Mike Everleth reviews Cinéma Abattoir's À Rebours DVD compilation in his blog Bad Lit.

Canyon Cinema has announced that the second volume of Bruce Baillie's films in DVD is already available for preorder, and it'll begin being shipped next week. This volumen contains the films Quixote (1964-65, 45 min., revised 1967) and Here I am (1962, 10 min.). NTSC, 50 min., multizone, 50 US$.

The first volume (which includes Tung, Mass for the Dakota Sioux, Valentin de las Sierras, Castro Street, and All My Life) is currently sold out, but a new editiion is expected for the end of the month.

Italian publisher Kiwido is going to release, in cooperation with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, 'Paolo Gioli, Il cinema dell'impronta', a book+DVD curated by Sergio Toffetti and Annamaria Licciardello, including new texts by David Bordwell, Giacomo Daniele Fragapane, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Keith Sanborn and many others, both in Italian and English language. The DVD will contain 6 never-published films by Gioli, as well as an interview to Giacomo Daniele Fragapane on Gioli's work. Release date: November 1st 2009. RRP 35€.
Kino continues its exploration of the Raymond Rohauer and George Eastman House  collections in Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954, a 2-DVD set featuring works by Sidney Peterson, Willard Maas, James Broughton, Mary Ellen Bute and John Whitney among others. Release date: November 17th 2009. RRP 29.29 US$