Crane World

$29.95 | 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…

Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling

$14.95 | 83 minutes

With the advent of the WWF (and later, the WWE), female wrestling entered a new phase in its popularity, with the top stars in the game earning considerable amounts of money, and taking up the sport professionally. This film takes a look at the trailblazers of the sport--the women who bucked tradition and decided to become wrestlers in&hellip&hellip…

Murderball

$16.95 | 86 minutes

Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro's MURDERBALL is an inspiring documentary, which proves that physical limitations are no match for the human spirit. For the determined quadriplegic men who participate in the dangerous sport of "quad rugby," it's more than just a game: it's a chance to prove themselves in a much bigger way. With&hellip&hellip…

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

$16.95 | 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…

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Strings

$23.95 | 91 minutes

This lavish production from director Anders Ronnow Klarlund involves an epic battle between two warring factions after a great emperor dies. Klarlund painstakingly crafted the film over a four year period, rendering his characters in puppet form, and uniting a strong and patient crew who delicately guide the movie towards its conclusion&hellip&hellip…

Three Of Hearts: A Postmodern Family

$26.95 | 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…

5 x 2

$29.95 | 90 minutes

Focusing on the failed relationship of a thirtysomething couple, French director Francois Ozon (SWIMMING POOL, UNDER THE SAND) organizes this film into five chapters they shared together. In backwards chronology, the first chapter of Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles's (Stephane Freiss) story has them signing divorce papers&hellip&hellip…

Tell Them Who You Are

$26.95 | 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…

After Innocence

$26.95 | 95 minutes

Women in Cinema Lena Sharpe Award

Jessica Sanders's powerful, critically-acclaimed documentary chronicles the remarkable experiences of innocent men, falsely imprisoned for years and sometimes decades, who have recently been proven innocent and released thanks to new DNA evidence. Thoughtful, gripping, and with a righteous sense&hellip…

La Sierra

$26.95 | 84 minutes

LA SIERRA is an intense, unflinching documentary about several young people living in Medellin, Columbia. The town is perpetually caught in the crossfire between two warring factions--the guerillas and the paramilitary forces--and the film explores the burden of life during wartime with a personal and deeply unsettling focus&hellip&hellip…

Overlord

$34.95 | 84 minutes

Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper's immersive account of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to life with jolting authenticity. Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer&hellip&hellip…

The Ninth Day

$26.95 | 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…