The Current

This week is the 2008 San Diego Women's Film Festival.
You can find information about it at www. citizen-video. com, or at www. sandiegowomensff. com.
It is curated by Citizen Video owner Holly Jones and features some great theatrical premieres by the likes of Jonathan Demme as well a number of short films by women filmmakers.


New in the store recently we have the 2007 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary Feature, Taxi to the Dark Side, chronicling the interrogation of an innocent Afghani taxi driver that ended in his torture and killing by American forces, without any accountability.




We also have OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, a French spy-spoof:



From Israel, we have the winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Jellyfish:



Ira Glass, host of NPR's This American Life, brought his weekly show to Showtime, and we have the great first season, six episodes in total.


Dario Argento recently completed his The Three Mothers trilogy, which started with Suspiria and Inferno, with Mother of Tears, starring his daughter, Asia Argento:



Indie and Citizen Video fave David Gordon Green, director George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Undertow, had a one-two punch this year with Snow Angels and Pineapple Express, and we have the former here at the store, starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale about the death of a little girl that shakes up the family and the town.





Our shirts, designed by Holly, will be restocked soon, and we'll be sure to let you know when they're in.