Posted on Apr 30, 2012
2 Friends. 8 Bombs, 1 FBI Informant.
Better this World is now available to own on DVD, and to watch online via Dogwoof TV.
Boyhood friends from Midland, Texas are arrested on terrorism charges
at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Better This World follows
the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23) from political
neophytes to accused domestic terrorists with a particular focus on the
relationship they develop with a radical activist mentor in the six
months leading up to the convention. A dramatic story of idealism,
loyalty, crime and betrayal, BETTER THIS WORLD goes to the heart of the
War on Terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in
post-9/11 America.
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Watch on Dogwoof TV - £2.99
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Posted on Apr 16, 2012
Oscar nominated documentary If a Tree Falls comes to DVD today.
The FBI called them America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.”
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) are famous for launching spectacular
arsons against dozens of businesses they accuse of destroying the
environment: timber companies, SUV dealerships, wild horse
slaughterhouses, and a $12 million ski lodge at Vail, Colorado… Part
coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, If a Tree Falls
focuses on ELF member, Daniel McGowan, as he goes from house arrest to
facing life in prison. If a Tree Falls looks at a tumultous period in
history when the word “terrorism” had not yet been altered by 9/11.
Extras on the DVD include what happened next updates, extended
interviews with a fomer ELF member, an ELF Spokesman and a US attorney
involved, a post screening Q&A with director Marshall Curry and
cinematographer Sam Cullman, as well as deleted scenes and the film's
trailer.
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Posted on Apr 16, 2012
Carol Morley's Edge is screening this week at the BFI and Genesis
cinema, but is now out on DVD for those not lucky enough to live in
London.
Washed-up pop star (Paul Hilton) arrives at the Cliff Edge Hotel
looking for inspiration and meets a guilt-ridden woman (Maxine Peake),
who is desperate to recover her past. An older woman (Marjorie Yates)
checks into a room with dark intent, but encounters a chambermaid (Ania
Wendzikowska) who refuses to leave her alone. A blind date set up on the
Internet between two teenagers (Joe Dempsie, Nichola Burley) fails to
turn out like either of them expected. Over the course of two days and
one night the hotel guests, frozen into the snowy landscape, begin to
thaw - and to find a purpose that connects them all.
Extras on the release include a chat between the films producers Cairo
Cannon and Tyrone Walker-Hebborn, a behind the scenes featurette and the
film's trailer.
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Posted on Apr 02, 2012
Find out which new titles are coming to the Dogwoof DVD shop in April....
Bill Cunningham New York
ON DVD TODAY
Before the internet and before the likes of fashion bloggers, there was
Bill Cunningham, the street-fashion and society chronicler for The New
York Times. After 50 years of cycling the streets with his camera,
snapping the great, the good and the stylish, Bill Cunningham is now in
front of the lens in this loving and intimate portrait.
Find out more about this title by following the film on Facebook and Twitter
Edge ON DVD 16TH APRIL
Washed-up pop star (Paul Hilton) arrives at the Cliff Edge Hotel
looking for inspiration and meets a guilt-ridden woman (Maxine Peake),
who is desperate to recover her past. Over the course of two days the
hotel guests, frozen into the snowy landscape, begin to thaw - and to
find a purpose that connects them all.
Find out more about this title by following the film on Facebook
If a Tree Falls ON DVD 16TH APRIL
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) are famous for launching spectacular
arsons against dozens of businesses they accuse of destroying the
environment. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, If
a Tree Falls focuses on ELF member Daniel McGowan, as he goes from
house arrest to facing life in prison.
Find out more by following the film on Twitter
Position Among the Stars Trilogy
ON DVD 23RD APRIL
For 12 years, film maker Leonard Retel Helmrich followed an Indonesian
family from the slums of Jakarta, resulting in the trilogy ‘Stand van de
zon’, ‘Stand van de maan’ and ‘Stand van de sterren’ (“Eye of the Day”,
“Shape of the Moon” “Position among the Stars”. The Indonesian
Sjamsuddin family is, in a way, a microcosm in which you can recognise
the most important issues of life in Indonesia
Better This World ON DVD 30TH APRIL
Boyhood friends from Midland, Texas are arrested on terrorism charges
at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Better This World follows
the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23) from political
neophytes to accused domestic terrorists with a particular focus on the
relationship they develop with a radical activist mentor in the six
months leading up to the convention.
