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1 Giant Leap

$23.95 | 155 minutes

This musical odyssey from Palm Pictures combines up-close and personal performances by stunning world musicians, excellent musical production and sound, and snippets of interviews with some compelling thinkers. The film, 1 GIANT LEAP, is organized into chapters, each of which begins with a philosophical quote which is then explored through&hellip…

16 Years Of Alcohol

$20.95 | 96 minutes

Former musician Richard Jobson (of The Skids) makes his directoral debut with the gritty drama 16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL. Frankie (Kevin McKidd, TRAINSPOTTING) found out early in life how easy it was to turn to booze and violence to drown out the pain and anger in his life. After spending years roaming through the back alleys of Edinburgh&hellip…

49th Parallel

$29.95 | 123 minutes

A taut, suspenseful World War II drama about Nazi servicemen trying to make their way across Canada to reach neutral American land after their U-boat is sunk in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. The best of British and Canadian talent were brought together to create this brilliant piece of war-time propaganda. Eric Portman as the sinister&hellip…

A Bigger Splash

$20.95 | 105 minutes

1971: the artist David Hockney is well on his way to art world super-stardom. Filmmaker Jack Hazan, camera rolling, follows Hockney from London to New York to Los Angeles - capturing the artist as he struggles to create what would prove to be some of his most enduring works: those featuring Hockney's model and lover, Peter Schlesinger. Straddling&hellip…

A Canterbury Tale

$34.95 | 124 minutes

While World War II rages, an American G.I. and three Britishers find themselves en route to the hallowed cathedral on the same Pilgrims' way taken by travelers some 600 years before and reported in Chaucer's epic poem. One of The Archers most pecular films, it features a mysterious 'glue-man' who sneaks up on young girls at night and&hellip…

A Love Divided

$16.95 | 98 minutes

This title is currently unavailable. The personal and the political collide in Sidney Macartneys's A LOVE DIVIDED, a compelling cinematic rendering of a notorious sectarian conflict in small town Ireland of the 1950s. Transcending the decade's long, carefully tended barriers between Catholic and protestant, young lovers Sheila Kelly&hellip…

A State of Mind

$26.95 | 93 minutes

With unprecedented access to the closed society of North Korea, British filmmaker Daniel Gordon and his crew set out to document the efforts of two schoolgirls--Pak Hyon Sun, 13, and her friend Kim Song Yon, 11, as they train in gymnastics for the massive governmental spectacle, The Mass Games, in the capital city of Pyongyang. Following&hellip…

A Zed and Two Noughts

$22.95 | 115 minutes

"Two legs look so good together, don't you think?" A masterpiece of modern cinema, A Zed and Two Noughts is Peter Greenaway's beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. Opening with an automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferreol), loses her&hellip…

Aberdeen

$26.95 | 113 minutes

Writer-director Hans PetTer Molland (ZERO KELVIN) deftly combines two traditional cinematic genres--the road movie and the dysfunctional family drama--to create a moving character study that is entirely his own. Kaisa (Lena Headey) is a successful, hard-edged career woman living in London. Days after receiving a promotion, she is asked&hellip…

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

$7.95 | 88 minutes

British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (KURT & COURTNEY) travels to Florida to survey the media craze surrounding America's first female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos. In his search for facts, Broomfield uncovers a never-ending trail of opportunists looking to cash in on her story, alleged police corruption, and some disturbing&hellip…