Cinematic Era: 2006 Vintage

The making of the film with Donald Spoto.

Andrei, a 13 year old teenager, living on Bucharest outskirts, decides one day to steal a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute he fell in love with.

A biopic about the life of Umberto Boccioni, an italian futurist painter (1882-1916).

Sam, 26, wakes up in the early hours of the morning to see her dead little brother, Darren, at the end of her bed. Today is the first anniversary of his death - a year to the day from that Kodak moment when she walked into the kitchen of their rural property, to discover her little brother's blood and brains splattered all over the kitchen ceiling, walls, floor and doors. With the ghost of Darren commentating on her every move, Sam embarks on a night to forget. With her gay best friend, Andreas, by her side, she goes clubbing, take drugs and travels into the underworld. Where Sam confronts Darren one last time.

Ramakrishna (Allari Naresh) is the son of a temple priest, Sekhar (Baladitya) is an orphan brought up by his maternal uncle, Seshu (Srinivasa Reddy), who was brought up by his grandmother and Bunty (Suman Setty) is the son of a toddy-taper. Ramakrishna is a Flutist; Sekhar plays Mridangam/drums, Bunty fond of playing keyboard while Seshu is a good Guitarist.

From UK Filmmaker Andrew Senior comes The Evolved: Part 1, the first chapter in a twisted splatterpunk comedy epic that’s like Guy Ritchie’s Snatch by way of Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles and BBC’s “The Young Ones”! Detective Danny Glover, Scarborough Police’s premiere dog-napping-ring buster and general fat bastard, arrives in London to help the clinically psychotic Detective Sonny Boy with a little problem; Who is butchering London’s dogs? The answer seems obvious at first, it must be Burger Priest, the Pope’s neo-nazi clown-chef fast food empire! The detectives embark on a covert mission to uncover Burger Priest’s dark secret, but even they are unprepared for the true horror and depth of the fast food franchise’s depravity. Assisted by Feety, a heroin-addicted fetus, and Ellen Mellon, a New York reporter who also happens to be an animated ventriloquist’s doll, they must reveal the Pope’s evil plan and shut down Burger Priest for good!

A reckless young man works for a gangster who exploits him in order to contest the local elections. However, his life changes when he learns a secret about his upbringing.

The Who perform at the Paleo Festival in Nyon during the summer of 2006.

The documentary portrays a behind-the-scenes look at the poor state of Argentina's civil aviation, and puts the blame on the Argentine Air Force. The Air Force has been in control of air traffic operations since the military takeover of General Juan Carlos Onganía in 1966. The producer/director, Enrique Piñeyro, claims Argentina and Nigeria are the only countries whose air force controls and regulates the airline industry. The film is heavily based on the Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 plane crash. Enrique Piñeyro takes his camera, secretly, into the control tower of the Ministro Pistarini International Airport also-known-as Ezeiza, the international airport at Buenos Aires.

Sidney is a warm and deeply quixotic man who sends his lost love a plane ticket to New York along with a letter asking her to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building. With a vintage Polaroid camera in hand, he takes to the New York streets, stopping occasionally at tourist attractions and coffee shops. Along the way, he unexpectedly meets a distraught woman who left her boyfriend that very morning after discovering that he had been unfaithful. Like Sidney, she too is drifting around Manhattan, as she waits for a flight to take her back to San Francisco.

Six guys from Norway go on a trip to Germany to cheer on Norway in the world Championship of football. But it isn't easy to put their normal life aside, not even for football.

A road movie shot in Morocco, KOCHAB also serves as a long-form music video. It features five tracks from Kahimi's latest album, NUNKI.

Advertisement for Adidas' 2006 Adicolor line. This was made for the colour red by Roman Coppola and IDEALOGUE.

Jeff Healey Bluesband Live At Notodden Blues Festival Norway, 2006-08-05. What makes Jeff Healey different from other blues-rockers was also what keeps some listeners from accepting him as anything other than a novelty -- the fact that the blind guitarist played his Fender Stratocaster on his lap, not standing up. With the guitar in his lap, Healey could make unique bends and hammer-ons, making his licks different and more elastic than most of the competition (from back cover)

A documentary follows three bull riders as they compete for the championship.

