Uncle Kent

$19.95 | 72 minutes

A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on Chatroulette. Purchase the DVD Uncle Kent buy now at Indiepix Films. Uncle Kent movie buy DVD&hellip…

Lovers of Hate

$19.95 | 93 minutes

Grand Jury Prize - Drama(Nominee)

A dark comedy which follows two brothers who are in love with the same woman&hellip…

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

$9.95 | 84 minutes

Zel is a fortune teller. She works out of her century-old house removing clients' aches and pains, advising gamblers, and channeling cranky spirits for a quick check in with their loved ones. Zel is very good at her chosen profession, but also receives some unique assistance. For as long as she can remember she has shared her home with&hellip…

Women Without Men

$29.95 | 99 minutes

Women Without Men, an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel of the same name, is Iranian artist Shirin Neshat's first feature length film. The story chronicles the intertwining lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953; a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history when an American led, British backed coup&hellip…

Frozen

$11.95 | 93 minutes

Director Adam Green (HATCHET, SPIRAL) takes the helm for this relentlessly tense tale of three snowboarders who must fight for their lives in the freezing cold after getting stranded on a ski lift. As the trio rides up the mountain in preparation for their final run of the day, the night lights suddenly go dark, and the lift chairs grind&hellip…

The Killer Inside Me

$17.95 | 109 minutes

The second feature-length adaptation of author Jim Thompson's acclaimed 1952 crime novel, Michael Winterbottom's unflinching, psychosexual post-noir stars Casey Affleck as Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford, a stoic small-town lawman leading a secret life as a serial killer. His West Texas jurisdiction plagued by a series of unsolved murders, Deputy&hellip…

Howl

$14.95 | 84 minutes

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HARVEY MILK filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman make an ambitious leap to narrative film with this hybrid of live-action drama and animation. HOWL divides its focus between the real-life obscenity trial of the eponymous poem by Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) and the epic poem itself, which is brought to life&hellip…

Catfish

$11.95 | 88 minutes

Love and identity become twisted across the lines of the Internet in this documentary from filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Nev Schulman is a photographer who one day received a surprising e-mail message -- Abby, an eight-year-old girl in Michigan, had seen his picture in a newspaper and wanted permission to paint a portrait&hellip…

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

$24.95 | 84 minutes

Grand Jury Prize - Documentary(Nominee)
Documentary Film Editing Award – Penelope Falk

Joan Rivers launched her career as a standup comic in the early '60s, a time when female comedians were few and far between, and after several years of working nightclubs to unresponsive audiences, she&hellip…

Animal Kingdom

$11.95 | 113 minutes

A youngster is given an inside look at a criminal empire that also happens to be his family in this independent drama. Teenage Joshua Cody (James Frecheville) is suddenly on his own after his mother's drug habit catches up with her, and he's taken in by his grandmother Smurf (Jacki Weaver), usually regarded as the black sheep of the family&hellip…

Lovers of Hate

$19.95 | 93 minutes

A dark comedy which follows two brothers who are in love with the same woman&hellip…

Sister Wife

$7.95 | 10 minutes

DoriAnn is a Mormon fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger biological sister. During a private bathing meditation and candid interviews, DoriAnn explores the surprisingly universal challenges of her marriage and reveals an unexpected explanation for why she chooses polygamy&hellip&hellip…

Lymelife

$11.95 | 93 minutes

Rory Culkin (MEAN CREEK) stars in the coming-of-age drama LYMELIFE. Set in 1970s Long Island, the film has a WONDER YEARS feel with its friendly spats between brothers and a major crush on the all-American girl next door. As 15-year-old Scott, Culkin shares the screen with real-life brother Kieran Culkin, whose character, Jimmy, is just&hellip…

We Live In Public

$24.95 | 90 minutes

Grand Jury Prize

We Live in Public is a film that displays the negative effect of internet overuse. It also address social media questions like, Why Facebook is bad? IndiepixFilms provides the best place to buy Indie movies and download Indie movies. Consumers can easily download indie movie from Indiepixfilms.com. Where to download&hellip…

Humpday

$10.95 | 94 minutes

MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE filmmaker Lynn Shelton works with a cast of indie favorites--including BAGHEAD's Mark Duplass and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT's Joshua Leonard--for this comedy. Old friends Andrew and Ben add a new wrinkle to their relationship when they go to a commune where an amateur porn festival is on the agenda. But rather than&hellip…

Black Dynamite

$11.95 | 90 minutes

The city streets explode into violence when "The Man" kills Black Dynamite's (Michael Jai White) brother in this seamless recreation of the blaxploitation classics of the 1970s. He was the best agent that the CIA ever had, but these days Black Dynamite only answers to one boss -- himself. When "The Man" ices Black Dynamite's brother&hellip…

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

$23.95 | 86 minutes

During the second half of the 20th century, William Kunstler was one of the most admired attorneys in America--and one of the most hated. Kunstler was a man who thrived on controversial cases; in the 1960s, he specialized in defending clients who ran afoul of the law on civil rights and free speech issues, and he spoke on behalf of Martin&hellip…

The Messenger

$10.95 | 113 minutes

An Iraq War veteran who just narrowly escaped death in combat struggles with his new post at the Casualty Notification Office in this military drama starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone, and Samantha Morton. Will Montgomery (Foster) has spent his fair share of time in army hospitals, and with just three months to go before&hellip…

Everything Strange And New

$9.95 | 84 minutes

Already bent by the demands of his home life – fatherhood, a faltering marriage, and a submerged mortgage – a tradesman struggles to balance his own appetites and expectations with those of a friend in need. Everything Strange And New is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain times. &hellip…

Big River Man

$24.95 | 100 minutes

Grand Jury Award(Nominee)
Cinematography Award – John Maringouin

In February 2007, Martin Strel began an insane attempt to be the first person to swim the entire length of the world's most dangerous river, the mighty Amazon&hellip…

The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins

$24.95 | 98 minutes

Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Documentary(Nominee)
World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award – Irena Dol

Controversial conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, known for staging striking tableaux of nude female models, is smitten with a pair of Sudanese twins during an African photo shoot&hellip…

Trouble the Water

$23.95 | 96 minutes

Winner - Grand Jury Prize

As Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans, it changes the lives of aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her street-smart husband forever. Edited together from video footage shot by the couple during and after the storm's devastation, this documentary offers a visceral, personal view of the calamity&hellip…

Good Dick - ON DEMAND

$99.99 | 86 minutes

A video store clerk is infatuated with an introverted girl with a secret history&hellip…

Derek

$23.95 | 76 minutes

Grand Jury Prize (Nomination)

Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton personally conducts an intimate cinematic commemoration of the life, times, and work of UK filmmaker, artist, and renegade Derek Jarman in Derek. Isaac Julien's (Young Soul Rebels, Looking for Langston) documentary blends together vintage clips from Jarman's groundbreaking&hellip…

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The Order Of Myths

$23.95 | 97 minutes

Grand Jury Prize (Nominated)(Documentary)

