Friday, October 30, 2009

Our New Look & Our New Hours

We're vamping up our look. Come and check out the new face of citizen video this Sunday at 4pm. We'll also be extending our hours once again so you have more time to peruse our inventory. Starting Tuesday, November 3rd we will have the following hours:
Tues - Thurs: Noon - 9pm
Fri & Sat: Noon - 10pm
Sunday: Noon - 9pm.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Food and Movies!

With the onset of Halloween and beer week, lots of the 30th street corridor restaurants are picking up titles to screen at their establishments. Check out Sea Rocket Bistro's lineup for beer week including Drunken Master on Monday, November 9th at 7pm. Sea Rocket will also be screening the Nightmare Before Christmas, tomorrow night (Thursday, Oct 29) at 7pm. On Halloween, Saturday, Oct 31st, The Linkery will screen The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as well as any other spooky background graphics they can scare up.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Two New Godard Films to Hit the Citizen Shelves Soon!

Judging from the posters on other video store windows, Citizen Video should be stocking Year One. Since I am blissfully ignorant to the theme of that movie, I'll be investing our hard earned citizen dollars on two Criterion titles I missed this past summer: Jean Luc-Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her and Made in the U.S.A. Although they may not be one the latest movies in theaters they seem oddly appropriate as both films deal with consumer culture (and we are currently dealing with a crisis from consumer culture). Made in the U.S.A. is a chaotic crime thriller starring Anna Karina "as the most brightly dressed private investigator." Criterion calls it a "Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave." It sounds like it may be reminiscent of William Klein's Mister Freedom (another film to check out if you want to make a triple feature of anti-consumer culture). In Two or Three Things I Know About Her Godard uses the story of a housewife from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money to spin off into provocative philosophical tangents and gorgeous images..... this one I'm calling a WAY sexier version of Weeds.

If you're like "enough already with the foreign films," then you'll be glad to know there are a lot of great new independent movies coming out this November which we feel are worthy of shelf space at citizen, notably 500 Days of Summer, Humpday, The Limits of Control, Food Inc, and Thirst (the last one is foreign, but it deals with vampires which seem to be a universal theme these days).

Finally, we don't want you to always watch movies alone at home and for this reason we always plan great events in the 'hood. Don't miss our FOURTH ANNUAL HORROR TRAILERS FESTIVAL at the Whistle Stop this Thursday, Oct 29 at 9pm (see the trailer below). Also on Saturday, October 7th we'll be screening the newly-released-to-dvd FOOD INC at Velocult Bicycles. We hope to see you there!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Fury Road (Mad Max 4)

The Mad Max series still stands as one my favorites and pretty highly influential regarding what I look for in some films. I honestly forget to think of them as 'action movies,' because they're that rare breed in which the filmmaker--in this case George Miller, who most recently made the amazing Babe: Pig in the City and Happy Feet--creates an entire world, a post-apocalypse in which fuel is the highest commodity, one which reduces many to savages and a selfish anti-hero stands as the best hope. There's been talk for years about a fourth installment in the series, Fury Road, and it looks like it's finally inching it's way towards production. Check out some pics and a video below.

fury road image

Interview with Australian news

Aintitcool.com article

Collider article

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Horror Trailers at The Whistle Stop

We will be screening our fourth annual horror trailers this Thursday, October 29th at the Whistle Stop Bar. The show starts at 9pm. Come and be horrified by all the greatest moments in film horror history with a specific focus on American 80's and Italian horror. Heads explodes, zombies fight sharks, trash roams the streets and more. If you haven't decided on your Halloween costume yet, this is the place to be inspired. View the trailer below for a taste of what's to come. We'll have an intermission set by new-to-the-San-Diego-scene NUDE BOY. We can't believe how fun this is going to be.