interviews (Dulé Hill), a no-nonsense drug kingpin. Bo billionaire Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) with surviving passengers and one of the has a kind and decent girlfriend (Seychelle has given Peter an awesome high-tech suit, cops who allegedly tortured confessions out Gabriel), but his world darkens when Ange- he’s told not to use his superpowers except of Ali and the other gunmen. While it’s not lo begins integrating him further into the on a local level, reporting to Stark’s flunkie, impossible to piece all of these elements into operation, at one point demanding that Bo Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau). Although he’s a coherent narrative, Kastner doesn’t make it perform an atrocity on a rival dealer. Inevi- supposed to keep mum about his alter-ego,

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Available through AEC, Baker & Taylor, Ingram Entertainment, Midwest Tape, Amazon and wherever fine films are sold. PPR/DSL and Non-Theatrical Licensing available thru Soundview Media Partners– soundviewmediapartners.com. Find additional films and more at indiepixfilms.com #supportindiefilm in chemistry class Peter thoughtlessly tin- in the most primitive terms. enjoy the dizzying visual spectacle. A strong kers with his web-fluid formula, blowing his A slightly alien young wom- optional purchase. (S. Granger) cover to his quintessentially geeky best bud an, Veronica (Simone Bu- Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) and, eventually, to cio), recruits men and wom- Viva La Liberta HHH bewildered Aunt May (Marisa Tomei). While en to be sexually pleasured Icarus, 94 min., in Italian w/ Peter’s grades suffer at the Midtown School of by a mysterious creature English subtitles, not rated, Science and Technology, his hormones rage that is in the care of an DVD: $26.99 over a flirtatious senior (Laura Harrier) who aging couple who live in A winning, mysterious is the daughter of Adrian Toomes (Michael the woods. After luring a doctor to his doom fable about the role of image Keaton), a villainous salvage contractor (sometimes the octopus-like monster is vi- and identity in political life, turned contraband alien arms merchant olent), Veronica taps the physician’s sister, Italy’s Viva La Liberta (Long (flying with huge metallic wings, Adrian Alejandra (Ruth Ramos), who is mired in an Live Freedom) serves up a is known in the comics as Vulture). Riffing unhappy marriage. The beat goes on in this haunting variation on Ivan Reitman’s 1993 on the iconic comic-book character created fashion until all of the major characters have satire Dave. Driven by a remarkable double by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Spider-Man: met some kind of fate while under the spell of performance from star Toni Servillo as twin Homecoming is unfortunately a somewhat the creature, but co-writer and director Amat brothers who are so estranged that they bear fragmented collaboration between a team Escalante fails to offer anything probing or different last names, co-writer and director of six screenwriters and Jon Watts, whose particularly illuminating in this ghastly fable. Roberto Ando’s film (adapted from his own direction is uneven. Still, this popular block- The performances are strong and sometimes novel) is an ingenious blend of high drama buster should be considered a strong optional subtle (the most interesting aspect of the film and surprising whimsy. A senator named purchase. (S. Granger) are the hints of desperation in the monster’s Oliveri (Servillo), who is nominally in charge enigmatic caregivers), and the creature of a left-wing party that stands in opposition The Summer of All My effects are certainly creepy. But this clearly to Italy’s president, is failing at leadership. Parents HH ambitious film ultimately falls far short of the After being roundly criticized for being wishy- First Run, 97 min., in French mark. Not recommended. (T. Keogh) washy, Oliveri takes a mental-health break w/English subtitles, not rated, from public life, disappearing off to the home DVD: $24.95 Valerian and the City of an old flame (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). In Originally released as Ju- of a Thousand a panic, the senator’s aide (Valerio Mastan- ly-August, the clunky-titled drea) enlists Oliveri’s little-known twin, the HH1/2 philosopher Ernani, to fill in at events and The Summer of All My Parents Lionsgate, 137 min., PG-13, follows two teen sisters who are shuffled DVD: $29.95, Blu-ray/DVD deliver his brother’s prepared speeches. No between divorced parents over the course of Combo: $39.99, Nov. 21 pushover, Ernani’s natural bluntness, vision- ary oratorical skills, and charisma suddenly a summer. The film opens with 14-year-old Filmmaker Luc Besson’s make Oliveri appear to be the emboldened Laura (Luna Lou) setting ablaze an apartment indulgent, incomprehensi- champion of progressive causes. The edgy building mailbox before heading out into ble sci-fi fantasy epic centers on an episodic Ernani also brings his obsessive-compulsive the streets of Paris to wander while smoking series of missions originating on Alpha, a quirks, penchant for reciting poetry, and love cigarettes. But the sense of rebellious spirited- space station in the Magellan Current that of women to his new role, while an incognito ness is quickly abandoned as the film follows keeps expanding, adding new entities to Oliveri finds pleasure taking a job with a film Laura and her older sister Josephine (Alma become an intergalactic, multicultural hub. crew. Ando seems to suggest that a desperate Jodorowsky) to France’s sunny Mediterranean Inspired by 1960s-era French comic books society needs a leader that lies between the coast, where they spend a month with their by Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin, two poles of dreary pragmatist and flighty mother and stepfather in a rundown house the story focuses on two 28th-century space romantic. Recommended. (T. Keogh) (that is also huge and extravagant) before adventurers: cocky Major Valerian (Dane joining their father for the remainder of the DeHaan) and sassy Sergeant Laureline (British summer in his home along the cold, grey fashion model Cara Delevingne). They are Whose Streets? HHH northern shores of Brittany. Along the way, military-trained operatives and longtime Magnolia, 102 min., R, DVD: $26.98, Nov. 14 the not-quite-nuclear family members ex- partners, traveling on a spacecraft called perience situations that strain relationships, Alex, and reporting to the Minister of Defense The aftermath of the fatal but ultimately bring them together—from a (). After the near-eradication shooting of unarmed black surprise pregnancy to a ridiculous jewel heist of a peaceful, iridescent beach species called teen Michael Brown by po- subplot. The Summer of All My Parents wants Pearls, they embark on a mission that takes lice officer Darren Wilson to be a quirky coming-of-age film, but fails them to the Big Market, an extra-dimen- in Ferguson, MO, on August due to a languid pace and predictable story sional tourist bazaar on the planet Kirian, 9, 2014, is the subject of filmmakers Sabaah that robs it of any forward momentum and where they retrieve a rare creature—a Mul Folayan and Damon Davis’s documentary. prevents any sort of emotional connection to Converter, the last of its kind, which can Whose Streets? is not intended as a sober, ob- the characters. The one saving grace is Lou as make copies of whatever it ingests—from jective account, instead providing a visceral the younger sister harboring misunderstood black marketer Igon Sirus (John Goodman). sense of the reaction to the incident on the rage, but it’s not enough to save the film. Another mission involves flamboyant Jolly part of Ferguson residents who protested Optional. (P. Morehart) the Pimp (Ethan Hawke), who has enslaved against Brown’s death and the unequal an exotic, shape-shifting “glamapod” named treatment they suffered at the hands of local The Untamed H1/2 Bubble (Rihanna) in Paradise Alley. And authorities. The film is edited together from Strand, 100 min., not rated, DVD: $27.99, Blu-ray: there’s sinister, megalomaniacal military news footage and material shot by protes- $32.99, Nov. 7 commander Arun Filitt (Clive Owen), and tors on and video cameras, This grotesque, simpleminded echo of the the Doghan Daguis—a CGI trio of furry, interspersed with excerpts from interviews early and far more masterful horror-science fast-talking platypus-like critters who broker with activists, including videographer Da- films of David Cronenberg is a labored effort information. Plot-wise, it’s all very confusing, vid Whitt, who shoots footage for a project aimed at exploring human psychosexuality although some will be able to just sit back and called Copwatch. At one moment, viewers

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 38 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 see demonstrators facing off against lines of with a celebration as Etti (Evelin Hagoel) and he went on to later acclaim with The French police armed with advanced riot gear, and in Zion (Igal Naor)—along with the rest of their Connection and The Exorcist, this humorously the next scene a man itemizing a collection of close-knit congregation—parade through the unsettling film will linger in the viewer’s projectiles fired at the crowd. A TV interview streets to the synagogue for the bar mitzvah mind long after the final candle has been with Wilson is juxtaposed with comments of their grandson. During the service, the blown out. Extras include an interview with from Brown’s mother describing how she was synagogue’s -segregated balcony for female Friedkin. Recommended. (J. Cruz) kept from her son’s body, and reactions when worshippers suddenly collapses and the wife a grand jury declined to indict Wilson. And of elderly Rabbi Menache (Abraham Celektar) Duel in the Sun HHH denials of racism by the Ferguson police chief is hospitalized in a coma, which leaves him Kino Lorber, 144 min., not are contrasted with Justice Department find- confused and depressed. When the Mizrahi rated, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: ings concerning arrest records in the city. This congregation doesn’t have the 10 men needed $29.99 “you-are-there” portrait conveys, in some for a minyan, Rabbi David (Avraham Aviv Legendary Hollywood measure, what it is like to live under systemic Alush) appears with his seminary students. producer David O. Selznick oppression, featuring citizens feeling anger Soon, fanatically zealous David is not only developed Duel in the Sun and pain but also sad resignation. A searing, supervising the synagogue reconstruction (1946) as both a lush, sweep- thought-provoking, and timely documentary, but also reprimanding the women for their ing Western melodrama on the scale of his this is recommended. (F. Swietek) immodesty, urging them to cover their hair, biggest hit Gone with the Wind and as a vehicle and insinuating that the accident happened for (his later wife) Jennifer Jones. Jones, who Women Who Kill HHH because of their sins. When the women won an Oscar a few years before as a saintly FilmRise, 91 min., not rated, realize that there’s no place for them in with religious visions in The Song of DVD: $19.95, Blu-ray: $24.95 newly rebuilt synagogue, they raise money Bernadette, here plays Pearl, a hot-blooded A dry, deadpan hor- for a new balcony, only to discover that half-Mexican orphan torn between Cain- ror-comedy that is writ- Rabbi David intends to spend their funds on and-Abel brothers. Gregory Peck is the seduc- ten, directed by, and stars a new Torah scroll instead. Cue the female tive bad boy Lewt and Joseph Cotten is the web-series success Ingrid rebellion, bravely led by determined Etti. Also educated Jesse, a gentleman who defies the Jungermann, Women Who featuring a romantic subplot involving Etti’s despotic rule of their cattle baron father (Lio- Kill is a mostly funny but sometimes unset- niece (Yafit Asulin), who falls in love with nel Barrymore) and the violent ways of Lewt. tling tale about relationships. Brooklynites David’s assistant (Assaf Ben Shimon), direc- The direction is attributed to King Vidor but Morgan (Jungermann) and Jean (Ann Carr) tor Emil Ben Shimon’s The Women’s Balcony Selznick wrote the screenplay and oversaw are ex-lovers who still live together and co- deftly mixes laughs and sharp commentary. the entire production. The cast includes Lil- host a popular podcast (called “Women Who Recommended. (S. Granger) lian Gish (as mother of the boys and adoptive Kill”) during which they discuss female serial guardian of Pearl), Herbert Marshall (Pearl’s killers and debate their relative hotness. Be- father in the opening scenes), Walter Huston, fore the core story begins, Morgan and Jean Classic Films Charles Bickford, and the voice of Orson pay a visit to a prison where a compulsive Welles as the narrator. Duel in the Sun would murderer—played with slithering evil by The Birthday Party be just plain silly if it weren’t so maniacally Annette O’Toole—sets the tone of imminent HHH over-the-top. Peck relishes every villainous mayhem that lurks behind Jungermann’s Kino Lorber, 123 min., G, deed with a smirk and a wink, and Barrymore snappy dialogue and romantic entangle- DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 is power-mad as a former Senator willing to ments. When Morgan meets the mysteri- Happy returns come to go to war over barb wire. It was nicknamed ous Simone (Sheila Vand), who practically a screeching halt in this “Lust in the Dust” and condemned by church wears a sign that says “femme fatale,” she is 1968 adaptation of Nobel groups, but was also a big hit. Today it plays drawn into a dark romance that Jean finds Prize-winning playwright like a sultry, overheated melodrama in chaps, suspicious. Jean uncovers some facts about ’s ultimate absurdist play. Eking excessive in every way but certainly entertain- Simone that raise the question of whether out a tattered existence in a dilapidated sea- ing. Featuring the roadshow version of the she is a serial killer, a possibility that Mor- side boarding house, Stanley Webber (Robert film (with prelude, overture, and exit), extras gan naturally dismisses as Jean’s jealousy. Shaw) finds himself caught in the teeth of a include audio commentary by film historian But, over time, paranoia continues to grow bizarre predicament after the arrival of two Gaylyn Studlar, and interviews with Peck’s until no one—including viewers—quite new boarders (Patrick Magee, Tafler) at children. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) knows . Jungermann balances the the estate. The enigmatic duo, who convince thriller aspects with brazen comedy that is the dotty landlady (Dandy Nichols) that it Festival HHH1/2 built around Shannon Patricia O’Neill as a is Stanley’s birthday, proceed to barrage the Criterion, 98 min., not rated, foul-mouthed Melissa McCarthy-like friend. tongue-tied man with a series of increasingly DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray: $39.99 Recommended. (T. Keogh) bizarre demands and inane questions (“Why Filmmaker Murray Lerner did the chicken cross the road?”) that pin him (1927-2017) documented The Women’s Balcony into a conversational corner. The playing of hours of music performanc- HHH party games such as blind man’s bluff and es at key music festivals in Menemsha, 96 min., in Hebrew the receiving of gifts are met with further the 1960s and ‘70s, includ- w/English subtitles, not rated, outbursts, confusion, and strange glee as the ing the Newport Music Festival from 1963 to DVD: $29.95, Blu-ray: $34.95, new boarders continue their unexplained ’66, which yielded one standalone documen- Nov. 14 mission of awakening their target to a new tary about ’s performances, and This good-hearted but level of existence. Dubbed “a comedy of 1967’s Festival, which offers a general look at also provocative Israeli com- menace,” The Birthday Party plays like a the culture and folk music scene of this ven- edy-drama centers on women drawn into a paranoid schizophrenic’s worst nightmare erable institution. The roster of artists seen battle against modern religious fundamen- as a helpless man becomes victimized by playing here either in snippets or complete talism. Set in an older Orthodox Jewish unknowable forces in the grand tradition of performances is beyond impressive, mixing community in Jerusalem, the film begins Kafka. Directed by William Friedkin before old and new worlds, folkie protest songs and

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 39 VIDEO LIBRARIAN raw blues. Lerner knew who the folk super- course, to romantic complications. Harry saster” became its own stars were at the time and he showers them Morgan is Johnny’s piano player and gam- genre, Krakatoa, East of Java with the most attention: Peter, Paul and Mary, bling buddy, while Sue Ane Langdon plays (1969) finds treasure hunters Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Dylan. But there a showgirl in the revue. The highlight is a searching for a shipwreck are also generous helpings of Donovan, Judy production number built around the title in the perilous off Collins, Son House, Odetta, Mimi and Rich- song, a colorful set piece performed twice Indonesia in 1883, just as ard Fariña, , Howlin’ Wolf, and during the film, but otherwise this is pure the titular island’s volcano many more. At least half the film is dedicated formula: a little romance, a largely forgettable shows signs of waking up. to the young people in the crowd, and their soundtrack, some hackneyed comedy, and a The real-life eruption was so powerful that it discussions about the dynamics and power lot of color and splashy costumes. This was destroyed much of the island, caused tsuna- of music in a conflict-laden era serves up a Elvis’s 20th feature, a B-movie cranked out mis that killed tens of thousands of people, rich reminder of what America was like at the on a tight budget that is mostly sustained and set off shock waves felt around the world. time. Presented in a remastered edition from by Presley’s charisma and Morgan’s comic The movie uses the historical event as a col- Criterion, extras include new retrospective relief. It also plays his gambling addiction orful backdrop for melodrama, adventure, featurettes, bonus performances, and a book- for laughs, which has not aged well. Director and poor judgment in the face of clear signs let featuring an essay by Amanda Petrusich Frederick de Cordova, who went on to pro- of impending doom. Maximilian Schell is and artist biographies. Highly recommended. duce over a thousand episodes of The Tonight the captain who ignores warnings about the (T. Keogh) Show, is just going through the motions here. volcano, Diane Baker is a former lover fleeing Elvis completists may want to see, but this is an abusive husband, Brian Keith is an ailing The Flesh HHH otherwise not recommended. (S. Axmaker) deep sea diver who dulls his symptoms with Cult Epics, 87 min., in Italian alcohol and laudanum and has violent vi- & Spanish w/English subtitles, Freebie and the Bean sions, and Sal Mineo is a passenger who gets not rated, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: high billing but has little to do. The film also $34.95 HHH Warner, 113 min., R, Blu-ray: features a chain gang of convicts, a mutiny, an Semi-transgressive Italian $21.99 experimental diving bell, a runaway hot air filmmaker Marco Ferreri’s Alan Arkin and James balloon, and—of course—the eruption and late-career 1991 feature (aka La Carne) capi- Caan are scrappy, eternal- aftermath, including a deadly tidal wave that talizes on the stupendous anatomy of starlet ly clashing San Francisco could crush the ship. It was shot on 70mm Francesca Dellera, who is very close to a Jessi- police partners assigned to protect a mob film, but the impressive, Oscar-nominated ca Rabbit come to life. Otherwise, it’s a loose- leader from a hitman in this 1974 buddy cop special effects are scientifically sloppy (and, ly-plotted dark comedy more in the vein of an film from director Richard Rush that features among the more obvious mistakes, Krakatoa obtuse Godard or Buñuel manifesto than it is careening car chases, free-for-all fights, and is actually west of Java). On the comparative- erotic, despite some generously skin. heedless, irresponsible lawmen. This offbeat ly small home video screen, the film comes Dellera plays a voluptuous “bellissima” type, mix of cynical ‘70s cop cinema and slapstick across as merely bland. Not recommended. homeless after being expelled by her Indian crime farce was the original buddy cop action (S. Axmaker) love guru (and having had an abortion). She comedy, the first to mix gritty, high-octane drifts into the arms of a lounge pianist (Sergio stunt scenes with a brash, brazen sense of La Poison HHH Castellitto) who is separated from his hated humor and sardonic attitude. Arkin and Criterion, 85 min., in French wife and living la vie boheme by a seaside Caan are the classic bad cop/worse cop team, w/English subtitles, not rated, artillery range. Their passionate idyll ends DVD: 2 discs, $29.99; Blu-ray: knocking around suspects after the least bit $39.99 when the flaky heroine’s attempt to leave of provocation and engaging in impetuous Stage actor, director, and triggers a grotesque act of violence. Presented chases with reckless disregard for the con- playwright Sacha Guitry in a remastered edition for this Blu-ray/DVD sequences (including spectacular property became a giant of French Combo release, extras include a behind-the- damage). Think Dirty Harry by way of the cinema when he made the jump to movies scenes featurette, an interview with Ferreri, Marx Brothers, with screeching, squealing as writer, director, and star of a series of witty Dellera, and Castellitto, and footage from the chase sequences and driving stunts recall- and inventive films from the 1930s through 1991 Cannes Film Festival premiere. A minor ing Bullitt and The French Connection, only the ‘50s. In his cynical black comedy La Poi- from a lauded anarchic director, this with a slapstick twist. The stereotypes are is recommended. (C. Cassady) son (1951), Guitry gives the lead to the great painfully dated—the steady stream of racial Michel Simon, who plays Paul, a gruff bear of slurs aimed by Caan’s Freebie (so named H a gardener who plots the murder of Blandine Frankie and Johnny 1/2 because he cajoles bribes from restaurants (Germaine Reuver), his wife of 30 years, even Kino Lorber, 87 min., not rated, and stores) at Arkin’s Bean is played for Blu-ray: $29.99 as she in turn plots his. After hearing an humor and the treatment of a young gay interview with a lawyer (Jacques Varennes) stars as John- hustler is homophobic at best—but it’s all celebrating his hundredth successful acquit- ny, a singer who gambles also oddly appropriate for this raucous film, tal, Paul uses the lawyer to (unwittingly) his winnings away on the which satirizes machismo. And even with the guide him through the perfect murder. This gaming floor, and Donna rampant sexism and blithe brutality there is also a satire of small town gossip, judicial Douglas (Elly May on The Beverly Hillbillies) are moments of tenderness and emotional morality, and raging misogyny, played with costars as his sweetheart and stage partner vulnerability. Costarring Loretta Swit, Alex an energetic and at times grotesque exaggera- Frankie in this silly 1966 musical comedy set Rocco, and Valerie Harper, this godfather to tion. While Guitry is not in the film itself, he on a 19th-century Mississippi casino river- Lethal Weapon, , and countless other personally introduces the cast and crew like a boat. Very loosely inspired by the classic folk films is recommended. S.( Axmaker) master of ceremonies in the memorable credit song, the film casts Nancy Kovack as Nellie sequence, and then lets his witty dialogue Bly, the red-headed old flame of the riverboat Krakatoa, East of Java H1/2 and creative storytelling techniques speak owner (Anthony Eisley) who Johnny adopts Kino Lorber, 131 min., G, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: for him. Guitry uses the radio as commentary as his good luck charm after a gypsy fortune $29.99 and counterpoint to the couple’s wordless teller predicts a change of luck—leading, of A disaster movie epic made before “di- meals together, and a florist as a kind of

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 40 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Greek chorus, and he turns the murder trial the clumsy arms of a meek suitor (Tom Bos- Mom (1983) as Jack, a dedicated automobile into a wild piece of theater of the absurd ley), while Rocky tries navigating a life with engineer who loses his job due to corporate laced with the cynicism of post-war France. no steady income, a girlfriend who kicks him cost-cutting and becomes a househusband Presented in a handsome restored edition by out, and a distant relationship with his own taking care of three young children while Criterion, extras include a new interview with parents. Angie and Rocky try to come to grips his wife Caroline (Teri Garr) goes back to filmmaker Olivier Assayas discussing Guitry’s with their past actions, conflicting emotions, work for an advertising firm. It was a timely influence on French cinema, a 1965 episode and uncertain future as the parents of a child, subject for the economic anxiety of the 1980s of Cinéastes de notres temp featuring interviews a committed couple, or simply two people recession as career men were being downsized with people who worked with Guitry, and who once did a foolish thing together. The and women reentered the workforce, even if it a 2010 documentary on the collaboration assured script offers canny insights into the is played here for wacky comedy. The rookie between Guitry and Simon. Recommended. New York City milieu while expertly swinging stay-at-home dad fumbles his way through (S. Axmaker) from moments of warm humor to scenes of housework, shopping, childcare, and a sin- the coldest heartbreak, although a last-act gularly aggressive vacuum cleaner nicknamed The Love of a Woman concession to romantic comedy conventions “Jaws,” while the clichés of workaholic hus- HHH fumbles the delivery of what could have been bands disconnected from families is turned Arrow, 104 min., in French w/ a raw and affirming drama. Extras include around when the wife becomes a successful English subtitles, not rated, Blu- audio commentary from film critics Kat El- executive working late hours and jetting off ray/DVD Combo: $39.99 linger and Samm Deighan. Recommended, on business trips. Martin Mull is the lascivious Jean Grémillon was one overall. (J. Cruz) boss who tries to seduce Caroline, while Ann of the great French film di- Jillian is a suburban divorcee who sets her rectors of the Golden Age but one of the least The Moderns HHH sights on the neglected househusband. Kea- known to American audiences. His 1953 final Shout! Factory, 126 min., R, ton has an easy way with outlandish humor feature film is set in the rural, conservative Blu-ray: $27.99 and tossed-off punchlines, Garr is sunny and culture of an island community of sailors Alan Rudolph’s film about spirited, and the three kids exude a convinc- off the coast of France. the “lost generation” of ing authenticity in the midst of comic chaos. stars as the new doctor, a single, relatively Americans in Paris in the Mr. Mom was written by John Hughes, the young woman who must prove herself to 1920s stars Keith Carradine king of ‘80s teen comedies and dramas, and a population suspicious of outsiders whose as Nick Hart, a painter whose paintings don’t was inspired in part by his own experiences. culture is steeped in chauvinism. Massimo sell, and Linda Fiorentino as Rachel—wife of Reworking 1950s sitcom stereotypes for 1980s Girotti is an Italian engineer working on the American millionaire and art collector Ber- suburbia, this is a funny family comedy with island who challenges provincial attitudes tram Stone (John Lone)—who was long ago a fine cast. Extras include a retrospective fea- as he romances the doctor but also proves to married to Nick. These fictional characters, turette. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) be trapped in traditional views of marriage along with gossip columnist Oiseau (Wal- when he forces her to choose between love lace Shawn) and art dealer Libby (Geneviève Silkwood HHH1/2 and career. The location photography on the Bujold), interact with real-life figures such Kino Lorber, 131 min., R, DVD: beautiful island gives the film a magnificent as Ernest (Kevin J. O’Connor), $19.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 palette, both poetic and naturalistic. And Gertrude Stein, and Alice B. Toklas. The story The real-life Karen Silk- while The Love of a Woman never directly revolves around a commission to paint copies wood was an employee at an challenges the attitudes of the men, it is clear of three French Impressionist masterpieces Oklahoma nuclear facility that the engineer realizes that the doctor’s for an American woman (Geraldine Chaplin) who died in a mysterious career is part of her identity, although he who is eager to hang on to the originals in a car accident while driving lacks the capacity to accept her as an equal. divorce settlement. The film confronts issues to talk with a New York Times reporter about It’s an intelligent, elegant film with lovely of what art and value mean in a culture of safety practices in 1973. Her story was told in cinematography and fine performances that commerce in part through Bertram, who is this 1983 film directed by Mike Nichols and broaches feminist ideas with a directness and more concerned with price than aesthetics starring Meryl Streep as Silkwood, a divorced frankness that was rare in its day. Presented in and collects art purely for prestige. Rudolph mother and blue collar employee—living a Blu-ray/DVD Combo set, extras include the offers a romantic view of Paris, and his origi- with her boyfriend (Kurt Russell) and best feature-length French TV 1969 documentary nal screenplay is witty and ironic, weaving in friend (Cher)—who begins to document In Search of Jean Grémillon. Recommended. playful references to the work of Hemingway company accidents and safety violations (S. Axmaker) and others. Ultimately, The Moderns is an after a colleague is contaminated. Silkwood affectionate portrait of American expatriates is as much about the lives of workers on and Love with the Proper living in Paris, circa 1926, and a loving tribute off the job as it is about corners cut by the Stranger HHH to the art and literature that came out of that company when the employees are forced Kino, 100 min., not rated, rich period (and a great companion piece to to put in overtime to make a deadline. The DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 Woody Allen’s 2011 filmMidnight in Paris). hostility against Silkwood’s recordkeeping In Robert Mulligan’s 1963 Extras include a feature-length documentary may be encouraged by plant managers here gritty romance, a proper with interviews of Rudolph, Carradine, and but it is rooted in the fear of losing jobs in an young Italian sales clerk producer Carolyn Pfeiffer. Recommended. economically-depressed region. The workers named Angie Rossini (Na- (S. Axmaker) must also endure decontamination protocols talie Wood) seeks out wayfaring musician that are both brutal and humiliating while Rocky Papasano (Steve McQueen) to ask for Mr. Mom HHH coping with the potential horrors of radiation his help in finding a doctor to perform an Shout! Factory, 91 min., PG, contamination, and even alarm that the com- abortion (the result of the pair’s one-night Blu-ray: $27.99 pany may be poisoning possible whistleblow- stand). Both are caught in uncomfortable Michael Keaton was a ers (suggested if not actually stated here). situations: Angie has to contend with an over- newly-minted comedy star Nichols draws rich, naturalistic performances protective older brother () when he headlined film- from the entire cast (which includes Craig T. and her family’s attempts to throw her into maker Stan Dragoti’s Mr. Nelson, Diana Scarwid, Fred Ward, and Ron