The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown ("Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt"), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals&hellip…

Fay Grim

$10.95 | 118 minutes

The unlikely sequel to Hal Hartley's Henry Fool, finds the title character (played by Parker Posey) as a single mother in Queens. Her life is suddenly turned upside down when her missing husband's bad novel may turn out to be a secret code for a weapon and everyone wants to get their hands on it. So ensues a pursuit through Europe and&hellip…

Longtime Companion

$11.95 | 100 minutes

Hailed as the first mainstream film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion is a "remarkable" (Newsweek) drama that takes an honest, unflinching look at how this devastating disease changes everyone it touches. "Intelligent, unflinching and unpatronizing" (Boxoffice), and starring a "terrific ensemble cast" (Time)&hellip&hellip…

The Unforeseen

$23.95 | 93 minutes

Laura Dunn's feature-length directorial debut is a profoundly stirring, visually stunning, and emotionally overpowering work of epic beauty. Sharing a kinship with the film's executive producer, Terrence Malick, Dunn's lyrical nonfiction poem reaches levels of transcendence not often encountered in cinema. Malick and Robert Redford teamed&hellip…

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Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

$25.95 | 351 minutes

IN THEATERS JULY 4, 2007 (Limited) Spanning four years and seventeen countries, this documentary from Jennifer Fox chronicles the lives of women all over the world. Fox explores the lives of women from New York to India to South Africa, and she isn't afraid to turn the camera on herself. From the biological clock to sex to death, no&hellip…

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Broken English

$10.95 | 98 minutes

Known mainly for playing quirkily comic characters, Parker Posey shows she can tackle a serious role just as skillfully in Zoe Cassevetes's moving film. BROKEN ENGLISH stars Posey as Nora Wilder, a thirtysomething whose disastrous dating experiences in the Big Apple have put her on the verge of giving up all hope when it comes to love&hellip…

Let the Church Say Amen

$14.95 | 90 minutes

Official Selection

Over the course of a year, Let the Church Say Amen chronicles the daily life surrounding World Missions for Christ Church in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Like many urban communities that haven't benefited from America's prosperity, these citizens face challenges that would be shocking for&hellip…

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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

$19.98 | 78 minutes

Nominated, Grand Jury Prize

Director Rory Kennedy crafts an affecting documentary for HBO with this look at the events in an Iraqi prison at Abu Ghraib, Iraq. The prison came into the spotlight in 2003 after startling photographs of abuse by U.S. authorities were leaked to the media. Kennedy examines the evidence and talks to&hellip…

Manufactured Landscapes

$23.95 | 90 minutes

Nominated - Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema - Documentary

Manufactured Landscapes is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of manufactured landscapes -- quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams -- Burtynsky creates&hellip…

In the Shadow of the Moon

$15.95 | 100 minutes

Audience Award(World Cinema - Documentary)
Grand Jury Prize (Nominated)(World Cinema - Documentary)

IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON explores the period from 1968 to 1972, in which nine American spacecrafts voyaged to the moon, and nine men walked upon its surface. Through interviews with the surviving astronauts and digitally re-mastered&hellip…

The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun

$19.95 | 85 minutes

Grand Jury Prize (Nominated)(World Cinema - Documentary)

The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun is the story of two lonely souls and their destiny to meet each other. Mr. Vig is a 86 year old bachelor livng his life in solarium until by fate Sister Amvrosija comes into his life. his dream of leaving his danish country side castle to&hellip…

Crazy Love

$16.95 | 92 minutes

Grand Jury Prize (Nominated)(Documentary)

Dan Klores's documentary takes viewers inside a relationship made famous by tabloid reports back in the summer of 1959. Burt Pugach and Linda Pugach met when Burt was already married but Linda was a young single woman. Embarking on a passionate affair, the two never guessed they'd land&hellip…

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

$21.95 | 85 minutes

Won - Cinematography Award
Won - Grand Jury prize (Documentary)

Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches, lush rain forests, and vibrant culture. However, in recent years, the country has developed more of a reputation for corrupt politicians, kidnapping, and plastic surgery. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) artfully connects these&hellip…

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

$13.95 | 123 minutes

Grand Jury Prize (Nominated)(World Cinema - Documentary)

As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed peoples lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In The Future Is Unwritten, from British film director Julien Temple&hellip…

Banished

$24.95 | 84 minutes

Grand Jury Prize (Nominated)

BANISHED vividly recovers the forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americans were driven from their homes and communities by violent, racist mobs. The film places these events in the context of present day race relations by following three concrete cases where&hellip…

The Trials of Darryl Hunt: (Audiences under 250) - SCREENING KIT

$155.00 | 107 minutes

Grand Jury Prize - Documentary(Nominee)

Groups across the Globe are screening The Trials of Darryl Hunt. With footage culled from a 20-year period this documentary tells the tale of shocking racial bias in the American South as the murder trial of Darryl Hunt winds to a terrible conclusion&hellip…

Subject Two

$7.95 | 93 minutes

High atop the Rocky Mountains, a visionary scientist, Dr. Vick, along with his unwitting medical student assistant, Adam Schmidt, engage in controversial and gruesome research on death and resurrection. A modern take on the classic Frankenstein tale of horror, Subject Two will raise the hair on the back of your neck, and leave you&hellip&hellip…

13 Tzameti

$20.95 | 90 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema %u2013 Dramatic

A clean-faced 20-year-old, Sebastien, leads an impoverished life with his immigrant family, constantly struggling to find the money for their next meal. When hired to repair the roof of the morphine-addicted Godon (Philippe Passon), Sebastien eavesdrops in on a conversation which&hellip…

Brooklyn Independent Vol.1

$4.99 | 95 minutes

Newly Re-Mastered! Joe Pacheco, Curator of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, has selected 10 stellar shorts film for this DVD compilation. They have all played at major festivals and won important awards but, most importantly, they have played at Pacheco's screening series, which takes place every other Monday&hellip&hellip…

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One and Take 2 1/2

$34.95 | 164 minutes

Groundbreaking filmmaker William Greaves created a prescient meta-masterpiece with his 1968 mockumentary SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, which fashioned a multilayered study of the filmmaking process with the movie-within-a-movie scenario of a documentary crew shooting a film crew shooting a film. This special edition double-disc set from Criterion&hellip&hellip…

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Black Gold

$24.95 | 78 minutes

BLACK GOLD asks us to wake up and smell the coffee, to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it. The film traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce the beans. In particular, It follows Tadesse&hellip&hellip…

Crossing Arizona

$24.95 | 75 minutes

Heightened security in California and Texas has pushed illegal border-crossers into the treacherous Arizona desert in unprecedented numbers - an estimated 4,500 a day. Most are men in search of work, but increasingly the border-crossers are women and children seeking to reunite with their families. This influx of migrants crossing through&hellip…

The Trials of Darryl Hunt

$11.95 | 107 minutes

Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)

