Cinematic Era: 2008 Vintage

Registration of the fifth stand-up show by the Dutch comedian Hans Sibbel. This show is about values, thinking and reasoning to the most extreme consequences.

Beautifully captured in High-Definition and mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound, these two captivating concerts from the historic Rialto Square Theatre (Joliet, IL) and the Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas, TX) comprise this essential live performance collection from Jewel.

For three years, documentary filmmaker Geertjan Lassche followed the strong-willed farmer Heijmen Brouwer (61) from Leusden, who, slogging through dung and mud and assisted by his 77-year-old half-blind hand Hendrik, steers his shabby farm along the Dutch legislation and rules. Then, on New Year's Eve 2006, farmer Brouwer decides he has had it with his fatherland's control freakery. 'One half of Holland controls the other half. I'm completely fed up.' Brouwer wants to emigrate to France, taking along his livestock (which fits in two huge trucks), Hendrik and his girlfriend.

After the death of his uncle, a young man remembers back to a game his uncle taught him.

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The film retraces Francis' life and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his prominence in the United States. It reveals a man in constant struggle with physical maladies and his own demons, but for whom creativity was a powerful life-sustaining force.

Two strangers uncover astonishing connections as they search for a mysterious Renaissance painting.

Famed Latino comedian and voiceover artist, Jeff Garcia, comes to you from San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino with his signature improv style. He comments on his family, unreliable cars, white people, marriage and his run-ins with the law

A neon heart installed above Prague Castle illuminated the city for the last three months of Václav Havel’s presidency in an artist’s tribute to his extraordinary service. His last major undertaking was hosting the NATO summit in 2002 and Němec was granted extraordinary access to film it. Set to make a “special poetic film”, it took Němec years to process what he had witnessed – George W. Bush creating an alliance to invade Iraq. It may then be the director’s revenge to point his camera lens democratically at everyone involved with the summit, giving the same screen time to kitchen and waiting staff, musicians, security detail and NATO protesters, as to the heads of states and attending dignitaries. Havel however, became as much of a subject as the president on screen, and the film’s narrator, providing commentary in his own voice from the distance of a few years after he left the office.

Georg is a writer hoping for his big breakthrough. When he meets the unemployed Alois, he recognizes in him the novel material he has been so desperately searching for. Alois has a strange habit: he entangles his fellow human beings in absurd situations seemingly without meaning. Georg decides to get to the bottom of Alois' behavior and gets caught up in a chain of such bizarre, embarrassing and threatening events that he soon finds himself in over his head.

Short film with sparse dialogue tells about an illegal Polish seasonal worker. The boy works on the land of a sullen farmer, who bosses him around in bad English. Soon, he is allowed to work with the forklift truck in the barn. At night, moved, he listens to old telephone messages from his brother. It seems that previously the latter got the same 'promotion'. It turns out that the seasonal worker has a hidden agenda.

The Dresden Soul Symphony is a live concert by The Dresden Soul Symphony, released October 24, 2008. The musicians reinterpret soul hits and combine them with classical music. The musical ensemble includes vocals from Joy Denalane, Bilal, Dwele and Tweet, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Jun Märkl.

The Beatles take center stage in this comprehensive documentary that spans their career, offering up non-concert footage of the world's most famous rock band in a variety of era-defining moments, including visits to New York, Holland and Australia. The film also includes newsreels dating back to the 1960s, the band's appearances on the "David Frost Show" and Swedish television, along with their last-ever televised interview.

Determined to understand the repeating patterns he was finding in nature, French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot used an early form of computer imagery to produce his own versions, coining the recurring shapes fractals. This installment of the PBS series "Nova" examines the rules of these self-similar patterns and explores the ways these fascinating geometric configurations can be applied in the fields of science, medicine and the arts.

Sadistic predators abduct, torture and murder a group of women in a Phoenix warehouse.

The documentary gives as overview of the history of the Sahrawi people and their current situation in the refugee camps and in the liberated territories of Western Sahara. It describes how water, education, land etc. are managed.

Think a Necromonger's life is easy? Think again... Follow Dave for a day. A day in the life of a Necromonger. Necromonger Dave...

Jean-Christophe Maillot's Cinderella explores the parallel universes of artifice and simplicity and reflects on how loss can shape the direction of a life. The "choreographed film" features the artists of the Ballets of Monte Carlo dancing to Prokofiev's score, which is magnificently interpreted by the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy.

The first film from director's Adam R Steigert and Stephanie Andrews, about a lone survivor that has gone up to his cabin far in the woods to get away from a zombie infection which has hit Metzburg. Markus Phillipy played by Adam R steigert has been bite on his arm. He now waits to transform into being an infected human, into a flesh hungry zombie. However as he accepts his fate a group of convicts turn up at his cabin with one idea on their mind, to kill or be killed. A ground breaking independent film which one an award for best makeup in show at the Harrisburg Community Film Festival in 2008 and inspired a spin off film called Bitez2: The Fever.

