"This is a very complex, convoluted story on so many, many different levels," Errol Morris tells Sean Axmaker in a new interview now up on GreenCine. "I think it is, in many ways, a story about American women in the military. I think that's one of the things about the photographs that made the photographs particularly strange, particularly appalling, particularly perverse. I've often imagined, when [Charles] Graner was taking those pictures, of his 90-some-odd pound, twenty-year-old girlfriend, holding that leash on that the prisoner known as Gus, he was in some very deep sense reenacting American foreign policy." Standard Operating Procedure continues to roll out across the country, opening in more cities just this weekend. Read article >>

A Dirty Carnival Rent 

Yoo Ha's film barely saw the light of day in the States until this new DVD release but Todd Brown on Twitch wrote: "Nominally a gangster film but really a lushly realized character drama, A Dirty Carnival is blessed with a detailed script, a host of realistic and fully fleshed out characters, and a charismatic and complex lead performance from Jo In-Seong." Adds Salon's Andrew O'Hehir: "Impressive big-screen entertainment elegantly repurposes bits and pieces of various mob classics -- I especially feel Scarface, The Untouchables, John Woo's early pictures and the first few Sopranos seasons...might be this season's must-see for fans of Asian genre film"

Diary of the Dead Rent  

Wrote Rolling Stone's Peter Travers of this newest installment in George Romero's "Dead" series: "Forget Cloverfield — I'm giving top props to Romero's Diary of the Dead for using a handheld digital camera to swat at the YouTube-ification of America. While Cloverfield wielded the woozy camera as a gimmick, Diary of the Dead gives it the center ring to ask a provocative question about the circus we call pop culture: What the hell out there is turning us into a nation of zombiefied peepers?... At sixty-eight, Romero is still a rampaging maverick." Also out: a new restored and remastered edition of the original Night of the Living Dead with plenty o' extras.

Also out today: Rhythm Thief (heralded 1994 indie); The Delirious Fictions of William Klein (Eclipse) (read more below); Cranford (delightful BBC miniseries); Inglorious Bastards (Explosive Edition!); 80's horror-scholock-a-rama! Anguish and The Killing Hour; Park; Beyond Hatred; The Flock; Hamburger Hill (back in print); Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers; If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium; The Muppet Show Complete Third Season: Wakka wakka!; National Treasure 2 - Book of Secrets; The Night They Raided Minsky's; Nimrod Nation (Sundance doc series); Night of the Living Dead (restored, remastered); Square Pegs: Complete Series; What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?; The Willow Tree (lovely film) ; Lucker the Necrophagous; Bleach Vol. 10; Flag Vol. 4.

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Delirious Fictions of William Klein Rent  Read  

This remarkable trio of films - now out on DVD thanks to the Eclipse Collection, a director-centric arm of Criterion -- needs no introduction to those already familiar with the ultra-fabulous visual oeuvre of William Klein, whose satirical visions have been called prescient by so many. But for the uninitiated, what is so remarkable about Klein? These three movies pry open claustrophobic worlds with all too familiar social and political structures - and familiarity breeds contempt. What keeps us watching is the energy, the sheer aesthetic force that empowers each frame, each worthy of a Vogue cover, sent into our drab-weary retina. From the runway models clad in swirling metal in Who Are you, Molly Magoo? to the 'fashionably green' Ikea-esque furniture in... Read review here >>

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La Chinoise | Gai Savoir Rent Read  

Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has always been considered one of the foremost representatives of the French New Wave. And not without good reason; his feature debut Breathless (1960), along with the contemporaneous releases of movies by his peers François Truffaut and Alain Resnais, pronounced and shaped the beginning of one of cinema history's most important movements. But Godard's extremely prolific career never stopped evolving, adapting to the personal changes and struggles the director was going through or engaged in. Made shortly before the May 1968 events that broke out in France, La Chinoise reveals Godard's interest in the communist and anarchist ideals, while very accurately, almost prophetically, capturing the pulse of late 60s French youth. Set... read review >>

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Mooladé  Rent   Read  

Dylan De Thomas reviews two from the "Father of African cinema," Ousmane Sembene (the other being Xala): "Mooladé is a startlingly humanistic film about female genital mutilation set in a small village in Burkina Faso, a land-locked nation in Western Africa. As grim as that may sound, the film itself is an absolute wonder to behold. From literally the first frame, the movie is engaging and involving; Sembene created a colorful, fascinating world in which the drama in the film unfolds in a deliberate, tantalizing way..." read review >>

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The GreenCine Daily blog is on a major roll with our coverage of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, arguably the world's largest and most important. There are entries devoted to many of the fete's most intriguing titles, so you've got your reading cut out for you. Allez! Also: Check out all the past Cannes Palme d'Or winners available on DVD.