Cinematic Era: 2006 Vintage

Pink film directed by Kunihiko Matsuoka.

Rock Milestones: Nirvana - In Utero documents the recording of this popular album. In addition to footage of the band performing songs from the record, musicians and critics help explain why the work was a critical and commercial success.

when Cuddle Bee meets a grumpy deer.

Timothy Higgins, the saddest boy in the world, prepares to hang himself at his ninth birthday party.

David buys a pack of cigarettes, smokes one, takes the metro and gives the rest of the pack to François, whom he meets on the platform, before walking away without further explanation.

Fourth Week Films and the New Orleans Jesuit Province present Xavier, a new PBS-style documentary film on the life of the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Narrated by Liam Neeson, Xavier tells the missionary's compelling story through dramatizations, interviews, contemporary location shots, paintings and engravings, maps, and most importantly, the extant letters of Xavier. The film features interviews with distinguished scholars of Jesuit and Renaissance history including Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame University), Andrew Ross (University of Edinburgh), Lourdes del Costa (University of Goa, India), Anthony Ucerler, SJ (Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome), Gauvin Bailey (Clark University) and John O'Malley, SJ, (Weston Jesuit School of Theology).

Faithless is a 2006 brickfilm by Matthew Gray. It follows the story of a man in Limbo who is attempting to piece together the mystery of his own death. Faithless was nominated for seven awards in the 2006 Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts awards and won two, including Best Film.

Documentary about opera in Hollywood.

Ali, who is ice cream salesman in Mugla, tries to survive in the face of fierce competition from the big ice cream brands. While trying to promote his ice cream, he tours the village with his brand new yellow ice cream motorbike. However the naugthy boys of the town who are chasing him to have free ice cream, steal the motorbike while he is away. Still repaying the debts for the loan on his motorbike, Ali becomes furious and accuses the big ice cream brands of stealing the car in order to destroy him. He starts investigating the theft of his motorbike asking one by one to the sellers of the big brands, while all along the naugthy boys are enjoying their free ice cream

A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India...

Since girlhood, TAYLOR has believed that love and marriage are the most important events in every woman's life. Now she's 35 and single with no prospects in sight. As Taylor and her friends wade through the mire of the L.A. dating pool, they realize a lot more is involved in finding the right mate as they meet co-dependents, addicts and sexual deviants. As they hit bottom, thinking there maybe no happiness in their future, a trap door opens leading them to the discovery that they can find happiness within themselves.

Nine former members of a high school baseball team reunite for the first time in seven years, invited to meet again by an unknown figure. The friends begin to reminisce about times gone by, but soon realize that there are discrepancies among their memories. When they decide to open an old time capsule to dig up the truth, they find that the box they buried now has ten keyholes instead of nine; a mystery that only a tenth person could have the answer to.

When her partner Erik has to cancel the holiday, lawyer Claudia Schmitt decides to travel alone to Lusatia. There she meets Mark Berner, who rents holiday cottages in the area. At first, the two are not sympathetic. But as Claudia run towards two little lynxes, they gradually come closer and fall in love. But then Claudia thinks he can find out a dark secret in Mark's past, which later turns out to be a misunderstanding. But it is already too late - Claudia is on her way back to Salzburg. But Mark decides to fight Claudia.

Tension mounts between a quadraplegic man and his wife as she prepares a bath for him.

Karen Bender is a plastic surgery expert who will soon be promoted to Senior Physician. Her family life with her husband Christoph and little daughter Kim could hardly be more harmonious. However, when a routine check-up reveals that the seven-year-old is a lethal tumor, Karen is unexpectedly caught up in her past: Professor Victor Novak, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, is the only one who can save Kim's life. But years ago Karen had an affair with Viktor during a joint engagement in the Balkan war.

In this high definition video essay, Kevin McCauley explores the arguments for and against this vital debate, reviewing the latest newuroscientific research about addiction along the way.Using the spectacular landscape of Utah's State and National Parks to describe the brain areas involved in addiction, Dr. McCauley turns complex neuroscientific concepts into easy-to-understand visual images that will help people in covery feel better understood, and their families and friends feel hope that recovery is possible.

