New DVDs and Videotapes

August 18, 2006

Make your movie night a good one with one of the new additions to the DVD and Videotape collections.

Barbarella [videorecording] / Paramount ; a Dino De Laurentiis production ; screenplay by Terry Southern and Roger Vadim in collaboration with Claude Brule ... [et al.] ; produced by Dino De Laurentiis ; directed by Roger Vadim.

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Before sunset [videorecording] / Warner Independent Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment present a Detour Film production ; produced by Anne Walker-McBay ; screenplay by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke ; directed by Richard Linklater

Blackboard jungle [videorecording] / MGM presents ; produced by Pandro S. Berman ; screen play by Richard Brooks ; directed by Richard Brooks

Brokeback Mountain [videorecording] / Focus Features and River Road Entertainment ; directed by Ang Lee ; screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana ; producers, Diana Ossana, James Schamus

Capote [videorecording] / United Artists and Sony Pictures Classics present an A-Line Pictures/Cooper's Town Productions/Infinity Media production ; produced by Caroline Baron, Michael Ohoven, William Vince ; screenplay by Dan Futterman ; directed by Bennett Miller

A Charlie Brown Christmas [videorecording] / a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production in association with Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates and United Feature Syndicate, Inc. ; written and created by Charles M. Schulz ; produced by Lee Mendelson, Bill Melendez ; directed by Bill Melendez

Chicken Little [videorecording] / Walt Disney Pictures ; produced by Randy Fullmer ; story, Mark Dindal, Mark Kennedy ; writers, Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman, Ron Anderson ; directed by Mark Dindal

Cinderella man [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; Miramax Films ; Imagine Entertainment present a Brian Grazer production in associaton with Parkway Productions ; produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Penny Marshall ; story by Cliff Hollingsworth ; screenplay by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman ; directed by Ron Howard

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Derailed [videorecording] / The Weinstein Company and Miramax Films present a di Bonaventura Pictures production in association with Patalex V Productions Limited ; produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura ; screenplay by Stuart Beattie ; directed by Mikael Håfström

Dreamer [videorecording] : inspired by a true story / DreamWorks Pictures presents in association with Hyde Park Entertainment ; a Tollin/Robbins production ; a Hunt Lowry production ; produced by Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins ; written and directed by John Gatins

Elizabethtown [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures presents a Cruise/Wagner Productions-Vinyl Films production ; a Camaeron Crowe film ; produced by Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner ; written and directed by Cameron Crowe

Emmanuel's gift [videorecording] / a First Look Pictures release ; a Lookalike Productions film ; produced and directed by Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern

Europa Europa [videorecording] / Les Films du losange ; CCC-Filmkunst GmbH ; producers, Artur Brauner, Margaret Menegoz ; director/screenwriter, Agnieszka Holland

The family Stone [videorecording] / Fox 2000 Pictures presents a Michael London production ; produced by Michael London ; written and directed by Thomas Bezucha

Fargo [videorecording] / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in association with Working Title Films

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Fun with Dick and Jane [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present a Brian Grazer JC 23 Entertainment Bart/Palevsky production ; produced by Jim Carrey, Brian Grazer ; screenplay by Judd Apatow & Nicholas Stoller ; directed by Dean Parisot

Good night, and good luck [videorecording] / Warner Independent Pictures, 2929 Entertainment and Participant Productions in associations with Davis Films, Redbus Pictures and Tohokushinsha ; a Section Eight production ; directed by George Clooney ; written by George Clooney & Grant Heslov ; produced by Grant Heslov

Hable con ella [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics ; una producción el Deseo, S.A ; con la participación de Vía Digital y Antena 3 Televisión ; el Deseo S.A. presenta ; un film de Almodóvar ; guión y dirección Pedro Almodóvar

Hell in the Pacific [videorecording] / screenplay by Alexander Jacobs, Eric Bercovici ; story by Reuben Bercovitch ; produced by Reuben Bercovitch ; directed by John Boorman

A history of violence [videorecording] / New Line Productions, Inc. ; Bender-Spink, Inc. ; produced by Chris Bender, David Cronenberg, J.C. Spink ; screenplay by Josh Olson ; directed by David Cronenberg

How the Grinch stole Christmas [videorecording]

Dr. Seuss' how the Grinch stole Christmas [videorecording] / Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment ; a Brian Grazer Production ; screenplay by Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman ; produced by Brian Grazer ; directed by Ron Howard

