New Titles, April, 'Once Upon A Time In Anatolia'

The new film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan follows a group of men driving across the Turkish steppe, hunting for the body of a murder victim. The murderer is in the car. The men are cops, escorting him to the site where he has buried the remains. The film is a cop procedural, with a difference. For the director is Turkey's answer to Andrei Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, Angelopoulos and Sokurov. The great bores of modern cinema. This is Tarantino for film studies PhD's.

Murder mysteries rarely run as deep as this long, dark night of the soul from Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director of ‘Uzak’ and ‘Three Monkeys’. Ceylan is a master of brooding stories defined by their wry questioning of human nature and often focused on men in crisis. He has an unflinching eye for the worst in all of us and for the black comedy and absurd banalities of everyday life.

For his sixth film, Ceylan has chosen his bleakest canvas yet: a murder investigation that begins in the dark wilds of the great Anatolian outdoors and ends in the cold light of an autopsy room. In tone, it’s Ceylan’s most epic and talky film yet. But don’t be fooled – it’s also his most mysterious and meditative.

Other New Stuff This Week

DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (2010)

DREAM HOUSE (2011)

PUSS IN BOOTS (2011)

SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN (2011)

SHAMELESS (US) SEASON 1 (2011)

FIRST GRADER, THE (2010)

JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (2011)

SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, THE (2010)

IDES OF MARCH, THE (2011)

IDES OF MARCH, THE (2011) BLU-RAY

TREME SEASON 2 (2011) DISC 1-2

TREME SEASON 2 (2011) DISC 3-4

BURNT BY THE SUN (1994)

ANNA: FROM 6 TILL 18 (1994)

DARK EYES (1987)

New Titles, March, 'Vanya On 42nd St', 'Moneyball', 'My Week With Marilyn'

A great list of titles for the month of March. Best of all, it's good to see 'Vanya On 42nd Street' from Criterion. If you want to see other versions of Chekhov's play, check out the 'Anton Chekhov' set for the Olivier, Ian Holm & Anthony Hopkins versions.

We also changed our Rent By Mail policy. Now you can rent one title at a time for only $7.70 a time, and keep it for up to one month. (4 titles still costs $19.95). We also repeated our popular special so members can pay $20 and get $50 of rental credits on their account.

ATTENBERG (2010)

MONEYBALL (2011)

MYSTERIES OF LISBON (2010)

RED STATE (2011)

TRANSIT (2012)

IMMORTALS (2011)

PROJECT NIM (2011)

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (2011)

THE DESCENDANTS (2011)

HIGHER GROUND (2011)

MARGIN CALL (2011)

GILIAP (1975)

AMARCORD (1973) BLU-RAY CRITERION

RECONSTRUCTION, THE (1970)

DAYS OF '36 (1972)

TRAVELLING PLAYERS, THE (1975)

HUNTERS, THE (1977)

DEBT, THE (2010)

GUILTY OF ROMANCE (2011)

KNUCKLE (2011)

REAL STEEL (2011)

SHOCK DOCTRINE, THE (2009)

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011)

BREAKING BAD SEASON 4

DESK SET (1957)

STATE OF THE UNION (1948)

RUM DIARY, THE (2011)

VANYA ON 42ND STREET (1994) CRITERION

PORTRAIT D'UNE ENFANT DECHUE (1970)

PROVIDENCE (1977)

STRUCTURE OF CRYSTAL, THE (1969)

WALKING DEAD, THE SEASON 1 (2010)

J. EDGAR (2011)

DAYS OF THE ECLIPSE (1988)

IL DONO (2003)

ILLUMINATION (1973)

ILLUSION TRAVELS BY STREETCAR (1954)

L'AMOUR FOU (1969)

THE MIRROR (1997)

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (1973)

OUT 1 (1971)

THE QUINCE TREE SUN (1992)

SUMMER IN THE CITY (1970)

SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY (1988)

VISITOR OF A MUSEUM (1989)

TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (2011)

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (2011)

PERFECT SENSE (2011)

TAKE SHELTER (2011)

DRIVE (2011) REGION 4

TT: CLOSER TO THE EDGE (2011)

HUGO (2011)

TINY FURNITURE (2010) CRITERION

THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI (1964) CRITERION

LES GIRLS (1957)

GODZILLA (1954) CRITERION

POTO AND CABENGO (1980) CRITERION

ROUTINE PLEASURES (1986)

MY CRASY LIFE (1992)

WARP VISION: THE VIDEOS 1989-2004

BELLE DE JOUR (1967) Criterion

XALA (1974)

A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE (1996)

MOMENT OF TRUTH, THE (1965) CRITERION

3 BY THEO (1994, 1996, 2003) 3 X DVD SET

BEST MAN, THE (1964)

DROLE DE DRAME (1937)

TAKEN (2008)

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)

BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK (2010)

GAME OF THRONES SEASON 1 (2011)

GAME OF THRONES SEASON 1 (2011) BLU-RAY

MILDRED PIERCE (2011)

THE WHISTLEBLOWER (2010)

CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (2009)

ANOTHER EARTH

ANONYMOUS (2011)

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2: FULL SEQUENCE (2011)

IN TIME (2011)

BELLFLOWER (2011)

PINA (2011) BLU-RAY

ANOTHER EARTH (2011) BLU-RAY