New to DVD Highlights
This is where you will find many interesting DVDs and Blu-rays new to the library. Some titles will have graced Alice's shelves in a previous life on VHS Video, some are already on DVD but have now made their way to Blu-ray, while others have eluded capture in any format - until now. However, to be privy to the bigger picture, you will need to also check out 'Featured Acquisitions', 'Latest Alice Picks', 'Recent Arrivals',and 'New Releases'.
Timbuktu (2014)
7.2/10
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Starring: Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri
We are the guardians of all deeds since we arrived in this territory. So states one of the self-described jihadists who, with his colleagues and som... Read more
Un village francais: Volume 6 ( A French Village ) (2016)
8.4/10
Starring: Robin Renucci, Emmanuelle Bach, Nade Dieu, Audrey Fleurot, Marie Kremer, Francoi...
Volume 6 contains Series 7. Autumn 1945. And so, after years of war, the peace has arrived, and with it comes the commissions and the public hearings... Read more
Brad's Status (2017)
6.5/10
Director: Mike White
Starring: Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Mike White, Michael Sheen, Jemaine Clement, Jenna Fisc...
A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices. Read more
Rescue Dawn (Blu-ray) (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Christian Bale, Jeremy Davies, Steve Zahn
During the Vietnam War, Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a U.S. fighter pilot, is shot down over Laos and taken captive by enemy soldiers. Interned in... Read more
The Third Man ( Blu-ray ) (1949)
8.2/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Alida Valli, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
Joseph Cotten is pulp fiction writer Holly Matins, who arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to be told that Lime h... Read more
Bosch: Season 3 (2017)
8.4/10
Director: Michael Connelly
Starring: Lance Reddick, Jamie Hector, Titus Welliver, Amy Aquino
An LAPD homicide detective works to solve the murder of a 13-year-old boy while standing trial in federal court for the murder of a serial killer. Read more
Nostalgia For The Light (2010)
7.6/10
Director: Patricio Guzman
A stunning documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history... Read more
The Farthest (2017)
8.1/10
Director: Emer Reynolds
It's one of humankind's greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of d... Read more
Heaven's Gate (1980)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Cimino
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, I...
Michael Cimino's notorious spectacle about Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War - a conflict between immigrant settlers and the empire builders who w... Read more
Some Like It Hot ( Blu-ray ) (1959)
8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: George Raft, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Pat O'Brien, Tony Curtis, Joe E Brown
Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950's, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians on the run from the Chicago mob, who take... Read more