With footage culled from a 20-year period this documentary tells the tale of shocking racial bias in the American South as the murder trial of Darryl Hunt winds to a terrible conclusion&hellip…

The Trials of Darryl Hunt: (Audiences under 250) - SCREENING KIT

$155.00 | 107 minutes

Groups across the Globe are screening The Trials of Darryl Hunt. With footage culled from a 20-year period this documentary tells the tale of shocking racial bias in the American South as the murder trial of Darryl Hunt winds to a terrible conclusion&hellip…

Cronicas

$10.95 | 108 minutes

Grand Jury, World Cinema, Dramatic(Nominee)

The murky ethics surrounding tabloid journalism mix with serial-killer intrigue in this powerful film by Ecuadorian writer-director Sebastian Cordero. John Leguizamo stars as Manolo, a Miami-based television reporter for a Spanish-language, real-crime TV show called One Hour with the&hellip…

The Aristocrats

$11.95 | 86 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

"A man walks into a talent agent's office with his family and says, Have I got an act for you! The talent agent replies, So what do you do?" So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke that has been handed down from comedian to comedian for decades but is rarely told on stage. The next part of the&hellip…

Murderball

$11.95 | 86 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Audience Award, Best Documentary
Special Jury Prize, Documentary

Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro's MURDERBALL is an inspiring documentary, which proves that physical limitations are no match for the human spirit. For the determined quadriplegic men who participate in the dangerous&hellip…

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

$10.95 | 110 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

This searing examination of the Enron accounting scandal reveals the psychology of greed and corporate corruption that facilitated the company's rise to power and also its fall. When Enron went bankrupt in 2001, the principals walked away millionaires--but later faced legal proceedings and&hellip…

The Fall of Fujimori

$17.95 | 84 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Former president of Peru Alberto Fujimori fled to Japan in 2000 after turning his presidency into a dictatorship and alienating most of his fellow countrymen. This documentary by Ellen Perry allows Fujimori to speak from his exiled home, although he was arrested and imprisoned in Chile shortly&hellip…

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One and Take 2 1/2

$34.95 | 164 minutes

Groundbreaking filmmaker William Greaves created a prescient meta-masterpiece with his 1968 mockumentary SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, which fashioned a multilayered study of the filmmaking process with the movie-within-a-movie scenario of a documentary crew shooting a film crew shooting a film. This special edition double-disc set from Criterion&hellip&hellip…

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Late Bloomer

$9.95 | 12 minutes

Download the hilarious musical short, LATE BLOOMER, official selection of the Sundance film festival! Something strange is happening in Miss Lovecraft's seventh grade class... LATE BLOOMER is a compelling and humorous look at sexual education gone horribly wrong. Loosely based on the dark tales of HP Lovecraft, this short film by award-winning&hellip&hellip…

Me and You and Everyone We Know

$11.95 | 92 minutes

Special Jury Prize, Originality of Vision

Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and "Eldercab" driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen&hellip…

Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire

$24.95 | 91 minutes

Audience Award(Best World Documentary)

The tragic story of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, from the perspective of one individual who fought soci-political pressure and prejudices in an attempt to keep it from spiralling out of control&hellip…

The Hunting of the President

$7.95 | 89 minutes

Adapted from the book of the same title, this documentary uses dramatic narration (via actor Morgan Freeman), ominous music, and humorous stock footage to develop tension, drama, and outrage in telling the story of the shady conservative republican conspiracy that tried for ten long years to discredit Bill and Hillary Clinton. Trumped&hellip&hellip…

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Farmingville

$15.95 | minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Special Jury Prize, Documentary

The late 1990s saw a large population of illegal Mexican immigrants desert their home country and take root in the unusual location of Farmingville, New York, in Long Island. Taking menial jobs that were shunned by the local community, the transition was&hellip…

Mean Creek

$16.95 | 87 minutes

Director Jacob Estes's feature film debut is a remarkably accomplished coming of age drama about death and consequences. When overweight, emotionally troubled George (Josh Peck) beats up a smaller kid named Sam (Rory Culkin) one time too many, his older brother Rocky (Trevor Morgan) and Rocky's wrong-side-of-the-tracks pal (Scott Mechlowicz)&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…

Stander

$11.95 | 116 minutes

Unfolding with the speed and rhythm of an action movie and showcasing stylistic flourishes that hint at Quentin Tarantino, STANDER takes on one of history's most infamous injustices with a surprising amount of humor and vivacity. Set in 1976, the film tells the true story of Andre Stander, a young police captain in Johannesburg, South&hellip&hellip…

The Yes Men

$2.95 | 82 minutes

Two average guys who are mistaken for World Trade Organization representatives accept invitations to attend international meetings and make TV appearances on behalf of the U.S. They are the Yes Men, part of a group of comedians and activists who organize harmless pranks to spark political debate. Here, two members of the group, Andy and&hellip&hellip…

Control Room

$10.95 | 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…

We Don't Live Here Anymore

$10.95 | 99 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo) and Hank Evans (Peter Krause) are best friends who both teach at the same university in a small New England town. They both have young children and Jack's wife, Terry (Laura Dern) is close with Hank's wife, Edith (Naomi Watts). But&hellip…

Primer

$24.95 | 77 minutes

Alfred P. Sloan Prize
Grand Jury Prize

Former engineer Shane Carruth announces himself as a force to watch with PRIMER, his first film. Carruth wrote, directed, edited, produced, photographed, scored, and stars in the film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. He plays Aaron, who, with his business&hellip…

Dig!

$22.95 | 107 minutes

Grand Jury Prize

Ondi Timoner's electrifying documentary tells a cautionary tale about the dangers and trappings of the rock & roll lifestyle. Shot over a seven-year span beginning in the mid-1990s, DIG! follows two bands, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols, as they befriend each other, have a falling out, and&hellip…

Garden State

$11.95 | 103 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff of TV's Scrubs) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother's funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he's been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting&hellip…

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring

$11.95 | 103 minutes

Prayer, meditation, and appreciation of nature are the sacraments by which two monks live a simple life in Korean director Kim Ki-Duk's SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... AND SPRING. A wise old monk (Oh Young-soo) is master to a young student, and remains so throughout the changing seasons of the younger monk's life. In springtime the young&hellip&hellip…

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Super Size Me

$10.95 | 100 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Director's Award, Documentary

In this hilarious yet informative documentary, debut director Morgan Spurlock makes himself the victim of a cruel experiment: he puts himself on a 30-day diet of nothing but McDonald's food. Eating three meals a day exclusively from McDonald's, Spurlock's&hellip…

The Corporation

$23.95 | 145 minutes

Audience Award, World Cinema-Documentary

THE CORPORATION is a well-organized and deeply fascinating documentary about the growing prominence of large global businesses, and the way that their decisions are impacting the world. The film shows how corporations have ballooned in size and power since the industrial revolution, and&hellip…

