Listing Fiend

Listen--I lack the patience to go through my past blog posts in order to verify this, but I'm pretty sure that I once blogged about Goodreads.com, and perhaps Library Thing and Shelfari, as good tools to help you remember what books you want to read as well as what you've read [1]. You remember better than I do, because it likely inspired you to create a Good Reads account right there on the spot. I'm charismatic.

I'm also a listing fiend. I love being able to make note of something I want to read, and later to look over that list of possibilities as a approach the end of a book--gotta have the next one available for when I hit that back cover. I'm neurotic.

I'd been wanting a comparable tool for movies, and had tried a few, but hadn't hit on any that stick. So, last week, I was thrilled to discover that the Internet Movie Database had created "Watchlists." Finally, I can remove the bung from my mental movie inventory and let it flow onto IMDb's servers [2].

No longer will I have that experience where I remember on my way out of the library that I don't have any DVDs to watch at home, then cruise over to our DVD collection, and then stand there spinning, a lighthouse attempting to warn away all the movies I don't want to see in order to reveal the ones that I do. Why can I never remember anything I've been wanting to watch when I need something to watch? Someone call Malcolm Gladwell to investigate [3].

But now I don't have to, because as I sit at a computer and recall the title of something I want to see, I go to IMDb.com. I log in to my account and I search for the film. Once I've got the film's page up, I click the "Add to Watchlist" button. While writing this post, I remember that I've been wanting to see David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, starring Viggo Mortenson and Naomi Watts [4]. Look, here's proof:

How do you like that, eh?

I know I'm irrationally excited about this. I'm aware of that. And if you don't get it, just pass it by. But to those of you who do get, and I know some of you compulsive list makers are irrationally excited with me, pass it on to our brethren and sistren. They'll be happy you did.

What follows is a list of links referenced in the above

1. Library Thing - good site for maintaining a catalog of books you own

    Shelfari - good site for book-reading list makers who like virtual bookshelves

    Good Reads - Imho, the best site for tracking books read, being read, or to be read. I'll be brave and offer you the chance to check out my Good Reads list, so long as you promise not to stalk me.

2. IMDb - THE Internet Movie Database. If this is the first time you've heard of it, welcome to the information superhighway.

3. Malcolm Gladwell - He really is the sort of guy who would go talk to behavioral psychologists and write an interesting article about why we can't remember, say, what we need from the grocery store while standing in the cereal aisle. I'm sure stores like this tendency as I suspect it results in more liquor purchases. Anyhow, you owe it to yourself to read a Gladwell. Blink is about our gut instincts and subconscious thought processes, and it's fascinating. The Tipping Point is about, well, the tipping point--little things with big impact. Outliers considers whether geniuses are born or made. 

4. Eastern Promises is about a London woman who has the diary of a young Russian woman who dies in childbirth, as well as the child. She cannot read Russian, but serendipitously meets a Russian man who can read it to here. Serendipity's not all it cracks up to be as the Russian is a driver for the same crime family that has connections to the newborn's dead mother. Check it out from our collection, or learn more at IMDb.

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Tamara Drewe

The visit of the movie Tamara Drewe to our local Art Theater reminds me how much I enjoyed the original graphic novel that inspired the film.

Posy Simmonds, additionally the author of Gemma Bovery, published her graphic novel in 2008. It was created from her long-running Guardian series of episodic cartoons based on Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd.

Tamara Drewe (the eponymous "heroine") writes a trendy newspaper column in London, featuring tales drawn from her own life among other topics. She's the catalyst for events that take off after she returns to the country on a visit--sporting a brand new nose. The book itself revolves around life in a writer's colony in Tamara's home town in the British hinterland. We meet the famous novelist and his wife, who run the facility. One writer, on sabbatical to finish his novel, chimes in with his presence and recounts the events. We encounter two young girls in the neighborhood, a fading rock drummer, and the requisite handsome, reclusive handyman/farmer. Told in multiple voices, the tale pops back and forth among the characters, creating a surprisingly complex story.

