Cinematic Era: 2005 Vintage

The inside story of the Beach Boys from their formation in 1961 to the present day (2005).

Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious journey from a childhood of hardship and poverty to celebrated African American writer is chronicled in this inspiring program through exclusive interviews and personal recollection.

Pink film directed by Tetsuya Takehora.

Aadi transforms from being an unemployed young man to a responsible and kind businessman after a chance encounter with Aishwarya and her father, Uday Chandra.

In 2005 the cast and crew with Lars Von Trier gatherd to talk about Lars Von Trier's Dogma film The Idiots.

Derek Jarman died after 19012 days from his birth. I wish I was able to see, and let people see, through the eyes of someone who is not there, through the memories of his life. - DP

Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking to see. In order to make it onto the screen, they must clear all manner of obstacles, from fussy clients to obsessive regulators and restrictive rights issues. X-Rated takes a look at these outlawed pieces of advertising, revealing the most explicit, controversial and shocking ads never seen. These are ads that break all manner of taboos, from sex, violence, blasphemy, homosexuality, animal cruelty, rapping pensioners, swearing children, suicidal toys and naked athletes to Kylie in her undies on a bucking bronco. Amongst the contributors are advertising executives, producers and censors. The programme also takes a look at the embarrassing world of western celebrities in Japanese ads.

Screenwriter David Franzoni hosts a discussion with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Antoine Fuqua, and cast members Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, and Hugh Dancy. Produced for the “King Arthur” DVD.

Follows the creation of a new children's tv show, "Accepting Everyone Through Music," while pursuing the real reason behind the untimely cancellation of "The Flower Shop," in 1986.

The Mayors is a 2004 Nigerian drama film written, produced and directed by Dickson Iroegbu, and starring Richard Mofe-Damijo, Sam Dede, Segun Arinze and Mike Ezuruonye. The film won 5 awards at the maiden edition of the African Movie Academy Awards in 2005, including the awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor in a Lead Role and Best Support Actor.[

"Severed Ties" follows the trail of four lives after one of them commits murder to satisfy his sado/masochistic fetish. Brian Charles and his girlfriend Angie's fun evening together is cut short by a disturbing phone call from Victor, Brian's brother.

A young man wakes up naked on a pallet on the street in Montreal. Who is he, what is his name? How did he get here? The only thing he seems to remember is that he's gay. And so begins one of the most compelling gay-themed mysteries we’ve seen. Based on a true story, this young man has been through some trauma that caused his memory loss -- or is he an imposter avoiding the law in some way?

There is a teenage boy who killed his mother. A detective examines him mercilessly. This film is about the truth behind their unbearable suspense.

Pique Dame (or "The Queen of Spades") inspired by Alexander Pushkin, set to a music by Tchaikovsky; Passacaglia (or "Passacaille") set to a music by Anton Webern: two Roland Petit masterpieces brought together on one memorable evening at the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow. Recorded live, 19th of May 2005.

This documentary traces the remarkable career of Frank Sinatra, offering up over a dozen archival performances by the master vocalist. This program contains full renditions of such favorites as "Witchcraft," "High Hopes," "Stardust," "I'll Never Smile Again," and "Luck Be A Lady."

Full Impact Pro Wresting

The charming story of the film is picked up from village life of our country. The mischief of the so-called 'Molla' who has no knowledge except fanatic sentiments perturbed all. His home is the seat of an oppressive regime.

A martial arts film by Kant Leung Wang-Fat.

Trimurtulu decides to get his son Sambasiva married to his brother-in-law's daughter, Mahalakshmi. However, this puts Sambasiva in trouble as he is already in love with Kavita.

In order to make a living, old Nica turns her country house into an anemic, bankrupt "pension". Her only joys are her dog's chirping and the TV news program. Out of loneliness, she sometimes imagines herself the heroine of a soap opera: secretly, Nica is in love with the news anchor Paul. The old woman decides to take a trip to Bucharest, where her daughter, Tuta, a nurse, lives with her concubine, Jenel, and Marilena, her 15-year-old daughter. In the capital, her passion for Paul takes paroxysmal forms. Nica monopolizes the remote control to stay on the same TV channel for which Paul presents the news, which will attract the family's irony. She even goes so far as to look for her "beggar" at the TV station, writes to him, exposing herself to humiliation and mockery. But she resists until illness and shame bring her down. Everything culminates in the old woman's attempt to commit suicide...

Three directing students brainstorm ideas for a feature film.

