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SEPTEMBER 2010

1. Fantomas: The Complete Saga on DVD
This five-disc collection features all five 1913-14 silent serials--"Fantomas" (1913), "Juve Contre Fantomas" (1913), "Le Mort Qui Tue" (1913), "Fantomas Contre Fantomas" (1914), and "Le Faux Magistrat" (1914) - helmed by renowned director Louis Feuillade.

2. Dana Andrews: The Face of Noir
This is a new critical survey of Dana Andrews’ screen career that features a complete filmography with synopses, reviews, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and insightful comments from Andrews and his coworkers.

3. Kim Novak Stars in the 1957 Biopic Jeanne Eagels
This is George Sidney's underrated film biography of the famed stage and silent star who battled drug addiction to build a career and find love. Jeff Chandler and Agnes Moorehead co-star.

4. Furious Love: A Book Review
It is the assertion of Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, authors of Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century, that "Dickenliz" were the first celebrity couple long before Brangelina or Katie and Tom were making the scene. GET THE DETAILS.

5. Alexander Kluge's Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave on DVD
Three decades before Mike Leigh tackled the subject in Vera Drake, director Alexander Kluge cast his own sister in the role of a housewife and mother who also provides abortion services for women in need in this controversial 1973 German film.

6. Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
As Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in his new biography, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers, DeMille was much more than his clichéd image.

7. Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire - Classic 1972 Concert Documentary on DVD
Originally made in 1972 and directed by celebrated British filmmaker Tony Palmer, Bird On A Wire follows Cohen on his 1972 European tour and contains 17 classic performances, 4 poems and tour footage.

8. Terry Zwigoff's Louie Bluie on DVD
More than simply a documentary, director Terry Zwigoff's (Ghost World) first movie offers a unique, eccentric, and affectionate look at the life of Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong--musician, artist, and leader of the last black string band in America.

9. Errol Flynn Adventures DVD box set
A 5-film collection starring action hero Errol Flynn in such exciting films as the WWII drama, Objective, Burma! (1945), the chase thriller Northern Pursuit (1943) and more.

10. The First Films of Akira Kurosawa on DVD
A four-movie set from Eclipse that showcases the internationally acclaimed Japanese director's earliest work; Among the titles are Sanshiro Sugata (1943) and The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945).

11. Science Fiction Confidential: Interviews with 23 Monster Stars & Filmmakers
In Tom Weaver’s eighth interview book, actors and filmmakers talk about their horror and science fiction movie experiences as part of such films and TV series as The Blob, It Came from Outer Space, Tarzan the Ape Man, Star Trek and others.

12. John Cassavetes is Machine Gun McCain (DVD)
This 1969 Italian-made crime thriller tells the gripping saga of a hardened ex-con, who emerges from a long prison stint to find his grown son has turned into a small-time hustler with a new--and criminal--job opportunity. It all leads to a major heist and double cross with the Mafia.

13. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film
Drawing on extensive research into both the recorded truths of Lamarr's life and the rumors that made her notorious, author Ruth Barton recognizes Lamarr's contributions to both film and technology while revealing the controversial and conflicted woman underneath.

14. Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood - Coming to TCM This Fall
This comprehensive true story behind the making of the American movie industry is being co-produced by TCM and Bill Haber's Ostar Productions and is slated to premiere in November 2010.

15. William Holden in Union Station on DVD
The Chicago police try to capture a homicidal kidnapper and his accomplice as danger mounts and the FBI is called in to lend a hand in this 1950 noir thriller.

16. Incredibly Strange Films (New Edition)
Featuring meaty interviews focusing on philosophy, illuminating anecdotes, and plenty of images of movie stills, promotional posters, and photos of filmmakers in their environments, this book is one-stop shopping for alternative film buffs.

17. Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers
This new book explores the interplay between personal creativity and the craft of animation storytelling, as seen through the lives and art of two of its greatest artists: Joe Grant and Joe Ranft.

18. James Mason & Ava Gardner in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman on Blu-Ray & DVD
A bored sophisticate (Ava Gardner) is drawn to a mysterious ship captain in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, a haunting fantasy now on Blu-Ray.

19. Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective
This is Yunte Huang’s absorbing history of the legendary Cantonese detective, born in Hawaii around 1871, who inspired a series of fiction and movie doubles that long defined America’s distorted perceptions of Asians and Asian Americans.

20. Crumb - Terry Zwigoff's Award-Winning 1994 Documentary on DVD
An engrossing and certainly challenging portrait of a genuine artist, Crumb penetrates into its subject's psychological background in a way that most documentaries cannot.

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