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Kevin Smith’s MALLRATS 2-Disc Blu-ray Set Available From Arrow Video October 13th

The Kevin Smith’s MALLRATS 2-Disc Blu-ray set will be available from Arrow Video October 13th

THEY RE NOT THERE TO SHOP. THEY RE NOT THERE THERE TO WORK. THEY RE JUST THERE.

Following the smash success of his first feature, Clerks, Kevin Smith returned with Mallrats. Spawning a raft of characters and in-jokes that Smith would carry throughout his career, the film continued the one-of-a-kind comedic world known as the View Askewniverse.

Simultaneously dumped by their girlfriends, comic book obsessive Brodie (Jason Lee) and best friend TS (Jeremy London) plan to ease the pain of their losses by taking take a trip to the local mall. Amongst shoppers, they discover the mall is being used as the venue for a dating show, in which TS s girlfriend Brandi is the star. Hatching a plan to win back their significant others, Brodie and TS enlist the help of professional delinquents Jay and Silent Bob to hijack the gameshow in a bid to win back Brandi. Meanwhile, Brodie carries out his own mission to make good his relationship with Rene (Shannen Doherty), who has attracted the attentions of his nemesis Shannon (Ben Affleck).

Featuring a cast including Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck, who would go on to be recurring collaborators in Smith s movies, Mallrats celebrates its 25th Anniversary in this limited edition set boasting a brand new restoration and hours of bonus content.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

  • Brand new restoration by Arrow Films of both the Theatrical and Extended cuts of the film, approved by director Kevin Smith and cinematographer David Klein.
  • Newly assembled TV cut of the film featuring hilarious overdubbing to cover up profanity
  • High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations
  • Collector s booklet featuring new writing by Philip Kemp
  • Fold out poster featuring replica blueprints for Operation Drive-by and Operation Dark Knight

DISC ONE – THEATRICAL AND EXTENDED CUTS

  • Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Audio commentary with director Kevin Smith, producer Scott Mosier, archivist Vincent Pereira, and actors Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, and Jason Mewes
  • Brand new introduction to the film by Kevin Smith
  • My Mallrat Memories – and all-new interview with Kevin Smith
  • A newly filmed tribute to producer Jim Jacks by Kevin Smith
  • Brand new interview with actor Jason Mewes
  • Brand new interview with Cinematographer David Klein
  • Hollywood of the North: A newly produced animated making-of documentary featuring Minnesota crew members who worked on the film
  • Deleted Scenes – Kevin Smith and Vincent Pereira discuss deleted scenes and sequences originally cut from the film
  • Outtakes and behind the scenes footage
  • Cast interviews from the original set
  • Erection of an Epic: The making of Mallrats – archival retrospective with cat and crew looking at the making and release of the film.
  • Q&A with Kevin Smith – archival Q&A filmed for the 10th anniversary
  • Build Me Up Buttercup music video
  • Stills galleries
  • Theatrical Trailer

DISC TWO – TV CUT

  • Newly assembled TV cut of the film featuring hilarious overdubbing to cover up profanity
  • Original stereo audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Brand new introduction to the TV cut by director Kevin Smith
  • Stills gallery of the comic books featured in the film s opening sequence
  • Easter eggs

John Travolta in MICHAEL Available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive

“It’s cookies, he smells like cookies, and the smell gets stronger when he’s in heat.“

John Travolta in MICHAEL is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive. Ordering info can be found HERE

Would-be ghosts. UFO voyagers. A chicken that pecks out the “Moonlight Sonata” on the piano — blindfolded! They’re the kinds of stories that keep the National Mirror in the nation’s shopping carts. And they’re the kinds of stories that make the tabloid’s reporters think they’ve heard and seen it all. But that’s before they meet Michael. He may be a grubby party animal who knows his way around a dance floor, but Michael is very much an angel. And with John Travolta in the title role, Michael is very much a divine romantic comedy. William Hurt, Andie MacDowell and Robert Pastorelli are writers sent by boss Bob Hoskins to get an exclusive on the heavenly visitor. The journalists want a page-one scoop. But their subject has a far more joyous and life-affirming plan in mind.

Get DAZED AND CONFUSED With Your High School Friends at the Tivoli Midnights This Weekend

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“That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age!”

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DAZED AND CONFUSED plays this weekend (August 19th and 20th) at the Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series.

