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Regina Spektor's Live in London concert movie gets screened in just 15 U.S. cities this weekend, and the Northwest Film Forum is the Seattle venue, with just one showing on Sunday at 8 p.m. It's just $5, so if you missed her Paramount show--All night, between songs, it had been "Regina, I love you!", "Regina, I love you more than that first girl!", and a baritone howl of "Regina, I want to have your babies!" Spektor, in contrast, traveled imperturbably from song to song, though the "babies" brought her up short. "All tour," she said, "it's been babies. I guess...thanks?"--you can make up for lost time. The live album hits on November 22. Consequence of Sound has the track lists.

I gave this post a rest during SIFF, just because there were already more than enough movies to go around. That being said, you didn't miss much: the biggest new releases on DVD were Alice in Wonderland, Dear John, The Road, and Shutter Island (and you all know how I feel about that last one).

There was also Califone's first foray into film, All My Friends are Funeral Singers, the sequel to Planet Earth, BBC series Life, Oscar foreign film winner The Secrets in Their Eyes, David Cross' latest Bigger and Blackerer, and Saturday Night Fever by way of Pinochet Tony Manero. Let us not speak of The Wolfman, nor From Paris with Love.

Now let's take a look at more recent releases on DVD, care of our good friends at Scarecrow Video. Last week offered up terrible rom-com When In Rome, terrible post-apocalypse The Book of Eli, and terrible indie flick Happy Tears. I haven't seen Youth in Revolt, but I liked the book when I was a youth and it stars cutie pie Michael Cera, so I will reserve judgment at this time. There's also Mary and Max, a stop-motion animation feature with the voices of Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette, and the Criterion edition of Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train.... (more)