These Books Is Off Tha Hooks!

Now, normally, the only thing we endorse reading are subtitles. But we've gone and made another exception and added a few quirky, cool and compelling books alongside our magazines. We plan on adding more so if you're looking for an offbeat holiday gift, stop in and have a page through!

Here are a few of the titles on our shelves now!

POOP CULTURE: How America Is Shaped By Its Grossest National Product
Poop Culture dissects the latest taboo, smashing the fear and embarrassment that manipulates our view of the one thing we all have in common.



FERMENTING REVOLUTION: How to Drink Beer and Save the World
Fermenting Revolution tells you how to drink beer and change the world. With passion and humor, it reveals how "beer activists" around the globe are leading the sustainability movement - with its values of cooperation, the protection and celebration of nature, and the nurturing of equitable communities - against the onslaught of corporate globalization. This book documents beer's spiritual roots.



THE INTIMATE SEX LIVES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
The celebrated Wallace family returns to their groundbreaking historical romp with a dozen new entries about Tupac Shakur, Ayn Rand, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Carlos Castaneda, Michael Hutchence, Anna Nicole Smith, Wilt Chamberlain and others that reveal the intimate intersections between sex and celebrity.



A PANORAMA OF AMERICAN FILM NOIR (1941-1953)
A Panorama of American Film Noir addresses the essential amorality of its subject from a decidedly Surrealist angle, focusing on noir's dreamlike, unwonted, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel atmosphere, and setting it in the social context of mid-century America.



MEXICAN PULP ART
Never before seen in an English or Spanish language edition are the lurid and often surreal images used for '60s and early '70s Mexican pulp novels and comic covers.

ZOMBIE WALK 2010 - Join Us-Join Us-Join Us!!

LET'S GET READY TO MUMBLE!

Grunts and moans all! By popular demand, the Have You Seen... zombie walk lives another year! This Saturday October 30th the city will be alive with the sounds of the undead as we put on our best rotten cotton and stumble forth into the streets of Peterborough to terrify the living.



We meat at Have You Seen… (321 Aylmer) in our grisly gear for a 6pm departure.
Then east for a human feast along Charlotte where we take a ghoulish stride up George to Hunter.
We then figure out which way is left? and proceed to the Red Dog for the totally free 7pm movie screaming* of a gut busting zombie epic that will be sure to tickle your fetid fancy!



The night will be outta sight and the early start means you can definitely squeeze this into your Halloween party plans! So tell your family, tell your friends and dress up your zombie cat for an evening of fun, flesh and festering film. The more, the gorier!

Many thanks to The Red Dog& The Wolf !

Until then, practice your stumble & let's get ready to mumble!!

*We must apologize to our younger zombie kin but the contents of the movie are not recommended for undead children. All ages are welcome to stumble along with us on the walk though!

The Great Criterion Onslaught of 1812

As promised, here's the list of recent acquisitions from the Criterion Collection, some brand spankin' new to DVD and others spand brankin' new to us! This brings our list of CC titles to roughly 24,312. Or less.

In no particular order:

AND THE SHIP SAILS ON (1984) Frederico Fellini Italy
CLOSE-UP (1990) Abbas Kiarostami Iran
LAST WAVE (1977) Peter Weir Australia
METROPOLITAN (1990) Whit Stillman U.S.andA.
ACE IN THE HOLE (1951) Billy Wilder U.S.andA.
PARIS, TEXAS (1984) Wim Wenders U.S.andA.
THIS SPORTING LIFE (1963) Lindsay Anderson UK
HOBSON'S CHOICE (1954) David Lean UK
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941) Preston Sturges U.S.andA.
ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938) Sergei Eisenstein Russia
SWEETIE (1989) Jane Campion Australia
PITFALL (1962) Hiroshi Teshigahara Japan
WOMEN IN THE DUNES (1964) Hiroshi Teshigahara Japan
FACE OF ANOTHER, THE (1966) Hiroshi Teshigahara Japan
ORDET (1955) Carl Th. Dreyer Denmark
DAY OF WRATH (1943) Carl Th. Dreyer Denmark
GERTRUD (1964) Carl Th. Dreyer Denmark
MY METIER (1955) Torben Skjodt Jensen Denmark
LE PLAISIR (1952) Max Ophuls France
EARRINGS OF MADAME DE..., THE (1953) Max Ophuls France
RIVER, THE (1951) Jean Renoir France
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
ANTONIO GAUDI (1984) Hiroshi Teshigahara Japan
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAURENCE (1983) Nagisa Oshima Japan
COLOSSAL YOUTH (2006) Pedro Costa Portugal
IN VANDA'S ROOM (2000) Pedro Costa Portugal
OSSOS (1997) Pedro Costa Portugal
MR. ARKADIN (1955/2006) Orson Welles U.S.andA.
SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1965) Martin Ritt UK
HONEYMOON KILLERS (1969) Leonard Kastle U.S.andA.
I AM WAITING (1957) Koreyoshi Kurahara Japan
RUSTY KNIFE (1958) Toshio Masuda Japan
TAKE AIM AT THE POLICE VAN (1960) Seijan Suzuki Japan
CRUEL GUN STORY (1964) Takumi Furukawa Japan
COLT IS MY PASSPORT, A (1967) Takashi Nomura Japan
THIN RED LINE, THE (1998) Terrence Malick U.S.andA.
MAGICIAN, THE (1958) Ingmar Bergman Sweden
L'ENFANCE NUE (1968) Maurice Pialat France

