Reviews of Videos and DVDs, feature films, documentaries, television shows & more from Library Journal.
Video 11/01/2009
Fiction Agatha Christie's Marple. Series 4 . 4 vols. color. 372 min. ITV Studios & WGBH-Boston , dist. by Acorn Media, 888-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2009. DVD UPC 0-54961-82139-6. $59.99. SDH subtitles. F Jane Marple would make a good librarian. Not only does she seem genuinely to enjoy people, but she is also an expert at ferreting out information.
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Trailers By Bette-Lee Fox - 11/01/2009
Blind Date. color. 80+ min. Stanley Tucci, dist. by E1 Entertainment. Dec. 2009. DVD ISBN 978-1-4172-3282-6. $26.98. ROMANCE Trying to reconnect, a husband and wife (Tucci and Patricia Clarkson) start dating. A Christmas Tale. 2 discs. color. 152+ min. In French w/English subtitles. Arnaud Desplechin, dist.
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News Briefs By Raya Kuzyk - 11/01/2009
Newly available from Vook and Atria: Simon & Schuster, Narine Kikogosian's Return to Beauty, a multiformat skincare guide combining text with video content accessible online or as stand-alone iPhone and iPod Touch apps. (More info at www.simonandschuster.com/returntobeauty.) See also Anthony E. Zuiker's recently released Level 26: Dark Origins, a simultaneous print/audiobook title touted by...
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News Briefs By Raya Kuzyk - 10/15/2009
This year marks the 30th anniversary of First Run Features. Browse the independent film distributor's catalog of over 400 films, by directors Spike Lee, Barbara Kopple, Claude Chabrol, Jan Svankmajer, and others, at www.firstrunfeatures.com. Vivendi Entertainment has taken over the core home entertainment distribution operations of Genius Products as well as acquired distribution rights to its ...
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Fast Scans By Jeff T. Dick, Davenport, IA - 10/15/2009
Last Year at Marienbad . b/w. 94 min. In French w/English subtitles. Criterion Collection , dist. by Image Entertainment. 1961. 2-disc DVD ISBN 978-1-60465-157-7 ; 1-disc Blu-ray ISBN 978-1-60465-158-4 . $39.95. Narrative films don't get more enigmatic than this love-it-or-hate-it puzzler from Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour).
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Video 10/15/2009
Fiction Doc Martin. Series 2 . 3 discs. color. 464 min. Ben Bolt & Minkie Spiro , Buffalo Pictures in assoc. with Homerun Film Prods. , dist. by Acorn Media, 888-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2009. DVD UPC 0-54961-83019-0. $49.99. SDH subtitles. F/TV In Series 2, Doc Martin (played to great effect by Martin Clunes) leaves his surgical practice in London after developing a crippling fear...
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Video 10/01/2009
Fiction Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Movie Collection. Set 4 . 3 vols. color. 186+ min. ITV Global , dist. by Acorn Media; 888-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2009. DVD UPC 0-54961-81209-7. $49.99. SDH subtitles. F The long history of successful Agatha Christie adaptations continues, with the remarkable David Suchet reprising the role of Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in these two new programs.
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Music for the Masses Matthew Moyer, Reference Librarian, Popular Media Dept., Jacksonville P.L., FL, March 6, 2009 Bound To Lose
I almost ran my car off the road when I happened upon the tail end of this radio... More
Music for the Masses Matthew Moyer, Reference Librarian, Popular Media Dept., Jacksonville P.L., FL, November 5, 2008 The Sacred Harp
It ain't all profane pop music around here! I was heartened, recently, to receive a c... More
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