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(Oscar broadcast is this Sunday evening on ABC.)
This week Due Date, the latest from director Todd Phillips (Old School, The Hangover), gets its DVD release. The mismatched buddy road trip comedy stars Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. But it's Galifianakis who steals our blog's spotlight for this post...Galifianakis has recently become an unlikely Hollywood star, being featured in high grossing comedies as well as indie films. In addition to Due Date, the last year has seen the DVD releases of It's Kind of a Funny Story, Dinner For Schmucks, Operation: Endgame, Frenemy, Youth in Revolt, Visioneers, Up in the Air, and the HBO series Bored to Death. (He's also managed to appear regularly on The Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as well as guest star on American Dad and Funny or Die Presents... during that time.) Busy guy!
Here, for your amusement and bewilderment, are a few random clips of other Galifianakis appearances, beginning with an episode of his own "talkshow," Between Two Ferns:
This is an honest-to-goodness real ad (albeit for Swedish television) that Zach made with his frequent cohorts, Tim & Eric:
Here's a video he made with Will Oldham for Kayne West's Can't Tell Me Nothing:
And finally, here's one of my favorite clips from one of his stand-up acts:
Also new to our shelves this week:
(click on the titles for more information)
Fish Tank
Director Andrea Arnold follows up her unconventional, unsettling thriller – the excellent Red Road – with an equally blistering and captivating character portrait. Newcomer Katie Jarvis impresses as the brash and impulsive 15 year old Mia, struggling to find balance and make sense of her inchoate rage, fly-girl aspirations, and burgeoning sexuality. Mired in the trappings of her low class environs, she attempts to navigate (not always successfully) the tensions and conflicts of life in general and teenager-dom in particular. Many scenes/sequences are difficult to watch, unnervingly fraught with potential disaster, but there is an assured restraint to the direction (as well as writing and performances) that consistently keep the proceedings from descending into unremitting bleakness or generic formula. The result is powerful and highly recommended.
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Nurse Jackie - 2nd Season
Weeds - 6th Season
Doc Martin - 2nd Season
The Bird Can't Fly
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
Sword of War
Summer Wars
Leaving
Room in Rome
Change of Plans
Purple Sea
Carmo: Hit the Road
Red Mercury
The Good Earth
Red Dwarf - Season 2
New Docs:
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Check out our THEME shelf for other documentaries, films, and cinematic experiments starring or inspired by the complicated and influential Beat/Punk icon.
Mugabe and the White African
Last Train Home
Two in the Wave
Kings of Pastry and
Pressure Cooker
Be sure to check out our FOOD shelf for other culinary-inspired films and documentaries. Mmmmmm.....
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