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 41 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Silver) as he creates a kind of true horror story intent on ideological purity and plain old view with Suzuki. Foreign film aficionados when Silkwood discovers that she has become homophobia, Diego’s culturally expansive, with a taste for the challenging will likely contaminated. Silkwood was nominated for highly literate world is invaded by David appreciate. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) five , including direction, (Vladimir Cruz), who is sent undercover to acting (Streep, Cher), editing, and original befriend Diego and gather evidence that Visit to a Small Planet screenplay (by Nora Ephron and Alice Ar- can convict him. Instead, David finds him- HH len), and Cher won a Golden Globe for her self opening up to the world under Diego’s Kino Lorber, 85 min., not rated, supporting performance. Extras include an influence and passion, although the latter DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 interview with producer Michael Hausman. sees right through David’s initial ruse. The Gore Vidal’s original Vis- Highly recommended. (S. Axmaker) trusting personal relationship that follows— it to a Small Planet was a within the island nation’s pervasive fear and satire of post-World War Son of Paleface HHH betrayal—becomes the warm center of the II American culture under Kino Lorber, 144 min., not film. Alea understandably plays things a bit the sway of television while in the shadow rated, DVD: $14.99, Blu-ray: safe given the political atmosphere in which of the Cold War and Communist paranoia. $24.99 he shot his Oscar-nominated film. Diego The Broadway play, which Vidal adapted and Jane Rus- is not drawn as a truly three-dimensional from his original teleplay, ran for almost a sell reunite for this 1952 gay man, but the same could be said of Tom year and earned multiple Tony nominations. sequel to their hit 1948 Hanks’s character in the mainstream AIDS The story was rewritten by Hollywood for comedy The Paleface, with drama (also from 1993). And that the big screen when was cast in Hope playing his own son, arrogant Harvard limitation doesn’t stand in the way of Alea’s the lead. The Cold War politics and atomic graduate Junior Potter, and Russell as a noto- smart critique of revolutionary blindness. era culture were jettisoned for UFO mania rious outlaw known only as “The Torch.” Roy Recommended. (T. Keogh) in this 1960 comedy focusing on the antics Rogers costars (with Trigger, Smartest Horse of Kreton (Lewis), an ageless yet juvenile in the Movies, who gets fourth billing in the The Taisho Trilogy student from another planet who cuts class, credits) as a singing federal marshal called HHH flies across the universe, and becomes the in to catch The Torch, and he uses Junior, Arrow, 6 discs, 412 min., in guest of an American TV commentator (Fred an Easterner come West to collect his inher- Japanese w/English subtitles, Clark) and his family. A hundred years too itance, as bait. Hope’s comedies were among not rated, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: late to observe the Civil War, he decides to the most self-referential of the era and this $99.99 study modern human culture, in particular one features a jokey reference to Filmmaker Seijun Suzuki the romantic rituals between the family (his Road movie costar) and a comic reprise of was essentially blackballed daughter (Joan Blackman) and her boyfriend the Oscar-winning song “Buttons and Bows” from the Japanese film industry after mak- (Earl Holliman). Little of Vidal’s wit and sa- from The Paleface. Director Frank Tashlin, a ing some of the most outrageous crime tirical observations survived the translation, former animator and comedy screenwriter, films of the 1960s. The Taisho Trilogy—set which plays up Lewis’s man-boy persona and brings a cartoonish imagination to the visual in Japan’s Taisho era (1912-1926)—marked puts goofy gags in the foreground as Kreton gags (in one scene he throws banana peels the director’s comeback. The set kicks off shows off his alien powers (he pulls his ear for rampaging horses to slip on)—a style with Zigeunerweisen (1980)—an historical and flares his nostrils and, like magic, objects that found a perfect match in Tashlin’s later drama melded with a ghost story—about a levitate)—at least until his disapproving collaborations with Jerry Lewis. This is among German language professor (Toshiya Fujita) teacher takes away his powers and watches the silliest and most whimsical of Hope’s and a vagabond former classmate/possible him flounder. It was shot quickly in black- comedies, spotty but often very funny and serial killer (Yoshio Harada) who both fall and-white by director Norman Taurog on a helmed with a comic energy that keeps the for a beautiful geisha (Naoko Otani), be- relatively small budget and that shows, es- film moving at a rapid pace. Extras include coming obsessed to the point where one pecially next to Lewis’s energetic color films. audio commentary by animation film histo- of them marries a lookalike. The story is While it does feature some amusing cultural rian Greg Ford, and the bonus animated short marked by paranoia, treachery, and perhaps parody (including a jazz club full of beatnik “The Lady Said No” (1946)—a reconstructed a supernatural haunting, taking a maca- clichés), this is second-rate Lewis and third- previously lost film written and directed by bre turn in the final act. Kagero-za (1981), rate Vidal. Extras include audio commentary Tashlin. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) also a tale of erotic obsession, concerns a by film historian James L. Neibaur. Optional, playwright (Yusaka Matsuda) attracted to a at best. (S. Axmaker) Strawberry & Chocolate lovely woman (Michiyo Okusu), following HHH a trail of messages that lead him across the Hen’s Tooth, 111 min., in country and into surreal situations. The Spanish w/English subtitles, not final film, Yumeji (1991), is another ghost Online rated, DVD: $19.95 story in which rock star Kenji Sawada plays Visit Video Librarian Online (www. real-life painter and poet Takehisa Yumeji in Featuring a charismatic videolibrarian.com) during November performance from Cuban a romantic fantasy about a man in love with and December for DVD/Blu-ray-specific star Jorge Perugorría, this a widow (Tomoko Mariya) who is haunted comments added to the video movies 1993 drama about relative notions of personal by her dead husband. Suzuki directs here reviewed here, as well as new reviews and political liberation comes across as a bit with a far more introspective style than the of current and classic films, including: dated now, but still remains a touching and wild anything-goes cinematic insanity of his Adventures of Captain Marvel, Beggars of intriguing two-person drama. Co-written and earlier cult films, but his storytelling is just as Life, The Big Knife, Brigsby Bear, Cars 3, co-directed (with Juan Carlos Tabío) by Cuba’s demanding and he delivers intense imagery, A Closer Walk with Thee, Don’t Torture a once most famous filmmaker, the late Tomás vivid colors, and dynamic compositions. Duckling, The Good Catholic, The Hitman’s Gutiérrez Alea, Strawberry & Chocolate stars Presenting all three films in a Blu-ray/DVD Bodyguard, Logan Lucky, Nut Job 2: Nutty Perugorria as Diego, a gay writer and activist Combo set, extras include video introduc- by Nature, War for the Planet of the Apes, who is under official scrutiny in Havana. tions to each film by film critic Tony Rayns, Wind River, and much more! Targeted by a group of young Communists a “making-of” featurette, and a vintage inter-

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 42 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 TV on Video Ash vs. Evil Dead: the world’s oldest safecracker, and such long comes back with a vengeance in an engaging running sketches as “The Old Folks” (playing battle of wills and resources, bent on destroy- Season 2 HH1/2 Anchor Bay, 2 discs, 288 min., opposite Burnett) and “Carol and Sis” (playing ing the criminal empire that protects Red. not rated, DVD: $34.99, Blu- Burnett’s husband and brother-in-law to her This season finally reveals Liz’s parentage, ray: $43.99 younger sister Lawrence). Guest stars in these while Liz’s husband Tom (Ryan Eggold) digs The second season of this episodes include Ella Fitzgerald, Sid Caesar, into his own past, and Aram (Amir Arison)— gory Starz-aired horror com- Bernadette Peters, and Diahann Carroll. A the team’s nerdy but dedicated computer edy opens with Ash (Bruce strong optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) expert and moral idealist—gets the spotlight Campbell)—the reluctant, dimwitted demon with a suddenly active love life and a rare hunter with a chainsaw hand—called back Big Little Lies HHH1/2 mission in the field. Meanwhile, the morality from retirement by Ruby (Lucy Lawless), an HBO, 3 discs, 370 min., TV- of the show, always murky, becomes even immortal who took the Book of the Dead MA, DVD: $39.99, Blu-ray: more complicated as a dogged FBI agent sets and is now hunted by her demon children. $49.99 his sights on taking down the entire team for The ensuing odyssey takes Ash and his A lot of major talent came helping Red continue his criminal enterprise. young sidekicks Pablo (Ray Santiago) and together for this engaging The Blacklist is a high-energy series with solid Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) to Ash’s hometown, murder mystery miniseries production values and impressive action, but where he reconnects with his father (Lee Ma- in which the identity of as always it is Spader’s larger than life perfor- jors), travels back in time to the cabin of the both the killer and the victim are withheld mance that remains the primary attraction. original Evil Dead films, and enters a mental until . Based on the New York Times Compiling all 22 episodes from the 2016-17 hospital where the demon Baal goes to work bestselling 2014 novel by Liane Moriarty, Big fourth season, extras include episode com- on Ash’s psyche. The plot is inconsequential, Little Lies stars Reese Witherspoon as alpha mentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and mostly consisting of twists that pit Ash and mom and social queen bee Madeline, Nicole deleted scenes. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) his partners against vicious demons who have Kidman as a lawyer who retired to raise her a nasty sense of humor, setting up opportu- children, and Shailene Woodley as a young Blindspot: The Complete nities for outrageously gory scenes of bodily single mother who is adopted by Madeline Second Season HHH assault that send limbs and internal organs and becomes the focal point of community Warner, 943 min., not rated, flying across the screen in bizarre splatter hostility when her young son is accused of DVD: 5 discs, $39.99; Blu-ray: slapstick. Ash vs. Evil Dead has the grungy, bullying the daughter of rival power mom Re- 4 discs, $44.99 cheekily grotesque feel of an ‘80s horror nata (). The battle lines are drawn The second season of this film. It’s an adult show with an adolescent in what at first appears to be a satire of social high-concept NBC conspir- sense of humor designed for an audience that power and petty grudges but ultimately goes acy thriller opens with Jane appreciates over-the-top horror comedy, self- on to explore very real issues related to par- Doe (Jaimie Alexander), the woman who first aware humor, and the campy charm of cult enting, fulfillment, identity, abuse, and how appeared naked and covered in tattoos with actor Campbell. Compiling all 10 episodes adult actions reverberate through children. no memory of who she was or where she came from the 2016 second season, extras include The drama gradually moves beyond anger, from, becoming a triple agent in order to get episode commentaries, behind-the-scenes conflict, and deceit (the big little lies of the close to Shepherd (Michelle Hurd), Jane’s featurettes, and a “fatality mash-up” reel. A title) to reveal the vulnerabilities and fears foster mother and the mastermind of an in- strong optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) of the women (and men as well), witnessing tricate plot to take down the government. It’s honest moments of connection and confes- yet another twist in the dense and unlikely The Best of Harvey sion. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, this is a conspiracy that runs through this big-budget powerful and moving miniseries featuring action series about a team of top FBI special Korman HH1/2 excellent performances. Compiling all seven Time Life, 178 min., not rated, agents pursuing mysteries related to cryptic DVD: $12.99 episodes from 2017, extras include behind- clues hidden in Jane’s tattoos. There’s a com- the-scenes featurettes. Highly recommended. plicated relationship between Jane and team Harvey Korman (1927- (S. Axmaker) 2008) was the rock anchor- leader Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton), and ing the comedy troupe on this season adds a new factor: Jane’s brother The Show, a The Blacklist: The Roman (Luke Mitchell), who is torn between brilliant comic performer, solid straight man, Complete Fourth Season their mother’s plan and his sister’s safety even and essential partner on recurring sketches HHH before his memory is wiped and Jane tries to throughout the show’s 1967-78 run. Whether Sony, 5 discs, 946 min., not recruit him to their cause. Meanwhile, various or not the four episodes compiled here (taken rated, DVD: $45.99, Blu-ray: members of the team keep secrets that erode from the show’s first five years) represent $55.99 trust in this culture of double agents, hidden the best of Korman is debatable, but they The fourth season of this agendas, secret government agencies, and do showcase the actor in some superb skits, high-concept thriller about personal vendettas. Blindspot is only slightly including a hilarious sketch with Korman an international criminal helping the FBI more farfetched than shows like The Blacklist dressed in drag to do an Andrews Sisters bring the most dangerous men and women and Person of Interest but it features some of the number with Burnett and Vicki Lawrence… in the world to justice opens with Raymond most impressive action scenes on the small only to have his boss walk in and a client “Red” Reddington (James Spader) putting screen. Presenting all 22 episodes from the start hitting on him. The sketch ends with all of his resources into rescuing FBI profiler 2016-17 second season, extras include behind- Korman vamping it up to perform the lip- Liz Keen (Megan Boone) from the ruthless the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes, and a synch number. Other highlights include a thug who has kidnapped her and her infant gag reel. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) Carmen Miranda spoof with Korman as a daughter. That story plays through the first hammy conga player in fruity get-up, a dream half of the season while the second pits : Season One HH1/2 fantasy with Korman imagining himself a against “Mr. Kaplan” (Susan Blommaert), who Paramount, 6 discs, 974 min., not rated, DVD: superstar sex-symbol pursued by women was once his trusted cleaner and secret-sharer $49.99 and surrounded by mirrors, an exasperated and now is his most dangerous nemesis after Michael Weatherly stars as Jason Bull, a gangster teamed up with Tim Conway as she survives Red’s attempt to kill her. Kaplan brilliant trial consultant with the New York

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 43 VIDEO LIBRARIAN firm Trial Analysis Corpo- that are not beholden to the magical tech or situation, crashing on the couches of friends, ration (TAC), in this CBS elaborate conspiracies of most American spy acquaintances, and fellow comedians (includ- hit inspired by the career of TV shows, but rather hinge on the actions ing Artie , T.J. Miller, Hannibal Buress, Phil McGraw, who would of agents who are constantly under threat and Sarah Silverman, playing fictionalized go on to become media ce- of being compromised, betrayed, or simply versions of themselves). Holmes, who created lebrity Dr. Phil. Weatherly caught up in circumstances beyond their the series with producer and co-writer Judd plays Bull as an alternately control. Compiling all 10 episodes from the Apatow, was raised Christian, and the show charming and insufferable 2017 third season—which aired in the U.S. on explores his journey as a comedian through character who is more concerned with justice the Sundance Now streaming service—this is a culture of sex, drugs, and damaged and than business. Bull is an expert at reading highly recommended. (S. Axmaker) self-absorbed people spouting some of the people through body language, vocal cues, most foul language you’ll hear on TV. It also and fashion choices, and he has a loyal Fire: Season illustrates the dues that young comedians pay team of experts to help advise his clients on while struggling to break into for-money gigs. Five HH1/2 everything from jury selection to witness Universal, 6 discs, 917 min., Holmes can be as immature and self-absorbed preparation to legal arguments. Geneva Carr not rated, DVD: $44.99 as anyone he meets but he is also an engaging costars as his neuro-linguistics expert and In an era of TV shows personality and likable guy, and the series second-in-command, while Freddy Rodríguez built on epic storylines, gives all of its guest stars moments in the is the former attorney who helps prepare the high-concept hooks, splashy spotlight. Presenting all eight episodes from legal side, Jaime Lee Kirchner is the street- soap opera, and cinematic the 2017 first season, extras include an HBO wise investigator, Annabelle Attanasio is the action spectacle, remains an standup comedy special starring Holmes, hacker and token millennial, and Christopher old-fashioned TV drama. The initial series in bonus snippets featuring guest comics, and Jackson is the fashion guru. As in so many the interconnected TV universe of Chicago behind-the-scenes featurettes. While not modern network crime dramas, the team dramas from producer , Chicago must-watch HBO, this reasonably enter- relies both on high-tech tools beyond features characters who excel at team- taining series is a strong optional purchase. budgets of most private businesses and on work and is built around storylines that (S. Axmaker) the hunches and brilliant insights of its main extend across multiple episodes, but are still character—an arrogant, domineering, and self-contained. This season finds fire crew DC’s Legends of witty genius, played by a charismatic actor. chief Matt (Jesse Spencer) struggling with Tomorrow: The Complete But the series also displays little innovation the demands of serving as district alderman, and no surprises within its familiar formula. Second Season HHH while his girlfriend and fellow firefighter Warner, 715 min., not rated, Presenting all 23 episodes from the 2016-17 Gaby (Monica Raymund) balances work with DVD: 4 discs, $39.99; Blu-ray: debut season, extras include behind-the- being the adoptive mother of an orphaned 3 discs, $44.99 scenes featurettes, deleted scenes, and a gag boy she saved from a fire. Every member of the The second season of reel. A strong optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) firehouse gets his or her own story, including the CW’s superhero team rescue squad leader Kelly (Taylor Kinney), spinoff series opens with members scattered The Bureau: Season 3 who is unsure of his future. Characters from throughout time and introduces a new char- HHH1/2 Chicago P.D., , and the short-lived acter, history detective Nate Heywood (Nick Kino Lorber, 3 discs, 520 min., Chicago Justice also appear here, and there is a Zano), who helps put the group back together in French w/English subtitles, major crossover story that mirrors the real-life and joins them to stop the time-quakes that not rated, DVD: $29.99 Oakland warehouse fire from a couple years threaten to unravel history. The first season The espionage drama The back but turns it into a story of arson. There was awkward, in part due to an overstuffed Bureau has been acclaimed is nothing unique or essential about Chicago cast of characters and an uninteresting vil- as the greatest TV show ever Fire, but it does feature an engaging cast and lain. The team is smaller this season, which produced in France (where it is called Les it celebrates acts of everyday heroism by men gives more screen time to Ray Palmer, aka Bureau des Légendes) and this third season and women who spend their days saving civil- Atom (Brandon Routh); Dr. Martin Stein maintains the high quality of writing. It ians from disasters. Presenting all 22 episodes (Victor Garber) and Jefferson Jackson (Franz opens with Malotru (Mathieu Kassovitz), the from the 2016-17 season, extras include Chica- Drameh), who together become Firestorm; legendary French undercover operative who go P.D. and Chicago Justice crossover episodes. Heat Wave (Dominic ); and White betrayed the DGSE (the French secret service) A strong optional purchase. (S. Axmaker) Canary (Caity Lotz), who grows into a nat- to the CIA to save the woman he loves, held ural team leader. The show is now swifter, captive by ISIS in Syria while his boss Duflot Crashing: The Complete boasts more humor, and features a more (Jean-Pierre Darroussin)—in his last days First Season HH1/2 challenging nemesis: the Legion of Doom, before retiring from the service—battles the HBO, 2 discs, 240 min., TV- consisting of Arrow and Flash villains Reverse government to get him extracted (Malotru MA, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: Flash, Damien Darhk, Malcolm Merlyn, and may be a traitor, but he’s one of their own). $24.99 former/future Legends member Captain Cold The dense narrative extends across smugglers Comedian Pete Holmes (Wentworth Miller). This season offers Civil looting Syrian treasures, a former Russian in- stars in this HBO comedy War zombies, a superhero in the court of formant in ISIS who wants out, and the CIA. series inspired by his early King Arthur, a conspiracy to murder Gener- Meanwhile Marina Loiseau (Sara Giraudeau), years. Unemployed and supported by his al George Washington, and the golden-age the fledging agent put in danger by Malotru’s schoolteacher wife (Lauren Lapkus) while superhero team Justice Society of America, betrayal last season, leaves the agency due he performs at open mic nights to polish his and the heroes cross paths with Albert to panic attacks, only to be recruited by the act, Pete finds himself broke and homeless Einstein, , and J.R.R. , Russians (who don’t know her history). The after catching his wife having an affair with among others. Presenting all 17 episodes Bureau is both a compelling human drama a New Age doofus named Leif (George Ba- from the 2016-17 second season, extras in- and a riveting portrait of complex inner sil)—who just wants to be friends with Pete. clude behind-the-scenes featurettes, a 2016 workings of intelligence agencies and in- The title refers both to the sudden nosedive Comic-Con panel discussion, deleted scenes, ternational espionage, with dramatic twists that Pete’s life takes and to his new living and a gag reel. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 44 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Decline and Fall HHH over the years. The business, which Leo left to grudge against him, his girlfriend Iris (Can- Acorn, 182 min., not rated, Sam, is failing and burdened with debt, and dice Patton) is no longer speaking to her fa- DVD: $34.99 Gina—understandably harboring some ill ther Joe (Jesse L. Martin), and in his civilian Based on the 1928 satiri- will—is reluctant to help. Set in a small tourist life he has a partner (Tom Felton) who hates cal novel by Evelyn Waugh, village in Cornwall, the series—narrated from him. Meanwhile, Joe’s son Wally (Keiynan this three-part 2017 British the grave by Leo—has touches of dark com- Lonsdale) becomes Kid Flash and Caitlin miniseries stars Jack White- edy and soap opera twists, but it ultimately (Danielle Panabaker) struggles against her hall as Paul Pennyfeather, a hews to the life-affirming theme of honesty alternate universe identity of Killer Frost. naïve, well-meaning Oxford divinity student and forgiveness overcoming suspicion and Gustin is an enthusiastic, likable Flash, and whose life is upended after a practical joke resentment. Compiling all four episodes of the show takes on issues of responsibility, by upper-class toffs gets him expelled. Paul the 2016 first season, extras include a behind- trust, and teamwork. But it also confronts the takes a job as a schoolmaster at a fourth-rate the-scenes featurette and a photo gallery. damage wreaked by Barry’s impulsive choice boy’s school run by the incompetent Dr. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) to change history and pits him against Fagan (David Suchet), who doesn’t care that a new, vicious villain created from his Paul is terribly unqualified for his assigned Elementary: The Fifth time-travel exploits: Savitar. Compiling all subjects, and he meets miserable and equally HHH 23 episodes from the 2016-17 third season, Season extras include behind-the-scenes featurettes, unqualified colleagues who have survived Paramount, 6 discs, 1,009 through intimidation in the classroom (and min., not rated, DVD: $49.99 a 2016 Comic-Con panel discussion, delet- alcohol the rest of the time). Eva Longoria ed scenes, and a gag reel. Recommended. Jonny Lee Miller is Sher- (S. Axmaker) costars as a seductive single mother from lock Holmes and Lucy Liu South America who hires Paul as a summer is his partner Dr. Joan Wat- tutor for her son and keeps him on as a fian- son in the “other” modern Fortitude: The Complete cé and fall guy for the family business. The Holmes series, this one set in New York City, Second Season HHH wide-eyed Paul is too smitten to see that she’s where Holmes has settled after fleeing the PBS, 3 discs, 455 min., TV-MA, running an international prostitution ring dysfunction of his family in London and re- DVD: $39.99, Blu-ray: $49.99 and too innocent to grasp the corruption and covering from a heroin addiction. Watson has The first season of this mendacity surrounding him. Paul’s wild ride by now become an equal in her partnership British series set on a re- takes him from high society to hard labor, with Holmes and she takes on a protégé, a for- mote Norwegian island in where his former school colleagues pop up mer convict named Shinwell Johnson (Nelsan the Arctic Circle started as again: Stephen Graham as a porter with a Ellis), who goes undercover in a violent street a crime drama and then turned into a bio- shady past, Douglas Hodge as a gay teach- gang in an act of redemption for past crimes. logical thriller about a prehistoric pathogen er with a wooden leg and a history of bad Virginia Madsen guest stars in two episodes unleashed by global climate change. The behavior that lands him “in ,” and as the recently-divorced Captain Gregson’s memory of that horror hangs over the second Vincent Franklin as a teacher with an awful girlfriend and Ophelia Lovibond returns with season as the police find a decapitated body wig and a drinking problem. Largely faithful life-changing news as Kitty Winter, Sherlock’s in the snow. Continuing with its Nordic noir to Waugh’s wicked social satire, it’s a witty, former protége. In many ways this is a more mix of dread and icy horror coupled with snappy, inventive black comedy set in the conventional series than the flamboyant Brit- global politics and local tensions, the new sea- class-based culture of 1920s Britain, where the ish show starring Benedict Cumberbatch as son adds a conspiracy tied to an international rich live blithely and recklessly and everyone the “high-functioning sociopath” detective. medical research facility. Danish actress else hustles and lies in order to endure. Extras But if Miller’s Holmes is more subdued and Sofie Gråbøl is back as the island governor include behind-the-scenes featurettes and a less arrogant than Cumberbatch’s, he is also clashing with mainland bureaucrats, and photo gallery. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) more human and vulnerable and continues Richard Dormer is the sheriff, who survives to evolve in his relationships with colleagues, infection and transforms into a sinister, Delicious: Series 1 although the series never forgets the shadow almost demonic figure who takes the law HHH of addiction and emotional scars hanging into his own hands. Dennis Quaid, Michelle Acorn, 185 min., not rated, over him. This fifth season follows a familiar Fairley, and Parminder Nagra are new to the DVD: $34.99 routine that is broken only in the surprises of cast. Numerous storylines and characters The first few minutes of the final episodes, but the mysteries remain become tangled up in this series that makes this British series sets up the engaging (and often quite clever) and the the most of its icy setting (once again shot in premise for an entertaining characters continue to be the show’s main Iceland). Compiling all 10 episodes from the melodrama. Leo Vincent draw. Compiling all 24 episodes from the 2017 second season of this British-American (Iain Glen), the celebrity chef of a luxury 2016-17 fifth season, extras include behind- co-production, extras include a behind-the- Cornwall hotel, built his entire repertoire the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes, and a scenes featurette and a first season recap. on the recipes of his first wife and fellow gag reel. Recommended. (S. Axmaker) Recommended. (S. Axmaker) chef Gina (Dawn French), and then left her to marry the younger and more elegant Sam The Flash: The Complete Gotham: The Complete (Emilia Fox) after a long affair. Now he is Third Season HHH Third Season HHH cheating on Sam with his ex-wife Gina. Leo Warner, 975 min., not rated, Warner, 957 min., not rated, has children with both women, who remain DVD: 6 discs, $49.99; Blu-ray: DVD: 6 discs, $49.99; Blu-ray: civil (if not quite friendly), but when Gina’s 4 discs, $54.99 4 discs, $54.99 daughter finds out what’s going on, Leo’s The third season of the The third season of this marriage is suddenly in peril. What might most family-friendly of the comic book-inspired series be the beginning of a familiar soap opera primetime superhero shows about life in Gotham City takes an intriguing turn when Leo dies at on TV opens with Barry Allen/The Flash before James Gordon was commissioner and the end of the first episode, leaving his (Grant Gustin) facing repercussions from his Bruce Wayne became Batman opens with wives, children, and employees to sort out decision to change the past. His friend and Gordon (Ben McKenzie) working as a lone the tangle of secrets that they have all kept colleague Cisco (Carlos Valdes) now holds a wolf bounty hunter and Oswald Cobblepot

