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Posted by: News Editor - May 24, 2013, 8:44 am - News
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Years in the making, this amazing Charley Chase collection features more than five hours of comic masterpieces from the height of Chase's career. The Uneasy Three (from a 35mm print at the Museum of Modern Art) and Charley My Boy (from a 16mm print from the John Hampton Collection, courtesy of the Stanford Theater Foundation) are exclusive to this release.

I haven't seen this wonderful film since its first home video release, and I can't wait to relive that experience all over again. Steven Soderbergh has come a long way since, but this is still regarded as one of his best works.

When the film opened it 1956, it exploded on the screen, burning away years of Hollywood artifice, jump-starting the post-war American independent film movement and earning an Oscar nomination. Now gloriously restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, On the Bowery is both an incredible document of a bygone era and a vivid and devastating portrait of addiction that resonates today just as it did when it was made.

Steven Soderbergh makes a different kind of a global viral pandemic film, one that focuses more on fear and research rather than gore and goo. A large, talented ensemble cast and the downward spiral of humanity makes this one a bleak, uneasy and scary thriller.

Recommended.

Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston, the film follows an intricate web of deception as private investigator Jake Gittes (Nicholson) unravels a mystery involving water rights that are critical to the development of Los Angeles, as well as unspeakable family secrets. Written by Academy Award(R) winner Robert Towne and directed by Roman Polanski.

Includes Anthony Anderson, Tom Arnold, Angela Bassett, Bill Bellamy, Cedric the Entertainer, Don Cheadle, Cameron Diaz, Mike Epps, Andy Garcia, D.L. Hughley, Warren Hutcherson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ali LeRoi, Je'niece McCullough, Rhonda McCullough, Carl Reiner, Chris Rock, Zoe Saldana, Kellita Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Joe Torry and Camille Winbush. Bernie Mac's daughter conducted many of these interviews with each story contributing to the picture of Bernie Mac as an exceptional artist, husband, father and friend.

Benacerraf's tour de force explores a day in the lives of three families living in Araya, an arid peninsula in northeastern Venezuela. For centuries, since its discovery by the Spanish, the region's salt was collected and stacked into radiant white pyramids. Benacerraf captured breathtaking and unforgettable images - from the saliñeros toiling to build the mountains of salt, to fishermen hauling in huge teeming nets, to a young girl and her grandmother laying "flowers" of shells on windswept graves.

Steven Soderbergh's epic telling of the life of Che Guevara. Can it possibly surpass Evita?

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