Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

$16.95 | 118 minutes

Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM) turns his focus on New York governor Eliot Spitzer, his valiant crusade to hold large financial institutions accountable for their crimes, and his ultimate downfall after enlisting the services of high-priced call girl Ashley Dupre. Unlike&hellip…

That Girl in Yellow Boots

$24.95 | 103 minutes

That Girl in Yellow Boots follows Ruth’s family record search to find birth parents. Ruth’s birth parent search leads her to discover the dark secrets of researching family history. IndiepixFilms provides the best place to buy Indie movies and download Indie movies. Consumers can easily download indie movie from Indiepixfilms.com&hellip…

You Are Here

$19.95 | 78 minutes

You Are Here is the first feature film by internationally acclaimed Toronto-based video artist Daniel Cockburn. Funny, disturbing, and thought-provoking, it pushes at the boundaries of cinematic storytelling -- while creating a deep and strange emotional connection with its cast of characters as they negotiate an absurd and cryptic world&hellip…

Copyright Criminals

$19.95 | 54 minutes

Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money. As artists find ever more inventive ways to insert old influences into new material, this documentary asks a critical question, on behalf of an entire&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…

Samson & Delilah

$24.95 | 100 minutes

Samson and Delilah is one of the best love story movies. Samson and Delilah focuses on signs of true love between two teens in the Australian aboriginal culture. 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 indie&hellip…

Valentino the Last Emperor

$23.95 | 96 minutes

This documentary offers a fond look at world-renowned fashion designer Valentino Garavani. Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer sits in the director's chair, pulling back the curtains for an all-access tour of haute-couture culture, recording the corporate struggles and runway-set hilarity as Valentino prepares to retire from his clothing…

Treeless Mountain

$10.95 | 89 minutes

TREELESS MOUNTAIN is abundant in the only special effect that Hollywoods magical movie-making machines can never generate: sincerity. It is the story of two Korean girls (ages approximately seven and five) whose innocence is tested as they get passed from home to home while their mother searches for their absent father. With only her&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…

Adam Resurrected

$11.95 | 106 minutes

The trouble with Holocaust movies is that they're about the Holocaust; they resurrect an illustrious horror, habited by history's most reliable demons, with little to say except that, yes, this was a tragedy. ADAM RESURRECTED isn't likely to fit anyone's definition of a Holocaust movie. As director Paul Schrader (AFFLICTION) summarized&hellip…

The Brothers Bloom

$7.95 | 113 minutes

Though THE BROTHERS BLOOM seems to be equal parts THE STING and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, director Rian Johnson's second feature is still strikingly original. Adrien Brody (KING KONG) and Mark Ruffalo (ZODIAC) star as the siblings of the title, who have been working as conmen since they were children. There is a constant tug of war between&hellip…

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Please Vote For Me

$17.95 | 58 minutes

Wuhan is a city in central China about the size of London, and it is here that director Weijun Chen has conducted an experiment in democracy. A grade 3 class at Evergreen Primary School has their first encounter with democracy by holding an election to select a Class Monitor. Eight-year olds compete against each other for the coveted&hellip&hellip…

Grey Gardens and The Beales of Grey Gardens

$42.95 | 185 minutes

This two disc set from Criterion features the Maysles brother documentary Grey Gardens and Albert Maysles new sequel The Beales of Grey Gardens. Grey Gardens: Out in East Hampton, behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds, there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter known as&hellip&hellip…

Brand upon the Brain!

$34.95 | 99 minutes

In the weird and wonderful supercinematic world of Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin, personal memory collides with movie lore for a radical sensory overload. This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black&hellip&hellip…

Paris, Je T'aime

$7.95 | 110 minutes

Official Selection

Eighteen different directors and a slew of indie actors come together for PARIS, JE T'AIME, a cinematic homage to the City of Light. Each director presents his or her own short story set in a different Parisian quarter, each one featuring a different cast of characters. The pieces vary in length, with some of&hellip…

The Decline of the American Empire

$10.95 | 102 minutes

Acclaimed Canadian director Denys Arcand's witty comedy focuses on the marriages and affairs of eight intellectual friends. The group has plans to gather at a secluded house for dinner. While the four men prepare the food and reflect on their promiscuity, the four women discuss their own affairs at a nearby gym. At the dinner table, conflicts&hellip&hellip…

Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

$22.95 | 100 minutes

The Ultimate songwriter's songwriter, Townes Van Zandt had a profound impact on generations of muscicians from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones, yet he avioded the commercial success enjoyed by many of his fans. Many musicologists think he was more influential than Dylan His influence can be found deeply etched&hellip&hellip…

Free Zone

$23.95 | 90 minutes

Beginning with a lengthy close-up shot of a fragile Natalie Portman sobbing in the back seat of a car, it's clear from the very beginning that FREE ZONE is going to offer some challenging viewing. Portman's character is Rebecca, and the location is close to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Hanna (Hanna Laslo) is the driver of the cab in&hellip&hellip…

Regular Lovers

$23.95 | 175 minutes

Winner of numerous international awards and garnering universal acclaim worldwide, Philippe Garrel's Regular Lovers (Les Amants rguliers) is a rapturous paean to France's near-revolution of May '68 and its aftermath.&hellip&hellip…

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The Fall of Fujimori

$17.95 | 84 minutes

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 after filming wrapped&hellip&hellip…

Primer

$24.95 | 77 minutes

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 partner and best friend, Abe (David Sullivan)&hellip&hellip…

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

$17.95 | 220 minutes

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns directs and produces this documentary series about boxing legend Jack Johnson. UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: THE RISE AND FALL OF JACK JOHNSON explores in great detail the life and struggle of one of the most remarkable African Americans of the 20th century. Despite undeniable talent, Johnson had to fight for&hellip…

The Corporation

$23.95 | 145 minutes

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 explains the laws and loopholes that allow them&hellip&hellip…

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The Story of the Weeping Camel

$24.95 | 87 minutes

Effortlessly blending drama, nature documentary, and ethnographic film, THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL weaves a magical tale about a nomadic Mongolian family who reunite a rejected baby camel with its mother. When a mother camel refuses to sustain her child, the keepers of the camels often reunite them in a ritual with folk music and&hellip&hellip…

Stage Beauty

$7.95 | 109 minutes

Billy Crudup and Claire Danes give extraordinary performances in Richard Eyre's STAGE BEAUTY, set in Restoration England in the 1660s. After Oliver Cromwell's 18-year ban on stage productions, King Charles II took the throne and encouraged the return of the theater; however, women were not permitted to act, so men had to play the female&hellip&hellip…

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…

Imaginary Heroes

$7.95 | 112 minutes

This realistic family film starring Sigourney Weaver and Emile Hirsch as a loving mother and son asks some deep questions about mortality, the risks of depression, and staying together verses splitting up. Living in a beautiful house in a manicured suburban neighborhood, the Travis family seems flawless at first glance. That is, until&hellip&hellip…

Gunner Palace

$19.95 | 85 minutes

In this striking documentary shot in 2003, early on in the US-led war on Iraq, a group of American soldiers in Baghdad who have taken over a bombed-out palace that belonged to Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein, offer the camera a view on their world. While they party poolside for most of the day and lead raids on homes of suspected&hellip&hellip…

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When Will I Be Loved

$11.95 | 81 minutes

Notorious sexual provocateur James Toback (FINGERS, THE PICK-UP ARTIST) delivers another ferocious jolt to the senses with WHEN WILL I BE LOVED, a racy drama that features an eye-opening--and bodily revealing--performance from Neve Campbell. As in Toback's BLACK AND WHITE, the film takes place on the harsh streets of New York City, where&hellip&hellip…

Mondovino

$11.95 | 135 minutes

Jonathan Nossiter, whose 2000 drama SIGNS & WONDERS was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and whose 1997 fiction film SUNDAY won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, returns to the documentary format with MONDOVINO. Nossiter, who previously explored cinema verite in '90s RESIDENT ALIEN, about the&hellip&hellip…

Being Julia

$7.95 | 104 minutes

As she enters her early 40s, London theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West End, but is growing too old for ingenue parts. When Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, comes into her life, a clandestine affair begins. Though she's happy for a while, Julia&hellip&hellip…

House of Flying Daggers

$11.95 | 119 minutes

Following up his award-winning martial-arts drama HERO, director Zhang Yimou (JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN) tells an intricately detailed love story in the swordfighting epic HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, set during the final days of the Tang Dynasty. A mysterious group called the Flying Daggers is a dangerous threat to the government, so&hellip&hellip…

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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…

Cronicas

$10.95 | 108 minutes

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 Truth. While researching a story on The Monster, a&hellip&hellip…

Palindromes

$16.95 | 100 minutes

With PALINDROMES, fiercely independent writer-director Todd Solondz (HAPPINESS, STORYTELLING) places the topic of abortion under his scathing microscope. This time around, Solondz takes an even more daring approach by casting seven different actors to play the film's lead role. Aviva Victor is the young New Jersey cousin of the recently&hellip&hellip…

They Came Back

$9.95 | 103 minutes

A welcome original entry into the vast canon of zombie films, THEY CAME BACK offers a humorous poke at the conventions of the genre. Set in a quiet French town, the local residents are in for a shock when the dead come crawling back to life. But they needn't fear, as these undead non-ghouls simply want to come home and resume their lives&hellip&hellip…

The Machinist

$5.95 | 101 minutes

Christian Bale delivers one of cinema's most sacrificial performances in Brad Anderson's mesmerizing thriller. Written by Scott Kosar (2003's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), THE MACHINIST takes place in a bleak and nondescript American city, where Trevor Reznick (Bale) is quite literally withering away to nothing. During the day Trevor&hellip&hellip…

Tell Them Who You Are

$11.95 | 95 minutes

The work of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler has delighted cinema-goers for the greater part of his astonishing life. Two Oscars, for WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF and BOUND FOR GLORY, are just the tip of the iceberg, for Haskell has worked with many of the all-time greats in the business. Some of these figures--most notably&hellip&hellip…

P.S.

$7.95 | 89 minutes

Dylan Kidd follows up his well-received ROGER DODGER with this adaptation of Helen Schulman's novel. Adapted by Kidd and Schulman, P.S. tells the story of a frustrated thirtysomething who is desperate to make a human connection. Louise Harrington (Laura Linney) is the director of admissions for Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts&hellip&hellip…

Notre Musique

$16.95 | 80 minutes

French master Jean-Luc Godard's NOTRE MUSIQUE is a passionate, scathing indictment of war. Divided into three segments, the film boldly condemns the notion of war and the damage that it causes. The first segment, Hell, is a breathtaking visual montage that captures the cruelty and brutality of battle. Next comes Purgatory. Set in postwar&hellip&hellip…

Three Of Hearts: A Postmodern Family

$11.95 | 95 minutes

Trinogamous? Mariage-a-trois? Monogamy, but with more than one person? How does one talk about the unusual relationship between Sam, Samantha and Steven? After all, in Three of Hearts this is one of those stories you WILL want to talk about. In his early twenties, Sam Cagnina, the oldest son of a mafia hit man, meets Steven, a handsome&hellip&hellip…

The Ninth Day

$23.95 | 93 minutes

With The Ninth Day, director Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum, The Legend of Rita, Circle of Deceit) creates a moral thriller that "succeeds in illuminating an almost unimaginably dark story" (The New York Times). Inspired by the true tale of a dissident priest's temporary furlough from Dachau, The Ninth Day transforms an ethical crisis&hellip&hellip…

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Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

$22.95 | 90 minutes

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 at the Atlantic and Stax labels, among others&hellip&hellip…

The Fog of War

$11.95 | 106 minutes

Documentarian Errol Morris directs THE FOG OF WAR, a captivating look at Robert S. McNamara, who served as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The movie does not exclusively focus on this part of McNamara's career, however, and instead gives a broad overview of the man he was, his multitude of&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…

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…

Purple Butterfly

$11.95 | 127 minutes

This melancholic, brooding romantic thriller stars Zhang Ziyi (HERO; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) as Ding Hui, a Chinese woman who is part of a secret anti-Japanese terrorist organization in 1931 Shanghai. Three years earlier, under her real name, Cynthia, she was a factory worker in Manchuria carrying on a romance with a Japanese&hellip&hellip…

Neil Young - Greendale

$12.95 | 87 minutes

Using the music from his acclaimed "Greendale" album, Neil Young turned the themes from the record into this epic drama. The story is centered around the mythical town of Greendale, a formerly idyllic place rocked by the sudden shooting of a policeman. Fingers point at young Jed Green, forcing his family to rally around him after the&hellip…

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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…

