2004 Sundance Film Festival
The Hunting of the President
$11.95 | 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…
Farmingville
$22.95 | 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
$23.95 | 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
$17.95 | 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
$28.95 | 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…
Chisholm 72: Unbought & Unbossed
$17.95 | 76 minutes
Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)
Marking a watershed moment in American politics, Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to run for a presidential nomination, and in doing so became a true "voice of the people." She stood on an openly liberal platform that defended the causes of the poor, the young, gays, minorities, and other marginalized&hellip…
The Five Obstructions
$19.95 | 90 minutes
With THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS, notoriously mischievous director Lars von Trier performs yet another cinematic experiment. This time around, the Danish prankster tries to outwit his mentor, director Jorgen Leth, forcing him to remake his classic 1967 short, "The Perfect Human," five different times, with a series of increasingly outlandish&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…
We Don't Live Here Anymore
$17.95 | 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
$20.95 | 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…
V-Day: Until the Violence Stops
$23.95 | 73 minutes
A hit at the Sundance film festival, V-DAY: UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS charters the incredible events that spun off from the hugely popular Broadway show THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. Designed to celebrate female sexuality while condemning sexual violence, V-Day sees 800 cities across the globe staging performances of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, with&hellip&hellip…
Dig!
$16.95 | 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…
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…
Garden State
$24.95 | 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
$23.95 | 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…
Super Size Me
$20.95 | 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
$20.95 | 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…
Tarnation
$21.95 | 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
$17.95 | 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…
Deadline
$24.95 | 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
$21.95 | 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
$18.95 | 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…
Born Into Brothels
$20.95 | 95 minutes
Audience Award, Documentary
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
British-born photojournalist Zana Briski overcame barriers of language, culture, and ethnicity when she immersed herself into an impoverished and illegal neighborhood in the Third World metropolis of Calcutta, India. An award-winning photographer, Briski befriended&hellip…
Home of the Brave
$21.95 | 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
$23.95 | 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…
A Certain Kind of Death
$21.95 | 70 minutes
Special Jury Prize, Documentary
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
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This documentary investigates the little-known activities that occur when someone dies, but leaves no next of kin behind to pick up the pieces. The process is endlessly fascinating, and filmmakers&hellip…
Evergreen
$24.95 | 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…