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New Releases for Tuesday 7/24/01

Pollock - DVD and VHS
(USA,  2000)
Rated R
Directed By Ed Harris
Staring
Ed Harris
Marcia Gay Harden
Tom Bower
Bud Court

    Ed Harris's POLLOCK is a moving portrait of artist Jackson Pollock, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work had major influence on the modern art movement. A serious alcoholic who was married to Lee Krasner, another prominent painter, the film illustrates Pollock's rise to art world fame in the last 15 years of his life, and his subsequent surrender to the bottle which brought his death in 1956. In its best moments, POLLOCK shows Krasner (a strong, dynamic, and fascinating Marcia Gay Harden) and Pollock (a stern Harris) conversing about the progression of the modern movement while criticizing each other's work from their adjoining studios in a tiny apartment in Manhattan's East Village. Other highlights of the film include a handful of high energy painting sequences that demonstrate Pollock's technique--the fluid straight-from-tube strokes of his earlier work and the more radical throwing, drizzling, and splattering of paint from the brush to the canvas in his later works; along with amusing depictions of the New York and Long Island art worlds with Peggy Guggenheim (Amy Madigan), Clement Greenberg (Jeffrey Tambor), Willem de Kooning (Val Kilmer), and Howard Putzel (Bud Cort) in the major roles. Based on the biography JACKSON POLLOCK: AN AMERICAN SAGA by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, the film has an uplifting musical score and a soundtrack that includes some of Pollock's favorite jazz-blues tunes, both of which are welcome counterpoints to the movie's darker moments.

     

Sweet November - DVD and VHS
(USA, 2001)
Rated PG-13
Directed By Pat O'Connor
Staring
Keanu Reeves
Charloze Theron
Jason Issacs

    Based on the screenplay by Herman Raucher for the 1968 film of the same title, SWEET NOVEMBER stars Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves in the story of an experimental love affair. Theron is Sara, a free-spirited woman who runs across tight-laced ad executive Nelson (Reeves) at the DMV. Nelson wants only to be left alone to continue on the fast track of his career, but Sara is drawn to him. She makes him an offer: to be her November, the man who will live with her for one month only, during which she will "help" him. Not sure why, Nelson accepts, finding that Sara appeals to something he didn't even know was inside him. As she begins to change his life, Nelson realizes what he's been missing in his career-centered world--but just as he begins to reach out to her, Nelson finds that Sara has secrets of her own.

Valentine -  VHS and DVD
(USA, 2000)
Rated R
Directed By Jamie Blanks
Staring
Denise Richards
David Boreanaz
Marley Shelton

    A group of four precocious college girls makes fun of one of their nerdy classmates--a young man who harbors a serious grudge about it for years afterward. Finally, having grown into a handsome, self-assured man, he goes back to get his revenge: Each year on Valentine's Day he takes one of them on a murderous date. From the director of URBAN LEGEND, VALENTINE is a terrifying horror story starring David Boreanaz (ANGEL) and Denise Richards (WILD THINGS).

*  Not all titles available at all locations

Potomac Video’s Top Ten Renting Titles for the Week of 7/16 -  7/22

1.    Family Man (Comedy, Rated PG-13)
2.    Snatch (Action, Rated R)
3.    O Brother, Where Art Thou?  (Comedy, Rated PG-13) 
4.    Best in Show (Comedy, Rated PG-13)
5.    Thirteen Days (Drama, Rated PG-13)
6.    Traffic (Action, Rated R)
7.    Castaway (Drama, Rated R)
8.    You Can Count On Me (Drama, Rated PG-13)
9.    State and Main (Comedy, Rated R)
10.  Wedding Planner (Comedy, Rated PG-13)

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