Helen is suffering from chronic depression and uses self inflicted pain as a means of escape. Alex loves her so keeps trying to care for her.

A woman trapped in an unhappy marriage: Sima, must contend with a husband so insensitive that he makes no effort to hide his various sexual indiscretions. He forces her into an even more uncomfortable situation when he asks his wife to pretend she is related to his current girlfriend in order to avoid trouble from a society that punishes unmarried couples for being together in public.

The leather designer Vera Klunert can not believe it: her husband Andreas, with whom she is happily married, has simply kept secret her impending insolvency of the family business! Only a potential investor can help now. Ironically, in the rescue promising Viennese entrepreneur Werner Hausmann but Vera meets her great love again! It does not take long for the old, lost feelings to flare up again. Vera's marriage is put to the test by this storm of emotions.

A montage-based collage-film primarily bringing together elements of the cult classic all-time flop "Rollerboogie" (starring Linda Blair) and an "unfinished amateur short film" – with additional vido and audio elements from Star Wars, Xanadu, The Exorcist, and numerous other sci-fi and horror films.

Thisara, the owner of an advertising firm, gets a contract to make a propaganda campaign for the opposition leader Gregory Mahadikaram at the next presidential elections.

During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.

Dave Allen was an alternative comedian before the phrase even existed. He was an innovator who set the agenda for comedy and comedians for more than thirty years. All he needed was a stool and a glass of something and he was in his element, reflecting laconically on such subjects as sex, the Irish and God, traffic, smoking, the Bible, Life and Death. Also sex, the Irish and God... This DVD contains his very own personal choice of sketches, gags and monologues. It's a vintage display from a unique raconteur - a man who observes out guilt, weaknesses and doubts and makes us laugh at them and at ourselves.

Michael, a hardened petty criminal, has made a hot score with two accomplices. On a hectic escape through the streets of Prague, he notices a young woman who is about to throw herself off a bridge into the Vltava. Quick-witted, he jumps in after her and saves Klara's life - and his own. For Michael, it is a moment of enlightenment that leads him back to his fatherly friend Father Christoph. The priest prays hard for him and hides his protégé in a monastery, where Michael enters the seminary and develops his talent as a restorer. Six years later, Michael returns to Prague and meets Klara again by chance. He has never forgotten her, but she does not recognize her former rescuer.

Cam Archer revisits the life of child actor Jonathan Brandis who committed suicide in 2003. Lydia Lunch narrates this meditation on fame, the actor’s pressure to remain in the public eye and the surreal events in the lead up to his unexplained death.

An old abandoned liquor factory, three young men, three young women and one Ouija board. Kim, Kalle and Johan have invited their friends, Lisa, Åsa and Stina to the large decayed apartment in the factory, to play "The spirit of the glass". The guys are planning to scare the girls with the story of the janitor who brutally murdered his wife a few years back. But when the game starts something goes wrong. Someone asks the forbidden question... the question, which no one should ask "the spirit of the glass"... the question that sets the evil free... "Who are you?" And the evening turns into a nightmare.

Jeremy Anderson is a young black man on the rise in a New York City corporate law firm with a beautiful white fiancée. But when he and his intended wife attend an annual family reunion in his hometown of New Orleans, Jeremy is put off by the crazy characters in his Southern African-American family... and now his bride-to-be is having second thoughts about their relationship.

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is one of the staples of the comic opera repertory. The plot hinges on whether earnest but dim-witted Nemorino will snag Adina, the flirtatious heroine. She's a tease who takes up with Belcore, an army sergeant, to make Nemorino jealous. After numerous (and humorous) plot twists that include a phony love potion, it all ends happily. Adina and Nemorino declare their love for each other, Belcore is dumped, and the fraudulent Dulcamara does a landslide business in love potions. It's all a fast-moving bundle of fun, especially with the star-filled cast of this 2005 Vienna State Opera performance.

I am what persists. I shall turn myself into the serpent that no man knows, that no god can see.

Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...

Two girls who couldn't be more different. Alina loves horses and would love to have one of her own, but her mother can't afford it. For Jennifer, the daughter of rich parents, horses are just objects that are used and then put away. The stallion Silverado belongs to Jennifer, but only Alina gains his trust. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the means to buy him. To make matters worse, Jennifer falls in love with Alina's crush Patrick and her mother starts a new relationship after separating from Alina's father. But after a tournament, Alina is the winner in many respects and Jennifer is forced to realize bitterly that money and scheming games can buy neither love nor happiness...

