Readings staff customerservice@readings.com.au http://www.readings.com.au/feed/collection/st-kilda-recommends-film 2008-03-31T05:39:53Z 9315842033002 <p>Pedro Almodovar makes a triumphant return to the screen in this rich tale of three generations of women who manage to survive everyday life by means of goodness, occasional lies and boundless vitality. Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is struggling to make ends meet, holding down several jobs while supporting her unemployed husband and teenage daughter. When Raimunda and her sister are visited by the ghost of their dead mother, Irene (Carmen Maura) it becomes clear that some long-repressed family issues remain unresolved. Spontaneous and endearing, Volver exudes warmth, humour and genuine emotion.</p> 9397810120495 <p>Howard and Vince are often called upon to put their jobs before their pride. That means dressing up as animals and sitting in cages because their boss, can't afford any real animals.</p> 9322225066595 <p>Globally renowned photographer and image-maker to superstar bands like Depeche Mode and U2, Anton Corbijn brings us his first feature film CONTROL-the story of the tortured love triangle between Joy Division's frontman Ian Curtis, his young wife and his Belgian lover, and the ascension of this seminal British band in the late 1970s. Ian Curtis was only 23 when his rise to fame was tragically cut short. His brief spell in the spotlight was illuminated by an inimitable stage presence and a singular lyrical gift but also by agonising personal conflicts. CONTROL is the insider's story of the man behind the myth.</p> <p>The Independent has called CONTROL "the coolest British movie of 2007" and it was the undisputed hit at that year's Cannes film festival. The music of Joy Division has been cited as an influence by everyone from Nine Inch Nails to Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and The Killers.</p> 9398710745191 <p>In Death Proof director Tarantino's take on such peddle to the metal shockers as White Line Fever Kurt Russell stars as an engine revving psychopath who prefers to take out his beautiful victims at 200 mph. Originally released into theaters on a double bill with Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror under the Grindhouse banner, Death Proof finds a group of ladies out on the town pitted against a mysterious figured named Stuntman Mike (Russell), whose vintage Dodge Charger has been partially modified to withstand even the most extreme auto collision. Though the maniacal driver himself always comes out relatively unscathed, the same certainly can't be said for the poor young lass in his passenger seat or anyone unfortunate enough to be on the road when the urge to kill strikes for that matter. With a list of potential road kill candidates that includes Rose McGowan, Jordan Ladd, Rosario Dawson, and Vanessa Ferlito, Death Proof takes viewers on an adrenaline-infused drive that's as sexy as it is shocking.</p> 3000000064481 <p>The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition of thievery, larceny and petty crime - until now. When patriarch Wolfgang West is sentenced to four years in jail, his wife Cheryl decides enough is enough; the family are cleaning up their act and going straight. Can the Wests live up to Cheryl’s resolve and stay out of crime? It’s not easy to be a saint when you have the DNA of a sinner. Outrageous Fortune is a bold family comedy-drama about the wrong sort of people trying to do the right thing. A bold, fresh series by turns bawdy, actionpacked, satirical and trashy, this is cutting edge contemporary drama.</p> 9322225065680 <p>Skins follows a group of teenagers living on the wild side, who get high, get drunk, get laid and get up for their A levels. This British series currently screening on SBS features a whole cross- section of teenagers, ranging across race, sexualities and social backgrounds, and the story lines are provocative and topical - anorexia, drug-taking, a guy who cheats on his girlfriend with another guy, a muslim who has to deal with his family's disapproval of his best friend's sexual orientation. This is not sanitized, politically correct viewing; and the nudity and swearing and highly energetic film-making and acting make for the kind of in-your-face television which you've come to expect from the land of the Original Queer as Folk and Shameless. This is a 3 Disc set containing all 9 episodes.</p> 5050582005158 <p>Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except Peck, the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassion defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.</p> 9398710745290 <p>After an experimental bionerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex boyfriend Wray, a strong willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so called "sickos" threaten to take over the whole town and the world.</p> 9322225058774 <p>While slumbering, he is the charismatic host of "Stéphane TV," expounding on "The Science of Sleep" in front of cardboard cameras. In real life, he has a boring job at a Parisian calendar publisher and pines for Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the girl in the apartment across the hall. While Stéphanie is initially charmed by Stephane, she is confused by his childishness and shaky connection to reality. Stéphane's co-worker, Guy (Alain Chabat) a vulgar but practical man, offers advice on the opposite sex, but Stéphane is too far in the clouds to listen. Unable to find the secret to Stephanie's heart while awake, Stéphane searches for the answer in his dreams.