New Quick Flicks for the week of April 24, 2012

Amer By Cattet, Helene Director Forzani, Bruno 2011-10 - Olive Films 0887090027304 Check Our Catalog Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's pastiche tour-de-force plays out a delirious, enigmatic, almost wordless death-dance of fear and desire. Its three movements, each in a different style, correspond to the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of its female protagonist. Drawing its stylized, hyperbolic gestures from the playbooks of Bava, Leone, Argento, and De Palma, it takes them into a realm of near-abstraction. …More

Birdsong By Martin, Philip 2012-04 - PBS 0841887016643 Check Our Catalog …More

Catch .44 By Harvey, Aaron 2012-06 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132424996 Check Our Catalog …More

Contraband By Kormakur, Baltasar 2012-04 - Universal Home Video 0025192104381 Check Our Catalog Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked so hard to leave behind and the family hell do anything to protect. Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away. Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best running contraband to settle Andys debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target. …More

How to Die in Oregon By Richardson, Peter 2012-02 - New Video Group 0767685262672 Check Our Catalog In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having less than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Since 1994, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. In How to Die in Oregon, filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether – and when – to end their lives by lethal overdose. …More

Let the Bullets Fly By 2012-04 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491012970 Check Our Catalog …More

Life 2.0 By Spingarn-Koff, Jason 2012-01 - Virgil Films and Entertai 0829567078426 Check Our Catalog Life 2.0 follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically consumed by the virtual world of Second Life. More than an examination of a hot new technology, Life 2.0 is an intimate, character-based drama about people who look to a virtual world in search of something they are missing in their real lives. The results are unexpected and often disturbing: reshaping relationships, identities, and ultimately the very notion of reality. …More

Little Big Soldier By Ding, Sheng 2011-08 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491012185 Check Our Catalog …More

Pariah By Rees, Dee 2012-04 - Universal Home Video 0025192113260 Check Our Catalog …More

Plastic Planet By Boote, Werner 2011-04 - First Run Features BL06116DVD000 Check Our Catalog In the tradition of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, this feisty yet informative documentary takes us on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the highest peaks of the Alps - to reveal the far-flung reach of plastic. Interviews with the world's foremost experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to our environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects our bodies...and the health of future generations. …More

The Rebound By Freundlich, Bart 2012-02 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543784388 Check Our Catalog You'll love this fresh and funny romantic comedy starring Academy Award Winner Catherine Zeta-Jones* (No Reservations, Ocean's Twelve) and Justin Bartha (The Hangover, National Treasure). When Sandy (Zeta-Jones) catches her husband fooling around with her friend, she packs up the kids, moves to Manhattan, and starts a new life. Desperately needing a babysitter, Sandy turns to a handsome coffee shop clerk named Aram (Bartha). Soon, unexpected sparks are flying between Sandy and her new "nanny" - who also happens to be twenty years younger! Falling in love and freaking out, Sandy must decide if her feelings for Aram are real or is Aram catching her on "the rebound"? …More

Roadie By Cuesta, Michael 2012-03 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent 0876964004497 Check Our Catalog Jimmy, a longtime roadie for the legendary Blue Oyster Cult, has been fired by the band. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to see his aging mom in Forest Hills, Queens, where a wild encounter with two old high school friends shows him that some things never change. …More

Texas Killing Fields By Mann, Ami Canaan 2012-06 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132382197 Check Our Catalog Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields.' Despite his partner's warnings, Detective Heigh sets out to investigate the crimes. …More

Be-careful
The best way for Sameer and Anand to enjoy a moment of sensuous bliss is to take a trip away from home... and away from their respective wives, Anjali and Kiran. But fun becomes a far fetched dream for the boys when they realise the wives themselves are up to something naughty in Bangkok.

Celtic Woman: Believe Live
Filmed during their concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia in September 2011. Celtic Woman stars classic Irish performers interpreting traditional, popular, and classical songs. Songs: Awakening-- Follow on-- Foxhunter -- Nocturne -- Sailing-- Bridge over troubled water -- Black is the colour-- World fades away-- My heart was home again-- Tribute to Broadway-- Teir abhaile riu -- Woman's heart -- Water is wide -- Green grow the rushes -- You'll never walk along -- Smile -- Walking the night -- Spaceman came traveling -- Ave Maria -- Mna na heireann-- Parting glass.