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Tarnation

$16.95 | 85 minutes

TARNATION is a wondrous achievement, a personal essay that miraculously balances despair and tragedy with an overriding air of hopefulness. Raised by a schizophrenic mother and abusive foster parents in and around Houston, Texas, Jonathan Caouette escaped from his bleak surroundings by hiding behind a video camera. Since he was eleven&hellip&hellip…

Open Water

$7.95 | 81 minutes

Proving that the power of imagination is much more terrifying than what meets the eye, OPEN WATER is Chris Kentis's intensely realistic deep-sea drama, "based on true events." The film's leering digital video camera allows viewers to float like shark-bait, stranded in the middle of the ocean with Susan and Daniel (Blanchard Ryan and Daniel&hellip&hellip…

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Deadline

$25.95 | 90 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

After discovering that 13 of 167 death row inmates were innocent, Republican Illinois governor George Ryan lessened sentences of them all at a 2003 press conference. This gripping documentary delves into both Ryan's struggle to come to grips with the moral questions inherent in the death&hellip…

Overnight

$11.95 | 82 minutes

In Hollywood, screenwriting failures are so common that bars in the city are strewn with down-on-their-luck writers drowning their sorrows over broken dreams. Documentary filmmakers Mark Brian Smith and Tony Montana begin their movie in such an establishment--a Hollywood bar called J. Sloan's. OVERNIGHT focuses on 25-year-old J.Sloan's&hellip&hellip…

In the Realms of the Unreal

$16.95 | 82 minutes

Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL explores outsider art from the inside. Eschewing expert opinion, it reflects the uniqueness of its subject, employing vivid animation and experimental elements to immerse us in Darger's world and all its strange beauty. Brought to life on film, the works reverberate with universal&hellip…

Oldboy

$20.95 | 115 minutes

It would be a sin to reveal too much about this riveting and bizarre thriller from Korean director Chan Wook Park, except to say that it's about a man named Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae Su finds himself still trapped in a web of&hellip&hellip…

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

$21.95 | 89 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

In 1974, young Patty Hearst became a media icon after she was kidnapped from her apartment by a group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). At the time, Patty was an impressionable college student who happened to be the granddaughter of the infamous William Randolph Hearst&hellip…

Home of the Brave

$17.95 | 75 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

A documentary that explores a little-remembered event in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, HOME OF THE BRAVE tells the story of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman murdered during the struggle. Liuzzo traveled from her home in Detroit to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 to take part in a&hellip…

The Execution of Wanda Jean

$21.95 | 88 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Produced as part of HBO's AMERICA UNDERCOVER series, THE EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN follows the criminal case filed against Wanda Jean Harvey. Harvey was convicted of murder in Oklahoma and executed by lethal injection in 2001, despite lengthy protestations on her behalf due to Harvey's extremely&hellip…

Evergreen

$4.99 | 86 minutes

Fourteen year old Henrietta, Henri for short, longs for everything she doesn't have. Looking down a road that turns bad instead of right, Henri and her mother Kate are forced to move in with her grandmother in a leaking shack on the edge of town. Henri is hell bent on finding a way out. At the same time, Henri meets a boy at school, Chat&hellip…

The True Meaning of Pictures

$19.95 | 71 minutes

The True Meaning of Pictures is a directed by Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, director of the acclaimed Paul Bowles documentary LET IT COME DOWN, trains her eye on another artist of uncompromising vision in her film THE TRUE MEANING OF PICTURES. For over 30 years, Shelby Lee Adams has been taking fine art pics of impoverished mountain&hellip…

The Boys of 2nd Street Park

$7.95 | 91 minutes

THE BOYS OF 2ND STREET PARK tells of a group of young boys who came of age during the turbulent and social changes of the 1960s. Such issues as the Vietnam War, free love, and changing attitudes towards sex and drugs challenged accepted notions of life and society, and this film tells their story and how the times affected their lives…

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Spun

$7.95 | 101 minutes

Ross (Jason Schwartzman) is an addict badly in need of some speed. A visit to his dealer, Spider Mike's (John Leguizamo)--where fellow "tweakers" Nikki (Brittany Murphy)--a stripper, Frisbee (Patrick Fugit)--a metalhead, and Cookie (Mena Suvari)--Mike's girlfriend--turns into an odyssey, though, when Mike can't find his stash. Nikki tells&hellip&hellip…

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Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

$22.95 | 90 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

In the annals of pop music, there's probably no one other than legendary impresario John Hammond whose ubiquitousness compares with that of engineer/producer Tom Dowd. From the 1950s on, Dowd was both a tireless technological innovator and a uniquely musical engineer and producer. A key figure&hellip…

Masked and Anonymous

$7.95 | 120 minutes

Bob Dylan plays the mysterious musician and ex-con Jack Fate in MASKED AND ANONYMOUS, the fictional story of a benefit rock concert in which he is the headliner. Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) is the promoter who arranges for Fate's release from prison in order to perform at the show. Meanwhile the&hellip&hellip…

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The Order - From Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3

$21.95 | 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…

The Same River Twice

$21.95 | 78 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits&hellip…

Stevie

$10.95 | 145 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Cinematography Award, Documentary

STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree&hellip…

The Event

$7.95 | 112 minutes

In the mid- to late 1980s, films such as AN EARLY FROST, PARTING GLANCES, and LONGTIME COMPANION began examining the growing AIDS crisis. Thom Fitzgerald's moving THE EVENT shows that AIDS is still a major epidemic that is misunderstood by much of the public. The movie opens with the death of Matt Shapiro (Don McKellar), who was suffering&hellip&hellip…

Milk and Honey

$16.95 | 90 minutes

Joe Maggio's MILK AND HONEY is a probing portrait of a disintegrating relationship, set in the hypertense world of New York City. Rick Johnson (Clint Jordan) is losing his grip on reality, while his exhausted wife Joyce (Kirsten Russell) is losing her patience with Rick. Gradually, the reason for Rick's mental instability reveals itself&hellip&hellip…

Pieces of April

$11.95 | 80 minutes

Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)
Special Jury Prize, Dramatic

Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges's PIECES OF APRIL. Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement. To reconnect with her mother, Joy (Patricia Clarkson), and father, Jim&hellip…

Capturing the Friedmans

$26.95 | 107 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary

Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold&hellip…

Decasia: The State of Decay

$20.95 | 67 minutes

In a society constantly looking for permanence in all things, examining the deterioration of an object or life often produces a sense of horror or dread. But sometimes such an examination reveals that beauty and purpose exist even in a state of decay. In his ethereal experimental film, Bill Morrison uses rotting "nitrate" archival film&hellip&hellip…

Derrida

$23.95 | 85 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida&hellip…

Skins

$7.95 | 87 minutes

SKINS, based on the novel by Adrian C. Louis, is the impressive second feature of Native American director Chris Eyre (SMOKE SIGNALS). Filmed on location at the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota, SKINS tells the story of Rudy (Eric Schweig), a policeman, and his older brother Mogie (Graham Greene of THE GREEN MILE)&hellip&hellip…