In September 2004, Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Russian city of Beslan, taking some 1,200 people-most of them children-hostage. At the end of three days, over 330 were dead.

Lena returns to her home in a remote, war-ravaged Armenian village to try and persuade her grandparents to leave with her for safety in Moscow.

This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslovakia in the days before he became president of the Czech Republic. A leading playwright, essayist, intellectual and political dissident in 1985, Havel decides to explore the limits of the secret police by traveling and visiting a variety of friends. Along the way, he's thrown in jail twice and followed by hundreds of undercover cops.

This film retraces the last minutes of intimacy that preceded, on November 26, 1974, Simone Veil's entry into the chamber of the National Assembly to present her bill on abortion.

Siva (Shaam) and Sathya (Nithyadas) are collegemates. She is a good friend of Siva. She is always with him, both in his happy and sad moments. When he is in a tight corner, Sathya with the help of her father, helps Siva to come out it unscathed. Their friendship continues even after their college days. The parents of Siva and Sathya mistake their friendship as an affair. In the course of time, Siva marries Sruthy (Samiksha) and Sathya marries Karthik (Jaya Surya). Sruthy soon becomes pregnant but dies of complications in childbirth. Siva is left to raise his son on his own. Many years pass, and Siva's son begins to treat him badly, leaving Siva destitute. At the same time, Karthik informs Siva that Sathya is in her death bed due to heart problems. In due course of time, Sathya dies. The film ends as Karthik and Siva, both widowers, walk together vowing to remain good friends for the remainder of their lives.

Peter LeDonne and Steve Kalafer chronicle the extraordinary life of Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young African woman who escaped genocide in Rwanda and ultimately found refuge in the United States. Seeking shelter with an Episcopalian minister, Immaculée hid from her attackers inside a bathroom for three long months but stayed centered through prayer and faith.

All the glory and classic moments of the Minnesota Twins 1987 (vs St. Louis Cardinals) and 1991 (vs Atlanta Braves) World Series Championships.

An interview with composer Pino Donaggio about his score for the 1973 film DON'T LOOK NOW.

The film is a stage play hybrid showcasing dark and absurd sketches based on contemporary Hungarian news of the 2000's with campy, senseless musical interludes in-between. Highly experimental in nature that - like Marmite - will split its' crowd into ones that'll love it and others that'll loathe it. There's no middle grounds here. The topics included are: The Hungarian Olympians' doping scandal, political terrorism, the national elections... and more.

Theater producer and director Margo Jones pioneered the regional theater movement, supporting the work of new playwrights such as Tennessee Williams.

Madrid, Spain, 1961, during the Franco regime. Carlos, a law student who runs a film club, decides to organize a cycle dedicated to the movies of Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer.

I SAY YEAH! NeOSITE 10th Anniversary Party is a special concert film that took place at Shibuya-AX on October 27th, 2008. This special film includes PUSHIM, RHYMESTER, HOME MADE KAZOKU, Maboroshi, and May J.

Filmmaker Carolina Valencia documents her effort to become a witch doctor in the Santaria tradition as well as her struggles as a transgender person.

A political science teacher is shot and falls into a coma for ten years. After he wakes up, he takes revenge on the person who tried to kill him.

Another volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Here you have a chance to relive some of the great trains of the past, featuring a visit to Perth Shed and trains at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

In the first All Comedy Flick from LBP, Chris Seaver brings you the heart warming tale of AJ Stabone, a mild mannered guy who was thrust from his California life, to live in the small hick town known as Wellsville, NY. He soon finds out that this small town is much more than it seems. It is home to the BIGGEST Karaoke Championship of all time, and Ricky the Gootch reigns Supreme. Ricky makes it pretty hard for the NEW Kid and starts an all out War to destroy AJ and his "cool" ways. AJ along with his mentor Poopdeck Pappy, enter the contest to thwart Ricky's plans of Karaoke World Domination and put him in his place. Watch as You Will witness Karaoke, like you have never seen it before.

Alberte has a passionate affair with Mathias, her doctor. He treats her under narcoanalysis to be able to detect a deeper symptom. He enters her without her knowing it and takes possession of his being in order to read what is chasing him, why people blame him, what is the strange disease that inhabits him.

