Movie Lust: Recommended Viewing for Every Mood, Moment, and ReasonJust as "Book Lust" and "Music Lust" supplied thousands of new reading andistening recommendations, "Movie Lust" continues the "Lust" series tradition,ffering more than 1,000 film recommendations for the discerning filmgoernd DVD renter. Forget about that box office slump you've been hearing aboutwhich really only accounts for the decline of the blockbuster; not toention that reporters of the slump forget to mention DVD sales and rentals).he truth is moviegoers today are becoming more discerning with the filmshey see. Films that would once have been deemed "unmarketable" have inecent years become very successful, from documentaries ("Fahrenheit 9/11", "arch of the Penguins") to foreign films ("Hero", "A Very Long Engagement"),uirky indies ("Sideways", "Lost in Translation") to films made primarily forinority audiences ("Diary of a Mad Black Woman", "Beauty Shop"), to name aew. In addition, with the rise of the DVD and of such innovative DVD rentalistributors as Netflix, more home viewers than ever are interested iniewing backlist film titles to find jewels they may have missed. But what |