I don't think the story could have been expressed half as well if it were told only in text instead of graphic novel format. The images enhance Tamara Drewe. They're well drawn and quite realistic. (The author features Belted Galloway cows. They have white stripes around them and look like big oreos with "extra stuff".) The countryside is a true character. Lots of goats and cows and dogs and scenery.

Tamara Drewe is full of modern situations, appropriate slang, and adult , um, segments. The visual and textual elements meld together excellently, providing a multifacted reading experience. I'm looking forward to the movie, so I can compare and contrast the different emphases of storyline and vision.

True Grit

This is how the phone call went with my mom, who's a fan of westerns (although she prefers the frontiersman/pioneer type to the new sheriff in town, meet me outside at noon tomorrow sort).  I told her that the Coen brothers have a newly adapted film of True Grit coming out.  She tells me it was a John Wayne movie that they're remaking.  No, I tell her, they're shooting from a new script they've adapted from Portis's book.  It's not a remake.

That is how every other conversation I've had about the film has gone as well.

So, what do we do?  I'm thinking, first read or reread the book [1].  Then, check out or re-check out the John Wayne film [2].  Then, on or after Christmas, go see the Coen brothers film [3].  Write that down.



1. How do you like to read True Grit?  Paperback? Hardbound?  Large Print?

2. I reckon you'll want to watch the John Wayne version on DVD.

3.For more info on the forthcoming True Grit film, mosey over to IMDb.

See "The Girl" in a Theater

This isn't exactly library-related, but presently 31 of you Urban-ites (plus 73 more other folks in our library system) have placed requests on the film adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo [1], so this could be relevant to your interests [2].

This week, The Art Theater [3] in downtown Champaign is showing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, starting Friday and running through next Thursday.  It's a loyal adaptation of the novel, yet does not leave the story feeling flat to those who already know what happens.  I found it as intense and suspenseful as the book, if not more so.


But wait!  There's more!

What's more exciting is that the second of the film adaptations, The Girl Who Played With Fire, starts showing at The Art Theater on Friday, August 20th.  I know, it's not fair to get you hyped about this now, when there's still a week before you can see it.  To be even more unfair, here's the trailer.



1.What?  You haven't requested it?  Best get on that.

2."Relevant to my interests" meme

3. The Art Theater schedule
Directions to The Art Theater

Fun Interview for Scott Turow Fans

If you're a Scott Turow fan, or even if you're not, but you happen to pay the tiniest bit of attention to the media, you know that Turow's recently published Innocent, a follow up to the 1987 favorite, Presumed Innocent [also in Paperback and Large Print]. If you missed Presumed Innocent the book, you may have seen the film adaptation, starring Harrison Ford and Brian Dennehy.

I'm not a Turow fan, but that's because I haven't read any of his books or seen any of the film or television adaptations of them. I did, however, enjoy the interview of Turow conducted by Scott Simon in front of a live audience at the Smithsonian. Have a listen--there's at least one lawyer joke.

Virtual Ebertfest!

Can't attend all the Ebertfest activities this week? Neither can I, alas.
(But check out the Ebertfest website. Some tickets are still available, and you'll get a great taste of what's going on.)

Here's an exciting new Ebertfest option! You can view some of the activities from the comfort of your own computer!

Roger Ebert, an avid user of Twitter, has just tweeted
"Ebertfest will stream live on the net. Here is the *correct* link *with* the guide with days and times. http://j.mp/cOj3pW"

The page Mr. Ebert points to has the schedule, times, and the link to the streaming videos.

Not the movies, of course, but you can access the morning UIUC panel discussions and the Q&A sessions after the films.

Enjoy Ebertfest! Now it's only a computer away!

The Meaning of Life, Just $9.99!

I know you're just sitting around, thinking, "hey, I haven't seen a cool stop-motion animated film in awhile...blast you, digital animation!" It's after two on Friday, which is when those thoughts generally occur. I guess it's time for you to start a new line of thought, 'cuz $9.99 looks like it could be a cool stop-motion animated film.

