Though the hono(u)r was announced a few months ago, actor Christopher Lee was finally knighted in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace last week. the knighthood is a totally appropriate commendation for a CONSIDERABLE body of work that is still growing. Said body of work is well-represented here on Jaman: the little-sung horror classic Horror Hotel remains effective today, and Lee examines the legacy of the role that made him famous - Count Dracula - in the fascinating documentary In Search Of Dracula.

Congratulations, Sir Christopher!

Alight folks, this recession is making it harder for people to make decisions about this Saturday. “Where to go to dinner“, “What should I get her“, “Do you think he will be in the mood after a body scrub“- I have heard it all. This Hallmark holiday, which some call the most romantic day of the year (even though I thought the most romantic day of the year was day 192 out of the book Daily Sex: 365 Positions and Activities for a Year of Great Sex!) is becoming more and more expensive, while others like me have found alternatives.

And I’m not the only one, I noticed that everyone scaling back- to think there are still reservations at Jardinarie and Gary Danko available for the hard-to-come-by 8pm slot. And retailers are taking note- offering special incentives on how to make your day as special and wallet friendly as possible. For example, my neighborhood grocer, Nob Hill Trading Company is providing the novice chef with an easy to assemble meal to close the deal. Here is what it comes with:

Featuring USDA Choice Filet Mignon with Dungeness Crab and Béarnaise Sauce
Half the price of a fine steakhouse dinner!
Also includes:
• Mashed Potatoes
• Asparagus with Garlic Herb Butter
• Fresh Spring Salad
• Parmesan Herb Ciabatta Bread
• Baked Brie with Fig Spread
• 4 Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
Save $10 when you buy Veuve Clicquot Champagne.
Order online at raleys.com/order and SAVE $5

All this for the low price of $49.99.

Consider a night in, and put on a movie from our collection of over 1000’s of Independent and International movies available on Jaman. Here are my recommendations- of course with a romantic lens (start with Charade and end up with Ira & Abby).

This is the first post from the new London HQ of Jaman UK, we run the local site from our new office near to 20th Century Fox in the heart of movie-land, Soho.

It’s been a busy week for us with all the last minute preparations to get our site up and running, but we managed to find time to go the Gala of CLUBBED in Leicester Square, which followed the Premiere in Geoff Thompson’s home town Birmingham. We’re big fans of the movie and it was great to see all the cast’s families and some of the investors there.

Clubbed - Trailer

This has been a real passion project for everyone involved and it shows. The Leicester Square power cut was a less welcome guest, even though the sell-out 300 seater was upgraded to the Empires 1500 seater theatre, which then looked pretty empty! The after-party had to be moved too but the producers took it all in their stride. No sweat!

It’s a particularly exciting time to be launching our UK site, with all the press surrounding success for British films - especially Slumdog Millionaire - in the run-up to awards season there’s a real buzz in the air. And speaking of press we’ve been doing press interviews today for the UK launch, so look out in the papers tomorrow for coverage of the launch.

*from the Jaman team in London*

Jaman was out in force on Sunday night at Old Billingsgate Market in London for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). Jaman entered the building to flash bulbs and shouts of a familiar name only to realise we had timed our entrance with that of Ben Kingsley and were not the hot ticket we thought we were. This years BIFAs flew in the face of the credit crunch with this event being the biggest in its 11 year history. The great and the good were out to show their support Danny Boyle, Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, David Thewlis and Steve McQueen, UK Director of Hunger rather than the 1960 & 70’s Icon.

