Home Media Magazine - June 29 - July 5, 2008 - (Page 28)

PRODUCT GUIDE DOCUMENTARY Edited by Kyra Kudick www.homemediamagazine.com COM I NG Robbie Coltrane: Incredible Britain (DVD $29.98). Available Sept. 23 (prebook Oct. 21) is The Minotaur’s Island (DVD $24.99). UP I ACORN MEDIA July 15 brings I ARTS ALLIANCE AMERICA Out on July 29 is Cool School (DVD $29.95). Due Oct. 28 (prebook Sept. 23) is Planet B-Boy (DVD $19.95), which features dance performances and shows how a street dance from New York has evolved. I BFS ENTERTAINMENT Streeting July 22 are Black Coffee (DVD $29.98) and Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age (DVD $22.98). I CINEMA LIBRE Coming Aug. 12 (prebook July 1) is Inside the Circle: A B-Boy Chronicle (DVD $24.95). Aug. 26 (prebook July 15) brings Arctic Extreme (DVD $19.95) ‘Garbage Warrior’ Battles For Sustainability The Morningstar Entertainment documentary follows one man’s quest for green housing By Billy Gil arbage Warrior sounds like a superhero. And, strangely enough, Oliver Hodge’s documentary on Michael Reynolds, the eco-architect who took on New Mexico’s legislature to get a bill passed to build test-sites for sustainable housing, plays as just that: A story of heroism in the age of climate change. “It’s a state of emergency,” Hodge said of our current global standing. “I think the film shows someone standing up to the system and trying to change it. And it shows the speed of change is not fast enough.” Garbage Warrior makes that case pointedly. The film hits DVD Aug. 12 (prebook July 8) from Morningstar Entertainment at $24.98. The packaging is printed on 100% recycled board with vegetable ink, and the DVD tray is made from 100% recycled plastic with at least 35% post-consumer materials. Hodge, a native Brit who grew up on a farm and went on to create props and models for high-profile films over the years such as Die Another Day, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Star Wars: Episode I, said he has been concerned with environmental issues for some time. He met Reynolds in Brighton, England, in the summer of 2003 when Reynolds was working on a sustainable housing project there and Hodge filmed it. That project inspired Hodge to make a feature-length film with Reynolds and follow him to Taos, N.M., where Reynolds and OMO:EarthNOW! (DVD $19.95). Bloodline (DVD $24.95) streets Sept. 16 (prebook Aug. 5). Streeting Sept. 30 (prebook Aug. 19) is Palestine Blues (DVD $19.95). I FIRST RUN FEATURES Available now is Homemade Hillbilly Jam (DVD $24.95). July 22 brings 21 Up South Africa: Mandela’s Children (DVD $24.95) and Without the King (DVD $24.95). G warming. And people are feeling it because of fuel prices. “People are tired of the doom and gloom and they are desperate to find a way out. They need inspiration. People don’t necessarily know that you could go out and do this yourself on a fairly low budget.” Even if the film doesn’t make its viewers want to jump into sustainable housing (building and maintaining them is a lot of hard work), it could make viewers despise excess bureaucracy. Some of the most entertaining bits of the film come after a local planning committee pulls the plug on Reynolds’ housing developments, and Reynolds takes the issue to New Mexico’s legislature. “The idea of having that was to show that the kind of bureaucracy and the kind of apathy you get from that system,” Hodge said. Reynolds and his crew also travel to the Andaman Islands to help build sustainable houses after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The DVD includes deleted scenes of this trip. “We were inspired by their resilience and sewage system. In short, Reynolds and his crew determination and spirits,” Hodge said. “They aim to have each home take care of its inhabit- had fun being involved with the project. They ants without the need for heating, an external were glad we were there. It was something I’ll never forget.” sewage system or imported food. The DVD also includes additional scenes in “The goal [of the film] is to help people empower themselves and give them new opportunities New Mexico, interview footage with Hodge, a that they wouldn’t have known about,” Hodge photo montage, and late actor Dennis Weaver said. “People are really fed up with hearing discussing his “earthship” (a nickname for susthat we’re running out of oil and about global tainable houses). has long worked toward creating sustainable houses. Reynolds’ houses utilize such innovations as walls made out of used tires packed with mud, as well as making sure each home can grow its own food and has its own built-in I LIONSGATE Available Sept. 2 (prebook Aug. 6) is The Case for Faith (DVD $19.98), about journalist Lee Strobel investigating two of the most emotional objections to Christianity. I MPI HOME VIDEO Available now are Where is Jimmy Hoffa? (DVD $14.98) and Don’t Call Me Bugsy (DVD $14.98). I RYKO DISTRIBUTION Now available from Blue Underground are Goodbye Uncle Tom (DVD $14.95), Africa Blood & Guts (aka AFRICA ADDIO) (DVD $14.95), Women of the World (DVD $14.95), Mondo Cane (DVD $14.95) and Mondo Cane 2 (DVD $14.95). Due July 29 from Disinformation Co. is Outfoxed! — Fox Attacks Special Collector’s Edition (DVD $14.95), followed Aug. 26 (prebook July 25) by Uncounted (DVD $19.95) and The Real McCain (DVD $9.95). I ZEITGEIST FILMS Available July 29 is Young & Restless in China (DVD $29.99). 28 Home Media Magazine June 29–July 5, 2008 http://www.homemediamagazine.com

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