Free Radicals

$23.95 | 120 minutes

A car crash causes the random intersection of various lives in this Austrian film by Barbara Albert. Manu (Kathrin Resetarits) survives a plane crash only to die eight years later on impact with a carload of teenagers. She leaves behind a spooky little daughter Yvonne (Deborah Ten Brink), a grieving husband (Georg Friedrich) who was having&hellip&hellip…

Coffee and Cigarettes

$11.95 | 96 minutes

Jim Jarmusch has consistently wowed audiences with his truly distinctive cinematic vision. Shot over the course of a 17-year-period, COFFEE AND CIGARETTES proves once again that Jarmusch is a true original. This time around, the director tries his hand at the short film genre, delivering 11 shorts that are all based around the seemingly&hellip&hellip…

James' Journey to Jerusalem

$15.95 | 87 minutes

In this offbeat social satire, a Christian African tribe sends James (Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe), the noblest young man of their village, on a spiritual sojourn to Jerusalem. Apparently unaware of the Middle East's political and economic situation, James is baffled when Israeli police at the airport mistake him for just another immigrant&hellip&hellip…

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My Life Without Me

$11.95 | 102 minutes

Sarah Polley delivers a heartbreakingly subtle performance in Isabel Coixet's MY LIFE WITHOUT ME. Polley is Ann, a young mother and wife who works as a university janitor and lives in a trailer in her mother's backyard. The relationship between Ann and her mother (Deborah Harry)&hellip&hellip…

Osama

$11.95 | 82 minutes

The first Afghan film to be made since the end of the Taliban regime, OSAMA is a poetic portrayal of the struggle to survive during that oppressive period. A clear tribute to the strength and perseverance of the women of Afghanistan, OSAMA tells the true story of one family--all women--who had no other choice than to put their lives in&hellip&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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Stevie

$10.95 | 145 minutes

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. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&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…

The Saddest Music in the World

$11.95 | 99 minutes

Guy Maddin's films are gritty, gorgeous, darkly daffy, and ultimately surreal, and THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD may be the finest example of this Canadian director's unique artistry. He takes a macabre storyline, blends it with brilliant performances, edits to perfection, and creates pure celluloid magic. Dots, bumps, fuzzy static&hellip&hellip…

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

$8.95 | 150 minutes

Starting with the band's origins in Forest Hills, Queens, END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES gives a fascinating background portrait of the eccentric group of individuals who came together to be one of the most influential punk bands in history. This documentary about the New York City renegades who made their mark in the mid-1970s&hellip&hellip…

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Gozu

$11.95 | 129 minutes

This wildly bizarre Japanese horror movie from master Takeski Miike (AUDITION) follows the mysterious disappearance of Brother, a gangster who was accidentally killed by one of his Mafia cohorts, Minami. Searching for Brother's body--which vanished minutes after he was shot--Minami stumbles into a strange secluded inn and gets a room&hellip&hellip…

The Mother

$23.95 | 112 minutes

A tense love triangle develops when May (Anne Reid), a woman in her sixties grieving the death of her husband, strikes up a sexual relationship with Darren (Daniel Craig), a married man in his thirties who is having an extramarital affair with her daughter Paula (Cathryn Bradshaw). Not only is May much older than Darren, but the complexities&hellip&hellip…

Flyerman

$10.95 | 96 minutes

A highly unusual documentary, FLYERMAN follows Mark Vistorino, a character who may distribute flyers, but really craves fame and fortune, and will do anything he can to achieve it. This five year snapshot of his life follows Vistorino as he dons his spectacular Flyerman suit and becomes something of a superhero to the folk who take his&hellip&hellip…

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Bright Leaves

$12.95 | minutes

Ross McElwee directs this autobiographical documentary about his family's roots in the tobacco business in North Carolina. Taking a sabbatical from his home in Boston, he offers a culturally interesting history of the South as viewed through the biggest, wealthiest tobacco enterprises. Meanwhile, he examines a Hollywood movie that was&hellip&hellip…

Facing Windows

$26.95 | 107 minutes

THIS TITLE IS ON MORATORIUM AND CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. FACING WINDOWS is a haunting, romantic story of love, history, memory, and politics from director Ferzan Ozpetek, the Instanbul-born Italian transplant whose gay-themed films STEAM: THE TURKISH BATH and LE FATE IGNORANTI earned him a large degree of cult status and notoriety. He&hellip&hellip…

Go Further

$17.95 | 77 minutes

People's Choice Award(2nd Place)

GO FURTHER is a documentary that charts the progress of an environmental activism bus tour from Seattle to Santa Barbara, led by actor Woody Harrelson. In a biofuel bus burning hempseed oil as gas, painted with scenic and symbolic murals depicting the tour's goals, Harrelson and his crew of eclectic&hellip…

Dallas 362

$7.95 | 96 minutes

The directorial debut of Scott Caan, DALLAS 362 is a coming-of-age story set in the backwoods of Texas. Rusty (Shaun Hatosy) and his pal Dallas (Caan) are aimless troublemakers, spending their time either getting drunk and fighting in bars, or sobering up in the local police station's holding cell. Rusty's mother Mary (Kelly Lynch) constantly&hellip&hellip…

Goodbye Dragon Inn

$16.95 | 83 minutes

The subject of cinema, of the mix of loneliness and connection that is part of being in a movie audience, is the concern of this sad, beautiful, minimalist composition by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang (WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?). The action takes place Inside a Taipei movie theater operated by a lonely clubfooted woman (Shiyang Chi-Chen)&hellip&hellip…

Noi

$19.95 | 82 minutes

In a tiny village located in the remote West Fjords of Iceland, Noi lives a strangely quiet life with his grandmother. A 17-year-old afflicted by the typical symptoms of teenage angst, who longs for freedom and independence, Noi makes for an excellent character study. His existence is anything but typical given the challenges that the&hellip&hellip…

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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

$23.95 | 109 minutes

Danish director Lone Scherfig presents her second Dogme-style film, following her sweet and subtly brilliant ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS, with this English-language drama set in Glasgow, Scotland. The charmingly dilapidated used bookstore where most of the film takes place creates an atmosphere of comforting humility. However, the plot stands&hellip…

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The Return

$23.95 | 106 minutes

Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence. Bullish and intense, the patriarch&hellip&hellip…

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

$21.95 | 101 minutes

Attempting to make peace between Cambodian torture survivors and the Khmer Rouge soldiers who brutalized them, the documentary S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE takes a close-up look at the the prison camps where this disturbing chapter of history took place in the mid-1970s. Using firsthand accounts from both victims and soldiers&hellip&hellip…

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Travellers & Magicians

$23.95 | 108 minutes

Writer-director Khyentse Norbu, who scored an international hit with the 1999 drama THE CUP (PHORPA), about Tibetan refugees obsessed with watching the World Cup soccer finals, returns to his homeland to make the remarkably charming and engaging TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS, the first feature-length film to be made completely within the Kingdom&hellip&hellip…

Grimm

$23.95 | 103 minutes

A genre-bending update of the Hansel and Gretel story, GRIMM is a Dutch film directed by Alex van Warmerdam. Young adults Jacob and Marie are abandoned in the woods by their father, with only a note in Jacob's pocket to guide them: advice from their mother to travel to Spain and see their wealthy uncle. When they reach the warm and sunny&hellip&hellip…

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Pieces of April

$11.95 | 80 minutes

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 (Oliver Platt), she invites them and her wisecracking brother (John&hellip&hellip…

Who Killed Bambi

$17.95 | minutes

IN THEATRES: NOVEMBER 12, 2004 (LIMITED) Using ambient sounds, white-outs, and dizzyingly abstract photography, WHO KILLED BAMBI? instills fear into its viewers with its disorienting atmospheres. Before any perturbing action takes place, there is an air of something essentially wrong, and that unexplainable feeling is downright creepy&hellip&hellip…

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Save the Green Planet "Tame" Version

$10.95 | 118 minutes

This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is&hellip&hellip…

Small Voices

$14.95 | 109 minutes

SMALL VOICES is the intricately observed story of an idealistic teacher who challenges the cynicism and strictures of life in a poverty-stricken Philippine village by reaching her young students through music. Inspired by a true story, SMALL VOICES exposes audiences to a culture that has rarely been detailed on film&hellip…

The Corporation

$23.95 | 145 minutes

People's Choice Award(3rd Place)

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 explains&hellip…

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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…

Desire

$7.95 | 86 minutes

This erotic drama from Korea revolves around two lovers who have a penchant for swapping partners that subsequently leads to some dire consequences, and bitter jealousy for all involved&hellip&hellip…

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Lost in La Mancha

$23.95 | 93 minutes

Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA documents Terry Gilliam's disaster-prone attempt to make THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, a film largely based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The movie first encounters difficulties in its preproduction stage, starting with an uncomfortably small European-funded budget&hellip&hellip…

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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Morvern Callar

$19.95 | minutes

The role of the aimless young rebel hiding behind an emotional wall and steely eyes has been monopolized by men in the movies since James Dean. Samantha Morton, one of her generation's most gifted actors, makes the most of her opportunity to embody such a figure in her role as the title character of MORVERN CALLAR. Momentarily frozen&hellip&hellip…

Ten

$23.95 | 83 minutes

Filmed entirely inside a car, a woman drives through the streets of Tehran, picking up and dropping off passengers--her son, a friend, her sister, a prostitute--as she runs errands and goes about her busy days. The title TEN represents the distinct conversations that the woman has with each of her passengers, reflecting on life in modern-day&hellip&hellip…

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Gasoline

$14.95 | 90 minutes

This slightly surreal Italian road movie from first-time director Monica Stambrini tweaks the THELMA AND LOUISE mythos with just the right amount of moody teen spirit. Lenni (Regina Orioli) is the meek, bespectacled girlfriend of butch mechanic Stella (Maya Sansa), and together they run a gas station/coffee shop. They live in a middle-of-nowhere&hellip&hellip…

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Horns and Halos

$10.95 | 79 minutes

When J.H. Hatfield published a biography of George W. Bush entitled FORTUNATE SON in 1999, it looked set to become a best seller. Not afraid to detail the past indiscretions of the President, Hatfield alleged that Bush had been arrested for cocaine possession back in 1972. Publishers St. Martins Press got cold feet when they discovered&hellip&hellip…

Dolls

$19.95 | minutes

Takeshi Kitano continues alternating between introspective drama and violent films with DOLLS, which he wrote, directed, and edited in between the bloody gangster picture BROTHER (2000) and the samurai update THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI. Beginning with an excerpt from Bunraku puppet theater master Monzaemon Chikamatsu's THE COURIER&hellip&hellip…

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Spellbound

$11.95 | 95 minutes

Jeff Blitz's Academy Award-nominated documentary is an affecting, inspiring look at eight American children as they make their way to compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Defying all stereotypes and categorizations, the spellers that Blitz chooses to focus on run the ethnic and socioeconomic gamut. Emily is from&hellip&hellip…

Oasis

$16.95 | 132 minutes

A troubled young man in his twenties is released from prison only to commit social atrocities. He rapes a severely disabled woman who clearly cannot defend herself from the attack. Oddly enough, the woman ends up falling in love with him, and it turns out that he needs her too&hellip&hellip…

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Russian Ark

$16.95 | 96 minutes

Visions Award

A visually hypnotizing cinematic feat, RUSSIAN ARK is Alexsandr Sokurov's spellbinding ode to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. Shot in one fluid take using High Definition video cameras, the photography floats and careens through the lavish corridors of the museum, examining its architectural details while&hellip…

The Magdalene Sisters

$16.95 | 119 minutes

Discovery Award

Peter Mullen's shocking drama THE MAGDALENE SISTERS is based on real events that took place in Ireland from the 1960s until 1996 when an estimated 30,000 young women, considered by their families to have committed sexual sins, were sent away from their homes to earn penitence working in profit-making laundries&hellip…

The Way Home

$16.95 | 85 minutes

This subtle and bucolic Korean film is "dedicated to all grandmas" by its director Jeong-hyang Lee. The story concerns bratty, selfish seven-year-old Sang-Woo (Seung-Ho Yoo) who is sent out into the mountains to live with his ancient, mute, partially deaf grandmother (Eul-Boon Kim) while his stressed-out single mom looks for work back&hellip&hellip…

Together

$11.95 | 119 minutes

Director-writer-producer-star Chen Kaige, well known for his visually sumptuous tales of historical China (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE) directs this sweet-natured coming of age tale set in modern day Beijing. An impoverished cook, Liu Chen (Liu Peiqui), gives up his provincial life to move his 13-year-old violin virtuoso son, Xiaochun (Tang&hellip…

Nowhere in Africa

$26.95 | 140 minutes

Fleeing Nazi Germany, many Jewish families found that a new life was as difficult as any hardship they had previously known. This German drama, based on a book by Stephanie Zweig, tells of one family's struggle as Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze), his wife Jettel (Juliane Kohler), and their young daughter Regina (Karoline Eckertz) flee&hellip&hellip…