The quality of the work nominated was outstanding with films such as Man on Wire, In Bruges, Hunger, and Slumdog Millionaire to name a few. After being entertained during dinner by the waitress’ ability to spill anything that she held we got down to the main event and the awards. Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner of the night taking Best British Independent Film, Best Director for Danny Boyle and Most Promising Newcomer for Dev Patel. Jaman got to catch up with Dev who was really pleased with his Best Newcomer Award. After starring in UK TV series Skins this was Dev’s first feature and he found working with Danny Boyle really insightful and loved the way he honed his acting skills. Jaman thinks Dev looks set for a bright future on the big screen after this early recognition. Jaman also caught up with another up and coming British star Thomas Turgoose, who was enjoying the night being the youngest ever Best Actor nominee for his second Shane Meadows film Somers Town. Thomas lost out to Michael Fassbender for Hunger who gives an amazing performance. Jaman later took to the dance floor to show of their moves with Keira Knightley and the cast of new British thriller Clubbed which is one to look out for 2009. Dancing was the winner and Jaman had a sore head to show for their efforts on Monday morning.

Here is a list of all of the winners.

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM

Slumdog Millionaire

BEST DIRECTOR
Sponsored by The Creative Partnership

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR]

Steve McQueen - Hunger

BEST SCREENPLAY
Sponsored by BBC Films

Martin McDonagh - In Bruges

BEST ACTRESS
Sponsored by M.A.C

Vera Farmiga - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

BEST ACTOR

Michael Fassbender - Hunger

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Alexis Zegerman - Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sponsored by Tiscali

Eddie Marsan - Happy-Go-Lucky

MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER

Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION
Sponsored by Recorded Picture Company

The Escapist

RAINDANCE AWARD

Zebra Crossings

BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Sponsored by Skillset

Cinematography - Sean Bobbitt - Hunger

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by Chapter Media

Man on Wire

BEST BRITISH SHO

Sundance just announced the first round of films to be showing in Park City this year. We’ll see if it’s all sold out considering the boycott this year - but it looks to be some really great cinema. The films announced are all a part of the New Frontier Series.

New Frontierwill feature the following works:

AGENCY OF TIME, PART 1B (Artist: Leighton Pierce)
Mesmerizing and transporting, Leighton Pierce’s installation work employs film, video, photography, and sound to create experiences in transformative time. In his multichannel installation, Agency of Time, painterly animations are created from long exposure photography. The animations are then projected onto various surfaces that engage with the architecture of the space to create a moving image environment that evokes the awareness of perception, point of view, time, desire, and memory.

THE CASTING (Artist: Omer Fast)
In Israeli born artist Omer Fast’s emotionally moving four channel installation,The Casting, a U.S. Army sergeant recounts two incidents: a romantic liaison with a young German woman who mutilates herself and the accidental shooting of an Iraqi. The two tales are seamlessly woven together into a script which was given to actors to perform in silent tableaux. The Casting, which won the 2008 Whitney Biennial prize, artfully reveals how both memory and cinema arbitrarily remix emotions, images, and words to create our connection to a moment and how the remix might serve to orient, or disorient us in our lives.

“endless pot of gold cd-rs” (Artist: Nasty Nets)
Nasty Nets is an international ensemble representing 25 of the most active artists working online today. Their work both celebrates and critiques the Internet by employing original and appropriated imagery and audio, animated gifs, YouTube hacks, html cheat codes, and other found/edited material. Each of these elements offers a humorous and poignant take on contemporary, digital visual culture. The public is invited to this event to create visual mischief on the internet at Nasty Nets: Night of a Thousand Megabytes, a Saturday late night digital art making jam at New Frontier on Main (RSVP by 8 pm Friday, Jan. 16 to NewFrontierRSVP@sundance.org).

Nasty Nets includes artists John Michael Boling, Joel Holmberg, Guthrie Lonergan, and Marisa Olson, members include: Peter Baldes, Michael Bell-Smith, Camille Paloque Bergés, Kevin Bewersdorf, Brian Blomerth, Charles Broskoski, Petra Cortright, Chris Coy, Paul B. Davis, Michael Guidetti, Britta Gustafson, Travis Hallenbeck, Chance Jackson, Lektrogirl, Tom Moody, Javier Morales, Paul Slocum, James Whipple, Robert Wodzinski, and Damon Zucconi.