</p> 9339065000863 <p>The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf Critically-acclaimed biopic about the legendary international singing icon Edith Piaf, whose voice and talent captivated the world. Starring award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in an astonishing performance, the film is a portrait of a remarkable artist born into poverty who survived using the only gift she had - her voice. Piaf's tragic life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love, with no regrets.</p> <p>Special Features: The Making of La Vie En Rose Edith Piaf – An Exclusive Documentary La Vie En Rose in New York Deleted Scenes</p> 9322225061569 <p>Death Note is director Shusuke Kaneko's stylish adaptation of the best selling manga. The plot picks up as aimless law student Light Yagami (Tetsuya Fujiwara) discovers a mysterious notebook in the middle of the street. Soon thereafter, Light discovers that if he writes a name in the notebook, that person will instantly die (generally of a heart attack). Of course it doesn't take long for Light to realize the extraordinary power he now holds, and before long he hatches a plan to rid the planet of crime by scribbling the name of notorious criminals in the pages of the powerful notebook and make the world a safer place for decent citizens everywhere. But Light isn't alone in his mission, because his new companion Ryuk - a flying god of death who only Light can see and who also happens to be the true owner of the notebook - is always there to egg him on and get a little laugh from the criminal holocaust. Over the course of the next few weeks, Light does away with millions of nefarious baddies and the global crime rate drops by seventy percent. Still, the police aren't too happy that a regular civilian seems to be taking the law into his own hands. Perhaps the only person capable of discovering Light's true identity is L (Kenichi Matsuyama) - a brilliant teenage detective with a taste for sweets and remarkable deductive reasoning skills. When the police chief (Takeshi Kaga of the hit television series Iron Chef) - who also happens to be Light's father - is assigned the task of unmasking the elusive killer, things really start to get interesting.</p> 9330080006410 <p>A surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's classic Alice in Wonderland, the film stars Kristyna Kohoutová as Alice, the only human character in the film. The other roles, which are voiced by Alice, are filled by an odd menagerie of animated clay, puppets, and meat. After falling asleep beside a stream, Alice follows a stuffed rabbit into a magical world where she encounters several grotesque-looking characters, including a caterpillar and The Mad Hatter.</p> 5023965376725 <p>An emperor's son, Reza Niro (Imanol Arias), comes to Madrid in disguise and sleeps with Sadeq (Antonio Banderas), an Islamic terrorist with a highly developed sense of smell. Sadeq's group wants to kidnap Reza, who disguises himself as a punk rock singer and falls in love with Sexilia (Cecilia Roth), a nymphomaniac singer for a rival band. There's also a wealthy woman (Helga Line) who wants Reza's sperm for an artificial insemination, a delirious dry-cleaner who sleeps with his own daughter, and other bizarre characters. Almodovar takes delight in intersecting lives, chance meetings, and humor that springs from the strangest of situations. He also has the rare talent of presenting potentially offensive material in such a whimsical and affectionate fashion that no matter what his characters do, the audience loves them as much as he does.</p> <p>My favourite of all Almodovar films.... he actually appears in drag in the nightclub scene singing "suck it to me"- what a treat- Dean</p> 0081227236724 <p>This docudrama set in 1982 celebrates the colorful lives of teens who live in the South Bronx. There they are seen break dancing, creating graffiti art, and listening to raucous rap. The slim story centers on Zoro, who likes to spray-paint subway cars. He gets a break when he is hired to decorate a platform for an upcoming rap concert. With performances by hip-hop pioneers Grand Master Flash, The Cold Crush Bros, Busy Bee and the Rock Steady Crew, a cameo by Debbie Harry as the NY art critic and staring graffiti legends Lee Quinones and Sandra PINK Fabara.</p> 9398710680591 <p>Voyeurism is Participation</p> <p>Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob (Raphael Barker) and Sophia (Sook-Yin Lee) are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie (PJ DeBoy) and James (Paul Dawson), a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Jay Brannon) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb (Peter Stickles), a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. At the urging of the two Jamies, Sophia visits Severin (Lindsay Beamish), a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.</p> 9325336040645 <p>Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek play young lovers on a shooting spree across 1950s South Dakota in Terrence Malick's turbulent, gut-grabbing masterwork.