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"I'm Not There" DVD review
by: Kristyn
If you are trying to learn anything about Bob Dylan, the
man then this film is definitely not the best place to start,
however if you would like two hours of information about Bob
Dylan the enigma and legend this film is chock full. The film
takes an experimental look at breaking down all of the elements
of Bob Dylan's life story and allowing the audience to piece
them back together to create a whole person. The only problem
with the film is that you can not take those pieces away very
easily and the whole story seems to be a bit far-fetched.
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DVD
Releases in May 2008:
| May
6th DVD/Blu-ray Releases: |
| Ace of Hearts |
| 'Allo 'Allo - Complete Series Eight |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender book 3, Volume
3 |
| Bella |
| Bewitched - sixth season |
| Carrier |
| Crossing Jordan season one |
| Delirious |
| Devel May Cry: Level, volume 2 |
| First Sunday |
| Hiya Kids! A 50's Saturday Morning Box |
| I'm Not There |
| Korn Live at Montreux |
| La Roue |
| Love's Unfolding Dream |
| Lucky Star volume one |
| Mission Impossible season four |
| Motley Crue: Carnival of Sins |
| Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie |
| Naruto Uncut Boxed Set volume 7 |
| Numb |
| Oprah Winfrey Presents Mitch Albom's for
One More Day |
| Over Her Dead Body |
| Saawariya |
| Serial Mom |
| Shall We Dance |
| Shin Chan volume one |
| Teeth |
| The 4400 season 4 |
| The Business of Being Born |
| The Car |
| The Devil's Own |
| The Great Debaters |
| Twister |
| May
13th DVD/Blu-ray Releases: |
| A Raison In The Sun |
| Backyardigans: high Flying Adventures |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| Chronicles of Narnia: The LIon, the Witch
and the Wardrobe |
| Classic Sci Fi Collection |
| Curious George Takes A Vacation |
| Day of the Outlaw |
| Drawn Together - UNCENSORED! season three |
| Frank Sinatra - The Golden Years Collection |
| Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly Collection |
| Frontiers |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
| Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost
Ark |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
| Lovejoy - season three |
| Mad Money |
| Man of the West |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The
World |
| Mission Impossible season four |
| Mrs. Doubtfire |
| PS I Love You |
| Secret of Santa Vittoria |
| Sergeants 3 |
| Shinobi - Heart Under Blade |
| Stargate Infinity: complete series |
| The Big Trail |
| The Great Debaters |
| The Lovers - Criterion Collection |
| The Westerner |
| Two and A Half Men season three |
| Untraceable |
| May
20th DVD/Blu-ray Releases: |
| A Haunting season three |
| Anger Management |
| Bee Movie |
| Bleach volume 10: The Entry |
| Charles In Charge season three |
| Cloverfield |
| Company |
| Cranford |
| Elizabeth Gaskill Collection |
| Full Metal Panic Second Raid Box Set |
| Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. season four |
| If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium |
| JAG (Judge Advocate General) season six |
| James Stewart the Western Collection |
| Muppet Show third season |
| National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets |
| Night of the Living Dead |
| Pen and Teller Bullsh*t season five |
| Rock Chalk Championship: The Kansas Jayhawks'
2008 Run To The NCAA National Championship |
| Short Circuit |
| Square Pegs - complete series |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Ninja Tribunal |
| The Air I Breathe |
| There Will Be Blood |
| Tom Selleck Western Collection |
| V for Vendetta |
| Vexille - Movie |
| What Did You Do In The War, Daddy? |
| WWE Wrestlemania 24 |
| May
27th DVD/Blu-ray Releases: |
| 2008 Men's NCAA Championship TM0400 |
| Absolutely Fabulous - Absolutely Everything |
| American Experience: Walt Whitman |
| Back Soon |
| Cassandra's Dream |
| Cleaner |
| Come Drink With Me |
| Darfur Now |
| Degrassi: the Next Generation season six |
| Dragon Tiger Gate |
| Dragonball Z season five |
| Frontline: Bush's War |
| Grace is Gone |
| Gunsmoke season two, volume 2 |
| He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
volume 2 |
| Holocaust |
| Lipstick Jungle season one |
| One Piece season one, First Voyage |
| Pokemon Movie: The Rise of Darkrai |
| Rambo |
| Rawhide season three, volume one |
| Shelter |
| Steve Miller Band Live Fron Chicago |
| The Air I Breathe |
| The Invaders season one |
| Thief of Bagdad Criterion Collection |
| Three Stooges Collection volume 2 |
| WWE Backlash 2008 |
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May
2008 DVD News & Reviews
May 2nd |
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| May
6th |
► Hiya,
Kids!! A '50s Saturday Morning is a 4-DVD box
set packed with 21 complete episodes culled from some
of America's iconic television classics, including Kukla,
Fran And Ollie, Howdy Doody, Lassie, Annie Oakley, Flash
Gordon, Time for Beany, The Paul Winchell Show, The
Roy Rogers Show, Captain Z-RO, The Rootie Kazootie Club,
Winky Dink And You, Super Circus, Andy’s Gang, The Cisco
Kid, Sky King, The Magic Clown, Kids And Company, Junvenile
Jury, The Pinky Lee Show, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.
Each DVD from Hiya, Kids!! is designed like a Saturday
morning programming block from the era, with shows for
the very young first on the menu. As the older siblings
"wake up," the programs become more and more
"sophisticated."
► Follow star Ricki Lake's* (Hairspray,
TV's Ricki Lake) personal and intimate childbirth story
in the thought-provoking documentary feature The
Business of Being Born, arriving on DVD on May 6,
2008, from New Line Home Entertainment.