P.S. Special Offer!
To celebrate the signs of progress in Burma, as Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won seats in by-elections over the weekend, we are offering 25% off Burma VJ in the shop all week - simply enter the discount code 'Suu Kyi' when you checkout
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Posted on Apr 02, 2012
Dogwoof's most recent documentary film success, Bill Cunningham New York, comes to DVD today.
Available exclusively from the Dogwoof shop this week, this is a must-see film for fashionistas
and photography fans:
The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill
Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has
been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high
society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On
the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Anna
Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in
the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone
in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any
catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn,
Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant
portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and
unassuming grace.
Extras included on the DVD release include the film's trailer and 22
minutes of deleted scenes for those who just can't get enough Bill
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Posted on Mar 26, 2012
Alma Harel's Bombay Beach is out on DVD from Dogwoof today - order your copy here. With a soundtrack by Beirut & Bob Dylan, the film won the Best Documentary award at the Tribeca Film Festival, opened to glowing reviews in the UK and was named BBC Film 2012's film of the week on release:
The rusting relic of a failed 1950s development scheme, the Salton Sea
is a barren California landscape often seen as a symbol of the failed
American Dream. First-time director Alma Har’el visits this poetically
fruitful terrain and finds there a motley cast, including a bipolar
seven-year-old, a lovelorn high school football star, and an
octogenarian poet-prophet. Together they make up a triptych of manhood
in its decisive moments, populating the Salton Sea's land of thwarted
opportunity. True to her roots as a photographer, video artist, and
music video director, Alma Har’el crafts an adamantly atypical and
artistically innovative film. Bombay Beach is a dreamlike poem that sets
these personal stories to a stylized melding of observational
documentary and choreographed dance, to music specially composed for the
film by Zach Condon of the band Beirut, and songs by Bob Dylan. The
result is a moving and madly inventive documentary experience - an
evocative, symbolic portrait of rural America and its inhabitants.
The DVD comes packed with a bunch of extras - including deleted scenes,
find out what happened to Ceejay, The Parrish Family and Red after the
film in 'Where are they now?' featurettes, and listen to commentaries by
director Alma Har'el, editor Joe Lindquist and choreographer Paula
Present. Also included on the disc are the films trailer and the Bieirut
music video to Elephant Gun.
Order the DVD from the Dogwoof DVD Shop (£9.99)
Find out more about Bombay Beach and watch the trailer by visiting the film's website, or stay updated via Facebook or Twitter
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Posted on Mar 01, 2012
Spring is coming so its time to give your DVD collection a Spring Clean -
here are all of our March releases, available to pre-order now:
An African Election - 5th
March. The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, serve as a
backdrop for this feature documentary that looks behind-the-scenes at
the complex, political machinery of a third world democracy struggling
to legitimize itself to its first world contemporaries. At stake in this
race are the fates of two political parties that will do almost
anything to win
Dreams of a
Life - 12th March. Nobody noticed when
Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London
in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by
Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. ho
was she? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age- the
so-called age of communication? For her film Dreams of a Life,
filmmaker Carol Morley set out to find out.
Bombay Beach - 19th March. Bombay Beach is an adamantly atypical and
artistically innovative film—a dreamlike poem that sets the personal
stories of these distinctive yet familiar characters to a stylized
amalgam of observational documentary and choreographed dance, with music
by Beirut and Bob Dylan, all cast against the atmospheric scenery of
the titular ghost town.
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Posted on Feb 27, 2012
A Useful Life, Dogwoof's love story between man and cinema, is now available for you to own on DVD - order your copy today.
