Cinematic Era: 2007 Vintage

I love shorts! And Larry's life ... Ha a tad jealous maybe . Fun times, please have more to come .... Almost 10 years later I might add :-) Cheers

Nicky Taylor hits the drinking circuits of Britain to investigate what's going on with women on their nights out, asking how big is the problem, is the binge drinking to blame, and what the link is between alcohol and aggression.

A biography about Canada's great unknown environmental and social activist, Rudy Haase. Rudy was born in the USA and lives in Nova Scotia with his wife Mickey. His life's work has involved preserving wilderness in Canada, the USA, Costa Rica, and New Zealand. In Nova Scotia Rudy Haase has been active for more than four decades on many environmental issues from fighting against the clear cutting and pesticide spraying of forests to opposing uranium mining.

A brief history on the alternative comedy scene in Britain in the late 1970's.

The funny and disillusioned portrait of a farmer who, after the death of his wife, sets off in search of a companion for a great trip to Iceland.

A portrait of Samuel R. Delany, an award-winning African-American gay author whose credits include everything from science fiction to several issues of the Wonder Woman comic book. Using a range of experimental techniques and borrowed footage from Delany's home movies, Taylor captures his subject's thoughts on racism, violence, and his struggles with sexual identity.

San Francisco's dramatic skyline, steep streets and dynamic atmosphere all co-star in this carefully crafted portrait of an independent, free-spirited group of bike riders doing what they love in the City by the Bay.

A crime story told in reverse.

Filmed in his mother’s house and garden, Beavers traces shifting shadows across seasons, capturing a blend of solitude and peace. Light and shadow become passages to memory, as the film transforms walls and spaces into reflections of place, time, and inner voice.

After thirty years of being a daughter, wife and mother, Dolors decides to see what happens when she tries thinking of herself for the first time. Dolors has to learn how to follow her own path to its end, and be strong enough not to look back - to home, and a husband she still loves and respects, but who has still to learn to listen to his wife and find out what her needs are.

College student Nana loved to play Mahjong with her boyfriend Kazuya in Mahjong Gambling Club. One day they joined a Mahjong game with professional player Nishioka. Kazuya totally lost. He left nana and ran away. Nana agreed to give her body to Nishioka to pay the debt for Kazuya. But Nishioka did not take advantage of Nana. He only asked her to do housework for him. He admired her character and even passed his secret Mahjong technique to Nana to train her as a professional. Nana’s fate was thus changed by that single gambling game…

Barely known and never seen, elephant shrews baffle even the zoologists. With their stilt-like legs and long mobile trunk, joined to the body of a large shrew with a golden bottom, they certainly deserve their name - though they are related to neither elephant not shrew! This shy, endangered creature has become the mascot of Kenya’s beautiful Arabuko National Park. The income they attract via tourism pays for the education of local children. The elephant shrew has truly become the Spirit of the Forest.

So many films on the war show the "soldier away from home" point of view, but what happens to these young boys here, before they leave to fight? What conflicts do they face?

ALONE NO LOVE sheds light on child sex abuse in America. Through the work of the Chicago ChildrenaEU(tm)s Advocacy Center (CCAC), one of the nationaEU(tm)s largest and most progressive centers for sexually abused children, we can observe firsthand the challenging work of a multidisciplinary team of doctors, stateaEU(tm)s attorneys, police officers and social workers whose tireless efforts continue to provide refuge for sexually abused kids in Chicago.

Benjamin Woolley presents the gripping story of Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th century radical pharmacist who took on the establishment in order to bring medicine to the masses. Culpeper lived during one of the most tumultuous periods in British history. When the country was ravaged by famine and civil war, he took part in the revolution that culminated in the execution of King Charles I. But it is Culpeper's achievements in health care that made him famous. By practicing (often illegally) as a herbalist and publishing the first English-language texts explaining how to treat common ailments, he helped to break the monopoly of a medical establishment that had abandoned the poor and needy. His book The English Physician became the most successful non-religious English book of all time, remaining in print continuously for more than 350 years.