Some Works of Director Michael Haneke

I could be wrong in my opinion that most of the general public who are interested in the Oscars are interested in a few categories, like best actor/actress/director, supporting actor/actress, and best film, so I thought I'd point out that a nominee for best foreign film and best cinematography is currently playing at the Art Theater. The White Ribbon (or Das Weisse Band, as it is a German film) tells the story of a village in which several accidents occur during the months that lead up to WWI, and the suspicions of the school teacher/narrator that the accidents are somehow connected. The story progresses slowly, as characters are introduced, accidents occur, and we learn more of the personalities of the characters. After the film ended, I frequently thought back to what evidence was presented for the film's conclusion, remembering other clues in this murky mystery.



I enjoyed the heck out of The White Ribbon, which made me curious about the other films by writer/director Michael Haneke, of which we own eight. I haven't seen any of them, but due to their descriptions, I don't plan to watch them back to back--they're all rather dark.

Of the titles we own, the following are definitely going on my to-watch list:

Funny Games (2007) and Funny Games: Ein Film (1997)
Both of these are horror films concerning the story of an affluent family psychologically tortured by some American-psycho types. Both are written and directed by Haneke, but the 2007 version is an English-language film starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth, while the earlier German film stars Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Muhe.

Cache (Hidden)
A French-language thriller in which a couple is terrorized by increasingly personal videotapes left on their front porch.

Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent)
A melodrama in which a family's monotonous existence is disrupted when daughter Eva feigns blindness in an attempt to get attention. In German.

I'll have to grab one of these soon in order to stave off this desire I have to go back and see The White Ribbon again. You can bet that when it becomes available, we'll be adding it to the library's DVD collection.

Wholphin

I can't remember if I've mentioned Wholphin here before, but in case I haven't...
Wholphin is a series of DVDs, with each disc sporting several quality short (less than 45 mins) films. The following short, Skhizein, can be found on Wholphin Vol. 8, and tells the story of a man who exists slightly to the side of everything after being struck by a meteorite. Kudos to co-blogger John-boy for finding this kickin' clip online.

Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Bertie on Vimeo.

Wholphin describes itself as a DVD magazine, and with the diversity of films on each disc, it's easy to see why. Why not check one out to watch on your office computer during your lunch break. Isn't that quality magazining time?

Off season blues

Yesterday's Super Bowl 44 marks the end of the 2009-10 NFL season and the beginning of waiting for the 2010-11 season. (Sidenote: Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback column on SB44 is great, and if you also enjoy it, check out the book.) There were some ads yesterday that suggested we fans could get our fix watching the draft, and that may be true, but I've got some other suggestions.

If you have broadband (if not, you can use the internet on one of our computers at the library), I'd recommend checking out some of the NFL series on Hulu, like the Greatest Games, Super Bowl Highlights, or Team Highlights series. I especially like the Greatest Games set--check out the famed '67 Ice Bowl featuring the Lombardi Packers against the Landry Cowboys. You can also check out some DVDs from the library's collection, like the Greatest Moments in Super Bowl History or the complete history of the Chicago Bears.

If you enjoy reading about the game as much as you enjoy watching it, you can find books on football on our second floor in the 796.332 call number range. There have been a few interesting ones published in the past year, including retiring Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner's First Things First, Chad Ochocinco's bound-to-be-ridiculous Ocho Cinco, and the insider's view of The Billion Dollar Game, the Super Bowl.

Lastly, if you haven't already, check out Michael Lewis's The Blind Side, which you can't help to have heard about. Sandra Bullock has been nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the motion picture adaptation of the nonfiction story, and Michael Oher has been starting his rookie season on the Ravens's offensive line protecting Joe Flacco.

I'm hoping these suggestions help other footballholics like myself. If they don't, s'pose we'll have to start a support group. We'll meet on Sundays.

Dennis Lehane at the movies

Back in December, a coworker recommended to me that I read Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island [Book on CD, eBook]. I vaguely remember him mentioning a movie being made, but that didn't much matter. He used key nouns like "mystery," "island," "murders," "1950s asylum," etc., which got my interest. It sounded like an engagingly dark easy read, so I grabbed it to read on a trip I took earlier this month. I enjoyed the story--while Lehane doesn't write novels that will be required reading school, he certainly comes up with enjoyable concepts.

