New Quick Flicks for the Week of 3/17/09

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

Cadillac Records By Martin, Darnell 2009/03 - Sony Pictures BL07870DVD Check Our Catalog The sounds of 1950s Chicago spring to life in this musical drama based on the true story of Leonard Chess, a bar owner turned record mogul who signs a lineup of future legends to his fledgling label, Chess Records. ...More

The Clique By 2009/02 - Warner Home Video 1419874608 Check Our Catalog ...More

Elegy By Coixet, Isabel 2009/03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 143593170X Check Our Catalog Driven by Isabel Coixets visually assured and deeply observant direction, ELEGY charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms themmore than either could imaginea charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. With humanistic warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity, ELEGY explores the power of beauty to blind, to reveal and to transform. ...More

Punisher 2: War Zone By Alexander, Lexi 2009/03 - Lionsgate BL05872DVD Check Our Catalog Frank Castle, a one-man force of vengeance known as The Punisher, battles mob boss Billy Russoti. Left disfigured by the encounter, Russoti reemerges as Jigsaw, a psychotic villain with a small army at his command. ...More

Role Models By Wain, David 2009/03 - Universal Studios BL04092DVD Check Our Catalog Slackers Danny and Wheeler have coasted their way through jobs at an energy drink company. When their goofing off catches up with them, they're sentenced to community service with the Sturdy Wings mentoring program. The assignment is supposed to teach them responsibility, but it just proves that they're the last people who should be in charge of kids. ...More

Up the Yangtze By Chang, Yung 2008/11 - Zeitgeist Films BL07879DVD Check Our Catalog In China, it is simply known as The River. But the Yangtze--and all of the life that surrounds it--is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfather's youth to trace the surreal life of a farewell cruise that traverses the gargantuan waterway. ...More

Angel in love
"Angel Giordano, unable to return to heaven, stays optimistic while living with so many unhappy humans on earth. But Giordano is deeply shocked with his first experience of 'maleness' and old friends in heaven take pity on him, arranging a meeting with the only person on earth who can help Giordano overcome his deep sadness. Giordano discovers that love on earth brings great[er] happiness than he ever experienced in heaven."

Treasure blind
A Tulsa cabbie with a past full of wrecked relationships and missed opportunities is busy trying to track down a legendary stash of Civil War gold. What he digs up instead is the very past he has tried to bury. What will finding the treasure cost him?