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New Releases:

• The Curiosity of Chance
• Heartbeat Detector
• The Last Winter
• 21

New Releases (TV Series):

• Earth: The Biography
• Robot Chicken: Star Wars
• 30 Days: Season 2
• TV Funhouse: Complete Series

New Arrivals:

• An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
• Andre Techine Collection (Hotel America / I Don’t Kiss / My Favorite Season / Wild Reeds)
• Batman: Complete 1943 Serial
• High and Low (Criterion)
• Mandingo
• Mystic Pizza
• Pete Kelly’s Blues
• The Skull
• Spaced: The Complete Series
• Vampyr (Criterion)
• Yokai Monsters Collection (Along With Ghosts / One Hundred Monsters / Spook Warfare)

We’re sponsoring tomorrow’s screening of Napoleon Dynamite this Thursday at 7:30 pm in Boundary Bay’s beautiful beer garden,complete with delicious food and even better locally brewed adult beverages. For more info, check out The Travelling Pickford Show’s Summer Schedule here.

All the cool kids will be there - will you?

New Releases:

• The Bank Job
• Love My Life
• Penelope
• Times and Winds
• The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

New Releases (TV Series):

• Dog Whisperer: Season 3
• Eureka: Season 2
• Reno 911! Season 5

New Arrivals:

• All You Need is Love
• At Last the 1948 Show
• Derek Jarman: Glitterbox (Caravaggio / Wittgenstein / Blue / The Angelic Conversation)
• Do Not Adjust Your Set
• Eagle Shooting Heroes
• The Fortune Cookie
• I Spit on Your Grave
• A Throw of Dice
• Trafic (Criterion)

New Releases:

• Chop Shop
• For the Love of Dolly
• 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days
• The Ruins
• Stop-Loss

New Releases (TV Series):

• Metropolis
• Monk: Season 6
• Psych: Season 2
• Wire in the Blood: Season 5

  New Arrivals:

  • Mon Oncle Antoine (Criterion)

in no particular order…
1. Loves of a Blond (Milos Forman, 1965)
2. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962)
3. Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocio, 1968)
4. Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, 1985)
5. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
6. Lola (Jaques Demy, 1961)
7. Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989)
8. Blue light (Leni Riefenstahl, 1932)
9. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
10. The Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley/Morris Engle, 1953)

Wow — long-assumed gone forever, a complete version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has turned up in Buenos Aires, including over 90 minutes of footage lost for 80 years. Read about it here.

What were you watching last month? Here are June’s best-renting movies at Film is Truth!

1. Juno
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. The Golden Compass
5. No Country for Old Men
6. I’m Not There
7. Lars and the Real Girl
8. There Will Be Blood
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10. Semi-Pro

July mean Independence Day in America and Bastille Day in France, and to honor both of these holidays, we’re featuring some of our favorite films from both sides of the Atlantic!

Representing America are : High Noon, Bull Durham, The Godfather, The Big Lebowski, cool Hand Luke, Star Wars, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance kid, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, and There Will Be Blood.

And in the French Corner: Breathless, Jules and Jim, Shoot The Piano Player, Le Samourai, The Battle of Algiers, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Paris, Je t’amie, La Vie en Rose, Amelie, The 400 Blow, Persepolis, La Cage Aux Folles and La Femme Nikita.

Anything we’ve left out? We’d love to hear your suggestions! Leave your comments, suggestions, chastisements, etc. below and maybe we can make some real diplomatic progresson this rivalry for once!

We will be closed all day this Friday for the Fourth of July. All rental periods will be extended an extra day, so stock up early.

New Releases:

• City of Men
• Drillbit Taylor
• 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days
• My Blueberry Nights
• Shotgun Stories
• Vantage Point

New Releases (TV Series):

• Mad Men: Season 1

New Arrivals:

• An American Tail
• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• Aria
• Baby It’s You
• Duel to the Death
• Executive Action
• A Fool There Was
• George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances
• George Carlin: Doin’ It Again
• Girl on the Bridge
• The Great Mouse Detective
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral / Last Train from Gun Hill (Double Feature)
• Houdini
• Houdini the Movie Star: The Master Mystery Pt. 1
• Houdini the Movie Star: The Master Mystery Pt. 2 / Terror Island / The Man From Beyond
• Houdini the Movie Star: The Grim Game / Haldane of the Secret Service
• King of the Gypsies
• The Man Who Knew Too Little
• Manslaughter / The Cheat (Double Feature)
• My Blue Heaven
• Mysterious Island
• Rhubarb
• Run Silent, Run Deep
• Samurai 7: Complete Series
• Where the Heart Is