When I got back from my trip, I looked into other titles Lehane penned. As I had plenty of other reading, I couldn't grab any of the books, but realized that the films Mystic River [DVD, Book, Book on Tape, eBook] and Gone Baby Gone [DVD, Book, eBook] were also based on novels by the author. I could easily spend a couple evenings checking these out.

Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Laurence Fishburne, was as phenomenal as a film with six Oscar-nominations should be. The plot involves three adults who were childhood friends, one of whom is not quite right since his childhood abduction. Another is searching for the murderer of his teenage daughter, while the third is a Boston detective working toward the same goal. If you're like I was last week and have not seen this, I highly recommend that you do so.

Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck and starring his brother Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, and Ed Harris, was also deservedly well-received. A private detective couple are pulled into an investigation for a missing girl by her grieving aunt. The detectives, having grown up in the area, have more personal connections in the community to people who would rather not talk to the police. Gone Baby Gone is not as slick as Mystic River, but that's to be expected as this was Affleck's first time directing and Eastwood has had a few decades of practice.

The success of these films give me confidence that Shutter Island should look great on the screen, which is reinforced by its director, Martin Scorsese, and cast, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Emily Mortimer. You can find me at the theater on opening weekend, February 19th.

Monty Python--ROFL!

Monty Python's Flying Circus--the amazingly funny and influential TV comedy sketch series--debuted on TV the UK in 1969, and soon crossed the pond to the colonies. And wondrous movies followed. Hard to believe it's been 40 years since the start of all the farcical insanity . The laughs are just as fresh today as they were when created.

If you're a Monty Python fan, want to be, or just are interested in finding out about the men behind the comedy troupe, you'll be thrilled to discover the new,original multipart documentary--Monty Python, Almost the Truth, The Lawyer's Cut.

The documentary, shown in entirety recently on the IFC cable Channel, does present snippets from performances, but the real highlight is the focus on the performers. The episodes feature interviews with the surviving members of Python, and honors the 40th anniversary of their debut.



If you like to laugh, if you want to go behind the scenes and discover the real craziness behind the Monty Python phenomenon, look into this series. Place a hold and ensure your turn to laugh and consider. It's--Almost the Truth.

Too Much to See

We've got too many interesting movies. Just today, I cataloged 4 new DVDs that I want to watch. I still haven't found the time to watch the first season of It's Garry Shandling's Show that I picked up last week.



Paper Heart [imdb]- A filmmaker who doesn't believe in love is making a documentary on the subject when she meets and connects with Michael Cera. It's hard for me to hear that Cera's in a film and not want to see it--he was phenomenal in the short-lived TV series, Arrested Development. I'm a guy who'll willingly admit to wanting to see this rom-com, and on those rare occassions when I've wanted to see other romantic comidies, I would not have admitted to it.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead [imdb] - I'm behind on my Doctor Who viewing--Christopher Eccleston was the Doctor in the last episode I watched. Despite this, why wouldn't I want to see the Time Lord get sucked through a wormhole with a literal busload of people, including an attractive jewel thief, and wind up on a desert planet whose inhabitants are giant insect- and sting ray-like creatures.

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan [imdb] - I have not slacked off on following the recent Battlestar Galactica series. The Plan purports to give the Cylon side of the story during and shortly after their attack. Scifi dorkaliciousness.

The Merry Gentleman [imdb] - Michael Keaton's directorial debut tells the story of a woman who must navigate between a hired killer and the detective trying to catch him. Ebert says it's "original, absorbing and curiously moving in ways that are far from expected," and I frequently agree with his reviews.

My Favorite Horror Flicks

Hey, if I can think of more lists of horror movies to make this month, I'll be posting them here to support my continuing effort to provide suggestions for folks who just want something scary this month. This list is gimme--my favorite horror movies. I'm at a disadvantage compared to other horror lovers on account of my wife's dislike of the genre, which limits my ability to watch these movies to times when she's not around. So, during my limited time spent watching horror films, I've enjoyed these ones the most.

The Descent - My favorite monster movie. A group of spelunking women encounter hungry, subterranean creatures after a cave-in.

28 Days Later - My favorite reinvention of the zombie. People infected with the rage virus become chaotically violent, posing more of a challenge to survivors than traditional moaning, shuffling zombies would.