</p> 9318500100047 <p>Hailed as an immediate cult classic upon its premiere at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, MISTER LONELY is the latest brainchild of the sublimely demented &amp; brilliantly controversial HARMONY KORINE. In Paris, a sweet, shy Michael Jackson impersonator (DIEGO LUNA) is befriended by a Marilyn Monroe lookalike (SAMANTHA MORTON), who quickly convinces him to come back to her home in Scotland, a commune populated exclusively by celebrity impersonators. Nestled in an old seaside castle, the residents of the commune – Abe Lincoln, Madonna, Little Red Riding Hood, Sammy Davis, Jr., the Pope, the Queen and The Three Stooges, among others – are busy preparing for a grand debut performance in their newly built theatre. Meanwhile, amongst an order of nuns in Latin America, a priest (legendary filmmaker WERNER HERZOG) discovers firsthand that miracles are possible...</p> <p>Mister Lonely is the latest offering from the brilliant and controversial Harmony Korine. In Paris, a Marilyn Monroe impersonator befriends a shy Michael Jackson impersonator and convinces him to come back to her commune in Scotland exclusively populated by celebrity impersonators.- Dean</p> 9325336038208 <p>Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie – a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords – may be “New Zealand’s 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo,” but in the USA, finding someone who knows their act is about as easy as finding a kiwi nest in Central Park. To rectify this oversight, Jemaine and Bret have moved to New York’s East Village to conquer America, one fan (literally) at a time.</p> <p>This hilarious New Zealand comedy has taken the world by storm. It follows a folk duo ‘Flight of the Concord’s who move to New York to try to seek fame and fortune by breaking into the American music scene. The show portrays a fictionalized version of the real-life duo, Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who play themselves.</p> 9325336023556 <p>From David Simon, creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series <em>The Corner</em>, this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance, where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn.</p> 9330080006489 <p>So So strange and wonderful... a Japanese " Twin Peaks". Dean loves this series</p> 0037429208526 <p>Alan Delon is at his extreme best, playing a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor sharp cocktail of 1940's American gangster cinema fused with 1960's French pop culture. Melville's masterpiece is super-cool and this criterion collection print is shmick. In the extra special features there is archival interviews with : Melville, Alain Delon and Nathalie Delon for an extra treat.</p> 0013131309393 <p>Dean &amp; Nat think this is the best horror film....comedy. Also known as 'Dellamorte Dellamore'. Staring Rupert Everett as Francesco a cemetary watchman whoas job is to slaughter the dead when they rise hungry. Following a tragic tryst with a lusty young widow, Francesco begins to ponder the mysteries of existence. Italian horror master Michele Soavi directs this brilliant black comedy horror.</p> 9322225059832 <p>Laura Dern stars as Nikki, an actress signed to star in a new movie an adulterous love story directed by Kingsley (Jeremy Irons) and co starring the womanising Devon (Justin Theroux). But the film is actually the cursed remake of a project that was abandoned after its two leads were murdered, and so Nikki and Devon find themselves struggling to distinguish between fantasy and reality as their worlds collapse around them in a bizarre sequence of events. INLAND EMPIRE combines striking, nightmarish imagery to perpetuate Lynch's unique world view.</p> <p>Special Features: David Lynch Masterclass David Lynch Interview at the Cartier Foundation Guardian Interview with David Lynch at the National Film Theatre A short interview in London A conversation with David Lynch by Mike Figgis Trailer</p> <p>Cult director David Lynch’s latest masterpiece is a dark and thrilling mystery about a doomed film project. Nikki, a dedicated actress signs onto a new movie only to discover that the film she is working on is a remake of a cursed film based on a Polish folktale, where the previous two leads were murdered. Nikki’s personality becomes fragmented as she delves deep into the character or is that the same curse stalking the set again? - Dean</p> 9322225062115 <p>How to make a WILD ZERO: Take ACE (#1 rock fan) add GUITAR WOLF ( coolest band on the planet), NAKED GIRLS , MUSCLE cars, LEATHER jackets, ROCK &amp; ROLL , invaders from OUTER SPACE and FLESH EATING ZOMBIES and you've got a high octane thrill kill cult classic! When aliens invade earth, turning people into hungry zombies -only rockabilly fan ACE and super punk rockers GUITAR WOLF are up for the fight. WILD ZERO is flesh feasting fun for everyone.</p> 9398710645095 <p>the biggest movies of all time just got a little makeover Jerry (Jack Black) is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant he suspects of causing his headaches. But he inadvertently causes his brain to become magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of all the movies in his friend's (Mos Def) store. In order to keep the store's one loyal customer, an elderly lady with a tenuous grasp on reality, the pair re create a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush Hour, Ghostbusters, When We Were Kings, Back to the Future, Driving Miss Daisy, and Robocop, putting themselves and their townspeople into it. Soon, they become the biggest stars in their neighborhood.An ingenious and hilarious comedy brandishing all the quirky Gondry flourishes. When Jerry a junkyard worker attempts to sabotage a power plant he becomes magnetized. After he visits his best friend Mike’s video store he accidentally erases the entire collection of videotapes. The dynamic duo begin to remake the collection of movies themselves, staring, filming and recreating effects for some of Hollywood’s most popular movies to keep the stores loyal customers and save Mike’s job.