Man Bites Dog

$25.95 | 92 minutes

A mock black comic documentary that spoofs reality TV, and questions the media's role in perpetuating and abetting violence. A homicidal maniac, serial-killer, Ben Patard, is accompanied on his killing sprees by a film crew who document, then later participate in, even as they question, his activities&hellip&hellip…

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger

$14.95 | 80 minutes

THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER, a documentary based on the book by British journalist Christopher Hitchens, argues that Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was a power-hungry warmonger responsible for massive military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia, and East Timor in the 1960s, as well&hellip&hellip…

Kedma

$23.95 | 100 minutes

In May 1948, a group of European Jewish refugees illegally sail to Palestine via the cargo freighter Kedma, arriving only a few days before the departure of British forces and the founding of the nation of Israel. Once ashore they are received by the Palmach, Jewish fighters who help them evade arrest by British troops. Hiding amid the&hellip&hellip…

Take Care of My Cat

$23.95 | 112 minutes

Director Jeong Jae-eun's debut feature, TAKE CARE OF MY CAT, is a slick but sensitive portrayal of girlfriends on the cusp of adulthood. Hollywood films about recent high school grads tend to focus on sex, partying, and planning for college. These Korean girls have their share of fun, but they have critical life issues to deal with, and&hellip&hellip…

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Bad Guy

$24.95 | 103 minutes

A harrowing portrait of love and desire, BAD GUY is situated deep in Seoul's seedy nightlife. Differing strains of the story follow various people inexorably caught up in an underground existence that exercises a vice-like grip over their every action; a pimp forces a prostitute to live in her booth, then falls in love with her by watching&hellip&hellip…

Hukkle

$25.95 | 75 minutes

The bucolic, even-paced, daily life of a small Hungarian village is the setting for the experimental film HUKKLE (onomatopoeic for "hiccup" in Hungarian). A series of dialogue-less vignettes, featuring the various townspeople and their animals, explore the quotidian existence in the Hungarian countryside. Unifying these sequences is a&hellip&hellip…

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All or Nothing

$11.95 | 128 minutes

Following 1999's Oscar-nominated period piece TOPSY-TURVY, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the familiar terrain of modern, working-class London with ALL OR NOTHING. Yet another bittersweet slice-of-life drama conceived in Leigh's now legendary improvisational style, ALL OR NOTHING follows a group of dysfunctional families living&hellip…

Letters in the Wind

$23.95 | 76 minutes

A fascinating history lies behind Iranian filmmaker Ali-Reza Amini's LETTERS IN THE WIND. The movie, which shines a light on life inside an Iranian military camp, has rarely been seen outside of Amini's native country due to an injunction placed on it by authorities. Nevertheless, it is presented here, and offers plenty of food for thought&hellip&hellip…

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My Life on Ice

$16.95 | 102 minutes

When Etienne receives a video camera as a gift for his 16th birthday, he uses it to meticulously document everything around him as a video diary. Set in the world of competitive figure skating, Etienne becomes entranced by his teacher Laurent, and also by his friend Ludovic, whose video segments consist almost entirely of talk about girls&hellip&hellip…

Suddenly

$19.95 | 94 minutes

This refreshingly offbeat film from Argentina follows a few days in the life of Marcia (Tatiana Saphir), an overweight girl working in a Buenos Aires lingerie shop, whose going-nowhere life is interrupted by a pair of sullen, lesbian wanderers named Mao (Carla Crespo) and Lenin (Veronica Hassan). Marcia accompanies them semi-unwillingly&hellip&hellip…

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September 11

$19.95 | 128 minutes

A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered, or forgiving, each film is drastically different from&hellip&hellip…

The Eye

$19.95 | 99 minutes

THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…

Sex is Comedy

$2.95 | 95 minutes

To call a French filmmaker a provocateur may seem redundant, but feminist auteur Catherine Breillat has managed to shock even her most liberated compatriots. The bad girl of Gallic cinema, Breillat has become known for her graphic and cynical takes on male-female sexual relationships and has faced accusations of onset cruelty. SEX IS&hellip&hellip…

Temptation

$10.95 | 86 minutes

Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Best Actress

This wickedly funny comedy follows two filmmakers who attempt to produce artful erotica while avoiding the usual trappings of the adult film industry. Unfortunately their tastes don't match up with the public's, and they fail to make any money from the pursuit. But on one fateful day they&hellip…

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Hell House

$20.95 | 86 minutes

George Ratliff's stirring documentary sheds some light on one of America's most confounding creations at the turn of the 20th century: the Hell House. Providing a bizarre twist on the traditional haunted house formula, Hell Houses are elaborately staged productions that substitute fictitious monsters for the "demons" that haunt our everyday&hellip&hellip…

The Believer

$19.95 | 0 minutes

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 for their racist content, but also&hellip&hellip…

Hush!

$14.95 | 135 minutes

In this Japanese comedy from director Ryosuke Hashiguchi, a closeted gay man named Katsuhiro (Seiichi Tanabe) meets his match in outgoing Nayoa (Kazuya Takahashi), and the two seemingly opposite men fall in love. When the couple are approached by a sad woman (Reiko Kataoka) who wants them to help her have a baby, and their disapproving&hellip&hellip…

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Millennium Mambo

$19.95 | 105 minutes

Winner of the Grand Prix Technique at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao Hsien's MILLENNIUM MAMBO is a strikingly beautiful film set in Taipei's hot nightclub scene. The remarkable Shu Qi stars as Vicky, a lost soul who hangs out partying with her friends, smoking nonstop, and dancing and flirting. She lives with Hao-Hao (Tuan Chun-hao)&hellip&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…

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…

Late Marriage

$23.95 | 100 minutes

Like the protagonist of LATE MARRIAGE, writer-director Dover Kosashvili was born in Georgia (of the former USSR) and raised in Israel. Kosashvili's provocative debut feature is a very funny, but sometimes painful account of one man's late journey of self-discovery. Zaza (Lior Loui Ashkenazi) is thirty-one years old, and his parents, Yasha&hellip&hellip…

Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

$10.95 | 90 minutes

THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND NOT AVAILABLE. In this biographical interpretation of the life of Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the most influential performers of the early 20th Century, Australian director Paul Cox enlists the dramatic voice narration of Shakespearean actor Sir Derek Jacobi to read&hellip&hellip…

Ichi the Killer

$17.95 | 129 minutes

Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film heartthrob Tadanobu Asano), a masochistic yakuza&hellip&hellip…

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Kira's Reason: A Love Story

$10.95 | 94 minutes

From the screenwriter of THE CELEBRATION comes KIRA'S REASON: A LOVE STORY, a Danish Dogme film directed by Ole Christian Madsen. A recovering mental patient, Kira (Stine Stengade) returns home to her husband after a stay in a psychiatric hospital, only to begin a long and difficult adjustment back to her old life. She struggles to accept&hellip&hellip…

The Safety of Objects

$11.95 | 120 minutes

In a quiet suburb, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) lies in a coma. His mother, Esther (Glenn Close), dutifully cares for him, growing ever distant from her husband and her teenage daughter, Julie (Jessica Campbell). Julie enters Esther in a contest of endurance as a means of bringing them closer together. Unbeknownst to his wife, the Gold's&hellip&hellip…

The Fast Runner

$11.95 | 172 minutes

Best Canadian Feature Film

The first Inuit language movie, based on an ancient legend, ATANARJUAT (THE FAST RUNNER) is the story of two generations of igloo-dwelling Inuit whose harmonious existence is disrupted by the presence of an evil spirit. Atanarjuat (Natar Ungalaaq) falls in love with Atuat (Sylvia Ivalu) who has been&hellip…

Maya

$21.95 | 105 minutes

People's Choice Award(2nd Place)

Exploring how the innocence of children is inevitably and tragically corrupted by the actions of adults, MAYA is the debut feature from Indian director Digvijay Singh. Singh's tranquil, measured pace is more Satyajit Ray than Bollywood, fitting given the serious nature of the subject matter. The&hellip…

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…

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

$25.95 | 119 minutes

Shohei Imamura's WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE stars the spirited Koji Yakusho as a Tokyo businessman whose company has recently gone bankrupt, leaving him unemployed. Estranged from his wife and with time on his hands, Yosuke (Koji) remembers a story told to him by a recently deceased friend, Taro (Kazuo Kitamura), about a hidden treasure&hellip&hellip…

Prozac Nation

$25.95 | 95 minutes

Based on the bestselling memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel, PROZAC NATION tells the true story of Wurtzel's own difficulties with severe depression during her first year at college. Liz (Christina Ricci) is a gifted writer whose talent earns her a scholarship to Harvard University. Escaping from the controlling arms of her mother (Jessica Lange)&hellip&hellip…

Jan Dara

$25.95 | 100 minutes

Beautiful, nostalgic photography and a haunting score make this melodrama of sex, love, and filial antagonism a treat for the senses. Nonzee Nimibutr (NANG NAK, BAYTONG) directs an adaptation of Usana Ploengtham's novel, THE STORY OF JAN DARA, regarded as the most notorious erotic work of Thai literature. The title character, played by&hellip&hellip…

The Pornographer

$10.95 | 108 minutes

Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Jacques Laurent, a former pornographic filmmaker who returns to the industry in this hard-hitting drama from director Bertrand Bonello. Having enjoyed a 20 year hiatus from the industry since the 1980s, Laurent finds that it has changed enormously since his halcyon days. Struggling to recapture his former passion-filled&hellip&hellip…

Nine Queens

$11.95 | 115 minutes

Fabian Bielinsky's directorial debut is an electrifying crime thriller that deserves to join the ranks as a classic of the genre--along with David Mamet's HOUSE OF GAMES and Bryan Singer's THE USUAL SUSPECTS. Set in a Buenos Aires that is on the verge of economic collapse, the film tells the story of Juan (Gaston Pauls), a con artist&hellip&hellip…

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La Ciénaga

$23.95 | 100 minutes

This Argentinean tale, which revolves around a group of families passing summer vacation in a rural country house, does not rely on a concrete plotline, but rather roves, rambles, and stumbles upon each new event. The most notable characteristic of LA CIÉNAGA is its mood--a brooding, dreadful, fearsome tension that does not wane or cease&hellip&hellip…

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Italian for Beginners

$11.95 | 97 minutes

In this beautiful, understated film, every character possesses a naive, heartbreaking honesty and every line communicates the sweet simplicity of basic human longing. From Danish director Lone Scherfig (ON OUR OWN), ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS uses natural lighting, muted cinematography, and a partially improvised script--falling into the Dogme&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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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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The Fluffer

$10.95 | 90 minutes

When wide-eyed and innocent Sean McGinnis (Michael Cunio) moves to Los Angeles to make it big in the movies, he quickly finds work on the sets of gay pornography films. There he does odd jobs, among them performing as a "fluffer" for a hot porn star called Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney.) A young man still coming to terms with his homosexuality&hellip&hellip…

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Fat Girl

$25.95 | 84 minutes

Take two very naive, very young French girls--one a thin 15-year-old, Elena (Roxane Mesquida), and the other her fat 12-year-old sister, Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux). Picture them as lambs. Add a manipulative older Italian boy, Fernando (Libero De Rienzo). Picture him as the wolf. Witness from close range as the one of the lambs (the thin&hellip…

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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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The River

$17.95 | 104 minutes

Finnish director Jarmo Lampela produces a touching human drama composed of several short stories, similar to Richard Linklater's SLACKER or Jim Jarmusch's NIGHT ON EARTH. A waitress drums up romance at work. A factory worker returns home to find his wife in bed with another man. An elderly woman grapples with the impending death of her&hellip…

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Secret Ballot

$16.95 | 123 minutes

Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Babak Payami (ONE MORE DAY) looks at the problems of bringing democracy to Iran in this political and cultural satire, which could almost be called "neo-surrealist" in tone. The film begins with a ballot box being dropped from an airplane onto a desert island off the coast of Iran, terrifying a soldier stationed&hellip&hellip…

Time Out

$16.95 | 128 minutes

Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) spends a lot of time in his car. He sleeps in his car sometimes, parked in highway truck stops where buses full of school children pass through during the daytime, and at night stragglers lost en route stop to drink and tell their stories. Having been fired from his job over a month ago, he is a man running&hellip&hellip…

The American Nightmare

$19.95 | 73 minutes

In this thought-provoking documentary from filmmaker Adam Simon, legendary horror directors reveal the inspirations behind their groundbreaking films of the 1960s and '70s. Through film clips and interviews, masters of mayhem George Romero, Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, John Landis, John Carpenter, and Tom Savini discuss&hellip&hellip…

