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THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS Influx Café Saturday, June 12 ::: 9pm Citizen Video and Influx Café are teaming together to bring you a great local movie event. Influx will close down it's doors early and we'll project our copy of Wes Anderson's third movie - Royal Tenenbaums - against their bright white walls. Influx will provide their baked-with-love goods and free wine and coffee. The cost of admission is $15. All proceeds go to benefit the Greater Golden Hill Community Development Fund. |
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OUR FIRST BLU-RAY TITLE Persepolis Okay you early adopters. This one is for you.... we felt the fantastic animation and style of Persepolis was one of the best movies with which to start our forray into the Blu-ray. Persepolis is an animated film, made by Marjane Satrapi and fellow cartoonist Vincent Paronnaud, based on Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novels about her childhood and young adulthood. It is a powerful story of a fiesty young child who watches her country transition from a modern, urbane culture to a medieval, repressive one. As with the best of stories, Persepolis blends the personal and the political - in this case the personal journey of a young woman as an exile side by side an examination of the cultural differences between Europe and the Middle East. |
| Coming Soon:Mongol An epic film by Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov concerning the life and legend of Genghis Khan. It opens Friday at the Hillcrest and Landmark Cinemas. As a companion renter, citizen video has acquired 1956's The Conqueror, with John Wayne playing Mongol chief Temujin who goes on to be crowned Genghis Khan. The Conqueror is a camp movie for the pure fact that all the "mongols" speak English with a Southern draw. Additionally, the filming of The Conqueror on the site of contemporaneous nuclear testing grounds in Nevada had tragic consequences and is worth a google search for those trivia buffs trying to fill up some office time. |
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| Coming Soon :Reprise This debut film by young Norwegian director Joachim Trier garnered a handful of international awards when it played the circuit way back in 2006, but it's only now that we American are getting our first taste. The film chronicles two twentysomething males who both aspire to become cult novelists. When one of the two makes it big and suffers a big breakdown, the other has to decide what's best for him. The film begins Friday, June 6 at Hillcrest Cinemas, and we here at Citizen plan on checking it out immediately. |
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| This Summer: Pineapple Express We here at Citizen Video love David Gordon Green, who made his name with the ultra-indie George Washington, as well as All the Real Girls and Undertow and the upcoming Snow Angels. We also love Judd Apatow, responsible for Freaks and Geeks, Knocked Up, and Superbad, among others. So when we heard the Apatow had hand-picked Green for a big stoner-action-buddy-comedy to be released in summer 2008, we couldn't help but get a little excited. From a script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who wrote Superbad together (and we know Rogen from his starring turns as well), Pineapple involves a pothead, Rogen, and his dealer, James Franco, who are witnesses to a murder and must elude both the folks who would like to see them dead as well as the cops who think they're responsible, all because of the best pot ever, Pineapple Express. Here's the Red Band trailer that just popped up. |
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THE WORD IS OUT |
| In case you didn't catch the buzz going on about Citizen, check out these recent great articles. David Elliott, of the Union-Tribune, wrote this article that appeared in last Sunday's art section. And for some less mainstream media, check our article in Blogsandiego. Keith Boyd did a great job capturing the essence and motivation behind Citizen. |