Jorge (45) lives with his parents and has been working at a Film
Archive for 25 years. He is a film programmer, he makes technical
support, and he conducts the film news show at a radio station in
Montevideo. Without any other job experience than working at the Film
Archive, Jorge loses his position. A Useful Life explores the way Jorge
changes his way of living in order to adapt to the new world that
appears to him. After all, maybe ‘movies’ will help him survive.
As Mark Kermode notes in his DVD review from this week's Observer, projectionists in the UK are dwindling so don't forget to read our blog on the end of the cinema projectionist here.
If you are still not sure whether A Useful Life is up your alley then have a gander through some of these great reviews
Sight and Sound - 'Exhilaratingly idiosyncratic, Veiroj’s film is ultimately an ode to the blind faith in the transformative power of film.'
Empire Magazine - 'A paean to cinephilia'
Little White Lies - 'Forged in an ultra-dry, Jarmuschian mould, Veiroj’s film is gorgeously bittersweet.'
The Observer - 'A delightful hors d'oeuvre'
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Posted on Feb 21, 2012
Want to stay informed of all Dogwoof's new acquisitions and documentary
film releases? Then make sure you sign up to the Dogwoof email
newsletter NOW, on the Dogwoof website here
All new sign ups to the newsletter in February will be entered into a
prize draw to win one of 3 copies of documentary film Tabloid on DVD: in
Tabloid, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris follows the salacious
adventures of Joyce McKinney, whose single-minded devotion to the man of
her dreams leads her on a labyrinthine crusade for love. Down a surreal
rabbit hole of kidnapping, masochistic Mormons, risque photography,
magic underwear, celestial sex, jail time and a cloning laboratory in
South Korea, Joyce's fantastic exploits were constant headlines.
Find out more about Tabloid on the films website, Facebook or Twitter pages, and sign up to the Dogwoof newsletter today for a chance to win a copy of this unmissable film on DVD.
Please note this competition is only open to residents of the UK and Ireland. We will email the three winners in March.
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Posted on Feb 20, 2012
Dogwoof's documentary film on the modelling industry is now out on DVD
and iTunes - read Mark Kermode's review of Girl Model in The Observer here. Order your copy today here
Girl Model follows a complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and
the U.S. within the modelling industry. The story is told through the
eyes of a scout and a 13 year-old model. Despite a lack of obvious
similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry
connects these distant regions. GIRL MODEL follows two protagonists
involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who
scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the
Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old
plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of
Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley’s initial
discovery of Nadya, the two rarely meet again, but their stories are
inextricably bound. As Nadya’s optimism about rescuing her family from
their financial difficulties grows, her dreams contrast against Ashley’s
more jaded outlook about the industry’s corrosive influence.
Find out more about Girl Model and the issues by visiting the films website, liking it on Facebook or following the film on Twitter
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Posted on Feb 13, 2012
Sound it Out is now available for you to own on DVD - order your copy here
Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the
UK every three days. Sound It Out is the very last surviving vinyl
record shop in North East England. A cultural haven in one of the
poorest areas in the UK, the film documents a place that is thriving
against the odds and the local community that keeps it alive. Directed
by Jeanie Finlay who grew up in the neighbourhood, this is a
distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the
irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.
The DVD comes with lots of extras, including filmmaker and cast interviews, Jeanie Finlay's first short documentary film Love Takes and another music themed short docu by Tim Mattia - The Chapman Family is not a Cult. Also included are additional music videos and trailers.
To find out more about Sound it Out visit the films website
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Posted on Dec 03, 2011
At Dogwoof, we're bringing you the best DVDs available today. All in our nice eco friendly packaging.
These include Dogwoof favourites like Fateless (starring Daniel Craig) and Academy Award nominees Food, Inc. & Burma VJ, and brand new films South of the Border (directed by Oliver Stone) and 2011 Academy Award nominee Restrepo.
Browse our selection online now and take advantage of the sale that will run for the next two weeks.
Our December special is the film about Chess genius Bobby Fischer
and view our Latest Releases
Don't forget that you can follow Dogwoof on Facebook where we'll preview a film from our archives every day for the next week to give you a taste of what's out there.
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