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The Incredibles [videorecording] / Disney presents a Pixar film ; produced by John Walker ; written by Brad Bird ; directed by Brad Bird

Jack Frost [videorecording] : an animated puppet Christmas adventure / produced and directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass ; written by Romeo Muller

Jarhead [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; Red Wagon Productions ; Neal Street Productions ; MP Kappa Productions ; produced by Lucy Fisher, Douglas Wick ; screenplay, William D. Broyles, Jr. ; directed by Sam Mendes

Jesus of Nazareth [videorecording] / ITC ; Lew Grade presents Franco Zeffirelli's production ; written by Anthony Burgess, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Franco Zeffirelli ; produced by Vincenzo Labella ; directed by Franco Zeffirelli

King Kong [videorecording] / Universal Pictures presents a WingNut Films production ; produced by Jan Blenkin, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh ; story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace ; screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson ; directed by Peter Jackson

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe [videorecording] / Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media present ; produced by Mark Johnson, Philip Steuer ; screenplay by Ann Peacock and Andrew Adamson and Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely ; directed by Andrew Adamson

The lord of the rings. The fellowship of the ring [videorecording] / New Line Cinema presents a WingNut Films production ; producers, Barrie M. Osborne ... [et al.] ; screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson ; directed by Peter Jackson

The love letter [videorecording] / Dreamworks Pictures ; directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan

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Madagascar [videorecording] / DreamWorks Animation SKG presents a PDI/DreamWorks production ; produced by Mireille Soria, Teresa Cheng ; written by Mark Burton & Billy Frolick and Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath ; directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Memoirs of a geisha [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment present an Amblin Entertainment/Douglas Wick & Lucy Fisher production ; produced by Lucy Fisher, Steven Spielberg, Douglas Wick ; written by Robin Swicord ; directed by Rob Marshall

Mon oncle [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Panoramic Films présente une production Specta-Gray-Alter ; coproduction franco-italienne Film del Centauro et Cady-Films ; collaboration artistique Jacques Lagrange, assisté de Jean L'Hôte ; un film de Jacques Tati

Mrs. Henderson presents [videorecording] / The Weinstein Company, Pathé Pictures and BBC Films present in association with Future Films, Micro-Fusion and UK Film Council, a Heyman Hoskins production ; produced by Norma Heyman ; written by Martin Sherman ; directed by Stephen Frears

Munich [videorecording] / Universal Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures present an Amblin Entertainment-Kennedy/Marshall-Barry Mendel production in association with Alliance Atlantis Communications ; produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, Steven Spielberg, Colin Wilson ; screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth ; directed by Steven Spielberg

The Muppet Christmas carol [videorecording] / Jim Henson Productions ; Walt Disney Pictures ; producers, Martin G. Baker, Brian Henson ; screenplay by Jerry Juhl ; directed by Brian Henson

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Nanny McPhee [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; Working Title Films ; Three Strange Angels ; Studio Canal ; produced by Tim Bevan, Lindsay Doran, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward ; screenplay by Emma Thompson ; directed by Kirk Jones

The new world [videorecording] / New Line Cinema presents ; produced by Sarah Green ; written and directed by Terrence Malick

The nightmare before Christmas [videorecording] / Touchstone Pictures presents a Burton/Di Novi Production ; produced by Tim Burton and Denise di Novi ; directed by Henry Selick ; screenplay by Caroline Thompson

Ninotchka [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; screen play by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch

The original television Christmas classics [videorecording] : Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer ; Frosty the snowman ; Santa Claus is comin' to town ; with the little drummer boy ; and, Frosty returns / Sony Wonder, Classic Media

Peeping Tom [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors ; Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy present a Michael Powell production ; directed by Michael Powell ; original story and screenplay by Leo Marks

The Polar Express [videorecording] / Castle Rock Entertainment presents in association with Shangri-La Entertainment, a Playtone/ImageMovers/Golden Mean production ; a Robert Zemeckis film ; produced by Steve Starkey ... [et al.] ; screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & William Broyles, Jr. ; directed by Robert Zemeckis

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Pride & prejudice [videorecording] / Focus Features presents in assocation with Studiocanal a Working Title production ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster ; screenplay, Deborah Moggach ; directed by Joe Wright

