September-October 2019 VOL. 34 THE VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE FOR LIBRARIES N O . 5 IN THIS ISSUE Invisible Hands | Tickled | War and Peace| Her Right Foot | Genesis 2.0 | Ferrante Fever | Woodstock | The Good Breast | The Devil We Know Ent tainment BAKER & TAYLOR’S SPECIALIZED ENTERTAINMENT TEAM OFFERS ALL THE PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND EXPERTISE TO FULFILL YOUR LIBRARY PATRONS’ NEEDS. 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DVD: ishing, exploitative child slavery their profits $24.95. First Run depend on. A powerful, deeply disturbing Publisher/Editor: Randy Pitman Features (avail. from most documentary, this is highly recommended. Associate Editor: Jazza Williams-Wood distributors). Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) The horrifying doc- Editorial Assistant: Christopher Pitman umentary Invisible Graphic Designer: Carol Kaufman Hands reveals the ex- Kief Davidson and Marketing Director: Anne Williams tent to which child la- Richard Ladkani’s har- bor—specifically slave rowing documentary labor of kids as young as four years old—is The Devil’s Miner (VL- Contributing Writers rampant worldwide. Filmmaker Shraysi Tan- 9/06) brilliantly person- don bravely confronts multiple situations on alizes the story of child Sean Axmaker, Reviewer, several continents where children are forced labor told in Invisible Seattle Times, Turner Classic Movies Online, to work without breaks or sick days, from Hands, focusing on two Parallax View farm labor in the U.S. to cocoa plantations Bolivian brothers, 14-year-old Basilio Kathleen C. Fennessy, Reviewer, in Ghana; from underground cobalt mines and 12-year-old Bernardino Vargas, who The Stranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo (for our work in a small silver mine. As reviewer cell phones), to tobacco fields in Indonesia. 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Stars drastic measures to rid his grotesquely including the Carter Family, Hank Wil- dysfunctional family of its various af- liams, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Johnny flictions. Coming on September 10 is Cash, Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Ritwik Ghatak’s 1960 family tragedy The Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Garth A musical journey that tells the story Cloud-Capped Star (DVD: $29.95, Blu-ray: Brooks, and many more are showcased, of Afro-Colombian women singers $39.95), a masterpiece of Bengali cinema and the series also looks at the origins and their music of resistance, hardship that tells the story of a family uprooted of the genre, including ballads, minstrel and survival. by the Partition of India who have come music hymns, and the blues, back to 70 mins, DVD $29.95, PPR $250 UPC: 6-82086-16021-4 to depend on the eldest daughter, the the days when it was first recorded and self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choud- called “hillbilly music.” Illustrating the hury). Arriving September 17 is Ernst fact that country music was never just Lubitsch’s 1946 final filmCluny Brown one style but a broad American mixture (DVD: $29.95, Blu-ray: $39.95), a zany that became a major cultural force, the comedy of manners set in England on the series also include bonus features such cusp of World War II, starring Jennifer as a behind-the-scenes featurette with Jones as an irrepressible heroine sent to additional material gleaned from hours work as a parlor maid at a stuffy country of interviews. manor. Also slated for September 17 is filth maestro John Waters’s 1981 film Polyester (DVD: $29.95, Blu-ray: $39.95), “Be Natural” Documentary on featuring Divine as Baltimore housewife Filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché Francine Fishpaw, a heroine blessed with a keen sense of smell, cursed with a trou- Available Now from Kino bled family, and relieved by a handsome Lorber hunk (Tab Hunter). Scheduled for Sep- Kino Lorber has newly released Be Nat- tember 24 is Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 final ural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché A small community in Mexico silent era filmThe Circus (DVD: $29.95, (DVD: $29.99). Directed by Pamela B. searches for a sustainable way of life Blu-ray: $39.95), featuring Chaplin’s Green and narrated by Jodie Foster, Be in one of the world’s most threatened Little Tramp as he flees into a traveling ecosystems. Natural is a comprehensive documentary circus and soon becomes the star of the 95 mins, DVD $29.95, PPR $250 UPC: 6-82086-16022-1 portrait of cinema’s first female director, show. Also coming September 24 is a 2K screenwriter, producer, and studio own- digital restoration of Bill Forsyth’s offbeat er, Alice Guy-Blaché, whose innovative 1983 small-town fable Local Hero (DVD: 2 and groundbreaking films are only now discs, $29.95; Blu-ray: $39.95), in which a beginning to be fully appreciated. In a Texas oil guy (Peter Riegert) is dispatched career spanning two decades and two by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to countries, Guy-Blaché wrote, produced, a remote seaside village in Scotland with and/or directed 1,000 films, including orders to buy out the town for a planned comedies, Westerns, and dramas, as well oil refinery. as films with still-controversial subject matter related to child and spouse abuse, Ken Burns’s Landmark immigration, anti-Semitism, and female empowerment. Bringing the “Belle Épo- “Country Music” Documentary que” to life using a cutting-edge blend of Series Coming September 17 animation and archival footage, the film also features interviews with filmmakers from PBS and actors including the late Agnès Var- Coinciding with the national broad- da, Ava DuVernay, Geena Davis, Julie cast premiere, PBS Distribution will This documentary explores African Taymor, Gillian Armstrong, Ben Kingsley, identity in Mexico City.