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...first place. A friend says, "You've never seen Lost?" in a disbelieving tone of pity and disgust. Then - as night follows day - comes the inevitable binge. It's fair to say that many Lost fans have caught up with the show in long, slothful, weekend-consuming, sofa-denting DVD sessions. Its peculiar mysteries (smoke monster? four-toed statue? the island moves?) lend themselves well to this approach. Don't be ashamed. Just catch up, already...
...Today, the Razzies are a year-round affair, with a website that attracts more than a million visitors annually with its picks for the worst films of the year as well as the worst movies of the week in theaters and on DVD. Nearly 700 voters - journalists, industry insiders and frequent filmgoers - now vote on the year-end awards. In conjunction with this year's awards show, Encore on Demand Movie Channel has scheduled a month-long tribute to past Razzie winners...
...Dinata's small but entertaining corpus is now available as The Nia Dinata Collection, a slickly packaged DVD boxed set that is a thing of wonder in a country where original DVDs are more difficult to find than their pirated counterparts. It is all the more to be cherished given that she now spends rather more time producing movies through her company, Kalyana Shira Films, than she does directing them. Indonesia needs more taboo tacklers like this...
...Over in the East Village, Mondo Kim's was New York's premier video rental outlet; its trove of 55,000 items included all manner of ancient, foreign or just plain weird movies in DVD or, bless 'em, VHS format. Netflix, a more convenient but much less comprehensive service, killed off owner Youngman Kim's rental business, and with it a unique source for voracious cinephile. Don't ask me why, but the whole collection was bought by the Sicilian town of Salemi, and will be shown in what the burghers call the Neverending Festival. It's a sign that...
Another skill Linehan taught Lily (and many others, via a popular DVD called Opposite Action) was an anti-anger technique for social situations: "Don't make the situation worse," Linehan counsels on the DVD. "And if possible, be a little tiny bit on the kind side...