The continuing demand for high standards is what sets Rouseau's work apart. What makes this film distinctive is the way Rousseau explicitly returns to the source of his creative inspiration. So here he is at home reciting «Bérénice» to himself, whilst going about his household chores. It verges on the comical: There are repeated shots of him obstinately trying to turn off a dripping tap, or the jubilant close up of bare feet carried away in performing a dance step or two. Combining art with life in such a way, that nothing is compartmentalised, nothing lost - that is the goal.

Doc Hell, famous gynecologist, wants to control the entire world. His plan: to heal the humanity using a miraculous medicine, in exchange for its complete submission. But his goals will be compromised when an unexpected detail, García Nurse, seeks revenge. The killer sent to her annihilation has failed. Nurse, murderer, one neighbor's boyfriend, the building manager, and a handful of other nasty people will be all involved in a crazy madness under the secret bunker of the Doctor Hell.

Substitute is a film by the French former footballer Vikash Dhorasoo. Filmed before and during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Dhorasoo "recorded his thoughts and feelings throughout the tournament", resulting in a "deeply unconventional sporting film".

This is a DVD produced exclusively with images made by the players themselves and the coaching staff, during the journey in Japan (in the extras appear interviews made after the Mundial). They are images and sounds with the emotion of the hour of the conquest, without images from television stations or professional resources. A DVD to watch with your heart in your hand and a certainty in your chest: nothing will ever separate us, Colorado.

The Pulentos receive an invitation to an international Music Awards ceremony in Miami. Benzo, a member of the group, tired of being irrelevant, makes a deal with a strange lady that promises fame & fortune for the group.

Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing. An extraordinary tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world. Written by The Works International

Animated short film based on the story Nyarlathotep (1920) by HP Lovecraft.

Six years ago, U.S.-led forces drove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan for providing sanctuary to al Qaeda terrorists. Now, these Islamist militants are back.

Documentary that focuses on the story of journalist Lydia Cacho, in which her fight against the network of pedophiles she has revealed is discussed. The film follows the difficult process followed to confront the powerful businessmen and politicians who protect and surround those involved in these crimes: a child pornography network operating in Cancun and the United States.

Two young lovers of cycling, in their thirties, are going through a difficult employment situation. Both have spent nearly two years on strike, and one day they decide to conduct a protest action at the Tour de France. However, a young woman will cross at their path, and fears and internal fights will arise...

The stakes escalate in a poker game between three soldiers on an Israeli military base.

Lonely girls who believe haunted by the ghost, find the shocking answer at the end.

Margy Kinmonth meets millionaire customers and world-famous designers as she explores the anachronistic but little-explained pocket of the fashion industry known as haute couture.

Professor Vost has been keeping a deep, dark secret from his daughter Addie about her deceased mother, Fiona. Unfortunately, a curious Tofu lets the cat out of the bag. Will Addie be cool with what happened to mom?

Musician and talk show host Henry Rollins performs for two nights in Israel.

The story of a famous singer known throughout the world and a girl eager to make a career in the music industry. Dream or reality?

A look at the before, during and after a storm

A young woman experiences terrifying episodes of missing time in this thriller based on the research of Budd Hopkins.

Latif Lalouh's drama Samira's Garden concerns a woman who begins a forbidden sexual affair with her husband's nephew after her husband becomes impotent. Lalouh's award winning script shows how Arabic Muslim culture often acts at the expense of people's personal freedoms.

For more than thirty years, Jim Jennings has worked as a film maker in the city of New York, which can be regarded as his muse. The obvious step is to regard his observations of the city and its inhabitants as urban portraits, but the films are too subtle for that. Often they were shot spontaneously in a single location, street or district, but beyond the deceptive simplicity is another way of looking (and filming) that in a certain sense seems to be torn free of reality. Is not the city itself that is seen through the camera, but the light that the city reflects: filtered and purified and put on 16mm film. A stream of light and dark areas, shifting and mirrored surfaces and peep holes, filled with details and rhythm, and often edited in the camera. That the films have no sound amplifies the feeling of rootlessness. Yet the energy of the city is tangible and occasionally audible, like an imaginary soundtrack.