The Turandot Project

$15.95 | 84 minutes

This film from Allan Miller chronicles the production by director Zhang Yimou and conductor Zubin Mehta of the fantastic opera TURANDOT written by Giacomo Puccini. THE TURANDOT PROJECT is a documentary that shows what happens behind the scenes of two very different performances of the opera--one in Florence, Italy and the other in Beijing&hellip…

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The Isle

$21.95 | 89 minutes

The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-colored fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a mute woman with a row boat who delivers her&hellip&hellip…

The Guy Maddin Collection

$27.95 | 187 minutes

A collection of three films from cult director Guy Maddin. In TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997), Shelly Duvall (POPEYE) and Frank Gorshin (BATMAN: THE MOVIE) star in a tale of passion and fantasy set in a far away land where the sun always shines. ARCHANGEL (1990) is a story of obsessive love in a war-torn Russian town. HEART OF THE WORLD&hellip&hellip…

Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

$19.95 | 94 minutes

This extraordinary documentary is the story of 78-year-old Tobias Schneebaum, a seemingly mild-mannered man who has lived an amazing life. Schneebaum grew up in Brooklyn, studied to be a Rabbi and a painter, and in the 1950s decided to travel to Peru. There, he journeyed deep into the Amazon to live with an isolated native tribe. After&hellip&hellip…

Bangkok Dangerous

$7.95 | 105 minutes

FIPRESCI Award

Twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang make their first feature together with this raw attack on the senses. BANGKOK DANGEROUS is like Pop Rocks candy: it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the stinging pop is strangely alluring. It's a unique mixture of kinetic editing, textured visual sensuality, and aural assault&hellip…

Liam

$10.95 | 91 minutes

Originally produced for the B.B.C., director Stephen Frears masterfully crafts this poignant portrait of one family's attempt to stay afloat in impoverished 1930s England. The political, religious, and economic strife of pre-Word War II Liverpool is seen through the eyes of Liam (Anthony Burrows), a seven-year-old living with Dad (Ian&hellip&hellip…

Fast Food, Fast Women

$15.95 | 96 minutes

Writer-director Amos Kollek (SUE) tackles the neurotic, fragile, fast-paced world of New York City in FAST FOOD, FAST WOMEN, a bittersweet comedy that shows just how difficult it is to find love in modern times. The revolving story focuses on Bella (Anna Thomson), a waitress who is on the verge of her thirty-fifth birthday and trapped&hellip&hellip…

George Washington

$34.95 | 90 minutes

Discovery Award

David Gordon Green makes a stunning directorial debut with GEORGE WASHINGTON, a highly poetic drama that tells the story of the inhabitants of a small, impoverished southern town. Focusing on a group of five adolescent friends--George (Donald Holden), Nasia (Candace Evanofski), Buddy (Curtis Cotton III), Vernon&hellip…

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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

$17.95 | 117 minutes

INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS, the stunning, heartrending documentary feature directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and narrated by Judi Dench, details the rescue of 10,000 German, Austrian, and Czechoslovakian Jewish children just prior to the outbreak of WWII. A labor of love for producer Deborah Oppenheimer, whose mother was part of the kindertransport&hellip&hellip…

Before Night Falls

$15.95 | 133 minutes

The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual revolution and homosexual subculture in Havana&hellip&hellip…

Nico and Dani

$23.95 | 90 minutes

NICO AND DANI is a summer coming-of-age flick set in a small beach town near Barcelona. Two teenage boys--Dani (Fernando Ramallo) and Nico (Jordi Vilches)--spend a couple weeks alone at Dani's beach house when his parents leave town. They have always been best friends and have always shared everything. Suddenly they find themselves drifting&hellip&hellip…

The Mission

$14.95 | 88 minutes

After surviving a failed assassination attempt, a mob boss hires five expert killers as bodyguards to seek out his enemies. The five men become comrades but their friendships are put to the test in the line of duty. An acclaimed action thriller from the director of RUNNING OUT OF TIME&hellip&hellip…

The Widow of St. Pierre

$10.95 | 108 minutes

This dark drama explores a true tale set in 1850 on the isolated French-Canadian island of St. Pierre. Yugoslav director Emir Kustirica makes a fabulous acting debut as Neele August, an illiterate fisherman who brutally murders his ex-fishing captain in a night of drunken revelry. Sentenced to death, August cannot be killed until the&hellip&hellip…

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Yi Yi

$34.95 | 173 minutes

Focusing on a typical family - parents, two children, and an elderly grandmother - living in a small apartment in Taipei, YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) is about the patterns of daily life. It includes a wedding, a funeral, a first date, a last date, a birth, and a death. The film follows each member of the Jian family carefully, giving each&hellip&hellip…

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In the Mood for Love

$34.95 | 98 minutes

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centers around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find that they have a lot in common: Both enjoy&hellip&hellip…

The Legend of Rita

$23.95 | 101 minutes

West Germany; the early 1990s. A terrorist gang bursts into a bank. "Hi guys, we're the robbers," says Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau), "We're nationalizing the economy." As they flee, Rita stops to give money to a street-person. These are not your average bank robbers. In THE LEGEND OF RITA, based on the exploits of the real-life Baader-Meihof&hellip…

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Dr. T and the Women

$7.95 | 122 minutes

Robert Altman follows up the good-natured COOKIE'S FORTUNE with this biting satire of an upper-class elitist Dallas community. Richard Gere plays Sullivan "Sully" Travis (better known as Dr. T), a man whose good looks and overflowing charm have made him the most popular gynecologist in all of Texas. Things begin to go wrong for Dr. T&hellip&hellip…

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When the Sky Falls

$10.95 | 107 minutes

An Irish journalist (Joan Allen) discovers a drug ring in Dublin, which leads her deep into the world of organized crime. As she digs deeper into the case, she becomes aware of the inability of the Police to help her. Based on the true story of "The Sunday Independent" reporter Veronica Guerin, WHEN THE SKY FALLS premiered on Sky TV in&hellip…

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The Iron Ladies

$14.95 | 104 minutes

Discovery Award(2nd Place)

Based on the true story of Thailand's 1996 national volleyball champions, this comedy follows a team of transgendered players that wins its way into the competition. When Coach Bee, a new female coach, steps in to take over a team, she wants to choose her own players. Her first move is to select Mon&hellip…

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The Man Who Bought Mustique

$17.95 | 78 minutes

A double-edged portrait of a man and his obsessions, THE MAN WHO BOUGHT MUSTIQUE catches up with Colin Tennant otherwise known as Lord Glenconner, an aging British aristocrat whose claim to fame is the purchase of an exotic Caribbean island in the mid-1960s. With 45,000 pounds and a dream, Glenconner abandoned his ancestral seat in the&hellip&hellip…

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Fighter

$17.95 | 86 minutes

FIGHTER follows two friends, Jan Wiener, to whom the title refers, and Arnost Lustig, a writer--both in their seventies, and both exiles from Communist Czechoslovakia now living in America--as they retrace Wiener's escape from Prague after the Nazi takeover in the 1930s. Wiener's trek took him via Yugoslavia and Italy to London, where&hellip&hellip…

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The Farewell

$23.95 | 91 minutes

In this swirling German drama about the renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht (Josef Bierbichler), director Jan Schutte paints a picture of a man torn by romantic predicaments and artistic decisions. Set in 1956, the same year that Brecht died, THE FAREWELL transpires one summer day, three days before his death, as the 58-year-old writer&hellip&hellip…

The Price of Milk

$15.95 | 87 minutes

A romantic comedy with a uniquely surreal flavor, THE PRICE OF MILK comes from New Zealand-based director Harry Sinclair (TOPLESS WOMEN TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES). The film tells the story of a young couple, Lucinda (Danielle Cormack) and Rob (Karl Urban), a pair of rural lovebirds who decide to take the plunge and get married. Mysteriously&hellip&hellip…

Aberdeen

$21.95 | 113 minutes

Writer-director Hans PetTer Molland (ZERO KELVIN) deftly combines two traditional cinematic genres--the road movie and the dysfunctional family drama--to create a moving character study that is entirely his own. Kaisa (Lena Headey) is a successful, hard-edged career woman living in London. Days after receiving a promotion, she is asked&hellip&hellip…

Burnt Money

$14.95 | 125 minutes

When two gay thugs Angel (Eduardo Noriega) and El Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia) join a plan to hold up an armored truck with a group of seasoned gangsters, their love and loyalty to each other is tested. Angel is wounded by police gunfire during the robbery, forcing El Nene to kill them all in a fit of rage. Things become complicated when&hellip&hellip…

Moonlight Whispers

$15.95 | 100 minutes

This offbeat love story begins innocently enough, as a high school boy named Takuya nurses a crush on his beautiful and seemingly unattainable fencing partner, Satsuki. To his surprise, Takuya finds that Satsuki returns his affections, and the two begin a relatively innocent relationship. However, when Satsuki discovers that Takuya has&hellip&hellip…

Tell Me Something

$11.95 | 116 minutes

A box-office smash in its native South Korea, TELL ME SOMETHING is a grisly crime thriller and a sly satire of the casually inept South Korean Police. Han Suk-kyu stars as Lieutenant Cho, a down and almost out cop under investigation for corruption and haunted by the death of his mother. Put in charge of the investigation of a series&hellip&hellip…

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Amores Perros

$7.95 | 153 minutes

Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate chapters--OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU--the film deals with love in the lives of several individuals&hellip&hellip…

Comedy of Innocence

$10.95 | 98 minutes

When a young boy suddenly declares that his name is Paul, not Camille, and requests that his mother take him to his "real" mother, the characters are thrown into a supernatural drama reminiscent of THE SIXTH SENSE. Camille's mother, Ariane (Isabelle Huppert) fulfills Camille's request and takes him to the home of Isabella (Jeanne Balibar)&hellip&hellip…

Stardom

$10.95 | 103 minutes

When teenage beauty Tina Menzhal (newcomer Jessica Pare) is discovered by big city model scouts, she is living a life of quiet contentment in an isolated Canadian town. Adored by the camera, she quickly becomes caught up in the superficial world of fall collections, photo shoots, and celebrity parties. As Tina's fame escalates, she finds&hellip&hellip…

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The Terrorist

$9.95 | 100 minutes

American actor John Malkovich was so impressed by Santosh Sivan's striking directorial debut that he personally made sure the film was released in the United States. THE TERRORIST tells the story of Malli (Ayesha Dharker), a 19 year-old Sri Lankan girl who is overjoyed to be hand picked for a suicide mission that calls for her to assassinate&hellip&hellip…

The Girl

$9.95 | 84 minutes

THE GIRL, a film written by Monique Wittig and directed by Sande Zeig, follows two young Parisian girls (Agathe de la Boulaye and Claire Keim), who are at once lovers and adversaries. As their relationship spins out of control, a mysterious film noir theme develops&hellip&hellip…

Vengo

$25.95 | 90 minutes

Celebrating the art of flamenco dancing and the culture from which it was born, VENGO is about a centuries-old dispute between two gypsy families in Andalusia, Spain. Separated into two groups of constantly battling gangs, the families struggle to move beyond violence to overcome their misunderstandings. Between confrontations, a physically&hellip&hellip…

Face

$21.95 | 123 minutes

A frumpy seamstress' life takes extraordinary turns after a series of tragic events befall her family, prompting her to become a fugitive. Japanese stage actress Naomi Fujiyama gives a tour-de-force performance as a virginal, socially awkward woman who embarks on an oddly liberating odyssey through provincial Japan in which she encounters&hellip&hellip…

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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…

The Personals

$21.95 | 104 minutes

The Taiwanese romantic comedy THE PERSONALS follows the often hilarious, sometimes sad meetings that a pretty young woman has with the men who respond to the ad that she placed in the personals section of the newspaper. Du Jiazhen (Rene Liu), the woman, is a young eye doctor on a mission to find a husband. After spontaneously putting&hellip&hellip…

Kill by Inches

$10.95 | 91 minutes

A soft and hypnotic theme song sets the mood for this atmospheric thriller, which could take place anywhere (the feel is European, though it is actually set in Brooklyn) at anytime (the style of dress is 1940s, though the film was made in 1999). The camera moves slowly and deceptively, communicating the protagonist's furtive intentions&hellip&hellip…

New Waterford Girl

$10.95 | 97 minutes

Best Canadian First Feature Film(Special Jury Congratulation)

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&hellip…

Shower

$23.95 | 92 minutes

FIPRESCI Prize

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&hellip…

The Limey

$7.95 | 89 minutes

With THE LIMEY, director Steven Soderbergh has crafted a stylish revenge thriller that also contains a refreshing sense of humor. Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con, travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death, which he is convinced was not accidental. After meeting Ed (Luis Guzmán), a friend of his daughter's&hellip&hellip…

