Cinematic Era: 2003 Vintage

A widowed theater actor relives his memory of a young love.

While "working" for a travelling freak show, the Hillbilly Monster escapes his life of humiliation and servitude. Alone and afraid he becomes injured by an unfriendly bear trap. Befriended by a psychologist and a strange groundskeeper, he recovers from his ordeals in the wilderness and moves on to live a free and better life.

Freddy Krueger has returned and is totally pissed off. This time he haunts the dreams of three unsuspecting teens on a rock'n'roll tour in Mexico. These kids are Friends Forever and that's a power that is tough for Freddy to break. Can the friends defeat the Satanic stalker, or will they be molested by his blades of fury?

For Eliot Ness, Al Capone was old news in 1935. It was Ness’ stint as Safety Director of Cleveland, and his face off with Cleveland’s Torso Murderer, that was plainly the defining episode in his career. The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run tore through the headlines of Cleveland’s daily papers for years, and this serial killer -perhaps America’s first of its kind- left behind a bloody birthright that haunts the city still.

Guitarist and singer Stan Bush is best known to AOR collectors for the melodic, crunchy pop/rock albums he recorded during the '80s, invades the UK backed by AOR greats Talon.

French documentary of the life and work of pioneering animation director Tex Avery.

Hot grainy tightrope walkers, Chinese acrobats, Russian human towers & an inverted Wall of Death ...

Documentation Germany

Due to excessive rainfall, the Land van Maas en Waal is threatened with flooding. Whereas all villagers have been evacuated, stoic old Jacoba refuses to vacate her little house on the dyke. Filled with a longing for death, she sits and waits for the dykes to give way. She kills time by listening to the radio alerts, by reading the Bible and by praying to God to hurry up. Until she is disturbed by the arrival of her 12-year-old granddaughter Fleur, who foils her plan. Gradually, the film unravels the reason for the old woman's peculiar behaviour, at the bottom of which lie indigestable past events. Despite attempts to get rid of Fleur, the unyielding girl is determined not to abandon her grandma. The confrontation with her grandchild forces the elderly lady to reconsider her intention.

2003 release

A computer guided choreography of abstract forms and explicit body language.

Club America

The Nightmare Dentist kills a Boy.

In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre or installations, but are seen as an important intermediary to understanding the world. Taking Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ as an example, he feels that the prisoners in the cave believed the shadows on the wall represented reality not because they were controlled by hallucinations, but because silhouettes projected onto walls by firelight were the beginning of mankind’s understanding of the meaning of the world.

Original Met...Hall of Fame broadcaster...Fan-favorite...Legend. Bob Murphy has made his mark with the New York Mets. In this retrospective, Murph recalls some of his most treasured memories at the microphone.

Hard rock renegades Quiet Riot were one of the most popular hard rock bands of the 1980s, and this live concert video finds them still kicking up dust on stage in 2002. Quiet Riot: Live in the 21st Century captures a live show from the L.A. rockers, including a short acoustic set, a tribute to former guitarist Randy Rhodes, and additional archive footage which offers a look at the band's 20-year history. Songs include "Metal Health," "Cum on Feel the Noize," "Feel the Pain," "Vicious Circle," "Danger Zone," and many more.

In this intimate and personal portrait, we follow Paul, a single, straight bus driver of 37, as he undergoes a gender transition to begin living as a woman called Julia. Filmed over a two year period, this documentary explores the stereotypes about what makes a man and what makes a woman.

Aliens plundered the beer supplies of Lower German City of Sulingen. But the annual Marksman's fair is imminent and going to fail without beer. Therefore, the Apparatspott is sent. While it takes the captain on the planet Rollrich II, the crew had to face the Aliens.

A documentary about artist Zdenko Buzek.

見殺し塔からずっと: Live at Shimokitazawa Shelter is the first DVD release by Japanese band Boris. It was captured on their Black Summer tour on July 12, 2003. The first ten tracks are songs from the show, which are mostly from the Akuma no Uta and Heavy Rocks albums. Tracks 11-14 are music videos made by the band by Foodunited and Fangs Anal Satan. A loose translation of the first bit of the title is, "From The Tower That Turns A Blind Eye To Death". (Wikipedia)

The Argentinean rockers of Rata Blanca join forces with legendary bassist Glenn Hughes (formerly of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath) for a memorable evening of music filmed live in Buenos Aires in 2003. Tracks include "Caballo Salvaje," "El Amo del Camino," "Cuando la Luz," "Guerrero del Arco Iris," "Mujer Armante" and "Volviendo a Casa," plus the English-language hits "Stormbringer," "Mistreated," "Keep On" and "Burn."

As the rain falls backwards, a golden queen rises up. As the gold drips out of her body, we enter her mind into a metaphysical kingdom.

A little boy is having trouble falling asleep because there are monsters in his bedroom

As our young heroes Tyler and Crash face zombies, a mass murder, bad weather and palpable sexual tension, they must escape the hellish world they find themselves in.

Two friends drink in a bar. A woman enters.

For months and months now, Frédéric Laffont has been photographing the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The stone, the tank, the olive trees that are cut down... And yet, there are things that his photos do not say. Written day by day, his notebooks sketch another horizon. Close to her victims, the photographer refuses to submit to the worst. There is a time for war and a time for peace.

The film is about the north of Guangdong a village farmer water life tragic story, in order to live, in order to be able to let his sister read, in order to be able to raise money to keep the death penalty brother. Sell blood, sell son, even sell his wife, finally sister did not continue to read and ran to Shenzhen to work, made the death penalty brother finally also can not keep life, A water finally because of selling blood got ghost guy died, and her wife Autumn Moon also died in the charcoal under the waterfall pool

A short film by James Elaine and William Basinski.

