2000 Venice International Film Festival
Little Otik
$25.95 | 127 minutes
Jan Svankmajer's fourth feature is the story of a thirtysomething couple who, despite their infertility, yearn to have a baby. When Karel (Jan Hartl), the husband, digs up a stump that resembles a newborn, he varnishes it and presents it to his wife, Bozena (Veronika Zilkova), hoping to comfort her and fill the void in their lives. To&hellip&hellip…
Young and the Dead
$12.95 | 90 minutes
The grave business of tending to the dead took a lively turn in Los Angeles recently when a cemetery in decline was revamped to become a Hollywood hot spot. The Hollywood Memorial Cemetery was a decaying burial ground until some it was modernized with interactive features, touch screen kiosks, and even a gift shop. The old graveyard now&hellip&hellip…
The Isle
$23.95 | 89 minutes
Golden Lion(Nominee)
Netpac Award(Special Mention)
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&hellip…
The Circle
$21.95 | 91 minutes
OCIC Award(Honorable Mention)
UNICEF Award
Sergio Trasatti Award
Golden Lion
FIPRESCI Prize, Best Feature
Banned in Iran, Jafar Panahi's THE CIRCLE is set almost entirely on the busy streets of Tehran--a place where women are restricted by numerous laws, including a repressive dress code, and can only travel accompanied&hellip…
Liam
$21.95 | 91 minutes
Golden Lion(Nominee)
OCIC Award
Marcello Mastroianni Award
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&hellip…
Pie In the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
$21.95 | 75 minutes
Riding and perhaps inspiring seminal pop artist Andy Warhol's 1960s redefinition of the concept of superstar, Brigid Berlin, the extravagant subject of the fascinating film PIE IN THE SKY: THE BRIGID BERLIN STORY, has persisted in presenting her personal struggles as the stuff of great art. The daughter of an extremely wealthy and prominent&hellip&hellip…
Before Night Falls
$14.95 | 133 minutes
Golden Lion(Nominee)
Volpi Cup, Best Actor
Rota Soundtrack Award
OCIC Award, Special Mention
Grand Special Jury Prize
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&hellip…
Dr. T and the Women
$9.95 | 122 minutes
Golden Lion(Nominee)
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&hellip…
Memento
$20.95 | 116 minutes
MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator who witnesses a brutal attack on his&hellip&hellip…
Comedy of Innocence
$13.95 | 98 minutes
Golden Lion(Nominee)
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&hellip…
Felicidades
$17.95 | 1000 minutes
Some lonely souls in Buenos Aires all try to make the best of it on one hot, muggy Christmas Eve when a series of wry coincidences forces them to cross paths sometimes without even knowing it. An overworked stand up comic can't make his audience laugh. A writer ruins all his relationships with women despite his commercial successes. A&hellip&hellip…
Vengo
$26.95 | 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…