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A Place Called Chiapas
$26.95 | 92 minutes
Director Nettie Wild travelled through the Mexican province of Chiapas to investigate the status of the Zapatista uprising that broke out in 1994. The crew meet the Zapatista leader, Subcommander Marcos, and see evidence that the country's problems will not be resolved easily. A unique and balanced documentary on the obstacles faced by&hellip…
A White Dress - Download
$7.95 | 10 minutes
A young man visits his mother to introduce him his wife. But in this cloudy world that is the family, are we always those whom we pretend to be?…
A Wind From Wyoming
$26.95 | 100 minutes
Director Andre Forcier offers a tale of love, life, and relationships in WIND FROM WYOMING. Hiring a hypnotist proves to be a last-gasp move that pays off for the beleaguered Lea Mentha (Sarah-Jeanne Salvy), who has to face the fact that her boyfriend has left her, her mother has found a new lover, and her sister is too caught up in her&hellip…
American Psycho
$13.95 | 104 minutes
A cunning indictment of the materialism of the 1980s, AMERICAN PSYCHO is Mary Harron's (I SHOT ANDY WARHOL) and Guinevere Turner's (GO FISH) deft interpretation of the dark and violent Brett Easton Ellis novel of the same name. Christian Bale (VELVET GOLDMINE) plays Patrick Bateman, the personification of the "me" culture of Ronald Reagan's&hellip…
Being Julia
$20.95 | 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…
Binge and Purge
$17.95 | 83 minutes
It's Christmastime in the near future, and terrorism has turned the U.S. in to a police state. After a rash of murders begins to plague the nation's capital, two young cops are assigned to investigate the murder of a young fashion model. Those cops disappear, too, and the police chief then puts two private detectives on the case. These&hellip…
Bowling for Columbine
$10.95 | 125 minutes
Filmmaker and leftist activist Michael Moore asks some serious questions as he probes the depths of America's trigger-happy gun culture in the insightful and amusing documentary, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. Guns in America are used to kill an average of more than 11,000 people per year. This death toll is obscenely out of balance with other&hellip…
Brakhage
$26.95 | 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
$25.95 | 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…