A gonzo, surreal mocumentary about chemtrails, conspiracy theories, mass hysteria, HAARP, Art Bell, 9/11, and other sundry bizarro elements.

Soon after Mark LaPore died, I began having dreams of him, with him, in locations that often resembled the ones in his films, the ones he shot in India. When I spent late nights at MassArt working on my projects, I'd see and hear apparitions of him, trying to tell me something, trying to warn me about something. I travelled to the places I spent with him in my dreams. He was there with me until the end of the trip... I should have listened to him.

Ismo Leikola is one of the most successful Finnish stand-up comedians. His achievements include four nationwide concert hall tours, boasting four different two-hour one man shows. He has also appeared in numerous TV shows, released two DVDs and three comedy song singles. In addition to his productive career in Finland he has been building an international presence for many years by performing at various festivals and respected professional comedy clubs around the world. In 2014 he won the ’Funniest Person in the World’ competition organised by the Laugh Factory in the US. Leikola’s English speaking career has been welcomed with excellent international reviews along with excited audience feedback in several countries.

Luck of a Foghorn is a documentary featurette about the late Seattle underground animator Bruce Bickford (1947 - 2019), former collaborator of musician Frank Zappa and creator of Prometheus’ Garden, one of the most original stop-motion films in animation history. Interweaving Bickford’s pulsing, violent, magical, and mesmerizing clay animation with atmospheric 16mm and Super 8mm cinematography, home movies, and sparse interviews, Luck of a Foghorn takes viewers behind the scenes and deep into the garden of Prometheus.

A mystery wherein a woman tries to track down the man who killed her father.

'Sometimes people ask me how I can still be alive. It is a miracle', Anna Politskovkaya says to filmmaker Eric Bergkraut. For Letter to Anna he has used images from a film he had planned to make; a film about the human rights journalist who put her life on the line through her critical writings of the Russian government. The material that Bergkraut collected has been used in this film to reconstruct the events which led to the murder of Politskovkaya. As well as a reconstruction, the film is a portrait of a tireless fighter for justice, and a sketch of corrupt and merciless Russian politics. Interviews with Politskovkaya are intertwined with archival footage and conversations with family members, colleagues and other political activists.

"Along the coast of the Bering Sea a community of whale hunters are struggling to survive keeping alive a millenary tradition. Surviving one of the most extreme environments of the planet."

SYNOPSIS: 8 films by Hans Richter. Richter's position in the art world was unique. As one of the earliest exponents of Dada, he was also one of the first to recognize the new possibilities cinematography offered the artist. He participated in the first avant-garde film movement alongside Léger, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Cocteau and Dali, and later in New York his teachings would influence many of the 'New American Cinema' filmmakers.

Have you ever had a crush on the man frisking you at the airport? What would you do to get strip searched in that back room without being sent to jail? Frequent Traveler brilliantly and silently explores the answer to this question.

A traditional animation, hand-drawn in 500+ frames (which are also on display as part of the installation). The animation consists solely of a shoe shine: hands move a length of cloth around and across a shoe, syncopated with a minimalistic melody and lyrics written by the artist. Its swaying, repetitive quality draws the audience into a simple and elegant comparison of artistic labor, in the form of drawing, to the marginalized service economy of a global city.

Two men have been waiting many years to see each other again. Their destinies are linked to a mysterious Super 8MM film roll. Thus begins a one-way journey into their past.

Documentary short included with the DVD extras of All About Eve.

Once upon a time there were two Kingdoms: the Militant Kingdom and the Unhappy Kingdom. The intrigues of the Secret Service of the Militant Kingdom made young Princess of the Unhappy Kingdom run away from home.

A short film produced by MAKE, LLC. Written and directed by Aaron Quist

Curious teenagers visit a haunted house where a small boy once was murdered. An unseen assailant starts getting stabby with them.

A gritty behind-the-scenes look at modern work slavery through Vladimír, a Ukrainian construction worker in Prague whose life unravels when Czech professor Richard marries Vladimír’s love Aljoňa to “help” her. Consumed by jealousy and desperation after losing his earnings, Vladimír commits a desperate crime.

Alex Thomas brings his best performance yet as he lights the stage on fire with explosive comedy. This all out, no holds barred freestyle comedy genius is what The Unleashed Comedy series is all about. Follow Alex as he kidnaps your attention and leaves you laughing helplessly gasping for air. From old school style to new school flavor, Alex Thomas shows and proves why he's got next.

