{"id":11071,"date":"2011-03-07T02:35:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2011-03-07T02:35:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:35:18","slug":"dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-7th-march-2011-life-in-a-day-traffik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/03\/07\/dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-7th-march-2011-life-in-a-day-traffik\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD &#038; Blu-ray Releases: Monday 7th March 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11072\" title=\"DVD Picks 07-03-11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DVD-Picks-07-03-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>DVD PICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B004GJWM48?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B004GJWM48\">Life in a Day<\/a><\/strong> (Entertainment One UK): A user-generated documentary sourced from footage shot by thousands of YouTube users on a single day last year &#8211; July 24th 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Andrew MacDonald, the project began as a partnership between the video sharing site and Ridley Scott&#8217;s company Scott Free, eventually ending up with 80,000 submissions from users around the world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X2NiaCNGR8s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although more of an experiment than a regular feature, it is a fascinating document of people around the world and director Andrew MacDonald and his team of editors did a great job of editing down the 4,500 hours of footage.<\/p>\n<p>The end result is only 94 minutes but movingly depicts a wide range of human behaviour from over 140 nations and is given an added kick by the score by Harry Gregson-Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/lifeinaday\">Life in a Day channel at YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1687247\/\">IMDb link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B004GV67SI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B004GV67SI\">Traffik<\/a><\/strong> (Acorn Media):\u00a0This classic 1989 TV mini-series broke with tradition by presenting a more global and realistic depiction of the drug trade. Over six episodes it wove three stories involving a Pakistani poppy grower (Jamal Shah) and local drug lord (Talat Hussain); a German smuggler (George Kukura), his wife (Lindsay Duncan) and two cops after him (Fritz M\u00fcller-Scherz and Tilo Pr\u00fcckner); and a British politician (Bill Paterson) and his drug addicted daughter (Julia Ormond).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/show\/traffik\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11073\" title=\"Traffik on 4OD\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Traffik-on-4OD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The writing, direction and acting are excellent and it won three BAFTAs and an International Emmy for best drama. Although it was later remade as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traffic_(2000_film)\">Traffic<\/a> (2000), directed by Steven Soderbergh and relocated to Mexico and the US, the original has a greater depth and richness to it.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B004GV67SI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B004GV67SI\">Buy Traffik on DVD from Amazon UK<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; UK viewers can watch the series for free on 40D <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/show\/traffik\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And Soon the Darkness<\/strong> (Optimum Home Entertainment) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> Cabin Fever\/The Blair Witch Project<\/strong> (Lionsgate UK) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> Drag Me to Hell\/Heartless<\/strong> (Lionsgate UK) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> Ip Man 2<\/strong> (Showbox Media Group) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> Mad Dogs<\/strong> (2 Entertain) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> Madagascar<\/strong> (2 Entertain) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> Phenomena<\/strong> (Arrow Video)\t[Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> Ride Around the World<\/strong> (BPDP) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> Saw: The Final Chapter<\/strong> (Lionsgate UK) [Blu-ray \/ DVD \/ 3D Edition]<br \/>\n<strong> The Kid<\/strong> (Revolver Entertainment) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> The Long Kiss Goodnight<\/strong> (Warner Home Video) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<br \/>\n<strong> WWE: Survivor Series &#8211; 2010<\/strong> (Silver Vision) [Blu-ray \/ DVD]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/03\/04\/uk-cinema-releases-friday-4th-march-2011-rango-adjustment-bureau-unknown\/\">UK cinema releases for Friday 4th March 2011<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/12\/08\/the-best-dvd-and-blu-ray-releases-of-2010\/\">The Best DVD &amp; Blu-ray releases of 2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including Life in a Day and Traffik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1892,1893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}