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Keyword View: novelist PR Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene on DVD Apr 30  This documentary weaves Graham Greene's novels, including The Quiet American, Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair and The Third Man, and movies, into the story of his life and reveals an extraordinary man who traveled the globe to escape the boredom of ordinary existence. Participants include novelists John Mortimer, John Le Carre and David Lodge, writer Paul Theroux, former CIA operative Read More... DVD Review THE SEX THIEF (BLU-RAY)  Director Martin Campbell is best known for helming a couple of recent James Bond flicks, but this, his first feature film, is touted as being a great window into his future filmography. Read More...  Travels the globe to show how prostitutes really live and work today. The conclusion to internationally renowned director Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy, following Megacities (1998) and Workingman's Death (2005), Whores' Glory depicts the skin trade in three economically divergent countries. Read More... DVD Review PURPLE NOON (BLU-RAY)  Alain Delon's beautiful and cold Tom Ripley is one of film's all-time great villains, and this new edition of Purple Noon shows off the film's sensuous pleasures to great effect. Read More... PR Justified: The Complete Third Season on DVD & Blu-ray Dec 31  The modern-day, gun-slinging police drama stars Timothy Olyphant as the rugged, old-school U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, along with Walton Goggins as career criminal Boyd Crowder. The season guest stars Jeremy Davies in his Emmy-winning role as Dickie Bennett (Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, 2012). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Read More... PR David Arquette in The Cottage on DVD Oct 9  In this chilling suspense-thriller based on a real-life story, a financially struggling couple with a new baby girl needs to rent out the cottage behind their house to make ends meet. When a prospective tenant has a sudden accident and is unable to take the place, they decide to rent it to a seemingly charming novelist, only to find out he's not who he says he is. Read More... In this chilling suspense-thriller, a financially struggling couple with a new baby girl needs to rent out the cottage behind their house to make ends meet. When a prospective tenant has a sudden accident and is unable to take the place, they decide to rent it to a seemingly charming novelist, only to find out he's not who he says he is. Read More... PR Magic of Belle Isle on DVD & Blu-ray Sep 18  Reuniting with director Rob Reiner from the hit film, The Bucket List, Freeman plays Monte Wildhorn, a famous Western novelist whose struggle with alcoholism has sapped his passion for writing. He takes a lakeside cabin for the summer in picturesque Belle Isle. Read More... PR American Masters: The Day Carl Sandburg Died on DVD Sep 25  This new documentary, commemorating the 45th anniversary of his death, provides a dynamic examination of Sandburg's life, work and controversial legacy from a modern perspective. Features spoken word performances, songbook selections, readings, and original interviews. Sandburg's daughter Helga Sandburg Crile, his grandson John Carl Steichen, Pete Seeger, the late Studs Terkel and Norman Corwin, poets including Ted Kooser, Marc Kelly Smith and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Grammy-winning musician Dan Zanes, Sandburg biographer Penelope Niven, and notable scholars share stories about Sandburg and reflect on the modern relevance of his vast body of work. Read More... News Gore Vidal dies: Cultural icon made his mark on Broadway Posted by: News Editor - August 1, 2012, 6:09 am - News DVD Review THE TROUBLE WITH TOLSTOY  A challenging travelogue walks in the footsteps of Russia's biggest troublemaker. Read More... PR American Masters: Margaret Mitchell- American Rebel on DVD May 15  Margaret Mitchell (11/8/1900 - 8/16/1949), author of Gone With the Wind, which won a Pulitzer Prize award and was made into a timeless Oscar(R)-winning film, was ahead of her time. She challenged the social order and made a cultural impact with her book that still resonates today. Learn more about this novelist in the new DVD that will be available beginning May 15, 2012. The DVD has a running time of 60 minutes and an SRP of $24.99. DVD special features include an interview with author Pat Conroy; Pulitzer Prize night, 1937; and a look back at the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta. Read More... DVD Review A NIGHT TO REMEMBER  A century after the disaster, this 1958 masterpiece remains the most thoughtful and accurate account of the Titanic's final night, as well as a gripping film in its own right. Read More... DVD Review JACK KEROUAC - KING OF THE BEATS  Jack Kerouac - King of the Beats delves into the history and mythology of a unique figure in American and world literary history. With the jazz and stream of his consciousness, Kerouac brought to life a slice of the American psyche. This documentary uses a free-form style to present the many facets of this literary icon and succeeds in give us a fascinating impression. A good answer to the question, "Who is Jack Kerouac and why do so many people care about him?" Read More... PR The Trouble With Tolstoy on DVD Feb 28  Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo Tolstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great novelist became her great troublemaker. Guided by the writer's astonishingly honest and confessional diaries, Yentob travels through Tolstoy's Russia looking at the life, work and legacy of the author of Anna Karenina and War And Peace. Read More... PR Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged DVD, VOD, and All Digital Platforms Apr 3  Through exclusive footage of Rand and scores of interviews with critics, writers, biographers, friends and titans of the modern business world, including legendary Hollywood producer Albert Ruddy and Philadelphia Flyers' owner Ed Snider, Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shruggedreveals that an increasing number of Americans - right or wrong - see their society devolving into a nightmare scenario like the one Rand projected over a half century ago. Read More... PR Fireflies in the Garden on DVD and Digital Feb 7  To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family: Charles (Willem Dafoe) is a tenured professor on track to become university president, son Michael (Ryan Reynolds) is a prolific and well-known romance novelist, daughter Ryne (Shannon Lucio) is poised to enter a prestigious law school, and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa (Julia Roberts) will graduate from college-decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious accident interrupts the celebration, the far more nuanced reality of this Midwestern family's history and relationships come to light. Sony Picture Home Entertainment Read More... DVD Review ATLAS SHRUGGED PART 1  You have demanded it and now here it is. The screen adaptation of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, or at least Part One on DVD. Yeah, I know you had good reason to avoid it in the theater, but now you can get your intellectual on in a big way. Well, maybe a little way. It's a good chance to get a "light on the sauce" taste of what the big meal is all about. Whether there is a there there is strictly a matter of taste. Read More... |
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