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Praise

$14.95 | 98 minutes

PRAISE tells the bizarre, erotic tale of two down-on-their-luck individuals whose passionate affair threatens to save--or destroy--both their lives. Gordon (Peter Fenton) is an apathetic, chain-smoking asthmatic living in a grubby apartment in Brisbane. When he meets Cynthia (Sacha Horler), who suffers from eczema, the two begin to have&hellip&hellip…

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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

$14.95 | 112 minutes

Inspiring true story follows the epic life of Father Damien (Wenham), a legendary Belgian priest who dedicated his life (quite literally) to the care and spiritual guidance of a doomed Hawaiian leper colony during the late 1800s. Faced with appallingly daunting conditions - symptoms ignored, food stolen from the sick, the weak forced&hellip&hellip…

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The Legend of 1900

$11.95 | 121 minutes

The story of an individual who is born and raised on a ship, learning about people and the outside world through interactions with the ship's rotating passengers, THE LEGEND OF 1900 comes from director Guiseppe Tornatore. When a deckhand, Boodman (Bill Nunn), discovers a newborn baby on January 1, 1900, he Christens him Danny Boodman&hellip&hellip…

Tumbleweeds

$22.95 | 100 minutes

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, twelve-year-old Ava (Kimberly Brown), head out west. They eventually settle&hellip…

Kikujiro

$18.95 | 116 minutes

In Takeshi Kitano's KIKUJIRO, the actor/writer/director (billed as "Beat Takeshi") portrays the brash, mischievous title character, a middle-aged man living with his wife in Tokyo. When Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi), a sullen neighborhood boy, embarks on a quest to find his estranged mother, Kikujiro's wife instructs him to accompany the child&hellip&hellip…

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Spectres of the Spectrum

$19.95 | 91 minutes

This unique film from director Craig Baldwin is deftly created from a bunch of found footage. Set in 2007, it tells the tale of a lethal weapon that has been invented, presenting the chance for the ruling elite to erase people's minds. Baldwin utilizes a voiceover to allow a coherent plot to unfold over the impressive visual collage&hellip&hellip…

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Judy Berlin

$19.95 | 91 minutes

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 and spends his afternoons wandering the streets&hellip&hellip…

The Specialist

$25.95 | 123 minutes

This jaw-dropping documentary takes an experimental approach in its presentation of footage from the 1961 trial of SS colonel Adolf Eichman, a German efficiency "specialist" in charge of transportation of Jews to concentration camps during World War II. After Israeli agents finally caught up with Eichman in South America in 1960, they&hellip&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…

Yana's Friends

$17.95 | 90 minutes

The Gulf War provides the background for an unlikely romance in this 1999 Israeli film that won 10 national awards. Yana (Evelyne Kaplun), pregnant and in debt, is being left by her husband. When Saddam Hussein releases poison gas missile, Yana is forced to remain in her apartment with Eli (Nir Levy), a wedding photographer who is easily&hellip&hellip…

The Nanny

$23.95 | 103 minutes

Early 20th Century Italy saw many of its residents moving from the countryside to the cities. Staying in in their country mansion are Mori (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), a wealthy professor who runs a sanitarium, and his young wife Vittoria (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). Vittoria struggles with depression during a pregnancy and when her baby is born&hellip&hellip…

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Janice Beard 45 WPM

$10.95 | 78 minutes

When Janice Beard (Eileen Walsh) was born, her father died of a heart attack during the birth, causing her mother to fall into a 23-year depression. After graduating school, inexperienced young Janice jumps into the work force, determined to earn enough money for her mother's treatment. She takes a job as a secretary for a London automobile&hellip&hellip…

Goya in Bordeaux

$26.95 | 105 minutes

In GOYA IN BORDEAUX Carlos Saura tells the life story of the 18th Century Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. Actually, working with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, he attempts to "paint" the story. Elaborately staged and beautifully photographed recreations of Goya's canvases come to life as Goya (Francisco Rabal), lying on his death&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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Himalaya

$23.95 | 104 minutes

It is caravan time in Dolpo, high in the Himalayas of Nepal. The villagers must trek for days across the mountains with laden yaks to trade their salt for grain. But when Karma (Gurgon Kyap) returns to the village with the body of Lhakpa, leader of the caravan and son of the old chief Tinle (Thinlen Lhondup), the new chief blames Karma&hellip&hellip…

Moloch

$10.95 | 103 minutes

The year is 1942, the location a spectacular fortress which stretches beyond the heavens. Eva Braun (Elena Rufanova) is Hitler's wife, and this is a brave stab at portraying the workings of the Fuhrer's inner circle. Braun's behavior was often as tempestuous as that of the Nazi leader himself, making this a fascinating study of their&hellip…

Romance

$10.95 | 98 minutes

When Marie's maudlin boyfriend Paul refuses to engage in sexual relations, she is forced to search for intimacy beyond the bounds of traditional sexual limitations--a journey that proves to be both fulfilling and empowering&hellip&hellip…

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The Jaundiced Eye

$17.95 | 90 minutes

THE JAUNDICED EYE is an investigative documentary that traces the painful appeal of a Michigan man, Melvin Matthews, who served ten years prison time for supposedly abusing his son. As the film unfolds, we learn that his wife was shattered to discover that after divorcing her, he came out as a homosexual. The resulting battle challenges&hellip&hellip…

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So Close To Paradise

$7.95 | 90 minutes

A dramatic Chinese thriller with the feel of Hollywood film noir, SO CLOSE TO PARADISE follows two friends heading in opposite directions. One settles in a manual labor job on the docks. The other wants more and begins running with an organized crime unit. The gangster falls for a lounge singer he has kidnapped and finds himself in trouble&hellip&hellip…

Ratas Ratones Rateros

$17.95 | 107 minutes

Set in the middle of poverty-stricken Ecuador, RATAS, RATONES, RATEROS is the story of Salvador, a young thief who gets involved deeper in crime thanks to his cousin Angel, an ex-convict. Salvador looks for an easier life with Angel, but all he finds is destruction and pain. This feature film is the debut of Sebastian Cordero, a fresh&hellip&hellip…

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The Other

$23.95 | 101 minutes

From Kino's KimStim Collection: A dalliance between the son of a wealthy businessman and a female reporter investigating corruption linked to his parents lands the pair in a whole lot of trouble in this moving drama from director Youssef Chahine. Chahine is highly regarded in filmic circles, and has picked up a Cannes Lifetime Achievement&hellip&hellip…

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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…

The Book of Life

$14.95 | 63 minutes

Hal Hartley's deliciously droll comedy about the coming of the apocalypse stars Martin Donovan (HENRY FOOL) as Jesus Christ, who is sent back to Earth to set the end of the world in motion on December 31, 1999. However, upon arriving on Earth, Jesus, along with his assistant Magdalena (Harvey), is quickly filled with doubt about destroying&hellip&hellip…

The Acid House

$23.95 | 112 minutes

A trio of stories adapted by Irvine Welsh (TRAINSPOTTING) from his collection of stories of the same name, THE ACID HOUSE is an absurd and brutal look at life through the eyes of one of the most prominent Scottish authors of the 1990s. The film begins with "The Granton Star Cause," which stars Stephen McCole as Boab, a listless loser&hellip&hellip…

Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

$15.95 | 72 minutes

Writer, composer, and inveterate bohemian Paul Bowles (1910-1999) was one of the 20th century's most important artists. Best known for his seminal novel THE SHELTERING SKY, Bowles left the U.S. in the 1940s for a reclusive existence in Tangier, Morocco, where he fully immersed himself in the rich traditions of North African culture. His&hellip&hellip…

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Fiona

$17.95 | 85 minutes

Fiona is a drug-addicted prostitute in New York who hides out after killing three cops, when she suddenly meets Anita, who happens to be Fiona's long-lost mother. Neither woman will ever be the same, in this gritty and tough-minded film about life on the bottom rungs of society. Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Award at the 1999 Berlin Film&hellip&hellip…

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Mensaka

$15.95 | 103 minutes

A struggling rock band looks to break out of the local Madrid scene and gain real popularity. The members of the band are at odds with one another when their dreams begin to come into view. Some of the members disapprove of the urban poet label the local critics have given them. Other bandmates prefer to concentrate on bedding groupies&hellip&hellip…

Love Is The Devil

$17.95 | 88 minutes

An intriguing biographical look at British painter Francis Bacon focusing on his turbulent and tragic relationship with lover George Dyer, a former boxer and small time thief. I, CLAUDIUS veteran Jacobi gives a fiery performance as the mischievous and emotionally chilly artist who is awakened one night in his ill-kempt studio by Dyer&hellip&hellip…

Cure

$25.95 | 111 minutes

A stunningly original take on the traditional serial killer film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE follows the determined and tortured trail of detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) as he races against time and logic to solve a baffling string of gruesome, unexplained murders. As the corpses accumulate, the only connection between the crimes is the&hellip&hellip…

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Happiness

$10.95 | 139 minutes

Metro Media Award

Building on the darkly comic angst of WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, Todd Solondz's HAPPINESS conveys suburban desperation and frustration on a larger scale than his previous film. The ensemble cast of characters centers around the lives of three sisters: Joy (Jane Adams), an awkward, naive, and unlucky musician&hellip…

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La Vendedora De Rosas

$11.95 | 116 minutes

In the two days leading up to Christmas, a thirteen year-old Monica, a Colombian street kid, tries to sell roses for money. Surrounded by a group of fellow runaways and orphan who all get by through robbery, prostitution, and drugs--mainly sniffing glue, Monica anticipates the holiday, hoping that there will at least be some sort of party&hellip&hellip…

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Salaam Bombay!

$11.95 | 114 minutes

Mira Nair's first feature was an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees for his mother and return home, the all-consuming&hellip…

Last Night

$10.95 | 94 minutes

Best Canadian First Feature Film

Writer/director/actor McKellar's take on the always intriguing "end of the world" concept is a thoughtful, engaging effort that uses dialogue instead of action to discuss this premise intellectually. The inhabitants of a Canadian city quietly accept the news that the world is going to end at the&hellip…

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The Wounds

$21.95 | 103 minutes

Pinki and Kraut are a pair of Serb teenagers who begin as simple petty thieves and work their way up into the heart of the Yugoslav underworld. As war surrounds them in Bosnia, the boys become increasingly callous and violent, ultimately overthrowing their mentor, a powerful black marketer, before turning on each other. A savage and powerful&hellip&hellip…

Don't Let Me Die On Sunday

$21.95 | 86 minutes

While dancing at a nightclub under the influence of a bad hit of ecstasy, eighteen year-old Teresa (Bouchez, THE DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS) falls to the dancefloor and dies. At the morgue, death-worker Ben (Barr, ZENTROPA) becomes entranced by her nude body and has sex with her corpse. To his surprise, she awakens. Ben is caught by hospital&hellip&hellip…

Bedrooms & Hallways

$21.95 | 95 minutes

Rose Troche's (GO FISH) second film delivers a sly, sophisticated examination of love amongst young urbanites--in all of its unexpected forms and permutations. At the center of this comedic affair are roommates Leo (McKidd) and Darren (Hollander), two young Londoners struggling to find Mr. Right. While Darren becomes involved with a libidinous&hellip&hellip…

Midnight

$14.95 | 72 minutes

The turn of the millennium has a profound effect on residents of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro in MIDNIGHT, a stunningly photographed feature from award-winning directors Daniela Thomas and Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION). Fernanda Torres stars as Maria, a teacher for the deaf who becomes utterly dejected when her husband (Carlos Vereza) uses&hellip&hellip…

The Hole

$14.95 | 95 minutes

Part of the 2000 SEEN BY... series in which six directors filmed their vision of the night of December 31, 1999, Tsai Ming-Liang's film follows the activities of the two lone inhabitants, a man and a woman, of a dilapidated apartment building during the last week of 1999. Holing themselves in against the bizarre "cockroach virus," an&hellip&hellip…

The Silence

$23.95 | 75 minutes

Set in impoverished Central Asia, a young blind boy with an acute sense of hearing gets a job tuning musical instruments to help his mother pay the rent. But when he wanders after a street musician one day, it leads to greater trouble than he realizes. From Mohsen Makhmalbaf, acclaimed Iranian director, THE SILENCE is a fascinating look&hellip&hellip…

Tango

$11.95 | 99 minutes

In Carlos Saura's TANGO, a well-known theater director, Mario (Miguel Angel Solá) attempts to produce a tango extravaganza in Argentina. He wants to show the breadth and depth of tango--both the music and the dance--not just in isolated music and dance numbers, but with a story that shows the way the tango is woven into the very fabric&hellip&hellip…

