Memo to Hollywood: Guard Your Traditions

OK, we know that the business of moviemaking has always skewed more to the business side than to the movie side when big money is involved — the history of cinema has always revolved around a balancing act between art and commerce — but the folks over at The Grauman Chinese Theatre in Hollywood seem [...]

Movie Poster Slide Show

    Dreamsville’s Movie Poster               Slide Show   Here’s a slide show we put together a couple year’s ago as an electronic holiday card. Click the poster and enjoy.                                  

Films & TV We Grew Up With: April

OK, kids. Time for another trip down memory lane. Here’s a smattering of some films and TV shows making their way to DVD this month — films and TV shows that were part of our cultural landscape and influenced us as we grew up. So here’s to the start of a new monthly column. Dirty [...]

The People Speak: Howard Zinn

With the death on January 27 of historian Howard Zinn (author of “A People’s History of the United States,” the first book to present American history through the eyes of working people rather than political and economic elites), we wanted to call to your attention the release of Zinn’s DVD “The People Speak” on February [...]

Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music

Hey ex-Hippies: It’s time to set your soul free again (“We are stardust, we are golden”). This year marks yet another benchmark for aging hipsters: the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Though I was unable to attend the event ( I did, however, attend a few other benchmark musical events, including the first L.A. concerts of [...]

You Must Remember This …

Some of our dreams began here: Warner Home Video has announced a December 2 release date for the impressive “Casablanca Ultimate Collector’s Edition,” available as a two-disc Blu-ray set or a three-disc DVD set, housed in a giftbox with a laser cut O-sleeve, 48-page photobook, 10 one-sheet reproduction cards, archival correspondence, exclusive passport holder and [...]

Ring-a-Ding Ding! It’s Frank’s Week

This is a big week for fans of Frank Sinatra, with a profundity of releases — including DVDs and CD compilations — to honor the 10th anniversary of the singer-actor’s death on May 14, 1998. Warner Home Video will commemorate “The Chairman of the Board” by releasing a total of 22 of his films in [...]

All You Need Is Love

In the mid-1970s, at the suggestion of John Lennon, celebrated journalist and film director Palmer decided to document “The Story of Popular Music” and set about interviewing and filming all the major players in the industry. Even in the mid-70s, this was seen as a monumental task, but despite the scale of the undertaking, Palmer [...]

Commune

During the radical fervor of the late 1960s and early 1970s, utopian communities – Communes — dotted the country. They aimed to reshape the world with free love and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongst local, often rural, residents across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to [...]

Let’s Graduate

Regarded by film historians and movie critics as one of the key, groundbreaking films of the 1960′s, “The Graduate” (1967) helped rewrite the rules of Hollywood filmmaking and helped usher in a new crop of younger directors. MGM revisits one of the most illicit affairs in film history when “The Graduate: 40th Anniversary Edition” arrivesthis [...]

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