EVOLUTION OF FEARLESSNESS (Artist: Lynette Wallworth)
In this profoundly evocative work, the viewer enters a dark room to learn about the stories of women who have survived war zones. The viewer can walk up to a threshold in the room where a moment of video meeting is made possible. In creating Evolution of Fearlessness, Australian artist Lynette Wallworth filmed portraits of several women residing in Australia but originating from countries such as Afghanistan‚ Sudan‚ Iraq, and El Salvador. They are women who have lived through wars‚ survived concentration camps, or extreme acts of violence. Built around the importance of gesture‚ Evolution of Fearlessness enlists its interactive structure to link us to the living women contained in the piece.

EXILES OF THE SHATTERED STAR; TWILIGHT AVENGER; WAGONS ROLL (Artist: Kelly Richardson)
UK based artist Kelly Richardson uses cinematic language to create part real/part imagined landscapes which offers a wavering hybrid of fact and fiction that are visual metaphors for our modern reality. A daily rotation of three single channel works encourages the viewer to fill in the blanks of each story. In Twilight Avenger, a stag radiates in the dark and in Wagon’s Roll the viewer is presented with a suspended car mid flight off of a cliff’s edge. In Exiles of the Shattered Star, a bucolic countryside is disrupted by other worldly elements showering down from a distant place.

IJ CENTRAL; ADOPT LINKS; DIGITAL DIASPORA (Artists: The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) Producers Institute Fellows, Paco De Onis, Deane Liam, and Thomas Allen Harris)
The Producers Institute for New Media Technologies at BAVC is a residency program for independent producers to develop and prototype a multiplatform, interactive project informed by a social justice documentary. The participants adapt their content for video game applications, media rich maps, interactive timelines, mobile streaming, virtual communities, and social media networks. This special presentation will spotlight three works: IJ Central, by Paco De Onis, producer of The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court; AdoptLinks, by filmmaker Deanne Liam, which is based on her upcoming feature, Precious Objects of Desire; and Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, by Thomas Allen Harris which is based on his upcoming feature documentary, Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.

LUNCHFILM: FILM BEFORE FOOD (Filmmakers: Various independent filmmakers)
Truly independent films are made from the gut. Mike Plante’s Lunchfilm concept is basic: a filmmaker is taken out to lunch and in exchange, the filmmaker agrees to make a short film. The budget– the same cost as the lunch. A contract is drawn up on a napkin and includes both rules and ideas for inspiration. At times poetically real or languidly artistic, the resulting Lunchfilms offer a variety of stunning tastes.

The participating filmmakers are Tom Barndt, Martha Colburn, Sean Conway, David Fenster and David, Nordstrom, Jim Finn, Mike Gibisser, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brent Green, Sam Green, Braden King, George Kuchar, Lee Lynch and Naomi Uman, Jake Mahaffy, Nicolas McCarthy, Sarah Soquel Morhaim, Ricardo Rivera, Kelly Sears, Jennifer Shainin and Randy Walker, and Anonymous.

THE WORKS OF MARIA MARSHALL (Artist: Maria Marshall)
London based artist, Maria Marshall’s disturbing and gorgeously composed video projections provoke the psychological dimensions of cinema. Often violent and always visually charming, Marshall has made more than 35 installations and frequently uses her two sons in the main roles. Marshall’s work tackles the fundamental subjects of motherhood, socialization, and life experience and takes us back to the world of childhood as a pretext in order to evoke the anxiety of adults. Hypnotic in effect, Marshall’s films employ digital technology to create disturbing images such as a video portrait of her young son smoking, or a piece in which Marshall’s skin literally crawls.

THE COMPOSERS LAB EXPERIMENTS: METAMORPHOSES (Artists: Gingger Shankar and //a73)
The Composer’s Lab Experiments at New Frontier feature collaboration between musician, Gingger Shankar and filmmakers A.J. Lara and Arthur Hyde. In their multimedia performance, Metamorphoses, Gingger Shankar and special guest musicians will elegantly score the walls of time and space. The musicians will test the boundaries of organic versus electronic music, in search of where the two meet.

