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Video Americain Baltimore Newsletter 22 July 2009
Baltimore's Best Independent Video Store since
1989
Celebrating 20 years in Beautiful Baltimore!
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Film Quote of the Week
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"They're not tattoos, they're skin illustrations! Don't you ever call
them tattoos!"
- Rod Steiger as Carl in The Illustrated Man (1969)
Pick of the Week
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A Short Film About John Bolton (Neil Gaiman, 2003)
A documentary film crew takes a look at the inspiration behind artist
John
Bolton's painting. Driven by the creative mind behind Coraline (which
is a
fantastic film in both 2- and 3-D, and just out this week). What
drives
Bolton's creative energy – where do his other-worldly creatures
originate?
If there is a documentary more scary than Hell House, this might be
it!
New This Week
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Watchmen
Coraline
The Great Buck Howard
Robot Chicken - Star Wars 2
Battlestar Galactica - Season 4.5
This American Life -Season 2
Dakota Skye
Explicit Ills
Break
Millenium
Thank God It's Friday
Wildcats (Goldie Hawn)
Jason & the Argonauts
Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill (DVD)
Tommy (DVD)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin)
Ivor Cutler – Looking for Truth with a Pin
Coming Attractions
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28 July
Fast & Furious
Miss March
Dragonball Evolution
Big Man Japan
Dollhouse - Season 1
Monk - Season 7
The Mighty Boosh - Seasons 1-3
Life on Mars - Season 1
Bart Got A Room
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
4 August
The Soloist
Obsessed (Idris Elba)
Race To Witch Mountain
Flight of the Conchords - Season 2
11 August
I Love You, Man
The Class
Paris 1936
Katya (Wadja 2007)
Californication - Season 2
18 August
Tyson
Julia
Hannah Montana Movie
Dexter - Season 3
Simpsons - Season 12
Gossip Girl - Season 2
Dirty Sexy Money - Season 2
25 August
Trouble The Water
Duplicity
Sunshine Cleaning
Adventureland
Goodbye Solo
Fighting
House - Season 5
Scrubs - Season 8
1 Sept
Heroes - Season 3
8 Sept
The Office - Season 5
22 Sept
30 Rock - Season 3
How is your Social Network?
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Our borg clerk, Vee Dee O'Americain, has been working hard on
Facebook
to keep things fresh and fantastic -- and with your help she recently
laid claim
to a truly desirable piece of internet real estate:
http://www.facebook.com/videoamericain
If you're not a Facebook fan already, why not log in and become a fan
today?
In the coming weeks we will be featuring special contests for our
fans, which
will result in free rentals and more fun!!!
Remake Watch
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
We video geeks like to keep an eye on the remakes that They like to
threaten to make from time to time – and it seems like our Brave New
World is gearing up for lots and lots of sci-fi remakes in the not-too-
distant
future. Some of them pique our interest, some make us yawn and a
select
few scare us so much we lose sleep.
Not all of these are set in stone – but the scuttlebutt is that we'll
be seeing
most of these, whether we like it or not:
Robocop
Darren “The Wrestler” Aronofsky has been hard at work on the script
for
the Robocop remake. Will he direct it? Will Mickey Rourke find yet
another
new lease on life? Will they also remake Robocop 2?
The Creature From The Black Lagoon
The Crazies
Flash Gordon
Breck “Sahara” Eisner, son of longtime Disney chief Michael Eisner
and
former PA on Tango & Cash, has three remakes in the works. The
Crazies,
another big-budget remake of a George Romero classic, is already in
post-production and stars Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell – so
maybe
it won't be that bad? Maybe? Details on the other remakes are much
more
fuzzy, but who could possibly surpass Queen in making a Flash Gordon
soundtrack?
The Witches
Frankenstein
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Guillermo Del Toro has to finish about a million things, including two
movies about The Hobbit (which is itself technically a remake) but
he's threatening to scare us all Victorian style with his future
remakes. And what's more scary than Victorians?
The Illustrated Man
Fahrenheit 451
Frank Darabont, who must be some kind of superhero because he's really
been the only director to make Stephen King novels into good movie, is
said to be putting out two 2010 Ray Bradbury remakes. It's a logical
progression going to be hard to find a suitable replacement for Rod
Steiger's Illustrated Man; perhaps less difficult to update Truffaut's
slow-moving take on Fahrenheit 451.
Where in the world is Video Americain?
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Roland Park (410) 243-2231
700 W. Cold Spring Lane
Sun-Thurs 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat 11am-11pm
Charles Village (410) 889-5266
3100 St. Paul St
Sun-Thurs 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat 11am-12midnite
Takoma Park (301) 270-4464
6937 Laurel Ave, Takoma Park MD 20912
Newark DE (302) 368-9577
243 Elkton Rd. Newark DE 19711
Email: videoam...@gmail.com
Facebook Group -- www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58127116480
Be a Fan! www.facebook.com/pages/Baltimore-MD/Video-Americain-Baltimore/5016740...
and buddy up to our favorite video clerk: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1238171227
Myspace: www.myspace.com/videoamericain_baltimore
www.myspace.com/videoamericaintp
To purchase DVDS from us online: www.videoamericain.com
Feedback!
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Email us with your suggestions and requests at
VideoAm...@gmail.com.
If you like this newsletter, let us know -- (and if you don't want to
receive it, please let us know ASAP!) We're gonna do our best to keep
you up to date on new releases, goings-on-about-town, and our favorite
hidden cinematic gems. Pass this on to a friend, and subscribe by
visiting http://groups.google.com/group/video-americain-newsletter or
by emailing video-america...@googlegroups.com
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Video Americain Baltimore Newsletter 22 July 2009
Baltimore's Best Independent Video Store since
1989
Celebrating 20 years in Beautiful Baltimore!