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I graduated from Kirkwood High School in 1979 and DAZED AND CONFUSED, which I saw at the Shady Oak Theater in Clayton 14 years later, is so spot-on it’s scary. Writer-Director Richard Linklater is one year older than me and his film debut was a nostalgic look back at the final day of school, when the soon-to-be-seniors get drunk and stoned waiting for their first year at the top of the food chain while the incoming freshmen get prepared for a year of getting picked on. A wide range of character drink, smoke pot and have fun talking about what life is about to offer them. I think it’s fair to say that this film did for the late ‘70s what American GRAFFITI did for the early ‘60s in that it was a very nostalgic look back for a director who was clearly putting his memories on film so that future generations could look back and use the film to say that’s what it was like back in the day. With DAZED AND CONFUSED, Linklater did a remarkable job capturing the mood and spirit of teenagers and the colorful soundtrack really packs a punch. The actors playing these parts are at the top of their game and seeing this movie today is a lot different than when I saw it back when it was first released. I still remember watching DAZED AND CONFUSED and being impressed by all of the unknowns, but when you see the film today it’s rather shocking to see how many went on to bigger things. Matthew McConaughey, Jason London, Renee Zelweger, Rory Cochrane, Adam Goldberg, Milla Jovovich, Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck, and Parker Posey are just a few of the familiar faces and all of them do a fine job with their characters. Another important part of the film is its terrific soundtrack, which includes the likes of Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, ZZ Top, KISS, Deep Purple, Ted Nugent, Peter Frampton, War, Nazareth and many others. There’s no question that the story is fairly light as there’s really not too much going on except for drinking and smoking but I think there was a point to that. The young faces and terrific music are two of the biggest highlights and in the end there’s no way not to be impressed with what you’re seeing with DAZED AND CONFUSED.

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Now grab your old stoner buddies and relive your high school days when DAZED AND CONFUSED plays on the big screen this weekend (August 19th and 20th) at the Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series.

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The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO. Admission is a mere $8!

The Tivoli’s website can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

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Here’s the Reel Late at the Tivoli Line-up for the next several weeks:

Sept. 26-27         THE ROOM

Oct. 3-4                PRINCESS MONONOKE – Sponsored by Star Clipper, with prizes!

Oct. 10-11            YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Oct. 17-18            CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST– Adults only!

Oct. 24-25 and Oct. 31-Nov. 1     ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW – All tickets $10 for ROCKY

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ART MACHINE Giveaway

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ART MACHINE, the all new film starring Joseph Cross (Lincoln), Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl), and Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy) comes out tomorrow, and to celebrate we are giving away an ART MACHINE prize pack!

Art Machine Prize Pack:

(1) Poster signed by the writers, director, producers and star Joseph Cross

(1) Special limited edition Art Machine T-shirt signed by the director

At age six, child prodigy painter Declan Truss (Joseph Cross) was propelled into the art world as a rare marvel, but by seventeen, the tightrope of notoriety is catching up with him. Declan seeks inspiration as the immense pressures of an impending coming-of-age exhibition loom. His world explodes when he stumbles on a commune of rebellious freethinkers through an incendiary rooftop meeting with pyrotechnic outsider artist, Cassandra Moon (Jessica Szohr). Declan reaches beyond painting to wild experimentation, quickly spinning out of control. As he becomes consumed by his mania, he begins to regard his mother (Joey Lauren Adams) as part of a system that’s keeping him down, and magnetically rallies the rebels to take part in his progressively subversive art exhibition–one that will ultimately shock and destroy.

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Set against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s vibrant art and music scene, Art Machine is a dark comedy about the tenuous relationship between art and commerce, the fine line between creative genius and clinical mania, and the damaging effects of fame.

FOR MORE INFO:
WEBSITE: http://www.artmachinemovie.com/

ART MACHINE comes out February 6

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SXSW’s APART – New stills featuring Joey Lauren Adams

APART, a new film playing at this years SXSW festival has released some brand new stills… and we have them for your viewing pleasure!

Synopsis:

Noah Greene (Josh Danziger) awakens from a two-year coma.  His memories are hazy; even as he rehabilitates himself, he remains lost in his own life.  As Noah digs deeper into his half-remembered life, he is forced to confront the suspicions of those around him, as well as a pair of shattering tragedies that both bind him to and drive him away from the girl he loves.  The first of these – a school bus accident when they were young children – has forever connected him to his playmate Emily Gates (Olesya Rulin).  The result of the accident is a rare but real disorder called folie à deux (referred to as ICD-10, F.24), where the traumatized Emily suffers disturbing and precognitive visions for the rest of her life – visions which Noah also experiences, but only in proximity to Emily.