MICHAEL PORTNOY:PROVOCATEUR (Artists:Michael Portnoy )
Performance artist Michael Portnoy’s long standing investigation of social exchange, along with the rules of communication and play, has led him to create the television show Provocateur for Ovation TV. It is there that art, performance, and conversation collide. Guests will be chosen from the Festival community for their capacity to challenge status quo– pushing work and perception to the edge. Episodes of Provocateur will be filmed daily at 4:30 pm January 16-21, in front of a live audience at New Frontier on Main.

MOON THEATER (Artists: Nova Jiang and Michael Kontopoulos)
Nova Jiang and Michael Kontopoulos have created a playful interactive work that allows audiences to get their hands on the moon! Moon Theater uses interactive shadow-play and high tech magic to transform hand shadow puppets which are then projected onto a large floating moon. Moon Theater is designed to address issues of scale and social performance in a public setting.

MOTHER + FATHER (Artist: Candice Breitz)
Candice Breitz’s media installation, Mother + Father, appropriates a cast of iconic actors from Hollywood blockbusters in the service of examining our popular notions of parenthood. In an energetic and insightful orchestration of gestures, tears, laughter, and guffaws, twelve actors passionately perform the rites of motherhood and fatherhood across a twelve channel plasma installation. Breitz offers us parenthood as a metaphor for the relationship between star and fan, and invites us to reflect on the formative role that cinema increasingly plays in our lives.

STINGRAY SAM (Filmmaker: Cory McAbee)
Cory McAbee is a well known Sundance alumnus having written and directed The American Astronaut, which screened in the Dramatic Competition of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. This year’s film Stingray Sam presented at New Frontier on Main reunites Stingray Sam (McAbee’s alter ego) on a dangerous mission with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet. Featuring music by American Astronaut and narrated by David Hyde Pierce, this musical space-western is a 6 part mini series designed for screens of all sizes.

TAMPER (Scientists: John Underkoffler and Oblong Industries)
In the film Minority Report Tom Cruise wears gloves that grab and move computer images in space. The consulting scientist who invented the technology for the production has now developed it into a full fledged operating system. New Frontier is proud to unveil this new media technology that may very well revolutionize the way we edit film. TAMPER provides an editing room of mild derangement where visitors become cinema collage artists, using their hands directly to grab and recompose film elements such as characters, props, architecture, captured from different movies.

WE FEEL FINE and UNIVERSE (Artist/Computer Scientists: Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar)
Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar’s work combines elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art, and storytelling. Using the metaphor of an interactive night sky, Universe presents an immersive environment for navigating the world’s contemporary mythology as found online in global news and information. Each person’s path through Universe is different, allowing each of us to find our own constellations, based on our own interests and curiosities. We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Every few minutes, We Feel Fine takes sentences that include the words “I feel” or “I am feeling” from all blogs that have been published in the last few minutes, and visualizes them in six different movements that allows viewers to see what any part of the world is feeling at any given moment.

The Castro Theatre, San Francisco’s pre-eminent movie palace, has long been a favorite hangout of many of us at Jaman (when we’re not watching movies on the site, naturally), and you’re sure to find us there this coming weekend for the San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival, brought to you by the fantastic non-profit 3rd I. 3rd I, in their own words, “is a non-profit, national organization committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through independent film. We represent filmmakers and audiences from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, The Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, and the South Asian Diaspora.”

The festival’s offerings (as you can see in their schedule here) are beautifully diverse. After a two-night stand at the Brava Theater November 13 & 14 (featuring work by Bay Area filmmakers), the festival moves to the Castro for a truly loaded weekend. Saturday boasts several high-profile Bollywood films, including Vishal Bharadwaj’s Maqbool (a Mumbai gangster take on Shakespeare’s MacBeth) and the disco spectacular Om Shanti Om, starring Bollywood icon (and Jaman Top Ten Star) Shah Rukh Khan!

The festival climaxes on Sunday evening with the San Francisco premiere of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, the dramatic chronicle of the rise of a Mumbai boy to game show stardom - a great chance to be the first kids on our block to see what’s sure to be an arthouse sensation!

