Children Underground

$21.95 | 104 minutes

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

Showing the horrendous effects of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's oppressive regime, Edet Belzberg's CHILDREN UNDERGROUND is an unflinchingly brutal, eye-opening work of social commentary. Ceausescu's decision to ban contraception and abortion as&hellip…

Dogtown and Z-Boys

$16.95 | 91 minutes

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

In the late 1960s, a group of burnt out teenagers from broken homes ambled together and began to surf along Venice, California's Pacific Ocean Park pier, a ghostly shell of a former amusement park nicknamed "Dogtown." United by their attention&hellip…

Southern Comfort

$19.95 | 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…

Home Movie

$17.95 | minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Chris Smith (director of 1999's award-winning AMERICAN MOVIE) continues with his documentation of quirky American characters in HOME MOVIE, an affectionate look at five unique homes and the eccentric personalities of the people who inhabit them. Gaining trust from his odd yet engaging subjects&hellip…

Things Behind the Sun

$12.95 | 90 minutes

Directed by Allison Anders (GAS, FOOD, LODGING), this serious, powerful film centers on a Florida-based musician, Sherry (Kim Dickens), whose hit song recounts the dark story of her childhood rape. Having distanced herself from that horrible experience, Sherry doesn't quite remember what actually took place. Therefore, when she is approached&hellip&hellip…

The Believer

$20.95 | 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…

Scratch

$22.95 | minutes

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)

Director Doug Pray (HYPE!) pays tribute to the innovative art of deejaying in the electrifying documentary SCRATCH. Featuring the most legendary figures in the deejay scene, Pray's film is at once a deeply insightful historical document and a highly entertaining glimpse into the world of&hellip…

Princesa

$26.95 | 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…

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American Mullet

$16.95 | 52 minutes

Documentarian Jennifer Arnold hit the streets of America to see how people really feel about the mullet--the 1980's short-on-top, long-in-back hairstyle (also known as "the ape drape," and "hockey hair" among other things). The results are hilarious, revealing that there are champions of this oft-maligned style in more nooks and crannies&hellip&hellip…

Go Tigers!

$20.95 | 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

$15.95 | 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

$21.95 | 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

$29.95 | 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

$16.95 | 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

$33.95 | 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…

Brother

$21.95 | 113 minutes

In his first film shot in the US, Japanese director Takeshi Kitano stars as Aniki, a stoic "yakuza" (the Japanese version of the Mafia) who heads to Los Angeles after his clan loses a mob war. Unable to speak English, he still manages to take control of his little brother's small-time gang of drug dealers and quickly moves them up the&hellip&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…

L.I.E.

$26.95 | 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

$26.95 | 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…

Memento

$20.95 | 116 minutes

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

MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy&hellip…

Chain Camera

$26.95 | 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…

The American Astronaut

$19.95 | 91 minutes

Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)

AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, a feature debut directed by and starring Cory McAbee, is a mish-mash of genres. It's a Western. It's a science fiction mystery. It's a film noir replete with gangsters hiding in shadows, secretly plotting crimes. And it's a rock-and-roll musical featuring fully choreographed dances&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…