STORY OF FILM, THE: AN ODYSSEY (2011)
Mark Cousins' enormously comprehensive history of cinema was a great book and now he's turned it into a highly enjoyable series, with interviews and linking segments shot by himself on DV that visit the locations of some of cinema's greatest moments and turns a still, melancholy eye on them as they are today. His global approach gives fair space to Iranian, Indian and Japanese cinema, as much as to American and British approaches of storytelling, though his low-key, worldweary Irish accented narration may irk with some. All ten one-hour episodes are included on 5 disks.
Other new stuff this week
HUGO (2011)
SKIN I LIVE IN, THE (2011)
DEVILS, THE (1971)
ALBERT NOBBS (2011)
DARKEST HOUR, THE (2011)
FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE, THE (2011)
Q (2011)
UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (2012)
KILLING, THE: SERIES 2 (2009)
STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUMS, THE (1939)
ALAMBRISTA! (1977) CRITERION
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959) CRITERION
ORGANIZER, THE (1963) CRITERION
EDWARD SAID: TWO FILMS (2004/2005)
STROMBOLI (1950)
UNE SI JOLIE PETITE PLAGE (1949)
TOOMELAH (2011)
WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER, THE (2011)
X (2011)
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE (2011)
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE (2011) BLU-RAY
BIG LOVE SEASON 5 (2011) DISCS 1-2
BIG LOVE SEASON 5 (2011) DISCS 3-4
TRUE BLOOD SEASON 4 (2011) DISCS 1-3
TRUE BLOOD SEASON 4 (2011) DISCS 4-6