How to select a movie with the Apple Remote on Mountain Lion?

I asked the Apple store's live chat if on new computers without Front Row and if I get the remote whether I would still be able to select a movie and play it from iTunes with the remote. They said yes. So I pose the question here: How?
When I try the Play button, iTunes opens in the background. Up and down buttons change volume. Depending on if Music, Movies, or even Books are selected under the Library sidebar, back/forward buttons either switch songs, switch movies (with aparently no abaility to switch tracks in a movie), or nothing. If Movies were selected and one starts playing, there is no way to close it without going back to the computer. This is fairly ******** functionality that doesn't quite match what the Apple rep told me. So again I ask: How?

That series of *'s up there was the word re tar-ded. I obviously meant it in the verb's sense as "held back" and not saying the software is mentally unfit....

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