June DVD's

In June I went on a foreign movie binge. It was a movie called Pandora's Box that set it off. Someone requested it and when I looked it up I discovered it was the movie that made Louise Brooks famous. My first thought was, Louise Brooks? Who was Louise Brooks? Then I looked her up and discovered she was a trend setter of the flapper generation. Her look and her fashion sense were copied all over the movie watching world, but she had to go from Hollywood to Europe to get her big break in the movie Pandora's Box. Since I'd been meaning to review my foreign film collection any way I went for it and here it goes. I'd already made a big French Language buy last year so this time I tried to cover the whole movie making world (Sort of). Many of these movies I'd either heard of or seen before. Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Fellini's La Dolce Vita are two movie classics that every library should have. M and Diabolique are two movies I'd tried to find before but were out of print. M is a Fritz Lang production of a child predator, played by Peter Lorre, who is hunted down and killed by the the local crime world after the police apply pressure on the gangsters to get their help. It is a very creepy very scary movie. Diabolique is a classic film I tried to get for the Horror collection last year. It was out of print then but I read so much about it I'm dying to see it. All the critics raved about it. If your tastes go to foreign films check out our June additions.

June DVD additions.

Love Comes Softly
Love's long Journey
Love's Enduring Promise
Love's abiding Joy
Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Warner Herzog Directs Klaus Kinski as a mad conquistador lost in the Amazon Jungle.
Wild Strawberries: One of Ingmar Bergman's best.
Blue Angel: Director Josef von Sternberg made Marlene Dietrich a star with this one.
M: Before In Cold Blood there was Fritz Lang's M.
Diabolique: They keep trying to remake this one and fail every time.
Burmese Harp: Anti war movie Japanese style.
Conformist: Tense thriller by Bernado Bertolucci of Pre WWII fascist Italy
La Dolce Vita: Fredrico Fellini masterpiece of the shallow life of an Italian paparazzi. A must for all serious film buffs.
Viridiana: Near perfect direction by Spanish master director Luis Bunuel.
Double Life of Veronique: A modern cult classic from director Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Ikiru: Early non samarai classic from Akira Kurosawa
Jules and Jim: The Francois Truffaut classic of a love triangle.
Lamerica: An Italian look at Albania after communism.
Landscape in the Mist: Greek children look for their father. Can this Movie really change your life?
Lola A fairy tale romance filmed in gritty realism.
Virgin Spring: Ingmar Bergman tale of rape, murder, and a father's revenge.
Pandora's Box: The Early silent classic that made Louise Brooks famous.
Wings of Desire: Angels in Berlin. Everybody rips this one off. Last seen in Hollywood as City of Angels.
Throne of Blood: Kurosawa loved doing Shakespeare, this time its Macbeth.
Spirit of the Beehive: A great movie about kids.