For devotees of less mainstream fare, 3rd I’s got the citizens of the Bay Area covered - I’m particularly keen to check out the silent-era classic A Throw of Dice (lovingly restored by your friends at the British Film Institute, featuring a new score by Nitin Sawhney), and the late-nite screening of Hell’s Ground, a bizarre (and gorey) UK/Pakistan co-production with black magic, burkha-clad butchers, and copious zombies.

There’s clearly something for everyone in this remarkable festival - we hope to see you there!

San Francisco’s Castro Theater hosted the much anticipated premiere of Gus Van Sant’s biopic Milk last night. Sean Penn and James Franco were in attendance and the enthusiastic crowd gave the powerful film a standing ovation. Penn’s performance is already garnering Oscar buzz and the movie itself is looking to be a huge hit when it rolls out in late November. The Castro crowd, some of whom remember Harvey Milk’s impressive and revolutionary road to elected office from back in the 1970’s, and some of whom just remember the film shooting in the neighborhood last year, were quite comfortable with all of the chaos as moviegoers joined in and chanted along with the political groups advocating No on Prop 8 next to the theater.

“The guests came to the Castro Theatre on Tuesday dressed in Levi’s and designer dresses, ’70s-chic velvet jackets and drag-queen heels and glitter,” reports Steven Winn for the San Francisco Chronicle. “It looked like a glamorous early start on Halloween, but actually it was a Hollywood affair complete with a red carpet and a who’s-who invitation list. And, it was all devoted to a sold-out, one-night-only, world-premiere benefit screening of Milk, the hotly anticipated new film about the life, times and tragic death of controversial San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk.”

Click the movie poster to see the trailer.

We’ve talked previously on this blog about autumn and Halloween horror films, and this weekend is when the horror film festivals seem to be kicking off in earnest. I’m delighted to see that The Spooky Movie festival has kicked off its third year in Washington, D.C., my old stomping ground (more delightful still is that Count Gore De Vol, one of the last remaining old-school horror hosts, will be on hand for hosting duties). South of D.C. you have the Escapism Film Festival offering up a slew of fantasy (and related) films in Durham, NC’s Carolina Theatre.

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we have our own horror flick traditions, not the least of which is Shock It To Me, running this weekend, as always, at San Francisco’s palatial Castro Theatre. Here’s the trailer!:

Though Shock It To Me is only a two-day affair this time around, there’s still quite a lot to see – the festivities begin tonight with a screening of Jack Hill’s amazing 1968 pitch-black comedy Spider Baby, with actor Sid Haig (recently seen in films by Rob Zombie and Quentin Tarantino) in attendance to answer questions and, I’m sure, hang out with fans. A zombie eat-off (…yes) initiates a rare theatrical screening of Night of the Living Dead (still available here on Jaman if you can’t make it to San Francisco).

Night of the Living Dead

You’ll find me encamped at the Castro all day tomorrow, when Shock It To Me presents first a pair of classic Hammer Horror films (Horror of Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, both featuring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing), and then both features spun from the famous Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. Since I’ve been taking in the old series on DVD and consuming episodes like so many Fritos, I’m delighted at the chance to see Dan Curtis’ creations – the 18th century set Night of Dark Shadows and the contemporary House of Dark Shadows – on the big screen (particularly with Dark Shadows stars Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker in attendance).

Naturally, for those unable to make the festivals listed above or elsewhere, Jaman’s got dozens of horror titles available, enabling you to program your own horror fest within your own home. I’ve started a thread in our Forums where we can talk about whatever horror films we watch in the coming weeks – do stop in and tell us what’s chilling your blood (or even rolling your eyes) this Halloween!

P.S. - if you’ve read this far (thanks for that) and crave more blog-based horror, do check out (if you haven’t already) the online ramblings of Arbogast - the guy’s got a brilliant and dead-on take on all manner of screen horror (the 31 Screams series he’s doing for Halloween is particularly notable).

