A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of Latif Yahia who was forced to become the double of Hussein’s sadistic son Uday Hussein. Dominic Cooper plays both the leads Latif Yahia and Uday Hussein.
In theaters August 10th, 2011
TweetFrom the Oscar-winning team behind Man On Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim’s extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature – and indeed our own – is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling
In theaters August 12th, 2011
TweetSmiths guitarist Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright remastered all the music from its original tape sources. The set includes all four of the band’s studio albums (1984’s The Smiths, 1985’s Meat Is Murder, 1986’s The Queen Is Dead, 1987’s Strangeways, Here We Come) alongside the 1988 live LP Rank and the compilations Hatful of Hollow (1984), The World Won’t Listen (1987), and Louder Than Bombs (1987). All are included on mini-LP gatefold-style CDs and 180-gram vinyl.
It also contains 25 7″ singles, a 36″ x 24″ poster of the band’s album and single cover art, The Complete Picture DVD of their music videos, an eight-page 12″ booklet of expanded liner notes, 12″ prints of the cover art for all eight albums, and a code to digitally download the whole load.
Limited to 3000 copies worldwide.
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The Beastie Boys new music video for “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win”, featuring Santigold, from new album Hot Sauce Committee Part 2.
Directed by Spike Jonze, it features action figures of all three members of the band as well as Santigold!
The lacquered and silkscreened oak hinged-lid box, approximately 260 x 204 x 48 mm contains the Biophilia Manual, along with ten chrome-plated tuning forks, each of which is silkscreened on one face in one of ten different colors, and stamped at the back – presented in a flocked tray. Each fork is adjusted to the tone of one of the tracks from Biophiia.The Ultimate Edition of Björk’s new album will be made-only-to-order. Cost £500
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Almost a year after the release of Matthew Dear’s monochromatic opus, Black City, the album’s swansong single, “Slowdance,” gets a video.
Director – Charles Bergquist
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