When her son Mauricio suffers a severe crisis, Aurora, a wealthy woman from Guadalajara, returns from Greece to try to help him with the possible disclosure of the identity of his father.

The release marks yet another occasion on which the four actors Søren Pilmark, Niels Olsen, Asger Reher, and Henrik Koefoed have elevated bawdiness to a higher level. It contains a beautifully varied two-hour show with a brand new Western theme, featuring Niels Olsen in suspenders and fishnet stockings as General Custer, lodge sketches with the brotherhood, Fjærtoman, Asger Reher performing a spectacular stunt in alternative farts, and four-part singing from the four brothers, who totally knock the audience out with barely concealed bawdy innuendos.

A couple in crisis sets off for the East in the hope of rediscovering their lost harmony.

Kuddusi Yurdum, a minibus driver, competes in a TV quiz show to win a grand prize for his family. After narrowly missing the final question, they accept a consolation trip to Barbunya Island, where unexpected and funny adventures await.

An aswer to the question "What are you doing in there?"

Shot during the summer of 2005, this enigmatic film was the second collaboration between Saint Etienne and director Paul Kelly. It follows a young paperboy's adventure across London's last remaining wilderness in the Lea Valley on the eve of the Olympic development. A poetic ode to a metropolitan hinterland that has been forever changed by the impact of the 2012 Olympics games.

Set in 1994 Baku, the film modernizes Üzeyir Hacıbəyov’s musical comedy "O olmasın, bu olsun" by recasting Rustam Bey as an opposition figure who hopes to reclaim his lost office by courting wealthy businessman Ibka’s family. As in the original, a series of comic deceptions and mismatched identities ensue, though all the principal characters have been updated to fit the post-Soviet Azerbaijani context.

A countdown of the 20 greatest gigs of all-time as chosen by a panel of pundits, promoters and performers.

Tells the story of David Secter, Canada's first acclaimed indie filmmaker.

Liz has a bad day and takes it out on poor Bill.

Although they are trying to hold on to life despite all difficulties, there are fewer than a thousand in the wild today. But the struggle to save Panda and his species, the most beloved and charming bear in the world, continues with a great determination and dedication. The newborn panda puppies are now being raised by people with a new and wonderful partnership called 'exchange, cultivation', not just by their parents. In this documentary we look at the adventures of the panda nursery, who saved the lives of the twin pandas and the future of their generations, and the life stories of the cute pandas.

Born in Spain in 1492 at the time all Jews and Muslims were ordered out of the country, Joshua (Leonardo Cesare Abude) is declared the next messiah by an elder. Eventually settling in Italy with his family, Joshua grows into a man and becomes fascinated with Catholicism, much to the dismay of local religious leaders. Pasquale Scimeca's religious drama exploring the nature of prejudice and intolerance also stars Anna Bonaiuto and Toni Bertorelli.

In the spring of 2004, Massachusetts began the final battle of its journey towards legalizing same-sex marriage. This documentary follows a few local couples & their families through the months leading up to & shortly after that defining occasion in LGBTQ+ history, culminating in their respective weddings. Also includes interviews with active opponents attempting to discourage the movement (& failing, of course). Premiered at the Independent Film Festival of Boston in April 2005, just a month short the decision's one-year anniversary.

Liina is a young actress at Vanemuise Theatre who gets Tiina's part in the new, postmodernist version of the play "Werewolf" by August Kitzberg. The theatre is haunted and the rehearsals seem to be cursed, artificial blood becomes real blood. The play won't be complete before the murder mystery is unsolved - and Liina is being taken back to the old theatre legends and intrigues of the past century.

MTV ao vivo is the third live album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs. Up to 2007, their latest album. Its brief lifespan in Brazilian charts inspired the band to took a more pronounced delay before another studio album was recorded. Band members enjoyed the opportunity for more solo projects, some successful as Sérgio Britto's single Raquel (DDD) which received some mainstream airplay during the first half of 2007.

Family and friends gather on Christmas Eve Eve for celebration, fights, a snowstorm and more fights

Grub, a young surfer, is caught in a conflict between his boss, former surf legend Claw, and his passion for Vanessa, a mysterious Maori woman tattooist. Driven by his desire to be tattooed and 'become a man', Grub ignores warnings that Vanessa could be 'Hine Nui Te Po', the Maori sea goddess and mythical 'Eater of Life'. Rebelling against Claw, he is drawn ever deeper into Vanessa's ambiguous world of pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality, until finally the young surfer must face death in order to understand life.