New Releases for January 16 2024

JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE (2023)

Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, Joan Baez: I Am A Noise is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and off stage - from her lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work.

ERNEST & CELESTINE: A TRIP TO GIBBERITIA (2020)

Ernest and Celestine return in this delightful and joyous follow-up to their first Academy Award-nominated adventure, where the bear and mouse became the unlikeliest of friends. When Celestine accidentally breaks the beloved violin of her grouchy companion, they embark on a journey to Gibbertia, home to the only artist who can repair it as well as Ernest's family. But when the duo arrives, they are shocked to discover that all forms of music have been banned for many years and the land once known for its incredible musicians has fallen silent. It is up to Ernest and Celestine and their new friends, including a mysterious masked outlaw, to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears. (BLU-RAY)

LONE STAR (1996) (Criterion Collection)

A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border. (BLU-RAY and 4K ULTRA HD)

THE RAID: REDEMPTION (2011)

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies a drug-gang’s safe house, home to some of the most terrifying and ruthless fighters in the city. Arriving before dawn an elite swat team moves in to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when they receive news of the raid, the building’s residents will stop at nothing to destroy the squad, and the unit must battle their way out of their most dangerous raid ever.

THE RAID: REDEMPTION is presented on 4K Ultra HD disc with a completely new color grade under director Gareth Evans’s supervision. (BLU-RAY and 4K ULTRA HD)

CHOPPER (2001)

Eric Bana (Troy, Munich) gives an incredible performance as real-life convict and author Mark "Chopper" Read in the twisted and savagely funny Chopper. The son of a devoutly religious mother, Chopper dreams of making a name for himself as a legendary figure of infamy. But the wisecracking, would-be criminal mastermind turns out to be a criminal failure who gets tossed in a maximum-security prison. Bowed but unbroken, Chopper manages to twist his life around with a fascinating and wickedly funny retelling…and the press and the public can't get enough! (BLU-RAY)