Highlights from the New Arrivals: April 20th

• 44 Inch Chest
• 35 Shots Of Rum
• Mammoth
• Summer Hours
• Vivre Sa Vie
• Horse Boy
• Crazy Heart

4 Star Welcomes WORT 98.8FM Along With Manohla Dargis & Many Great Directors

Starting at 12 p.m. today, April 16th, WORT 98.9FM will be airing a live broadcast here at Four Star Video Heaven. They will be interviewing filmmakers and other guests from the Wisconsin Film Festival. Tune in or come in to the store to meet the interviewers and guests.

12-1 Jan Levine Thal will be interviewing:

Manohla Dargis, co-chief film critic, New York Times

Nicholas Langholff, producer, Feed The Fish

Eric and Brad Williams, director and subject, Unforgettable

Georgia Lyon, director, and Erika Koivenen, subject, Growing In Knowing

Rasa Miskinyte, director, and Flemming Grenz, editor, The Bug Trainer

1-2pm Mel & Floyd will be interviewing:

J.J. Kelley, co-director and producer, and Ben Gottfried, editor, Paddle To Seattle

Christopher Noice, director and producer, and Julie Matthews, associate producer, Eggshelland

William Zenobia and Jim Bett, Jr., producers, Into The Pit

Kate Lindboe, director and producer, Robin Van Ert, co-producer, and Peter McCain, actor, NONAMES

Go see the restored print of 'Shadow of a Doubt' tomorrow night.

"You live in a dream. You’re a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you ripped the fronts off houses, you’d find swine ? The world’s a hell.
What does it matter what happens in it?”

The UW Cinematheque will be showing the Academy Film Archive's restored print of Alfred Hitchcock's personal favorite movie 'Shadow Of A Doubt' tomorrow night at 8 p.m. As always it will be free. It's one of my own personal favorites and I rank it number one in Hitchcock's top five movies. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity so don't sleep:

Restored print introduced by Mike Pogorzelski (Director of the Academy Film Archive) and Schawn Belston (Director of Film Preservation at Fox)!

Young Charlie (Wright) can't help but notice that something seems off about her beloved Uncle Charlie (Cotton) in this 1943 masterpiece. Loosely inspired by a 1938 fait divers and co-scripted by the great American playwright Thornton Wilder.

Drag City to distribute Harmony Korine's 'Trash Humpers' theatrically.

'Trash Humpers' is finally getting an actual theatrical run, albeit a limited one, with the help of record label and all around extraordinary company Drag City. So far Madison is not yet listed in the opening dates but Chicago is with it playing from June 4–10 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

The synopsis for the film reads:

TRASH HUMPERS follows a small gang of sinister, creepy 'elderly' peeping toms through the shadows and streetlights of a familiar suburban landscape. They drag baby dolls around on bicycles, bust television sets with hammers, slap big fat BLANK while proudly chomping down on stogies, and yeah...they do some trash humping too. Their behavior makes for viewing that is as compelling as it is unbearable - images that, in classic Korine style, scorch themselves on yer mind's eye, leaving you squinting for the foreseeable future.

Wisconsin Film Fest Showcase!

Our current Rental Showcase highlights some of our favorite entries from the previous years of the Wisconsin Film Festival, truly one of the jewels of the city, which gloriously takes over the city's theaters from Wednesday April 14th till Sunday April 18th.

This is just a quick sampling of the WI Film Fest fun we have on offer and you can head over at the main Four Star site to see a complete list of over 500 films that have played previous fests that we have available for rental.

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12:08 East of Bucharest
Au Hasard
Aaltra
Better Living Through Chemistry
Black Sun
Collateral
Cinematographer Style
Day A Pig Fell Into A Well
The Edge of Heaven

El Topo
Exiled
Ferry Tales
Full Battle Rattle
Gleaners & I
Home Movie
In A Dream
Kill Your Idols
Kontroll
La Captive

Mad City Chickens
Memories of Murder
Metal: Headbangers Journey
Morvern Callar
Muskrat Lovely
My Winnipeg
Na Kamalei
Night and the City
Re-Animator
Retribution

Rivers & Tides
Robot Stories
Severance
Six-String Samurai
Spirit of the Beehive
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
Taboo
Up the Yangtze
What Time is it There?
Young Frankenstein

Henry Selick signs with Pixar!

Stop-motion animation is alive and well. Henry Selick, director of 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' 'James & The Giant Peach,' and most recently 'Coraline,' has signed on with Pixar/Disney. He worked with Disney before but after the financial failure of 'James' the Disney Co. called stop-motion a dead art and stopped all future projects. With the success of 'Coraline' & 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' it looks like they've changed their tune, only now Selick will be under the wing of Pixar and will be back in company with John Lassester and Brad Bird. There were plenty of rumors floating around when it came out the Selick had not signed a contract with Laika, who put out 'Coraline,' but I don't think anyone could have imagined him moving in with Pixar. With the freedoms he is now going to be given it will be very exciting to see what Selick can cook up.