Saw - You know they've made six of these? Don't bother with any after the first, as it's the only one worth seeing. The psychological horror is reminiscent of another favorite of mine, Se7en.

The ____ of the (Living) Dead - Or at least the Night, Dawn, and Day of--I haven't seen Land of, or any of the remakes. I am a fan of zombie movies in general, but the combination of campiness and both inadvertent and blatant attempts at social commentary in these films make them fun to watch and rewatch.

The Shining - There's too much good stuff to choose from here. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, the hedge maze, the slow zoom down the hall with the tension building, the tricycle, the foreboding, giant kitchen... Sidenote: this is showing on Saturday at the Virginia Theater in Champaign. I'll be there for sure.

The Evil Dead - It's all camp and cliche when Bruce Campbell and friends shack up at a cabin in the woods and unleash the evil discovered by the previous occupant. There's a sequel that's essentially the same as this one, with the exception that Campbell winds up sent to the past, setting the stage of Army of Darkness (which we are reordering).

Latest scary flicks

October hits and all the horror films start growing request lists. People tend to get frustrated when they've thought of a title or two they'd like to pick up at the library only to find upon arrival that it's been checked out by someone else. With Halloween already on sale at stores and on television, it's not surprising that everyone's thinking it's time for something scary to watch.

In an effort to assist you in getting spooked, here's a list of the horror/thriller DVDs that have come out in 2009 and are owned by the UFL.

Local highlights
Filmed locally by locals.

Garbage Man - Filmed locally as well as in Chicago around 15 years ago, this movie tells the story of a serial killer in Champaign who does what the voices tell him to do.
The Transient: The Movie - A short, 25 minute horror comedy about a homeless man and his social worker trying to stop Vampire Lincoln from "sucking the blood of four-score and seven virgins." Included on the disc is the also local, 30 minute University of Illinois vs. a Mummy (also available separately).

Remakes
Looking back, it seemed like there were a lot of remakes, but maybe that's because there were so many gravelly voice0ver, scream-filled advertisements.

Friday the 13th - The one with the killer in the hockey mask.
The Last House on the Left - The one with the parents who capture the group that attacked their daughter.
My Bloody Valentine - The one with the kids and the killer in mining gear.

Hauntings
There were some possessions, angry ghosts, and other supernatural business, too.

The Haunting in Connecticut - A haunted house and a possessed boy...and a scene that looks like vomiting in zero gravity. Win, win, win.
The Haunting of Molly Hartley - Having mom locked up in the mental ward should fix things, right?
Mirrors - A mirror-filled department store built on ground formerly occupied by a mental hospital in which a mass killing occurred is a good candidate for a haunting.
The Unborn - A young lady learns she had a twin who died in childbirth, and this may be the small boy who is now haunting her.
The Uninvited - Anna's been having haunted dreams since her mother died in the boathouse/home hospital and her mom's former nurse is now her stepmother.

Plagues
There were viruses that turned people into cannibal-zombie-like creatures.

Quarantine - A film crew tagging along with a fire department on a call gets quarantined while responding to a call to an apartment building, trapping them with the infected.
[Rec] - The original film from Spain that inspired the aforementioned Quarantine.
Splinter - A young couple and an escaped convict are trapped in a gas station, trying to avoid catching the zombification parasite.

Evil that people do
Some movies are scarier because the plot seems plausible.

Alien Raiders - A militant group storms a grocery store, killing some people there and holding the rest hostage, claiming that they're stopping an alien attack.
Baghead - Four writers in a cabin try to write the scariest movie imaginable, while their imagined scenes become reality.
Let the Right One In - Okay, vampires aren't plausible, but it's the human characters, especially the Stephen Kingesque bullies, that drive the tension in this film. Oh, and our copies all have the good, theatrical subtitles.
Night Train - Three strangers on a train find a body and some diamonds, ditch the body and split the spoils, and then suspect one another of reneging on the deal.
Obsessed - A successful, monogamously married guy meets an attractive temp at work who will stop at nothing to get him.
Repo! The Genetic Opera -In the future, organ failure is common, and if recipients fail to pay their dues to Geneco, the repo man comes.
Sick Girl - An orphaned rural girl takes hostage the bullies who pick on her younger brother and subjects them to physical and psychological torture.

