2004 Deauville Festival of American Film
Searching for Debra Winger
$17.95 | 99 minutes
Actress Rosanna Arquette directs this insightful documentary in which she interviews dozens of actresses in their thirties and beyond about they pressures they face in an industry which seems to provide fewer and fewer roles for women beyond their twenties. With commentary from women such as Salma Hayek, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and&hellip&hellip…
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer
$17.95 | 89 minutes
Sensationalist director Nick Broomfield delivers his most personal film with this bracing, powerful sequel to 1992's AILEEN WUORNOS: THE SELLING OF A SERIAL KILLER. Ten years after making that film, Broomfield returns to the story of America's first female serial killer, who murdered seven truck drivers over the course of 12 months in&hellip&hellip…
Mean Creek
$23.95 | 87 minutes
Grand Special Prize(Nominee)
Director Jacob Estes's feature film debut is a remarkably accomplished coming of age drama about death and consequences. When overweight, emotionally troubled George (Josh Peck) beats up a smaller kid named Sam (Rory Culkin) one time too many, his older brother Rocky (Trevor Morgan) and Rocky's wrong-side-of-the-tracks&hellip…
Doppelganger
$21.95 | 107 minutes
Mixing horror with black comedy, DOPPELGANGER marks the sixth time director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and actor Koji Yakusho have worked together. Yakusho stars as mild-mannered scientist Hayasaki Michio, whose entire life is thrown into disarray when a man identical in appearance but opposite in personality enters his life. The main thought on&hellip&hellip…
Running on Karma
$17.95 | 93 minutes
When ex-Buddhist monk turned exotic dancer Biggie (Andy Lau) begins to have premonitions of future events--including murders--he attracts the attention of the beautiful police officer Yee (Cecilia Cheung). Yee quickly falls in love with the sweet, muscular Biggie, and he feels secure in their developing relationship--until he begins to&hellip&hellip…
We Don't Live Here Anymore
$17.95 | 99 minutes
Grand Special Prize(Nominee)
Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo) and Hank Evans (Peter Krause) are best friends who both teach at the same university in a small New England town. They both have young children and Jack's wife, Terry (Laura Dern) is close with Hank's wife, Edith (Naomi Watts). But while things appear happy on the surface&hellip…
Spellbound
$10.95 | 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…
Stage Beauty
$24.95 | 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…
Uncovered: The War on Iraq
$14.95 | 83 minutes
Slowly, methodically, and convincingly, Robert Greenwald (OUTFOXED: RUPERT MURDOCH'S WAR ON JOURNALISM) presents proof that George W. Bush's administration lied to the American Public, the United Nations, and the world, about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and links to terrorism. A number of respected talking heads are interviewed&hellip&hellip…
Mondovino
$21.95 | 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…
Palindromes
$23.95 | 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…
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
$21.95 | 89 minutes
In 1974, young Patty Hearst became a media icon after she was kidnapped from her apartment by a group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). At the time, Patty was an impressionable college student who happened to be the granddaughter of the infamous William Randolph Hearst. The SLA's demands on Hearst's family were unique&hellip&hellip…