Two dutiful GreenCine correspondents visited Telluride for that beautiful place's venerable film festival and recorded a most enjoyable video travelogue about the fest along with some interviews of film folk they met along the way. We've put it up online so you can ride along.

The DVD Releasing Gods are in a dark mood this week, with the highlights of this week's new titles a fairly pessimistic, if quality, lot:

The Notorious Bettie Page (2005; $20.98). Gretchen Mol is stunning in this biopic of the elusive former pin-up girl. Mary Harron's (I Shot Andy Warhol) film shows her "as a young woman not so much naive as simply incapable of depravity," wrote Roger Ebert, very knowledgable on the subject. "The tone of the movie is subdued and reflective. It does not defend pornography, but regards it (in its 1950s incarnation) with subdued nostalgia for a more innocent time." But finally, Ebert adds, "Mol is the key to the mysterious appeal of the film, to its sweetness and sadness."

American Blackout (2005; $10.95). Illuminating activist doc is "a powerful piece of political cinema that effectively documents the disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections" (Atlanta Constitution Journal).

Lady Vengeance (2005; $18.60), a.k.a. "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance," is the concluding, and, we think, best chapter in Chan Wook Park's Vengeance trilogy (Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance were the others). "[Park's] most sullen and patient film," wrote Michael Atkinson in The Village Voice, "and yet it's breathless pop filmmaking, narratively mercurial, viscerally traumatic, and thematically infernal."

Masters of Horror: Takashi Miike - Imprint (2006; $13.45). The quality of this Showtime series of short horror films directed by the genre's best directors has been spotty but when Miike entered the fray, he went so over the top the network got frightened and pulled it from airing (it eventually showed on Bravo of all places). Here's a chance to see this depraved and inspired work, "everything a great piece of horror television ought to be, with the emotive blows coming as hard as the physical ones," wrote Fiona Wilson on Late Film.

Also out this week:

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006; $10.95), Robert Greenwald's urgently relevant new documentary; Three Times (2005; $19.93), "great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge," says the Chicago Tribune; Edward Norton stars in Down in the Valley (2005; $24.45), the controversial daring neo-Western romance, "something rare these days: untamed," says Rolling Stone's Peter Travers; City of Men (3 discs; 2005; $25.45), a sort of follow-up to City of God; Curious George (2006); The Big Animal (2000); The Lake House (2006; $25.45).

GreenCine's review blog: Guru | A complete list of this week's new releases and all titles coming soon is available here | Ye Olde New Releases Archive | Your Queue

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