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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Cabbagetown after the tornado
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rickey Bevington of Georgia Public Broadcasting News’s video blogs headed to Cabbagetown after last week’s downtown Atlanta tornado and made this video.
Experience it.
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New DVD collection focuses on the arthouse
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When I think of Lionsgate, two of the studio’s enterprises immediately come to mind: Tyler Perry’s boisterous comedy and the hack-‘em-up “Saw” series.
But now in DVDland, Lionsgate is planning to go arty in a big way.
In June, the studio’s new Meridian Collection brand will include excellent past foreign films like France’s “Diva” (which recently had a revival at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema) and the Oscar-winning “The Red Violin” with Samuel L. Jackson.
The plan is for Meridian to release a pair of artsy films from around the world every three months. Lionsgate has access to thousands of foreign films from Studio Canal.
Are you an arthouse DVD junkie? What films do you want to see released in this collection or by any other studio on DVD?
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This weekend’s battle: Tyler Perry vs. ‘Drillbit Taylor’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here is my indubitable list of what matters most among new movies this weekend:
1. “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns.” Tyler Perry’s movie. He decided not to show it to anyone in advance. Won’t matter. Atlanta audiences will eat it up.
2. “Drillbit Taylor.” Occasionally funny high school nerd comedy from the guys who made the better “Knocked Up” and “Superbad.”
3. “Paranoid Park.” As much a meditation on high school skateboarding culture as it is a police hunt for a suspect in a horrendous death.
4. “CJ7.” A boy and his pet space alien in China from funny wildman Stephen Chow (“Kung Fu Hustle”). Ground control’s here to say it doesn’t always work.
5. “Sleepwalking.” I was fully awake and totally in command of my senses when I left early.
6. “Shutter.” Shudder.
Which movie do you plan to see?
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