2008 Independent Spirit Awards
Lake of Fire
$24.95 | 152 minutes
Independent Spirit Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
Director Tony Kaye (AMERICAN HISTORY X) directs this black-and-white documentary about one of the most controversial issues in America: abortion. Sixteen years in the making, LAKE OF FIRE provides an unflinching look at both sides of the abortion debate. Contrasting images&hellip…
The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun
$21.95 | 85 minutes
Independent Spirit Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun is the story of two lonely souls and their destiny to meet each other. Mr. Vig is a 86 year old bachelor livng his life in solarium until by fate Sister Amvrosija comes into his life. his dream of leaving his danish country side castle to the&hellip…
The Unforeseen
$23.95 | 93 minutes
Truer Than Fiction Award (Nominated)
Laura Dunn's feature-length directorial debut is a profoundly stirring, visually stunning, and emotionally overpowering work of epic beauty. Sharing a kinship with the film's executive producer, Terrence Malick, Dunn's lyrical nonfiction poem reaches levels of transcendence not often encountered&hellip…
Helvetica
$21.95 | 176 minutes
Truer Than Fiction Award (Nominated)
The film looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned&hellip…
Crazy Love
$24.95 | 92 minutes
Independent Spirit Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
Dan Klores's documentary takes viewers inside a relationship made famous by tabloid reports back in the summer of 1959. Burt Pugach and Linda Pugach met when Burt was already married but Linda was a young single woman. Embarking on a passionate affair, the two never guessed&hellip…
The Order Of Myths
$23.95 | 97 minutes
Truer Than Fiction Award – Margaret Brown
Independent Spirit Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary) – Margaret Brown
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown&hellip…