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Film Quote of the Week
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
"They're not tattoos, they're skin illustrations! Don't you ever call
them tattoos!"
- Rod Steiger as Carl in The Illustrated Man (1969)
Pick of the Week
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
A Short Film About John Bolton (Neil Gaiman, 2003)
A documentary film crew takes a look at the inspiration behind artist
John
Bolton's painting. Driven by the creative mind behind Coraline (which
is a
fantastic film in both 2- and 3-D, and just out this week). What
drives
Bolton's creative energy – where do his other-worldly creatures
originate?
If there is a documentary more scary than Hell House, this might be
it!
New This Week
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Watchmen
Coraline
The Great Buck Howard
Robot Chicken - Star Wars 2
Battlestar Galactica - Season 4.5
This American Life -Season 2
Dakota Skye
Explicit Ills
Break
Millenium
Thank God It's Friday
Wildcats (Goldie Hawn)
Jason & the Argonauts
Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill (DVD)
Tommy (DVD)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin)
Ivor Cutler – Looking for Truth with a Pin
Coming Attractions
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
28 July
Fast & Furious
Miss March
Dragonball Evolution
Big Man Japan
Dollhouse - Season 1
Monk - Season 7
The Mighty Boosh - Seasons 1-3
Life on Mars - Season 1
Bart Got A Room
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
4 August
The Soloist
Obsessed (Idris Elba)
Race To Witch Mountain
Flight of the Conchords - Season 2
11 August
I Love You, Man
The Class
Paris 1936
Katya (Wadja 2007)
Californication - Season 2
18 August
Tyson
Julia
Hannah Montana Movie
Dexter - Season 3
Simpsons - Season 12
Gossip Girl - Season 2
Dirty Sexy Money - Season 2
25 August
Trouble The Water
Duplicity
Sunshine Cleaning
Adventureland
Goodbye Solo
Fighting
House - Season 5
Scrubs - Season 8
1 Sept
Heroes - Season 3
8 Sept
The Office - Season 5
22 Sept
30 Rock - Season 3
How is your Social Network?
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Our borg clerk, Vee Dee O'Americain, has been working hard on
to keep things fresh and fantastic -- and with your help she recently
laid claim
to a truly desirable piece of internet real estate:
http://www.facebook.com/videoamericain
If you're not a Facebook fan already, why not log in and become a fan
today?
In the coming weeks we will be featuring special contests for our
fans, which
will result in free rentals and more fun!!!
Remake Watch
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
We video geeks like to keep an eye on the remakes that They like to
threaten to make from time to time – and it seems like our Brave New
World is gearing up for lots and lots of sci-fi remakes in the not-too-
distant
future. Some of them pique our interest, some make us yawn and a
select
few scare us so much we lose sleep.
Not all of these are set in stone – but the scuttlebutt is that we'll
be seeing
most of these, whether we like it or not:
Robocop
Darren “The Wrestler” Aronofsky has been hard at work on the script
for
the Robocop remake. Will he direct it? Will Mickey Rourke find yet
another
new lease on life? Will they also remake Robocop 2?
The Creature From The Black Lagoon
The Crazies
Flash Gordon
Breck “Sahara” Eisner, son of longtime Disney chief Michael Eisner
and
former PA on Tango & Cash, has three remakes in the works. The
Crazies,
another big-budget remake of a George Romero classic, is already in
post-production and stars Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell – so
maybe
it won't be that bad? Maybe? Details on the other remakes are much
more
fuzzy, but who could possibly surpass Queen in making a Flash Gordon
soundtrack?
The Witches
Frankenstein
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Guillermo Del Toro has to finish about a million things, including two
movies about The Hobbit (which is itself technically a remake) but
he's threatening to scare us all Victorian style with his future
remakes. And what's more scary than Victorians?
The Illustrated Man
Fahrenheit 451
Frank Darabont, who must be some kind of superhero because he's really
been the only director to make Stephen King novels into good movie, is
said to be putting out two 2010 Ray Bradbury remakes. It's a logical
progression going to be hard to find a suitable replacement for Rod
Steiger's Illustrated Man; perhaps less difficult to update Truffaut's
slow-moving take on Fahrenheit 451.
Where in the world is Video Americain?
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Roland Park (410) 243-2231
700 W. Cold Spring Lane
Sun-Thurs 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat 11am-11pm
Charles Village (410) 889-5266
3100 St. Paul St
Sun-Thurs 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat 11am-12midnite
Takoma Park (301) 270-4464
6937 Laurel Ave, Takoma Park MD 20912
Newark DE (302) 368-9577
243 Elkton Rd. Newark DE 19711
Email: videoam...@gmail.com
Facebook Group -- www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58127116480
Be a Fan! www.facebook.com/pages/Baltimore-MD/Video-Americain-Baltimore/5016740...
and buddy up to our favorite video clerk: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1238171227
Myspace: www.myspace.com/videoamericain_baltimore
www.myspace.com/videoamericaintp
To purchase DVDS from us online: www.videoamericain.com
Feedback!
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
Email us with your suggestions and requests at
VideoAm...@gmail.com.
If you like this newsletter, let us know -- (and if you don't want to
receive it, please let us know ASAP!) We're gonna do our best to keep
you up to date on new releases, goings-on-about-town, and our favorite
hidden cinematic gems. Pass this on to a friend, and subscribe by
visiting http://groups.google.com/group/video-americain-newsletter or
by emailing video-america...@googlegroups.com
~::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::~
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