Coming soon
We may not get some movies soon enough before Halloween to borrow them.

Drag me to hell (Oct. 13)
Orphan (Oct. 27)

Remember Patrick Swayze with us....

The movie world lost Patrick Swayze yesterday.
A brave man. A wonderful dancer.

Rediscover Dirty Dancing and Ghost. See the young Swayze with other future male stars in The Outsiders. DVDs featuring Patrick Swayze are available at The Urbana Free Library. Which is your favorite?

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City of Joy (DVD coming; this is the VHS)
Dirty Dancing
Donnie Darko
Ghost
Keeping Mum
Powder Blue
Red Dawn
The Outsiders
To Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar


Movie checked out? Contact us to reserve a copy of one of the films for you. In the meantime, remember Swayze by watching his last interview with Barbara Walters. All 5 parts are available on YouTube. Part 1 is here:

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For further reference information, here's the New York Times obituary.

So Much Testosterone

A former English professor of whom I'm greatly fond once wrote me,

I can't hear what happens in rock music. Indeed, it's as bizarre to me as watching a baseball game or a football game--it's as though I see people moving but I cannot begin to understand how anyone can appreciate what is going on, which seems to be bodies moving around in a blur.

Rick Ernst's documentary Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal is unlikely to help him decipher these mysteries. But it goes a long way in explaining the mindset and passions of many young males in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Um ... myself included.

Bang-yao Liu's DEADLINE

This fantastic stop-motion film was created by a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. The "making of" video is available here.

If stop-motion movies tickle your fancy, check out our documentary Monster Road, about animator Bruce Bickford:

Free Criterion Movies Online

If you've got broadband access, you've perhaps watched some video online. This internet thing sure is getting fancy! From the anybody-can-create-(or pirate)-and-upload YouTube to the networks-will-create,-upload,-and-have-to-pay-their-writers-some-web-revenue Hulu, you certainly have your options.

Not so long ago, IMDB and Hulu announced that they would have full movies available for viewing online. I was excited, thinking that now I could have a back up plan for when the DVD I wanted from the library was checked out (yes, this happens to librarians, too). In browsing through the list again, there certainly are some things worth being excited about (welcome to my back up plan list, Broken Flowers, Hoop Dreams, and Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project), as well as some confusion-inducing titles (The Nude Bomb? Gamebox 1.0? To the Hills 2?). It can take some digging through the list to find something worth watching, and if I'm feeling to lazy to grab something at work, I'm definitely too lazy to browse through unknown and unwanted titles for the gems of the bunch.

Now a new free to watch online movie program has me excited again. You may have seen Criterion Collection DVDs in the library or elsewhere--they like to provide the best sound and video quality possible on the DVDs they produce, to the point of finding the best copy of the original films to work from. They also tend to provide a lot of interviews and info from creators as well as input from experts.

The Criterion Collection, in partnership with The Auteurs, is offering a handful of films to watch online for free every month. They're calling them festivals, and they tend to group titles around a theme. For example, the January 2009 festival Killer Movies featured Branded to Kill, The Honeymoon Killers, and Divorce Italian Style. April's almost over, so if you want to see any of the Great Documentaries currently available, you'd better glue yourself to your computer screen. I can't wait to see what titles May brings.

Let the Right One Out

Why do we only own one copy of the popular new Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In? It's been well-received, rated well on IMDb, Ebert likes it enough to be showing it at his Overlooked Film Festival, and people are requesting it left and right.

In case you've missed the news that's been buzzing around online, the DVD release has disappointed many who gave the film high ratings after seeing it in theaters. What's different? The DVD release uses new subtitles that reportedly remove depth and seem to dumb down the film.

For more info on this, check out some of the links in this NPR story that also has good news to report. The firm managing the DVD release are restoring the theatrical subtitles to future DVD copies of the film.

The answer to the earlier question about our library having only one copy of the film is that this is a temporary situation. We want to offer the best quality version of this title, and we will be adding more copies once the DVDs with the theatrical subtitles become available.