Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson.
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Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson.
Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.
Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams.
The movie revolves around Pandit Hari Prasad, a blind flautist (played by Sarvadaman Banerjee), and a painter (Suhasini) who is mute. Hari Prasad lives with his only sister in a village which has some tourist attraction. He earns money by playing flute and entertaining the tourists. His life changes dramatically once Jyothirmayi (Moon Moon Sen) comes there and hears his musical talent. She helps him reach high standards in classical music. Years pass by and Hari Prasad becomes one of the greatest flutists in India; he develops ;a great love towards Jyothirmayi for whom he dedicates all his albums
A 16 year old girl turns to prostitution to support her baby and encounters a treacherous underworld of pimps, hookers and johns while doing her best to maintain her hopes and dignity.
Peace Concert Live In East Berlin 1988.
Third part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.
A child terminally becomes bad animation and is sent to an asylum of abandoned and lost cartoon characters.
Feelings of fear and isolation felt by an elderly woman navigating the new urban environments that had increasingly replaced traditional working class communities in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Casey, a vice president of her father's company, has nobody in her life. But one night, she meets three eligible bachelors: a preppy old friend, a star quarterback, and a waiter / musician. With the help of her (horny) friend, she must decide the outcome of the dating game.
A married middle age man with two children who are in college, who also didn't finish college decides to go and enroll at his kids' college. He also decides to try out for football, and makes the team. He becomes a phenom. But all of this causes friction between him and his son, and also trouble between him and his wife, who wants him to quit the team. But he chooses to stay with it.
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
A rare documentary of Michael Jordan by Jeannie Morris. Her short story visits Michael's family in North Carolina, and provides interviews with family members, coaches, and Michael himself.
Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia Bembenek, aka "Bambi", former "Playboy bunny" turned cop, turned accused and convicted killer who disappeared after a daring escape from prison. The film shows the evolution of Benning's and Bembenek's relationship presented through their actual letters read in voice over which depict the filmmaker's curiosity with the subject as it evolves from intrigue to a love obsession.
A New York-based bounty hunter who makes a living chasing and capturing bail jumpers matches wits with a heavily-armed drug dealer in this pilot to a prospective series.
Ringo Starr is taken to prison where he goes through several musical sequences.
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.
Neil Diamond performing his greatest hits at the Aquarius Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
Interview and profile of experimental filmmaker Michael Snow from 1983. Includes extracts from 'Back and Forth', 'Wavelength', 'La Region Central', 'So Is This' and gallery piece 'Two Sides To Every Story'. Made for Channel 4 'Visions' and broadcast 19 January 1983.
Life on the range is observed in Big Piney, Wyoming, where the romantic image is contrasted to the hard life and harder hours of reality.
"The Devil Worshippers" investigates Satanism and focuses on allegations that there are satanic cults committing crimes and murders in the United States. “Police have been skeptical when investigating these acts, just as we are in reporting them. But there is no question that something is going on out there, and that’s sufficient reason for ‘20/20’ to look into it.”
Kenny G Live is the first live album by saxophonist Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records in 1989, and peaked at number 2 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and number 16 on the Billboard 200. This album was recorded live at both Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay in San Diego, California. and also at the Seattle Center Opera House.
Filmed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in 1981, this video shows the band singing some of their most famous hits of that time, live on stage. Includes songs such as Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans, Messages and Enola Gay and many more. Originally released as a VHS video, this was also distributed on a Collector's Edition DVD/CD combo in 2007.
So Far is a music documentary video by the Grateful Dead. Directed by Jerry Garcia and Len Dell'Amico, it is intended to give a subjective view of the Grateful Dead experience. The soundtrack includes Dead song performances, largely from 1985. The visuals combine scenes of the band playing the songs, other Dead related material, computer animation, and found footage that has been altered and edited in various ways. So Far was released on VHS videotape and on laserdisc in 1987, and has a running time of 55 minutes.
Created for the 1982 World's Fair, ENERGY! ENERGY! takes us in spectacular leaps from 17th century, where muscle power was the principle energy source, through the early use of wind and water mills, and we experience the coming of the Industrial Revolution, the steam engine, and the motor car. The film portrays the vitality and the problems of our modern technological society and our dependence upon fossil fuels while it explores dramatic new possibilities for the future.
A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.
In this parody of "Spinal Tap," a documentary film crew follows comic Billy Crystal as he prepares for a concert; the second half of the film is the actual concert itself.
Vikram (Ashotosh Gowariker) is an Indian immigrant from Bombay who lands in San Francisco. His happiness over his arrival in the United States is diminished when customs officers unexplainably trim his tourist visa from six months to one. When he arrives at the home of his sponsor, he finds that the building is abandoned, and his application to study at the University of California has been rejected. He later meets Sue (Heidi Carpenter), a punk-rock femme who works at a late-night theater specializing in horror films, and Vikram becomes very fond of the woman, proposing marriage in hopes of starting a new life in the United States.
Danny Kaye stars in the Disneyland 25th Anniversary television special with special guest star Michael Jackson, The Osmond’s, Adam Rich, and others.
An unfashionably joyous celebration of safe sex (group masturbation parties) and affection (fondling in public places) among gay men.