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Build a Better Video Collection! (Robin Lord Taylor), aka The Penguin, run- : The narrative focus continues to be the back- ning for mayor of Gotham City with the help Complete Seventh and-forth strategic moves by the Master’s of Edward Nygma (Cory Michael Smith), the minions and the depleted human forces, with man who will become The Riddler. It also Season HHH victories and defeats seesawing between the Warner, 657 min., not rated, two sides. A note of familial crisis is added in continues the education and training of DVD: 3 discs, $29.99; Blu-ray: young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) under 2 discs, $39.99 Eph’s determination to rescue his son Zach the guidance of Alfred (Sean Pertwee) and the (Max Charles), who was abducted by his The seventh season of infl uence of street-smart teenage thief Selina infected mother (Natalie Brown) at the close Includes Video Librarian Magazine Plus Online Access to 40,000 DVD/Blu-ray/Digital Reviews Showtime’s popular dys- Kyle (Camren Bicondova). This is the most of the second season and is now effectively functional family series sees the Gallaghers visually impressive of the current superhero under the Master’s control. Compiling all 10 making various bids for fi nancial indepen- shows, creating a world that straddles 1940s episodes from the 2016 third season, extras dence. It begins in a hospital room with fi lm noir and modern comic book movies, include the web companion series Under Siege, Frank (William H. Macy) having underwater and it draws its organized crime fi gures, bud- deleted scenes, a , and a gag reel. hallucinations. When he wakes up from his ding supervillains, and shadowy conspiracies A strong optional purchase. (F. Swietek) coma, he fi nds that his kids aren’t happy to from the long history of comics. This Batman see him (he also owes $100,000 for his care, season the Court of Owls and Ivy Pepper a plot point that is quickly dropped). “We The White Princess (Maggie Geha) fi gure prominently but it’s the kinda hoped you were dead,” his son, Carl HHH psychopathic Mad Hatter (Benedict Samuel) (Ethan Cutkosky), laments. By contrast, Anchor Bay, 2 discs, 451 min., and his plot to turn Gotham citizens into not rated, DVD: $44.99, Blu- things are going better for his daughter, monsters that drives the season’s narrative ray: $49.99 Debbie (Emma Kenney), who hires a night arc. Featuring all 22 episodes from the 2016- nurse with the proceeds from her stolen baby Based on the 2013 novel 17 third season, extras include behind-the- carriage racket. Although the scheme doesn’t by Philippa Gregory, this scenes featurettes, a 2016 Comic-Con panel last long, she fi nds a new beau in Neil (Zack 2017 Starz-aired eight-epi- discussion, and deleted scenes. 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Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids: (given that they are 6-year-olds, the show Ordering information for the titles reviewed in HHH should come with a “don’t try this at home” Vol. 1, Bears 1/2 warning). Each episode features gaudy mor- this section can be found in the “Distributor (2016) 30 min. DVD: $12.95 ($14.95 w/PPR). Marshall Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-936134-25-0. phing-into-character segments, villains to Addresses” listings at the back of the magazine. be tracked down, lessons to be learned, and This fast-paced, colorful children’s series glossed-over conclusions. “Catboy and Master HHHH= Excellent featuring effervescent host Miss Danni Fang’s Sword” finds Connor/Catboy’s anger Donkey mixes live-action and animation. ruling his actions after a thief steals a prop HHH= Good After gathering kids together, Danni begins from his favorite TV show. Also including by interviewing a cartoon polar bear who HH= Fair “Gekko’s Blame Campaign” (in which Greg shares information about these magnificent eventually takes responsibility for his own H= Poor animals. This introduction quickly segues mistakes after whining for the majority of into what will be the basic format for each PPR = Public Performance Rights the story), “Speak UP, Gekko,” “Catboy vs. Ro- tale: a handful of facts, followed by whimsi- bo-Cat,” “Owlette’s Two Wrongs,” and “Take DRA = Digital Rights Available cal remarks (“Did you know polar bears like to the Skies, Owlette,” this is a so-so series that to dance when people aren’t watching?”) not surprisingly features an extensive mer- Aud = Audience that lead into dance/activity songs (the first chandise tie-in line. Extras include a music K = Preschool-Kindergarten is called the “Polar Bear Dance”). The bear video. Optional. Aud: P. (J. Williams-Wood) curriculum continues with other North E = Elementary (grades 1-3) American species, and travels to the Far East, P. King Duckling: Seize the Day! HH where Japanese Asiatic bears are featured as I = Intermediate (grades 4-6) (2016) 154 min. DVD: $14.95. Shout! Factory Kids alter egos to sumo wrestlers (and perform a (avail. from most distributors). SDH captioned. J = Jr. High (grades 7-8) cartoon sumo dance), pandas serve as tai chi Corny protagonist P. King is the central experts (leading to a tai chi activity featuring H = High School (grades 9-12) character of this Chinese-American animat- the kids), and more. Danni is a peppy, upbeat, ed series airing stateside on Disney Junior. C = Colleges & Universities and personality-loaded guide (she comes Featuring seven two-part episodes, Seize across a bit like a female Pee-wee Herman, P = Public Libraries the Day kicks off with “Wombat’s Big Sur- minus the irony). Other volumes in the series prise,” in which duck P. King and pig friend will include Whales, Birdies, Froggies, Donkeys Chumpkins inadvertently hurt Wombat’s & Mules, and Foxes. Highly recommended. (a….wombat) feelings when they avoid her Aud: P. (C. Block) while getting together a birthday party. “A Hill with a View” finds P. King swooning CHILDREN’S PJ Masks: Time to Be a Hero HH over a majestic view of Fishy Falls and Cow (2017) 75 min. DVD: $12.95. Entertainment One Canyon and getting his friends to help him (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. relocate (“Anybody thirsty?” he asks, after A flashy animated series based on the Les damaging a fire hydrant with a crane). Also Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Pyjamasques books by French author Romuald including “Speed King Duckling / P. King’s Photograph HHH Racioppo, PJ Masks, which airs in the U.S. on Cool Castle,” “Fowl Fashion / A Day with (2017) 14 min. DVD: $38.99. Dreamscape Media. Disney Junior, follows the escapades of three Panda,” and “The Tetherball King / P. King’s PPR. Closed captioned. ISBN: 978-1-52007-105-3. friends who don superhero costumes and Cookie Farm,” among others, this silly series Featuring four narrators—including JD personas at nighttime. Protagonists Connor is fairly standard and uninspired cartoon fare Jackson and Bahni Turpin—this icono- (Catboy), Amaya (Owlette), and Greg (Gekko) that failed to deliver on the box art promise graphic-animated adaptation of author sneak out of their homes unsupervised after of “quacking [me] up.” Optional. Aud: P. Roxane Orgil’s 2016 picture book presents dark to drive vehicles and fight petty crime (J. Williams-Wood) freeform poetry segments while exploring the famous 1958 Esquire magazine photo “A Great Day in Harlem.” Illustrator Fran- Five Fables HHH1/2 cis Vallejo creates realistic portraits of the (2017) 145 min. DVD: $38.99. Dreamscape Media. PPR. Closed captioned. August morning when graphic designer Art This animated compilation features five episodes showcasing the Kane assembled 57 notable jazz musicians— work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), plus a dozen kids who sat on the curb up who translated several of Aesop’s fables that were reworked by front next to a weary Count Basie—for what 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson. Actor and comedian turned out to be an iconic moment. An Billy Connolly provides a lilting almost hypnotic cadence for these intro provides context for the story, backed yarns, which kick off with “The Two Mice,” about sister rodents by a spry, jazzy soundtrack for 21 poems from different homes who reunite. The city mouse turns her nose including “Some Kind of Formation,” up at the country mouse’s frugality and rough diet (ungratefully “So Glad,” “How to Make a Porkpie Hat” complaining about the lack of her usual cuisine—“It’s what my (about Lester “Pres” Young’s style), “What system needs!”) and she invites her sibling to a busy town. Also included are the dark to Wear (from A to Z),” “Late,” “She’s Here” “The Preaching of the Swallow,” tales of cunning creatures in the “The Fox, the Wolf (celebrating the arrival of Maxine Sullivan), and the Carter” and “The Fox, the Wolf, and the Farmer” (“an honest man’s not tricked and “The Invitation Said No Instruments.” by a half-truth”), and the well-known “The Mouse and the Lion,” which features a In addition to a read-along option, extras depiction of Aesop himself. Colors of the earth and sky combine with music by com- include biographies, additional segments, poser Barry Douglas in this enthralling, brogue-laden adaptation that should appeal source notes, and an author’s note. Offer- to adults as much as children. The episodes include behind-the-scenes production seg- ing an informative look at a slice of jazz ments and information on Heaney’s life and career. Highly recommended. Aud: K, E, P. history, this is recommended. Aud: K, E, P. (J. Williams-Wood) (J. Williams-Wood)

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Order today at midwesttape.com Library digital available on true. But filmmaker Joseph Graber, a former member of the Amish church, presents a more HHH rounded view of the sometimes restrictive (2016) 60 min. DVD: $14.99. Public Media Distribution (avail. from and harsh rules that govern their society. most distributors). ISBN: 978-1-5317-0203-8. Several of Garber’s own relatives and others A wily wolf narrator (voiced by Dominic West) provides his who also left the Amish are interviewed, not own spin on several classic fairy tales in this animated film based so much with an axe to grind but rather to on the titular 1982 book of poems by iconic children’s author present a more nuanced perspective beyond and his longtime illustrator . A lady at the charming, horse-drawn carts. Recom- the diner provides a sympathetic ear as Wolf chides her about her mended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) book of fairy tales, instead offering “real” versions of the downfall of his poor nephews: Rolf (Rob Brydon), who is blasted away and Feeding Your Family’s Soul HHH1/2 turned into a coat by Little Red Riding Hood (Rose Leslie), and (2017) 75 min. DVD: $99.99. Paraclete Press Rex (David Walliams), who meets a similar fate when things go wrong with three pigs (avail. from most distributors). PPR. ISBN: 978-1- (one of whom is a smarmy banker surrounded by brick). Here, young Red and Snow 61261-971-2. White (Gemma Chan) become fast friends as girls, while Snow’s trials with her mur- This primer on Catholic family education derous stepmom and seven gambling-addict horse jockeys lead the two back to each is designed to support parents and other other as grown women. However, Red’s kids aren’t safe from Wolf, who has a score caregivers who want to teach their children to settle and he distracts the children with gruesome truths about beanstalk-climber the basics of the faith. Noted author, TV host, Jack and Cinderella (or Cindy), the latter not so impressed by a pushy prince who has and catechist Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle a penchant for beheading. Also featuring a behind-the-scenes featurette, this darkly suggests that the best time for sharing lessons whimsical fairy-tale parody is recommended. Aud: P. (J. Williams-Wood) is during dinner, and she serves up a number of examples that start with a verse from the Bible, followed by key questions that lead Police in Our School HHH and a frog helps with her swept-away wand, into possible actions. In the “Learning to (2017) 7 min. DVD: $38.99. Dreamscape Media. with everyone climbing on for a broom ride Love Our Neighbor” segment, for instance, PPR. Closed captioned. ISBN: 978-1-52007-740-6. until the overloaded vehicle snaps—leaving viewers are reminded that love for others— Based on the 2016 picture book by author the ersatz menagerie at the mercy of a hungry including enemies—is a cornerstone of the and Tennessee deputy sheriff Becky Coyle, dragon (Timothy Spall). Combining cartoony Christian faith (Cooper O’Boyle spent time this iconographic-animated short features il- big-eyed characters with realistic backdrops with Mother Theresa, and she champions the lustrations by Juanbjuan Oliver and narration of forest, mountains, and a striking sunset, latter’s approach of one-on-one love and min- by Susie Berneis. Prefaced by Coyle’s words this is an entertaining story about cooper- istry with the poor and needy). Since this is a about the importance of being prepared with ation. Extras include a behind-the-scenes Catholic curriculum, teachings about saints drills and rules concerning school safety, featurette, a live performance by Donaldson, are shared alongside writings from the Bible. Police in Our School has an upbeat soundtrack and an artwork gallery. Recommended. Aud: In the section on “Learning Perseverance,” and smiling characters, all except for one boy K, P. (J. Williams-Wood) viewers will learn that Saint Monica (born in the classroom who sees a resource officer in 332 A.D.) had the patience of, well, a saint. uniform and is worried about being arrested. Although she was a strong Christian, her Although police are often present at scary RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY family (including her husband, mother-in- events such as fires, fights, and accidents, the law, and son) treated her faith with disdain or officer here reassures the students that “no dismissal for most of their lives. Her response one’s in trouble” and explains protective con- The Amish and the Reformation HHH was patience, coupled with lots of prayer and cepts that have nothing to do with the boy’s (2017) 55 min. DVD: $19.99. DRA. Vision Video fasting (not long before dying, her husband worries about his spitwad and shoelace-tying (avail. from most distributors). embraced her faith, and her son would later pranks. Also including a read-along option, The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversa- convert—and was eventually named a saint this timely program is likely to allay fears in ry of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to himself). Sure to spark discussion, this fine younger viewers. [Note: also newly available the doors of a (symbolically, guide to family lessons in Catholicism and are two other safety video titles based on if not necessarily literally), the key event basic Christian principles is highly recom- books by Becky Coyle: The Lockdown Drill and that launched the Reformation movement. mended. Aud: P. (C. Block) Who Let In?] Recommended. Aud: K, Many subsequent dominoes fell before the E, P. (J. Williams-Wood) Amish arose, including the familiar history Silentium: From Life in the Convent of martyred reformers and the struggle to HHH1/2 Room on the Broom HHH translate the Bible and worship services into (2015) 84 min. In German w/English subtitles. (2012) 30 min. DVD: $9.99. Public Media common languages. Clashes taking place DVD: $99.95: public libraries & high schools; Distribution (avail. from most distributors). ISBN: between different Reformation factions led $248: colleges & universities. DRA. KimStim. PPR. 978-1-62789-859-1. to the Anabaptist movement in Switzerland, The Benedictine monastery of Habsthal, Based on the 2001 picture book by author which resulted in a populist shift toward which is located in the Swabian Alps just Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, Christian fundamentals that stressed God’s north of Lake Constance, celebrated the this animated short features a star-studded love and caring for one’s neighbors. From 750th anniversary of its founding in 2009, voice cast, including Simon Pegg as narrator. the Anabaptists—who expanded West and but it is currently occupied by only four nuns When a long-braided friendly witch (Gillian developed a community in what would (most in their 90s), and an elderly priest. Sobo Anderson) and her cat travel on the titular eventually become America—came the Swobodnik’s austerely beautiful black-and- broom to gather cauldron ingredients, the Amish, who continue to look, act, and talk white documentary follows this quintet as wind suddenly takes the witch’s hat, which like people from another century. What most they continue to practice their Rule’s regimen is retrieved by a dog (Martin Clunes) who know about the Amish—such as the way they of prayer and work. At specified times of wants to hitch a ride with the duo. As they dress and the fact that they eschew modern day—signaled by the ringing of a bell in the continue on, a green bird rescues her bow, technology and conveniences—is certainly (cont. on pg. 54)

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 52 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Murdoch Mysteries: is the subject of a song about a hair bow. But the energy and cheesy grins are still ‘Tis the Season Once Upon a Murdoch just as infectious as the gang mimes bird Christmas HHH1/2 movements for “Curoo Curoo” and enjoys a The Christmas Wish (2017) 89 min. DVD or “Christmas Picnic”—wearing Santa hats on Blu-ray: $24.99. Acorn a beach, in keeping with the Down Under HH Media (avail. from (1998) 90 min. DVD: $19.95. most distributors). SDH holiday climate in . Festivities Hen’s Tooth Video (avail. captioned. are put on hold when Santa asks Lachy to from most distributors). Edwardian-era Toronto police detective help get gifts ready, and head Based on the 1996 William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) typi- to the North Pole for some elf hijinks. Serv- book by Richard Siddo- cally solves gruesome murders in Murdoch ing up lots of dancing, classic songs such way, this 1998 TV movie Mysteries, but this entertaining holiday as “Silent Night” and “Away in a Manger,” finds grownup Will (Neil Patrick Harris) special takes a decidedly lighter approach. original tunes (including “Decorate the reminiscing with his grandmother (Deb- Murdoch and his colleagues are perplexed Tree with Dorothy”), and generally silly bie Reynolds) about holidays past. Raised by a crime spree seemingly engineered by antics, this special aimed at preschool- by his grandfolks after his parents died in a supervillain who appears to have jumped ers also features a TV series episode and a music video. Highly recommended. a car crash, Will had a special bond with from the pages of a turn-of-the-century (J. Williams-Wood) both but he is surprised to learn of Grand- proto-comic book. When a daring train pa’s extensive cache of old yearly journals robbery is executed by a masked figure that mention a mysterious “Lillian” who who uses a whirling propeller to escape, New to DVD/Blu-ray/4K he made sure to spend time with every Murdoch and Inspector Brackenreid Emmet Otter’s Jug- Christmas Eve. Grandma asks Will to get (Thomas Craig) are called to the scene, Band Christmas (Sony, to the bottom of Lillian’s identity, and where they are quickly pressured by DVD: $9.99). Based on the his perusal of the diaries raises doubts wealthy industrialist Lance Henderson 1971 children’s book by about his grandfather’s past. Meanwhile, (Frank Moore)—whose well-heeled party Russell and Lillian Hoban, Will also struggles with running the has been relieved of expensive Christmas this 1977 TV special is family real estate business, a disgruntled gifts by the culprit—to solve the case. In directed by and stars Jim employee (Beverly Archer), and two love the days ahead, holiday shoppers at Eaton’s Henson and his Muppets interests—one snooty (Alexandra Wilson), luxury department store are similarly the other sweet (Naomi Watts). Middling in a story narrated by Kermit the Frog. robbed of their purchases by the flying Extras include the bonus lost song “Born holiday fare, this is an optional purchase. thief, whose disguise and sci-fi-like gizmos (J. Williams-Wood) in a Trunk,” outtakes, and deleted and (including suction cup shoes) bear a strik- alternate scenes. ing resemblance to the hero of some ear- Mouse and Mole at ly-model graphic novels written by Con- Mickey Mouse: Merry Christmas Time HHH stable Crabtree (Jonny Harris). Meanwhile, & Scary (Disney, DVD: (2017) 35 min. DVD: Brackenreid has ordered the formation of $19.99). Various Walt $6.99. Public Media a police choir that immediately stumbles Disney characters enjoy Distribution (avail. from most in its efforts to harmonize, and Dr. Julia distributors). ISBN: 978-1- holiday escapades in this Ogden (Hélène Joy) becomes involved collection of shorts that 5317-0235-9. with a pair of orphans who believe that she Based on a series of includes “The Scariest Sto- is the Snow Queen from fairy tales. These ry Ever: A Mickey Mouse picture books by author separate story threads come together in a Joyce Dunbar and illustrator James May- Halloween Spooktacular” and “Duck the finale that is both heartwarming and suit- Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special.” hew, this 2013 special finds roommates ably Dickensian in its hope for humanity. Mouse and Mole opening presents on And the cast exhibits just the right touch Peanuts Holiday Col- Christmas day. Mole is a bit disappointed of tongue-in-cheek self-parody. Highly lection: Deluxe Edition with his gifts—he really wanted a pair of recommended. (T. Keogh) skates—but he cheers up considerably at (Warner, 4K/Blu-ray Com- Mouse’s idea to invite friends to a Twelfth bo: 6 discs, $44.98). Newly Night party. The pair go door-to-door to The Wiggles: Go Santa available in 4K Ultra HD, ask Rabbit, Hedgehog, Frog, and others, Go! HHH1/2 this compilation includes and then head towards home. All is well (2013) 80 min. DVD: A Charlie Brown Christmas until they arrive to see that the front door $14.98. Kino Lorber (avail. (1965), It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is open (“The whole place has been upskit- from most distributors). (1966), and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving tled!”) and a pushy shrew is filling up her Aussie children’s en- (1973), as well as bonus featurettes. wiggly knapsack with their goods. The tertainers The Wiggles frustrated Mole martyrs himself, sleeping have undergone major A Very Brady Christ- outside in the cold night…which leads to changes since our last review of one of mas (Paramount, DVD: a trippy alternate dream world, the mis- their Christmas titles (The Wiggles: Santa’s $14.98). Florence Hender- taken use of a “wish fish,” and a wrap-up Rockin’!, VL-11/04), with only Wiggle An- son, Robert Reed, Ann B. rendition of the “Days of Christmas.” Fea- thony (Field) and Captain Feathersword Davis, and all of the kids turing voice work by Richard Briers, Alan (Paul Paddick) still on board. New to except “Cindy” are back Bennett, and , this holi- the group are invention-making Wiggle with spouses, children, day tale for wee viewers includes 10 bonus Lachy (Lachlan Gillespie), red Wiggle and adult troubles in this shorts with the characters. Recommended. Simon (Pryce), and female Wiggle Emma 1988 holiday companion film to the 1969- (J. Williams-Wood) (Watkins), who here does ballet moves and 74 sitcom The Brady Bunch.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 53 VIDEO LIBRARIAN (cont. from pg. 52) rather as an often suspenseful drama related hallway—all assemble in the little chapel to as memories by the 90-year-old apostle John, chant the divine office. Otherwise, they tend the last of the 12 and now a prisoner whose to the more mundane duties that they are still Roman guards are fascinated by his tales. In physically able to manage. Sisters Hildegard, John’s telling, Paul is a stubborn man whose 2017 New Releases Lidwina, and Walburga sew, iron, and prepare mission is met not only by threats, impris- the table for the modest meals that they take onment, and torture, but also attracts lethal in common (and in silence, except for prayer), enemies who recall how his earlier hatred while Sister Kornelia, the youngest (and of Christians resulted in many deaths at the the prioress), tends the garden and handles hands of magistrates and Pharisees. Squeezed contact with the outside world, including from both sides, Paul takes one lump after serving as hostess to groups of laypeople who another without complaint, barely escap- tour the monastery, talking about its long ing manhunts and sometimes flogged and history and present difficulties. It is inspiring chained to prison walls. But God intervenes to watch these women being faithful to the time and again in miraculous fashion, allow- lifestyle they adopted decades ago when the ing Paul to spread the Word throughout the community was thriving, and poignant to Middle Eastern world and Europe. A fine entry hear one express the perhaps forlorn hope in the acclaimed The Voice of the Martyrs line that Habsthal can continue to be a place of animated programs, this is recommended. where God’s praises will be sung after she Aud: P. (T. Keogh) SEED & SPROUT: is gone. The crisis of Christian monasticism GROWING THE FOOD in today’s secularized world has rarely been RESCUE REVOLUTION so simply and eloquently captured. Highly SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES Can ordinary people end hunger by redistribu- recommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) ting a small percentage of wasted food flooding our food system and dumping grounds? This To Every Nation HHH The Coming War on China HH1/2 film follows eight innovative food rescue (2017) 70 min. DVD: $17.99. DRA. Vision Video (2016) 113 min. DVD: $350. Bullfrog Films. PPR. initiatives in an effort to find out. (avail. from most distributors). SDH captioned. ISBN: 1-941545-76-9. This animated biography centers on Paul The incendiary premise of Australian of Tarsus—better known as Saint Paul, an journalist John Pilger’s documentary is that apostle of Christ who was not one of the the United States, which has long tried to original 12—detailing his life after his establish global hegemony, is working to famed conversion from being a persecutor of fashion a military “noose” around a resurgent first-century Christians to becoming a deter- China—a move that represents a preparation mined preacher of God’s glory. Paul’s story is for war. According to Pilger, this was clearly not presented as blindingly glorified lore, but implied in President ’s “pivot”

“Parable” Plus Three More Films by Rolf Forsberg HHH (2017) 107 min. DVD: $24.99. DRA. Vision Video (avail. from most distributors). ADHD: NOT JUST FOR KIDS This quartet compilation of short works by maverick, unpre- Specialists and researchers provide insights on dictable, now-93-year-old writer-director Rolf Forsberg strongly hints at the array of idiosyncratic styles that he cooked up over the current science and treatments of Attention four decades. Best known for co-directing the 1979 biblical Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. doomsday documentary The Late, Great Planet Earth (narrated by Orson Welles), Forsberg’s greatest honors came for the strange 1964 short “Parable.” A tale about Jesus Christ told as an allegory set in a circus, “Parable” was entered into of Con- gress’s National Film Registry in 2012 and received accolades at major film festivals upon its release. “Parable” presents Jesus as a donkey-riding clown who wanders into a circus and draws the instant loyalty of some and wrath of others, culminating in a unique variation on the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Relatively crude in technique, the film’s real draw is such dreamlike touches as human marionettes and a circus au- dience of hoodied children. The second short, 1966’s “The Antkeeper,” tells another surreal tale about Christ, in which an old man turns his son into an ant. Narrated by Fred Gwynne, “The Antkeeper” is somewhat reminiscent of “bad trip” scenes from the era’s B-movies. Forsberg turns his attention to the environment in the 1970 shoe- string-budgeted “Ark,” a dystopian and effective fable about a survivor of ecological 12 MONTHS devastation who tries to save a pond by bringing some of its critters and plants inside an old greenhouse. Finally, 1973’s “One Friday” is a weird little peacenik movie about A Los Angeles man rents his home for the entire the end of innocence, in which a toddler walks past the corpses of his parents only to year for $1 per month to help a family he has find many more bodies strewn around in a civil war that is about to claim him as well. never met get back on their feet. Viewers have the option of watching all of the selections with brief, often illuminating introductions featuring Forsberg himself. A solid collection of classic religious shorts, www.darkhollowfilms.com this is recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh)

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 54 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 First Daughter and the Black Snake HHH1/2 (2017) 94 min. DVD: $19.99. Virgil Films (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. Keri Pickett’s documentary focuses on efforts by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe Native American economist, environmental- ist, and political activist (she was Ralph Nader’s running mate in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections), to shut down plans by the Canadian oil corporation Enbridge to proceed with pipeline construction on her tribe’s land in Minnesota. LaDuke, in her capacity as executive director of the non-profit Honor the Earth, has been an active presence in the fight against disruptive and destructive construction by the energy industry. In this case, she notes the “Prophecy of the Seventh Fire” that predicts a “black snake” will destroy the Earth—not a reptile but rather the pipeline that snakes its way across the land and the Ojibwe tribe’s rice lakes. LaDuke also presents an 1855 treaty that granted the land to her tribe, thus bringing a legal challenge to Enbridge’s activities. The campaign by LaDuke and the Ojibwe to fend off Enbridge could be seen as a prequel to the more publicized 2016-17 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline that reached a violent crescendo at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. While the legal aspects of LaDuke’s challenges might seem a bit dry and academic, she nonetheless brings passion and intelligence to the fight, and Pickett powerfully presents her story. Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) toward Asia, but that policy was hardly new. who are supposed to be public servants. In the first and most powerful part of the film, The result of such training has been violent Pilger excoriates America’s role in the Mar- excessive force for the most routine arrests, shall Islands, a Pacific paradise that the U.S. including here a SWAT raid at the home of an used after World War II as a testing-ground for African-American family in South Carolina nuclear weapons, treating the local popula- where property damage and cash seizures tion as human guinea pigs to study the effects resulted in the discovery of only a tiny bag of radiation. Pilger goes on to celebrate activ- of marijuana. To his credit, Atkinson gains ists who oppose American bases in Japan and the trust of several police departments and South Korea before concluding with a seg- offers an in-depth, up-close view of frontline ment predicting a nuclear conflagration that police procedures. Perhaps not surprisingly, will doom the planet unless other citizens the pushback against heavy-handed police rise up against American imperialism. Pilger tactics aimed at nonwhite communities spurs intends his film as a rejoinder to what he sees a new round of violence, most notably rioting as anti-China propaganda fostered by the U.S. in Ferguson and Baltimore. Opposition is also government and spread by the American me- raised in Congress and in town hall meet- dia. But while he makes some telling points, ings around the country, but these efforts his take on the policies of modern China, are mostly ignored by the police and their which he depicts as based on irenic Buddhism political enablers. A powerful, provocative, in contrast to a militant, conversion-obsessed and very timely documentary, this is highly Judeo-Christian tradition, is absurdly sim- recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) plistic. Still, even though The Coming War on China is hardly evenhanded, it does present Finding Bosnia HHH an alternative view of American policy in the (2015) 87 min. In English & Bosnian w/English Pacific that is thought-provoking and—with subtitles. DVD: $50 ($125 w/PPR): public its blend of archival footage, interviews, and libraries; DVD or Blu-ray: $295 w/PPR: colleges & occasional snippets of animation—skillfully universities. DRA. Collective Eye Films. argued. A strong optional purchase. Aud: C, P. Testing whether one can really go home (F. Swietek) again, Ivana Horvat (not the same-named actress/model)—whose family fled their Do Not Resist HHH1/2 war-torn homeland of Bosnia in 1992 and (2016) 72 min. DVD: $95: public libraries; $350 settled as refugees in Oregon—returns to the w/PPR: colleges & universities. DRA. Ro*co Films Balkans with her mother to visit family and Educational. Closed captioned. see whether she can truly reconnect with her Winner of the 2016 Best Documentary native culture. Directed by Horvat and Adrian Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, Craig Hopffgarten, Finding Bosnia includes short Atkinson’s study of the militarization of animated segments on Bosnian history—in- U.S. police departments presents a visceral cluding its role in the outbreak of World War study of how law enforcement is being tak- I and amalgamation into Yugoslavia—but the en to a different level. The film focuses on film’s emphasis is on the past two decades. influential police trainer Dave Grossman, Numerous residents of Sarajevo not only in particular his efforts to establish an us- recall the close shaves they endured while versus-them military mindset in officers the city was under siege by Serbian militants

