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Film Buff News: Barnes & Noble's 50% Off Criterion Collection DVD & Blu-ray Sale is Here

Criterion Collection Fans, Get Ready for Some Broadcast News:

For Discerning Film Buffs (and for a limited time), the Biggest Blu-ray and DVD Sale of the Year is Back at Barnes & Noble as gorgeous box sets and standalone collectible discs new and old hit the 50% off Sale Shelves once again in-store and online.

That's right, get your Criterion fix without having to Blow Out your bank account by indulging in BN's cinematic Days of Heaven to find yourself Something Wild.

But with so many titles going so fast that that it can leave you Breathless, relish in the Sweet Smell of Success of getting what you want in your time from the comfort of your computer since you don't need a Mystery Train to visit BN's Criterion Sale in these Modern Times online.

Explore New Movements and New Waves from around the World (including French, Japanese, and Australian oh my!), check out classics and cult hits such as forgotten films and flicks you'll never forget. It's a Bigger Than Life Criterion Celebration all around!

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Music Blu-ray Review: It Might Get Loud (2009)

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When the sight of Elvis Presley's gyrating hips made parents in the 1950s fear that rock 'n roll was the gateway to further rebellion, they missed the point entirely. Rock 'n roll didn't cause rebellion; rock 'n roll was the rebellion. And when the art-form is epitomized by a series of scintillating strums on an electric guitar, one realizes that rock 'n roll will be the most seductive rebellion of all.

In Oscar winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud, he focuses on three particular outsiders from different generations and countries that rebelled against the status quo simply by picking up a guitar.

Forgoing the power point presentations of his previous feature length documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Guggenheim and his extremely talented editor Greg Finton embarked on a rock doc rebellion of their own. Noticeably, It Might Get Loud fails to conform to the genre's two most tried and true structures of putting either a standard concert on film or by delivering a 98 minute episode of VH1 Behind the Music... and it's all the better for it.

The result is a rare blend of performance, autobiography, interview, and confessional filmmaking as Guggenheim invites us along to dig past the modern day success of Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White, both separately and together as they participate in a historical jam and gab session in 2008. And along with mixing the aforementioned techniques together, the filmmaker establishes a great sense of historical time and place as Guggenheim crafts a powerfully toe-tapping opus that you could almost dub "Portrait of a Guitarist as a Young Man and Legendary Axeman" multiplied by three.

While granted, the amount of footage of the three men from England, Ireland and America actually talking and rocking out is considerably less than the film's trailer would have you believe nor is it as "loud" as the misnomer title claims, nonetheless it's a deeply satisfying and cinematically rhythmic celebration of guitar geekdom and musical passion.

For, despite the fact that they'll never forget their first instruments or the particular songs that turned them on to the sound they love, when it comes to the trio's success and work ethic, to quote Page's band Led Zeppelin “The Song Remains the Same.”

Namely, no matter how many songs they've laid down in recording studios, on pieces of paper, or during sound checks, Page, Edge, and White's rebellious revolution will "Ramble On" in pursuit of the next great riff. In the words of the mostly quiet Edge-- since the guitar is the musician's voice, he works extra hard to make sure that he's able to duplicate the exact sound he can hear in his head to express it to the audience the same way that singer Bono can do vocally.

Taking the more technical based search of Edge to a visceral level of playing the guitar until his fingers literally bleed, Jack White uses his knowledge of several instruments as well as his position as front-man to vocally, lyrically, and musically channel the frustrations raging through him into infectious hooks and enviable chord progressions.

It's no accident that every one of White's songs sound like a rebellion, for it's the music that produced "Seven Nation Army" after all. Furthermore, as I recently discovered when the hot water turned freezing cold in the shower, White's work ensures you're able to survive getting the shampoo out by shouting along to "Hotel Yorba" until you make it to safety.

It's this rebellious nature and constant battle within that defines the individuals who began their lives as: a session guitarist and art school graduate fed up with making Muzak (Page), an Irish student who was lucky just to survive a walk to school without blowing up (Edge), and the youngest of ten children in one of the only white families in Detroit's “Mexican Town” who worked as an upholsterer apprentice (White).

Fascinating, inspiring and intimate, we begin the film scratching our heads at The Edge's bizarre version of yoga that replaces tranquil Zen with his BlackBerry before marveling at his technological knowledge. Quickly we discover, his true Zen is the music as he capture sounds and transfers them to buttons, pedals, boxes and more in order to enhance the texture of every single note he plays.

As he shares some of the painful stories of growing up during the endless bombings in Dublin before punk music caught his ear, the fact that Edge wrote lyrics to "Sunday Bloody Sunday" suddenly clicks in your mind as you see in the man, the boy who crafts anthems he wished had been blaring in his country during the '70s.

Likewise, it's awe-inspiring to watch the creativity pour out of the prolific White who writes a song on camera before handing it to the filmmaker off-camera, and likewise connects bottles and wires to a board with an amp in his fight to avoid easy over-processed studio noise by replacing it with pure soul.

However, classic guitar junkies will most likely be transfixed by Jimmy Page, given his amazing body of work including years spent with the legendary Led Zeppelin. And it's hard not to get goosebumps as we tour one of the band's old recording sites in the form of a gorgeous, vacant estate in the country with wide open spaces and excellent acoustics indoors given the high ceilings and wood for echoes.

Yet, as thrilling as it is to see classic footage of the band in their critically misunderstood heyday when music critics summed up their fourth album with a scathing one paragraph review, it was even more exciting to discover just how much of a little boy Page still is at heart. Eagerly sharing the secrets of "Stairway to Heaven" and "Kashmir" while wanting to learn "Seven Nation Army" at the same time, Page never fails to have a twinkle in his eye from start to finish.

