Hot new (well, almost new) dvd releases from Amazon at your library
by Maxine
Following are several new dvds in our collection that are on Amazon's "Hot new releases" list:
We are Marshall. This film, based on a true story, stars Matthew McConaughey as Jack Lengyel, new coach of Marshall University's football team after coaches and team members die in a plane crash in the Appalachian Mountains in November, 1970. The usual football action but also some affecting performances.
The Lives of Others. Winner of best foreign film of 2006, the movie is a thriller which, according to Amazon, .."opts for character development over car chases." In 1984 East Berlin, a Stasi officer, Gerd Wiesler, is charged with spying on a playwright and his girlfriend but when he realizes his superior has a personal vendetta, his alliances change.
300. Frank Miller's grapic novel is vividly transformed to screen. Gerald Butler from Phantom of the Opera plays Leonidas, the Grecian king who leads his Spartans into battle against the Persian invaders.
Black Book. In this Dutch film, Rachel Stein, a Jewish singer, is living with a Gentile family in the countryside towards the end of World War II. She flees to the Hague when Allied forces bomb the area, changes her identity and joins the Resistance. Both a thriller and a tribute to Holland's Jewish population.
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