Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

Even online sex can be FATAL! Short experimental German splatter movie. DVD came included in GORY NEWS #18/19 (October 2002).

A wonderful funny story for children and adults. A hungry evil wolf tries to eat grandma. Punished. Forgiven and re-educated. Eating grandma's pancakes. Kindness and friendship win again.

A North Western - Appleseed Lake follows the story of Eddie Freeman and his attempts to make a life in a dead end town, a town named after a dried up lake whose apple trees have been cut down for redevelopment.

Shot as a political thriller, this documentary in 4 acts go behind the scenes of the Parisian municipal elections of June 1999.

In The Company Of Strangers is the story of a young man in trouble with the law who is sentenced to 600 hours of community service in an AIDS hospice. There it is hoped he will learn tolerance and compassion. While there, he helps to reconcile a dying man with his estranged son. At the same time, the young man reconnects with his own distant father.

A man discovers the adult videos he rents turn into people ready to satisfy his desires in this David Cronenberg-esque fantasy.

The diploma work of the director Andrey Kanivchenko.

The way to the W.C. It can be very long and you can think a lot.

Crazy man. Crazy woman. Confused cat.

An artist uses a spell to free herself from an abusive relationship in this experimental revenge tale told through rap, song, Shakespearean verse, sign language, and Jamaican patois.

Freddy, an injured man on the run, is taken in by Thomas, a kindhearted priest, and nursed back to health in the bell tower of the church by the priest's beautiful and innocent daughter, Anna. It doesn't take long for a romance to bloom between Freddy and Anna, leaving Thomas to choose between his religious commitment to help the vulnerable and his love for his daughter.

When Noddy does a favor for Constable Salomonsen one day, he gets a strange idea. Because he has helped Salomonsen, he thinks he is part of the police force in Lekeland. And that he can therefore keep an eye on his friends and give them fines.

The second cult movie from the makers of Getaway in Stockholm 1 with even more excitement and wilder car chases than before. A Toyota Supra and a Ford Escort Cosworth vs. the Swedish Police - the heavy-weight champions in a documentary on street racing, a cat-and-mouse game with the Swedish Police in the night of Stockholm.

Old Mr. Kim receives a red car from his son on his seventieth birthday. He's delighted with it, but now, for the first time, he has to take a test to get his driving license.

This affecting documentary relates the struggle of two Baptist women, Susan Parker and Wendy Scott, to seal their domestic union in a chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University -- a crusade that generated national controversy in the late 1990s.

Portrait of Prince Claus on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

When Matthew Bannister was appointed Controller of BBC Radio 1, his plans to make the station cool again began with the ousting of a number of long-serving DJs. But they would not go quietly, and millions of listeners were lost. Bannister thought he had found a savior in new DJ Chris Evans, but when he also departed he left the managers with only each other to fight.

Wayne Lo is intellectually gifted, did well at school and plays the violin superbly. At Simon's Rock College in Massachusetts he shot dead two men unprovoked, injured many others and is now serving a life sentence. Troller draws a bold portrait that centres around one question: why?

On the eve of the year 2000, two stories centered around money unfold in Beijing. One is the story of a merchant who was poisoned for money -- 1000 years ago. Trapped in a black bowl, the merchant's ghost encounters an old beggar, and regales him with the story of how he came to be inside a bowl. The other story begins in modern times: A debt collector handcuffs an old friend, a poet, who cannot pay back his debt. The poet, who cannot be free of his handcuffs until he returns the money to the debt collector, goes to pick up his lover, while still handcuffed to the debt collector — but the poet's lover too was a prisoner of the debt collector, who escaped, and so all three are become handcuffed together. "Flying Flying" participated in the Youth Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001, as a 'film banned after 1990.'

How much do you know about the life of birds? Watch this film, and you will have something to share with your kids.

Osama Bin Laden – Britain and the USA in Iraq as through television reportage – camera only inches from the screen

Documentary focusing on a memorable weapon used in the movie. Produced for the “Predator” DVD.

Wire mesh, fiberfill, salt and paper, steel wool, cherry blossoms, grease and spit, bubble wrap, tea leaves, washer rings, and a drain stopper chain. An exaltation of the everyday set to music by Martin Tétreault and Otomo Yoshihide, Jetsam employs the early photographic technique of directly exposing objects onto film.

2001-01-26, Sydney

Director Helmut Herbst’s animated sci-fi short with characters that would be more fully explored in CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS.

Documentary with interviews, appearences and videos by Blink 182, Guttermouth, MxPx, Dance Hall Crashers, Supertones.

Produced for the "Krull" Special Edition DVD.

Tobiáš is a drummer for Ivan Král. He is also a professional garbage collector. He lives among garbage cans and a landfill. There he literally finds Pavla—a fragile, golden-haired creature with slashed wrists, unconscious. The love between Tobiáš and Pavla is strong, elemental—chaos. Pavla collapses in a nightclub. During a song, she is carried out on a stretcher. The head doctor at the hospital tells Tobiáš about Pavla's incurable illness and her impending death. Tobiáš raises money to save her life through charity concerts. After futile efforts, an opportunity for fraud arises. Even that doesn't help them. Yet in this situation, they find something much more important...

film by Hajime Gonno

Martin Bormann, the man who, at the end, controlled all access to Hitler, was regarded by his Fuhrer as his most loyal comrade and was named as the executor of Hitler's will.

