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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