While Edge is naturally reserved to the point of stoicism at times-- cracking a rare but charming smile here or there-- and White's bravado feels both staged yet also earnest, it's Page who seems the most at ease. And as the guys reveal their various influences and play records both to us and to the camera, Page still can't help himself from engaging in an impromptu air-guitar session in his rec room as he rocks out to Link Wray's killer track "Rumble."

Since Guggenheim's effort runs just under one hundred minutes, you'll want to move directly to the deleted scenes afterward where you may yourself wondering, as I did, why every single one of the cut moments weren't used in the movie as there's some truly amazing footage hidden in the special features.

Because it is Sony after all, the excellence in both picture and sound quality is to be expected, complete with Sony's visual calibration Easter Egg, which ensures you have the best picture after you press 7669 on the main menu with your remote.

Rounding out the disc with filmmaker commentary, and press conference footage, Blu-ray owners with BD-Live capabilities can also explore pop-up information during the film. And in a second exclusive BD feature, you're able to create and share your own play-list, which may definitely inspire you to whip out the air-guitar for a rock rebellion fueled by a "Whole Lotta [Guitar] Love."

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New on DVD & Blu-ray for the Week of 8/16/09

Jen's Video Picks of the Week

For the Art-House Collectors



(Note: All of the Above I Have Yet to See but They're of Particular Interest)

For the Kids



(Note: I've only caught Donald & last season's iCarly but felt LeapFrog was appropriate for Back-to-School)

For TV Lovers: Guilty Pleasures Edition

(Notes: Devoured the GG set which is gorgeous and loaded with extras-- nearly Blu-ray quality but have yet to review. DSM was a series I truly enjoyed yet missed the final episodes of following ABC's cancellation)

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Adventures of TinTin



The Beast: Season One



Big Windup: Part 1 (Episodes 1-13)



Bleach, Vol. 19



Bridge to Nowhere



Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, Part 1



Dexter: Season 3



Diary of a Nobody



Dirty Sexy Money:
The Complete Second & Final Season



Donald in Mathmagic Land



Eli Stone: Season 2



Everybody Hates Chris: The Final Season



Final Destination: Trilogy



Five Deadly Venoms (Dragon Dynasty Collection)



The Garden



Ghost Adventures: Season One



Go [Blu-ray]



The Golden Boys



Gossip Girl: Season 2



Greek: Chapter 3



Gunslinger Girl 2: Il Teatrino--The Complete Series



Hack//G.U. Trilogy



Hannah Montana: The Movie



The Helen West Casebook



How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: Deluxe Edition



Husbands



iCarly: Season 2, Volume 1



Icons of SciFi: Toho Collection



Inglorious Bastards 2: Hell Heroes



Julia



Kagemusha (Criterion Collection Blu-ray)



The Last House on the Left



The Last Starfighter



LeapFrog: Let’s Go to School



Man vs Wild: Season Three



Minnesota Vikings: Five Greatest Games



Pahappahooey Island: What About Me!?



Pete's Dragon: High Flying Edition



Playtime (Criterion Collection Blu-ray)



Ride a Wild Pony



Simon and Simon: Season 3



The Simpsons: Season 12



The Smurfs: Smurfy Tales



Sons of Anarchy: Season 1



The Strangeness



Surveillance



Swan Princess



These Old Broads



Total Drama Island: The Complete Series



True Tears



Tyson



UFC 98: Evans vs. Machida



Visions of Britain and Ireland [Blu-ray]



Visions of Italy [Blu-ray]



The Wedding Bros.



Wyvern

Film Intuition Contest Announcement: Win 20th Century Fox's Home on Blu-ray

Deadline:
Sunday, June 14 (Midnight EST)

Rules:

Open to All Readers with the Ability to Play Region 1 Blu-ray Discs. Two winners will be chosen at random from the entries received via our official entry form you can find here The winners will be notified via e-mail following the deadline.

Details:

A Fascinating And Enlightening Look At The Unshakable Bond Between Humans And Earth, Narrated By Oscar® Nominee Glenn Close, Debuts On Blu-ray And DVD June 5th From 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment: Specially Timed For World Environment Day As The First-Time Ever Simultaneous, World-Wide, All Format Release.

Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand will be broadcast in the US on June 5th at 9pm ET/PT exclusively on the National Geographic Channel, as part of the film's global premiere in conjunction with World Environmental Day.

Synopsis:

It’s too late… to be a pessimist when the inspirational, informative and breathtaking documentary, Home soars onto Blu-ray and DVD June 5, World Environmental Day, from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Directed by internationally renowned French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by world famous director Luc Besson and narrated by five-time Academy Award® nominee Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons), Home aims to change the way people see the planet and their impact on it. Shot in high definition in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, the unique and first-time ever all-aerial filming style highlights the Earth’s wonders as well as its wounds and provides a necessary perspective to approach the changing environment.

In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high as humankind has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of the Earth’s riches and change its patterns of consumption. Following in the tradition of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home sets out to shift people’s perceptions, inspire action and lay a foundation for the edifice that must be rebuilt.

More than a movie, Home will be a major event all over the globe; for the first-time ever, a film will be released in every format, including in movie theaters, on television, DVD/Blu-ray Disc and the internet, on the same day in over 50 countries to reach the widest audience possible.

Blu-ray Specs:

The Home Blu-ray Disc is presented in widescreen format (1.78:1 aspect ratio) and features English 5.1 DTS HD-MA and French 5.1 Dolby Digital audio.



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