- Dean</p> 9324915072947 <p>New Box Set with restored versions of all 3 films in 5.1 Surround with new special features.</p> <p>The Godfather trilogy is one of the all time greats in filmic history. The three epic films have been fully restored for the first time and as Coppola originally envisioned them for the cinema .The Multigenerational crime saga follows the rise and fall of the Corleone family. Beautifully packaged this is a must for any fan or film lover.- Dean</p> 9322225068285 <p>Can you dig it? Relive Sesame Street memories with OLD SCHOOL! Remember Ernie singing "Rubber Duckie"?, Kermit singing "Bein' Green"?, The Grouch singing "I Love Trash"? or Cookie Monster's classic "C is for Cookie"? How about the Pinball Segment? Ladybug Picnic? Wanda the Witch? Did you learn to count with Bill Cosby or James Earl Jones? Or sing "Nasty Dan" with Johnny Cash? The most requested animations, sketches, and songs from seasons one through five of Sesame Street (1969 to 1974) are all here, collected together in a special 3 DVD box set. Included are the best episodes from these early years, the original pilot, and lots of exclusive extras to delight Sesame Street fans of all ages. Classic Sesame Street episodes, now available for the first time!</p> 9339065001228 <p>The seemingly claustrophobic story of a man imprisoned in his paralyzed body becomes a dazzling and expansive movie about love, imagination, and the will to live. After a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, Kings and Queen) can only move his left eye--and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time. With the help of his speech therapist (Marie-Josee Croze, Munich) and a stenographer (Anne Consigny, Anna M.), Bauby writes the stunning memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But such a plot summary makes the movie sound like lofty, self-important medicine--far from it. Director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls), working from an elegant screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and with an oustanding cast (which also includes Frantic's Emmanuelle Seigner as Bauby's neglected wife), has created a movie as engrossing and hypnotic as a thriller, a movie that wrestles with mortality yet has stubborn streaks of dark humor and eroticism, that portrays a man who overcomes unimaginable obstacles but refuses to paint him as a saint. Schnabel was once dismissed as a pompous and overblown painter, but he's crafted an intimate visual poem, a humble sonata about life at its most fragile. --Bret Fetzer</p> 9398520430034 <p>The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.</p> <p>When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dust worn Little Boston. In this hardscarbble town, where the main excitement centres around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike.</p> <p>But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value - love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son - is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil.</p> 3000000069608 <p>The youth cult classic from 1984, Repo Man is a dark comedy thriller that explores the seamy, seedy LA underworld. Otto (Emilio Estevez – The Breakfast Club) is a disaffected punk wandering the LA streets before Bud (Harry Dean Stanton – Paris, Texas), a repossession man, offers him money to drive a car out of a bad neighbourhood. Soon enough, Otto is earning big money under Bud’s tutelage but their latest repo job lands them in hot water when a nuclear physicist leaves something toxic a nuclear device? an alien? – in the trunk of a 1964 Chevy...</p> <p>Special Features: Up Close with Harry Dean Stanton A rare interview The Missing Scenes Repossesed Producers Jonathan Wacks and Peter McCarthy and Director Alex Cox revisit the scenes of their repo crimes Feature Length Commentary by director Alex Cox, Exectutive Producer Michael Nesmith, Casting director Victoria Thomas and actors Sy Richardson, Zander Schloss and Del Zamora</p> 3000000069790 <p>One of the greatest innovators in modern cinema, David Lynch’s career has generated some of the most surreal, suspenseful and bizarre moments in movie history. From the birth of the mutant baby in 1977’s Eraserhead, through the grotesqueries of The Elephant Man and the oxygen sipping psycho in Blue Velvet, to the twisted noir of Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive…these are worlds of surface sunshine, while underneath bubbles a cauldron of depravity, deformity, ghoulish sounds and severed ears. The David Lynch Collection brings together a pastiche of Lynch’s legendary 40 year career, including: Eraserhead (1977) the seminal and surreal early classic for the first time on DVD in Australia The David Lynch Short Film Collection a collection of Lynch’s student films from the 60s and short works from the 70s/80s Dynamic 01 a recent series of shorts written, directed, edited and scored by Lynch vailable exclusively on davidlynch.com Lynch 01 Compiled from 2 years of footage, this feature length documentary is a fascinating and intimate portrait of Lynch’s creative process as he completes his latest film, Inland Empire. Includes a series of bonus clips and teasers Dumbland Lynch’s macabre animation series</p> 9397810159099 <p>Written and created by Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, this British comedy was one of the best in the late 90s, known for its fast-paced editing, loads of pop culture references and slip-streams of surrealism. Daisy, an aspiring writer and Simon, a comic-book artist, pretend to be a couple to move into a flat together. Unfortunately, the landlord lives upstairs and the two must keep up the façade, with hilarious results.