As Noah returns to his hometown, determined to discover the cause of his injury and memory loss, he re-connects with Emily.  Together, Noah pieces together the nature of the relationship they enjoyed as teenagers: warm, familiar, achingly tender… a closeness that should have blossomed into romance, save for the catastrophes of the past.

Apart was made by Texans filmmakers and was shot in Richmond and Rosenberg outside Houston.

Screenings at SXSW:

Saturday, March 12th at 7:00PM at Rollins Theater (701 West Riverside Dr.)

Thursday, March 17th at 12:00PM at Paramount Theater (713 Congress Ave.)

Movie Website: http://www.apart-movie.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apartmovie

Twitter: @apartmovie

Kevin Smith Week: ‘Chasing Amy’

What is the one thing that will drive two best friends apart? A cute blond bi-sexual girl of course. One of my all time favorite View-Askew films is ‘Chasing Amy’, Kevin Smith’s third installment in the Jersey Trilogy and his most critically acclaimed film to date. ‘Chasing Amy’ was the winner of the Independent Spirit Award for best Screenplay and  the launching pad for little known actress  Joey Lauren Adams. Adam’s also received a  Golden Globe nomination  for her performance of Alyssa Jones, the previously mentioned bi-sexual blond. Kevin Smith is a film maker with an eye for talent, gathering a group that today would  make up  an A-list cast (Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck)  to do a movie with a shoestring budget close to $250,000.

Ben Affleck and Jason Lee return, after fighting over Shannon Dougherty in ‘Mallrats’, as life long friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards in 1997’s ‘Chasing Amy’. McNeil (Affleck) and Edwards (Lee) are roommates and successful comic-book creators. Their latest endeavor is the story of Bluntman & Chronic, a tale of  two stoner superheroes, that have a strong resemblance to Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, himself) . If you haven’t picked up the books, you really should …they’re great! (and available at www.viewaskew.com).

While at a comic book convention, Holden notices an attractive artist on a Q&A panel, Alyssa Jones (Adams) creator of her own feminist comic ‘Idiosyncratic Routine’. One of my favorite scenes in the film happens at the convention, when Banky (Lee) is forced to defend his station in life: being an inker. Don’t even call him a tracer! Holden, Banky, Alyssa and black militant homosexual artist Hooper (Dwight Ewell)Â  all meet for a drink following the convention. Holden is convinced he and Alyssa shared a moment, and he is infatuated with her.

It’s not until the next time Holden meets up with Alyssa at the Meow Mix bar that he realizes she plays for the other team.  Holden catches  her playing a little tonsil hockey with a young blond. That’s when Banky realizes they are trying to pick up girls at a lesbian bar and smiles  from ear to ear.  Ã‚  This doesn’t stop Holden who eventually falls for Alyssa, and in turn,  she falls for him.  This forfeits  Alyssa’s membership in the she-woman man haters club.

The new romance also drives a wedge in the Bluntman & Chronic team.   Banky does what any best friend would do…he digs up some dirt on Alyssa. Banky discovers her high school nickname was “fingercuffs”, coming from her early sexual awareness. you need to check out the DVD to decode the meaning of… “fingercuffs”. (DVD available at www.viewaskew.com)

Holden, who thought he was the one who converted Alyssa back to the “sausage side”, is unable to look  at  a future with Alyssa, being  disgusted with her past sexual exploits. Following the break-up, we finally are treated to  the first  appearance of Jay and Silent Bob. Bob , not so quietly, explains to Holden the concept and basis for the title of the film “Chasing Amy” or in this case Chasing Alyssa. Basically letting your one true love get away and then spend the rest of your life chasing after that feeling you once had. Holden, after a failed suggested threesome with Alyssa and…Banky?,   pens a new graphic novel and apology called …yes you guessed it….”Chasing Amy” that chronicles his and Alyssa’s relationship culminating with a final panel “I’m Sorry Alyssa”.

Kevin Smith’s cannonball into the sexual revolution pool is a “10!” Chasing Amy is a wonderful story of how people react to  each other’s sexuality.  I have been to Red Bank, New Jersey (everyone should visit this cool small town). Every time I watch ‘Amy’ it’s like re-living the trip there, I can almost smell the pizza slices around the corner from the View Askew shop.   Chasing Amy is the perfect end to a hilarious threesome of buddy movies (Clerks, Mallrats), and it will make you laugh, it will make some cry (not me!) and mostly it will make you think! You will also see the graduation of a fine director (Kevin Smith) into the icon he has become today. Make ‘Chasing Amy’ part of your DVD library and don’t let Amy be a stranger… re-visit her often.