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Get High on Life
Seven selection of summer celluloid
By Dig Staff
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Get out of the house. Go to the beach. Go to the park. Go ... fuck yourself. 'There's nothing like wasting a warm summer night getting blazed, popping up some popcorn (with parmesan!) and couching it for two hours or four. Home theater allows us to poop when we please, eat for under $4,000 and when the THC buzz wears off after 60 minutes, we just spark up our second jaybird.
CONTROL
Finally, the DVD release of Anton Corbijn's award-winning B&W biopic Control. Unlike '24 Hour Party People, Control focuses solely on frontman Ian Curtis' struggles, rather than spotlighting the budding Manchester scene as a whole and the obnoxious Happy Mondays. Control will truly have you asking, "Why Ian and not the lead singer of The Happy Mondays?!!!!" :( [DAVID DANCER]
RELEASE DATE | 6.3.08
THE SWORD IN THE STONE (45TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION)
Thank God I saw this movie as a child because by the time I got to high school, I didn't have to work as hard when reading The Once and Future King. Although, there was no talking owl named Archimedes in the book and Arthur and Merlin didn't turn into squirrels or sing "Higitus Figitus." Come to think of it, the only thing the movie has in common with the book is the sword in the stone part. [ISABELLE DAVIS]
RELEASE DATE | 6.17.08
PERSEPOLIS
Marjane Satrapi at age 9 circa 1979: As a young girl faced with the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Marjane rebels against "the man" aka "the Ayatollah" by removing her veil and getting down with punk rawk. Isis Madrid at age nine circa 1996: as a young girl faced with limitless opportunity and freedom, Isis rebels against "the man" aka "Mom" by picking her nose and eating it. Persepolis is about one of these two ladies. It's in French. And animated. Parlez-vous awesome? [ISIS MADRID]
RELEASE DATE | 6.24.08
XANADU: MAGICAL MUSICAL EDITION
"A place where nobody dared to go / They call it Xanadu," croons a deliciously sexy 32-year-old Olivia Newton-John (She's 60 now? Wait ... what?) whose winged hair catches sail and propels her off into a land of sequins and roller-disco and glitter rainbows and magically tumbling rainbow cupcakes. This edition comes with a bonus CD, so make sure to slather yourself in metallics as you skate around to the ELO-penned soundtrack. ""[BRENT T. INGRAM]
RELEASE DATE | 6.24.08
WHOLPHIN, NO. 5
We've come to trust in Dave Eggers for just about everything these days. Shit, home-slice opened a Bigfoot Research Center in freakin' Roxbury. Why would he be anything less than a short-film superstar? Wholphin is the cinematic companion to McSweeney's and up until now has been available only to loyal subscribers. This DVD magazine is full of stunning vignettes (with everyone from Paul Rudd to Maggie Gyllenhaal), animated corkers and documentary shorts that pack more punch than Michael Moore has over his entire career. [LUCY BARBER]
RELEASE DATE | 6.24.08
DALLAS: THE COMPLETE NINTH SEASON
The drama that engulfs the oil tycoon Ewing family lasted from 1978-1991, making it one of the longest running soaps in TV history. Watch the Texan trials and tribulations unfold during this season only to get to the end and find out that none of it really happened and therefore the whole season was a complete waste of everyone's time. [ISABELLE DAVIS]
RELEASE DATE | 7.15.08
THE WIRE: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON
If you're still not watching the greatest achievement in television by this point, you're either retarded or a racist. Or a racist retard, which in that case we might forgive you. In these pages I called it a tragedy of Shakespearean depth and proportion and eloquence: its subject matter is the dirt that seeps through the cracks and pulls at institutions and the people who belong to them, apart from within. A few false notes aside, it remains true. [LUKE O'NEIL]
RELEASE DATE | 8.12.08
