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Re: what format?

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Posted by Victor Khomenko on June 15, 1999 at 08:50:20

In Reply to: what format? posted by petew on June 14, 1999 at 18:26:15:

***The blockbusters and their ilk here in the 'burbs advertise they carry 50,000 titles: yea, they have 20,000 copies of Rocky XXXIX, 18,000 of Batman, 32,000 copies of some Segal movies and --of course, some airobic work-out tapes (soft porn).

Well put and true. That's why I don't go there.

***Victor, do you rent tape, go to the city to the "art cinema", or rent DVD? Do you do it thru the mail? Can you tell us where to get such good fare?

I'll le you in on my little secret: it is TLA. They are locate don the 4th street about one block north from the South St. They have an unbelievable selection of foreign and other good movies. We usually go there on a weekend and get several movies, usually on VHS tapes - they have only very few DVD's, normal pop garbage mostly. I then ship them back via FedEx.

If you like good movies then there is no place like the TLA. It used to be a movie theater showing all those art movies - but they closed it down.

As far as I know, they have three or four locations - there might be one near you. I don't know if those other locations have as good a selection. Thay also have a very educated staff - try THAT some place else, who are very helpful. Yesterday we watched the "Breaking Waves". Recommended.

In short - a great place, go there.

***I haven't bought a DVD because I fear there's nothing I want to buy and see more than a couple of times, maybe, but hey--if you can rent thru the mail a DVD with titles such as you've mentioned--clue me in! I love foreign film. When you watch them enough times you don't even see the subtitles. My fear is the Americanization of the world will slowly force all filmakers to stop surprising/challanging us. In a few years the only films made around the world will be for the 13-year-old boy market. Every film has a predictable happy ending, you can see it comming in the first frame. Some guns appear, big explosions, hero boy gets his ass kicked, naked girl with the wrong crowd, hero boy kicks ass, car chase/crash, more explosions, everybody gets laid. roll credits. buy soundtrack.buy action figures. Hey, that sounds like Henry V ! Now that was a good teenage boy flick! Is that on DVD?

You are right about most of this. That's why we go to the TLA. What a typical American doesn't see is that there are still many, many good movies made both in the US and elsewhere. They are usually not shown here in most theaters, however. Some are not shown, period.

Go to the TLA and get their catalog and just start enjoying. They have nice deals on package purchases.

Best of luck,

Victor.

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