 | Arthur Penn's film, based on Arlo Guthrie's famous song of the same name, takes an exuberant look at the 1960s counterculture, draft dodging, social intolerance, law enforcement, and the hardships of growing older. Like the 18-minute song itself,... |
 | In one of their few non-Clouseau efforts, Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers preserve the spirit of the French bumbler in the person of Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone Indian actor. Brought to Hollywood to play the title role in SON OF GUNGA DIN,... |
 | Based on the autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, an erotic and sensitive story of a young French school girl who embarks on a torrid love affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Colonial Vietnam. Consumed by desire, they cling to... |
 | The sequel to 1972's FRITZ THE CAT, NINE LIVES catches up with Fritz post-college and married. Director Ralph Bakshi continues to use the animated cat as a vehicle for satire and out and out comedy. Fritz is unhappily married and smokes marijuana to... |
 | Personnel includes: Sun Ra (piano, keyboards, synthesizers); Marshall Allen (alto saxophone, flute). The challenging, complex SPACE IS THE PLACE (music to the soundtrack of the film of the same name) is definitive early-1970s Sun Ra. Heavily... |
 | Based on a real life incident, this disturbing drama serves as a seminal study of disillusioned and alienated youth. Set in a small rural town, the local clique of slacker teens is pulled apart when Samson (Daniel Roebuck) kills his girlfriend on the... |
![CD: Radiolarians 1 [Digipak] Martin & Wood Medeski, Sep-2008](http://i21.ebayimg.com/06/c/000/77/77/c648_6.JPG) | The first of a series of three proposed albums, RADIOLARIANS 1 continues the groove-based jazz experimentation for which Medeski, Martin, & Wood are known. (A radiolarian is a single-celled aquatic organism, and the image works nicely as a metaphor... |
 | This is a wild journey through "down under" as a scam artist, on the run, finds himself trapped in an outrageous Australian town. The town, and its inhabitants, are bizarre and wacky beyond belief, and from there the laughs begin to pile. |
 | Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO) transports New York to a pre-feminist, late 1960s, Andy Warhol art scene in this stylistically inflammatory flick that harkens back to such films as BORN IN FLAMES. Lili Taylor plays the angry Valerie Solanas with a... |
 | Personnel: Carla Bley (piano); Andy Shepard (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Steve Swallow (bass guitar); Billy Drummond (drums). Recording information: Europe (2003). Pianist/composer Carla Bley strikes again with another predictably... |