Actress Barbara Sukowa began her career in the German theater. In this 2003 interview she discusses her move into film under the direction of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In 1981, Sukowa starred in Fassbinder’s LOLA, as well as Margarethe von Trotta’s MARIANNE AND JULIANE. She has since worked with Lars von Trier, Michael Cimino, and David Cronenberg.

A young woman obsessed with her body goes to brutal lengths to fit into her favourite dress.

'Petite mémoire' tells of a forgotten woman's face and the attempt to shed light on the memory, to restore clear features to what is indistinct, but the closer one gets, the more the face vanishes, taken away by other images ready to reclaim the same attention. …and at the end of the journey, stopped in an empty station, one is left with the doubt that only one's own projections, or those of other travellers, have passed outside the window; that the treadmills of memory have deluded us again, us and our empty suitcases...

Emma has a dark side.

The epic story about a race of living machines, the lone survivors of a forgotten war. Created to find a new home world for their masters, the robots are forced to function on their own when they believe the Dalmarians to be destroyed. Decades later the robots learn the Dalmarians had survived and have returned. The robots are forced to choose between their obligation to their creators or to maintain their independence.

In Dr. Wayne Dyer's public television special, taped live in front of a thousand fans in Boston's historic theater district, he transforms conventional thinking about making things happen in our lives into a profound understanding of how each person possesses the infinite potential and power to co-create the life he or she desires. To accomplish this, Dr. Dyer takes the audience through a journey into the seven faces of intention - 1: creativity, 2: kindness; 3: love, 4: beauty, 5: expansiveness, 6: abundance, and 7: receptivity. Throughout the program, Dr. Dyer illustrates his points with signature stories that move the audience to tears--as well as abundant laughter.

This captivating documentary explores the careers of military parachute jumpers in World War II and their astonishing bravado as they prepared for deployment behind enemy lines without immediate reinforcement from ground troops. Through archival footage and fascinating interviews with war veterans and historians, the film underscores -- and celebrates -- the crucial role that the airborne forces played in winning the war.

Interweaving performance footage, still photos and pointed interviews, filmmaker Tracy Flannigan provides an intriguing glimpse into the lives and psyches of in-your-face lesbian punk rockers Tribe 8. Based in San Francisco, the band is famous for breaking the rules on stage and everywhere else -- and cameras capture it all as the outrageous ladies kindle controversy from coast to coast. Bonus material includes deletes scenes.

Dawn is a special little girl with special needs. Born from a human father and a vampire mother who died while giving birth. Dawn requires blood to survive. She and her father travel across the country, assuming new identities and never staying in one place for very long--until a small town detective with psychic powers pays extra attention to the murder of one of his townsfolk.

Thuy Nga Paris By Night 69

In an attempt to understand why he suspects his girlfriend is cheating on him, filmmaker John Haslett Cuff interviews his mother and a number of other women who have a wide range of experiences with adultery about their affairs and their relationship with their spouses.

2003 release

With the campus-wide dance competition looming over their strong, toned shoulders, the men of Closson pull off their gutsiest move yet: they ask someone else to help.

How the Hitler Youth became the largest organization for young people in German history -- some 8 million strong at its height -- is documented in this examination of the group's genesis and history, aided by previously unpublished private films spanning 1920 to 1945. Includes interviews with Artur Axmann, Jutta Rüdiger, and Werner Kuhnt.

See the world's legendary fighting styles in an entirely new way. As young martial artists Mike Chaturantabut and Matt Mullins fight their way through the world's most prestigious tournament, East meets West in a stunning application of visual technologies and the biomechanical secrets behind the world's martial arts are revealed for the first time. Using a unique graphic technique that allows for "in-the-body" animation of joints and muscles, experts demonstrate the basic principles behind muscular torque and leverage - creating fighting and sparring scenes unlike anything you've ever seen. Weapon masters showcase the physics behind the fiercest weapon styles - the twin broadswords, the Chinese straight sword and the Katana - and demonstrate how warriors can quickly master even common household items - like a traditional Japanese hand fan - to devastate their opponents.

An independent documentary covering the phan experience

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would silence him forever. They were wrong since his voice is a little louder every day. Witnesses to these craze: the publication of the complete works of this great poet, the countless conferences and radio broadcasts devoted to him and finally the production of films such as "Jean Sénac, the blacksmith of the sun". The moving and overwhelming testimonies of those who knew him, the unpublished film archives, the generous voice of the poet on the radio, the discovery of his travels in the territories of poetry and politics make this film a precious document on the life of Jean Senac.

A Donatello award nominated short feature.

Esteban and Virginia do what they usually do together, but is it out of love or out of habit and fear of loneliness? Would daily routines work just as well with someone else? A depiction of a dead end relationship.

Ganeden, in Hebrew, signifies the «Garden of Pleasures", paradise, Eden. Our images of an imaginary journey, in this enchanting place, this place, according to the author, is an original reflection on the theme of travel, that the filmmaker sees, not as a tiring and vain disturbance, amongst the illusions of reality, which are sometimes dangerous, but as a movement, an action, an undertaking, an adventure.

Elliott Leyton, the subject of this riveting documentary by filmmaker Barbara Doran, can't help but be fascinating; that's because Leyton, who teaches at the Memorial University in Newfoundland, is also a valuable ally for law enforcement officials who need his expertise in psychology and criminal behavior to catch some of the most heinous criminals: serial killers.