Among the many regular sightings on the festival circuit, one that tends to make me perk up is Harvey Weinstein. The famous indie film huckster, co-Miramax founder (with brother Bob) and current head of The Weinstein Company doesn’t negotiate the same show-stopping deals that reinvented the model for independent film distribution when he helped the world discover the likes of Quentin Tarantino in the early nineties, but he’s still keeping company with the same gang of filmmaker buddies he helped discover over a decade ago. There’s a certain charm to a Harvey festival appearance, especially when he’s lingering in the background, as he did on Sunday night during the Q&A following the premiere of Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno at the Toronto International Film Festival. Like Tarantino, Smith has a relationship with Weinstein that goes back nearly fifteen years, when Miramax purchased Clerks and emboldened the notion that ultra-low budget comedies could turn a profit. So even if The Weinstein Company isn’t embarking on the same historic deals and indomitable marketing strategies that put the brothers on the map, there’s something innately amusing about seeing the distributor stick with the people he knows best.

Harvey infamously interrupted the press conference for Tarantino’s Death Proof at the Cannes Film Festival last year just to rebut claims that Grindhouse was a flop (but Harvey…it was); fortunately, on Sunday night, he remained in the shadows. When Smith came onstage at the packed Ryerson Theater and explained how he convinced the Motion Picture Association of America not to rate his film NC-17, the director joked that it probably deserved one, anyway. “Did it feel like an NC-17 film?” Smith asked the audience. “How many people say yeah?” The crowd went wild, of course, but backstage, I spotted Harv, his eyes glued to a Blackberry in his left hand, inconspicuously raise his right — like a proud papa, a satisfied executive, or maybe both.

Burn baby Burn. The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival will debut and screen 312 movies this year and Jaman will be there to capture all the movie news, reviews and of course happenings around Toronto. I was actually amazed at the caliber of films offered and the star power the festival is packing. Not to mention that every Best Picture nominee (with the exception of There Will Be Blood) has played at Toronto.

We plan on checking out Kevin Smith’s “Zac and Miri Make A Porno” starring Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks to get our comedy fill.

And speaking of comedies…

The Coen brothers’ comedy “Burn After Reading” starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich.
Burn After Reading - Trailer

On a more serious note:

Steve Soderbergh’s Guerilla (Che), about the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara who travels to New York City to address the UN. Benicio del Toro won for Best Actor at Cannes.

Burning Man is over, the DPW folks are busily cleaning up all traces of the city, and I’m back here behind my climate controlled desk at Jaman HQ. This marks my ninth consecutive pilgrimage out to the Black Rock Desert. In some ways, it was the biggest event yet. The physical size of the city expanded, there were more people, and more money spent on art than ever before. On the other hand, I just wasn’t quite as impressed by the creativity or daring as I have been in years past. But there were certainly still a few stunning pieces and experiences, notably Mutopia, Tantalus, and the Dust City Diner.

Regardless, the last week of August is always my favorite reunion of the year, a time when hundreds of friends gather from afar to hang out and share. So all-in-all, it was a great time. My hands are cracked, my voice is gone, everything I own is covered in dust, and I even have one dead camera body. I can barely respond coherently to my coworkers. Most likely, this time next year, I’ll do it again.

Below are a few highlight photos. I have more posted in this set on Flickr as well as years past.

We are thrilled to be attending the world’s largest comic book festival, 2008 International Comic-Con . We got here a little early to check things out and couldn’t resist the Star Trek exhibit at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. For starters, we all loved the movies and are all eagerly anticipating the release of the new one, and to celebrate Jaman’s first Star Trek Film: Star Trek I: The Motion Picture - Director’s Edition, staring William Shatner. The exhibition claims to have the most comprehensive collection of authentic Star Trek ships, sets and costumes from all five series and the past ten films from over forty years- and we were not disappointed. Here are some pictures of our adventure and the trailer to Star Trek I, which is available on Jaman.

Tickets can be purchased in advance to avoid the line here: http://www.startrektickets.com/

Star Trek I: The Motion Picture - Director’s Edition