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 55 VIDEO LIBRARIAN in the early ‘90s, but also speak of the city’s special character, captured here in exuberant Poverty, Inc. HHH1/2 montages. Horvat adds footage of family gath- (2015) 91 min. DVD: $19.95. Passion River (avail. from most erings in Bosnia, home movies of her and her distributors). Closed captioned. parents living in America and meeting with Michael Matheson Miller’s documentary asks harsh questions other Bosnian exiles, and scenes of her spend- about whether Western humanitarian projects in the developing ing time with Bosnians her own age, forming world are rooted in genuine altruism or a neo-colonial need to friendships during outings to sidewalk cafes, maintain dominance over African, Asian, Latin American, and dance clubs, and mountainous forests. There Caribbean countries. Poverty Inc. calls out international bodies are poignant moments, one involving an such as the United Nations and World Bank, nongovernmental untimely funeral, but overall the mood is not organizations, Christian relief operations, and the U.S. Congress oppressively downbeat, even though Bosnia’s for having very little to show for much-publicized efforts to fight worldwide hunger recent past has been tragic and its people are and poverty. Rather than work to create equal partnerships in the developing world uncertain about the future. The trip back to and enable countries to be active participants in the global economy, current outreach the Balkans was clearly fulfilling for Horvat, is seen as maintaining a perpetual state of dependence on financial and food aid. Or, but this homespun personal documentary as Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse glumly observes, “I see would likely prove engaging for others as well. multiple colonial governors. We are held captive by the donor community.” Miller also Recommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) chides celebrities including Bono and George Clooney, and all-star music fundraising efforts such as “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (both the original British version and Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Renewal the Glee remake) for reinforcing the stereotype of Africans as being too stupid to take HHH1/2 care of themselves and in need of white Western intervention. Presented in both the (2016) 69 min. DVD: $19.95 ($78.95 w/PPR). Lost full-length version and a 55-minute abridgement, this provocative critique of global Rondout Project (www.lostrondoutproject.com). socioeconomic policies is highly recommended. [Note: this is also available with public Stephen Blauweiss and Lynn Woods’s docu- performance rights for $295 from Ro*co Films Educational at www.rocoeducational. mentary looks at a 1960s urban renewal proj- com.] Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) ect that had effect on its intended target. Rondout was a working-class commu- nity in Kingston, NY, which is a small city in the racially-mixed neighborhood enjoyed starchy government agents, who forbid her the Hudson Valley region. The community an uncommon degree of camaraderie be- from even asking schoolboys if they have was home to 19th-century brick buildings tween blacks and whites. Unfortunately, girlfriends. Yet she still puts a sympathetic that provided housing and retail outlets, and federally-funded urban renewal planners face on North Korea, which she claims mod- believed that the Rondout was in need of ernized and grew in positive ways under the massive changes. Nearly 500 buildings were Kim dynasty of rulers (three generations of demolished and thousands of residents were absolute dictators, so far), whom the public displaced. But subsequent new development still revere as liberators from the evil empires did not spring up immediately, leaving vast of Japan and the USA. Washington, DC, the voids that remained unfilled for years. Even film claims, cared nothing about democracy worse, many of the area’s black residents in South Korea, only strategic military bases, found themselves barred from access to new and thus has backed unpopular, repressive housing. The film features many artistically regimes in Seoul. Any assertions that North stunning images from photographer Gene Korea is equally militaristic and bellicose are Dauner that captured Rondout before the ignored or whitewashed behind scenes of wrecking ball came in (and it details the be- cheerful comrades, young and old, who are lated appreciation of the once-scorned local determined to carry on, hoping that as a “one 19th-century architecture, and efforts to blood” people they may someday reunite preserve old structures that escaped demoli- with the south. While some viewers may be tion). Interviews with old-time residents offer skeptical of Kim-Gibson’s upbeat take, this a nostalgic recollection of a pleasant, close- contrarian perspective makes for an inter- knit community that was torn apart in the esting documentary on a subject that is very name of progress. Presenting a fascinating timely. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady) look at a case in which good socioeconomic intentions ultimately backfired, this is highly Poverty, Politics and Profit HHH recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) (2017) 60 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0224-3. People Are the Sky HHH In America, the financial crisis of 2008 (2015) 94 min. In Korean w/English subtitles. suddenly made many people’s homes unaf- DVD: $89: public libraries, $395: colleges & fordable. Jobs were lost, savings and income universities. Women Make Movies. PPR. plummeted, and foreclosures mounted, while Filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson’s eye-open- rents remained high due to increased com- ing documentary presents an alternative petition for housing. This PBS-aired Frontline (some might cynically say “alternative facts”) documentary looks at the government’s re- look at the pariah nation of North Korea—a sponse of low-income tax credits and Section country that Kim-Gibson migrated from 8 vouchers, the latter being sometimes hard to America as a young war refugee in the to get, as well as a “use or lose” proposition 1950s. Here, she is allowed to return and with expiration dates. The newly poor had film in Pyongyang, albeit under the close to contend with long waits, which resulted supervision of ominously ever-smiling, in near riots at some sites. And there was

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 56 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 pushback when public-private partnerships with an anecdote about astronaut Neil Arm- worked to build low-income housing units strong, who while on the Moon observed NATURE, ENVIRONMENT in the outer suburbs of cities like Dallas, TX. something large and shining on the Earth’s and HUMAN ECOLOGY films The film notes that “zip code is destiny,” and surface. According to Moises Chambi Yu- the issue of race inevitably surfaced when cra—the subject of filmmaker Mike Plunkett’s Ù DVDs and STREAMING Ù inner-city residents wanted wider access and visually stunning film—what Armstrong saw suburban residents feared a loss in property was Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, an enormous NEW RELEASE: values. On top of it all, a high stakes politi- salt flat that was once routinely mined by cal game played out, marked by corruption, generations of workers (saleros) armed with bribes, and kickbacks. The documentary pickaxes and shovels. A quick trip to the ruins explains how Section 8 and tax credits work, of a once-busy salt mill in the nearly-deserted and why corruption and the lack of stringent village of Colchani shows that this former auditing brought about the double whammy simple way life is long gone…except for Yucra, of inflated costs and less housing. Although a husband and father of three who returns the need is stressed for sound housing policy every day to the ocean of white that he grinds free from prejudice, the unfortunate fact is down into granular salt and sells to shops in that many low-income residents face long a nearby city. More philosophical than stub- periods of renting or even being homeless. As born by nature, Yucra chooses not to follow if to illustrate the dilemma, while one renter is friends and relatives who left Colchani for being interviewed, her car is repossessed just better opportunities, seeing himself as part off camera, depriving her family of even that of a collective destiny tied to the Salar. But meager shelter as a possibility. Offering clear that perspective is challenged when Bolivia explanations and insightful interviews, this announces plans to strip mine an enormous compelling treatment of a pressing national reserve of lithium from beneath the flat, a CRAZYWISE: Rethinking Madness, problem is recommended. Aud: C, P. (S. Rees) proposition that will fill the country’s coffers Psychosis or Spiritual Awakening. for many years to come. Plunkett’s - Crazy…or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous Real Boy HHH1/2 taking, monotone images of the endless flat cultures often contradicts modern views about a (2017) 72 min. DVD: $59.95 ($325 w/PPR from and distant hills seen early in Salero are soon mental health crisis. Is it a ‘calling’ to grow or just a edu.passionriver.com). Passion River (avail. from replaced by heartbreaking shots of the land ‘broken brain’? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores most distributors). ripped open for the first phase of lithium what can be learned from people around the world Shaleece Haas’s PBS-aired documentary mining. While one might expect a sense who have turned their psychological crisis into a focuses on 19-year-old Bennett Wallace, an of outrage in the film, another major figure positive transformative experience. 82 mins aspiring singer-songwriter raised in Pasade- here is Marcelo Castro Romero, a project en- na, CA, who is transitioning to become a gineer for the mining operation and a decent transgender male, which leads to a strained man with strong convictions about Bolivia’s relationship with his mother Suzy. The film future. Salero ultimately tells a story about presents Bennett’s pre-transition life as people with competing aspirations (including Rachel, who explains the gender switch by those of Yucra’s restless wife, who is training stating, “I am literally a boy with the wrong for a career in the city) in a changing world. body parts.” But Suzy, who is struggling with Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) the pain from a recent divorce, responds unsympathetically: “We all have that feeling that I am in the wrong body—I should be TEEN ISSUES in Charlize Theron’s body.” Bennett is also dealing with drug addiction and self-mutila- tion via cutting, which further complicates his life. But a mentorship from Joe Stevens, Straight Talk About Sexting and a transgender musician and a former addict, Messaging HHH1/2 as well as friendship with a transgender teen (2017) 19 min. DVD: $149.95. (study guide named Dylan, helps provide stability in included). Human Relations Media. PPR. Closed Bennett’s world—and Dylan’s mother offers captioned. IBSN: 978-1-62706-085-1. emotional support to Suzy that ultimately Combining facts presented by the hosts, NEW RELEASE: TIDEWATER proves valuable in restoring her relationship expert commentary from Nicole Cushman The Hampton Roads area of Virginia is relatively with her child. Filmed over a four-year peri- (executive director at the sex education na- unknown nationwide, but its vulnerability to sea od, Real Boy is presented with a remarkable tional organization Answer), and personal level rise most affects military readiness and our degree of intimacy and sincerity; the difficult stories by real-life teens, this is an informative overall national security. With 14 military installations emotions experienced by Bennett and Suzy guidance program on the dangers of “sex- spread across 17 local jurisdictions, it is our highest ting” (sending sexual photos or texts using concentration of military assets in the country. Homes, are often painful to watch, but their respec- schools, hospitals, and families are struggling to keep tive evolutions are handled in a graceful, smartphones). Straight Talk explores how up with the effects of rising waters, while the military dignified manner. A powerful documentary changing technology affects how we relate to and surrounding municipalities are working towards about transgender issues, this is highly rec- one another, noting that some people use sex- solutions in the name of strengthening national ommended Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) ting to flirt and express affection from afar, security and economic prosperity. 42 mins which can have the upside of being safe from Salero HHH1/2 physical risk of STIs or pregnancy. However, as www.greenplanetfilms.org (2015) 76 min. DVD: $99.95: public libraries; participants note, once you send something $350: colleges & universities. The Cinema Guild. online, it can’t be retrieved and can resurface 415-377-5471 PPR. following a breakup. A boy here talks about [email protected] The haunting documentary Salero begins a long-distance romance with a summer

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 57 VIDEO LIBRARIAN camp girl whom he felt pressured to sext Also touching on the legal ramifications— pressive variety of wildlife, rugged peaks, and with, while a girl “felt like he’d like me more” including penalties, fines, criminal charges, valleys, and is an often forbidding landscape after sexting, but her boyfriend showed her and probation—Straight Talk includes helpful of intense cold and heat (temperatures can pictures to people on the bus. And another advice about protecting yourself and the fluctuate 90 degrees in a single day). Hosted teen is publicly humiliated—and subse- importance of trust and consent in healthy by Kirk Johnson, this three-part PBS-aired quently bullied, and grows suicidal—when relationships. A straightforward, timely title, documentary focuses on Yellowstone’s big her pix are forwarded, eventually reaching this is highly recommended. Aud: J, H, C, P. thaw, a four-month period when bison, griz- more than 10 schools and her principal. (J. Williams-Wood) zly bears, elk, wolves, and bald eagles come together to mate, raise their young, and com- pete for food. Each animal has found a way to EDUCATION hang on and survive. Ground squirrels hiber- nate for up to eight months, storing food and body fat for the long sleep. The great gray owl is blessed with exceptional hearing, able to Night School HHH track prey under a thick coat of snow, and at (2016) 85 min. DVD: $34.99. Oscilloscope (avail. from most distributors). distances up to 300 feet. Bison graze through- out the frigid winter, and hungry wolves Andrew Cohn’s sometimes heartbreaking documentary tracks hope to isolate a stray calf for a much-needed the struggles and progress of three adults upending their daily meal. Each season presents both challenges lives in order to attend night school in Indianapolis to earn a and opportunities: a mild winter may help high school diploma. All are dropouts who hope to complete a bison, but leaves fewer carcasses for predators milestone they missed long ago, believing that this victory will to feed on; forest fires can threaten plants and help them on their difficult paths. Greg, 30, is a single father vegetation, while also opening up areas for with a criminal record that he is trying to get expunged (which seed distribution (an essential part of nature’s a diploma will help). Melissa, 53, is a single woman who thinks regenerative cycle); and heavy runoffs from the program will help boost her self-respect. And Shynika, 26, melting snow bring life-giving water, but also makes $7.25 an hour at Arbys, and is sure that her manager is trying to sabotage her menace beaver lodges and animals trying to night school education, which she hopes will be a springboard to move on to nursing school. Cohn employs a fly-on-the-wall approach to shooting scenes of alternating de- navigate streams. Climate change is affecting termination and despair, but also captures stirrings of genuine personal reinvention at Yellowstone, with milder winters and retreat- work in these hardy souls as they come closer to achieving their dreams. Extras include ing snow packs, and this will inevitably create audio commentary by Cohn and cinematographer Zachary Shields. Recommended. animal winners and losers. An informative [Note: this is also available with public performance rights for $375 from Grasshopper and beautifully-lensed nature series, this is Film at www.grasshopperfilm.com.] Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (S. Rees) The Penguin Counters HHH (2016) 68 min. DVD: $24.95. First Run Features protected staff “extraction teams” must pull (avail. from most distributors). LAW & CRIME the inmate out. The state is experimenting Husband-and-wife filmmakers Peter with rehabilitation classes and structured Getzels and Harriet Gordon follow a mis- living units, which one prisoner says simply sion to Antarctica—ultimately, Deception Last Days of Solitary HHH “breeds better criminals.” Most prisoners Island—with a crew of researchers led by (2017) 120 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). deny that they are psychopaths, but readily Ron Naveen, a lawyer-turned-naturalist PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317- admit that they are violent offenders (one who specializes in the varied penguin 0182-6. broke a man’s jaw in seven places because he species around the southern polar regions. Solitary confinement (which can entail thought it would be “cool”). The documen- Naveen believes that painstakingly tallying isolation in a cell for 23 hours daily) is a tary notes that prisoners held in solitary are populations of different penguins over the nightmarish bedlam for both prisoners and more likely to reoffend, become paranoid, decades (the birds have little fear of people staff. In Maine’s state prison, solitary inmates and never be fully comfortable around and obligingly stand to be counted) pro- spend their time howling, often abusing people—serious consequences given that 80 vides an index of the changing amount of themselves by cutting or banging their heads percent will eventually be released back into vital krill shrimp in the oceans, and other against walls, and flooding their cells and society. No easy answers are offered in this fallout from climate change. Naveen’s per- pushing human waste under the doors and thought-provoking look at a controversial sonable sense of humor synergizes well with out into the hallway. Filmed over a three-year penal issue. A fine complement to Solitary: the comical birds. The mildly whimsical period, Dan Edge and Laura Mucciolo’s PBS- Inside Red Onion State Prison (VL Online-9/17), science of penguin counts—which turns aired Frontline documentary looks at Maine’s this is recommended. Aud: C, P. (S. Rees) more serious as the team concludes that efforts to reduce the number of prisoners who some penguins are in sharp decline—di- are kept in solitary confinement. Incredibly, gresses into the tale of Ernest Shackleton’s solitary was conceived by the Quakers as a NATURE, MATH & SCIENCE expedition in these same waters, and the noble experiment, a place where prisoners documentary also looks at the antique could meditate on their sins and determine whaling-industry abattoirs that are found how to change their behavior. But contempo- Great Yellowstone Thaw HHH1/2 preserved on remote Antarctic islands, rary prisoners say that solitary can “break you (2017) 180 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). which is yet another reminder of mankind’s quick,” likening it to being buried alive. Con- PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317- poor stewardship of the planet. Extras in- traband including notes, medications, and 0193-2. clude behind-the-scenes featurettes. An off- razor blades are somehow smuggled between The vast expanse of the Greater Yellow- beat, engaging film that finds some humor cells. And when prisoners seriously injure stone area (which covers an ancient volcano) in a serious subject, this is recommended. themselves or cover their windows, heavily spans 34,000 square miles, contains an im- Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady)

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 58 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 When asked during a birthday what it means HEALTH & FITNESS to turn 89, he responds, “You didn’t die at the right time.” My Father’s House presents an often painful observation of Reimann’s Bending the Arc HHH1/2 slow physical and intellectual deterioration, (2017) 102 min. DVD or Blu-ray: $95: public particularly as he becomes heavily reliant libraries & high schools; $395: colleges & on a housekeeper’s care and his mobility is universities. DRA. Tugg. PPR. significantly limited. The filmmaker rues Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos’s documen- having to sell her father’s home, and the tary takes its title from Theodore Parker’s sight of a wrecking crew tearing down the famous axiom—later quoted by Martin Lu- old structure is more than a little symbolic of ther King, Jr.—that over time the moral arc of the dementia that is tearing down Reimann. the universe bends towards justice. However, An extremely moving and heartbreaking the fi lm emphasizes that the efforts of dedi- fi lm about the grueling effects of dementia, cated human beings are required for that to both on the patient and the caregivers, this happen, and it celebrates the work of Paul is highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) Farmer, , and Ophelia Dahl, who in 1987 founded Tai Chi for Body and Mind Fitness (PIH), a non-profi t organization that aims HHH to bring healthcare to the poorest citizens (2016) 2 discs. 283 min. DVD: $34.95. White in undeveloped countries. Bending the Arc Crane Productions. PPR. ISBN: 978-1-68418-364-7. begins with the group’s initial work in , Pat Akers provides detailed instruction in where its community-based model achieved this comprehensive tai chi guide, which be- remarkable success. The story continues with gins with advice on how to use the program PIH’s efforts in Peru, where it spearheaded a for beginner, intermediate, and advanced drive to fi ght drug-resistant tuberculosis de- students, along with a look at the health ben- spite arguments from experts (including the efi ts, different schools of tai chi, and safety World Health Organization) that the project tips. Underscoring the importance of regular would be overly expensive, before turning practice in order to reap the physical and spir- to , where PIH not only established itual awards of this low-impact martial art, clinics but also initiated a program to train Akers covers basic concepts (on stance, weight a national force of health professionals to distribution, focus, and posture), performs provide treatment to AIDS patients—again warm-up exercises, and works with a group overcoming arguments regarding fi nancial of participants to offer complete demonstra- feasibility. The appointment of Dr. Kim as tions of the 98 forms shown here, including President of the World Bank in 2012 was an “Grasping Bird’s Tail” and “Carry Tiger to important step in furthering PIH’s goals, and Mountain.” Also featuring a second disc Kim would prove instrumental in marshaling with fi nely-honed details for the forms, and the world’s resources to battle the Ebola epi- a selection of applications for two partners, demic in West Africa in 2014-15. Interviews this thorough production is recommended. with Farmer, Kim, and Dahl, as well as with Aud: P. (J. Williams-Wood) Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda’s former Minister of Health, are complemented by heartfelt tributes from patients whose lives were saved CHILDBIRTH & PARENTING by PIH’s work. An inspiring fi lm that shows how individuals have made a real difference in addressing inequity in the global health- HHH care system, this is highly recommended. Vegas Baby (2017) 77 min. DVD: $19.95, Blu-ray: $24.95. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) FilmRise (avail. from most distributors). In , the odds are all-important, My Father’s House: A Journey of Love and that is certainly true for those vying to and Memory HHH1/2 win a contest sponsored by the city’s Sher (2017) 28 min. DVD: $98. Terra Nova Films. PPR. Institute featuring the prize of a round of Hannah Reimann’s documentary short is expensive in-vitro fertilization treatments. a video diary devoted to the last four years Amanda Micheli’s documentary follows the in the life of her father, Dr. Peter Reimann, competition, from the initial submission of who was slowly weakened by dementia. The videos made by people who are desperate German-born Reimann served as a medic to have children, to the selection process in the German Army during World War II (including online voting by viewers) that (the fi lm briefl y states that he was anti-Na- ultimately chooses the winner, and fi nally zi), later marrying Korean psychoanalyst on to the resulting treatments, not only Dr. Myunghee Kim in 1957, and eventually for the victorious couple but also for other settling in New Jersey. Kim’s death in a car contestants who choose to pay out of pocket. accident during a 1996 vacation in was Inevitably, a good deal of poignancy is found an emotional loss from which Reimann never in the appeals of contestants for votes. In one truly recovered, and a sense of melancholy case, a wife determined to have a biological resonates throughout his on-camera footage. child is supported by her husband, despite

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 59 VIDEO LIBRARIAN the fact that doing so violates the tenets of filmmaker Tanner Shinnick entertainingly dogs and cats are euthanized every year in his Catholic faith (as well as threatening his profiles a small herd of Americans who the U.S., many never having known a sta- position at a Catholic workplace). Another have taken up the owning and breeding of ble home—or any home at all. Filmmaker young woman—a Lady Gaga impersonator— llamas. The South American camelids were Michael Samstag’s illuminating documen- is physically unable to have a natural child- a rarity only a generation ago, when the tary notes that many of those unfortunate birth. And a couple has gone deeply into debt original “llama mama” Tracy Pearson and animals live and die in the Southeast. One trying to have a child after their foster child her husband Jack began raising and selling reason could be the daily mass killings of was returned to the biological parents. Adding show-quality llamas at their Mississippi animals at temporary shelters, such as a to the sad mood, of course, is the knowledge homestead (viewers will see a llama live Tennessee facility that takes in scores of that there is no guarantee of success with the birth). Jannessa and Hunter are two teenage abandoned, lost, and unwanted dogs and treatment. The very idea of such a contest girls at the apex of the competitive-llama cats every day, who are then killed to make might seem crass, but Dr. Geoffrey Sher and subculture, whose friendship suffers over room for tomorrow’s incoming. A Southern his associates all appear to have good motives time and tournaments. Ron is an eccentric Fix looks at some regional organizations and as well as medical competence, and Micheli Georgia mayor who rides in a llama-driven people who are trying to reduce pet over- treats the participants with sensitivity and cart. And Rojo is Portland’s famous “kissing population and find solutions, including discretion. Recommended. [Note: this is also llama,” who is certified as a therapy animal. one woman who drives a large trailer from available with public performance rights for Rojo seems to be an unperturbed and placid Georgia to New Jersey and back, carrying $95: public libraries and $395: colleges and animal, like most of the llamas shown here— loads of animals suitable for adoption (she universities from Tugg at http://edu.tugg. who appear to be at thoughtful ease with all shares some good ideas about how to put com.] Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) of the quirky doting humans. And in one fun puppy mills out of business). The filmmak- training sequence, the llamas go through ob- ers also visit an ASPCA chapter that operates stacle courses featuring Simpsons characters. a program to sterilize feral cats in an effort RELATIONSHIPS & SEXUALITY Extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette to reduce the feline population. Although and deleted scenes. Recommended. Aud: P. it runs a bit too long (with moments of Dream Boat HH (C. Cassady) rambling chatter) and has a homespun (2017) 92 min. In English, French, German & feel, A Southern Fix never loses sight of its Arabic w/English subtitles. DVD: $24.99. Strand A Southern Fix HHH advocacy mission to educate viewers about Releasing (avail. from most distributors). (2017) 73 min. DVD: $24.99 ($199 w/PPR). the haunting national crisis of having too Alternately silly and serious, the gay- Dreamscape Media. Closed captioned. many dogs and cats with nowhere to go. themed documentary Dream Boat wants to It is estimated that 3-4 million adoptable Recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) have its beefcake and eat it too. Shot aboard a cruise ship hosting an annual, all-male gay outing for almost 2,400 passengers, the film BUSINESS & ECONOMICS leers at acres of bodies stuffed into Speedos. Director Tristan Ferland Milewski indulges in long sequences of soft-core voyeurism while also focusing on five men of different nation- Betting on Zero HHH alities who have specific issues in conflict (2016) 104 min. DVD: $29.95. Kino Lorber (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. with hardbody standards and freewheeling sexual permissiveness. Marek, a Polish-born, Theodore Braun’s documentary focuses on a battle between U.K. resident, has a handsome face and two controversial entities: hedge fund executive Bill Ackman’s well-sculpted form, but lacks confidence in Pershing Square Capital and Herbalife, the global nutritional navigating the perpetual party scene on all and supplement company that relied on multi-level marketing of the ship’s decks. India’s Dipankar feels to boost its sales. Ackman accused Herbalife of being a pyra- alone amidst thousands of fellow shipmates, mid scheme and took an unprecedented billion-dollar short while Ramzi, a Palestinian, is sailing with position against it. Part of Ackman’s argument involved claims his Belgian partner, a recent cancer survivor. that Herbalife targets working-class Americans, including many Martin, from Austria, is living with HIV, Hispanics, with its lure of building quick fortunes in exchange for an initial $3,000 while French citizen Philippe, confined to a investment to become an Herbalife seller. If Ackman comes across as being a tad too wheelchair, wonders what it would be like if self-righteous in denouncing the allegedly dubious nature of Herbalife’s sales strategy, he could attract men other than his partner. Herbalife CEO Michael O. Johnson, a former Disney executive, comes across as a glib, Epiphanies and disappointments concerning larger-than-life parody of the very worst in corporate smugness. Complicating matters, body image, HIV, love, and acceptance of gay however, is having one of the most respected figures in big business, billionaire investor culture back home are experienced by the Carl Icahn, siding with Johnson against Ackman in a high-profile and deeply personal quintet, and there is much talk about feeling duel of financial titans. Braun presents a compelling portrait of shaky morality within left outside of the swirling rave going on contemporary American capitalism. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) night and day. Serving up an uneasy mix of personal pain and fun, fashion, and flesh, this is an optional purchase. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) was determined to make a more generalized COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY nonfiction look at the microchip revolution PETS but was unable to ignore the scandals be- hind cool new technology, namely the toxic Death by Design: The Dirty Secret of Our pollution and e-waste generated by count- Llama Nation HHH Digital Addiction HHH less tons of obsolete circuit boards, batteries, (2016) 90 min. DVD: $29.95. Kino Lorber (avail. (2015) 73 min. DVD: $350. Bullfrog Films. PPR. sulfuric acid, etc. The principle villains from most distributors). Closed captioned. SDH captioned. ISBN: 1-941545-71-8. cited here are Apple (which designs their Playing nicely to animal-lovers of all ages, Filmmaker Sue Williams declares that she iPhones and other gadgets to be non-us-

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 60 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 er-serviceable and subject to obsolescence); the high-tech Chinese factory Foxconn, Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World HHH which has an infamous worker-suicide (2016) 77 min. DVD: $24.95. First Run Features (avail. from most trend; and IBM, whose industrial waste is distributors). linked to cancer clusters in Endicott, NY It takes an ocean for the picaresque band of nomads intro- (Silicon Valley, we’re told, is little safer). duced in this documentary by filmmaker Nico Edwards. Non- The heroes are whistleblowers, innovative conformists all, the men of the Infinity—a 120-foot, handmade recyclers, and a small Irish company that sailboat—spend their young lives seafaring, going where they builds a fair-trade/sustainable computer out will and constantly tinkering with their vessel to keep it afloat. of wood—although the latter attracts fewer Edwards joins the crew for an epic 8,000 mile journey from New customers than expected. Covering much Zealand to Patagonia, with a stop in Antarctica just for fun. And, of the same ground as Terra Blight (VL-7/13), no, the Infinity is not outfitted to sail through ice, but risk is a this documentary is presented in both part of the psychological makeup of the well-lubricated rogues here. Edwards captures the full-length version and a 53-minute the haunting beauty of the Infinity’s approach to the ice continent, as well as efforts to abridged edition. A thought-provoking look avoid icebergs and survive an ice hurricane. A thrilling chapter finds the crew hosting at the high environmental costs of widely members of the environmental group Sea Shepherd, hatching a plot for the Infinity used technology, this is recommended. Aud: to act as a decoy to throw off a Japanese whaler (the ruse works). When Edwards isn’t H, C, P. (C. Cassady) shooting breathtaking action or crew members improvising repairs, he’s busy hanging out with the guys as they drink and sing (badly) old sailor songs. A rousing true-life SPORTS, GAMES & RECREATION adventure, this is recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh)