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You Laugh

$23.95 | 99 minutes

Told with much compassion, two stories from Nobel Prize-winning writer Luigi Pirandello are brought to the screen from Italian masters the Taviani Brothers (PADRE PADRONE). In the first, an aging baritone singer in the opera is forced to give up his profession due to heart trouble. As he attempts to give up his dreams, his wife notices&hellip&hellip…

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Shattered Image

$10.95 | 103 minutes

A strange psycho-thriller in which Baldwin becomes involved with a confused female assassin (Parillaud). In her dreams, she is a regular woman who is trying to come to terms with a rape, but in her dream character's dreams, she is an assassin&hellip&hellip…

Praise

$14.95 | 98 minutes

FIPRESCI Award

PRAISE tells the bizarre, erotic tale of two down-on-their-luck individuals whose passionate affair threatens to save--or destroy--both their lives. Gordon (Peter Fenton) is an apathetic, chain-smoking asthmatic living in a grubby apartment in Brisbane. When he meets Cynthia (Sacha Horler), who suffers from eczema&hellip…

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Henry Fool

$11.95 | 137 minutes

Hartley has crafted here what many consider to be his crowning achievement: a sprawling epic of a story that tackles any and everything he decides to mock, satirize, or challenge. Simon is a factory worker who lives with his nymphomaniac sister and manic depressive mother. Along comes Henry Fool, a convicted sexual offender who moves&hellip&hellip…

The Guy Maddin Collection

$27.95 | 187 minutes

A collection of three films from cult director Guy Maddin. In TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997), Shelly Duvall (POPEYE) and Frank Gorshin (BATMAN: THE MOVIE) star in a tale of passion and fantasy set in a far away land where the sun always shines. ARCHANGEL (1990) is a story of obsessive love in a war-torn Russian town. HEART OF THE WORLD&hellip&hellip…

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

$10.95 | 92 minutes

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 on camera, his performances, and direct conversations with Flanagan&hellip&hellip…

Shopping for Fangs

$17.95 | 91 minutes

In this amalgam of comedy styles and genres, a young man believes he may be turning into a werewolf; meanwhile, a lonely housewife is confused by her mysterious blackouts, and meets an irreverent and brash waitress who leads to an unusual and unforgettable relationship. All these quirky characters and more interact in this crazy comedy&hellip&hellip…

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East Palace, West Palace

$17.95 | 90 minutes

China's rebellious and incessantly audacious Yuan Zhang delves into the secret world of illicit homosexuality in his devastatingly erotic and politically astute film, EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE. Immediately banned by the Chinese government, the film follows the young gay writer, A-Lan, as he drifts in and out of China's hidden homosexual&hellip&hellip…

The Sticky Fingers of Time

$14.95 | 82 minutes

Mystery writer Tucker Harding finds herself suddenly yanked out of her life in 1953 and transported to the year 1997 by an old lover who has discovered the secret to time travel and hopes to get Tucker's help in changing the future. As Tucker explores the strange future and gets to know a fellow struggling writer, she must escape shadowy&hellip&hellip…

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Dancehall Queen

$7.95 | 96 minutes

A poor Kingston street vendor, the principal breadwinner for her struggling family, finds new vitality after discovering the pulsing, anonymous world of the dancehall. Not only can she allow herself the freedom to become a star, she may also be able to win the lucrative dancehall contest and pull her family out of despair. A reggae/dancehall-fueled&hellip&hellip…

Happy Together

$23.95 | 97 minutes

HAPPY TOGETHER chronicles the stormy affair of a gay couple (Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung) living as expatriates in Buenos Aires. The two possess very divergent ways of dealing with the world; Lai is more responsible, holding down a job at a tango club, while Ho turns tricks for a living. Inevitably, they grow apart&hellip&hellip…

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Fireworks

$23.95 | 103 minutes

A tough ex-cop is troubled by his ill wife and his partner, who was shot on duty. He proceeds to confront his demons in a bloody rampage, doing whatever is necessary to help those he loves. A simultaneously tender and violent masterwork from Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular entertainers&hellip&hellip…

Insomnia

$25.95 | 97 minutes

Swedish detective Jonas Engstrom is working out of the Norwegian city of Oslo after being transferred following an indiscretion with a witness. When he finds himself investigating the murder of a young woman just beyond the Arctic Circle in the gray Norwegian coastal town of Tromso, sunlight, fog, the 24-hour sunlight, and suspicious&hellip&hellip…

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

$10.95 | 125 minutes

A dedicated Serbian soldier, gravely injured in the heat of battle, fondly recalls the pre-war tranquility of a unified Yugoslavia, including his relationship with his boyhood best friend, who is Muslim. But when he learns that his former friend--now his mortal enemy--is convalescing in the same hospital as he, the soldier renews his&hellip&hellip…

The Mirror

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Building upon the revolution in Iranian cinema initiated by Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi has created a daring, innovative body of work, concerned with the human experience of social inequality as manifested on the streets of Tehran. THE MIRROR is the second in an interwoven trilogy that also includes THE WHITE BALLOON and THE CIRCLE&hellip&hellip…

Junk Food

$15.95 | 82 minutes

This gritty crime drama takes place in the underworld of contemporary Tokyo, following a young woman who gives up her job as a successful computer programmer and her stable lifestyle for the downward spiral of drugs and dangerous sex in the Tokyo fringe. Along the way, director Masashi Yamamoto uses a mix of widescreen cinematography&hellip&hellip…

Robinson in Space

$23.95 | 78 minutes

A unique, unusual travel guide, ROBINSON IN SPACE sees filmmaker Patrick Keiller taking viewers on a remarkable trip around England. Mixing up footage of historic sites with offbeat glimpses of more commonly found objects such as industrial landscapes and shopping malls, Keiller aims to show the breadth of diversity present in English&hellip&hellip…

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Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

$10.95 | 114 minutes

Set in 16th century India, this film chronicles the sexual adventures of Maya, a beautiful, voluptuous servant girl. After seducing the king the night before his wedding, Maya is labeled a whore and expelled from the village. After a hot affair with a sculptor, Maya decides to become an "artist" herself by studying the lovemaking techniques&hellip&hellip…

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Driven

$7.95 | 103 minutes

Three taxi drivers making a meager living on the streets of Los Angeles are feeling road-weary and wondering about their lives. When Legrand (Chad Lowe) joins their taxi company, his slightly mysterious, almost mystical presence spurs the drivers to reach for more meaning in their lives. In an alternately humorous and dramatic storyline&hellip&hellip…

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The Delta

$14.95 | 85 minutes

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 acclaimed film that offers a new look at the&hellip&hellip…

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Kids Return

$23.95 | 107 minutes

Two trouble-making, teenage bullies drop-out of school to try and become successful in the real world. One becomes a small-time boxer and the other joins the Yakuza gang. They manage to achieve prosperity, but their reckless nature inevitably returns and they soon learn the real world is a lot less forgiving then the schoolyard. A combination&hellip&hellip…

Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day

$21.95 | 85 minutes

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 life, often relating the story of his Chinese grandfather's early days helping&hellip&hellip…

The Watermelon Woman

$14.95 | 93 minutes

A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest to uncover the mammy's&hellip&hellip…

A Tickle in the Heart

$21.95 | 87 minutes

A TICKLE IN THE HEART is a touching and lively travelogue starring erstwhile klezmer giants the Epstein Brothers (Willie, Julie, and Max), who come out from retirement in Florida to hit the road on their big comeback tour&hellip&hellip…

Gabbeh

$23.95 | 75 minutes

An elderly nomadic couple own a beautiful carpet (a Gabbeh) from which a young woman suddenly emerges. She tells the story of her clan, told through the carpet. A beautifully filmed look at life and love, winner of numerous film festival awards&hellip&hellip…

Deep Crimson

$17.95 | 114 minutes

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 acclaimed film is based on the "Lonely Hearts Killers"&hellip&hellip…

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La Promesse

$15.95 | 93 minutes

THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND IS NOT AVAILABLE. Roger, a teenage boy, works for his father's construction business, a company that employs illegal immigrants from all over the world. When Hamidu, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is critically injured in a workplace accident he asks Roger to promise to look after his wife and&hellip&hellip…

Shine

$15.95 | 105 minutes

People's Choice Award
Metro Media Award

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&hellip…

Vaska EasOff

$23.95 | 76 minutes

Based on a parable told in Communist labor camps, the magical VASKA EASOFF follows the exploits of a pair of thieves who tear open the roof of the Bank of St. Petersburg (using a magical can opener "borrowed" from a griffin) and abscond with the czar's priceless treasure. With the Soviet Red Guard hot on their heals, things get rougher&hellip…

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Maborosi

$23.95 | 110 minutes

The sights and sounds of a remote Japanese village by the sea convey the isolation of a newly remarried widow trying to move forward after her first husband's inexplicable suicide. A carefully composed array of visuals carries the simple, poignant plot. Director Kore-eda's elegiac debut film earned awards at the Venice, Vancouver, and&hellip&hellip…

Institute Benjamenta or: This Dream People Call Human Life

$23.95 | 105 minutes

Brilliant English animators The Brothers Quay create their first feature-length live-action film in this tale of a dilapidated boarding school for the teaching of servants run by a brother and sister in which the curriculum is the repetition of one single lesson. When Jacob, a young man, enrolls in the school, he becomes entangled in&hellip&hellip…

Welcome to the Dollhouse

$16.95 | 87 minutes

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 time with her family and everything&hellip&hellip…

Fallen Angels

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman who is disturbed to realize that he is falling for his partner. Throw into the mix a mysterious drifter who is searching for her ex-boyfriend and a humorous mute, and the results are an ingenious blend of art and entertainment, set amidst Hong Kong's bleak, urban landscape&hellip&hellip…

Without Air

$19.95 | 88 minutes

A portrayal of a Memphis singer who struggles to balance her dreams of singing with her reality of a deadbeat boyfriend and stripping to make ends meet. Set to a poignant blues soundtrack, this is a story of failed connections and the uncompromising world that we live in&hellip&hellip…

Last Summer in the Hamptons

$10.95 | 108 minutes

The misadventures, insights, romances and crises of three generations of a family of actors, as they all come together to put on their annual summer play. Adding chaos to the mix is Oona, a beautiful Hollywood starlet who's at a crossroads in her life. Her sudden appearance at the estate seems to have a jarring effect on everyone involved..&hellip&hellip…

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Kristin Lavransdatter

$25.95 | 180 minutes

Scandal, shame, and destruction beset the beautiful Kristin Lavransdatter when she rejects her arranged marriage and pursues a romance with the strapping young knight Erlend. In 1995, more than half the population of Norway bought tickets to see this critically-acclaimed medieval romance, directed by Ingmar Bergman protege Liv Ullman&hellip&hellip…

La Ceremonie

$25.95 | 108 minutes

Metro Media Award

In Claude Chabrol's LA CEREMONIE, the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid, who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect&hellip…

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Desolation Angels

$7.95 | 90 minutes

FIPRESCI Prize, International Critics' Award

Stark, low-budget semi-autobiographical tale of urban alienation in the vein of "Eraserhead." A young Brooklyn man struggles ineffectively to avenge his girlfriend's rape, neglecting her scarred psyche in order to redeem his macho image&hellip&hellip…

Guimba the Tyrant

$23.95 | 93 minutes

Taking place in a mythical African nation before colonization, GUIMBA THE TYRANT is a colorful and often hilarious fable about an imaginary city whose citizens are sick of its ruler. Guimba rules Sitikali with an iron fist, often beating subjects who disobey him personally. His son, Janguine, is a three foot tall dwarf whose sexual appetites&hellip&hellip…

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The Keeper

$23.95 | 90 minutes

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 writer-director Joe Brewster's unflinching&hellip&hellip…

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Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going

$23.95 | minutes

From Argentine director Eliseo Subiela comes this sparkling gem of magical realism along the lines of Wim Wenders' WINGS OF DESIRE. Leopoldo is a lonely film projectionist in a struggling theater is trying to bring his dreams to life with an invention that captures his somnambulant imaginings and makes them visible. His wife dismisses&hellip&hellip…

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Sleepover

$21.95 | 0 minutes

In the Connecticut suburbs, three teenage boys from different social and ethnic backgrounds lie to their parents about going to a sleepover so that they can hang out on the streets and chase girls. Unfortunately they have a more eventful night than they had planned when a car crash and the police become unexpected elements in their evening&hellip…

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Kimstim Collection: Animal Love

$21.95 | 120 minutes

Best Documentary

A documentarian known for his insolent and inciting penchant for exposing the bourgeois prejudice of the Viennese middle classes, Ulrich Seidl does so by putting the mundane and inhibited regimentation of their lives on display. Stating quite simply that the subject of all his films is the notion that "hell is&hellip…

