DVD Update - 14 October

I'm suffering a seasonal malady, so there may be a lag in posting for the next few days. We'll see. For now, here's a DVD update. It looks as though Magnolia acquired a number of Netflix's former distribution studio Red Envelope Entertainment's releases and are making them available again come 3 November. All of the titles were previously released by Genius and sadly does not include the two Lukas Moodysson films, Lilja 4-ever and A Hole in My Heart, which Netflix had for rental only.

Some changes: As expected, both Pandorum and Capitalism: A Love Story have vanished from Amazon. The original November date I provided for Moon is obviously not accurate, and I'm told it's now sometime in January. District 9 is now 15 December. Tokyo Shock's Five Element Ninjas has been pushed to 26 January, and Sony's Rita Hayworth box will now be released on 23 February.

- 4, 2005, d. Ilya Khrjanovsky, Magnolia, 3 November
- The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania, 2005, d. Judy Eldred, David Hunt, Magnolia, 3 November
- C.R.A.Z.Y., 2005, d. Jean-Marc Vallée, Magnolia, 3 November
- Cowboy del amor, 2005, d. Michèle Ohayon, Magnolia, 3 November
- Favela Rising, 2005, d. Matt Mochary, Jeff Zimbalist, Magnolia, 3 November
- Heading South [Vers el sud], 2005, d. Laurent Cantet, Magnolia, 3 November
- Mana: Beyond Belief, 2004, d. Peter Friedman, Roger Manley, Magnolia, 3 November
- Memron, 2004, d. Nancy Hower, Magnolia, 3 November
- The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio [L'orchestra di Piazza Vittorio], 2006, d. Agostino Ferrente, Magnolia, 3 November
- The Puffy Chair, 2005, d. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Magnolia, 3 November
- Rank, 2006, d. John Hyams, Magnolia, 3 November
- Small Town Gay Bar, 2006, d. Malcolm Ingram, Magnolia, 3 November
- Street Fight, 2005, d. Marshall Curry, Magnolia, 3 November
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated, 2006, d. Kirby Dick, Magnolia, 3 November
- Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas!, 2006, d. Liz Garbus, Rosie Perez, Magnolia, 3 November
- Diagnosis: Death, 2009, d. Jason Stutter, Lionsgate, 29 December, w. Bret McKenzie, Jermaine Clement
- Dark Rage, 2008, d. Lee Akehurst, Cinema Epoch, 12 January
- The Hurt Locker, 2008, d. Kathryn Bigelow, Summit, 12 January
- Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather, 1982, d. Hideo Gosha, AnimEigo, 12 January
- The Brotherhood V: Alumni, d. David DeCoteau, here! Films, 9 February
- Eleven Minutes, 2008, d. Michael Selditch, Robert Tate, here! Films, 9 February
- The Pit and the Pendulum, 2009, d. David DeCoteau, here! Films, 9 February
- The Song of Sparrows, d. Majid Majidi, here! Films, 9 February
- $9.99, d. Tatia Rosenthal, here! Films, 23 February
- Breakfast with Scot, 2007, d. Laurie Lynd, here! Films, 23 February

Atom Egoyan's Latest Among the Latest Unveiling for Toronto 09

While I knew the homegrown titles had yet to be announced for this year's Toronto International Film Festival, another round of additions to the line-up kinda makes you (really) wish everything had come in one big swoop. Atom Egoyan's Chloe, which stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried and sounds an awful lot like Anne Fontaine's awful Nathalie... [correction: it is a remake of Nathalie..., as if I couldn't be any less excited about a new Atom Egoyan film], will make its world premiere in the Gala section. Xavier Dolan's J'ai tué ma mère, which everyone expected to play considering the accolades from Cannes and because, well, it's Canadian, will play in the Special Presentations section, and Jean-Marc Vallée's The Young Victoria, with Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria, will close the fest, even though it already hit the DVD market in the UK last month. The titles are listed below. (Sorry for some of these bootleg-lookin' pics I found, but they were the best I had to work with).

[additional note: I'm too tired to fix the redundant use of "latest" in the title.]

Gala

- Chloe - d. Atom Egoyan
- Cooking with Stella - d. Dilip Mehta (brother of Deepa) - w. Don McKellar
- The Immaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - d. Terry Gilliam

Special Presentations

- Cairo Time - d. Ruba Nadda (Sabah) - w. Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya
- Defendor - d. Peter Stebbings (directorial debut) - w. Kat Dennings, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Sandra Oh
- Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel - d. Brigitte Berman
- J'ai tué ma mère [I Killed My Mother] - d. Xavier Dolan
- The Trotsky - Jacob Tierney (Twist) - w. Jay Baruchel, Saul Rubinek, Colm Feore, Jessica Paré, Genviève Bujold

Contemporary World Cinema

- A Gun to the Head - d. Blaine Thurier
- Cole - d. Carl Bessai (Emile, Mothers&Daughters)
- Excited - d. Bruce Sweeney (Last Wedding)
- High Life - d. Gary Yates
- Passenger Side - d. Matt Bissonnette - w. Adam Scott, Robin Tunney
- Suck - d. Rob Stefaniuk - w. Malcolm McDowell, Dave Foley, Henry Rollins, Jessica Paré, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Moby, Paul Anthony

Canada First!

- Year of the Carnivore - d. Sook-Yin Lee (Shortbus actress)
- All Fall Down - d. Philip Hoffman
- Crackie - d. Sherry White
- George Ryga's Hungry Hills - d. Rob King
- Machotaildrop - d. Corey Adams, Alex Craig
- The Wild Hunt - d. Alexandre Franchi

The Rest...

- La donation - d Bernard Émond (La femme qui boit) [part of the Masters section]
- Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould - d. Peter Raymont, Michele Hozer [part of the Reel to Reel section]
- Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands - d. Peter Mettler [part of the Reel to Reel section]
- Reel Injun - d. Neil Diamond [part of the Reel to Reel section]
- Carcasses - d. Denis Côté (Les états nordiques) [part of the Vanguard section]
- Leslie, My Name Is Evil - d. Reginald Harkema [part of the Vanguard section]