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DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 

A Bigger Splash

April 18 (First Run Features)

Originally banned for its in-your-face queer imagery, this 1971 semidocumentary sem·i·doc·u·men·ta·ry  
n. pl. sem·i·doc·u·men·ta·ries
A book, movie, or television program presenting a fictional story that incorporates many factual details or actual events.
 about painter David Hockney David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.  is a sexy and stirring portrait of the artist.

Greenaway: The Early Films

Now available (Zeitgeist Video)

Before such male nudity--friendly classics as The Pillow Book and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Greenaway crafted challenging shorts and the epic oddity The Falls, all available in this new two-disc box set.

Unveiled

April 18 (Wolfe)

Angelina Maccarone's powerful story of an Iranian lesbian who runs away to Germany in male drag hits DVD, packaged with the Ian McKellen--narrated short Everyone. Everywhere. about global queer persecution.

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Thunderbird thunderbird

In North American Indian mythology, a powerful spirit in the form of a bird that watered the earth and made vegetation grow. Lightning was believed to flash from its eyes or beak, and the beating of its wings was thought to represent rolling thunder.
 

Cassandra Wilson, (Blue Note)

The incomparable blues-jazz singer teams up with O Brother, Where Art Thou? producer T Bone Burnett. Heaven.

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Junior

Now available (Miramax-Weinstein)

Macaulay Culkin Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and the title character of Richie Rich.  already made the leap from child star to Party Monster. Now he puts his imagination to work in this zine-y memoir.

Celluloid San Francisco

Now available (Chicago Review Press)

Jim Van Buskirk and Advocate contributor Will Shank shank (shangk)
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The part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
 visit the City by the Bay's most memorable locations from Vertigo, Basic Instinct, Tales of the City, The Towering Inferno, What's Up, Doc? and many more.
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Article Type:Movie review
Date:Apr 25, 2006
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