Eye-Assault Update (i.e. Some New Stuff)

Each update, but a few of our new titles are spotlighted while many more are added with little blog fanfare. It's worth stopping in to check out all the new stuff we get each week!

SPLICE
It sounds like a soft drink but it is in fact the latest motion picture from Cube director Vincenzo Natali. Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody (in his 148th film appearance this year) star as totally sexy gene-splicing scientists. And when these two get together the action gets hot and splicey! Sorry. Also check out Natali's neat indie flick 'Nothing' where two guys go outside to find everything has vanished and has been replaced by a white void.



THE GATES
A few years ago we were lucky enough to be part of bringing legendary director and cinematographer Albert Maysles to town for a talk and career retrospective at Trent and golly gee, what a sweet, sweet man. His longtime friendship with artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude (see their outstanding 5 DVD collection available at a Have You Seen... near you) has been well documented and their obsession with assembling an installation in New York's Central Park is the subject of The Gates. The controversial plan took many years to bring to fruition and we're given a behind the scenes look at the journey.



THIEVES BY LAW
Don't mess with the Russian Mob. Or really, any mob for that matter. Maybe a mob of Strawberry Shortcakes? No, that would be frightening too.



TRASH HUMPERS
Newest Harmony Korine and yeah, the title pretty much sums it.



Coming soon... the Criterion Collection MOTHERLOAD. We've already got hundreds, now we're adding dozens more! Check back for details soon...

The Room is in the House!

Don't ask us why it took so dang long, but we have finally snagged copies of The Room for y'all. Yes, the cult smash sensation that's still sweeping the floors of the nation! If you're not aware of this brilliant motion picture, The Room is the work of master thespian and dynamic director Tommy Wiseau. This is a man who bleeds emotion for us on both sides of the screen. Watch the trailer below because my words cannot fully relay the incredibleness of this cinematic jewel. The acting on the new 90210 is Shakesperian in relation and Mulholland Drive makes way more sense when compared to this.



And recommended to us by our friend Dangerous Doug Tilley, The Room tribute at Newgrounds and this wonderful Room rap. Thanks Doug!

Naughty language - nsfw

Celebrity Jello Wrestling Match Poll Results!

The last Have You Seen.. in-store poll was 'Which Celebrity Would You Most Like to Battle in a Jello Wrestling Match?' and there were some really interesting picks. Here's a sampling:

- all the kids from Eight is Enough


- Garry Shandling


- Meatloaf


- Angela Lansbury


- Karl Marx


- the guy who played Urkel


- Jello Biafra (ohh, hardy har)


- Sissy Nobby


Who is YOUR pick? Here's mine!

HAVE YOU SEEN… PAYS PEOPLE TO SAY NETFLIX SUCKS!

HAVE YOU SEEN… PAYS PEOPLE TO SAY NETFLIX SUCKS!

It started out as a well meaning protest at Aylmer and Charlotte streets in Peterborough’s downtown. Two movie lovers gathered at the intersection to proclaim their love for local independent video store Have You Seen… and their distaste for American corporate monolith Netflix. The American company recently stormed the Canadian border, invading their gentle neighbours to the north with the promise of bargain basement streamed movies and TV shows.

“Netflix sucks!” said one of the men, a bald, bearded gentleman with a large stomach. “Their selection is meager at best and they lack all of the fun associated with actually leaving your house and communicating with the nice human beings at the video store.” Pointing at Have You Seen… he continued by saying “Those really good looking people in there love their city and their downtown and don’t take too kindly to this big bully coming in here and giving us wedgies. I just bought this frigging underwear!”

The other gentleman with an accent that was hard to place, I’m gonna go with South African, took over the rant. “This here big mean company, what they called, Nettrix or sumthin’, they don’t live in Peterborough and employ folk who live here, folk who spend their loonies at our local stores. We done do gosh dangit! All them money them big corpo go an make, she leaves an goes right back over that there border!”

It all seemed to be legitimate, just a couple of guys with something to get off their chest, when it was revealed that these two were actually the owners of Have You Seen… and had paid themselves to have a negative view of Netflix, using revenue accumulated at their store… a video store that rents people really killer, hard-to-find films for a fair price.

Calls to the store for a comment went unanswered at press time

-Julie Julia Giuliani