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The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly alternate with scenes of darkness and squalor. From sumptuous interiors, we move to a dark street, a lonely inn. The secondary figures are astutely counterpoised: the plotting courtiers against the plotting Sparafucile and Maddalena (also ambiguously tender-hearted). When Rigoletto says "Pari siamo", he could be expressing the motto of the whole work: the beautiful and the ugly can be equally good, equally evil.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Set in the present, the story takes place in Los Angeles. A foreign student from Taiwan , who is a great Chinese guitar player, arrives in the U.S. in the 70's. He decides to study nuclear engineering, but after graduation, he takes numerous menial jobs. The story begins when he receives a letter from his brother, notifying him of his visit from Taiwan. Exhaustedly, he tries to impress his brother by renting a new car and a new set of furniture. However, misfortune befalls him, as his house is robbed and he loses his job. For the first time, he is forced to think seriously about the meaning of his life in America.

Ron Harris assembled a series of dancers, athletes, models/actors and certified instructors to do some very seductive aerobic exercises.

We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner city Sydney.

The railroad promised to open the West for Pioneer Junction, but when the Sheriff caught wind of a sinister plot to destroy the Pioneer Express, he enlisted Brent Towers, the Christian Cowboy, to investigate. With God's help, and his two young friends, Tom and Jenny, they saved the train, plus learned some valuable lessons from the Bible about being good citizens.

A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews with those closest to the brothers supplement this collection of highlights from their film, theater, and television appearances and offer a compelling look at their lives both on and off-screen.

16-year-old girl is in denial about her mother's drinking problem and refuses to join Ala-Teen.

Locale was designed to explore the possibilities of moving cameras and moving dancers in a film. Filmed at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth, New York NY, Jan - Feb 1979. First public screening at City Center Theater, New York NY, 24 February 1980.

Bayu (Rano Karno), the son of a rich family, who ran away from home and became a busker. That's when he met Maya (Ira Wibowo), whom he helped from the mischievous actions of delinquent children. Maya falls in love with Bayu. Bayu himself was then accepted to work at Maya's father's company. Maya and Bayu's mother accompanied him to the offshore work location.

A more than slightly incompetent private eye inherits five doberman pinschers. The dogs at first create havoc with Alex's home and personal life, but soon become trusted allies and on more than one occasion help Alex solve cases.

A tribute to American musical theater, featuring scenes from "Show Boat", "South Pacific," "Sweet Charity," "Finian's Rainbow," and "Lady in the Dark", among others. There is also discussion of the various creative aspects of the plays.

When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.

In this pilot for a prospective TV series, Kate Bennett is an investigative TV news reporter whose life is imperiled, along with that of her young daughter Jennifer, after she doggedly pursues the story of a sniper attack on several nurses.

This film is a rich and haunting reinvention of medieval life that never loses its contemporary perspective. When the plague afflicts a village, this world seems to go up in an apocalypse of hatred and disease that presages our own century.

A reporter becomes the target of a murderer when he starts investigating a fifty-year-old murder/suicide case.

Frequent Seas is a lyrical experimental film. It combines live action with hand-drawn animated mattes to create an abstract, sometimes disturbing portrait of a woman. Images break apart randomly and come back together. Nothing is ever completely revealed. This is a highly manipulated, non-linear, non-narrative piece. It does not tell a story, but it does create a feeling.

A 1983 Filipino action film about the Bangsamoro struggle and Mindanao.

Written and directed by PM Entertainment co-founder Joseph Merhi, this semi-autobiographical screwball comedy follows the adventures of a Hollywood dreamer who, despite having zero experience in the film industry, attempts to take the town by storm, only to send his entire domestic life into a tailspin.

Low budget movie from the Philippines starring Gary Daniels as a kung fu using treasure hunter.

The film follows a number of European and American ecotourists as they travel from village to village throughout the Sepik River area in Papua New Guinea, driving hard bargains for local handcrafted items, paying to view formerly sacred ceremonies and taking photographs of every aspect of "primitive" life. With some prodding, the tourists unwittingly reveal an unattractive and pervasive ethnocentrism to O'Rourke's cameras. The tourists thus become somewhat dehumanized by the camera, even as the tourists themselves are busy exoticizing even the most mundane aspects of Sepik River life.

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Last short film directed by Yvan Lagrange. A human-looking alien, arriving from a water planet, discovers Paris, humans, society and its rules, love.

Monologue created and performed by Spalding Gray, who takes us through his childhood recollections of growing up in a Christian Science household in Barrington, Rhode Island, in the 1950s.

Vellam (transl.  Water) is a 1985 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by Hariharan, starring Prem Nazir and Madhu , supported by K. R. Vijaya and Srividya, with Sathaar, Sukumari, Adoor Bhasi and Balan K. Nair playing other important roles.

Debbie gives a live concert in Pittsburg, PA on September 16, 1988.

A moving portrait of a shy, aspiring young opera singer who has an amazing voice but lacks the courage to sing at he frequent auditions which he forces himself to attend.