Inspired by their own unique birth experiences, producer
Ricki Lake and director Abby Epstein team up to provide
a nation of mothers-to-be with insight into the process
of childbirth and the various options available when
preparing for life's most special event. From pregnancy
to the miraculous moment of birth, The Business of Being
Born is an entertaining and informative celebration
of the road to motherhood that "should be seen
by every pregnant woman in America" (Jack Mathews,
New York Daily News).
► Get ready for stand-up comedy
straight from the wild, wild Midwest with Image Entertainment's
new DVD and CD release of Drew
Hastings' Comedy Central special "Irked and
Miffed" on May 6th. Deftly balancing a seemingly
endless supply of angst with self-deprecating humor, Drew
Hastings certainly has a style of his own. Get to know
the 6'6" tall comedian-dressed, as always, in his
trademark black suit and horn-rimmed glasses-as he demystifies
middle-aged sex, third grade racism, life on his farm
and the American craze for prescription drugs! 
► Men beware! The frighteningly unique
film festival favorite, TEETH, debuts on DVD May
6th, from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company. TEETH
is a fascinating black comedy/horror tale about an innocent
teenager, Dawn, who discovers quite by accident that she
developed choppers in the most unexpected place.
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► Directed by Academy Award nominated Todd Haynes (Far
From Heaven), I'm Not There
is a bold narrative that explores the personal and professional
experiences of Bob Dylan, a true American icon. |
| May
9th |
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| May
13th |
► Story
of the Year releases Our
Time Is Now chronicling two years on the road touring.
It's a two-part feature including a never-before-seen look into
the band's writing and recording process, and a home video style
documentary of life on the road.
► Numb- Hudson
Milbank (Matthew Perry) is convinced that he's going insane.
But he's just met the perfect girl (Lynn Collins, The Lake House)
and struggles to be his most charming self. Meanwhile, he frantically
seeks a cure for his anxieties and goes through a string of
therapists who turn out to be crazier than him. Co-starring
Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects) and Academy Award winner Mary
Steenburgen as a hilarious lusty psychiatrist, Numb will warm
the heart of anybody who has ever teetered on the edge of a
breakdown.
 ► Korn-
Live at Montreux - This spectacular
13-song, 75-minute high-energy Montreux debut from 2004 features
the original Korn lineup-guitarist Brian "Head"
Welch, drummer David Silveria, singer Jonathan Davis, guitarist
James "Munky" Shafer and bassist Reginald "Fieldy"
Arvizu-amazingly turning the famous Stravinski Auditorium
into a moshpit for the first and only time. Between the onstage
mayhem resulting in a wild melee of organized chaos and the
demonstrative, vociferous crowd going certifiably nuts for
Korn's performance, a rare metal transcendence emerged, almost
surrealistic in scope. This is a performance for the ages,
one which includes surprising and effective covers of Pink
Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" and Metallica's
"One."
► The Great
Debaters - A controversial figure, challenging the
social mores of the time, Professor Melvin Tolson (Washington)
used unconventional and ferocious teaching methods to shape
a debate team at Wiley College, a small African American university
in Texas during the 1930s. Fighting against all odds and paving
their way to success, the team reaches a pivotal moment when
they are faced with one of their greatest challenges yet…
going up against Harvard University's critically acclaimed
national championship debate team. |
| May
20th |
►Image Entertainment presents the
DVD and Blu-ray DVD release of the hit Broadway musical, Company,
featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim on May 20th!
Director John Doyle brings his unique approach similar to his
version of Sweeney Todd in 2005: the actors perform all the
instruments on stage.
► In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of
Night of the Living and the upcoming DVD release of George A.
Romero’s latest horror masterpiece Diary
of Dead, we are pleased to announce the winning short
films from five young rising directors selected from a nationwide
contest
launched earlier this year on MySpace.
After hundreds of aspiring amateurs submitted their original
shorts on Myspace to be judged by their peers, ultimately
it was Romero who had to decide on the winners. He handpicked
the top five short films and awarded the grand prize to the
most impressive short, The Final Day, a terrorizing zombie
tale from Paul Del Vecchio (director/producer), David R. Doumeng
(writer/producer), and Douglas Frye (producer).
The remaining four shorts included Deader Living Through
Chemistry, Opening Night of the Living Dead, & Teller
and Run For Your Life. All five selections will be featured
on the May 20th DVD release of Disary of the Dead from the
Weinstein Company and Genius Products.
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| May
27th |
In The Air I Breathe,
four very different people on the edge of desperation are
unexpectedly linked by their destinies. A top-notch cast featuring
Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser,
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Emile Hirsch unforgettably brings
to life the stories of a clairvoyant gangster, a rising pop
star, an unlikely bank robber and a doctor desperate to save
the love of his life. Filled with surprising twists and turns,
this suspenseful, action-filled drama employs both brutal
violence and aching poetry in a moving exploration of the
search for happiness in a gritty urban world.
► When a man learns that his wife has
unexpectedly died, he begins the most difficult journey of
his life in Grace Is
Gone, a heartfelt story of grief and healing, coming
home to DVD May 27, 2008 from Genius Products and The Weinstein
Company. Golden Globe® nominee* John Cusack (1408, High
Fidelity) gives a powerful and poignant performance as Stanley,
an ordinary man struggling to comprehend his wife's sudden
death in the Iraq war. 
► Come Drink With Me, features a young Jackie Chan (Rush
Hour films, Shanghai Noon) alongside the film's heroine and
master swordsman, Cheng Pei-Pei (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
Heroes of the East is a story of loyalty and honor elevated
by the expert technician of Japanese and Chinese martial arts,
Gordon Liu (Kill Bill Vol. I and II).
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