Dave Attell is funnier and more outlandish than ever in his first solo HBO, special, a 60-minute concert performed in front of a live audience at The Lincoln Theater, the venerable Washington DC venue. Attell's sarcastic wit and quick-fire delivery prove why he has earned the reputation as a "comic's comic" and was dubbed one of the"25 Funniest People in America" by Entertainment Weekly. His decidedly adult brand of comedy covers everything including alcohol consumption, dating current events and celebrities, and everything else on his mind.

A heart rendering and subtly humorous saga based on the devastating 2004 tragedy which claimed millions. The point that is driven home is, "disaster's create destruction but sometimes binds too".

Meet the babies of the National Zoo -- the golden lion tamarin, the Sumatran tiger, the kori bustard, and the sloth bear -- cute, cuddly and born to be wild!

This is the story of Dave McCoy, founder of Mammoth Mountain. Hear from Dave & Roma McCoy, Warren Miller, Rusty Gregory and other long-time Mammoth insiders in this documentary on the quintessential outdoorsman - how he came to the Eastern Sierra, why he decided to stay, and how he persevered through every obstacle imaginable to follow his firm belief that the steep mountain on the back side of California's remote mountain range could one day be the world's best ski resort.

The elders of the Kichwa community of Sarayaku preserve the history of their land for the youngest. They save the knowledge of their traditions against modernity and the invasion of their territory.

Today this book, A Dog of Flanders is taught in Japanese high schools, it is a classic in the UK and the States and has inspired numerous films and TV series in Japan and the States. The most important of them being the Japanese animated series of 1975 that counted 52 episodes and influenced the Japanese culture intensely. Many of them can still sing the series opening song, … in Dutch! Patrasche, a Dog of Flanders – Made in Japan is a laboratory of the image. It is a prism, through which the viewer can experience how reality is and how a small book leads to a stereotyped perception.

When his boyfriend leaves him to his own devices on Thanksgiving. Tom finds himself himself overtaken by a different kind of hunger. Consumed with lust. He prowls the Internet until he finds Tucker-a beautiful piece of man meat that seems too good to be true.....and maybe he is. Cooked up to a simmering boil by director by Joe La Rue. Thanksgiving is psycho-sexual, thriller,comedy...um.romance,maybe....that explores how we all can fall victim to our various appetites.

Lila, Nico, Yoni, Justine and Guy are all around 25. We follow them through marking moments of their lives, slowly becoming of age.

Slightly bored, two young Chinese people circle around each other in modern Shanghai. She works in a trance club, he is a DJ. In the daytime they are at home together, but their relationship seems to have reached a stalemate. They hardly communicate and have arguments about nothing. A meeting with her ex in the street sets the young woman thinking. She started dressing differently and took a new hairstyle, but has she really changed?

What if you decided to become... a super hero?

In northeastern China the Songhua River flows west from the border of Russia to the city of Harbin, where four million people depend on it as a source of water. Songhua is a portrait of the varying people that gather where the river meets the city, and an ethnographic study of the intimate ways in which they play and work.

In 1820, Tyrolean surveyor Josef Naus set off for the Zugspitze region to map the area. "Gipfelsturm" is about the resistance he has to overcome before he can successfully climb the Zugspitze and how he finds the love of his life.

Swiss artist Markus Raetz has a sixth sense for apprehending the extraordinary. His works are as astonishing as a magician's sleight of hand: they shake up visual habits and show things from a completely different perspective. To further surprise the viewer, this perceptive Swiss artist makes use of the most diverse techniques, materials and media. His installations and sculptures change their appearance according to their own movement or that of the viewer contemplating them. For example, a rabbit becomes a man in a hat, evoking Beuys, or a yes turns into a no. This document presents us with a highly personal view of the world and the man behind these exceptional works.

Sam is a rapper, as well as his best friends. Around a football ground in Hamburg-City.