On January 25, 1984, at Long Beach State Art Gallery, Lisa called this performance Graphite Woman, as she was coated in this substance, and she recreated her world championship routine for a small audience of art lovers. Accompanied by the Shakuhachi flute, behind a low wall of gold bricks, Lisa again demonstrates her ideas of the body as art. This is something she promoted in her work as she saw herself as an artist whose canvas was her whole body.

Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.

Norwegian TV-movie from 1984 about punks in Oslo.

A psycho killer uses a corkscrew to stick into the brains of his victims.

Told in a series of recollections, the film takes the form of a one woman narrative that tells the story of Isabella and her family suffering in Auschwitz, her survival, marriage and life in America after World War 2.

1982. USA. Directed by Barry Masterson. 16mm. 4 min.

Ambitious police sergeant, Charles Stoker, takes on prostitution in 1948 Los Angeles to make a name for himself. Madam, Brenda Allen, however has the 'whole city' on her payroll and his crusade proves difficult.

Nocturne evokes one of the most magnificent films of Brakhage: Fire of Waters. It takes place in a suburb populated by children playing and indistinct parental figures. The narrative plot might suggest that it was a boy's night-time plays; The flashes of a torch in a dark room evoke fights and aerial bombardments. An impression of hostility and a feeling of horror interferes in all the movements ... The fantasy is tinged with nightmare, a storm of repressed emotions hides behind the calm facade of this house. In Nocturne, found footage blends so well with the threat that its perception produces a discharge from the unconscious.

Feature-length prime time pilot for a daytime soap centered around the wealthy and influential Aldens family, who almost alone own the small university town.

A young Russian man arrives in Berlin in search of a woman, but becomes entangled with two others one of whom falls in love with him and another who represents a classic Russian heroine like out of a novel from one of his countrymen idols.

A woman is gagged, tied up and terrorized by a sexy woman and a masked man.

Encounter Belfast's very own manic street preachers in this powerful documentary.

Howard Hassler's alien invasion film It Came From Somewhere Else concerns the effects of an alien invasion on the small Canadian border town of Grand Bosh. The befuddled sheriff is hardly able to function when confronted with citizens bursting into flame and body parts growing in farmers' fields. A group of high-school students believe they can save the town, but they can't even comprehend the force they are facing.

A performance by the Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus.

Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on HAMMET(1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences between the film-making process in Europe and the States.

This dreamvideo was filmed primarily in California during the months of June and August of 1984. Featuring the music of Windham Hill artists William Ackerman, Scott Cossu, Daniel Hecht, Michael Hedges, Bill Quist, Shadowfax, Ira Stein and George Winston.

When Women Kill is a poignant documentary exploring the shocking violence that seven women fell victim to at the hands of men. The program profiles the battered women who speak frankly about the cruel abuse, threats, and fears, and the overassertive men who led them down a one-way path to death and destruction. The film features in-prison footage, including a segment depicting a confession by a follower of the notorious Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted of two killing sprees and committed to life in prison.

Irene summons up all her courage in the face of a fierce snowstorm when her mother falls ill and Irene must deliver a ball gown to the duchess.

Promotion for Silicon Graphics computer systems circa 1987.

Three all-new cartoons from animation legend Chuck Jones showcase Bugs Bunny and some of Jones' most famous characters. Springtime has arrived and stirred the birds, the bees and Bugs Bunny -- the time when an infant Elmer Fudd chased a youthful Bugs with his popgun, waiting for the start of "wabbit season"; when Bugs was held captive by Marvin Martian (in "Spaced Out Bunny"); and when, after 30 years of chases, Wile E. Coyote finally caught the Road Runner (in "Soup or Sonic").

A bleak Dana, longing for Richard, engages an unusual interior decorating service, resulting in a comedic twist of fate.

Shot from between 48 and 250 fps, Tides reverses Maya Deren's At Land, with the first shot instead of spewing Deren up onto the beach, instead sweeps Greenfield into the sea to turn words of Neitchze into a cinematic experience of "Far out glitter space and time . . . joy, deeper than heart's agony. . . for all life wants eternity, wants deep eternity."

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.

Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.

This film is made up from archive footage from the early years of the twentieth century covering the years from 1900 to 1920. The footage, often unique, was filmed by different people and groups the world over, and is united to give a wide overview of the fate of European civilization.

The conflict and separation of their parents and the impact on four youngsters from three socially different families is the thrust of this drama.

A one-boy monologue about the shape of things in his life circa 1989.

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Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice (Kathleen Beller) masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthorne themes are explored: the sins of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature.

A village girl brings herself after she airless shackled by his family. There he was accused of indecent happened then brutally assaulted by her father. In kuala Lumpur he made friends with the girls wild and spend time with people who are so excited jealousy among his friends.

Documentary from 1983 about suppressed technology and UFOs based on Stan Deyo’s book of the same name.

An animated special based on the comic strip Cathy by Cathy Guisewite.

When their music teacher needs an expensive operation after being mugged, a group of precocious middle school students attempt to raise the money by selling fake military secrets to the KGB.