"AFTER SUNDOWN" is an action-packed story of a young woman who uncovers a dark secret. She is plunged into a gory battle with a predatory vampire from the American Old West, who has the power to create undead zombie slaves that assist him on his search for his vampire offspring. With the help of Texas locals, the woman wages the good fight in a wild clash of vampires and zombies, sending the evil creatures straight to Hell!

Retired Colonel Matveev takes on an unofficial assignment to revenge his friend's death and catch one of the most dangerous terrorists who managed to escape to America during a failed operation in Chechnya.

Ines Kupfer is a famous, universally acclaimed and popular actress. But her career has meant she has never had much time for her only daughter Nathalie. Now Nathalie's wedding to the charming Stephan de Groot is just around the corner, and Ines wants to throw her daughter a lavish party on her estate. But when a woman in a red dress threatens to reveal a dark event from Ines' past at the wedding reception and is found dead the next day, events come thick and fast.

Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska is home to the largest bear on earth, the Kodiak Bear. At least 2,500 bears live on the island and the animal is regarded as the world’s biggest land predator, reaching an impressive four meters in height when standing on its hind legs. Film maker Stefan Quinth spent three years filming the Kodiak Bear and the wildlife of Kodiak Island. His film is a dramatic story about bear and salmon, beavers and eagles. But it is also a film about the thrill of meeting the giant bear eye to eye in its natural habitat.

A dense work, citing everyone from Tarantino and Verhoeven to Artaud and Chaplin, made for Godard's exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Voyage(s) en utopie.

The movie tells the tale of a beautiful young woman whose life is turned around when her ex-porn star dad is made (by the producers) to cast her as the lead in his latest x-rated film. A devastating testimony of the rise and fall of Greek family values, an existentialist journey where habit and cruelty are only separated by life and death

Amin, a 4-year-old boy, the only child in the family, asks his parents to play with him at home and bring him out of the loneliness by bringing the baby to the family.

Californian artist David Best is pioneering a new kind of art where creative and emotive interaction is integral to his work. He is a unique visionary who has profoundly affected thousands of people. The Temple Builder explores the character and motivations of Best, within the context of his work and devoted crew and family. Focusing mainly on his temples - stunningly beautiful and intricately designed buildings, which are burned in order to salute the dead, The Temple Builder asks the question - is this life or art?

When a zombie plague infects a camp for the mentally handicapped, a ragtag band of campers and counselors struggles to survive the night. The unlikely heroes fight their way off the mountain as, one by one, they're picked off and join the ranks of the walking dead. It's a campy stampede of blood, boobs and gore as some "very special" people show that they can kick some serious undead ass.

Deep disappointment and reciprocated love often come in close succession. Mountain Meadow Movie spends a year observing the emotional highs and lows of four people who work at an agricultural workshop for the multiply handicapped.

Oneheadword Protection uses stop-motion animation techniques throughout, irrespective of whether a scene features objects, cardboard cut-outs or human bodies. This gives the film a febrile, panicky rhythm. An all-important sense of play and dressing-up runs throughout, yet the energies this 'playing' unleash are far from innocuous. (Re:Voir)

2006 Tamil film. Director: E.M. Ramamurthy Producer: Kovai Selvam, Suloor Thopaiyya Music Director: Sangeetapriya Cast: Pandiarajan, Manjusri, Savith M. Nayak, Nalini

Marine aiming for idle started a byte with a maid cafe in Akihabara. At that lolita face she quickly becomes number one, but senior Meg who was deprived of popularity is not amusing. Meg collaborates with other maids, repeating persistent bullying of Marinha. Bullying is getting extreme, such as being uploaded to the net as a snatched image in the changing room, but marine gradually gets pleasant.

On a dark night, De Scheve Schuit sails into a strange ship. When Piet and his friends take a look on board of this spooky ship, the crew appears to be cursed. They have all been transformed into stone statues! Piet wants to break the curse because he feels very attracted to the captain of the ship, Captain Marylin. It soon turns out that the solution is the ship itself; it's a flying ship! To make the ship fly, a blue pearl is needed. This can only be found on Oyster Island, an island inhabited by mysterious caves and carnivorous plants...