In the Game HHH1/2 Peninsula Mitre: A Forgotten Land by musician Will Sheff—lead singer for the band Okkervil River—was inspired by Sheff’s (2015) 77 min. DVD: $375. Grasshopper Film. HHH1/2 PPR. (2016) 90 min. In Spanish w/English subtitles. titular song, and was filmed in the rural New Spending four years with a girls’ soccer DVD: $39: public libraries; $89: high schools; Hampshire town where he grew up. With no team, director Maria Finitzo has made $195: colleges & universities. DRA. Green Planet dialogue (only ambient voices and music on a documentary that plays like a female Films. PPR. the soundtrack), Down Down the Deep River version of Friday Night Lights. Instead of How far will one go to surf the perfect is an impressionistic work about the kinship a school in Texas, she trains her lens on wave…with an eye towards preserving the between two lonely sixth-grade boys who Chicago’s Kelly High School, located in the environment? Bruce Brown’s famous 1966 share a deep curiosity about nature, science city’s majority-Latino Southwest Side. Like feature documentary The Endless Summer fiction, books, photography, and more. Sheff the coach of Buzz Bissinger’s nonfiction set the bar high at the get-go for adventure captures that brief period in more fortunate bestseller—which spawned a movie and a sports but today seems rather quaint in the kids’ lives when the world seems ripe for ex- TV show—Poland-born Coach Stan Mietus era of extreme sports in which some leave a ploration and imagination (essentially, this is doubles as a mentor. He also knows the shameful carbon footprint (and other signs 1980s Steven Spielberg territory—E.T. and The area intimately, since he attended the same of excess) in order to fulfill a purely personal Goonies). But the good times don’t last forever, school (his professional sports career was goal. Here, the filmmaker brothers Julián so the film is also about disappointment and sidelined by an ACL injury). Unlike most and Joaquín Azulay featured in Gauchos del loss, and the search for something larger to other high school coaches, Stan doesn’t Mar (VL-7/15) strap their bulky, air-catching believe in than one’s own victories and de- make cuts and he believes that each girl surfboards onto their backs for a 53-day, 250- feats. Extras include audio commentary by should feel important. Finitzo focuses on mile trek over ’s remote and rugged Sheff and cinematographer Johnny North, a four of his players, all from Spanish-speak- Tierra del Fuego (located on the southern tip behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes, ing homes: Teresa, Elizabeth, Alicia, and of South America), leaving digital communi- music videos, and a read-along adventure Maria. Elizabeth balances soccer with work cations behind and embracing the hardships book. Recommended. Aud: P. (T. Keogh) in her family’s used-clothing store. She that crop up (including light injuries). Along plans to attend college, but ends up taking the way, the siblings remain conscious of I Am the Blues HHH time off when the family suffers a property their surrounding environment, at one (2016) 116 min. DVD: $24.95. Film Movement loss. For additional income, she works as a point repairing a ramshackle shelter (which (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. Mary Kay representative. Alicia—a distract- is sure to be a welcome sight for the next Veteran blues performers talk about their ed student before she found soccer—plans set of trekkers). As for the surfing, the water challenging, if also creatively rewarding, lives to play in college, maybe even professional- looks cold (in one spot it’s even snowing) in Daniel Cross’s open-hearted documentary. ly, but she eventually switches her focus to and the surfers are wrapped in neoprene suits Cross concentrates on African-American mu- sports medicine. All four girls strive to find (head to toe) as they search for perfect aqua sicians in the Mississippi Delta who during time for work, school, family obligations, curls. An entertaining sports adventure film the film play music in clubs, living rooms, and interpersonal relationships. While featuring eco-minded surfers, this is highly and on front porches. Many are little known soccer adds to their busy schedules, they recommended. Aud: P. (C. Block) outside of their hometowns, but some have learn enriching lessons about teamwork and national name recognition, such as Texas responsibility, so it’s fortunate that the pro- THE ARTS singer and guitarist Barbara Lynn and Mis- gram survives a round of citywide budget sissippi singer Bobby Rush. Eighty-one-year- cuts so severe that students must bring their old Rush, who also serves as onscreen host, own toilet paper to school. Finitzo makes a recalls his early days playing Chicago clubs persuasive case for the importance of high Down Down the Deep River HHH for hamburgers, while 72-year-old Lynn talks school sports programs and caring staffers (2014) 42 min. DVD: $29.95. Kino Lorber (avail. about a unique guitar style in which “I let like Coach Stan. Highly recommended. from most distributors). Closed captioned. my thumb do my bass.” Other artists include Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) This dramatic short written and directed Lazy Lester, Little Freddie King, and Lil’ Buck

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 61 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Sinegal, who organizes a Louisiana jamboree to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean of 100 million people who have different at which many of the players gather to eat (1982). Along the way, Black mixes solid, cultures and speak 80 different languages, crawfish, reminisce about the old days, and practical advice with on-set gossip, opinion, this is recommended. Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) sing a few songs. Even a man of the cloth, and self-deprecating humor. Recommended. Reverend John Wilkins, gets in on the action, Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady) Samba & Jazz HHH playing a fine acoustic rendition of “That’s (2015) 87 min. In Brazilian Portuguese & English No Way to Get Along.” Carol Fran, the film’s Roaring Abyss HHH w/English subtitles. DVD: $298. Magic Lantern only other female performer, also remembers (2015) 87 min. In Amharic, Kaffinya, Oromifa, Films. PPR. playing concerts with Guitar Slim and Joe Nuer, Harari, Tigrinya & Sidamo w/English Director Jefferson Mello (author of The Tex. Viewers looking for a history of the blues subtitles. DVD: $24.95. IndiePix (avail. from most Ways of Jazz) travels back and forth—through won’t find it here, although there are stories distributors). the magic of editing—from about Howlin’ Wolf and other significant Filmed over the course of two years, Quino to New Orleans in this brass-infused docu- players; instead, the film’s message is that the Piñero’s documentary explores traditional mentary, establishing musical and cultural blues tradition—exemplified by those who music in Ethiopia, although since none of connections between samba and jazz. As feel it in their —continues today. Extras the acts are identified until the end credits Alcione Nazareth, a 69-year-old samba singer include bonus footage with additional inter- the effect is more immersive than informa- and trumpet player, puts it, “Samba and jazz,” views. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) tive. Musicians sing and play in community which both trace their roots back to Africa, centers and village squares, either a capella or “are brothers.” Mello organizes the material Karen Black: The Craft of Acting HHH with minimal instrumental accompaniment by theme while also alternating between viv- (2014) 75 min. $49.95 (study guide included). (most of the instruments are vintage or hand- id color and elegant black-and-white. In one First Light Video Publishing (dist. by TMW Media made). Some of the groups are small, while chapter, musicians emphasize the importance Group). PPR. others feature every citizen in town. Weldie, of a sharp outfit (as one Brazilian explains, Filmmaker Russell Brown, who directed a visually-impaired musician, explains that “The samba people were discriminated the late Karen Black (1939-2013) in 2008’s his father made the washent, a flute-like against, so everybody had to look good.”). The Blue Tooth Virgin, asked the wide-ranging instrument that he plays. Mengesha talks Mello interviews dozens of musicians, but actress to speak conversationally about film about his affection for a spindly-stringed mostly concentrates on 63-year-old Gregg acting from her perspective in this plain instrument called the masenqo (he made his Stafford, a Louisiana cornet and trumpet presentation that eschews any career retro- own). “No one can compete with my skills,” player who has been an integral part of the spective or biography of the Illinois-born star he states proudly. He has also taught his sons brass band community since his teens, and (aside from a disc-extra discussion with critic how to play, so the tradition continues. One Pretinho da Serrinha, a 39-year-old Brazilian Ben Mankiewitz). Black attained cult-diva interviewee who conducts a police marching arranger and composer who has played with status principally for her roles in horror films band says that he appreciates the freedom every notable artist in his Madureira neigh- (including the classic 1975 TV movie Trilogy of to play what he wants, which wasn’t the borhood, including singer Seu Jorge, his song- Terror), even though her resume ran the gam- case during the country’s more repressive writing partner of 13 years. Samba & Jazz also ut from the critically lauded Five Easy Pieces past. Another group sings a song in praise of features three members of the famed Marsalis (1970) and Nashville (1975) to the semi-ex- coffee. The lead singer explains that coffee family: pianist and educator Ellis, and his perimental Rhinoceros (1974) and Conceiving originated in Ethiopia, and that it’s the stuff sons Delfeayo, a trombone player, and Jason, Ada (1997). Seated on a couch, Black plunges of life (though he actually uses an Ethiopian a drummer. Whether in Rio or New Orleans, into discussing accents, her ability (or not) to word for “tool”). Piñero ends with a group celebratory parades and elaborate funereal a worthy script, the differences between playing Western instruments, like electric traditions bond the generations. And players stage and screen acting (at least for her), and guitars, in an Ethio-Jazz style—a melding also picked up skills, made friends, and found how she approached playing a transgendered of native and foreign influences. Offering a gigs through samba schools in Rio and social character in the film version ofCome Back multifaceted look at the music of this country clubs in New Orleans. Other topics include improvisation, gentrification, and natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina—which The Man Who Saw Too Much HHH might have devastated New Orleans econom- (2017) 89 min. In English & Spanish w/English subtitles. DVD: $19.99, ically, but didn’t break the city’s indomitable Blu-ray: $24.95. FilmRise (avail. from most distributors). spirit. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy) Trisha Ziff’s documentary focuses on one of the most provoc- ative and uncommon visual artists of our times: Mexican tab- The Tempest HHH1/2 loid photographer Enrique Metinides, whose specialty involves (2017) 145 min. DVD: $24.99, Blu-ray: $49.99. photographing people who were either killed or injured in a Opus Arte (dist. by Naxos of America). grisly manner. Now in his 80s, Metinides casually notes that he The Royal Shakespeare Company collabo- photographed between 30 and 40 corpses a day during his career. rates with Intel along with actor Andy Serkis Metinides embarked on this unlikely photographic career when (Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films) and his he was only 9, with a photograph of a morgue superintendent Imaginarium Studios to produce a dazzling displaying a murder victim’s severed head. From there, his obsession with the dead version of The Tempest that leans heavily on blossomed—a fascination that he credits to his childhood love of crime movies. Ziff computer-generated special effects, which presents much of Metinides’s photography in a manner that highlights the artistry of seems appropriate for Shakespeare’s classic his composition rather than the grotesque and horrifying aspects of his imagery. Per- play about magic and the conjuring world. haps not surprisingly, Metinides comes across as a rather peculiar individual, seemingly The key players—Prospero (Simon Russell indifferent to the point of numbness about both his work and the wider world. “I would Beale), a magician and deposed Duke of Mi- like to have been at 9/11,” he says without any sense of emotion. While squeamish lan, stranded on an island; his daughter Mi- viewers will likely want to avoid this, those with stronger stomachs and curiosity about randa (Jenny Rainsford); servant-spirit what makes odd characters tick will appreciate this Ariel Award (’s version of (Mark Quartley); lowly monster Caliban (Joe the Oscars) winning documentary. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) Dixon); and Miranda’s suitor Ferdinand (Dan- iel Easton)—all shine in this tale of revenge

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 62 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 and reconciliation (Rainsford is especially notable for her spunky, rebellious approach to The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Miranda, an interpretation that differs from Ensemble HHH1/2 traditional notions of the character as naïve). (2016) 96 min. In English, Mandarin & Persian w/English subtitles. DVD: One can’t help but be bowled over by the com- $27.95. The Orchard (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. puter imagery that summons up the storm Filmmaker Morgan Neville’s HBO-aired documentary centers at the beginning of the play, with the actors on cellist Yo Yo Ma’s “Silk Road Ensemble,” an international hollering and swaying as their ship breaks group of musicians that has flourished since its founding in the apart, or Ariel shifting everywhere around year 2000, releasing six and performing for two million the stage to suggest free-spirited movements, people. Although it had shaky beginnings (including insinuations or the psychedelic visuals that accompany that the effort was “cultural tourism”), the Silk Road Ensemble has a scene with three nymphs toward the end. worked hard to create a new form of music from so many other This level of CGI inventiveness might not forms. In the opening segment set in a bustling waterfront courtyard, a large canvas work for most Shakespeare plays, but it is ide- is laid out on the ground as the musicians and a vocalist begin to play, after which an ally suited here. A cutting-edge presentation artist starts to draw a figure on the canvas, energizing the crowd gathered to witness that mixes digital with traditional this celebration of art, music, and dance. The musicians play a mix of both native thespian brilliance, extras include audio instruments and others common to all cultures, such as the drums, clarinet, and—of commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes, course—cello. The musicians include clarinetist Kinan Azmeh of Syria; pipa player Wu an interview with Beale, and a cast gallery. Man of China; kamancheh player Kayhan Kahlor of Iran; and bagpiper Cristina Pato Highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (T. Keogh) of Spain. Viewers will learn that Ma was a child prodigy who performed for President Kennedy (in ’s orchestra) at the tender age of 7. Although many child prodigies burn out early, Ma went on to become an international star. The Silk Road Ensemble is both a response to Bernstein’s quest for a universal musical language and a HISTORY & CURRENT EVENTS key waypoint on Ma’s personal journey of discovering the “why” behind his life’s work. The musicians share powerful stories (such as Kahlor’s perseverance through revolutions) and sometimes engage in funny antics (Wu Man plays ’s “Iron Man” American Patriot HHH through a wah wah pedal in a music store). The cultural backdrops of the musicians (2017) 60 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS mesh seamlessly here and the film beautifully captures both their passion and their art. Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0181-9. [Note: this is also available with public performance rights for $395 from Ro*co Films Emboldened by outspoken commentators Educational at www.rocoeducational.com.] Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (C. Block) on radio, TV, and , armed protest- ers have confronted the federal government,

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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 63 VIDEO LIBRARIAN particularly concerning the latter’s control government officials,American Patriot offers Monsieur Le President HHH over vast amounts of land in the American a perceptive look at a modern day range war. (2014) 72 min. DVD: $19.99. Virgil Films (avail. West. Filmmaker Richard Rowley’s PBS-aired Recommended. Aud: C, P. (S. Rees) from most distributors). Closed captioned. Frontline documentary examines the 2014 What begins as a distressing account of acts of the Nevada-based family of Cliven The First Great Escape HHH the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti Bundy, who refused to remove their cattle off (2017) 45 min. DVD: $24.99 ($199 w/PPR). slowly evolves here into something more federal land, or pay grazing fees. After their Dreamscape Media. Closed captioned. mysterious, as volunteer nurse and film- cattle were confiscated, the Bundys issued a For many, the phrase “Great Escape” maker Victoria Campbell focuses on a local plea for help, and armed supporters quickly conjures images of Steve McQueen on a hero who suddenly turns into a different, arrived, demanding not only the cattle, but motorcycle, trying desperately to elude darker person. Campbell travels to Haiti fol- also the return of all federally owned land capture after breaking out of a World War lowing the to treat the injured to state or local control. After a standoff II-era prisoner-of-war camp in the hit 1963 and record what seems like endless views with snipers on both sides, the govern- movie. Real-life escapes from German POW of buildings and homes reduced to rubble, ment—fearing violence—gave the livestock camps also took place during the earlier often captured with a shaky camera that is back. Basking in the victory and flattered World War I. Filmmaker Max Jourdan’s held surreptitiously whenever soldiers and by right-wing praise, Bundy proceeded to docudrama set in Holzminden—a notori- police are nearby. Campbell also meets elaborate on his racist views, which proved ously brutal camp housing British and Aus- scores of people who, despite living in shel- to be far removed from ranching and land tralian officers—tells the remarkable tale of ters or biding their time on the streets, seem management issues. In 2015, his son Ammon a nine-month effort to dig a long tunnel upbeat. After awhile a man named Gaston took up the cause of a family facing similar beneath the prisoner barracks to a point enters the picture, a determined crusader problems, who were accused of setting fires beyond the walls. The complicated task who opens a free clinic with a doctor and on public land. Ammon went to Oregon, required digging through earth and stone nurses, all funded by a charity set up by a but what was billed as a brief protest instead with spoons (or anything else that could journalist from Time magazine. Campbell became a lengthy occupation of the federal be used). Extending the tunnel by one foot and Gaston (called “the president” by clinic Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Protesters per day was considered good progress. The supporters) become good friends, and she again appeared, and guns were displayed, but shoveled dirt had to be passed backward portrays him as a noble warrior working for not all locals supported Ammon’s crusade. from hand to hand, one small bowlful at a his people, selflessly handing out medical Against a mounting climate of fear and time, until it reached the tunnel entrance kits and making sure that kids have basic shattered friendships, the FBI dropped its and could be hidden in bags. An elaborate hygienic materials. But there is another side strategy of tactical patience, stopping Bun- smuggling operation made , a com- to Gaston: as a voodoo priest he becomes dy’s car after he left the preserve. Arizona pass, and civilian clothing available for dis- possessed, allegedly, by a sword-wielding rancher Lavoy Finicum was shot dead when guise following the eventual escape. A few spirit named “Jean” in a feverish ritual he refused to drop his arms and surrender. setbacks—such as the sudden appearance that is filmed as if in a dream by Campbell. Although Ammon was acquitted of charges, of a guard station outside the camp—added And things truly turn noir-ish when, after he remains in prison on criminal counts re- drama, but by July 1918 it was time for the three years, Campbell finds Gaston acting lated to the earlier Nevada siege. Meanwhile, prisoners to risk everything for freedom. more remote—a prelude to unexpected anti-government tensions and over-the-top Combining expert analysis by historians developments. A slow-burning personal rhetoric remains high, likely to come to a boil with compelling re-enactment scenes of documentary, this is recommended. Aud: with little provocation. Featuring comments the claustrophobia-inducing dig, this true C, P. (T. Keogh) from the activists, the Bundy family, and story is recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii HHH1/2 (2017) 54 min. DVD: $69: public libraries & high The Apology HHH1/2 schools; $250: colleges & universities. Stourwater (2016) 104 min. DVD: $26.98. Icarus Films Home Video (avail. from Pictures. PPR. most distributors). Closed captioned. The story of Nisei (American-born chil- During World War II, the Japanese military forced more than dren of Japanese immigrants) in Hawaii 200,000 young women across Asia to work as “comfort women,” a is told in this excellent documentary by ghastly term that essentially meant sexual slavery in the occupied filmmakers Lucy Ostrander and Don Sellers. nations. After the war, Japan either pretended that the kidnap- Following Hawaii’s annexation in 1898, ping and captivity of these women did not occur, or members Japanese immigrants became the preferred of the Japanese government would rewrite history to insist that laborers of plantation owners, setting the the women were necessary for maintaining the morale of Japan’s stage for a long, complicated relationship fighting men. Tiffany Hsiung’s documentary details the efforts during the 20th century between the new- of three now-elderly women who have been pressing the Japanese government to issue comers, their offspring, and the federal an apology for the abuse they suffered during wartime. Each of the women, who are government. Many of these typically edu- here referred to as “Grandma,” describe in graphic detail how they suffered during cated immigrants reinvented themselves by wartime, as well as in the post-war years when unsympathetic countrymen treated building businesses and creating a founda- them as whores. The South Korean Grandma Gil gave birth to two children as a result tion for their kids as full Americans. Proof of rape by Japanese soldiers, but both died, while the Filipino Grandma Adela never of Loyalty touches on assimilation, denial informed her late husband and only belatedly revealed the truth to her children. The of citizenship to Japanese immigrants and Chinese Grandma Cao lives in fragile health under the care of an adopted daughter, discriminatory schooling for their children, holding on to the hope that the Japanese will acknowledge their crimes (a somewhat and the maintaining of cultural ties with indifferent apology was issued by Japan’s government after the film was completed). the old country, but ultimately it focuses Hsiung’s deeply moving and brutally disturbing film shines a light on a tragic chapter on Kazuo Yamane, the son of a successful of World War II history. Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (P. Hall) merchant on Oahu, who attended a top col- lege in Japan and received military training.

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 64 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Returning to Hawaii, Yamane helped secure Travel Safe, Not Sorry When Travelling Scott interviews author Jason Tetro (The Germ beaches during rumors of further Japanese HHH Files), who brings a special light onboard a attacks following the December 7, 1941 (2017) 45 min. DVD: $44.95. DRA. TMW Media commercial jet to show all of the “handy” bombing of Pearl Harbor. But he became Group. PPR. spots (areas touched by lots of people each one of 2,000 Nisei men from the islands Hosted by Canadian bon vivant Tobias day) where bacteria live on commercial who were interred in camps during the war, Scott, this upbeat program looks at safety is- planes (tip: hand sanitizer is your friend). and then part of a government experiment sues related to three types of travel: air, water, Tetro also recommends bringing a sleeping to see if Nisei could reliably be called loyal. and road. Learning boat safety—particularly mask to catch Z’s (lack of sleep generally The result was Yamane’s enlistment in the recreational boats—begins here on dry land, makes a person more susceptible to infection, U.S. Army, where he was tremendously with the added suggestion that boaters stay so travelers should rest whenever they get the valuable to military intelligence as a trans- “dry.” For some, enjoying alcoholic drinks chance). Finally, there are winter driving tips, lator, ultimately working under Eisenhower is synonymous with a day on the water, but including a suggestion to shed some layers himself and helping to shorten the war by as special “beer goggles” help show (adjust- before getting behind the wheel. Bulky jack- discovering a crucial Japanese-language ed to illustrate the visual impairment that ets, big gloves, and clunky boots can get in communication. Combining archival increases with higher numbers of drinks), the way and reduce precision driving—not to materials and interviews with historians, being drunk is a bad idea if you fall into the mention increase reaction time. While this Proof of Loyalty presents a powerful story of water. Survival techniques on frozen bodies is hardly an in-depth guide, it does offers the cultural, political, economic, and legal of water (and the chilling water underneath) a solid introductory overview of safety on forces that propelled Japanese immigrants are also covered. For flying, the safety tips are land, water, and in the air. Recommended. and their descendants to become a vital seg- focused on germs that can make travelers sick. Aud: P. (C. Block) ment of the American population. Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) BIOGRAPHY TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY

James Beard: America’s First Foodie HHH Discoveries…America National Parks: (2017) 60 min. DVD: $19.99 ($49.99 w/PPR). PBS Video. Closed Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef HHH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0189-5. (2017) 51 min. DVD or Blu-ray: $24.95. DRA. James Beard (1903-1985) was one of America’s first “food geeks.” Bennett- HD Productions. PPR. ISBN: 978-1- Filmmaker Elizabeth Federici’s PBS-aired American Masters doc- 60490-213-6 (dvd), 978-1-60490-236-5 (blu-ray). umentary serves up an engaging portrait of the colorful, portly This new entry in Jim and Kelly Watt’s Beard, who appreciated good food (including mac and cheese!), high-def filmed Discoveries…America National never considered himself a chef, approached cooking as an ad- Parks series—travelogues that are great for venture, published 22 cookbooks, and made it more acceptable planning trips or just armchair traveling— for men to take charge in the kitchen. Beard was brought up pays a visit to southern Utah to explore a in Portland, OR, the product of an absent father and a mother widely celebrated for cluster of parks featuring stunning geological whipping up culinary delights for the guests at her inn or boardinghouse. James Beard formations. First up is Capitol Reef, boasting was always “too out” to be accepted as a gay man in the early 20th century, getting spectacular scenery and a pitch dark night kicked out of Reed College (although he would later receive an honorary degree and sky perfect for stargazing. The park is dis- make them a beneficiary in his will). A trip to Europe opened his eyes to continental tinguished for its “wonderland” formed by cuisine. A people person, Beard celebrated food as part of entertainment, appearing colliding plates beneath the Earth’s crust, early on TV, although few people owned a TV set in the late 1940s, and Beard was never featuring a long, rugged mountain range a telegenic personality. Sometimes broke, Beard had a knack for getting himself invited by the Fremont River. Layer upon layer of to dinner parties, calling himself a “gastronomic gigolo” and cooking for guests. Beard sediment created rock formations carrying was a natural teacher, liked to bring people together, and leaned toward simple, farm the prints and scratch marks of prehistoric to table recipes. Students and admirers (including Martha Stewart) here pay tribute to animals, as well as evidence of the first people this man who also helped establish a special Meals on Wheels program for New York here—farmers—found in drawings left be- City’s needy residents. Combining archival film clips (some with Beard and his friend hind. The Cedar Breaks National Monument Julia Child) and interviews, this profile of a man who was an outsized master in every has a staggering beauty with pillar-like rock sense of the word is recommended. Aud: C, P. (S. Rees) formations and an abundance of wildflowers. Nearby Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is a water-based recreation park offer- Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman istically playful, although some might call ing lots of hiking and nearly 2,000 miles of HHH it pretentious. Roughly the first half of the shoreline around Lake Powell. Several hours (1997) 64 min. In French w/English subtitles. film is devoted to Akerman reading from a away is Rainbow Bridge National Monument, DVD: $24.98 ($298 w/PPR from www.icarusfilms. prepared script that includes some biographi- with shapely formations and quite a bit of com). Icarus Films Home Video (available from cal data but mostly deals with difficulties she Mormon history connected with the area. A most distributors). experienced in making a film about herself. trip to Bryce Canyon National Park—an array The films of writer-director (and some- A story about her grandmother’s lost paint- of remarkable amphitheaters at a high ele- times actress) Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) ings leads to the impressionistic second half, vation—reveals so-called “hoodoos,” which were appreciated primarily by devotees of which features a succession of clips from 15 of were formed by frost and river erosion over experimental cinema, but since her death her Akerman’s films, not presented in chronolog- eons. Finally, Zion National Park has some- reputation has continued to grow, and more ical order, nor with titles indicated (except in thing for everyone with its springs, hikes, of her work has become available on disc. a list preceding the montage). Despite the lack swimming, and camping. Recommended. This 1997 self-portrait made for the French of narration, the juxtaposition of the excerpts Aud: P. (T. Keogh) TV series Cinéma, de notre temps is character- reveals common themes and imagery, as well

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 65 VIDEO LIBRARIAN John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature HHH1/2 Series Update (2017) 90 min. DVD: $24.99 ($54.99 w/PPR). PBS Video. SDH captioned. ISBN: 978-1-5317-0194-9. The following titles are new additions John James Audubon (1785-1851), America’s foremost chron- to series that were previously recom- icler of 19th-century bird life, was always embarrassed by his mended. Titles are available from most illegitimate birth (a product of his father’s relationship with a distributors unless otherwise noted. chambermaid). He acquired his lifelong passion for birds and nature when his father sent him to the French countryside to Newly available avoid the violent excesses of the French Revolution. Filmmaker from Time Life is The Al Reinert’s PBS-aired American Masters documentary, featur- Tonight Show Star- ing Sam Elliott as the voice of Audubon, examines Audubon’s ring Johnny Carson: unlikely path, which led him to America (his father sent him to avoid conscription Johnny and Friends in Napoleon’s army). Settling outside Philadelphia, Audubon explored the country- (1,733 min., DVD: 10 side, eventually meeting his bride to be, Lucy Bakewell. They moved to Kentucky, discs, $59.95), which where Audubon was a storekeeper, but business failures led him to travel down the compiles 28 never-be- Mississippi River to New Orleans—enduring long, painful separations from his wife fore-released full episodes of Johnny while earning a living tutoring on local plantations. Here, Audubon took long walks, Carson’s 1962-92 classic talk show. always alert to “nature’s own music,” while refining his drawing talents and proving See review of The Tonight Show Starring to be a keen observer of each bird species’ plumage, posture, and movement. After Johnny Carson—The Vault Series: Archive assembling enough life-sized drawings for a portfolio, Audubon embarked for Europe, Classics in VL-1/17. enduring early setbacks, but ultimately proving to be a genius at self-marketing, attending parties where he played the role of a long-haired woodsman, startling The latest title in Paramount Home guests with wild turkey and other animal calls. His illustrations, sold piecemeal by Media Distribution’s computer-ani- subscription, culminated in his oversized 1838 classic Birds of America. Audubon mated series, Blaze and the Monster visited bird nesting sites in Labrador, Florida’s “unknown country,” and parts of Machines—Wild Wheels: Escape to the American West, while his later years were marked by a concern for bird and Animal Island (89 min., DVD: $14.98) nature conservation. Featuring tributes from artist Jamie Wyeth and scholars, this compiles four stories from the Nickel- film—presented in both its 90-minute theatrical release version and a 60-minute broadcast edition—depicts Audubon’s genius at drawing birds found in the American odeon-aired show featuring Blaze and wilderness. Highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (S. Rees) his automotive pals. See review of Blaze of Glory: A Mini-Movie in VL-5/15. as the director’s overarching concern with of the island, reminiscences about the time Paramount has also released PAW Pa- the realities of ordinary life, especially for when he served back in the 1960s as a driver trol: The Great Pirate Rescue! (95 min., women. Akerman’s presence in many of the for Che Guevara in Geneva, and queries locals DVD: $14.99), featuring the animated clips also emphasizes how deeply personal about how staunchly Castro’s revolutionary PAW Patrol on the job in Adventure her work was. Newcomers to Akerman will ideals are being upheld. While in Cuba, he is Bay with episodes including “Pups likely be better served by Marianne Lambert’s briefly hospitalized after suffering a fainting and the Pirate Treasure” and “Circus posthumous tribute I Don’t Belong Anywhere: spell, which gives him the opportunity not Pup-Formers.” See review of PAW Patrol The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (VL-7/16), only to congratulate a nurse who will shortly in VL-7/14. but this archival documentary will appeal go to Africa as part of a medical team, but also to those familiar with Akerman’s films. Rec- to praise the national healthcare system for PBS Distribution has just released Su- ommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) providing first-rate care to everyone. Then per Why: Sleeping Beauty and Other he is off again to the UN, to do battle not Fairytale Adventures (110 min., DVD: Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower only with the Western powers but also the $9.99), following the Super Readers HH1/2 Middle Eastern oil states that he identifies as from the whimsical reading educational (2016) 92 min. In English & French w/English new obstacles to socialist progress. Whether series as they meet up with characters subtitles. DVD: $99.95: public libraries & high one agrees with Ziegler’s ideology or not, from classic beloved stories. See review schools; $248: colleges & universities. DRA. Wadimoff’s film certainly inspires admiration KimStim. PPR. of Super Why: Jack and the Beanstalk and for the passion that Ziegler brings to his work Other Fairytale Adventures in VL-3/15. One has to admire the tenacity of Jean on behalf of the poor and malnourished in Ziegler, a Swiss sociologist who has been the Third World. A strong optional purchase. Most recently avail- a committed socialist throughout his life, Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek) actively agitating for political and econom- able from Vision Video ic change both as a member of the Swiss is The Torchlighters: Parliament and in a number of capacities The Adoniram and at the United Nations. Nicolas Wadimoff’s Ann Judson Story (30 documentary offers a sketch of Ziegler’s life min., DVD: $14.99), and career, incorporating archival material Visit Video Librarian Online (www. the Christian History to provide historical context, but its primary videolibrarian.com) for more reviews Institute’s latest ad- purpose is to draw a portrait of the man during November and December, in- dition to The Torchlighters animated through interviews of Ziegler and footage of cluding: Apparition Hill, Cotton Road, Fac- series for ages 8-12, focusing on the him going about his duties as a member of the ing Darkness, Guangzhou Dream Factory, lives of foreign missionaries Adoniram UN Advisory Committee on Human Rights. Hired Gun, Hotel Armadillo, Maineland, and Ann Judson in Burma. See review Indefatigable even in his 80s, Ziegler is seen The Muses of Bashevis Singer, Tashi’s Tur- of Torchlighters: The Martin Luther Story visiting Cuba, where he excoriates the United bine, Winnie, and much more! in VL-9/16. States for its continuing economic blockade

