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Apologies if I posted this before - can't find it! I'm trying to track down, at a reasonable price, a copy (any format, even a VHS dub) of Emile de Antonio's IN THE KING OF PRUSSIA. One fella has a $150 VHS former rental on Amazon, and that's the only one I've been able to locate. If it's anywhere as powerful as THE TRIAL OF THE CATONSVILLE NINE, I *need* to see this film...

I mean, do people here know the Berrigans? (Martin Sheen is a friend to Daniel Berrigan, appears in de Antonio's film, and was arrested in an anti-nuke demonstration with him. The film is about the Plowshares Movement, in which the radical priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan - who "act" as themselves (I believe this is a semidocumentary) - would break into nuclear arms plants, hammer on the missiles, and pour blood on them, then stand by awaiting arrest. The Berrigans claimed a certain degree of fame in the 1960s for such actions, most famously at Catonsville, where they poured homemade napalm on draft files, apparently as a way of bringing the legality of the Vietnam conflict into court. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, while very talky and stagey, bristles with energy, passion, and ideas - I highly recommend it if you can track it down. To my knowledge, both films were only ever released on VHS.

I still haven't gotten over the HVE Emile de Antonio series falling through, so I feel your pain and did some looking around for you. Concord Video (http://www.concordvideo.co.uk) seems to have it for £50, but that may be more than you are willing to pay. MPI Home Video says it's "temporarily out-of-stock" but more likely permanent. Subterranean Cinema has it listed, and you'd have to e-mail them for further details (http://www.subcin.com/subvid.html).
Other than that, are there any U.S. cities you're planning to visit anytime soon? There are quite a few libraries that have it on VHS, but they're all in the U.S., as far as I can tell. Some of them would loan it out, if you have any access to inter-library loan.

Wow, thanks! I didn't actually know Subterranean Cinema - a great list they've got! Have made the requisite inquiry.

Happy New Year!

Edit: ...and they never wrote back.

Ah, well.

P.

Subterranean breaks my heart too.

That website is basically taunting you.

Has anyone ever received anything from them? It seems to be very popular...I hear about it constantly but I've never actually read of anyone receiving anything..

I ordered a few things from them quite some time ago (I think in 2006). The communication and service was friendly and prompt.

EDITED: I just refreshed my memory and looked at the SubCin site. It is an incredible list--in theory I would want dozens if not more of the DVDs he offers, IF they were of top notch quality. But if he is still operating, I would just say "buyer beware". He is very generous with his "A"s. I was not expecting much, but the A I got from him was, at best, a B.

Just discovered that Painters Painting is being released on January 26. And apparently it had a small DVD release last year that went almost immediately out of print, much like that Jack Smith documentary (also being reissued).