Jan Svankmajer's Faust

$23.95 | 97 minutes

Avant-garde animator Jan Svankmajer uses Claymation and live action to render a surrealistic, modern-day treatment of the Faust legend. This surreal take on Goethe's classic parable tells the story of the unwitting Faust, who agrees to surrender his soul to Satan if the cunning evil spirit can promise 24 years of epicurean life in return&hellip&hellip…

Lyrical Nitrate & The Forbidden Quest

$15.95 | 121 minutes

Two works by Dutch filmmaker and film historian Peter Delpeut. LYRICAL NITRATE (1990) fashions an ode to silent cinema made entirely out of volatile nitrate stock images scored to period music for a poignant, nostalgic look into the past. THE FORBIDDEN QUEST (1993) blends found footage of old silent films with archival photographs and&hellip&hellip…

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Postcards From America

$14.95 | 92 minutes

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 and gay sex&hellip&hellip…

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Eat Drink Man Woman

$11.95 | 124 minutes

Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome's general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of taste, and his daughters just want to go on with&hellip&hellip…

Crumb

$11.95 | 119 minutes

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 of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb&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…

In Custody

$17.95 | 125 minutes

Deven, a professor at a small college in India, joyfully learns that he will have the chance to interview his hero, the famous Urdu poet, Nur. When the two men finally meet, Deven is startled to find Nur wallowing in drunkenness and surrounded by losers, including his two nagging wives. Frustrated and depressed with his interviews -&hellip&hellip…

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The Wooden Man's Bride

$10.95 | 113 minutes

Jianxin Huang's THE WOODEN MAN'S BRIDE is a fascinating Taiwanese drama exploring the constricting bonds of tradition and patriarchy in a remote region of northwest China during the 1920s. Kui (Shih Chang) is a young peasant hired to be part of a caravan escorting a beautiful bride, known only as Young Mistress (Lan Wang), through the&hellip&hellip…

Hoop Dreams

$21.95 | 171 minutes

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 Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy Award Nominations: Best&hellip&hellip…

Dazed and Confused (2-Disc Set)

$34.95 | 102 minutes

DIRECTOR APPROVED DEFINITIVE SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET. Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at high school social development. On the last day of school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to end. The restless almost-seniors--an&hellip&hellip…

The Puppetmaster

$17.95 | 142 minutes

The second installment of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's historical trilogy (which also includes A CITY OF SADNESS and GOOD MEN, GOOD WOMEN), THE PUPPETMASTER is based on the life of famed Chinese puppet master Li Tien-Lu. Spanning the years 1909 to 1945 and covering major historical events in China's occupation by the Japanese, the film is epic in&hellip&hellip…

Rebels of the Neon God

$17.95 | 106 minutes

Tsai Ming-Liang's first feature film stars, as all his other films do, Lee Kang-Sheng as Hsiao Kang, a disaffected student living with his parents in Taipei. Deciding to drop out of school to wander Taipei on his scooter, Hsiao Kang's plans are changed when he finds his scooter impounded. Offered a ride by his father, who drives a taxi&hellip&hellip…

Totally F***ed Up

$17.95 | 85 minutes

A group of six teenagers try to cope with the difficulties of adolescence, their sexual identities, homophobia, and the search for love. The strong, emotional performances by the principles succeed in playing against gay stereotypes while echoing universal themes&hellip&hellip…

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Combination Platter

$10.95 | 84 minutes

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 meets a woman who might be willing to help him out, he is surprised&hellip&hellip…

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

$23.95 | 188 minutes

An amazing documentary about an incredible woman, this film traces Leni Riefenstahl's life from her beginnings as a German action movie starlet through her career as film director on such Nazi epics as "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia" and beyond. The 91-year-old subject, hailed as the greatest woman filmmaker ever, remains fiercely&hellip&hellip…

Baraka

$25.95 | 104 minutes

From Nepal to Kenya, from Australia to Brazil, people try to cope with the changes that have altered their landscape, crowding them together and speeding up daily life. The film shows us these alienated people, but also images of traditions--whirling dervishes and Tibetan monks--that offer different, peaceful ways of existence. Shot in&hellip&hellip…

Twist

$17.95 | 78 minutes

Musician Chubby Checker once offered instructions on how to do the twist: "Put out a cigarette with both feet and wipe your bottom with a towel". With the help of archival footage and interviews, this documentary examines the history of the Twist, and the overlooked role of blacks in producing American pop culture&hellip&hellip…

Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media

$23.95 | 167 minutes

Best Canadian Feature Film, Special Jury Citation

A two-part documentary chronicling the development of noted dissident Noam Chomsky and his dissection of the media and its often deceptive role in modern culture. Features appearances by such journalists and critics as William F. Buckley, Jr., Bill Moyers, and Peter Jennings&hellip&hellip…

Like Water for Chocolate

$7.95 | 105 minutes

Tita, as the youngest of three daughters, is condemned by family tradition never to marry, but to spend her life caring for her mother. However, Tita has fallen in love with a young man and he with her. When Tita's mother refuses to let them wed, and suggests that he marry her other daughter instead, Tita takes revenge: by allowing her&hellip&hellip…

Passion Fish

$11.95 | 135 minutes

Mary McDonnell stars as May-Alice Culhane, a New York-based soap opera star who is paralyzed in a road accident. She returns to the Louisiana bayou where she grew up and becomes the patient from hell, discharging one caretaker after another. Then along comes Chantelle (Alfre Woodard), a take-no-sass nurse with her own issues to deal with&hellip&hellip…

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Venice, Venice

$9.95 | 108 minutes

Henry Jaglom directed this charming look at the world of cinema and the magic of movies -- which was shot in both Venice, California and Venice, Italy. The director himself plays Dean, a filmmaker who's delighted and astonished when the programmers of the Venice Film Festival agree to screen his latest work. He arrives in Italy and is&hellip&hellip…

Crush

$17.95 | 97 minutes

A New Zealand journalist, Christine, and her American friend Lane travel to Rotorua, site of the country's famous hot springs, to interview a writer. When Lane gets behind the wheel she crashes the car, severely injuring Christine. Lane ventures on to keep the appointment with the writer, while Christine is hospitalized with brain damage&hellip&hellip…

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Guncrazy

$5.95 | 97 minutes

Video director Tamra Davis makes her feature-length debut with this crime drama. Anita (Drew Barrymore), abandoned by her mother and living with her mother's alcoholic, rapist ex-boyfriend, fulfills her geography class assignment by finding her pen-pal Howard (James LeGros), not in Japan or Brazil, but in the Chino, California prison&hellip&hellip…

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Hyenas

$19.95 | 113 minutes

A tiny Senegalese village is eroded by rampant materialism after a woman exiled for adultery returns home thirty years later, willing to exchange the fortune she amassed for the life of her accuser. Tempted by newfangled Western conveniences, the villagers assent, with pointedly comic results. Adapted from Friedrich Durrenmatt's stage&hellip&hellip…

Dark Side of the Heart

$23.95 | 127 minutes

An idealistic young poet discovers in a prostitute exactly what he is looking for: levitation. But what will he do when he finds out that to her, he is just another paying customer? A tale of passion with a decidedly Garcia-Marquez-esque slant&hellip&hellip…

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Dismissed from Life

$14.95 | 88 minutes

Polish director Waldemar Krzystek helms this poignant tale about a man named Marek (Jan Frycz), who suffers a brutal beating at the hands of some merciless thugs on the streets of Poland. Regaining consciousness after extensive brain surgery, Marek has no idea who he is or what happened, leading the hospital to deduce that he is suffering&hellip&hellip…

Man Bites Dog

$25.95 | 92 minutes

Metro Media Award

A mock black comic documentary that spoofs reality TV, and questions the media's role in perpetuating and abetting violence. A homicidal maniac, serial-killer, Ben Patard, is accompanied on his killing sprees by a film crew who document, then later participate in, even as they question, his activities&hellip&hellip…

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Life on a String

$23.95 | 107 minutes

Chen Kaige's LIFE ON A STRING, based on a story by Tiesheng Shi, tells the tale of an old blind musician who, when he was a young boy, was told that he would be cured of his affliction after he broke 1000 strings on his instrument. The old master (Liu Zhongyuan) has become a grizzled, saintly figure in pursuit of his goal of sight. His&hellip&hellip…

Lyrical Nitrate & The Forbidden Quest

$15.95 | 121 minutes

Two works by Dutch filmmaker and film historian Peter Delpeut. LYRICAL NITRATE (1990) fashions an ode to silent cinema made entirely out of volatile nitrate stock images scored to period music for a poignant, nostalgic look into the past. THE FORBIDDEN QUEST (1993) blends found footage of old silent films with archival photographs and&hellip&hellip…

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Days of Being Wild

$23.95 | 89 minutes

DAYS OF BEING WILD is the film that started it all for auteur art film director Wong Kar Wai, exhibiting many of the preoccupations and devices that would characterize his work throughout his career until the present time. The precise, almost melodic slowness of the pacing is reflective of the existential conundrum in which the characters&hellip&hellip…

Superstar - The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

$17.95 | 90 minutes

Quite possibly the most recognized and influential American artist of the 20th century, Andy Warhol remains something of an enigma. Always reticent with the media, Warhol nonetheless clamored for the spotlight and always made sure he was surrounded by the rich and famous. Here, Chuck Workman tries to get inside the life of Mr. Warhol&hellip&hellip…

Daddy Nostalgia

$10.95 | 112 minutes

A daughter gets to know her dying father late in life and learns that she loves him more than she thought. … &hellip

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Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

$23.95 | 98 minutes

A young Muslim boy comes of age in Tunisia, experiencing his awakening sexuality and the challenges of adulthood in this warmhearted comedy from Tunisian director Ferid Boughedir. Based in part on his own adolescent experiences, the film follows young Halfouine, a thirteen year-old boy whose baby face hides his already burgeoning sexuality&hellip&hellip…

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Resident Alien

$15.95 | 85 minutes

Gay pioneer Quentin Crisp's life in New York City is chronicled in this ragingly funny documentary featuring Sting, John Hurt, Holly Woodlawn, Fran Leibowitz and more&hellip&hellip…

An Angel at My Table

$34.95 | 158 minutes

International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI)

This sprawling, detailed film by Jane Campion (THE PIANO) tells the true story of Janet Frame, a painfully sensitive girl who managed to escape a dreary rural upbringing and eight years in a mental hospital to become New Zealand's premier poet. The film unfolds as a trilogy, with each section&hellip…

Speaking Parts

$15.95 | 92 minutes

Lise (Arsinée Khanjian), a lonely hotel maid, falls madly in love with Lance the movie extra, pouring obsessively over his films as the days drag slowly, emptily onward. Lance, working alongside Lise to help fund his stalled career, also serves as a gigolo for any of the hotel's willing women. Desperate for a speaking part, Lance seduces&hellip&hellip…

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For All Mankind

$34.95 | 79 minutes

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 of the nation that watched, the film steers clear of politics letting&hellip&hellip…

Drugstore Cowboy

$10.95 | 104 minutes

DRUGSTORE COWBOY was one of a group of films that led to the explosion of American independent cinema. Director Gus Van Sant generally maintains his highly stylized vision, regardless of a film's budget. His later films continue to illustrate the dreamlike moments contained in highly disturbing situations. The film captures a slice of&hellip…

Street Of No Return

$15.95 | 92 minutes

Directed by Samuel Fuller, this tense thriller tells the story of a failed pop star played by Keith Carradine. Carradine's life takes a wrong turn when he falls for a girl with gangster connections, almost resulting in his untimely demise. His life descends into amnesia, depression and anxiety, but just as he can't go any lower he begins&hellip&hellip…

The Big Dis

$7.95 | 88 minutes

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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Life and Nothing But

$23.95 | 28 minutes

Drama about the relationship that develops between two people as they put their lives back together in post-World War I France. Major Dellaplane is a stoic soldier given the unenviable task of locating over 300,000 MIA's. Irene is a snobby socialite trying to find her missing husband, who joined the army to escape their marriage. Their&hellip&hellip…

Jesus of Montreal

$17.95 | 120 minutes

International Critics Award

When attendance at a church's annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings the house down, it also brings down the condemnation of church hierarchy, creating a strange parallel between&hellip…

Last Images of the Shipwreck

$23.95 | 127 minutes

A suicidal woman meets up with an insurance agent whose failed attempts at literature are among the factors leading him to a mid-life crisis. The unlikely pair go out for dinner where the truth rules outthat the woman's suicide attempt was a stunt to attract customers. Stunned by her story, the man offers his new friend a lump sum in&hellip&hellip…

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Earth Girls Are Easy

$7.95 | 99 minutes

After getting hurt one time too many, Julie, a lonely hairdresser, is ready to give up on romance. But when she runs into a wayward spaceship with a sexy alien captain and a lovesick crew, it doesn't look like romance is ready to give up on her. After one mighty zany weekend, Julie decides that maybe she should take a chance on love again&hellip&hellip…