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 66 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Japanese Anime And You Thought There Food Wars! Season 1 to its target audience of teen girls. Presenting HHH all 26 episodes in a dual-language Blu-ray edi- Is Never a Girl Online? tion, rated TV-PG, extras include an episode HH1/2 (2015) 600 min. DVD: 5 discs, $79.98; Blu-ray: 3 discs, video commentary by the English voice cast, (2016) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu- $99.98. a behind-the-scenes featurette, interviews, au- ray/DVD Combo: $64.98. (avail. from most distributors). Funimation (avail. from most dition excerpts, bloopers, and stills galleries. distributors). The anime series Food Recommended. (F. Swietek) Serving up an uneven blend of talk, action, Wars! emphasizes culinary and video-game-centric adolescent romantic skills over brawn, with battles inspired by Grimgar: Ashes and comedy, this anime series dense with kitchen experimentation instead of martial Illusions HHH jokes and Internet culture has its moments. arts. Soma Yukihira works in a small but (2016) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu- In the online role-playing fantasy game popular family-owned restaurant, where he ray/DVD Combo: $64.98. Legendary Age, schoolboy Hideki—gamer regularly loses to his father in contests to see Funimation (avail. from most distributors). tag “Rusian”—knows that appearances can who can make the best, or most terrible, dish- be deceiving. He once proposed to a cat-girl es. After graduating from middle school, Soma This sometimes lyrical avatar who then admitted to be a male in real is shipped off to the prestigious and grueling fantasy anime based on life. Still, in the online realm Rusian is in a Tohtsuki Academy, where he immediately a novel series is fairly engrossing when it platonic “marriage” to Ako, a novice fellow makes enemies by proclaiming his intention doesn’t lapse into childish fan-service boob player. When he meets his teammates in real to become number one. But even with his jokes (mostly verbal repartee). A divergent life, he finds that they are all actually fetch- extreme confidence and bravado, Soma is a group of young people find themselves sud- ing females (one is a teacher). Hideki doesn’t kind team player who would much rather have denly teleported into a Tolkienesque realm, mind that the offline Ako is a winsome class- friendly rivalries, and he quickly fits into the where they lack all memory of previous lives mate, but she believes their non-digital rela- quirky Kyokusei dorm, which is populated (except fleeting phrases like “video games” tionship should be just as intimate as online. mostly by misfits. Country-girl dorm-mate or “cell phones”). In Grimgar, if they want to Will Hideki/Rusian ever feel as strongly for Tadokoro Megumi becomes a sort of secondary earn a living, they have little choice but to Ako as he does about acquiring magic items protagonist, as Soma and friends face test after take up weapons as mercenaries in an ongoing or completing quests? Much jiggly fan-service test while striving to avoid being weeded out war against encroaching goblins and under- cleavage ensues as the series progresses, with of the academy. The animation shines and the ground kobolds. The saga affectingly details further secret identities, hackers, and other show features good if unexceptional character the team’s evolution from raw and reluctant twists that tend to stretch the material sili- design (albeit with a tedious focus on busty rookies into battle-hardened heroes who oc- con-wafer thin at times but still puts across women). Based on the manga by Yuto Tsukuda casionally see friends die. And there is a hint the theme of personal-growth-via-gaming. and Shun Saeki, Food Wars! has spawned both that the goblin war may be more ethically Presenting all 12 episodes from 2016 in a print and OVA spin-offs. Presenting all 24 complicated than simple good-vs.-evil, al- dual-language Blu-ray/DVD Combo edition, episodes from 2015 in separate dual-language though that matter (like the question of what rated TV-14, extras include select episode DVD and Blu-ray editions, rated TV-14, this is brought the protagonists to Grimgar in the first place) remains unresolved. Compiling all commentaries with the English-language recommended. (L. Martincik) 12 episodes from 2016 in a dual-language Blu- cast, and a music video. A strong optional ray/DVD Combo edition, rated TV-14, extras purchase. (C. Cassady) : The include an OVA and an episode commentary. Complete Series HHH Recommended. (C. Cassady) The Boy and the Beast (2001) 4 discs. 650 min. Blu- HHH ray: $69.98. Funimation (avail. from most distributors). Himouto! Umaru-chan: (2015) 119 min. DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $49.99. Akitaro Daichi’s 2001 an- Complete Collection Funimation (avail. from most ime adaptation of Natsuki HHH distributors). Takaya’s shojo manga series focuses on high- (2015) 300 min. DVD: 4 Writer-director Mamoru school student Tohru Honda, an orphan who discs, $59.98; Blu-ray: 2 discs, Hosoda’s 2015 anime feature film serves up an is invited by her ultra-popular classmate, $69.98. Sentai Filmworks (avail. from most distributors). interesting blend of martial-arts fantasy and “Prince” Yuki Sohma, to come live with him beauty-and-the-beast formula with a paternal and his cousin Shigure as their housekeeper. A Japanese comic strip in- twist. Abandoned modern-day city boy Kyuta They are quickly joined by another family spired this thinly-plotted domestic/classroom enters a magical parallel realm of quasi-Shin- member, Kyo, Yuki’s incorrigible rival. Tohru comedy centering on sibling devotion. Umaru to myth, where anthropomorphized animals soon learns that the Sohmas suffer under Doma is a much-admired schoolgirl—tall, rule and duel in gladiator-type matches. a curse: family members are possessed by fair, and well-mannered, with perfect grades. Here humans, despite their seeming frailty, animals of the Chinese zodiac, which they But to her junior-salaryman older brother are shunned and feared due to their innate morph into under physical stress—the latter and apartment-mate Taihei she’s a churlish, tendency for evil (“darkness”). But Kyuta is naturally including being embraced by some- slovenly, spoiled otaku-type. Frequently cos- taken as an “apprentice” by the uncouth, one of the opposite sex. Kind-hearted Tohru playing as a hamster, the real Umaru is lazy slovenly bearlike warrior Kumatetsu. Even tries to help Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure—and oth- and addicted to video games, junk food, and with his gruff shortcomings as a “master,” er family visitors—to accept themselves, just obnoxious impulses. In a clever touch, the Kumatetsu and Kyuta warm to each other. But as she has accepted them. The plot allows for heroine is drawn in caricatured “chibi” form ultimately the pair face trouble that threatens the juxtaposition of fantasy, action, romance, when behaving badly, and the series features to spill over into the human world. Presented and comedy, and the animation style is gener- especially amusing segments about gamer in separate dual-language DVD and Blu-ray/ ally very pleasing. While individual episodes culture and gadget fancies. Somewhat lost in DVD Combo set editions, rated PG-13, extras are engaging, the series does lack a strong the voiceover translation of this be-yourself include a “making-of” featurette, and inter- overall narrative arc, and the momentum farce is a recurring subplot about a classmate views with Hosoda and the voiceover cast. sometimes flags.Fruits Basket is nonetheless who is self-conscious about her “hillbilly” Recommended. (C. Cassady) a pleasant series that should especially appeal background and accent. Presenting all 12

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 67 VIDEO LIBRARIAN episodes from 2015 in separate dual-language cent courtship that addresses some painful but the series is somewhat hampered by slow DVD and Blu-ray editions, rated TV-14, this and amusing truths about young crushes pacing and average animation. Presenting amiable series is recommended. (C. Cassady) and anxieties is highly recommended. all 24 episodes from 2016 in a dual-language (C. Cassady) Blu-ray/DVD Combo set, rated TV-14, this is Kuma Miko—Girl Meets a strong optional purchase. (P. Hall) Bear: The Complete HHH Series HHH1/2 (1998) 7 discs. 650 min. Blu- Valerian & Laureline: (2016) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu- ray/DVD Combo: $49.98. Complete Collection ray/DVD Combo: $64.98. Funimation (avail. from most HHH distributors). 1/2 Funimation (avail. from most (2007) 7 discs. 1,000 min. distributors). This Sunrise anime se- DVD: $69.98. Sentai Filmworks An exceptionally amusing anime comedy ries—an alternate reality (avail. from most distributors). series (based on a comic book), Kuma Miko is outer-space yarn based on Based on the French set in a rural mountain village in northern a manga by Takehiko Ito—was roughly comic book series by Pierre Japan that has an amazing secret: locals and contemporary with the studio’s Cowboy Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières—the in- bears forged a spiritual pact in ancient times Bebop and shares several elements. The hero spiration for Luc Besson’s 2017 filmValerian (interspecies mating was possibly involved, is Gene Starwind, an arrogant young ad- and the City of a Thousand Planets (reviewed one of the few off-color gags). In the modern venturer whose sidekick Jim Hawking is an on page 38)—this anime series maintains era, the big, urbane, Japanese-speaking bear 11-year-old tech wizard. Hired as bodyguards the spirit of the original comic books. Space Natsu is like a leading citizen. Machi, a Shinto by a woman who turns out to be an outlaw, Time Agent Valerian travels from the 25th shrine maiden—or “miko”—has performed the pair are attacked by pirates, and in the century back to 10th-century France, where sacred rituals since she was a little girl, but ensuing confrontation gain possession of he connects with the resourceful maiden now at 14 she is a rebellious teen yearning the highly advanced titular spaceship, along Laureline (who easily adapts to Valerian’s to abandon the boondocks for the big city, with Melfina, a beautiful bio-android. Gene, futuristic ways). But Valerian’s journey where she can enjoy actual cellphone recep- Jim, and Melfina then set off on a voyage to back in time and his misadventures in the tion. Storylines usually revolve around Nat- track down the pirates Gene believes killed medieval era have thrown a wrench in su’s sly attempts to foil his treasured votary’s his father, and also to find the Galactic Ley- the space-time continuum—resulting in dreams to escape her country rut, set against line, where the mysteries of the universe will Earth’s disappearance from the universe. the backdrop of maladroit efforts by citizens be revealed and Melfina’s origin disclosed. Complicating matters is the fact that Vale- to “revitalize” their town and promote its Other misfits join them as they contend with rian’s spacecraft suffered damage during its tasty potatoes and “slimy” mushrooms. Natsu various villains. Presenting all 26 episodes temporal jumping. Valerian and Laureline may be one of cartoondom’s most memorable from 1998 in a dual-language Blu-ray/DVD team up to locate the lost Earth, exuding a bears since Yogi. Compiling all 12 episodes Combo edition, rated TV-14 (but featuring kinetic chemistry. Presenting all 40 episodes from 2016 in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo edition, a fair amount of fan service), extras include from 2007-08 in an English-dubbed DVD rated TV-PG, and presented in Japanese with a pilot episode. Offering a solid remastering edition, rated TV-14, this is highly recom- English subtitles, extras include two bonus of one of the more important anime series mended. (P. Hall) OVA episodes. Highly recommended. (C. of its time, this is recommended. (F. Swietek) Cassady) Valkyrie Drive: Rainbow Days: The Mermaid—The Momokuri: Complete Complete Series HH1/2 Complete Series H Collection HHH1/2 (2016) 4 discs. 312 min. Blu- (2015) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu- (2015) 325 min. DVD: 3 ray/DVD Combo: $54.99. ray/DVD Combo: $49.98. discs, $49.98; Blu-ray: 2 discs, Funimation (avail. from most Funimation (avail. from most $59.98. Sentai Filmworks distributors). distributors). (avail. from most distributors). This anime series focuses In this anime offering, Derived from a Japanese on the lives of four high school friends whose future teenage girls contract a mysterious web-based comic, Momokuri daily routines involve studying, friendship, “virus” that turns them into fighting combos is a basic first-love adolescent comedy that is and romantic interludes with their respective of “liberators” and “extras,” whose super-pow- almost sublime in its simplicity (essentially, girlfriends. The central character is Natsuki, ered bonding is triggered, basically, by one it’s a talkfest). Left alone much of the time by who is dumped by his girlfriend at the start female genitally manipulating another. These his publishing-industry parents, schoolboy of the series and falls in love with Anna unfortunate nubiles, who are feared by main- Shinya Momotsuki agrees to the request of after the latter expresses sympathy. The stream society, are literally torpedoed into classmate Yuki Kurihara to become boyfriend other friends are: Mattsun, a teen playboy exile on the distant Mermaid Island, where and girlfriend. The only obstacles to their who is in a relationship with the emotional they must prove themselves by maintaining happiness is his timid formality—the pair Mari; the intellectual Tsuyoshi and bubbly their own mini-society, which is ruled by spend an entire episode debating whether or Yukiko, who bring a new meaning to the a “governor” who, although benevolent, is not they have reached the point of being able concept of opposites attracting; and Keiichi, vulnerable to villainous intrigues due to his to call each other by their first names—and a seemingly nice guy with a dark sadistic dark secret: “he” is actually a large-chested her clingy, borderline-stalker obsession with streak who attracts the lovely Nozomi. lady in male drag. The shocking revelation of him. Comrades watch with alarm as Yuki Rainbow Days follows these students as they the governor’s true gender is hardly the only hoards every item associated with “Momo” interact during their classroom and leisure epic nipple-slip in this puerile series featuring (even uneaten food), and the most trivial hours, offering storylines that are surpris- extensive nudity, S&M, and borderline-hard- incidents register as monumental in her ingly anodyne by anime standards (Keiichi, core elements. Presenting all 12 episodes eyes. Compiling all 26 episodes from 2015 with his whip-brandishing antics, is the only from 2015 in a dual-language Blu-ray/DVD in separate Blu-ray and DVD editions, rated character who doesn’t quite feel genuine). Combo edition, rated TV-MA, extras include TV-14, and presented in Japanese with English Some will appreciate the soap-level drama an episode commentary. Not recommended. subtitles, this engaging series about adoles- and awkward situations involving teen love, (C. Cassady)

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Alice Cooper—Welcome and Philippe Sly (Claudio) is impassioned Die Zauberflöte HH1/2 to My Nightmare: Special and rich, while the London Philharmonic, (2016) 173 min. In German w/ conducted by Antonello Manacorda, revels English subtitles. DVD: 2 discs, Edition HH in the sumptuous orchestration. But the ma- $39.99; Blu-ray: $34.99. C (1975) 145 min. DVD: $15.98. terial focusing on Somarone (Lionel Lhote) Major/Unitel (dist. by Naxos of Eagle Rock Entertainment America). (avail. from most distributors). and the long stretches of spoken dialogue are tedious and lacking in humor. And Although it is performed This archival release none of it is enlivened by Laurent Pelly’s at Milan’s famed , compiling two separate staging, which relies on a single metaphor: this 2016 production of Mo- titles kicks off with “Welcome to My Night- people living in boxes (characters climb in zart’s Masonic fairy-tale Singspiel is no starry mare,” a 1975 live concert from England’s and out of boxes throughout). Although the international affair. While conductor Ádám Empire Pool (later Wembley) in which sets and costumes (varying shades of cream Fischer is an established veteran who coaxes glam/shock rock legend Alice Cooper deliv- and gray) are attractive, that’s not enough spirited playing from the orchestra, the solo- ers a 15-song set featuring the entire titular to overcome the production’s flaws. Present- ists, chorus, and musicians are all students 1975 concept album—Cooper’s debut solo ed in DTS 5.1 (DTS-HD 5.1 on the Blu-ray in the La Scala Academy, and only one of the effort—centering on a child named Steven edition) and LPCM stereo, extras include a singers—Fatma Said, as Pamina, the daughter who has bad dreams. The LP’s major hit “making-of” featurette, and a cast gallery. A of the Queen of the Night kidnapped by the was “Only Women Bleed” (a rather sensi- strong optional purchase. (F. Swietek) enlightened priest Sarastro—is clearly ready tive song that Cooper sings while violently for roles with major companies, exhibiting a tossing around a life-sized female puppet), Change Begins Within: A soprano of refinement and grace. The other and it included two minor Billboard chart singers are good, but hardly remarkable: Yas- entries: the title track and “Department Benefit Concert for the min Öskan’s coloratura lacks the flair required of Youth.” But the other four songs here David Lynch Foundation in the Queen, Martin Summer misses the are far and away the best—“I’m Eighteen,” HHH secure low notes needed for Sarastro, Martin “School’s Out,” “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” (2009) 110 min. DVD: $15.98. Piskorski’s tenor is a mite beefy and wild for and “Billion Dollar Babies”—although all Eagle Rock Entertainment Tamino (the prince whom the Queen enlists (avail. from most distributors). suffer from muddy audio and murky video to rescue her daughter but who becomes (and Cooper’s concerts are dark—visually, The David Lynch Foun- Sarastro’s acolyte instead), and Till von Or- as well as thematically—to begin with), dation isn’t about movies or music, but lowsky is a genial but prosaic Papageno, the presented in a 4:3 aspect ratio. A little better rather transcendental meditation (TM), the hedonistic bird-man dragooned into helping is the accompanying 1975 TV special “ that fuels Lynch’s creative endeav- Tamino. Peter Stein’s staging, moreover, is Nightmare,” with Vincent Price acting as a ors. The foundation’s goal, he explains, is controversial, sticking closely to the original menacing figure encouraging Cooper to go “to teach one million kids transcendental libretto and defiantly excluding any alter- deeper into his nightmare. But again it is meditation all around the world.” For this ations that might moderate the text’s sexist not the Nightmare songs that impress, but 2009 benefit concert at Radio City Music and racist elements: Sarastro’s evil hench- rather the sole additional tune, the A.C. Hall, Lynch and Laura Dern, who most man Monostatos, for example, is presented classic “Ballad of Dwight Fry.” Presented recently collaborated on Twin Peaks: The as a grotesque caricature, played by Sascha in Dolby Digital stereo, this is for diehard Return, serve as hosts. Bettye Lavette sings Emanuel Kramer covered in black body paint Cooper fans only, and optional for others. the rousing opener “Trouble So Hard/Natural and wearing a grass skirt. While there is his- (R. Pitman) Blues,” featuring Moby on guitar, a youth torical fidelity in this, some viewers will find choir, and a full orchestra. Crowd-pleasing it offensive, and most will prefer any of the Béatrice et Bénédict performances from Paul McCartney and fine fully professional alternatives available HH1/2 Ringo Starr combine Beatles songs with on disc. Presented in DTS 5.1 (DTS-HD 5.1 (2016) 118 min. In French w/ solo hits such as “It Don’t Come Easy” and on the Blu-ray release) and PCM stereo, this English subtitles. DVD: $29.99, “Jet.” Other notable performances include is an optional purchase. (F. Swietek) Blu-ray: $39.99. Opus Arte Sheryl Crow’s version of George Harrison’s (dist. by Naxos of America). “My Sweet Lord” with Ben Harper on slide Hector ’s 1862 guitar, Donovan and My Morning Jacket Divas Live: The One and opera (his last) is an ad- singer Jim James on “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” Only Aretha Franklin aptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About and Eddie Vedder’s solo ukulele rendition of HHH1/2 Nothing in which much of the original— “Rise.” Vedder’s duet with Harper on David (2001) 59 min. DVD: $19.99 except the central relationship between Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” earns (audio CD included). Music the initially squabbling titular couple and an enthusiastic response from the crowd, but Video Distributors (avail. from most distributors). the contrasting romance of Claudio and it’s really hard to top the original. The one Héro—has been jettisoned. And Berlioz non-musical performer, Jerry , serves Aretha Franklin, the invented a subplot of his own involving a up a not especially funny routine about Queen of Soul, gives a stirring performance pompous conductor called Somarone, who messy theaters, hands-free culture, and other in this VH1 Divas Live concert filmed at New expends much energy composing festive concerns that don’t have much bearing on York’s in 2001, serving music for Claudio and Héro’s wedding— the cause at hand, although he does say that up a 13-song set designed both to showcase an addition meant as a satirical swipe at he’s been practicing TM for 37 years. For the her genius and celebrate her legacy with guest Berlioz’s many critics. It would be nice to finale of this 18-song concert, the perform- stars. Franklin’s sizzling opener, “I Can’t report that this 2016 Glyndebourne pro- ers—including Beach Boy Mike Love and Turn You Loose,” quickly evokes the ecstatic duction reveals this long-neglected piece flutist Paul Horn—sing McCartney’s “Cosmi- rhythms of a gospel church and reminds to be a forgotten gem, but this is not the cally Conscious.” Presented in Dolby Digital us that there is nothing mannered about case. Granted, Berlioz’s arias and duets are stereo, extras include a featurette in which this uncompromising artist’s vocal delivery often lush and beautiful, and the singing Lynch interviews some of the artists about (unlike other bestselling divas). A muscular of Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice), Paul Ap- their musical backgrounds and connections “Chain of Fools” finds Franklin joined by pleby (Bénédict), Sophie Karthäuser (Héro), to TM. Recommended. (K. Fennessy) three harmonious members of the Backstreet

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 69 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Boys. Her solo on the delicate ballad “Ain’t No in Paris in 2016 comes with and the vocalism is variable, with only sultry Way” is gorgeous, although the excitement an unbelievably tragic back- Garifullina as the Queen of Shemakha dips when the star cedes the stage to singer story: when the Palm Des- standing out amongst the large ensemble Jill Scott, whose take on “Natural Woman” ert, CA, sextet performed (Garifullina’s aria may be overextended, but lacks majesty and feels earthbound. Mary J. in the city’s Bataclan theatre she delivers it with purity of tone and seam- Blige does better with a sultry, cool version in 2015, terrorists killed 89 less legato). Although the fact that this is a of “Day Dreaming,” and sticks around for concertgoers. Co-directors Russian mounting is a point in its favor, the a feverish duet with Franklin on “Do Right Vincent Bordes and Julian Aivadian open Paris Opera production conducted by Kent Woman.” The mood turns prayerful when with the audience cheering the band while Nagano (as Le Coq d’Or, VL-11/04) is superior. Franklin collaborates with the New Jersey singer and guitarist ’s eyes fill Even so, this release—presented in PCM ste- Mass Choir for a solemn but soaring “Pre- with tears. After a few minutes, he and his reo—is still recommended. (F. Swietek) cious Memories,” and the concert winds up band mates—including bassist Matt Mc- with blowout performances of “Respect” Junkins, guitarists Dave Catching and Eden HHH1/2 and “Freeway of Love,” the latter featuring Galindo, keyboard player Tuesday Cross, and (2016) 145 min. In Italian w/ , among others. Presented in drummer —launch into “I Only English subtitles. DVD: 2 discs, 5.1 surround sound, extras include a bonus Want You” from their 2004 debut album. $39.99, Blu-ray: $34.99. C audio CD. Highly recommended. (T. Keogh) The rest of the 19-song set follows the same Major/Unitel (dist. by Naxos of America). garage-meets-hard-rock template. After they Don Carlo HH1/2 play “So Easy,” a fan tosses Hughes a t-shirt This Hamlet—or more (2016) 182 min. In Italian that reads, “I really wannabe in Paris,” which properly, —is a long- w/English subtitles. Blu-ray: the singer displays for all to see. Homme, who lost opera by Franco Faccio, $39.99. Dynamic (dist. by also fronts the band , set to an Italian text by (also Naxos of America). has always been a fan of the cowbell, which a composer, but better known as ’s Verdi’s grand opera—set adds a glam element to many songs, such as frequent librettist) that was adapted from against a backdrop of re- the profanity-laced “Whorehoppin’ (Shit, Shakespeare’s play. After a successful 1865 bellion and inquisitorial Goddamn).” For most of the set, Julian Dorio premiere in Genoa, its second mounting at cruelty—centers on the titular Spanish prince, joins him on the second , bringing Milan’s La Scala in 1871 was a disaster, and who falls afoul of his father Philip II after the a fuller sound to the material. In addition to Faccio withdrew it, abandoning composing king marries Elisabeth, whom Carlo loves. for a career as a conductor. The piece sim- original songs, the band covers Duran Du- Don Carlo went through a bewildering array ply disappeared until a critical edition was ran’s “” with somewhat wobbly of permutations between its Paris premiere recently prepared from surviving material, harmony vocals, and the Stealers Wheel in 1867 and the composer’s final five-act leading to this first fully professional revival hit “Stuck in the Middle with You,” which Italian version of 1886. This 2016 production staged at the 2016 Bregenz Festival. Hamlet sounds more like ZZ Top. There are definitely from the Verdi Festival in offers the proves to be an imposing and occasionally a few emotional moments here, but this is intervening four-act Italian version, minus inspired work that is extraordinarily faithful mostly a wash-your-cares-away concert for a the opening Fontainebleau scene. The perfor- to its source, and features powerful (if not city that really needed it. Presented in DTS mance is good but not great, with Daniel Oren always memorable) music marked by a hint 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, and stereo, extras in- leading the Filarmonica in of early verismo. Olivier Tambosi’s staging is clude three bonus songs from a 2015 concert a reading that is comparatively restrained but atmospheric and elegant, with fine costumes generates considerable cumulative power. José in Los Angeles. Recommended. (K. Fennessy) (except for the widespread presence of an odd Bros’s tenor is not ideally heroic for Carlo, eye symbol) and striking, simple sets. The nor does Michele Pertusi’s bass have the dark The Golden Cockerel singing is superlative across the board, with heft that the role of Philip demands, but both HHH Pavel Cernoch (Amleto), Iulia Maria Dan use their limited instruments intelligently, (2017) 119 min. Blu-ray/DVD (Ofelia), Claudio Sgura (Claudio) and Dsham- as does Serena Farnocchia (Elisabeth), whose Combo: $42.99. Mariinsky ilja Kaiser (Gertrude) outstanding in the relatively light soprano lacks the ultimate (dist. by Naxos of America). ensemble, while conductor Paolo Carignani degree of Verdian warmth. And baritone Nikolai Rimsky-Korsa- leads the Vienna Symphony in a rich, vibrant Vladimir Stoyanov sounds noble as Carlo’s kov’s final opera was com- reading of the score. There have been many loyal friend Rodrigo. The sets are fairly pedes- pleted in 1907, but due to objections by Tsarist attempts to turn Shakespeare’s classic tale of trian, although the somber costumes suit the censors was not performed until 1909, after an indecisive prince wanting to avenge the narrative’s tragic tone. And while the auto- the composer’s death—and then only with murder of his father into an opera, but none da-fé sequence is decently depicted—with a substantial revisions. Based on a poem by have won a place in the repertory, although procession of red-robed priests and a crowd of Pushkin, The Golden Cockerel on the surface judging from this performance, Faccio’s is tortured souls pushing carts full of fellow vic- is a fairy tale about an elderly king who uses one of the more notable. Presented in DTS 5.0 tims across the stage—Ievgen Orlov’s Grand magic provided by a sorcerer to wage a war (DTS-HD 5.0 on the Blu-ray release) and PCM Inquisitor fails to convey the requisite degree against his country’s enemies, but is seduced stereo, this opera that has unjustly suffered of religious mania. Ultimately, this Parma by the beautiful queen whose realm he obscurity for a century and a half is highly mounting is only a decent staging of one of invades. The authorities read as a recommended. (F. Swietek) Verdi’s greatest operas. Presented in DTS-HD satire on Russian government corruption and 5.1 and PCM stereo, this is a strong optional military incompetence and banned it until Il Barbiere di Siviglia purchase. (F. Swietek) changes were made to the libretto. Although HHH rarely performed since, this 2017 production (2016) 164 min. In Italian w/ : I Love You All from St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Opera (for- English subtitles. DVD: $29.99, the Time—Live at the Olympia in Paris merly the Kirov) is physically spectacular, Blu-ray: $39.99. Opus Arte HHH with numerous visual effects and extravagant (dist. by Naxos of America). (2016) 102 min. DVD: $15.98. Eagle Rock costumes by Anna Matison. The orchestra Rossini’s ever-popular Entertainment (avail. from most distributors). also shines under the baton of Valery Gergiev. comic opera has always The show that Eagles of Death Metal played But the stage movement often seems chaotic, been a favorite at England’s Glyndebourne

