Thursday, September 11, 2008

For your listening pleasure: NEW MUSIC CDS SEPTEMBER 2008



MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS:

Pineapple Express

Step Up 2 the Streets

Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild


BLUES:

Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two men With the Blues

Sonny Terry - Absolutely the Best

Chris Smither - Leave the Light On


MUSICALS:

In the Heights

Passing strange


FOLK:

Too Human - From There to Here

Too Human - True

Baltimore Consort - On the Banks of the Helicon


COUNTRY:

Sugarland - Love on the Inside

Raul Malo - You're Only Lonely


LOCAL:

Sonya Kitchell - This Storm


INTERNATIONAL:

Patrice Larose - Set Luna

GoTan Project - Lunatico

Bob Marley - Catch a Fire


OPERA:

Gilbert & Sullivan - HMS Pinafore


ROCK/POP:

Sara Bareilles - Little Voice

Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls

Coldplay - Viva la Vida

Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Onerepublic - Dreaming Out Loud

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced

John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love...

Leona Lewis - Spirit

Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark

Nightwish - Once

Thursday, September 04, 2008

NEW DVDS AUGUST 2008






27 DRESSES
starring Katherine Heigl

DR. BELL & MR. DOYLE
starring Ian Richardson; based on book series by David Pirie

HOGFATHER
based on Terry Pratchett's novel

DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
the original! Remake opening in theaters in December

SUPERNATURAL: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON
starring Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki

BUCKET LIST - currently the most requested title in the Western Mass. library system

DAM BUSTERS - with Michael Redgrave. A WWII story about a British air squadron

BELLA - Toronto film festival winner

BLACKBOARD JUNGLE - starring Glenn Ford

FLAWLESS - with Demi Moore & Michael Caine

GREAT DEBATERS - Denzel Washington. About a college's first debate team, inspired by
true events

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL - a quirky romantic comedy

LIONS FOR LAMBS - with Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, & Tom Cruise

PS I LOVE YOU - starring Hilary Swank, based on the Cecelia Ahern novel

WEEDS: SEASON 3 - the cable hit about a pot dealer and her community

CENTENNIAL: THE COMPLETE SERIES - the 1970s TV series based on James Michener's novel

MONARCH OF THE GLEN, SERIES 6 - PBS series about a Scottish laird

MAD MEN: SEASON 1 - hit TV series about Madison Avenue

JOHN ADAMS: the blockbuster TV miniseries

INSPECTOR MORSE: INFERNAL SERPENT - 6 disc set of episodes from the PBS show;
inspired by the Colin Dexter books

ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL - based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes

MARTIAN CHILD - starring John Cusack

MONASTERY: MR. VIG & THE NUN - Danish film about a man who wants to convert his
castle into a monastery

STEAMBOY - anime with the voices of Patrick Stewart and Alfred Molina

PROOF - an Australian film, with Russell Crowe before he got famous

DEATH AT A FUNERAL - a comedy with Matthew Macfadyen and Peter Dinklage (of THE
STATION AGENT fame)

FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN - starring Meryl Streep & Jeremy Irons

KNIGHT'S TALE - starring the late Heath Ledger

HOUSE OF GAMES - mind games with Joe Mantegna

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS - more historical treasure-hunting with Nicolas Cage

PERSEPOLIS - animated film based on the award-winning graphic novel biography by
Marjane Satrapi

OTHER BOLEYN GIRL - drama about Anne Boleyn and her sister, starring Natalie
Portman & Scarlett Johansson

PARIS JE T'AIME - love stories from the City of Lights

MAN WHO NEVER WAS - wartime espionage with Clifton Webb & Gloria Grahame

FOYLE'S WAR, SET 5 - final 3 episodes of the PBS series about a policeman in wartime
Great Britain

HOUSE OF CARDS - a 3 movie set about a scheming politician in modern London,
starring Ian Richardson

SANDBAGGERS - British TV drama about spying, starring Roy Marsden

RAPTOR FORCE - a NATURE episode about birds of prey

BUSH'S WAR - a FRONTLINE documentary about the Iraq war

ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED

FREE SPIRITS - documentary about the Renaissance commune

GRANGE FAIR

GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST

INTO GREAT SILENCE - film about the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery in the French Alps

MY KID COULD PAINT THAT - true story of the sudden celebrity of a toddler artist

STEEP - documentary about the world's best skiers

AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS

RED SOX MEMORIES

AURORA, RIVER OF LIGHT IN THE SKY

YOU BET YOUR LIFE: BEST OF GROUCHO

INRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE - with Halle Berry

PERSONAL VELOCITY

AT WAR WITH THE ARMY/AFRICA SCREAMS

BORN FREE

TROY

WEST SIDE WALTZ

SWINGERS

COUSIN BETTE

ROGER DODGER

AT FIRST SIGHT

BE COOL

BRING IT ON


Documentaries donated by the Media Education Foundation:


BLOOD & OIL

DIAMOND EMPIRE

GIRLS: MOVING BEYOND MYTH

MICHAEL KIMMEL ON GENDER

ON WHITE PRIVILEGE

WRITING ABOUT MEDIA

BOYS TO MEN?

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

IN DEBT WE TRUST

MILITAINMENT

WAR MADE EASY