The Inner Tour

$15.95 | 94 minutes

Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's THE INNER TOUR is a deeply affecting documentary that addresses the Middle Eastern conflict with a penetrating eye. The film follows a group of Palestinians as they embark on a three-day bus tour through Israel in 2000, just months before the historical Arab-Israeli war recommenced. What at first appears to be&hellip&hellip…

Smokers Only

$14.95 | 87 minutes

Ennui-ridden singer Reni (Cecilia Bengolea) falls in love with handsome young street hustler Andrés (Leonardo Brezicki) in this artsy film from Argentine director Veronica Chen. Reni first spies Andrés servicing a male client in the ATM kiosk where he does most of his business (the homoerotic scenes are captured mainly via the bank's&hellip&hellip…

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The Kid Stays in the Picture

$15.95 | 93 minutes

Robert Evans got his break portraying Irving Thalberg in THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES. Evans would eventually become the next Thalberg as Vice President in charge of production at Paramount. The studio was destitute and confused in a changing marketplace in the late 1960s. Evans would guide Paramount to the top again with bold choices&hellip&hellip…

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

$16.95 | 94 minutes

THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING tells the interconnected stories of several New Yorkers who are searching for meaning in their lives. Troy (Matthew McConaughy), a promising attorney, puts his seemingly bright future at risk when he drives away from an accident. He injures Beatrice (Clea DuVall), a young cleaning woman, and her&hellip&hellip…

Blue Vinyl

$21.95 | 98 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Excellence in Cinematography, Documentary

Curious filmmaker Judith Helfand decided to follow up some doubts she had about PVC (polyvinyl chloride) when her parents took the step of coating their house with it. Taking her camera and co-director Daniel B. Gold with her, Helfand hit the&hellip…

The Cockettes

$14.95 | 90 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

In 1969 San Francisco, a group of hippies were assembled by a charismatic free spirit known as Hibiscus to create an act to go on before a midnight film festival. They dressed in outlandish and skimpy costumes, danced and sang along to records, and called themselves The Cockettes. They became&hellip…

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Manito

$10.95 | 78 minutes

Special Jury Prize, Dramatic
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

The Latino population of Manhattan's Washington Heights comes under the microscope in this fascinating portrayal of urban life from director Eric Eason. Manito (Leo Minaya) is an ambitious student, eager to escape his surroundings. Upon landing a full scholarship&hellip…

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Rain

$11.95 | 92 minutes

The debut film by director Christine Jeffs, RAIN, records with charm the confusion of coming of age amidst domestic disintegration. In Far North New Zealand in 1972, Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki) has traveled to the beach for a long lazy summer with her family. As the days get longer, Janey teaches her little brother, Jim (Aaron Murphy)&hellip&hellip…

Britney Baby, One More Time

$10.95 | 97 minutes

Aspiring filmmaker Dude Schmitz (AMERICAN MOVIE's Mark Borchardt) is in desperate need of money to finance his next feature film. After he blows a lucrative opportunity to interview pop singer Britney Spears for a local television station, he discovers Angel Benton (Robert Stephens), a gay Britney impersonator. Together with his brother&hellip&hellip…

The Dancer Upstairs

$7.95 | 135 minutes

The directorial debut of John Malkovich, THE DANCER UPSTAIRS is a riveting political drama set in an undetermined Latin American city. A revolution has started, and the local police have been assigned to figure out who is leading it and what exactly the revolutionaries want. Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem) is the detective leading the investigation&hellip&hellip…

Dog Days

$23.95 | 121 minutes

DOG DAYS is a scathing satire, exposing the ugly underbelly of contemporary suburban mores. It is the first dramatic feature of notorious documentarian Ulrich Seidl (ANIMAL LOVE). With a keen visual sense and lacerating wit, Seidl weaves together the sordid tales of a large group of people in suburban Austria during a heat wave. There's&hellip&hellip…

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Under the Skin of the City

$11.95 | 93 minutes

From Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, the prolific Iranian filmmaker who makes her U.S. debut with this film, UNDER THE SKIN OF THE CITY is a stirring drama that puts contemporary Tehran in sharp focus. A family of five lives in close quarters in the inner city. Tuba, the head of the family, is a dutiful woman who works days in a loud, dirty, polluted&hellip&hellip…

Stories from the War on Homosexuality

$55.95 | 223 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Three documentaries from acclaimed gay filmmaker Arthur Dong are contained here. COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary uses first-person accounts to chronicle the development of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy&hellip…

How to Draw a Bunny

$23.95 | 90 minutes

Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)
Special Jury Prize

This entertaining documentary by John Walter retraces the path of New York artist Ray Johnson, who worked in collage, mail art, and other Dadaist notions. Here, some of his friends and artistic colleagues, such as Chuck Close, Richard Feigen, James Rosenquist, and Christo tell their&hellip…

Karmen Gei

$23.95 | 82 minutes

Senegalese director Joseph Gai Ramaka re-imagines Georges Bizet's oft-filmed opera CARMEN--from Preminger's CARMEN JONES to MTV's CARMEN: A HIP-HOPERA--in a joyously sensual, colorful musical set in modern-day Dakar. Karmen Gei (Ramaka's wife, Djeinaba Diop Gai), a stately beauty in tribal robes, leaps and shakes to primal drummers in&hellip&hellip…

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Southern Comfort

$15.95 | minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary

For her film SOUTHERN COMFORT, veteran documentarian Kate Davis found a rare subject in Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female-to-male transsexual living in Tuccoa, Georgia. Eads, a charming, laconic cowboy apparently "male" enough to once be propositioned to join the Ku Klux Klan, began life as a female&hellip…

The Believer

$19.95 | 0 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic

Raised Jewish, Danny (Ryan Gosling) now runs with an anti-Semitic skinhead gang in Queens. Attending a meeting held by prominent self-proclaimed fascist Curtis Zampf (Billy Zane), Danny is noticed when he proposes killing Jews as a solution to society's problems. Danny's words create excitement not only&hellip…

Princesa

$14.95 | 96 minutes

This Italian film from director Henrique Goldman traces the journey of teenage transsexual Fernanda (Ingrid de Souza) as she heads from her native Brazil to the seedy world of Italy's transsexual prostitution scene. Unlike most of her fellow prostitutes, Fernanda's most cherished desire is to have a sex-change operation, fall in love&hellip&hellip…

Go Tigers!