The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio [videorecording] / Dreamworks Pictures and Revolution Studios present an Imagemovers production ; produced by Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis ; written for the screen and directed by Jane Anderson

The producers [videorecording] / Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures presents a Brooksfilms production ; produced by Mel Brooks and Jonathan Sanger ; screenplay by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan ; directed by Susan Stroman

Real women have curves [videorecording] / HBO Films in association with Newmarket Films presents ; directed by Patricia Cardoso ; screenplay by George LaVoo and Josefina Lopez ; produced by George LaVoo, Effie T. Brown

Risky business [videorecording] / a Geffen Company release

Rumor has it [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures a Section Eight/Spring Creek Production ; produced by Paula Weinstein, Ben Cosgrove ; written by T.M. Griffin ; directed by Rob Reiner

Samurai rebellion [videorecording] = J¯oiuchi/ released by Toho Company, Ltd. ; a Toho-Mifune Production ; original story by Yasuhiko Takiguchi ; produced by Toshir¯o Mifune and Tomoyuki Tanaka ; screenplay by Shinobu Hashimoto ; directed by Masaki Kobayashi

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Seconds [videorecording] / a Joel Productions, Inc. in association with Gibraltar Productions, Inc. ; a Paramount Picture ; produced by Edward Lewis ; directed by John Frankenheimer

Silent running [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; a Michael Gruskoff/Douglas Trumbull production ; producer, Michael Gruskoff ; screenplay, Deric Washburn, Mike Cimino, Steve Bochco ; director, Douglas Trumbull

The squid and the whale [videorecording] / Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures Releasing International and Destination Films present an Original Media and Ambush Entertainment presentation ; an American Empirical/Peter Newman-InterAL production ; a film by Noah Baumbach ; producers, Charlie Corwin, Clara Markovicz ; produced by Wes Anderson, Peter Newman ; written and directed by Noah Baumbach

Stalingrad [videorecording] / Royal Film Produktion ; produced and directed by Joseph Vilsmaier ; written by Johannes Heide

Stroszek [videorecording] / Werner Herzog Film production

Syriana [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Participant Productions, a 4M Film, a Section Eight production ; produced by Jennifer Fox, Michael Nozik, Georgia Kacandes ; written and directed by Stephen Gaghan

They were expendable [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture ; a John Ford production ; screenplay by Frank Wead ; directed by John Ford

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Transamerica [videorecording] / The Weinstein Company and IFC Films present a Belladonna Production ; executive producer, William H. Macy ; produced by Linda Moran, Rene Bastian, and Sebastian Dungan ; written and directed by Duncan Tucker

V for vendetta [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Virtual Studios, a Silver Pictures production in association with Anarchos Productions Inc. ; produced by Grant Hill, Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski ; screenplay by The Wachowski Brothers ; directed by James McTeigue

Waking Ned Devine [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures and Tomboy Films present in association with the Gruber Brothers Mainstream SA, Bonaparte Films, Ltd., the Isle of Man Film Commission and Overseas Filmgroup with the participation of Canal+ ; producers, Glynis Murray and Richard Holmes ; written and directed by Kirk Jones

Walk the line [videorecording] / Fox 2000 Pictures ; Tree Line Films ; Konrad Pictures ; Catfish Productions ; produced by James Keach, Cathy Konrad ; written by Gill Dennis & James Mangold ; directed by James Mangold

Wallace & Gromit in the curse of the were-rabbit [videorecording] / [presented by] DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features ; produced by Claire Jennings ... [et al.] ; screenplay by Steve Box ... [et al.] ; directed by Nick Park & Steve Box

Woman on top [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures ; written by Vera Blasi ; directed by Fina Torres ; produced by Alan Poul

A World apart [videorecording] / Atlantic Entertainment and British Screen present a Working Title production ; director, Chris Menges ; producer, Sarah Radclyffe ; writer, Shawn Slovo

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Young Frankenstein [videorecording] / produced by Michael Gruskoff ; directed by Mel Brooks ; screen story and screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks

Yours, mine & ours [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies and Columbia Pictures present a Robert Simonds production, a Raja Gosnell film ; produced by Robert Simonds, Michael Nathanson ; screenplay by Ron Burch & David Kidd ; directed by Raja Gosnell

Zoot suit [videorecording] / a Luis Valdez film ; a Universal picture ; produced by Peter Burrell ; directed by Luis Valdez ; written for the screen by Luis Valdez

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