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Being Julia
$7.95 | 104 minutes
As she enters her early 40s, London theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West End, but is growing too old for ingenue parts. When Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, comes into her life, a clandestine affair begins. Though she's happy for a while, Julia&hellip…
Brakhage
$23.95 | 75 minutes
Over the course of 40 years, avant-garde film legend Stan Brakhage made nearly 400 films. Using experimental techniques of his own creation and no sound, he changed the both way we think about film and what we expect from light passing through celluloid. From "Window Water Baby Moving" (1958) to later works, such as "Dante's Quartet"&hellip…
Brand upon the Brain!
$34.95 | 99 minutes
In the weird and wonderful supercinematic world of Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin, personal memory collides with movie lore for a radical sensory overload. This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black&hellip…
Calendar
$15.95 | 75 minutes
Atom Egoyan, a Canadian photographer and his wife, Arsinée Khanjian, travel to their Armenian homeland so Atom can take pictures for a calendar. Though he does manage to print twelve beautiful photographs, his marriage falls apart in the process. Left all to himself, the photographer proceeds to romance a different woman each month&hellip…
Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
$15.95 | 84 minutes
Jazz history was irrevocably altered when Dizzy Gillespie helped form the burgeoning "bebop" movement in the 1940s. This film offers a glimpse of a trip to Cuba from the legendary trumpet player, where he provided entertainment for the audience at Havana's Fifth International Jazz Festival. Cuban music provided a great inspiration for&hellip…
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
$23.95 | 75 minutes
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to mimic the earliest works of cinema&hellip…
Encirclement - DOWNLOAD
$11.99 | 160 minutes
A portrait of neo-liberal ideology and the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world…
Encirclement
$24.95 | 160 minutes
A portrait of neo-liberal ideology and the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world…
Encirclement - ON DEMAND
$7.99 | 160 minutes
A portrait of neo-liberal ideology and the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world…
Encirclement - SCREENING KIT
$350.00 | 160 minutes
A portrait of neo-liberal ideology and the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world…