Monday, March 24, 2008

March 25

It's Tuesday, and time for another new release report!

This week the term "new release" is a bit relative, as the majority of new film releases are reissues, but there are a couple of anticipated albums that are in stores now.

The classic 1967 gangster film Bonnie & Clyde, previously only available on a bare bones single disc, has been re-released in a typically extravagant Warner Brothers two disc special edition set. Also getting the deluxe re-release treatment is Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.

After languishing in relative obscurity for years, one of the definitive films of David Lynch's career, Lost Highway, is at last receiving a proper dvd release. An unquestionably bizarre murder mystery film, it has inevitably become something of a cult classic. Fans will be especially interested to know that the dvd will ship with an in-depth director interview.

Also seeing release today is mediocre horror film The Mist, Sundance favorite Wristcutters: A Love Story, and weepy drama The Kite Runner.

Counting Crows have a new album dropping today, and if the pre-release cut of "Cowboys" is any indication, it will be the hardest rocking Counting Crows record since Recovering the Satellites. Remember "Angels of the Silences" anyone? Rounding out the list this week are punk-turned-pop fashionistas Panic at the Disco and indie newcomers Plants and Animals.


Celluloid

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Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

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Walk the Line (2005)

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Lost Highway (1997)

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The Mist (2007)

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Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)

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The Kite Runner (2007)

Music

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Counting Crows "Cowboys" from Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings (2008)

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Panic at the Disco "Nine in the Afternoon" from Pretty Odd (2008)

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Plants and Animals "Feedback in the Field" from Park Avenue (2008)

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