Quick Flicks for the Week of July 31, 2012

The Beat Hotel By Govenar, Alan 2012-07 - First Run Features BL03121DVD000 Check Our Catalog 1957. The Latin Quarter, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel became a haven for a new breed of artists fleeing the conformity and censorship of America. The hotel soon turned into an epicenter of Beat writing that produced some of the most important works of the Beat generation. It came to be known as the Beat Hotel. Alan Govenar's feature documentary The Beat Hotel explores this amazing place and time. …More

Better This World By 2012-07 - Passion River Films 0761326819829 Check Our Catalog …More

Brake By 2012-07 - MPI Home Video 0030306981895 Check Our Catalog …More

The Flowers of War By Yimou, Zhang 2012-07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398153566 Check Our Catalog The film, set during the Japanese invasion of China, is told from a young girl's point of view, not as a history lesson, but as an intimate, elemental and paradoxically universal celebration of the human spirit. Bale stars as a dissolute Westerner who seeks refuge in a Catholic Church. There he meets a beautiful Chinese courtesan who helps him rescue a group of schoolgirls from a terrible fate at the hands of the Japanese. The film represents one of China's most ambitious productions, involving the recreation of 1937 Nanking built from scratch over a one-year period and the collaboration of one of Hollywood's most sought after leading men (Christian Bale). …More

Wind Blast By 2012-07 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491013021 Check Our Catalog …More

4:44 Last Day on Earth
Tomorrow at 4:44 AM the world is going to come to an end. As panic hits the Earth's population, two lovers seclude themselves in a Manhattan high-rise and decide to spend their last moments in existence together. Accepting their doomed fate, the pair discovers more about themselves and each other in a few short hours than most do in an entire lifetime.

Nature: Cracking the Koala Code
From birth to weaning, from territorial disputes to courtship and mating, from brush fires to drought, gum trees are what determine a koala's success or failure, survival or mortality. This film will explore the remarkable bond between the koala and the eucalypt trees it so depends upon. By following individual koalas from a small social group on an Australian island, NATURE will reveal just how a koala manages to survive and thrive on a diet poisonous to almost all other herbivorous mammals.

American Masters: Johnny Carson, King of Late Night
Quite possibly the biggest star that television has ever produced, Johnny Carson was seen by more people on more occasions than anyone else in American history. Over the course of his 30-year run on The Tonight Show, Carson interviewed 23,000 guests in 4,531 episodes. Watch as the life and career of one of the most beloved yet enigmatic icons in American entertainment history is explored.

Kassim the Dream
An acclaimed documentary that charts the incredibly journey of Uganda-born world champion boxer, Kassim 'The Dream' Ouma. At age six, he was kidnapped by the rebel army and forced to be a child soldier. But Ouma found his ticket to freedom after discovering the army's boxing team, and defected to the U.S. in 1998, after more than a decade of warfare. Overcoming homelessness and severe culture shock, Ouma gradually rose through the ranks of the sport to become Junior Middleweight Champion of the World.

Last Days Here
A look at the life of Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons, to try and get his life back.

On the Inside
After a revenge killing goes tragically wrong, a troubled college professor is sentenced to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane. But through an experimental socialization program, he meets a beautiful fellow inmate with a shocking secret as well as a volatile psychopath with a deadly history. In a place of sudden violence and buried emotions, can two damaged souls make one last stab at redemption?

Pink Skies
Pink Skies is an inspirational documentary about the empowerment of women. It's about overcoming obstacles as athletes and as human beings. The film covers an extraordinary event 'Jump for the Cause'. Last year, JFTC brought together 181 women from 31 countries to create a World Record All-Women's Skydiving Formation. They also raised almost $1 million dollars for breast cancer research!

Voices of the Andes
Over the course of several months in 2007, photographer Aurélia Frey, journalist Sébastien Jallade and film director Stéphane Pachot immersed themselves in the Andean communities who populate the Qhapaq Ñan, the primary ancient Incan royal road. They traveled over 1,200 miles in southern Ecuador and Peru and captured the contemporary Andean reality of this recently designated Unesco World Heritage Site.