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 70 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Festival, but this 2016 mounting directed brother the duke—are serviceable but just Madonna: Rebel Heart by Annabel Arden marked the first new not in the same league. Daniel Oren conducts HHHH production there in 35 years. In design it the company orchestra with passion, while Tour (2015) 119 min. DVD: $21.98 emphasizes the Spanish setting, although director Francisco Negrin uses the wide but (audio CD included), Blu-ray: the costumes are not period in style: Count shallow stage of the Sferisterio outdoor sta- $26.98 (audio CD included). Almaviva, who effectively steals the lovely dium intelligently, deftly blending past and Eagle Rock Entertainment Rosina from her elderly guardian (and would- present scenes. The sets are spare (two banks (avail. from most distributors). be husband) Bartolo with the connivance of of tables) and the costumes are almost uni- You’ve heard the phrase “you had to be roguish Figaro, wears a metallic overcoat, formly black, but both serve to enhance the there,” but in the case of this Showtime-aired and Bartolo’s maid Berta sports a tweed suit, mood of grim fatalism, while the use of fire as concert—filmed during Madonna’s 2015-16 while Rosina is decked out in lovely gowns, a motif adds flashes of brilliance. Other DVD tour promoting her latest release—being and Figaro is clad in rumpled workman’s and Blu-ray versions boast greater star power there was only part of the show, as this garb. Arden also adds absurdist touches to the and visual splendor, but this one is overall a post-production-enhanced filmed version il- staging: Figaro appears in unexpected ways musically impressive take on this repertory lustrates. A meticulously-crafted presentation (initially bounding out of the orchestra pit), warhorse. Presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 from its precisely-edited opening-to-closing pianos move across the stage and sometimes and PCM stereo on DVD, and DTS-HD 5.1 frames, Rebel Heart Tour is pure spectacle disintegrate, and pompous music teacher and PCM stereo on Blu-ray, this is a strong (and often characteristically provocative)—a Basilio fumes so much during his aria that optional purchase. (F. Swietek) whiplash-paced, 24-song, two-hour set in smoke literally rises out of his robe. But the which the musicians are almost never seen effort to elicit laughs often degenerates into Jane’s Addiction: 2016 onscreen. The production features smart mere mugging, sometimes at the sacrifice Silver Spoon Anniversary camerawork (with spot-on slo-mo touches), of vocal accuracy, especially by Danielle de HHH a giant video background wall, a troupe of Niese as Rosina and Alessandro Corbelli as Tour skilled dancers performing intricately-cho- (2016) 85 min. DVD: $24.99 Bartolo. Taylor Stayton, however, is a stylish (audio CD included), Blu-ray/ reographed routines, and an array of detailed Almaviva, genuinely amusing in his guises as DVD Combo: $29.99 (audio stage sets—including an auto body shop a drunken soldier and unctuous cleric, and CD included). Music Video Distributors (avail. and a Cirque du Soleil-level aerial ballet Björn Bürger offers a robust baritone while from most distributors). with dancers swinging on poles. Speaking cutting a strapping figure as Figaro. Enrique This 2016 concert at Irvine Meadows, CA, of poles, many viewers will be offended by Mazzola’s treatment of the score takes a while finds Jane’s Addiction marking the 25th an- the scantily-clad, wimple-wearing nuns who to catch fire, but by the second act his tempos niversary of their hit 1990 album Ritual de lo pole-dance during the blasphemous-to-ma- have reached breakneck speed and the Lon- Habitual while also performing songs from ny song “Holy Water” (which includes the don Philharmonic responds with playing that their self-titled debut, and Nothing’s Shocking, repeated line “Yeezus loves my pussy best.”). possesses genuine fizz. Presented in Dolby their first major-label album. As the film But this is Madonna—or as one song title Digital 5.1 and stereo on DVD, and DTS- stock changes from black-and-white to color puts it “, I’m Madonna”—so there is HD 5.1 and LPCM stereo on Blu-ray, extras and back again, front man Perry Farrell sings very little Judy-Garland-Wizard-of-Oz whole- include an audio commentary by Mazzola alongside guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer someness to be found here (also on the likely and de Niese, a “making-of” featurette, and Stephen Perkins, and bassist Chris Chaney to peeve scale is the song “S.E.X.”, featuring a cast gallery. Although somewhat uneven, (taking over from Eric Avery). Although Far- couples—including gay—gyrating in obvious this still has enough strengths to merit being rell spent years overseeing Lollapalooza and sexual fashion on a series of beds). While recommended. (F. Swietek) fronting Porno for Pyros, he hasn’t missed a often shocking, the general vibe here is one nostalgic step. The dreadlocks are gone, but that clearly celebrates tolerance and inclu- Il Trovatore HH1/2 he remains a lithe, wiry figure, here clad in siveness. Longtime Madonna fans will also (2016) 138 min. In Italian w/ a moiré pantsuit and neckerchief. The band appreciate the early hits, which include “Like English subtitles. DVD: $29.99, opens the 13-song set with the electrifying a Virgin,” “,” “,” and Blu-ray: $39.99. Dynamic (dist. “Stop!”, which gives Navarro the chance the rousing finale “Holiday,” the latter with by Naxos of America). to shine, and ends with the Velvet Under- guest stars (filmed over multiple shows) such The clanging of the Anvil ground-inspired hit “Jane Says.” Anyone who as , Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Chorus may be the most didn’t like their music in the 1990s probably and Anderson Cooper. Presented in DTS 5.1, instantly recognizable mo- won’t like it now—especially when Farrell Dolby Digital 5.1 and stereo on DVD, and ment in Verdi’s classic 1853 opera, but despite scats and slips into a French accent during DTS-HD 5.1 and LPCM stereo on Blu-ray, its absurdly complicated plot (gypsy curses, “Been Caught Stealing”—but the band extras include a bonus audio CD, a bizarre infants switched at birth, brothers battling does justice here to their patented brand of “Tears of a Clown” black-and-white segment over the same woman, deaths by poison metallic alt-rock. And if the addition of two featuring a profanity-spewing Madonna in and burning at the stake, all set against a scantily-clad dancers seems like a regressive clown makeup interacting with an audience backdrop of civil war), Il Trovatore remains move, it’s also true to the band’s intention- and singing “Don’t Tell Me” and “Borderline,” one of the master’s most popular thanks to a ally tawdry Sunset Strip aesthetic, which and a bonus performance of “Like a Prayer.” succession of red-blooded arias and ensem- extends to the Ritual album cover (in which Nearly 60, Madonna remains a sexy, cut- bles that once said required nothing a papier-mâché figure of Farrell cavorts with ting-edge, multi-talented, physical performer but the four greatest singers in the world to do two nude women). When it comes to stage who not only continues to command a stage, them justice. This 2016 production from the patter, Farrell sometimes connects with the but also outshines many younger contempo- Macerata Opera Festival hardly boasts such a audience, sometimes not: they’re happy to rary artists. Highly recommended. Editor’s quartet, but the two female leads—Enkelejda hear about the band’s early days, but express Choice. (R. Pitman) Shkosa as the vengeful gypsy Azucena, and little enthusiasm for his riff on cable news. Anna Pirozzi as the beautiful but doomed But then again, they came to rock, and Jane’s Midsummer Night’s Dream HH1/2 Leonora—are both exceptionally fine. The Addiction certainly delivers on that front. Pre- (2015) 97 min. DVD: $24.99, Blu-ray: $29.99. Bel men—Piero Pretti as the titular troubadour sented in Dolby Digital 5.1, extras include a Air Classiques (dist. by Naxos of America). (and rebel leader) and Marco Caria as his bonus audio CD. Recommended. (K. Fennessy) Choreographer Alexander Ekman’s 2015

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 71 VIDEO LIBRARIAN dance piece devised for the stage and the audience. Later, when Aron ’s titular medieval verse epic—was ’s Royal Swedish fashions the golden calf to respond to the revived in 2016, this staging is the original Ballet and featuring music Israelites’ demand for a concrete deity, an 2012 performance. Audi and set designer by Mikael Karlsson bears actual ox is escorted onto the stage, only to Anish Kapoor eschew a realistic approach to no resemblance to Shake- be doused, like the writhing dancers, with the allegorical tale of a young wanderer in- speare’s classic play. Rather, thick black ooze. Add to that the sudden blaze troduced to the rituals of the order of knights this is a phantasmagorical of red as the Nile is turned to blood, along sworn to protect the Holy Grail in the hope production centered on the with climbers scaling the stage flats, and this that he will prove the “pure fool made wise by Swedish celebration of the becomes a spectacle that adds layers of mean- compassion”—one destined to recover from summer solstice. The first act, cast as the ing—and ambiguity—to the music. Presented the wicked sorcerer Klingsor the spear that dream of a sleeping man, focuses on the in Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM stereo on DVD, pierced the side of the crucified Christ. Only actual festivities, beginning with the corps and DTS-HD 5.1 and PCM stereo on Blu-ray, the touch of that lance, stolen by Klingsor gamboling about the stage and throwing this is an admittedly difficult work, but one through the seductive powers of the enchant- handfuls of hay in the air to striking effect, well worth experiencing in a production this ress Kundry, can cure the festering wound before moving on to crowd dances around inventive. Recommended. (F. Swietek) that afflicts Amfortas, head of the order. the maypole and a midsummer feast that is But retrieving it will require Parsifal to defy complete with a toast to the audience. The HH1/2 Kundry’s wiles and face down Klingsor amidst second act turns bizarre, as the man’s dream (2016) 147 min. In Italian w/ the temptations of his garden of delights. Act morphs into nightmarish visions of head- English subtitles. DVD: $24.99, I of this tale of religious redemption is set less people lurching about, strange tableaux Blu-ray: $34.99. C Major/Unitel against a backdrop of tall wooden scaffolds (sometimes using projected montages, often (dist. by Naxos of America). and huge craggy rocks (all bathed in red light), with sexual overtones), and weird, frighten- The wide but shallow as Amfortas’s lieutenant Gurnemanz explains ing crowd scenes. Karlsson’s music alternates stage of the Sferisterio—the the knights’ purpose to Parsifal, while Act II between instrumental numbers (both melod- open-air arena site for the in Klingsor’s garden is dominated by a huge ic and dissonant) and songs (during which Macerata Opera Festival— concave mirror lowered from the rafters—re- vocalists appear onstage). The ballet ends is utilized reasonably well by director Paco flecting and distorting the action as Parsifal with the dreamer waking up—after one false Azorín in his 2016 staging of ’s resists Kundry and defeats the sorcerer—and awakening—and resuming his normal life. penultimate opera, an adaptation of Shake- the final act (in which Parsifal returns with Midsummer Night’s Dream has something of a speare’s tragedy about the jealous Moor who the spear) plays out against a simpler, somber provincial feel, even though it is an opulent is driven to kill his faithful wife Desdemona, background. The vibrant visual conception is production featuring effective sets and cos- egged on by the clever insinuations of his matched by the musical performance, with tumes, as well as exuberantly athletic dance. sinister ensign Iago. Although Azorín begins Iván Fischer leading the magnificent Royal Presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 on DVD, and with a juvenile joke—an extra trundles a Concertgebouw Orchestra in a reading that DTS-HD 5.1 and PCM stereo on Blu-ray, extras wind machine onstage for the opening storm captures both the score’s serenity and its vig- include an interview with Ekman. A strong scene—he improves appreciably after that ini- or, complemented by outstanding vocalism optional purchase. (F. Swietek) tial miscalculation, bringing an appropriately from Christopher Ventris (Parsifal), Petra stark, gloomy atmosphere to the proceedings Lang (Kundry), Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester HHH using simple sets, generally dark costumes, (Amfortas), Falk Struckmann (Gurnemanz), Moses und Aron and atmospheric lighting. Even his addition (2015) 113 min. DVD or Blu- and Mikhail Petrenko (Klingsor). Presented ray: $29.99. Bel Air Classiques of silent young men who stalk the characters in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo edition with DTS- (dist. by Naxos of America). (plus some allusions to Shakespeare’s sonnets) HD 5.1 and PCM stereo sound, this is highly No one will finish watch- works surprisingly well. But musically this recommended. (F. Swietek) ing Romeo Castellucci’s is only a fair performance. Stuart Neill is a 2015 Paris production of physically imposing Otello, but his acting The Pharaoh’s Daughter and singing are little more than adequate, Arnold Schönberg’s final and Jessica Nuccio fails to invest Desdemona (La Fille du Pharaon) opera—left incomplete on the composer’s with the full measure of poignancy, while Ro- HH1/2 death in 1951—and be humming its melo- berto Frontali’s Iago, although decently sung, (2003) 101 min. DVD: $24.99. dies, because there are none: the music is in Bel Air Classiques (dist. by is solemn rather than gleefully malevolent. 12-tone, serialist mode. The libretto is also Naxos of America). Still, Riccardo Frizza does secure well-drilled challenging, centering on the “lost in transla- playing from the Fondazione Orchestra Re- One of a hundred ballets tion” effect that inevitably occurs when tran- created by the prolific but gionale Delle Marche. Presented in DTS 5.1 scendent truth, represented by God’s direct (DTS-HD 5.1 on the Blu-ray release) and PCM largely forgotten Italian composer Cesare message to Moses (an extended Sprechstimme stereo, this is a decent mounting of Verdi’s Pugni, this extravagant piece featuring chore- role), is translated into terms intelligible to masterpiece, but the competition is fierce ography by Marius caused a sensation man by Moses’s more articulate brother Aron (see VL-7/07, VL-1/10, and VL-9/14). A strong at the Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg in (a fearsomely difficult tenor part). The incred- optional purchase. (F. Swietek) 1862. The plot is ludicrous—although char- ibly complex two-act score is brilliantly per- acteristic of the that propelled much formed by Thomas Johannes Mayer (Moses) HHH of romantic ballet—with British explorer and John Graham-Hall (Aron), backed by the Parsifal 1/2 Lord Wilson taking shelter in the pyramid (2012) 130 min. In German w/ orchestra and chorus of the Opéra national English subtitles. Blu-ray/DVD of Princess Aspicia and after experimenting de Paris under Philippe Jordan. What will be Combo: $44.99. Challenge with opium being transformed into her memorable to most, however, is Castellucci’s Classics (dist. by Naxos of ancient Egyptian lover Taor. Taor and the vibrant imagery, beginning with a reel-to-reel America). revivified princess resume their romance, but tape machine hung high above the action, Although Pierre Audi’s her father has betrothed her to the King of representing the burning bush as it spews Dutch National Opera pro- Nubia, who arrives to claim her and follows reams of tape down on Moses below and a duction of Wagner’s monumental final the fleeing couple to the Nile, where Aspicia series of words flash onto a scrim set between work—inspired by Wolfram von Eschen- throws herself into the river. Beneath the

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 72 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 waves she dances for the River God, who is most documented rock band on DVD and Blu- the opera was last-minute, hence the many so pleased that he allows her to return to dry ray, ’ latest entry in their stagnant medium and long shots—this is land, where she saves Taor from execution, burgeoning “From the Vaults” series is not all still a very satisfying production under stage and the couple receive the Pharaoh’s bless- that dusty, hailing from 2015. The Stones— director Michael Unger, with vigorous orches- ing (followed by Wilson awakening from lead singer , guitarists Keith Rich- tral leadership by conductor Mark Sforzini. his dream). A staple in the Russian repertory ards and Ronnie Wood, and drummer Charlie Presented in PCM stereo, extras include an until the Soviet era, this 2003 revival staged Watts—are captured live at Hollywood’s interview with Floyd, and behind-the-scenes by Pierre Lacotte at the Moscow Bolshoi in Fonda Theatre (a relatively intimate setting footage. Highly recommended. (P. Hall) Petipa’s style features huge sets, flamboyant compared to the Stones’ usual arena concerts) costumes, and a large cast of supernumer- performing a 13-song set that includes their Wolfgang Amadeus aries (a horse-drawn chariot even appears entire 1971 album (older viewers : Requiem HHH at one point). The dancing—especially by will recall the Andy Warhol-designed cover (2017) 70 min. In Latin w/ Svetlana Zakharova (Aspicia) and Sergei Filin featuring an image of jeans inlaid with a real English subtitles. DVD: $24.99, (Lord Wilson/Taor)—is excellent, as is the zipper). On the plus side, the music is stellar, Blu-ray: $34.99. C Major/Unitel orchestral playing under Alexander Sotnikov. from the crowd-pleasing “Start Me Up” to (dist. by Naxos of America). While Pugni’s music is frankly boilerplate, the classic closer “Brown Sugar,” with many Mozart’s Requiem—his fi- it provides an innocuous backdrop for what rarely-played songs in between, including nal work, famously commis- is essentially a 19th-century equivalent of “Sister Morphine” and “Moonlight Mile.” sioned by a mysterious buyer and completed one of today’s big-budget summer popcorn Other highlights include “Sway,” the beloved after the composer’s death by a pupil—is the movies. Presented in DTS 5.1 and PCM stereo, ballad “Wild Horses,” and “Can’t You Hear Me centerpiece of this Salzburg concert for the extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette Knocking’,” the latter featuring Karl Denson 2017 Mozartwoche (Mozart Week). Marc and an interview with Lacotte. A strong op- on sax in place of the late, great Bobby Keys. Minkowski conducts an expressive perfor- tional purchase. (F. Swietek) Unfortunately, the show is routinely inter- mance by soloists Genia Kühmeier, Elisabeth rupted for interview clips with the Stones and Kulman, Julien Behr, and Charles Dekeyser, Pixel HHH others (Warhol legend Joe Dallesandro and backed by the Salzburger Bachchor and the (2017) 70 min. DVD or Blu- some guy named Corey Tippin both lay claim original-instrument group Les Musiciens de ray: $24.99. Naxos (avail. from to being the jeans-wearing model for the Louvre. Filling out the program, Minkowski most distributors). Sticky Fingers cover), which are entertaining adds an early Mozart Miserere and ’s Created and choreo- (Richards rightly claims that Sticky The Ways of Zion Do Mourn, concluding with graphed by Mourad Mer- Fingers was an album that was “soaked in Mozart’s Ave verum corpus. The concert is per- zouki, the celebrated ar- drugs”), but these segments also break up the formed at the Salzburg Felsenreitschule—an tistic director of the Lyon, flow of the concert. Still, this is classic Stones, imposing, tiered stone structure occasionally France-based dance company Compagnie beautifully performed, in an excellent venue. used for opera productions but here reflecting Käfig, Pixel is a mesmerizing, sometimes Presented in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and its original function as an equestrian riding magical performance featuring 11 dancers stereo on DVD, and DTS-HD 5.1 and LPCM school. As the music plays, the horses and and thousands of illuminated dots, the latter stereo on Blu-ray, extras include an audio CD equerries of the Académie équestre nationale mysteriously controlled by an offstage force. and bonus songs. Recommended. (R. Pitman) du domaine de Versailles ride back and forth Merzouki is known for incorporating hip- across the sand-covered stage in formations hop street moves (especially breakdancing) Susannah HHH1/2 choreographed by the group’s director, Barta- and circus acrobatics into modern dance, (2015) 106 min. DVD: $29.99. bas. Connoisseurs of expert horsemanship and here viewers will see the intersection of Naxos (avail. from most will especially appreciate this, but Mozart these various influences asPixel explores the distributors). fans will also likely admire the skill with relationship between the physical (humans) Carlisle Floyd’s 1955 op- which the riders direct their steeds to move and digital (dots) worlds. The dancers writhe, era has long been a regional in tandem with the music. Presented in DTS roll, shift, and spider-walk through virtual staple, but has rarely been 5.0 (DTS-HD 5.0 on the Blu-ray release) and fields of light behind, above, and below staged by major urban com- PCM stereo, this is recommended. (F. Swietek) them, altering the flow of the countless dots. panies. This 2015 mounting by Florida’s St. At times, the performers appear to be lost Petersburg Opera captures the raw emotional among the stars; at others, their ceaseless power of Floyd’s imaginative updating of the Dance, Dance, Dance gyrations and the bouncing of lights bring to apocryphal biblical tale of Susannah and mind subatomic particles. The accompanying the Elders, bringing the story into an early music by César-winning French composer Three ballets performed 20th-century Appalachian setting. As the by the Ballet du Capitole Armand Amar blends traditional strings with titular free-spirited country girl who is slan- synthetic noises for an often moving and and featuring librettos by dered and abused by the hypocritical male Kader Belarbi are compiled adventurous score. Presented in PCM stereo, leaders of her community’s church, Susan extras include a “making-of” featurette. Rec- in the boxed set Ballet du Hellman Spatafora delivers a powerful acting (DVD: 3 discs, ommended. (T. Keogh) Capitole and vocal performance, from her initial joy $39.99; Blu-ray: 3 discs, during a square dance, to her confusion over $54.99): Le Corsaire (VL-5/14 Rolling Stones From the the townsfolk turning against her, to horrific HHH ), a bold reimagining Vault: Sticky Fingers Live anguish and climactic defiance. Todd Don- of a 19th-century classic; La Bête et la Belle, at the Fonda Theatre ovan as the villainous preacher Olin Blitch inspired by the classic fairy tale Beauty and 2015 HHH and Anthony Wright Webb as Susannah’s the Beast; and La Reine Morte (VL-7/16 HHH), (2015) 86 min. DVD: $21.98 protective older brother bring wondrous loosely based on the true story of Dona Inês (audio CD included), Blu-ray: $26.98 (audio CD depth to their roles, each brilliantly blurring de Castro (1320-1355). All are set to music included). Eagle Rock Entertainment (avail. from the lines between good and evil. While the by a wide range of composers, including most distributors). presentation comes across like a videotaped , , Tchaikovsky, Jules Massanet, Continuing their apparent bid to be the record of a stage work—the decision to film and Jean Sibelius.

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VIDEO LIBRARIAN 80 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Poldark: Complete Second Season (3), 1-52 All the Difference (3.5), 4-46 Battleground (3.5), 3-32 Preacher: Season One (3), 1-52 All These Sleepless Nights (2), 6-16 Baywatch (2), 5-22 Quarry: Complete First Season (2.5), 3-41 Almayer’s Folly (2.5), 2-18 BBQ with Franklin (3), 2-60 Romanzo Criminale—Series: Season 1 (3), 3-41 Almost Holy (3.5), 1-16 Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (3), 1-79 Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (3.5), 5-42 Almost There (3), 4-54 Béatrice et Bénédict (2.5), 6-69 Scream Queens: Complete First Season (2), 2-45 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (3.5), 1-79 Beatriz at Dinner (2), 5-22 Shameless: Complete Seventh Season (3), 6-48 Always Shine (2.5), 3-12 Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (2.5), 1-38 Sherlock: Series Four (3), 2-45 Alzheimer’s: Every Minute Counts (3.5), 4-51 Beautiful Bones—Sakurako’s Investigation (3.5), 2-73 Silicon Valley: Complete Third Season (3), 4-39 Amagi Brilliant Park: Complete Collection (3), 4-60 Beauty and the Beast (2.5), 3-14 South Park: Complete Twentieth Season (2.5), 5-43 Amar Akbar & Tony (2), 5-20 Beauty and the Beast (Disney) (3), 4-14 Strain: Season 3 (2.5), 6-48 Amazonia (3), 1-16 Becoming Johanna (3), 4-42 Syndicate: All or Nothing (3), 1-52 America By the Numbers (3), 2-50 Becoming More Visible (3.5), 4-46 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (3), 1-52 American Conscience: Reinhold Niebuhr Story (3), Before I Fall (2.5), 3-14 Underground: Season 2 (3), 5-43 Veep: Complete Fifth Season (3), 4-39 3-62 Before I Kick the Bucket (3), 4-50 Vice Principals: Complete First Season (2.5), 3-41 American Epic: First Time America Heard Itself (3.5), Beginner Qigong for Women (3), 5-56 Victoria: Complete First Season (3.5), 3-41 5-73 Beguiled, The (3), 6-20 White Princess, The (3), 6-48 American Horror Story: Complete Fifth Season—Hotel Behind the Door (3), 4-28 Revisited & More Wild Wild West (3), 1-48 Being 17 (3), 3-14 (2.5), 5-43 American Patriot (3), 6-63 Bells Are Ringing (3), 3-32 Witness for the Prosecution (3), 4-39 American Symbols of Freedom (4), 2-65 Bending the Arc (3.5), 6-59 Workaholics: Final Season (2.5), 5-43 Amish and the Reformation, The (3), 6-52 Ben-Hur (1.5), 1-18 Young Pope, The (3), 5-43 Amnesia (3), 6-16 Best and Most Beautiful Things (3), 1-59 Among the Believers (4), 1-16 Best Democracy Money Can Buy, The (2.5), 1-60 Anatahan (3), 4-28 Best of Harvey Korman, The (2.5), 6-43 And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online? (2.5), Best of Tim Conway, The (2.5), 3-37 Title Index 6-67 Betrayal Knows My Name: Complete Series (2.5), 4-60 Angelic Layer (3), 2-73 Better Call Saul: Season Two (3), 1-48 3 Classic Films by Claude Chabrol (3), 3-32 Animal Kingdom: Complete First Season (3), 4-38 Betting on Zero (3), 6-60 8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars (3), 1-70 Annabelle: Creation (2.5), 6-16 Bible Idiots (2), 2-49 Antarctica: Ice and Sky (3), 3-51 Big Charity (3.5), 2-51 10 Billion: What’s on Your Plate? (2.5), 3-45 Aoharu x Machinegun: Complete Collection (3), 1-78 Big Little Lies (3.5), 6-43 15 Years of Terror (3), 2-50 Apology, The (3.5), 6-64 Big O: Complete Collection, Seasons 1 & 2 (3.5), 5-70 19-2: Season 3 (3), 2-41 Apostate, The (3), 1-16 Bikini Warriors (1.5), 3-65 20th Century Women (3), 2-16 Apprentice (3), 4-14 Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2), 2-18 24 Hours: Police (3), 2-56 Aquarion Logos, Part 1 (1.5), 3-65 Birth of a Nation, The (3), 1-18 36 Hours (3), 4-28 Arcade Fire: Reflektor Tapes (2.5), 3-68 Birth of the Dragon (2), 6-20 47 Meters Down (2.5), 5-20 Archer: Complete Season Seven (3), 4-38 Birthday Party, The (3), 6-39 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary (3), 2-75 Ardennes, The (3), 3-12 Bitcoin Heist (3), 5-22 91%: A Film About Guns in America (3), 2-50 Argentina (2.5), 1-16 Bitter Harvest (2), 3-14 1000 Rupee Note (3.5), 2-16 Aria (2.5), 3-32 Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (4), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (2.5), 5-34 Armida (2), 3-68 3-60 1944 (2.5), 5-20 Arrival (4), 2-18 Black Society Trilogy (2.5), 3-34 2016 World Series Champions (3.5), 2-62 Art and Heart: The World of Isaiah Sheffer (3.5), 5-67 Blacklist: Complete Fourth Season (3), 6-43 Abortion Hotline, The (3), 3-45 Art Bastard (3), 3-63 Blast, A (3.5), 6-20 Accidental Courtesy (3), 3-45 Art That Nature Makes, An (3.5), 1-71 Bleak Street (3), 3-14 Accountant, The (2), 2-16 As I Open My Eyes (3), 2-18 Blindspot: Complete Second Season (3), 6-43 Across the Line (3), 5-20 As One (3), 4-42 Blinky Bill the Movie (3), 1-20 Act of Love (3), 2-50 Ascent of Evil: Story of Mein Kampf (3), 5-64 Blood on the Mountain (3.5), 3-46 Active Parenting: First Five Years (3.5), 5-58 Ash vs. Evil Dead: Season 2 (2.5), 6-43 Bluebeard (2.5), 6-20 Activists, The (2.5), 5-47 Asphalt Jungle, The (4), 2-36 Blush (2), 2-18 Actor Martinez (2.5), 4-14 Assassin, The (3), 4-28 Bodyslam: Revenge of the Banana (2), 4-16 Ada Twist, Scientist (2.5), 5-44 Assassin’s Creed (1.5), 3-12 Boiling Point (2.5), 1-38 Ada’s Ideas (3), 3-42 Assignment, The (1), 3-12 Bones: Final Chapter (3), 5-42 Addicted Teens: Heroin (2.5), 2-55 Atomic Blonde (3), 6-16 Book of Henry, The (2), 5-22 Adventure Time: Islands (3), 2-46 Attack on Titan—Junior High: Complete Series (3), Boomer Revolution, The (3), 4-47 Afghanistan 1979: War That Changed the World (3.5), 5-70 Borderless (3), 2-20 1-73 Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2.5), 1-18 Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2.5), 5-70 Africa’s Great Civilizations (3.5), 5-65 B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (3.5), 6-18 Boy and the Beast, The (3), 6-67 After the Storm (3), 6-16 Baby Bump (2.5), 6-18 Brad Paisley (3), 3-68 Against the Tide (3), 3-45 Baby Driver (3), 6-18 Brain Games: Season 7 (3.5), 1-58 Agatha Raisin: Series One (3), 1-48 Bad Girl (3), 2-36 BrainDead (3), 2-41 Age of Shadows, The (3), 4-14 Ballad of Cable Hogue, The (3.5), 5-34 Brand New Testament, The (3.5), 3-16 Agents of Change (3), 4-55 Ballet Hispánico (3), 3-68 Breaking Point (3.5), 3-47 Aida (3), 1-79 Band Aid (3), 6-18 Bride (La Novia) (1), 3-16 Ajin: Demi-Human (3), 4-60 Band of Robbers (2.5), 1-18 Bridget Jones’s Baby (3), 1-20 Akron (2.5), 2-16 Banshee: Complete Fourth Season (2.5), 1-48 Brief Encounters (3), 2-41 Alchemist Cookbook, The (3), 2-16 Baobabs: Between Land and Sea (3), 3-51 Brilliant Darkness: Hotaru in the Night (3), 5-56 Alena (2.5), 4-14 Baptism of Fire, A (3.5), 1-60 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (2.5), 5-35 Ali & Nino (2.5), 3-12 Barge (3), 3-56 Bryan Adams: Wembley 1996 (2.5), 1-79 Alice Cooper—Welcome to My Nightmare (2), 6-69 Bars4Justice (2.5), 3-46 Building Star Trek (3.5), 1-66 Alive and Kicking (3), 5-20 Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2.5), 1-18 Bull: Season One (2.5), 6-43 All About Allergies (3), 4-40 Batman and Harley Quinn (3), 6-18 Bunnicula: Night of the Vegetable (2.5), 5-44 All Eyes and Ears (3), 3-45 Battle for Iraq (3.5), 5-64 Burden of Peace (3.5), 1-73 All Governments Lie (3), 4-46 Battle of Chosin, The (3.5), 3-59 Bureau: Season 1 (3.5), 2-41 All of Me (3), 3-46 Battle of the Sexes, The (3.5), 1-38 Bureau: Season 2 (3.5), 4-38

