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  from Ivana Redwine
Welcome to this week's DVD newsletter. DVDs hitting shelves this week include Guy Maddin's strange film Brand Upon the Brain!, the leisurely paced, low-keyed How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer and the indie seriocomedy about a dysfunctional family Smart People, starring Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church. In addition, we'll look at a selection of DVDs arriving in stores August 19, 2008, including Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Prom Night. We'll also look at other upcoming releases, such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Iron Man. There is an in-depth review of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 German-language horror film Vampyr. You can also read a review/preview of the upcoming DVD release Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, a delightful, frothy concoction that doesn't stick in the mind, but it is worth the price of a rental.

 
In the Spotlight
New DVD Releases - August 12, 2008
The new DVD releases include Brand Upon the Brain!, How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer and Smart People. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.

 
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'Brand Upon the Brain!'
Directed and co-written by Guy Maddin, this strange film was shot in 8mm black-and-white as a silent. It has sometimes been shown theatrically with live orchestra and narrator, but the DVD has recorded sound and narration by Isabella Rossellini. The story is about a man who travels to an island to repaint his childhood home, a lighthouse that served as an orphanage. But he gets caught up in memories of his sister, his overbearing mom and his mad scientist dad. He also recalls a teenage brother-and-sister detective team investigating wounds on the backs of the orphans' heads.

 
'How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer'
This leisurely paced, low-keyed indie is about the love lives of three generations of Mexican-American women during a hot summer in a sleepy Arizona border town. There's the teenager Blanca (America Ferrera), a virgin who's curious about sex and drawn to the new guy in town. Then there's Blanca's divorced mom Lolita (Elizabeth Peña), who gets involved with autoeroticism and two very different men, one of them married. Finally, there's Lolita's widowed mother Doña Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), who falls for her gardener while he's teaching her to drive.

 
 
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