Now you can BUY new DVDs from GreenCine!

Starting in mid-March, we'll be adding to our site tens of thousands of titles for sale, building on the industry's largest and most diverse library of independent, international, documentary, new releases, adult and anime titles. 

With DVD sales added as a GreenCine offering, our Rental and VOD customers can now buy, rent and download movies all from the same place. 

Anyone can purchase DVDs through this new service (so please tell all your friends), but there will be benefits that are strictly available to our faithful members. These will be in the form of coupons and other promotions, which we'll be updating you on shortly. 

There's a long list of reasons why you should buy all of your DVDs from GreenCine (most of which you know already), but we wanted to point out a few highlights of the service to sweeten the deal: price, distribution and shipping. 

• Price: very competitive pricing on all your favorite movies
• Distribution: 5 centers throughout the U.S., with fast, reliable shipping
• Free priority shipping for all orders over $50 

The service, community, content and selection you've come to expect from GreenCine just got a little better. 

The best movies for your couch, computer and collection!

As June Carter Cash would say, this week's new DVD releases have got us all revved up:

"In Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies, a nameless European town is the center of a cosmic struggle," writes Ed Gonzalez at Slant. "Tarr's precise yet effortless command of the long take is so transcendent as to suggest the presence of God. Every stoppage point within each shot becomes a heavenly composite of the film's collective whole."

Nominated for five Oscars, Walk the Line ambles on to DVD today. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon (as Johnny and June) were both nominated and both sang their own vocals, too. And "what might have been a shallow, sentimental film is given considerable depth by the quality of [those] two central performances," wrote Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian (U.K.)

In The Ice Harvest (2005), Harold Ramis directs John Cusack as Charlie, who decides to place his trust in his friend Vic, played by Billy Bob Thornton - which is the first sign of trouble right there. "The Ice Harvest, which unfolds with faultless ease over 12 increasingly hectic hours in Charlie's life, is a classic guilty pleasure," writes Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times, "a wholly amoral tale in which the viewer is so charmed by the witty and not unkindly Charlie that one pulls for him to escape the escalating danger into which he has plunged..."

It's been fifty years since Lady and the Tramp (1955) found themselves sucking on the same noodle. Reason enough for Disney to release a two-disc special edition of a true classic. When was the last time you let your heartstrings get plucked?

Also out this week: 

Pride & Prejudice (2005) (for which David Edelstein proposed his own tagline: "Sometimes the last movie on earth you expect to like is the one that seduces you utterly"); The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004), which Stephen Holden in the New York Times called "an incendiary documentary"; Goto, Island of Love (1968); Natural City (2003); Tokyo Psycho (2004).

A complete list of this week's New Releases | Coming Soon | New Releases Archive | Your Queue  

GreenCine is proud to announce this week the addition of the 10,000th Video-on-Demand title to our site. "GreenCine is in the vanguard of the VOD movement because of their dual commitment to thinking outside the box and promoting truly independent films," said Caveh Zahedi, acclaimed director of A Little Stiff, In the Bathtub of the World and I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore, all of which are available through GreenCine's VOD library, and whose I Am a Sex Addict opens in New York and San Francisco on April 5th. "I believe that GreenCine's method of combining DVD rentals and VOD downloads with editorial content and community will replace all current models. As a filmmaker and film enthusiast, I'm proud to be a part of the GreenCine community, and look forward to seeing what they'll come up with next." You can read more about this on Pravda, our press blog.

 John Esther meets Felicity Huffman just as she's broken through after years of relative obscurity as an actress. Suddenly, she's got an Emmy for her work in the enormously popular television series Desperate Housewives and an Oscar nomination for her performance as a man on the verge of becoming a woman in Transamerica.

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, nominated for an Academy Award this year in the Best Foreign Film category, is a harrowing account of the last five days in the life of Scholl and other members of the White Rose group of young Germans who resisted the Nazi regime. Esther talks with director Marc Rothemund and his lead actress, Julia Jentsch.

A tip about our new primer is below! 

Our award-winning blog, the GreenCine Daily, continues to catch its breath before another festival run: a look at the new issue of MovieMaker, some eulogies for a few dearly departed actors, and enough short n' sweet news bytes to keep you busy for awhile.

Ah, what the heck - how about another contest, for old time's sake? We've got one for The Ice Harvest going up on Thursday.

Tomorrow Night! GreenCine presents: Marlow's Cabinet of Curiosities (1903-1968, approx. 90 min, 16mm & digital video).

The beguiling and the surreal, the forbidden and profane - these are the treasures hidden in the Cabinetic archives. Join curator Jonathan Marlow as he leads a one-time-only display of rare, fantastical works by Yuri Norstein, Ladislas Starewicz, Georges Méliès, Jirí Trnka and other legendary filmmakers, including Jan Svankmajer's early short Rakvickarna (1966) and Karel Zeman's stunning Inspiration (1949).

Tomorrow! Wednesday, March 1, 7:30 pm.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco.
$7 regular/$6 GreenCine members, students, seniors & YBCA members.