$19.95 | 103 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

In the blue collar Ohio town of Massillon, the most important thing is high school football, and the frenzy around home team the Tigers is, as one resident observes, like "a cult... a religion." Shot on high-definition video, former Massillon resident Kenneth Carlson's documentary follows&hellip…

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

$11.95 | 92 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

In August 1914, seasoned British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton embarks on his third excursion into Antarctic territory, planning to cross the Antarctic continent on foot--something no other explorer has attempted before. Only a day's journey from his final destination, Shackleton's ship&hellip…

Enigma

$18.95 | 119 minutes

Set in England during World War II, Michael Apted's ENIGMA follows bookish code-breaker Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) through a whirlwind love affair with Claire Romilly (Saffron Burrows), a seductive blonde clerk, and his subsequent recovery from a mental breakdown caused by the relationship. As Tom begins to pick up the pieces of his&hellip&hellip…

The Naked Kiss

$25.95 | 90 minutes

Sam Fuller's full blown pulp melodrama is straight off the pages of dime-store crime magazines. His use of arty compositions and artificial dialogue prove once again that people only talk like this in his movies. This, his seventeenth film, takes place when all the women were dames and all the men were heels. Kelly, a former prostitute&hellip&hellip…

Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut

$11.95 | 133 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

This new and embellished version of the 2001 theatrical release, which was a cult hit, offers twenty minutes of scenes that were deleted from the original, sound improvements, new songs (such as "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS), and new special effects that give insight into Donnie's world and&hellip…

Trembling Before G-d

$23.95 | 84 minutes

Grand Jury Prize-Documentary(Nominee)

Sandi Simcha Dubowski's illuminating documentary examines two things that do not go well together: homosexuality and the Jewish religion. The filmmakers traveled to New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Jerusalem to interview men and women who have been rejected by their&hellip…

The Sleepy Time Gal

$10.95 | 108 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

Jacqueline Bisset gives a glorious performance in Christopher Mnch's third film, THE SLEEPY TIME GAL. She stars as Frances, a twice-divorced former radio deejay trying to pass on her knowledge, including her fascination with Revolutionary War-era New York, to her 20-year-old son, Morgan (Nick&hellip…

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L.I.E.

$23.95 | 97 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

The Long Island Expressway, the highway that traverses suburban Long Island with its "lanes moving east, lanes moving west, and lanes that go straight to hell" serves as the central metaphor in this disturbing meditation on coming of age and teenage vulnerability. Howie Blitzer (Paul Franklin&hellip…

Lan Yu

$14.95 | 86 minutes

Chef Handong (Hu Jun) is a businessman that runs a well-respected company. His father is a government agent. Though Handong is a playboy and a night owl, he keeps these habits relatively quiet. He is reserved and always in control. But when he meets Lan Yu (Lie Ye), an architecture student who is working as a prostitute for extra cash&hellip&hellip…

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Chain Camera

$15.95 | 84 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Located in the cultural melting pot of Los Angeles, John Marshall High School has a student body that represents over ninety different countries. In CHAIN CAMERA, director Kirby Dick (SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN) relinquishes the video camera to let the students of this multicultural&hellip…

Lost and Delirious

$10.95 | 100 minutes

The story of three roommates at a private school for girls, LOST AND DELIRIOUS centers on Mary (Mischa Barton), who is shy and lonely, having spun on a downward spiral ever since the death of her mother three years before. But when she arrives at prep school and meets her new roommates, Pauline (Piper Perabo) and Tory (Jessica Pare)--fun&hellip&hellip…

Sound & Fury

$15.95 | 80 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

SOUND & FURY is a documentary that examines the issues surrounding the controversial cochlear implant, the medical technology that allows deaf people to hear. The film follows the Artinian family: adult brothers Chris (hearing) and Peter (deaf), their wives and their children. Over a two-year&hellip…

The Filth and the Fury

$17.95 | 103 minutes

A documentary about the British punk rock band the Sex Pistols, THE FILTH AND THE FURY puts the band's story in the context of 1970s Britain. Depicted as a time when pop culture was clownish and sociopolitical divisions were exacerbated by hypocrisy in the government and angst among the people, the film mixes archival footage of 1970s&hellip&hellip…

Two Family House

$10.95 | 109 minutes

Audience Award, Dramatic

Set in the urban backwater of Staten Island in the 1950s, TWO FAMILY HOUSE tells the story of Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli), who dreams of singing stardom but is forced to face the struggles of an ordinary life. After his one shot at making the big time is nixed by his fiancée, Estelle (Katherine Narducci)&hellip…

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New Waterford Girl

$10.95 | 97 minutes

In mid-1970s New Waterford on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, an 18-year-old girl without a child is rather unusual--and 15-year-old Mooney Pottie (Liane Balaban, in an auspicious debut) is feeling suppressed by the small-mindedness that surrounds her. Seen as freakish by her family for her incessant reading and a desire to move to New York&hellip&hellip…

Everything Put Together

$15.95 | 87 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

A horrific tale that examines the risks and fears of motherhood, EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER is a no-holds-barred freak out. With smirking stealth, the film first illustrates a pleasant suburban picture of idyllic family life for Angie (Radha Mitchell) and her husband, Russ (Justin Louis), a beautiful&hellip…

Shower

$23.95 | 92 minutes

This festival favorite from China tells the touching story of a father whose oldest son leaves him. He remains in Beijing, raising his retarded son and running the local bathhouse. When the elder son mistakenly hears that his father has passed away, he returns to Beijing, only to discover the extreme relevance of the bathhouse and its&hellip&hellip…

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

$9.95 | 111 minutes

Special Jury Prize, Documentary
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott ambled through the folk movement as a true free spirit and the ultimate follower of his dreams. He was also the unheralded but unmistakable link between folk legends Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. He had dreams of trains, boats, the&hellip…

Psycho Beach Party

$14.95 | 95 minutes

PSYCHO BEACH PARTY was scripted by playwright Charles Busch (author of the long-running off-Broadway hit VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM), adapted from his 1987 play of the same title. Florence Forest (Lauren Ambrose) is a perky but unfulfilled teen. After witnessing the antics of a gang of strapping young surfer dudes at the beach one day&hellip&hellip…

Crane World

$23.95 | 90 minutes

This artistic black-and-white film unfolds in two parts, each in a different construction site in Argentina. The first half of the movie takes place on the rooftop of a tall city building where a gigantic mechanical crane gracefully skims the skyline. The second site, 300 kilometers away from the first, is alongside a barren, dusty road&hellip&hellip…

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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: Speaking in Strings

$19.95 | 75 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

This acclaimed documentary tracks the tumultuous life and career of powerhouse classical violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Eccentric, wild, and unorthodox are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe this "bad girl" performer. Though audiences seem divided over Salerno-Sonnenberg's&hellip…

Splendor

$25.95 | 93 minutes

BEVERLY HILLS 90210 star Kathleen Robertson plays Veronica, a young woman who suddenly kickstarts her love life by falling for the awkward but astute Abel (Shaech), a budding Rock critic. There's only one problem: Zed (Keeslar), a daft but virile drummer who Veronica meets on the same night, proves equally enticing. The three decide to&hellip&hellip…

Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle

$21.95 | 56 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Filmmakers Trophy, Documentary

With its massive set designs and 17-hour running time, Richard Wagner's RING CYCLE makes for the most daunting production an opera house can stage. Jon Else's award-winning documentary SING FASTER chronicles the San Francisco Opera's production of Wagner's&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&hellip…