A mother and her two sons have waited for ten years for her husband and their father to return. One day a stranger arrives and approaches them.

The Diver is a hymn to diving and the aesthetics of movement. It is a dreamlike collage of movement, music and narration honouring the most beautiful sport there is. Helge Wasenius (b. 1927), The Grand Old Man of divers, is the principal character in the film, a colourful daredevil of the sport.

The filmmakers interview members of different activist organizations and discuss basic questions regarding activism and its role in a democratic society. Each organization is given the chance to voice their opinions and the audience is left to consider and critique their stands on key issues, including Amnesty International’s worldwide campaign for human rights and the local resistance to the damming of the Icelandic highlands.

The evil Dr. Hetero creates a straight ray in order to turn the world's gay population into heterosexuals, and it's up to Supertwink to stop him.

Set in the Kingdom of Tonga (South Pacific Islands), this film looks at the influence and encroachment of western culture as shown in the relationship of a young man and his traditional father.

A look at the confrontations between American and Soviet aviation over the ocean during the Cold War, through the recollections of direct participants and eyewitnesses.

A documentary that records the daily life of a mother with a limited life expectancy and a grandmother, directed by the daughter, Haruyo Kato.

The film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. Like in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a prince must search for a rose to save his mother, who is dying in bed, "Tied Hands" sees a reversal of roles as a desperate mother goes out to find marijuana, to ease her son's pain. In her, turbulent journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life.

Many years ago lions thrived in the deserts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast, until they were exterminated by man. Six years ago maverick biologist Flip Stander discovered a tiny remnant population alive and well in nearby mountains, and started to study them. Their numbers have grown and they are now returning to the desert in increasing numbers. But if these lions are to continue roaming here, Flip will have to persuade local people that these lions are worth more alive than dead

There are two guys are sitting face to face in a basement; Kyung-sin who was caught from intervention in student movement, and a police officer, Joo-joong who’s in charge of torture. The student doesn’t confess what he did and who else involved in the movement and the officer keeps on torturing him. By the way, the police officer spoke out how he’s been working as an informal worker at a police office, which he must work over time without any special bonus and any insurance from work. He’s consoled by the one who he’d arrested.

Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He's got a family, a baby, a home... Takis is being cheated. He loves her and he suffers... Takis can't take it at work. He's besieged by savages. But his boss tops them all... Takis has one friend and relatives. Woe is him!... Takis has run out of time. Yet, in his mind, a heavy black cloud has settled, turning everything dark... Takis is silent. He lies down and fills with rage. He fills with rage and sinks deeper...

Milan Kundera's rambling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, though greatly admired, was thought by Hollywood studio executives to be "unfilmable." Director Philip Kaufman and producer Saul Zaentz proved them wrong. Emotional History follows Kaufman and Zaentz as they enlist the help of screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and legendary film editor Walter Murch to turn the Kundera novel into an imaginative exploration of politics and eroticism, set against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Our documentary goes in-depth to discover how indelible moments in the film - Lena Olin kneeling on a dressing mirror; Russian tanks invading Prague; Juliette Binoche photographing her boyfriend's nude mistress; became a part of cinematic history.

Jena is haunted by the memories of her long dead mother. When one of her friends is murdered, those memories may be her only chance to uncover the identity of the killer and to learn the secrets of her family's dark past. Can Jena find out the truth in time, or will she become the next victim?

Joe, a good looking guy with senses of humor, and also is graduated from a foreign country, has to face his destiny when his life is totally upside-down and he finally becomes a pizza delivery boy. When Joe falls for a pretty girl, Jane, he tries to do everything to win her heart. But it's not so easy as he thought when he's involved in a mischievous hunting.

Based on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of his success in Mexico. Moré is caught in the events connected to Batista's coup in Cuba. Also, he tours Venezuela, where he suffers the machinations of a vengeful businessman. After collapsing and being hospitalised, Moré swears off alcohol. Some years later, he encounters his old band-mate Monchy, fallen on hard times.

Also punningly known as Ecce Homo; Excès oh! Mot.

