2004 NatFilm Festival: Film Festival of Denmark
The Order - From Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3
$19.95 | 31 minutes
THE CREMASTER CYCLE is a saga of five films that serve as an extended allegory for the process of creation. Masterminded by artist Matthew Barney, THE CYCLE was produced over a series of eight years, from 1994 to 2002. Each film boasts a stunning albeit bizarre visual pallete. With vivid colors, opulent set designs and striking costumes&hellip&hellip…
Last Life in the Universe
$19.95 | 104 minutes
Shy Kenji is a Japanese librarian in Bangkok who lives within a neatly organized world and fantasizes about committing suicide, but gets interrupted every time he attempts to end his life. While at work, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful girl he spots through the bookshelves. Later, while attempting to jump off a bridge, he watches&hellip&hellip…
Free Radicals
$26.95 | 120 minutes
A car crash causes the random intersection of various lives in this Austrian film by Barbara Albert. Manu (Kathrin Resetarits) survives a plane crash only to die eight years later on impact with a carload of teenagers. She leaves behind a spooky little daughter Yvonne (Deborah Ten Brink), a grieving husband (Georg Friedrich) who was having&hellip&hellip…
Doppelganger
$21.95 | 107 minutes
Mixing horror with black comedy, DOPPELGANGER marks the sixth time director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and actor Koji Yakusho have worked together. Yakusho stars as mild-mannered scientist Hayasaki Michio, whose entire life is thrown into disarray when a man identical in appearance but opposite in personality enters his life. The main thought on&hellip&hellip…
Control Room
$11.95 | 86 minutes
In the spring of 2003, just before President Bush declared that the United States would go to war with Iraq, documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim and her crew set up their cameras inside Al Jazeera, the satellite news network for the Arab world. Though US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld accuses Al Jazeera of lying in its news reports&hellip&hellip…
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
$23.95 | 139 minutes
Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, SOME KIND OF MONSTER takes a shockingly in-depth look at Metallica, one of the world's most popular heavy metal bands. The documentary begins in 2001, just after longtime bassist Jason Newsted leaves the hugely popular group. Surprised by this sudden departure, the remaining band members&hellip&hellip…
The Saddest Music in the World
$12.95 | 99 minutes
Guy Maddin's films are gritty, gorgeous, darkly daffy, and ultimately surreal, and THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD may be the finest example of this Canadian director's unique artistry. He takes a macabre storyline, blends it with brilliant performances, edits to perfection, and creates pure celluloid magic. Dots, bumps, fuzzy static&hellip&hellip…
Monster
$21.95 | 109 minutes
Charlize Theron delivers a knockout, cast-against-type performance in this gritty drama, based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a down and out prostitute who was sentenced to death after killing six men between 1989 and 1990. Christina Ricci costars as Selby Wall, a lesbian runaway who forms a romantic bond with Wuornos. Inspired&hellip&hellip…
Gozu
$21.95 | 129 minutes
This wildly bizarre Japanese horror movie from master Takeski Miike (AUDITION) follows the mysterious disappearance of Brother, a gangster who was accidentally killed by one of his Mafia cohorts, Minami. Searching for Brother's body--which vanished minutes after he was shot--Minami stumbles into a strange secluded inn and gets a room&hellip&hellip…
Haack: The King of Techno
$14.95 | 0 minutes
The story of Bruce Haack is one of the most unusual and inspiring tales to ever enliven the world of popular music. In the 1960s and 1970s Haack set about recording a series of children's albums that bucked the trend for wishy-washy sentimentalism, and instead incorporated some edgy, experimental, and decidedly oddball concepts. The albums&hellip…
Goodbye Dragon Inn
$23.95 | 83 minutes
The subject of cinema, of the mix of loneliness and connection that is part of being in a movie audience, is the concern of this sad, beautiful, minimalist composition by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang (WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?). The action takes place Inside a Taipei movie theater operated by a lonely clubfooted woman (Shiyang Chi-Chen)&hellip&hellip…
Mango Yellow
$21.95 | 100 minutes
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook who has a crush on a local butcher, Wellington&hellip&hellip…
Anatomy Of Hell
$18.95 | 80 minutes
THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND NOT AVAILABLE. Over the course of her career as a writer and filmmaker, Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) has never shied away from controversial topics, using both mediums to explore her strong feminist opinions. Joining a generation of similarly taboo-breaking French directors such as&hellip&hellip…
Red Lights
$26.95 | 106 minutes
Starring French cinema legends Carole Bouquet (THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE) and Jean-Pierre Darroussin (UN AIR DE FAMILLE), director Cedric Kahn's thriller, based on a novel by Georges Simenon, features dry humor and Hitchcockian suspense. The relationship between Antoine (Darroussin) and Helene (Bouquet) is deteriorating. Helene spends&hellip&hellip…
Travellers & Magicians
$23.95 | 108 minutes
Writer-director Khyentse Norbu, who scored an international hit with the 1999 drama THE CUP (PHORPA), about Tibetan refugees obsessed with watching the World Cup soccer finals, returns to his homeland to make the remarkably charming and engaging TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS, the first feature-length film to be made completely within the Kingdom&hellip&hellip…
Romance
$11.95 | 98 minutes
When Marie's maudlin boyfriend Paul refuses to engage in sexual relations, she is forced to search for intimacy beyond the bounds of traditional sexual limitations--a journey that proves to be both fulfilling and empowering&hellip&hellip…
Fat Girl
$24.95 | 84 minutes
Take two very naive, very young French girls--one a thin 15-year-old, Elena (Roxane Mesquida), and the other her fat 12-year-old sister, Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux). Picture them as lambs. Add a manipulative older Italian boy, Fernando (Libero De Rienzo). Picture him as the wolf. Witness from close range as the one of the lambs (the thin one)&hellip&hellip…
La Petite Lili
$26.95 | 100 minutes
Handsome, young, naïve, and insufferably pretentious, amateur filmmaker Julien (Robinson Stévenin) and his famous actress mother, Mado (Nicole Garcia), are locked into a power-play at their country house. Jeanne (Julie Depardieu), the daughter of the caretaker, is in love with Julien. But Julien's girlfriend, Lili (Ludivine Sagnier)&hellip&hellip…
Father and Son
$24.95 | 83 minutes
Acclaimed filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK) brings us this sensual study of the bond between a strapping Russian father (Andrey Schetinin) and his soldier son (Aleksey Neymsyshev). In a dreamy rooftop apartment overlooking the sea, the pair wrestle, lift weights, bond, pore over old photos of lost loved ones, and stare longingly&hellip&hellip…
Bomb the System
$21.95 | 93 minutes
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York streets, spraying graffiti&hellip&hellip…
Save the Green Planet "Tame" Version
$21.95 | 118 minutes
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is&hellip&hellip…