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 81 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Bureau: Season 3 (3.5), 6-44 Cosmos (2.5), 2-20 Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) (3.5), 1-62 Bushwick (2), 6-20 Counter Clockwise (3), 2-21 Don’t Think Twice (3), 1-21 Business of Amateurs, The (3.5), 3-58 Counting for Thunder (2.5), 4-16 Doolittle’s Raiders: A Final Toast (3), 2-65 Business of Disaster, The (3), 1-68 Country Doctor, The (2.5), 5-24 Doomwatch (2.5), 2-36 Busou Shinki—Armored War Goddess (2), 3-65 Crashing: Complete First Season (2.5), 6-44 Down Down the Deep River (3), 6-61 bwoy (2), 4-16 Creepy (3), 3-17 Dr. Feelgood (3), 2-22 By War & By God (3.5), 1-59 Crossing, The (3), 2-51 Dream Boat (2), 6-60 Bye Bye Man, The (1), 3-16 Cultivating Kids (3), 4-44 Dressmaker, The (2.5), 1-22 Bystander Intervention (4), 2-57 Cure for Wellness, A (2), 3-17 Drum Dream Girl (3.5), 2-46 C Word, The (3), 3-52 Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs (1.5), 2-49 Duck on a Bike (3.5), 4-40 Café (3), 2-51 Daisy Kenyon (3), 1-39 Duel in the Sun (3), 6-39 Caffeine: How Much is Too Much? (3.5), 5-56 Dancer (2.5), 2-21 Durrells in Corfu: Complete First Season (3), 2-44 Call Her Applebroog (3), 2-69 Danny Says (3), 2-21 Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2.5), 5-26 Call of Heroes (2), 2-20 Dare to Drum (3), 4-54 Eagle Huntress, The (3), 2-24 Calvin, Zwingli, and Brother Klaus (2), 3-44 Dark Room, A (3), 4-50 Eagles of Death Metal (3), 6-70 Cameraperson (3.5), 2-20 Dark Tower, The (1.5), 6-22 Early Women Filmmakers (3.5), 5-35 Can We Take a Joke? (3), 2-51 Daughter, The (3), 4-18 East LA Interchange (3), 2-52 Candide (3), 1-79 David Lynch: The Art Life (3), 6-22 Edge of Seventeen, The (3), 2-24 Canoa (3.5), 3-34 Day of Triumph (2.5), 1-39 Eero Saarinen: Architect Who Saw the Future (3), 3-62 Captain Underpants: First Epic Movie (2.5), 6-20 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Complete Second Season Einstein on the Beach (3.5), 1-80 Carousel (3.5), 4-63 (3), 6-44 El Público (2.5), 2-75 Casablancas: Man Who Loved Women (3), 3-62 Dead Mothers Club, The (3), 1-58 Elementary: Fifth Season (3), 6-45 Castle Town Dandelion (1.5), 3-65 Dead or Alive Trilogy (3), 4-30 Elena and the Secret of Avalor (2.5), 4-40 Catch: Complete First Season (3), 1-48 Dean (2.5), 6-22 Elephant’s Dream (3.5), 2-66 Catfight (2.5), 4-16 Death by Design (3), 6-60 Elle (3.5), 3-17 Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (3.5), 1-80 Death Parade (3.5), 3-66 Emoji, The Movie (1), 6-24 Certain Women (2.5), 5-22 Death Race 2050 (2.5), 2-21 England Is Mine (2), 6-24 Change Begins Within (3), 6-69 Decline and Fall (3), 6-45 Equal Means Equal (2.5), 1-62 Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (3), 6-65 Deep Water (3), 3-37 Eva Doesn’t Sleep (1.5), 1-22 Chaos Dragon: Complete Series (3), 4-60 Deepwater Horizon (3), 2-21 Eva Hesse (3), 4-58 Chapter & Verse (2.5), 5-24 Def Leppard: And There Will Be a Next Time (3), 3-68 Everly Brothers: Harmonies from Heaven (3), 1-81 Charlie Brown’s All-Stars! (3), 1-39 Defendant 5 (3.5), 3-46 Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray (3), 5-67 Check-In, Check-Out: Second Edition (3), 5-54 Delicious: Series 1 (3), 6-45 Everybody Loves Somebody (2.5), 5-26 Chef’s Wife, The (3.5), 4-16 Deluge (3), 3-34 Everything, Everything (2), 5-26 Chemical Highs: Flakka and the Rise of Synthetic Department Q Trilogy (3.5), 2-22 Exotic (3), 5-47 Drugs (3), 4-50 Departure (3), 3-17 Exotic Dances of Bettie Page, The (2.5), 1-66 Chemsex (3), 1-20 Deportation of Innocence, The (3), 1-62 Eyes of My Mother, The (3), 3-18 Chicago Fire: Season Five (2.5), 6-44 Descendants 2 (2.5), 6-22 Fair Haven (3), 3-18 Chicago Med: Season One (3), 1-49 Desierto (3), 2-22 Fake, The (3), 1-22 Chicken People (3), 1-68 Despicable Me 3 (2), 6-22 Fall (2.5), 3-18 Childhood of a Leader, The (1.5), 1-20 Dheepan (3.5), 5-24 Fall Out Boy: The Boys of Zummer Tour (2.5), 1-81 Children of the Mountain (3), 2-20 Diary of a Chambermaid (3), 1-21 Falls: Covenant of Grace (3), 2-24 Chivalry of a Failed Knight: Complete Collection (3), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2.5), 5-26 Farewell to Arms, A (2.5), 5-35 5-70 Die Entführung aus dem Serail (3.5), 1-80 Farmer/Veteran (3), 5-47 Choice: 2016 (3.5), 2-52 Die Zauberflöte (2.5), 6-69 Farmer’s Road, A (3), 1-67 Christiania: 40 Years of Occupation (3), 2-66 Dimension W: Complete Series (3), 5-70 Fat Wreck: The Punk-U-Mentary (3), 2-63 Christmas Wish, The (2), 6-53 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: Season One Fatima (3), 2-24 Circle, The (2), 5-24 (2.5), 3-37 Fear the Walking Dead: Complete Second Season (2.5), Circle of Poison (3), 1-60 Dirty Dancing (3), 5-26 2-44 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (3.5), 6-21 Disappointments Room, The (1), 1-21 Feed the Beast: Season One (2), 1-49 City of Trees (3.5), 1-61 Discoveries…America National Parks: Great Basin (3), Feeding Your Family’s Soul (3.5), 6-52 Claire in Motion (3), 3-16 4-57 Fences (3), 3-18 Close to the Enemy (3.5), 2-41 Discoveries…America National Parks: Midwest Festival (3.5), 6-39 Closet Monster (3), 1-20 Heartland (3.5), 5-67 Fifty Shades Darker (1.5), 3-18 Cobra—The Animation (2.5), 2-73 Discoveries…America National Parks: Oregon’s Crater Film (3), 3-34 Code: Season 2 (3), 2-44 Lake (3), 2-68 Final Master, The (2), 5-26 Coffee: The Drink That Changed America (4), Discoveries…America National Parks: Zion, Bryce Finding Babel (3), 1-75 1-67 Canyon, Capitol Reef (3), 6-65 Finding Bosnia (3), 6-55 Collateral Beauty (1.5), 3-16 Disorder (3), 2-22 Fire at Sea (3), 3-48 Colossal (3), 5-24 Disturbing the Peace (3), 4-46 Fire Song (3.5), 1-22 Come What May (3.5), 2-20 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin (3.5), First Daughter and the Black Snake (3.5), 6-55 Comedian, The (2), 3-17 6-69 First Great Escape, The (3), 6-64 Comet Lucifer: Complete Collection (2.5), 3-65 Divorce: Complete First Season (3), 4-38 Fist Fight (2), 3-20 Coming Out (3), 1-67 Do Not Resist (3.5), 6-55 Five Fables (3.5), 6-50 Coming War on China, The (2.5), 6-54 Do You Take This Man (2), 6-24 Flash: Complete Third Season (3), 6-45 Command and Control (4), 2-3 Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (3), 1-39 Flesh, The (3), 6-40 Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (2.5), Doctor Thorne (3.5), 1-49 Food Wars! Season 1 (3), 6-67 1-39 Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (2.5), 3-37 For the Love of Spock (3), 3-20 Complete Unknown (2.5), 1- Dog Eat Dog (2), 2-22 Forced Perspective (3), 3-63 Concrete Love (3.5), 4-53 Dog’s Purpose, A (2.5), 3-17 Forces of Nature (3), 2-58 Confronting ISIS (3), 3-61 Dogtown Redemption (3.5), 1-62 Fort Buchanan (2.5), 5-27 Contemporary Color (3.5), 4-16 Doing Jewish: A Story from Ghana (3), 1-59 Fort Tilden (3), 2-24 Cook the Books (3), 2-61 Don Carlo (2.5), 6-70 Fortitude: Complete Second Season (3), 6-45 Cooking at the World’s End (3), 3-55 Don McLean: Starry Starry Night (3.5), 1-80 Four Classic Christopher Films (3), 2-50 Cool Apocalypse (2), 1-21 Don’t Breathe (3), 1-21 Fragments of Love (2.5), 3-20

VIDEO LIBRARIAN 82 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Frame by Frame (3.5), 2-68 Hairspray Live! (3.5), 2-75 Incarnate (2), 2-28 Frank & Lola (3), 2-26 Half-Life in Fukushima (2.5), 4-55 Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (3), 6-28 Frankenstein (2.5), 3-69 Hamlet (3.5), 2-63 India: Nature’s Wonderland (3.5), 2-58 Frankie and Johnny (1.5), 6-40 Hamlet (Amleto) (3.5), 6-70 Indian Point (3), 1-25 Frantz (3.5), 4-18 Handmaid’s Tale, The (2.5), 4-30 Indian Summers: Complete Second Season (2.5), 1-50 FREE (3.5), 5-62 Handsome Devil (3), 5-27 Inferno (2), 2-28 Free and Easy (2), 6-24 Happy Film, The (2), 5-46 Informed: Life is Worth Living (3), 2-53 Free Man, The (2.5), 4-53 Harmontown (2.5), 3-58 Injecting Aluminum (3), 5-57 Free to Run (3.5), 1-71 Heal the Living (3.5), 6-26 Inseparables (2.5), 6-28 Freebie and the Bean (3), 6-40 Healing Field: Exploring Energy & Consciousness (3), Inside Amy Schumer: Season 4 (3), 5-42 Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping (3), 1-69 2-59 Inspector Rex—Season 1: Vienna (3), 1-50 Friendshape (3), 5-44 Hear Me Now (3.5), 1-63 Intervention, The (2.5), 1-25 From Dusk Till Dawn: Season Three (2.5), 3-37 Hearing Is Believing (3), 5-63 Into the Badlands (2.5), 1-50 From Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City (3.5), 3-46 Heart: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (3), 2-75 Invisible Patients, The (3), 5-57 Fruits Basket: Complete Series (3), 6-67 Heart of a Dog (3), 2-26 Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans (3), 2-53 Fuller House: Complete First Season (3), 2-44 Heartland (2.5), 5-27 Invisibles, The (3), 1-63 Future Baby (3), 3-54 Heavens to Betsy (3), 6-26 Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? 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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 85 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Sonita (3), 5-51 Things to Come (3), 5-32 Vincent N Roxxy (1.5), 5-32 Sound of Redemption: Frank Morgan Story (3), 2-70 This Kind of Love (3.5), 3-64 Violet (2.5), 4-27 Soundbreaking (3.5), 2-64 Thoughts That Once We Had, The (2.5), 2-64 Visible Silence (2.5), 4-52 South Africa: Fonko (3), 5-63 Three (3), 3-30 Vision Quest (2), 5-39 South Park: Complete Twentieth Season (2.5), 5-43 Three Days in Auschwitz (3), 1-74 Visit to a Small Planet (2), 6-42 Southern Fix, A (3), 6-60 Three Musketeers, The (3.5), 2-40 Viva Amiga (3.5), 5-60 Southwest of Salem (3), 3-50 Three Sisters (1970) (3), 5-38 Viva La Liberta (3), 6-38 Spa Night (3), 1-35 Three Sisters (2012) (3), 5-52 Vixen: The Movie (3), 5-32 Space Between Us, The (2), 3-30 Ticket, The (2.5), 5-32 Volta à Terra (Back to the Land) (3), 5-53 Space Program, A (2.5), 1-73 Tikkun (2.5), 1-36 Wailing, The (3.5), 1- Special Blood (3), 5-56 To Be a Miss (2.5), 5-59 Wakefield (3), 5-32 Speed Racer: Complete Series (4), 5-72 To Every Nation (3), 6-54 Wall Writers (2), 3-59 Speed Sisters (3), 4-53 To the Ends of the Earth (3.5), 5-52 Walls (3.5), 2-55 Spider-Man: Homecoming (2), 6-36 To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (4), 4-3 War Show, The (3), 5-66 Spillover: Zika, Ebola & Beyond (3), 2-60 Tomcat (2), 5-32 Wastecooking (3.5), 1-68 Spotlight on a Murderer (3), 5-38 Tommy’s Honour (2.5), 4-26 We Are the Flesh (2), 3-31 Stairs, The (3), 5-51 Tomorrow We Disappear (3.5), 1-64 We Are X (3), 4-27 Stand-By Generation, The (2.5), 3-48 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson—Vault Series We Bare Bears: Viral Video (3), 1-58 Starless Dreams (3), 5-55 (3), 1-52 We Go On (2.5), 3-31 Starlight (2.5), 5-31 Tower (4), 3-62 We Must Go (3), 3-57 STARMYU: Season One (3), 4-62 Train to Busan (3), 2-34 We Regret to Inform You (3), 3-54 Starving the Beast (3), 5-54 Transfiguration, The (2.5), 4-26 We the People: Market Basket Effect (3.5), 1-36 Staying Vertical (2.5), 3-30 Trapped (3), 5-52 We Were There (3.5), 3-61 Stealing Charlie Chaplin (3.5), 5-55 Travel Safe, Not Sorry When Travelling (3), 6-65 Wedding Plan, The (2.5), 5-34 Steins;Gate—The Movie (2.5), 5-72 Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice (2.5), 2-58 Well, The (2), 2-34 Steve McQueen: Man & Le Mans (3), 1-35 Trekking Turks & Caicos, The Milford Track (3), 2-68 What a Way to Go! (3), 3-36 Stick and Stone (2.5), 1-56 Triage X (1.5), 2-74 What the Health (2.5), 5-58 Stormy Monday (3), 5-38 Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro (3.5), 1-45 Wheeler Dealers, The (2.5), 4-37 Story of Cats, The (3), 3-52 Trip to Unicorn Island, A (3), 2-65 When Elephants Fight (3), 5-66 Story of China, The (3), 5-66 Trombone Shorty (4), 1-58 When Knighthood Was in Flower (3.5), 5-39 Story of Sin (2), 4-36 True New York (3), 2-55 When Two Worlds Collide (3.5), 1-64 Straight Talk About Sexting and Messaging (3.5), 6-57 Tubes: The Musikladen Concert 1981 (3), 1-85 White Princess, The (3), 6-48 Strain: Season 3 (2.5), 6-48 Tulare: The Phantom Lake (3.5), 3-52 White Rage (3), 4-42 Strawberry & Chocolate (3), 6-42 Two Friends (3), 4-42 Who: Live at Isle of Wight Festival 2004 (3), 4-63 Streets of Compton (3), 2-54 Ugly, Dirty & Bad (3), 1-45 Who Am I to Stop It (3), 3-44 Streets of Fire (3), 4-36 Ukraine on Fire (2.5), 5-66 Whose Streets? 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VIDEO LIBRARIAN 86 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 Distributor Addresses

Contact information for distribu- Kino Lorber Edu White Crane Productions tors of titles reviewed in this issue 333 W. 39th St., Ste. 503 2554 Lincoln Blvd., #726 New York, NY 10018 Venice, CA 90291 are listed below. Some titles must Tel: (800) 562-3330 Tel: (310) 574-2770 be ordered direct, while others are Web: kinolorberedu.com Web: whitecranevideo.com available from a wide variety of Magic Lantern Films Women Make Movies distributors. P.O. Box 8567 115 West 29th St., Ste. 1200 New York, NY 10116 New York, NY 10001 Tel: (646) 926-6760 Tel: (212) 925-0606 Web: magic-lantern-films.com Web: wmm.com

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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 87 VIDEO LIBRARIAN Title Index

After the Storm ...... 16 David Lynch: The Art Life ...... 22 Lucifer: Complete Second Season ...... 48 Alice Cooper—Welcome to My Nightmare ...... 69 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Complete Second Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour ...... 71 All These Sleepless Nights ...... 16 Season ...... 44 Man Who Saw Too Much, The ...... 62 American Patriot ...... 63 Dean ...... 22 Maudie ...... 32 Amish and the Reformation, The ...... 52 Death by Design ...... 60 Midsummer Night’s Dream ...... 71 Amnesia ...... 16 Decline and Fall ...... 45 Moderns, The ...... 41 And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online? ...... 67 Delicious: Series 1 ...... 45 Momokuri: Complete Collection ...... 68 Annabelle: Creation ...... 16 Descendants 2 ...... 22 Monsieur Le President ...... 64 Apology, The ...... 64 Despicable Me 3 ...... 22 Moses und Aron ...... 72 Ash vs. Evil Dead: Season 2 ...... 43 Die Zauberflöte ...... 69 Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time ...... 53 Atomic Blonde ...... 16 Discoveries…America National Parks: Zion, Bryce Mouton ...... 32 B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography ...... 18 Canyon, Capitol Reef ...... 65 Mr. Mom ...... 41 Baby Bump ...... 18 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin ...... 69 Murdoch Mysteries: Once Upon a Murdoch Baby Driver ...... 18 Do Not Resist ...... 55 Christmas ...... 53 Band Aid ...... 18 Do You Take This Man ...... 24 Music of Strangers ...... 63 Batman and Harley Quinn ...... 18 Don Carlo ...... 70 My Father’s House ...... 59 Béatrice et Bénédict ...... 69 Down Down the Deep River ...... 61 Never Let Go ...... 32 Beguiled, The ...... 20 Dream Boat ...... 60 Night School ...... 58 Bending the Arc ...... 59 Duel in the Sun ...... 39 Nile Hilton Incident, The ...... 32 Best of Harvey Korman, The ...... 43 Eagles of Death Metal ...... 70 Nise: The Heart of Madness ...... 32 Betting on Zero ...... 60 Elementary: Fifth Season ...... 45 One Week and a Day ...... 3 Big Little Lies ...... 43 Emoji, The Movie ...... 24 Ornithologist, The ...... 32 Birth of the Dragon ...... 20 England Is Mine ...... 24 Otello ...... 72 Birthday Party, The ...... 39 Feeding Your Family’s Soul ...... 52 Outlaw Star ...... 68 Blacklist: Complete Fourth Season ...... 43 Festival ...... 39 P. King Duckling: Seize the Day! ...... 50 Blast, A ...... 20 Finding Bosnia ...... 55 “Parable” Plus Three More Films by Rolf Forsberg ...... 54 Blindspot: Complete Second Season ...... 43 First Daughter and the Black Snake ...... 55 Parsifal ...... 72 Bluebeard ...... 20 First Great Escape, The ...... 64 Penguin Counters, The ...... 58 Boy and the Beast, The ...... 67 Five Fables ...... 50 Peninsula Mitre: A Forgotten Land ...... 61 Bull: Season One ...... 43 Flash: Complete Third Season ...... 45 People Are the Sky ...... 56 Bureau: Season 3 ...... 44 Flesh, The ...... 40 Pharaoh’s Daughter ...... 72 Bushwick ...... 20 Food Wars! Season 1 ...... 67 Pixel ...... 73 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie ...... 20 Fortitude: Complete Second Season ...... 45 PJ Masks: Time to Be a Hero ...... 50 Frankie and Johnny ...... 40 Change Begins Within ...... 69 Police in Our School ...... 52 Free and Easy ...... 24 Poverty, Inc...... 56 Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman ...... 65 Freebie and the Bean ...... 40 Poverty, Politics and Profit ...... 56 Chicago Fire: Season Five ...... 44 Fruits Basket: Complete Series ...... 67 Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane ...... 64 Christmas Wish, The ...... 53 Ghost Story, A ...... 24 Rainbow Days: Complete Series ...... 68 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City ...... 21 Glass Castle, The ...... 24 Real Boy ...... 57 Coming War on China, The ...... 54 Golden Cockerel, The ...... 70 Red Leaves ...... 34 Crashing: Complete First Season ...... 44 Good Time ...... 26 Revolting Rhymes ...... 52 Dark Tower, The ...... 22 Goon: Last of the Enforcers ...... 26 Risk ...... 34 Gotham: Complete Third Season ...... 48 Roaring Abyss ...... 62 Great Yellowstone Thaw ...... 58 Rolling Stones From the Vault: Sticky Fingers ...... 73 Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions ...... 67 Room on the Broom ...... 52 Advertiser Directory Hamlet ...... 70 Salero ...... 57 Heal the Living ...... 26 Samba & Jazz ...... 62 A-Roll Pictures ...... 56 Heavens to Betsy ...... 26 Score: A Film Music Documentary ...... 34 Action! Library Media Service ...... 6 Hickok ...... 26 Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World ...... 61 Himouto! Umaru-chan: Complete Collection ...... 67 Shameless: Complete Seventh Season ...... 48 Baker & Taylor Entertainment ...... 2 I Am the Blues ...... 61 Shin Godzilla ...... 34 Bennett-Watt HD Productions ...... 59 Il Barbiere di Siviglia ...... 70 Silentium: From Life in the Convent ...... 52 Big World Pictures ...... 29 Il Trovatore ...... 71 Silkwood ...... 41 Breaking Glass ...... 33 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The ...... 28 Sin Alas ...... 36 Collective Eye ...... 55 In the Game ...... 61 Skyjacker’s Tale, The ...... 36 Criterion ...... 4, 5 In the Shadow of Women ...... 28 Slack Bay ...... 36 Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power ...... 28 Dark Hollow Films ...... 54 Sleight ...... 36 Inseparables ...... 28 Smurfs: The Lost Village ...... 36 Dreamscape ...... 51 James Beard: America’s First Foodie ...... 65 Son of Paleface ...... 42 EPF Media ...... 90 Jane’s Addiction: 2016 Silver Spoon Anniversary Southern Fix, A ...... 60 Epicleff Media ...... 89 Tour ...... 71 Spider-Man: Homecoming ...... 36 Film Movement ...... 17, 19, 63 Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph ...... 50 Straight Talk About Sexting and Messaging...... 57 Films Media Group ...... 21 Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower ...... 66 Strain: Season 3 ...... 48 First Run Features ...... 13 John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature ...... 66 Strawberry & Chocolate ...... 42 Karen Black: The Craft of Acting ...... 62 Grasshopper Film ...... 7 Summer of All My Parents, The ...... 38 Kedi ...... 28 Susannah ...... 73 Green Planet Films ...... 57 Kept Boy ...... 29 Tai Chi for Body and Mind Fitness ...... 59 IndiePix Films ...... 37 Kidnap ...... 29 Taisho Trilogy, The...... 42 Jo Films ...... 6 Kiki ...... 29 Tempest, The ...... 62 Kino Lorber Education ...... 11 Krakatoa, East of Java ...... 40 To Every Nation ...... 54 Midwest Tape ...... 92 Kuma Miko—Girl Meets Bear ...... 68 Travel Safe, Not Sorry When Travelling ...... 65 Music Box Films ...... 27 Kung Fu Yoga ...... 29 Untamed, The ...... 38 La Poison ...... 40 Valerian & Laureline: Complete Collection ...... 68 MVD Entertainment Group ...... 31, 35 Last Days of Solitary ...... 58 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets ...... 38 NCircle Entertainment ...... 46, 47 Last Face, The ...... 30 Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid—Complete Series ...... 68 Oscilloscope Pictures ...... 25 Leap! ...... 30 Vegas Baby ...... 59 Passion River Films ...... 91 Like Crazy ...... 30 Visit to a Small Planet ...... 42 PBS Video ...... 9 Limehouse Golem, The ...... 30 Viva La Liberta ...... 38 Speak to Win American English ...... 74 Llama Nation ...... 60 White Princess, The ...... 48 Strand Releasing ...... 23 Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Renewal ...... 56 Whose Streets? ...... 38 Lots & Lots of Animal Stories for Kids: Vol. 1, Bears ...... 50 Wiggles: Go Santa Go! ...... 53 Vision Video ...... 15 Louise by the Shore ...... 30 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem ...... 73 White Crane Productions ...... 59 Love of a Woman, The ...... 41 Women Who Kill ...... 39 Love with the Proper Stranger ...... 41 Women’s Balcony, The ...... 39

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Final Frame

ate editor, Jazza Williams-Wood. Lincoln day at the office. Here is is a happy, very good-natured dog who is a picture of her reading Office Dogs entering his senior years but still wags his that Victorian doorstop Busy watching the last of the docu- tail so hard it shakes his whole body. Middlemarch by George mentaries for our Best Documentaries list Lincoln has helped to school Harper in Eliot, which as you may for the January/February issue, I found the four basic Video Librarian canine office know contains zero UPS myself—while staring at this issue’s dead- rules: drivers or police sirens. line—casting about for a no-research, non- Randy Pitman brain-taxing, pictorial-enhanced editorial. 1) There is no real distinction between And then I noticed our new office dog: FedEx and UPS drivers—both need to Harper, an eight-month-old goldendoodle. be barked at, even if you have known Over the course of 32 years at Video Librar- them for five or more years. ian, I have occasionally been asked for advice on what one needs to be an entrepreneurial 2) A police siren in a movie or docu- writer/editor. For the entrepreneurial half, I mentary is the same as a real police just say luck, because that’s what happened siren: it needs to be given the business, to me. But for writing/editing—a fairly sol- loudly. itary profession—my suggestion has always been the same: get a dog. 3) Getting up on an editor’s lap is Harper follows the German shepherd/ strictly forbidden, because it oftwn lab mix Sagen (who could be a coward and leafs to typos. a bully—a terrible combination—but also had a loving side), the Bernese mountain 4) A walk ALWAYS trumps a deadline. dog/lab mix Dylan (a gentle giant), and his boon companion, the golden retriever Raney Harper is settling in nicely. She’s got (who always aimed to please, and liked to the bark down, likes to add her own flop and roll on whatever small dead creature thoughts to a Word document via paw happened to be lying on the ground). to keyboard, and will chomp into a All three passed on after long lives. stack of DVDs if a walk is delayed for We have another office dog—Lincoln, a any reason. pit bull/lab mix whose owner is our associ- But she calms down after a long

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