The kids of Hollywood High have always claimed to be the best example of American youth, and this year's student body is no exception. A the head of the class in adventuresome fun and frolic are Bunny, Kiki and Ginger, three luscious coeds who live for boys, beer and the beach, and fit school into their schedules as an afterthought. Life goes awry for these three heavenly bodies when their boyfriends suddenly lose interest in romping in the California surf. The girls will go to any lengths to uncover the mystery, but they'll never be prepared for the outlandish outcome!
Birmingham comic Jasper Carrott heads Stateside to see if his comedy is universal in this special
Set in the immediate summer after the events of the first movie, and deals with more of the guys' misadventures as they prepare for college.
Brutally abused by his parents, teenage Thomas finds comfort in associating with a film director who is making a documentary about physical child abuse. The two fall in love, and the elder is faced with the decision of either running away with Thomas or focusing on his career and thereby letting the boy possibly be beaten to death.
Today, the only inhabitants of this environmentally inhospitable Pacific island are birds and crabs. Yet over 80 years ago, Clipperton hosted other visitors: a demented rapist and a terrified group of women and children. Cousteau returns to the island to recreate the deadly series of events - from the death of the brave French captain to the courage of the widow who killed her torturer - through the eyes of one of the survivors, then a child.
Canadian wilderness adventure
When her visa expires, a young Japanese immigrant in San Francisco agrees to marry a Japanese-American boy to avoid being deported back to Japan.
Documentary about director Don Siegel including interviews with Siegel and clips from his movies.
The 1983 show kicks off with a simmering version of Hooker’s mid-60s single “Serves Me Right To Suffer.” The Coast To Coast Blues Band puts down John Lee’s signature style of hypnotic rhythm behind him and Hooker works his minimalist magic on the assembled fans. The Hook has always defined what cool is all about and that presence is in full force here from the moment he hits the stage. He’s vibrant and captivating and the Montreux crowd clearly can’t get enough.
High school student Sam Adams has just moved to a new house in a sleepy, all-American town. His new school seems perfect at first and he is quickly accepted onto the football team. But something about his fellow players seems a bit off, particularly the brutish and arrogant Jack "Boot" Butkowski. As Sam soon discovers, the team have appointed themselves as dictatorial leaders of the school, openly modeling their behaviors after the SS and terrorizing anyone who doesn't fall in line, while rewarding those who pledge blind allegiance. When Sam's unwillingness to submit results in a violent attack on an elderly family friend, he decides to take matters into his own hands...
Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation film Travel Songs (1967–1981).
In 1985, three major uprisings rocked Britain, in Brixton, Handsworth and Tottenham. The most explosive was the latter, on the Broadwater Farm housing estate, which resulted in the death of PC Keith Blakelock as well as in hundreds of arrests and a number of prison sentences. The uprisings in both Brixton and Tottenham were sparked by police shootings of innocent black mothers. The People's Accoung was shot during and after the Tottenham uprising. Made by the Ceddo Film and Video Workshop, it was commissioned by Channel 4, but was never shown as the broadcaster objected to its accusations of police racism.
hong kong film
A martial arts instructor sets out to rescue his girlfriend who is being held for ransom by a South American warlord.
Newly rediscovered ultra-low budget action movie about a drug dealer and prostitution in Malmö, Sweden, with bad hairdos, bad acting and co-starring the legendary Lillemor Dahlqvist from the notorious Swedish LP Bordellmammas visor (The Brothel Mother's Songs).
The heart of the legs.
Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.
Cagney and Lacey are two female New York policewomen doing their job as best they can in a male-dominated police department in this feature-length pilot that sparked the popular, long-running series.
A documentary hosted by Harrison Ford about the stunts of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
A Black farming family struggles to find its identity and maintain its integrity when the younger of two brothers decides to sell his part of the farm and go to law school. This goes against what the older brother values in life. The older brother's wife acts as reconciler between the two brothers.
A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution.
Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.
The film chronicles filmmaker Joel DeMott, significant other/film partner Jeff Kreines and filmmaker Mark Rance as they head to Michigan to make a low budget horror film.
When teenager David Bowers renounces his home and family to run off with a quasi-religious cult, his sister, Janet, sets out to bring him back, very nearly becoming brainwashed herself.
Three lunatics escape from an asylum only to be attacked by a gang of toughs. Oh yeah, they happen to be in a band too. Circus 2000 A.D. Music Video
Guns N' Roses Opening For Aerosmith 04 August 1988 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA Tracklist: 1. It’s So Easy 2. Mr. Brownstone 3. Out Ta Get Me 4. Patience 5. Band Introductions 6. Instrumental Jam 7. Sweet Child O’ Mine 8. Welcome To The Jungle 9. Used To Love Her
In 1988, Andrew Wight and his team went on to attempt a record cave dive in Pannikin Plains Cave on the Nullarbor Plain, where flash floods turned the expedition into a life-or-death adventure. This was captured on film by his support team, and eventually published as Nullarbor Dreaming. This short film launched his career as an international film-maker and culminated in him becoming James Cameron's right-hand man on many 3D and other film projects. Sanctum was inspired by his Nullarbor experience
A young married couple try to convert an old warehouse into a nightclub, but face opposition from both the council and local mobsters.