He's New HereSince releasing Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here inFebruary, XL Recordings hasdone a great job at keepingthe album alive by issuing re-mixes from Mos Def and thelike, but I was particularlytaken by this video for his ver-sion of Smog's "I'm New Here."Bill Callahan may have penned the lyrics, but Scott-Heron'sheartfelt interpretation makes it sound as if they were designedjust for him--and also reflect his journey through difficult times.According to the press notes, the Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard-directed clip "was recorded live in Clinton Recording Studio, NYwith the engineer Lawson White. (This is where much of the albumwas recorded a

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Reelin'in theYears:PartSixClick here for part fourFilm folk in Seattle, circa 2008-10. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****Above: Author Sherman Alexie (The Toughest Indian in the World)introduces Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles at the NWFF in 2008. The Mile-stone DVD features commentary from Alexie and Sean Axmaker.Alexie lets out a laugh after the screening of The Exiles.Barry Jenkins and NWFF program director Adam Se-kuler after a 2009 screening of Medicine for Melancholy.Jenkins takes questions from the audience. Digthe way the coffee cup completes the outfit!Actor/director/raconteur Melvin Van Peebles and NWFF executive dire

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Movie ofthe Month:Part 20I recentlyreviewedthe follow-ing filmfor Vid-eo Librarian, and thought the results were worth sharing.MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX [***1/2] (Sarah Watt, Australia, 2009, 96 mins.)The title promises comedy, but My Year Without Sex quicklyturns dark before the mood starts to lift. It begins as Ross (MattDay, Muriel's Wedding), a Melbourne audio technician, celebrateshis 39th birthday. All seems well until his wife, Natalie (Sacha Hor-ler), who works in a retirement home, suffers a brain aneurysm.Her recovery is slow--and far more realistic than what narrativefeatures usually depict--and Ross worries about their future.When Natalie retur

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AugustReviewsThese arethe reviewsand otherpieces I'mworking onthis month.Amazon DVDs: La Mission (with Benjamin Bratt), Burn Notice -Season Three [four-disc set], The Killer Inside Me (with CaseyAffleck and Kate Hudson), White Collar - The Complete First Sea-son [four-disc set], White on Rice, The 41-Year-Old Virgin WhoKnocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It,Psych - The Complete Fourth Season [four-disc set],and Soundtrack for a Revolution (the Roots, etc.)Amazon Theatricals: Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work,Eat Pray Love (Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem), and The American (Anton Corbijn directs George Clooney).Still playing (or yet to open)

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