Tumbleweeds

$22.95 | 100 minutes

Grand Jury Prize-Dramatic(Nominee)
Filmmakers Trophy-Dramatic

Mary Jo Walker (Janet McTeer) is a Southern mother who hides her self-consciousness by overcompensating. She drinks, wears revealing outfits, and says things that other people would never even consider. Fleeing her latest abusive relationship, she and her daughter&hellip…

Judy Berlin

$19.95 | 91 minutes

Director's Award
Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)

A sensitive glimpse into the lives of several Babylon, Long Island residents that takes place on the second day of school. Thirty-year-old David Gold (Harnick) has moved back home with his parents after failing to become a successful Hollywood director. He mopes around the house apathetically&hellip…

The War Zone

$15.95 | 99 minutes

Tim Roth's directorial debut, based on the novel by Alexander Stuart (who adapted the screenplay), is not for the faint of heart. When a seemingly normal family moves from London to rural Devon, 15-year-old Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) stumbles into a shocking secret concerning his father (Ray Winstone) and 17-year-old sister, Jessie (Lara&hellip&hellip…

Life Is To Whistle

$15.95 | 106 minutes

Special Jury Prize, Latin America Cinema

The dawning of a new millennium is the backdrop for this chaotic Cuban comedy interweaving the diverse lives of three Havana residents. Marianna is a beautiful dancer with strong sexual urges who must suppress her desires in preparation for a new ballet; Eilipido is an orphaned boy in search&hellip…

The Blair Witch Project

$7.95 | 87 minutes

Made for $30,000 by two young filmmakers from Florida, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT wowed festival audiences for several months before finding distribution at the 1999 Sundance Festival. It is an ingenious creation which makes effective use of its lack of budget and cast of unknowns. The film is composed entirely of reportedly "found" footage&hellip&hellip…

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The Saltmen of Tibet

$23.95 | 110 minutes

THE SALTMEN OF TIBET is a film documenting the traditions and rituals of a small Tibetan group of nomads in one of the most remote locations in the world. The holy salt lakes of the Chantang region in Tibet is the destination of a three-month pilgrimage surrounded by beauty, untainted landscapes, and the dedicated strength of a nomadic&hellip…

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Monument Ave.

$7.95 | 93 minutes

A drama that takes place in the gritty streets of South Boston. Leary gives an impassioned performance as Bobby O'Grady, a member of an Irish-American gang, who must remain loyal to his boss (Meaney) even after he has learned that he has murdered one of Bobby's best friends&hellip&hellip…

Smoke Signals

$11.95 | 89 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
Filmmakers Trophy, Dramatic
Audience Award, Dramatic

Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-A-Fire are brought together by Victor's father who saves Thomas from a fire that destroys his house and kills his parents. In close proximity all their lives on the Coeur D'Alene Indian reservation in&hellip…

Buffalo '66

$10.95 | 111 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

An electric directorial debut (seven years in the making) by New York artist/musician/model/actor Vincent Gallo, BUFFALO '66 combines the experimental techniques of the French New Wave and the realistic grit of seventies filmmakers such as John Cassavetes, resulting in something inventive and&hellip…

Pi

$10.95 | 85 minutes

Grand Jury Prize-Dramatic(Nominee)
Director's Award-Dramatic

Low-budget film that won Darren Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock&hellip…

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Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

$10.95 | 92 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Special Recognition

Performance artist Bob Flanagan suffered from cystic fibrosis throughout his 42 years. This disturbing, poignant, and disarmingly funny documentary examines his odyssey to have control over his body through inflicting pain on himself. Through private moments captured&hellip…

The Delta

$14.95 | 85 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

Lincoln Bloom, a gay 17-year-old who hides behind a heterosexual facade, meets Minh, a poor Vietnamese immigrant, and the two travel down the Mississippi in a cabin cruiser. Their romantic and playful trip seems to be running smoothly, but soon harsh realities interrupt their lives. A highly&hellip…

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In the Company of Men

$11.95 | 98 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
Filmmakers Trophy, Dramatic

In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose of dumping&hellip…

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The Long Way Home

$17.95 | 120 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

A grave documentary account of the struggles of European Jews liberated from Nazi encampment to survive the isolationist aftermath of World War II. While the Allied nations strengthened their immigration laws and the survivors' formerly occupied homelands still bore the taint of anti-Semitism&hellip…

Deep Crimson

$17.95 | 114 minutes

Latin America Cinema Award(Honorable Mention)

In 1940s Mexico, an unhappy, overweight nurse abandons her children to take up with a womanizing drifter who resembles her idol, Charles Boyer. After she blackmails him, they begin a messy crime spree in which they murder a series of wealthy widows. Disturbing and compelling, this&hellip…

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Stories from the War on Homosexuality

$55.95 | 223 minutes

Director's Award, Documentary
Filmmakers Trophy, Documentary
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Three documentaries from acclaimed gay filmmaker Arthur Dong are contained here. COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary uses first-person accounts to chronicle&hellip…

My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransport

$15.95 | 77 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

A forerunner to INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS, Melissa Hacker's powerful MY KNEES WERE TREMBLING remains the first feature-length documentary to reveal the human drama behind the Kindertransport of WWII. The Kindertransport was a British refugee policy set in motion during the aftermath of Kristallnacht&hellip…

Welcome to the Dollhouse

$16.95 | 87 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic

Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE follows the painful daily trials of Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward, nerdy 12-year-old. The middle child between her geeky older brother, Mark (Matthew Faber), and her sickeningly sweet little sister, Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn has a rough&hellip…

Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day

$21.95 | 85 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
Cinematography Award, Dramatic

Christopher Münch's quiet, evocative COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY tells the beautifully elegiac story of a young man's attempt to grab a piece of the past from a stultifyingly impersonal modern world. John Lee (Peter Alexander) has loved trains all his&hellip…

Late Bloomers

$14.95 | 88 minutes

Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)

At a suburban Texas high school, Dinah (Connie Nelson), a geometry teacher who coaches the girls' basketball team, and Carly (Dee Hennigan), a principal's assistant who is also the wife of an algebra teacher, kiss during a basketball lesson and find themselves embarking on an affair. When word gets out&hellip…

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Fire on the Mountain

$21.95 | 72 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

An acclaimed profile of the members of the Army's 10th Mountain Division, the ski squadron whose daring mountain expeditions helped quash the Axis forces. Contains interviews and rare archival footage of the group in training, as well as a reunion of the group at Italy's Riva Ridge. Winner&hellip…

The Keeper

$23.95 | 90 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

When a Haitian immigrant is incarcerated for a rape he steadfastly denies he committed, a disillusioned corrections officer believes his story and helps him post bail, even opening his house to the stranger. Ultimately, however, he and his wife discover that no good deed goes unpunished. First-time&hellip…

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Johns

$10.95 | 96 minutes

A gritty independent film exploring the world of male prostitutes on the streets of L.A. John is a straight hustler, who wakes up on Christmas Eve to discover that his life savings has been stolen. He was going to use the money to celebrate his birthday, and to pay a drug dealer the $300 dollars he owes him. John needs to make some&hellip&hellip…

