Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister in the forties.

This film shows the daily routine at a female prison under freezing conditions in Russia. These prisoners are murderers but most were defending themselves. We can see the scars. One woman said "The only thing my husband didn't hit me with was the stove". Tattoos are common as are relationships with other women. As one woman stated "Women understand everything that men cannot understand"

Steely Dan has not had a new studio album in twenty years--"Two Against Nature" was worth the wait! This concert, recorded live in New York at the Sony Studios, contains new songs as well as classic hits from the minds of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. Together, they deliver a unique music experience that is truly unforgettable. Songs: Green Earrings, Cousin Dupree, Bad Sneakers, Janie Runaway, Josie, FM, Gaslighting Abbie, Black Friday, Babylon Sisters, Kid Charlemagne, Jack of Speed, Peg, What a Shame About Me, Pretzel Logic.

A life that runs on a syndicate of fake money, double crossing and deceiving. This is a life that Dengcoy has and he wanted to change this. How will he do that?

Evirati is a short film about a young woman who masquerades as a male castrato to sing in the opera houses of the Papal States at a time when women are forbidden from performing in public.

2000 release

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! We play for you the moving story of... Pinocchio! The wooden boy looking for a heart. On his way, Pinocchio will pass enchanting places: from the beautiful circus to the breathtaking Candyland. He also meets surprising characters: teacher Anna, Pompidoe, the Fairy, Fox and Trot, Grimaldini and Raoul the Circus Director. It will be an adventurous journey full of temptations. Can Pinocchio resist this one? Won't he lie too much, causing his nose to grow longer? And the most important one; will he eventually become a real boy of flesh and blood?

01 (sic) 02 Eyeless 03 Wait and Bleed 04 No Life 05 Liberate 06 Purity 07 Prosthetics 08 Spit It Out 09 Get This 10 Surfacing 11 Scissors

When Yolanda reaches her eighteenth birthday, she discovers the true identity of her father: the Black Corsair, greatest pirate of all time. A mysterious encounter reveals Yolanda's true destiny trapped inside a Black Rose.

A blues guitar singer and his rock solid band -- at the peak of their game -- performed a blistering set, displaying their bountiful talents and trademark intensity for an appreciative hometown crowd. It was a magical evening none would ever forget. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble live at Austin City Limits. October 10th, 1989

On October 17, 1961, the popular and pioneering pianist-composer Dave Brubeck performed on Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual, the television show that showcased some of the finest jazz artists in a half-hour of no-frills performance and conversation. Backed by the Lester Young-influenced alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello, Brubeck and his combo perform some of their odd-metered hits. Desmond's dancing ditty, "Take Five" is rendered in a faster tempo than the studio version. Brubeck's ragtime-flavoured "(It's a) Raggy Waltz," highlights his percussive piano lines, while "Castillian Blues" and the Turkish strains of "Blue Rondo a la Turk" reveal his multicultural, compositional genius. Gleason, the show's creator and host, was a well-respected, San Francisco-based jazz critic and author. He remarks during the show that Dave Brubeck was "a provocative, experimental, and interesting musician." That statement is still true today.

The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but pure reality.

A poor Chinese restaurant worker comes into contact with the leader of a Korean street gang and earns his respect after warning him of an impending police raid.

A promotional video for the Smashing Pumpkins' 2000 single "Stand Inside Your Love."

Undead serial killer Joel Winter launches a violent crusade against vampires.

At the Museu de Arte Moderna do Río de Janeiro in Brazil

Two friends attend the funeral of a former classmate with one of them intending to use the occasion as a means to ask out a friend of the deceased with whom he’s infatuated.

The Glamour Chase is Andrew Miller's feature length 2000 documentary on the life of maverick Scottish pop star Billy Mackenzie. With contributions from close family, friends and the 1980s pop firmament that admired him so deeply, the documentary remains definitive. Variously described as an "anarchic Bassey, sinister Pavarotti and Scotland's Sinatra", Billy Mackenzie led an extraordinary life. The story is told by Billy himself from extensive archive footage, together with his father Jim and sister Helen and informed contributions from his biographer Tom Doyle and pop star friends including fellow Associates Alan Rankine and Michael Dempsey; ABC's Martin Fry, Siouxsie Sioux, Marc Almond and members of Heaven 17, Yello and Apollo 440.

A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.

Behind the scenes featurette about the movie Twister (1996).

Bored by her settled life with her aloof husband, a quirky American housewife finds that a bullet accidentally lodged in her forehead allows her to leap into the fictive Paris of her favorite pulp novel heroine, Chastity Blade...

This family tale spans three generations of Chinese trying to understand and come to terms with life's changes. Middlesome relatives stir up a storm. The old and the young find themselves and their values developing and evolving, and new relationships come and go. The eldest family member, Guan, the son of a royal physician of the former Qing Dynasty, has also become a great physician who is able to predict the exact time of a patient's death. His ex-daughter-in-law, Yu, trained by him to be a physician, still stays with the family as his assistant. Her ex-husband, Jin, comes back from the USA with his new girlfriend, Jenny, a beautiful American who is doing a research on the death of Guangxu, the second last Emperor of Qing Dynasty who is Guan's father's patient. Jenny speaks fluent Mandarin, but she has a long way to go before understanding and getting accustomed to the Chinese tradition and mindset. On the other hand, Yu falls in love with her old friend who is a married man.