</p> 9322225066663 <p>The freewheeling passion of youth and the unpredictable perils of fate are both the subject and the breathtaking form of Joachim Triers lean and kinetic journey through friendship, love, madness and creativity REPRISE. Trier viscerally captures the way life takes off at rocket-speed in the beginning of adulthood and the what ifs and why nots that both drive and haunt us as the unbridled hopes of youth come to a screeching halt. The fast-moving story kicks off just as Phillip (ANDERS DANIELSON LIE) and Erik (ESPEN KLOUMAN HOINER) stand at the mailbox, two cocky, grinning rebels full of 20 year old verve and dreams, their whole lives hanging in the balance at this singular moment. Each is about to ship off his first novel to publishers, each is hoping to become a wildly influential cult author, each has visions of a new life of non stop intensity, brilliance, romance and nightclubbing. Fast-forward six months. These reveries have crashed, hard, into reality. Phillip, whose novel garnered instant acclaim and turned him into a mini celebrity, has had a terrifying breakdown and is just about to be released from a psychiatric hospital. Erik, who never sold his novel, is still pecking away, determined to follow in the footsteps of his undying hero, a reclusive but idolized writing genius, no matter what it takes. REPRISE explores not just what happens to Phillip and Erik as they pick up the pieces but what might have happened to them, what they imagine could happen, what they fear will possibly happen and what they cant see actually happening. Nimbly moving both backwards and forwards in time via a dazzling mix of flashbacks, rapid fire editing, philosophical voiceovers and comical flights of fancy the film traces how Erik and Phillip arrived at this precipice where exuberant youth runs into the harsh light of day . . . and witnesses the emotionally gripping aftermath. REPRISE marks the feature film debut of Joachim Trier, who wrote the screenplay with Eskil Vogt. In its native Norway, the film won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the national film awards. REPRISEs unusual cast includes Anders Danielsen Lie, a doctor and musician, as the romantically enigmatic Philip and advertising copywriter Espen Klouman Hoiner, as the sly and charismatic Erik. Newcomer Viktoria Winge is Kari, Phillips girlfriend and muse, with whom he tries, over and over, to recreate the elusive source of his inspiration. The film is produced by Karin Julsrud and executive produced by Scott Rudin.</p> 9398710790498 <p>Mongol is made by an award winning Russian film maker Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountains). Here Sergei illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in this stunning historical epic. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, Mongol delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. Mongol shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and the foundation on which so much of his greatness rested his relationship with his wife, Borte, his lifelong love and most trusted advisor.</p> <p>Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, Mongol transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad's landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu (Zatoichi, Last Life in the Universe) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror. Asano's achievement is matched by those of his co-stars, including the radiant newcomer Khulan Chuluun as Temudgin's courageous, spirited wife Borte, and the Chinese actor Honglei Sun (The Road Home) as the Mongol chieftain Jamukha, Temudgin's dearest friend and deadliest enemy. Masterfully blending action and emotion against some of the most arresting terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and awe inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages</p> 9322225061187 <p>Alex is a 16 year old skater, spending his afternoons with his pal Jared at the inner city skate-park known as Paranoid Park. One evening, when one of the older boys takes Alex under his wing, a tragic accident occurs leaving a security guard dead. Interviewed by the police and misunderstood by his cheerleader girlfriend Jennifer, Alex decides to say nothing, taking on a crushing burden of guilt with huge ramifications. Innovatively cast over myspace.com, and adapted from Blake Nelson?s novel of the same name, Paranoid Park is a searingly truthful study of what it is to be a teenage male in the 21st century. Boasting beautiful cinematography by Australia's own Christopher Doyle and shot in director Gus Van Sant?s hometown of Portland, Paranoid Park is a suspenseful, lyrical and stylish tribute to the teenage years.</p> <p>Special Features: Making Of Extended interview with director Gus Van Sant, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and screenwriter Blake Nelson from ABC TV's At The Movies Original theatrical trailer</p> <p>Actors: Taylor Momsen Director: Gus Van Sant</p>