A group of young adults decide they want to go camping in the woods to get away from the hustle and bustle of life. John and Kevin discover that all Ohio State Parks are closed until further notice due to the sudden disappearance of a hunter close to home. Is this missing hunter connected to a rash of murders just 60 miles north recently? Undaunted and without worry, they redirect their trip and ladies to another location in the woods, while keeping the reason hidden from the women. While settling in they come across another group of individuals who are in the woods to party. As the moon starts to rise, so does the death count as each of member of these groups comes to meet a faceless killer!

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Dracula, now residing in the Indian countryside, sets his army of monsters, including a werewolf, on a group of hapless campers.

A former convict and drug abuser (Bernstein) meets a dog trainer who wants him to help out in her work as part of his rehabilitation. Story told by the dog.

New West Records and Austin City Limits collaborated to release full, one-hour concert performances which were previously edited to fit the half-hour TV broadcast. These performances have been re-mixed and re-mastered in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. This performance by Kris Kristofferson on Austin City Limits was recorded on September 14th, 1981.

A tragic-comic tale with surrealistic tendencies about a lost 23-year-old who is haunted by her disappointed 13-year-old self.

Sophie learns she has a rare fatal neuron disease. As her condition deteriorates she experiences sensory hallucinations up until her final days when she can no longer even distinguish between life and death.

Mrs. Boon is taken to a nursing home. She can no longer live by herself and her war memories of the Japanese POW camp increasingly determine her life; she is clearly suffering from a concentration-camp syndrome. The young and largely immigrant nursing home staff does not really see what is the matter or know much about the history Mrs. Boon lives in, which elicits some unadulterated racist statements from her. Things grow worse when the new resident Mrs. Cohen arrives, a Jew who survived Auschwitz. And they are not the only ones in the home with a 'war past'.

Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a "generalist" or multi-disciplinarian -- a student of many inter-related fields.

He's in for one helluva long night!

Josie longs to have a baby. Her husband Frank would rather have steak. Set against the Technicolor backdrop of 1950's America, Josie sets out on an extra-ordinary tale to motherhood full of twists, turns and tupperware!

On 15 August 2004, a 16-year-old girl was hanged in a public square in Neka, a small Iranian town by the Caspian Sea. Atefeh Sahaaleh's death sentence was for "crimes against chastity". Despite Iran being a signatory to an international convention that promises not to sentence to death or execute those under 18, permission was obtained from Iran's Supreme Court by the local mullah and head of the city's administration to do exactly that. Eyewitness accounts and dramatic reconstructions, plus undercover filming in Atefah's hometown tell the powerful story of the life and tragic death of an ordinary girl.

Fleeing their war-torn homeland, forty thousand Algerians come to Montreal, Quebec in the 1990’s. Many are refused refugee status and are not allowed to study or work normally. Years go by, children are born and Canada becomes home. Then comes 911. Deportations begin.

A short burlesque. A playful film that doesn't only play with colour and vertigo. Albert is a security man and that isn't always an exciting job. Sometimes he enjoys the view from the roof of the building. A blue roof. One day a burglar manages to escape his attention and he gets the sack. The blue roof calls.

This film is a gripping documentary exploration that humanizes the United States' tragically flawed immigration policy. The film follows the story of 3 Cambodian-American immigrants living in Seattle (who came as children in the early 80s, when a multitude of Cambodian refugees were given housing in the city's projects) whose teenage rebellions catch up with them in a horrific way.

When twelve-year-old Mark discovers a drowned sheep he experiences a traumatic reminder of his brother's death. Driven by anger at his grief-stricken mother's inability to recognise his suffering, he destroys the shrine-like sanctuary she has created in her deceased son's room.

Between epic and legend, this fictional documentary recounts the longest and fastest march in the history of war, a 'blitzkrieg' leading to a dazzling victory, that which Napoleon and his great army won

Conrad Stevens is about to turn thirty, yet despite his wild nights spent partying with his roommates at the bachelor pad they've taken to calling 'The Palace,' Connie can't help but feeling that something is missing from his once-charmed life. Feeling stifled in his suburban hometown and trapped in an endless cycle of raucous boozing and non-committal babes, Conrad decides that maybe it's time to make a change from the ordinary and break the everyday cycle.