"This is a nice fruit tree here. Why don't you eat from it? " Working from about 2,500 images, all painstakingly drawn and painted and textured onto clear 70mm film leader, Nina Paley’s brilliant, camera-less short film paints the proverbial "Fall from Grace" as a labyrinthine trip through Pandora's box. It is a mad race, a dance with death and a rollicking good time in this raucous, vibrant set of color images shimmering and shimmying over a black background, all to the driving insouciance of Scottish punk rockers the Revillos' "Yeah Yeah."

Construction workers try to make a housing complex and a group of female builders join along.

A 2000 motion picture.

A look at the possible effect of recovered alien technology on our lives.

The fate of a local orphanage is at stake before Christmas. According to the plans of a local businessman, the home is to be liquidated and its place is to be taken...

Unexpected adventures and incidents in the life of model and cashier Noora Lehtinen.

Shane, is sent undercover in order to solve a case that involves a series of murders that occur at an elite gym run by Tony. Shane meets up with a mysterious woman, who in turn assists in helping him take on, what turns out to be a well established Russian Mafia steroid smuggling ring run by Vladimer. When the two are taken captive, and Shane is forced to take action - he must destroy everything in his path!

It is the night before the big local football game between two of Briar Creek's high school teams and the town is electric with excitement. However, when someone starts killing off all the cheerleaders that excitement rapidly turns to fear. Who could the killer be? Is it the local bum, the sheriff, the football coach, or perhaps one of the students?

A film about the Silesian Texans.

Two stubborn Samurai fight a meaningless battle for a woman's hand. Treachery, murder and lost honour are unleashed in the course of a magic year in which summer turns to autumn, autumn to winter, and winter to spring. Neither has any intention of giving in to the other no matter how foul the weather.

Six people meet in a room in order to discuss pornography, rape and Mother's Day.

About the cultural alternative as a path to a shaky new world.

Five teenagers are forced to clean up the woods of Sleepy Hollow, but one by one they are decapitated by a man with a jack-o-lantern mask and a sword, but who could it be?

Drama depicting a female swindler who eats a man and steals 20 million yen from a casino

Bone tells the story of four friends who get caught up in a crooked venture to transport illegally-obtained genetic material across national borders.

Two men of different ages and backgrounds meet one night.

A woman who is setting up a glass factory in Mallorca while caring for her asthmatic son finds herself at the mercy of her sister's hatred, who had an affair with her husband. When the father of the two women dies in distant Germany and leaves his grandson a substantial inheritance, events come to a head.

A visit to many of the places and people that give California its reputation as a place of extremes. Among the major segments: Sky surfing in the San Diego area; the movies, including a trip down the Oscar ceremony red carpet, the shooting of a stagecoach ride, and some memories of Walt Disney, including a roller coaster ride in Disneyland; some snowboarding and skiing stunts; a trip to the top, and then deep inside, some giant sequoias; biologists working with otters and bald eagle hatchlings; and a trip to the top of the Golden Gate bridge with the ironworkers who maintain it

Everyone's "larging" it big time as a bunch of Brit boys work their way through Paros getting high, getting drunk and getting laid.

Endangered Hawaiʻi produced by American Bird Conservancy (ABC) with funding by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and narrated by actor Richard Chamberlain. The film explores the on-going bird extinction crisis in Hawaiʻi that has led to about 70 percent of all native bird species in the state becoming extinct. With beautiful footage of many of Hawaiʻi’s stunning birds and their habitats, the film showcases the unique biodiversity of our 50th state and explains the environmental crisis that has caused Hawaiʻi to become known as the “Bird Extinction Capital of the World.” It describes the nature of the crisis, its causes, and current efforts to implement solutions for species on the brink.

Early morning and everybody leaves home to work. Jeremias, the gardener, hears the telephone ringing in the house. The front neighbour has a message. Conceição, the maid, called: she won’t be able to come today, Jeremias has to make lunch for Boris. Water falls from the window. the washing machine is not working properly. Boris arrives from school. Jeremias doesn’t have the key

Boy band 98 Degrees and singer Hoku perform live for Disney Channel in Concert.

Neo must fight the agents and return back successfully to the real world. A parody of The Matrix.

Distilled in 1996 from an earlier 50-minute trilogy, this 26-minute film was shot in Greece and Austria and structured around two recurring intertitles, “He said” and “he said.” Each introduces delicate studies of light and place—hotel interiors, cafés, hillsides, storefronts, and street life—framed in parallel variations. The title invokes Apollo as savior and healer.

Four alternating stories about mundane, personal methods of control. Children and a developmentally disabled adult operate control panels made out of paper, lists, monsters and their own bodies.

One of the benefits of a great live performance DVD is that it captures the artist at a specific point in time, age, experience and creative output. Paul Weller Live at the Royal Albert Hall does just that. Filmed in 2000, he is backed by longtime associates Steve White on drums and Steve Cradock on guitar, plus Edgar Jones on bass and Chris Holland on keyboards. Also on hand are Robert Kirby and a 16-piece string orchestra, accompanying the band on most songs. The performances are tight and the production quality is excellent.