A theater directed by Mohammad Rahmanian

Brine is sodium chloride (NaCl) dissolved in water. If you perform electrolysis on brine you will get three substances: chlorine, hydrogen and sodium hydroxide. The electrolysis process is useful and common in the world of industry. For example, it aids in the manufacture of products as diverse as pesticides, soaps, fuels, and even margarine. This is one of the dullest educational films I have ever seen. A small attempt has been made to release its latent energy. (Mark Toscano)

In Turkey, once every year, about 1.5 million young people take the infamous Student Selection Exam hoping to have the right to a university education. “3 HOURS” focuses on the personal dimension of this “life-and-death matter” by following the lives of 6 high school seniors for a year, observing and witnessing their experiences before, during and after this exam. The thoughts, emotions and experiences of the candidates and those around them are not sifted through any kind of scientific procedure and are represented as directly as possible, as the filmmakers are the observers,ing witnesses, guestsintruders, and guests inof the lives of these young women and men.

The ghost of Yong Bo, king of the Realm of Red City, visits his son, Prince Zi Dan, with news that the prince's uncle Yong Shu -- the same man who married Zi Dan's mother and seized the newly vacant throne -- murdered Yong Bo. The revelation hurls the prince into a torrent of meditation, and he emerges with a plan to prove his uncle's guilt. If the story sounds familiar, that's because it's a Peking Opera adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

Documentary on Argentine actress and sex symbol Isabel Sarli, including clips from her films and interviews with her and other actors.

Liliana, a mother of 5 kids, living in terrible condition in a Caracas's "favela", is hoping to get a new flat from President Chavez in order to change her life. August 2007, Venezuelan's President Chavez convokes a referendum in order to change the constitution and get absolute power. Carlos, a local Party Activists tries to convince Liliana to vote for the new constitution. Liliana is promised that she'll get a flat if she votes for Chavez. Hugo Rey is a journey into the totalitarian mechanism employed by Chavez to perpetuate his power.

Jair tells his granddaughter about his childhood adventures, his fear of the legendary “Sete Trouxas” and how, with the help of a friend, he tried to face the monster.

The One Note Man, is a percussionist plays in the last row of a symphonic orchestra without been noticed and appreciated by others. During the concerts, he has only one note to play with his cymbals to attract the attention of a woman among the audience.

Uptight Naval Officer Christian "Tink" Mayberry leaves his job to run a gastropub with an alarming lack of success.

Francis Ford Coppola discusses childhood memories of this scrumptious and genuinely Italian desert.

A lawyer, Eid, is hired to represent a brute in a divorce from his wife. The twist is that the wife of the brute is not unknown to Eid, but he can't quite tell that to the brute.

Using observation as a starting point, the filmmaker constructs a dystopian science fiction chronicle in La República. Ironic observations on the trans-Platonic republic.

"Lesbian Warriors" shows the fate of two warrior lovers who kill a monk and are cursed to die at each other's hands for all eternity! In "Shoot and Strangle the Lesbos," a woman's lust for another woman may lead to death, not only for herself, but also for her lover, when her husband learns the truth! And finally in "Vampire Lesbians," a none too bright guy meets up with a pretty girl in a seedy bar where two lesbian vampires overhear their conversation and then decide to turn the girl into one of their own!

Short animated film by Ryo Hirano.

During the 1958 presidential elections General Humberto Delgado is received by the city of Porto with an unprecedented and unbelievable demonstration of 200 thousand citizens that bravely and boldly displayed their support to the candidate that dared challenge the fascist regime of Salazar. This documentary tells the story of the 14th of May 1958, of the reasons for such a public display of civil disobedience and of the consequences thereafter.

"The System" was based on the idea that a system could be developed to "guarantee a winner" of horse races. Cameras followed a member of the public, Khadisha, as Brown anonymously sent her correct predictions of five races in a row, before encouraging her to place as much money as she could on the sixth race.

Somebody's killing homeless people in Pioneer Square. John, an artist in the area, thinks he has a psychic link to the person and knows who it is. Or does he?

When the movie opens, a man is just re-emerging into the world after a nervous breakdown caused by the traumatic loss of his wife while his son was just an infant. It's 7 years later, and the man has repressed the memories of his wife's death, and spends his time working a menial job and leaving small gifts on the front porch of the home where his son is now being raised. Eventually, the man and the boy come face to face and, as he and the boy start to bond, the man begins to remember fragments of the buried trauma. While this experience propels him inevitably back to mental trauma, He tries his best to connect with his son in a critical way.

Amano and Inaba are a young couple living together. After Inaba is fired from her job, the two face financial difficulties, but Inaba does not look for a new job and just wanders the streets at night. Amano does not say anything, just watches Inaba. One day, Inaba hears from a friend that there is a good job in the hospital.