Puppet animation about a city of light bulbs. The existence of this remarkable city depends on one big lantern. Every day, a lamplighter switches it on and off. One day someone steals the light bulb from the lantern.

A winter chill sets in making the furry residents of various dwelling places a center of affection and reflection. The images conjured up are steeped in a twilight worthy of polar pinpoints in the grip of glaciated gloom. The crushing weight of frigid fragments of time threatens to bury the animated remains of sentient stiffs as they flex their muscles in a vain attempt to ward off encroaching crustiness. Only the lure of mammalian fur promises a few precious moments of centigrade comfort in this zone of zero zoology.

This drama tells the fate of the four daughters of Hajj Al-Bashir and their suffering from their husbands' greed for their father's wealth. Samira, the youngest of his daughters, impulsive and stubborn, is forced to marry Bashir, who works as an agricultural engineer. Will this marriage succeed ...

An isolated farmer's daughter dreams of becoming a cow.

José Bove is fighting against junk food, Eric P is fighting against the Somport tunnel through the Pyrenees. José has support, but Eric P is alone. José is backed, but Eric P has been abandoned by left-wing parties and organizations. José is on TV. Eric P has just been admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

A domestic incident during the Cirio de Nazare, the huge religious event from Belem, Brazil.

An interview with John Sweet, who provides details about the shooting of Powell and Pressburger's 1944 film, A CANTERBURY TALE.

Part 1 of 5. B&W

Renowned for his foppish garb, iconoclastic Irishman Oscar Wilde was a gifted writer whose intelligence and razor-edged wit permeated his copious works. But his bohemian lifestyle put Wilde at odds with the Victorian prudery of his day, ultimately resulting in a two-year prison stint on a charge of homosexual conduct. This A&E biography profiles the flamboyant scribe via diaries, still photos and scholarly observations.

Xeno, Christine, and Bivak spend their days and nights together in dimly lit rooms cast in the glow of shadows by their computer monitors. The subculture of LAN Parties, IM'ing and hacking confuse Xeno's parents as to why their son spends so much time behind the screen with his friends. The friends rally around Christine as it is discovered she has cancer. Christine's cancer goes into remission as the friends make a pact one night at a LAN Party. Convinced she'll be the first to go, Christine and the others make a promise that whoever dies first in the group will have the others place a webcam in their coffin so the world can watch their corpse.

Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl.

Freely inspired by the life of the great Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, and more specifically by his romantic liaison with the celebrated French novelist George Sand, the film is structured around two mature works by the musician and writer: Sonata for Piano and Cello by Chopin and 'Story of My Life' by George Sand. The composer’s music is brought to life on screen through a choreographic staging where actors and dancers, who are seen alternately by themselves or in the company of musicians, attempt to recreate, within a symbolic decor, the universe inhabited by the two lovers.

Ouarzazate, Morocco, where Hollywood builds its glory on the backs of local workers. From Kundun and Asterix to Gladiator, passing through every historical epic and the thousand-and-one versions of the Bible, the city’s residents all work as extras in films they will likely never have the chance to watch. araBehind the shine of these massive productions stand those actors, with their hopes and disappointments, living witnesses to the stark contradiction between the power of commercial cinema and the economic misery it is built upon.

The gothic faithful made a pilgrimage from across America to witness the recording of this one-time event - the reunion of the original Christian Death. Christian Death has remained the prominent band of the Deathrock scene since it's conception in 1979. Recorded live at Los Angeles' Patriot Hall 1993.

Anders "Anden" Matthesen's critically acclaimed stand-up show from 2000-2001. About a show that shares its name with Børneradio's popular satire CD (which was made by the same man) ...but which is nevertheless something completely different! About a one-man show with four men on stage? About two hours of varied comedy, ranging from classic stand-up to music, sketches, and a host of guests.

Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating goes solo for this live show recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Includes performances of 'Rollercoaster', 'The Way You Make Me Feel' and 'When You Say Nothing At All', along with a behind-the-scenes documentary and the promo videos for Ronan's first three singles.

It is the ultimate taste-maker island and whilst being known mainly as an importer of tunes, there is homegrown Ibiza-crafted music that flowers in the form of Chill Out. DJ Chris Coco mixes an aural journey reflecting the shifting moods of an Ibiza day. Travelling the island from sun up to sun down, the scenes are spectacular. The pivotal aspect of just about every DJ Chill Out set is sunset, which, played right, becomes an intensely emotional experience - a marriage of music, mood and precise moment. See this ceremony unfold on the magic that is Visions of Ibiza, Volume I.

A five-part account of Jan Jakub Kolski's trip to Indochina. The trip was organized by the well-known traveler Jacek Pałkiewicz.

Here, on April 26, 1986, at one twenty-three a.m., the largest man-made disaster occurred, the biggest that people know and remember. How did this accident change human destinies? How has it affected all of us?

Burning Rubber was the name of the first home video release by former Top Gear presenter Tiff Needell, and came out towards the end of his tenure on Original format Top Gear.

An aging man leaves his wife and sets off on his way to Fujiyama, the mountain of his dreams.

Set to the music of Sigur Ros, this short film features a football match in 1950s Iceland between two teams of young boys. As one team scores a goal and celebrates, two young boys on the same team begin to kiss.