Directors Masterpiece Collection ~ DVD

Trainspotting “Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family…” This is the story of Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his so-called friends – a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. Hilarious but harrowing, Danny Boyle's Train­spotting charts the disintegration of their friendship as they proceed seemingly towards self-destruction. Mark alone has the insight and opportunities to escape his fate – but then again does he really want to “choose life”? Somewhere Writer/director Sofia Coppola reunites with the film company with which she made the Academy Award-winning hit “Lost in Translation.” Her new film is an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles; Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning), Johnny is forced to look at the questions we must all confront. Lost In Translation Everyone wants to be found. 5,000 miles from home, Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is facing a mid-life crisis, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) is having an identity crisis. When these two lonely Americans cross paths in a Tokyo bar, their chance encounter sparks a series of hilarious adventures, creating an unexpected connection that might not last, but will stay with them forever. A Serious Man Academy Award-winning directors Joen and Ethan Coen return to their comedy roots with this original and darkly humerous story about one ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) can't believe his life: His wife is leaving him for his best friend. His unemployed brother won't move off the couch. Someone is threatening his career. His kids are a mystery, and his neighbour is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family delinquent behaviour and mortality. Taking Woodstock A Generation Began In His Backyard. A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969. Milk His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Academy Award® winner Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people. Milk is based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office. This compelling film follows Milk’s powerful journey to inspire hope for equal rights. With a stunning all-star cast, including Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna and James Franco, Milk tells an emotionally charged story that is the winner of two Academy Awards