New Media - November 2008
On DVD:
Faubourg Tremé: the untold story of Black New Orleans DVD TAC-2026
Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. New Orleans Times Picayune columnist Lolis Eric Elie bought a historic house in Tremé in the 1990s when the area was struggling to recover from the crack epidemic. Rather than flee the blighted inner city, Elie begins renovating his dilapidated home and in the process becomes obsessed with the area's mysterious and neglected past. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone.
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What would Jesus buy? DVD TAC-2027
Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk preachers around him, Bill bought a collar to match his white caterer's jacket, bleached his hair and became the Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Follows Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir (a changing group of volunteers) as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse.
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The rape of Europa DVD TAC-2028
Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men." It is work that continues to this day.
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride DVD TAC-2029
Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods, and while practicing. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded wife.
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21 up South Africa: Mandela's children DVD TAC-2030
In South Africa a group of children, first filmed in 1992 at the age of 7, are now 21. Rich and poor, black, white and mixed race, these fascinating and revealing portraits offer unique insights into the social and political upheavals that have occurred throughout South Africa since the crumbling of apartheid. From township slums to apartheid-era mansions to the bushveldt, these children, now young adults, have experienced a multitude of change. See them age from 7 to 21 and learn that AIDS has claimed the lives of three of these children.
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The last winter DVD TAC-2031
An unknown evil is stalking a group of oil scouts in northern Alaska, and they soon find that not everything under the ice and snow is buried for good.
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Vampyr DVD TAC-2032
A young traveler finds a remote castle, and starts seeing mysterious things, only to find that his own nightmares are coming true.
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Constantine's sword DVD TAC-2034
At its heart a detective story, as Carroll journeys into his own past (his father was a U.S. Air Force General who helped prepare for nuclear war) and into the wider world, were he uncovers evidence of church-sanctioned violence against non-Christians.
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Che, rise and fall DVD TAC-2035
"Che: Rise and Fall chronicles the incomparable leader from the crib to the grave; from his early summers in Alta Gracia to his days in Mexico and Sierra Maestra; from his time as a bureaucrat in post-revolutionary Havana to his moments of greatness"Container.
On CD:
The British invasion 1963-1967 Various artists Compact Disc TAC-449
Double nickels on the dime Minutemen Compact Disc TAC-450
Facsimile Leonard Bernstein Compact Disc TAC-451
Blacklisted Neko Case Compact Disc TAC-452
Secret theatre Harrison Birtwistle Compact Disc TAC-453
Das Lied von der Erde Gustav Mahler Compact Disc TAC-454
Soul rebels Bob Marley Compact Disc TAC-456
Doolittle The Pixies Compact Disc TAC-457
The four seasons Antonio Vivaldi Compact Disc TAC-458, vol. 1-4
