Week of July 1st

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Confiding

Seligman (Stellan Skarsgaard) discovers beaten, abandoned Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in an alley in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, and he invites her inside to recuperate over a cup of tea. Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, begins to tell Seligman her story, hinging on her sexuality, and the voraciousness that began with the man who took her virginity (Shia LeBeouf) and through a wandering path that led her down a winding path that leads her through partners, conquests, marriage, motherhood, desensitization, and beyond. While Joe is motivated by her own pleasure, Seligman interprets her story in numbers, music, and fishing metaphors, and their earnest repartee (intercut with von Trier's visual symbolism) paints an epic tale that requires two feature-length volumes to tell. With Christian Slater. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Through a mix-up of "dabbawalas," the elaborate lunchbox delivery system in Mumbai, lonely accountant Saajan (Irrfan Khan) receives the lunch young wife Ila packed for her husband in the critically acclaimed The Lunchbox. Ila hopes that her luscious cooking will reintroduce passion into her relationship with her husband, but it has a shocking effect on widower Saajan. As they begin to correspond through notes in the lunchboxes, the two develop a connection neither of them could have anticipated.

Viscera

Derek Lee has always wanted to travel, so he's taking a year to travel the world with his videographer friend Clif Prowse in Afflicted. Setting out to make their travelogue web series against doctor's orders-- Derek has an abnormality in his brain that could cripple or kill him-- the friends set out on their journey to explore the world while they can, but a chance encounter starts to change Derek. Though he's often sick and can't keep food down, he doesn't want to end up in the hospital... so they document his illness, and discover a few side effects: Derek has become so strong he can punch through stone walls, fast enough to outrun cars, and he can now leap several stories into the air. Thrilled that Derek suddenly has superpowers, the friends web series begins to document the unexpected drawbacks of what Derek is becoming.

Picking up minutes after the end of the first movie, The Raid 2 rejoins Rama, the only surviving member of his SWAT team's raid on a multi-level drug compound. Having taken down one corrupt police officer, Rama is taken aside and given the chance to continue working: he's given a cover story and sent to prison to befriend Uco, the heir to the criminal organization controlling the Indonesian police. On the inside, Rama's life becomes a whirlwind of tense showdowns, hidden identities, brutal fights, ruthless assassins, international power-plays, and shifting loyalties, all unfolding among frenetic, impossibly-staged action sequences. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Communicators

The story of a movie that was never made, Jodorowski's Dune recounts the efforts of cult surrealist director Alejandro Jodorowsky's work towards adapting the classic sci-fi novel Dune in 1973. Convinced he would make a spiritual, world changing piece of art, Jodorowsky began to assemble a team of artists (like H.R. Giger and Jean "Mobius" Giraud), musicians (like Pink Floyd and Magma), and his proposed cast (ranging from Orson Welles to Mick Jagger to Salvador Dali), each brought into Jodorowsky's project by varying degrees of luck, passion, or persuasion. In his quest to make the most ambitious movie ever put to film, he created something that was both unfinanceable and unfilmable, and through the project crumbled, the unfilmed Dune became both a legend and an inspiration throughout decades of cinema. On DVD and Blu Ray.

The founder of the 1990s Riot Grrl movement, Kathleen Hanna is the focus of the documentary The Punk Singer. Fiercely outspoken and intelligent, Hanna fought through the male dominated punk and grunge cultures that were ruling the rock world to front Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Announcing feminism from rock stages and mosh pits, Hanna was the icon that brought punk rage to feminist activism in the 1990s, and the film covers her career and influence through her retirement ten years ago.

A film constructed around a single interview with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsefeld, Errol Morris' The Unknown Known records Rumsfeld's feelings on his career, his legacy, and his association with one of America's least popular wars. The interview provides focused insight into the former secretary's ideals, devout lack of uncertainty, and skill with language that famously elaborated upon "known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns, and even unknown knowns."

New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Legend of Korra Book 2: Spirit	Now a fully-realized Avatar, Korra finds herself in the middle of a civil war between the Northern and Southern Water Tribes, and an ambitious plot that could threaten the legacy of all Avatars, future and past.		Helix: Season 1	An outbreak in a secluded, arctic research lab threatens the lives of the scientists in the facility... but the truth of their situation is more complicated than they can imagine, as are the consequences if the contagion spreads to the outside world.
	Monster High	Two new specials on one disc: the girls try to make peace between vampires and werewolves in Fright On!, and they set out on a monstrous island adventure in Escape from Skull Shores.		A Young Doctor's Notebook	Adapted from the journals of a doctor young (Daniel Radcliffe), his older, wiser self (Jon Hamm) recalls the difficult circumstances of medicine and surgery in rural 1916 Russia.