Shine

$15.95 | 105 minutes

This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy Award Nominations: 7, including&hellip…

The Brothers McMullen

$7.95 | 98 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic

Two main issues are complicating the lives of the Irish, Long Island-based, working-class McMullen brothers: Catholicism and women. Jack is the married oldest brother who's cheating on his perfect wife. Barry is the relationship-wary middle brother who, to his surprise and dismay, is finally falling&hellip…

Postcards From America

$14.95 | 92 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic

Inspired by the work and writings of outspoken gay artist David Wojnarowicz, this film dramatizes three periods in his life: abused childhood, New York street hustler, and adult artist on the road, creating a powerful look at growing up gay in America. Contains graphic depictions of domestic violence&hellip…

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Crumb

$11.95 | 119 minutes

Cinematography Award, Documentary

Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces the lives&hellip…

Secret of Roan Inish

$11.95 | 102 minutes

Sent to live with her grandparents in a quaint coastal Irish town, 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) is fascinated by the village's rich folk culture--especially the local myths about a half-human, half-seal creature known as a selkie. Fiona becomes convinced that her supposedly deceased little brother is living with the selkies, and&hellip&hellip…

Parallel Sons

$17.95 | 93 minutes

Grand Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

An unlikely friendship develops between Seth, a rural white boy fascinated by urban black culture, and Knowledge, a black prison escapee who tries to rob him. As Seth protects Knowledge from the police a bond forms between the two. A film festival favorite&hellip&hellip…

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Angela

$19.95 | 99 minutes

Won - Cinematography Award
Won - Filmmakers Trophy
Nominated - Grand Jury Prize

ANGELA is the debut film from director Rebecca Miller, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2002 for her second film, PERSONAL VELOCITY. Angela (Miranda Stuart Ryne) and Ellie (Charlotte Blythe) are two sisters caught up in an increasingly&hellip…

Hoop Dreams

$21.95 | 171 minutes

Audience Award, Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by&hellip…

Stories from the War on Homosexuality

$55.95 | 223 minutes

Special Jury Recognition
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Three documentaries from acclaimed gay filmmaker Arthur Dong are contained here. COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary uses first-person accounts to chronicle the development of the military's&hellip…

Combination Platter

$10.95 | 84 minutes

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)

An illegal immigrant waiting tables in a Chinese restaurant struggles to arrange a marriage with an American woman so that he can get his green card. He also tries in vain to maintain his cultural identity amid all the forces that urge him to assimilate. When he finally&hellip…

Where Are We? Our Trip Through America

$15.95 | 75 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

In WHERE ARE WE? OUR TRIP THROUGH AMERICA, acclaimed documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (COMMON THREADS, PARAGRAPH 175) take a potentially dangerous road trip through the American South. This is due to the fact that Epstein and Friedman are openly gay. However, as the pair travels&hellip…

Gas Food Lodging

$22.95 | 101 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

Allison Anders's GAS FOOD LODGING is a heartfelt, honest look at a teenage girl's coming of age. Fairuza Balk stars, giving a tremendously sympathetic performance as Shade, a girl living in a trailer park with her mom, Nora (Brooke Adams), and doing her best to hold her volatile family together&hellip…

Absolutely Positive

$15.95 | 88 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

When it premiered, Peter Adair's now critically-acclaimed documentary ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE became the first film to humanize the face of AIDS. HIV-positive himself, Adair chose eleven individuals from a cast of 125. The subjects range in age from 17 to 60, coming from a wide variety of races&hellip…

Poison

$10.95 | 85 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic

In director Todd Haynes's feature film debut, POISON, three stories, each told in their own unique cinematic style, illustrate the lives of a people living outside the fringes of "normal" society. There is "Hero," the pseudo-documentary about a seven-year-old boy who kills his own father; "Horror," a&hellip…

In the Shadow of the Stars

$21.95 | 93 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Go behind the curtain at the San Francisco Opera Company with this profile of the struggling chorus singers who support the divas while nursing their own dreams of stage stardom&hellip&hellip…

Metropolitan

$34.95 | 98 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

A chronicle of the social scene of a group of young Park Avenue socialites and their vanishing debutante scene. Into thier midst comes an outsider, a radical from the socially alien west side. But, because of an escort shortage he is welcomed into their group by the dominant, arrogant leader&hellip…

For All Mankind

$34.95 | 79 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary
Audience Award, Documentary

Pulled from several million feet of archival film and eighty hours of interviews, FOR ALL MANKIND is the official story of the Apollo odyssey, which took place between 1968 and 1972. Capturing the beauty of the technology, the enthusiasm of the astronauts and the pride&hellip…

The Big Dis

$7.95 | 88 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic

When a black soldier goes home on a weekend pass his thoughts turn to lust. Unfortunately, no women seem to share his ideas in this hip-hop comedy of male bravado and female disrespect&hellip&hellip…

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Sherman's March

$21.95 | 155 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary

When the documentarian is dumped by his girlfriend, Ross McElwee decides to retrace General Sherman's Civil War march on Atlanta, hilariously exploring romance and the mystique of Southern women along the way. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Sequel (of sorts): TIME INDEFINITE&hellip&hellip…

Jimi Plays Monterey/Shake! Otis at Monterey

$25.95 | 68 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

The Monterey Pop Festival perfectly embodied the spirit of 1967--the "summer of love"--and permanently changed the landscape of rock music. Two of the standout performances from that groundbreaking concert are collected here: the 18-minute SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY, which memorably launched&hellip…

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Before Stonewall

$21.95 | 87 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

This is the story of the gay community and how they have strived to be accepted. focusing on the events that led to the fevered 1969 riots at a New York City gay bar (Stonewall Inn), and many other milestones in the brave gay movement for acceptance&hellip&hellip…

The Times of Harvey Milk

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Special Jury Prize, Documentary

Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights&hellip…

Blood Simple

$11.95 | 96 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic

When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is an intricately plotted film noir filled with surprises at each turn. The cast, largely unkown at the time&hellip…

The Brother From Another Planet

$11.95 | 110 minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

A mute extraterrestrial with healing powers lands in New York, looking remarkably like an African American male. He quickly makes his way to Harlem, where he manages to fit in, despite his inability to speak and his off-kilter way of doing things. However, the harmless visitor's stay on Earth&hellip…

Dim Sum - A Little Bit of Heart

$21.95 | 87 minutes

Grand Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)

After the success of his low-budget CHAN IS MISSING, the story of a couple of Chinese cabdrivers and some missing money in Chinatown, Wayne Wang returned to the exploration of the melding of Chinese and American culture. In DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, he moves away from the streets of San Francisco's&hellip…

City Unplugged

$4.99 | 95 minutes

A heist film tinged with black comedy, the story begins in 1991, with Estonia having just declared its independence from the Soviet Union. A band of gangsters hatch a plan to hijack the small Baltic nation's $1 billion worth of bullion, about to return to the capital after years of hiding in Paris. Toivo, a naive electrician, is commissioned&hellip&hellip…