Da Wu Sheng
A sweeping story of love, honor, and revenge set against the backdrop of Chinese opera during its heyday in 1920s Shanghai. Written by Zou Jingzhi, one of China's most popular writers, the story centers around two sworn brothers and their quest to regain their master's honor. Highly trained in martial arts and focused on revenge, their relentless quest leads them to fame and love, but also to their own downfall.

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Best selling comic book artist Joann Sfar delivers an inventive biography of famed French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, his transition from painter to jazz musician to pop superstar and his many relationships including Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot, and Jane Birkin while employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that acts like a time capsule to '60s Paris.

Glitch in the Grid
Jay Masonek is feeling down and out. Although he is a talented artist, Jay has seldom left his small town in Northern California. One day, Jay's cousins Jeff and Eric (who are also artists) visit from LA. They offer Jay the opportunity to come live with them for a period of time in Hollywood. Jay soon begins to feel the oppression of what he describes as 'the grid', heightening his spiritual crises. Jay reaches out to God, who in the form of a dove directs and leads him.

Have a Little Faith
Mitch Albom has a pretty great life. He lives in Detroit and is happily married, he's an award-winning sportswriter, a must-read newspaper columnist, a screenwriter, a radio and television broadcaster. Then two men come into his life, and he realizes something's missing. Rabbi Albert Lewis presides over a thriving synagogue in a comfortable New Jersey suburb, and pastor Henry Covington, a recovering drug user and dealer, preaches to the poor and homeless in a crumbling Detroit inner-city church.

Kalevet ("Rabies")
A psychotic serial killer on the loose in the woods crosses paths with a group of unsuspecting teenagers. Soon people are dying one by one, but the bad guy isn't who you think.

Left Handed
Takes place in a suburb of Tokyo and centers around a disaffected teenage boy, Hiroshi, who is struggling at school, socially and academically. One day he shuts himself away in his bedroom and for the next two years refuses to come out or let anyone in. Hiroshi's parents are so ashamed that they attempt to conceal his condition from family and friends.

Lost on the Island
Detective Chung-su takes a secret mission from a dying president of a big company. The businessman wants to see his first love before he dies. The only information the detective has is that her name is Kkotnim and she now lives on an island called Tongbaek. He rides on a boat to the island with an anonymous passenger, but the boat is wrecked in a storm. In a struggle to escape from the island, Chung-su meets five grandmothers who will not let him or the other man escape.

Lovelorn
After she is involved in a motorcycle accident that kills her boyfriend, young Londoner Lorna falls into a coma and subsequently finds herself in a strange dreamlike world. In order to bring her back to reality, Lorna's brother ventures into the surreal limbo and challenges Death to a battle for her life.

Private Eye
1900s, Seoul, Korean Empire. Hong Jin-ho is a down and out detective. He makes his living mostly by catching cheating spouses, until a corpse is discovered in the woods. A rich man's son is dead and the killer must be found. Gwang-soo, a medical student, teams up with Jin-ho to solve the murder. But what they discover is a conspiracy far more evil and sinister than anything they imagined.

Der Rauber ("The Robber")
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes, and away from police cavalcades, as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust.

Romantics Anonymous
Jean-Rene is the boss of a chocolate factory and Angelique is a talented chocolate maker. They are both emotionally challenged people. Drawn together through a shared passion for chocolate, Jean-Rene and Angelique fall in love, but neither is able to express how they feel. Sadly, their crippling shyness is driving them apart. But eventually, they manage to overcome their lack of self-confidence, and risk baring their true feelings.

Sala samobójców ("Suicide Room")
A series of humiliating events 100 days before his graduation pushes privileged Dominik into the virtual world for comfort. He begins spending all his time as an avatar in the 'Suicide Room', but soon his online adventures begin to dangerously bleed into his real life. Breathtaking animated sequences draw the viewer into the virtual world portrayed in this psychological drama of a teenager trying to escape the torment of bullying.