Tina and Lea are best friends who are also avid fans of Vilma Santos. They were inseparable until Lea decides to leave the country and go to Korea. They promise that someday they will really become one big happy family when their children get married. Years after, by virtue of an old vow, Lucky Girl and Lucky Boy are forced to be together by their mothers. Problem is, they hate each other's guts. But, just when they're falling for each other, love plays a trick on the meddling moms which threatens to bring the young lovers apart.

Last Winter is all about last winter - a collection of snowboard adventures from around the world! This isn't your usual rider section film. This is the ChunkyKnit girls inviting you to be part of our experiences from last winter. Produced not only by the usual ChunkyKnit crew but also the riders themselves Last Winter includes a Romanian mountain hut trip, snowboarding in Scotland, a bad weather trip to Japan as well lots of world class riding footage and other stories. Packaged in a beautiful Super Jewel case with cardboard sleeve and booklet. Featuring: Kjersti Buaas, Jenny Jones, Lisa Filzmoser, Erin Valverde, Tina Birbaum, Manuela Pesko, Lesley McKenna and lots of other new faces.

In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine abortion. Under a 1920 law, the five women were arrested and charged. Supported by a procession of well-known French (eg Simone de Beauvoir), the five were released and the law was adapted.

Being a politician is a tough job. Federal Councillor Alois Mumenthaler knows this too and makes his way through the sessions as a grumpy and old-fashioned representative of the species. He is pretty much against everything and launches a rigorous anti-drug campaign that turns out to be a flop. His party no longer wants him and his wife even less so. He has also been diagnosed with glaucoma. The man is slowly going blind. A visit to the doctor reveals that cannabis, of all things, has a healing effect and could fight the disease. But a federal councillor and cannabis don't mix. Nevertheless, it is the only way for Mumenthaler to avoid complete blindness and keep his hopes of an operation alive.

Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance. Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution traces the development of this film industry, which has always been closely intertwined with the country's tumultuous political history, from the decades-long reign of Reza Shah Pahlevi and his son, the rise of Khomeini and the birth of the Islamic Republic, the seizure by militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and the devastating war with Iraq.

The film is based on an ordinary everyday story: Mayilla and Gandab have been engaged for a year. When Gandab returns from studying in Baku, he demands his parents return his engagement ring. As the events unfold, it turns out that Gandab met a young man named Fagan in Baku and they fall in love. Fagan also comes to the village after his lover, and from then on, things get even more complicated...

Award-winning documentary, Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, makes extensive use of Sitting Bull’s own words, giving the viewer an intimate portrait of one of America’s legendary figures in all his complexities as a leader of the great Sioux Nation: warrior, spiritual leader and skilled diplomat. Sitting Bull’s words, as portrayed by Adam Fortunate Eagle, dominate this story. Augmented by a narrator’s historical perspective, over six-hundred historical photographs and images, and a compelling original music score, the film brings to life the little-known human side of Sitting Bull as well as the story of a great man’s struggle to maintain his people’s way of life against an ever-expanding westward movement of white settlers. It is a powerful cinematic journey into the life and spirit of a legendary figure of whom people have often heard but don’t really know.

Friends get together in a country house and reminisce about the "good old times." Some now have grown-up children who accompany them and life is different... or is it? The story unravels quite well with good dialog and superior acting from the entire cast. The movie is philosophical without being bogged down by the some times heavy content. A very refreshing look at life, getting old, being free and always finding ways to share, appreciate and enjoy.

A teenage girl spending the night at the place of a boy she likes finds herself targeted by a mysterious serial killer who may be the very boy she is with.

Julien Temple's 2006 documentary film about the famous music festival from 1970 to 2005, featuring performances from artists such as David Bowie, Bjork, Blur, Oasis and Coldplay. The film is made up of footage shot by Temple at the festival in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, as well as footage sent in by festival goers after a request on websites and newspapers for footage. Temple had initially only agreed to make a film of the 2002 festival after organiser Michael Eavis expressed concern that that would be the last year of the festival. Temple then realised that he wanted to make a film detailing the full history of the festival. The film also includes footage shot by Channel 4 and the BBC during their coverage of the festival since 1994. Text from Wikipedia.

Young American Catherine Mulligan follows her love to Iran and converts to Islam. After being raped she is sentenced to death by stoning.