Review

The first volume of this series of DVDs, featuring the best shorts, documentaries, interviews, and otherwise hard-to-find but worthy work, contains: Henry Rollins-Easter Sunday in NYC: monologue/performance Michael Apted Interview: the director of the "7-Up" series of documentaries as well as big features like Nell discusses his craft Black Rider Pepe Danquart's animated retribution to a racist The Big Story, plasticine animation placing Kirk Douglas in a news office playing both the editor and the reporter. An alternate angle shows the original pencil animations. Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade by George Hickenlooper, featuring Molly Ringwald and Billy Bob Thornton Mr. Resistor, animated by Mark Gustafson Trouble by Carrie Blank, an NYU thesis film This Unfamiliar Place by Eva Ilona Brzeski, documenting her father's experience as a Polish Jew in WWII (and her attempt to get him to talk about it) Mark Magidson Interview: the producer of Baraka discusses the ambitious and difficult production of that massive documentary Goreville by Seth Henrikson and Dave Sarno, a short documentary about a town that requires its residents to own a gun. Plus more