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Rouge

$10.95 | 93 minutes

The ghost of a courtesan appeals to a young journalist to help her find her lost lover, who recovered from their joint suicide attempt and thus failed to join her in the spirit world&hellip&hellip…

The Cry of the Owl

$19.95 | 103 minutes

Based on the novel by suspense master Patricia Highsmith (THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY), acclaimed French director Claude Chabrol's CRY OF THE OWL is a tight, edgy thriller. The acclaimed, widely viewed film was the recipient of a French Academy Award upon its release in 1987, and has gone on to be viewed as one of the landmark psychological&hellip&hellip…

The Thin Blue Line

$16.95 | 102 minutes

Errol Morris' documentary investigates the murder of a Dallas cop and the many missteps made by a faulty and lazy legal system -- errors that nearly led to the death of a possibly innocent man&hellip…

Next of Kin/Family Viewing

$27.95 | 158 minutes

Best Canadian Feature Film

Atom Egoyan's first pair of films offers viewers a chance to see two stunning efforts from one of the '90s best filmmakers. The double feature also allows us insight into some of Egoyan's main obsessions: sex, dysfunctional families, and video. Finally, the series serves up a tasty appetizer from Mr&hellip…

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

$11.95 | 81 minutes

Polly (Sheila McCarthy), a klutzy kook, gets a job in a trendy art gallery and masters the fine art of getting into trouble. In a major gaffe,she hangs a piece of art she credits to her boss Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), but which really was created by Gabrielle's lover Mary (Ann-Marie MacDonald). The crush she develops on Gabrielle&hellip&hellip…

Maurice

$25.95 | 140 minutes

E.M. Forster's provocative 1914 novel, published posthumously in 1971, is brought to the screen by director James Ivory in this beautifully photographed film. Set in pre-World War I England, the film concerns the coming of age of two young men who meet at Cambridge University and fall in love. Maurice (James Wilby, who played Anthony&hellip&hellip…

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Masques

$17.95 | 96 minutes

French master Claude Chabrol returns with another dark thriller with MASQUES. A writer (Robin Renucci) thinks he's been hired to write a biography about former game show host Christian Legagneur (Philippe Noiret), but after getting to know the quirky figure, he wonders if he, in fact, might be the victim of Legagneur's murderous ways&hellip&hellip…

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Yeelen

$23.95 | 105 minutes

Capturing the dramatic green-yellow landscape of West Africa with clear, cold photography, YEELEN is the bold story of Nianankoro, a young man with great powers. He is cursed by his evil father, Soma, who is pursuing him with the help of prayers to the gods and the magic post--a compass-like instrument carried between two servant men&hellip&hellip…

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Slam Dance

$2.95 | 100 minutes

In director Wayne Wang's SLAM DANCE, C.C. Drood (Tom Hulce) is a cartoonist whose wacky sense of humor is good for his job but a disaster in his personal life. He's divorced and behind at work, and he comes home to find his apartment has been ransacked. After a beating by a thug named Buddy (Don Opper) who demands something Drood knows&hellip&hellip…

Vincent - The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh

$21.95 | 99 minutes

Vincent Van Gogh is regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time, and this biographical portrait of the great man explains why. Although his talent went largely unrecognized during his time on the planet, his posthumous fame is vast. Van Gogh's life was beset by troubles, as indicated in the fascinating letters he sent to his brother&hellip&hellip…

Down by Law

$21.95 | 107 minutes

Jim Jarmusch's quirky follow-up to his groundbreaking STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a comic fable about finding the American dream in the most unlikely of places. After being thrown out of the house by his girlfriend, Zack (Tom Waits), an out-of-work DJ, takes a job driving a stolen car with a body in the trunk across the state line. He is&hellip&hellip…

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Blue Velvet

$11.95 | 120 minutes

A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub singer. Truly an auteur film, if there is such&hellip…

Partisans of Vilna

$23.95 | 130 minutes

A feature length documentary film that explores Jewish resistance during World War II. The film features 40 interviews in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English with former Partisans in Israel, New York, and Montreal, interspersed with rare footage from 1939 to 1944&hellip…

Sherman's March

$21.95 | 155 minutes

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…

The Legend of Suram Fortress/Ashik Kerib

$27.95 | 164 minutes

This double feature of films by acclaimed Russian director Sergei Paradjanov contains both THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS and ASHIK KERIB. ASHIK KERIB, based on Mikhail Lermontov's fable, follows the wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib as he journeys for 1000 days and nights, trying to earn enough money to marry his beloved. Paradjanov blends&hellip&hellip…

Therese

$11.95 | 90 minutes

Catherine Mouchet stars in this film as St. Therese de Lisleux, the Carmelite nun who died young from tuberculosis. Dreaming to become a Carmelite nun since she was a child, Therese was at first denied admission to the strict order. However, after taking her case all the way to the pop, Therese finally obtained admission. Unfortunately&hellip&hellip…

Hour of the Star

$23.95 | 96 minutes

Macabea is an impoverished young woman who moves to the city of Sao Paolo from the northeast countryside of Brazil. With no chance for success, she finds moments of happiness through hope and fantasy&hellip&hellip…

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The Decline of the American Empire

$10.95 | 102 minutes

People's Choice Award
Best Canadian Feature Film

Acclaimed Canadian director Denys Arcand's witty comedy focuses on the marriages and affairs of eight intellectual friends. The group has plans to gather at a secluded house for dinner. While the four men prepare the food and reflect on their promiscuity, the four women discuss&hellip…

Crossover Dreams

$23.95 | 86 minutes

A popular salsa star in New York's hispanic community abandons his own culture in a futile quest to make a commercial crossover. When he realizes that his dream has failed, he becomes involved in a dangerous drug run&hellip&hellip…

Cop au Vin

$21.95 | 100 minutes

Claude Chabrol's murder mystery is both wryly humorous and boldly forward about exposing the greed and ill-will that governs his characters' actions. The plot centers on a teenage boy (Lucas Belvaux) who is smothered by his cruel and domineering mother (Stephane Audram). When a group of men scheme to rob the family of their assets, the&hellip&hellip…

Colonel Redl

$25.95 | 142 minutes

At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls in love with him but cannot marry below her station. Still, they carry on a lifelong affair, though, as she suspects&hellip&hellip…

When Father Was Away on Business

$21.95 | 135 minutes

It's an open secret that father has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous object of desire of a communist party official. That's the way things were in 1950's Yugoslavia. Six-year-old Malik, however, thinks Papa is away on business. As seen through his eyes, this film magnifies the emotions of his new experiences&hellip&hellip…

Oriana

$23.95 | 88 minutes

Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Fina Torres' directorial debut is a spellbinding drama set in a Venezualan jungle. Now a married adult living in France, Maria (Daniela Silverio) returns to the hacienda where she spent her summers as an adolescent. As she prepares to sell the house, she is reminded of her aunt&hellip&hellip…

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The Official Story

$17.95 | 117 minutes

People's Choice Award

An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, however, her students' rejection of the "official" versions of their history leads her to question things herself. Suspecting that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political&hellip…

Before Stonewall

$21.95 | 87 minutes

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…

Blood Simple

$11.95 | 96 minutes

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, includes Dan Hedaya as the cuckolded&hellip&hellip…

Secret Honor

$34.95 | 90 minutes

Set in August 1974; Produced and released in 1985. Robert Altman's adaptation of the one-man stage play about former president Richard M. Nixon features a high-powered performance by Philip Baker Hall (MAGNOLIA) as the unraveling president. The dramatic dialogue takes place in Nixon's personal office shortly after his resignation--brought&hellip&hellip…

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The Company of Wolves

$21.95 | 92 minutes

The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian and slightly feminist angle. Angela Lansbury is Grandma, who tells her granddaughter strange stories of handsome yet heavily eyebrowed strange men, spouses&hellip&hellip…

Wild Style

$14.95 | 82 minutes

A graffiti "tagger" taken under the wing of an East Village art collector prepares for a festival of rap and hip-hop music. This film details the early 1980's cultural turning point which occurred in the South Bronx, New York, at which time Old School hip-hop was first crystallizing. A fairly authentic document of the early '80s South&hellip&hellip…

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Countryman

$11.95 | 143 minutes

Countryman, a peaceful Rastafarian fisherman becomes an unwitting player in an international political scheme when an airplane carrying two Americans crashes into a nearby swamp. Rescuing them from the wreckage, Countryman must then guard the couple against repeated assassination attempts organized by the menacing Colonel Sinclair, a&hellip&hellip…

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Starstruck

$7.95 | 95 minutes

A vivacious teen-punkette and her homely fourteen-year-old cousin/lyricist win an amateur talent contest through luck, pluck and the aid of a local celebrity VJ in this endearing and ebullient Australian rock musical. Jo Kennedy gives a winning performance and has the vocal chops to match in this great, oft-forgotten effort from director&hellip&hellip…

Smithereens

$7.95 | 93 minutes

This acclaimed independent movie marked the feature film debut of director Susan Seidelman (DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN). SMITHEREENS tells the story of Wren, a 19-year-old girl from New Jersey who comes to New York City with a dream of making it big in the world of rock music--despite the fact that she can't sing, play an instrument or&hellip&hellip…

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Return of the Secaucus Seven

$11.95 | 107 minutes

Seven friends who were political activists are reunited during a weekend gathering. The changing course of their various lives provides insight into each of their personalities and evolving adult identities&hellip…

The Tempest

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Despite being radically unconventional, late auteur Derek Jarman's 1979 film has been hailed as one of the most successful adaptations of the Bard's works by several Shakespeare scholars. Jarman removes much of the dialogue, instead carrying the story with his trademark haunting images, lit mostly by fire and the moon. Using the prevalent&hellip&hellip…

Stroszek

$15.95 | 107 minutes

In Werner Herzog's idiosynchratic and lyrical take on the road movie, the road in question stretches between the gritty, urban slums of Berlin and the equally desolate railroad flats of Wisconsin, U.S.A. Herzog regular, Bruno S. (Kaspar Hauser in Herzog's THE MYSTERY OF KASPAR HAUSER) plays Stroszek, just out of jail, who is trying to&hellip&hellip…

Jacob the Liar

$17.95 | 96 minutes

Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews, Jacob overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. Eventually, he decides to pass on the news of hope to his fellow prisoners. However, in order to be believed, he feigns access to a radio and becomes a bulwark against despair, and a reluctant but tragic hero. Remade&hellip&hellip…

The Best Way to Walk

$16.95 | 82 minutes

During a summer camp in the French countryside, two men undergo a sexual awakening in this coming of age tale. Marc (Patrick Dewaere) is a stereotypical sports teacher, who follows a cliched male path through the blood and bluster of the athletics world. Philippe (Patrick Bouchitey) teaches music, is highly effeminate and has a penchant&hellip&hellip…

Grey Gardens

$34.95 | 94 minutes

Out in East Hampton, behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds, there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter known as Little Edie. Big and Little Edie are the aunt and first cousin of Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis, and this documentary is a portrait of their unusual life together. When&hellip&hellip…

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Dersu Uzala

$23.95 | 140 minutes

Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of novelist Vladimir Arsenyev's novel about survival, set against the stark wilderness of Siberia. When Mongol guide, Dersu, is hired by a Russian crew of mapping surveyors, they soon realize their original negative opinion of him as an inexperienced, naive eccentric, is woefully inaccurate&hellip&hellip…

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

$17.95 | 112 minutes

When Emma Kusters' husband, a low-level factory laborer, snaps on the job, killing his foreman and sacrificing his own body to the machinery, it leaves her alone and the focus of a feud between the liberals and conservatives of the German government. As the political battle heat up, Emma faces the intrusion of a hypocritical leftist couple&hellip&hellip…

Adoption

$23.95 | 89 minutes

Kati is a 43-year-old widow who wants a child by her married lover, but he refuses. Through her friendship with another woman, they help each other - the friend gets a marriage she wants and Kati adopts a child&hellip&hellip…

Grey Gardens and The Beales of Grey Gardens

$42.95 | 185 minutes

This two disc set from Criterion features the Maysles brother documentary Grey Gardens and Albert Maysles new sequel The Beales of Grey Gardens. Grey Gardens: Out in East Hampton, behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds, there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter known as&hellip&hellip…

Fuehrer Ex

$7.95 | 105 minutes

The chilling allure of neo-Nazism is exposed in this unflinching portrait of a young man's transformation from a sensitive teenager to a hate-filled fascist thug. Similar in theme to the Hollywood hit, American History X and based on the autobiographical experiences of co-screenwriter and ex-neo-Nazi Ingo Hasselbach, this harrowing drama&hellip&hellip…

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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…