Cinematic Era: 2008 Vintage

When Rancher Grady Edlund returns home to his family after being lost in the forest for a number of days, his family realize he's not quite himself.

Forests and places full of green are sinking into the dam. The construction of the dam will erase 200,000 trees. The PH Studio, a unit consisting of an architect, an artist, and a photographer, hears this and comes up with…

Lusilla Helm has to marry Baron Ludwig Von Reder against her will. But her honeymoon does not last very long. The poor girl dies and is buried inside the family tomb. After a short while, another woman announces herself at the doors of the baron's mansion. Her looks recall Lusilla's but in a disturbing way. As soon as the mysterious woman sets foot in the rooms where the baron's former wife used to live, strange noises and happenings start to haunt the silent halls of the house.

Angela Hewitt shares the inspiration and experience behind her award-winning playing in an illustrated lecture that explains the technical and practical steps essential for performing Bach on the piano. For the first time she appears on a 2-DVD set, launched in conjuntion with her Bach World Tour which took her to all corners of the globe during the 2007-2008 concert season. In the first disc, she conducts a ‘masterclass’, discussing all the challenges, possible pitfalls and delights in performing Bach on the piano. The second disc features Hewitt live in concert. This is an unmissable release.

Dannenberg lives alone in a house lost in the middle of the countryside, hunting for food, and living immersed in monotony. Every day he stands in front of two graves, crowned by a wooden circle. One afternoon, he sees, in the distance, the silhouettes of two people approaching. Finally, the house's grandfather clock begins to tick on its own. What he had been waiting for has arrived, and from now on, things become unpredictable.

A House Wife's hum-drum world dissolves away into a thorny Passion Play of miraculous visions.

A documentary about the spiritual experience of a girl on Mount Zvir in Slovakia. On the afternoon of August 5, 1990, three children aged 10, 11, and 7—Ivetka, Katka, and her brother Miťko—were playing in a clearing on Mount Zvir, in the Lubovnianska Highlands in northeastern Slovakia. Suddenly, strange sounds began to echo from the surrounding forest, growing closer. The children hid in a nearby hayloft, but the sounds did not stop; on the contrary, they grew closer and closer, without anything being visible. The children's fear intensified. They thought to pray and prayed, "Mary, our Mother, hide us under your cloak..." Suddenly, everything stopped, and the Virgin Mary was sitting on a bench in the hayloft. Both girls saw her.

David and Phil, both in their early forties, have been involved in a gay relationship for some years. They decide to move in together and through all the scenes of this play, we follow their everyday life: they visit a flat to buy, have a romantic dinner in a restaurant, try to install their brand new triple-play box, get invited or even baby-sit. A couple like any other... well, almost !

This animation short by Ryan Larkin recounts some “comical experiences” Larkin had during his many years as a panhandler in Montreal. It tells the story of Astral Pan, a street beggar, who takes us on a wild journey from the sidewalks of a wintry Montreal day, to the gates of Heaven and Hell and back. The great filmmaker passed away before finishing his film. Spare Change was completed by a friend, producer and singer-songwriter Laurie Gordon, assisted by a team of young, devoted animators.

An emotional and amusing look at the last get-together of the legendary group, Timbiriche. The meetings, rehearsals, obstacles, successes of the tour, seen in an original, dynamic, and intimate way.

Part of the film "8", Gus Van Sant delivers a film on child health.

Andrés Ortíz is a precocious filmmaker and director of short films but at the same time is the worst student of his school he has reprobated twice and is going for the third time. His parents turn their backs on him and so do his best friends. At the same time his teachers will want to take advantage of his situation by blackmail him in the most twisted ways.

A man gets one arm of a woman who he fell in love, just one night. After that a man has a tragic nightmare because of one arm. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonism and specific moral had remained in ordinary people and their life after world war II.

R.E.M. performance at MTV Live launch concert at Panathinaiko Stadium, Athens on October 5, 2008.

A documentary about the hooligans and the rivalry of two football clubs in Leipzig.

Imagine a world in which people seem hostile while inanimate objects appear friendly – even affectionate. Imagine dreading the touch of another human but longing for a passionate encounter with a large public structure. This is the strange world of the "objectum sexual"– a group of people, mainly women, whose intimate lives revolve around objects with which they say they share romantic and sexual love. Erika is married to the Eiffel Tower. She has a passion for inanimate objects, and her mission is to fight the stigma surrounding the disorder and create a global network of sufferers - like Amy, in love with a church organ, and Eija Riita, who married the Berlin Wall.

Poetic and melancholic evocation of a few fleeting moments in the life of Fernand, a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a facetious dog, Colchique.

Four friends, Abdul, Jason, Angela and Danielle enrolled at university with two things in mind: to pass their degree and have fun at the same time. They attended induction day to find out the first year exams weren't compulsory, so they did what any other student would do, take the year off.

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A detective finally getting his long-time enemy, a serial killer named Buddy Kant who leaves greeting cards at his victim's bodies, comes face to face with him for one final showdown. But is it too good to be true?

℃-ute Suzuki Airi in Okinawa AIRI'S CLASSIC (°C-ute 鈴木愛理 in 沖縄 AIRI'S CLASSIC) is Suzuki Airi's first solo image DVD. It was released on June 25, 2008. The DVD documents Suzuki's trip to Okinawa and features footage from the making of her photobook 6gatsu no Kajitsu.

Mike, half Swiss, half American, is a friend of Portuguese director Fernando Lopes. He’s a painter and has been living in Portugal for 30 years, making him also Portuguese. His stage name is Michael Biberstein. His internationally acclaimed works belong to some of the most important collections and museums around the world. He and Fernando Lopes decided to embrace this adventure after a conversation they had in a mutual friend’s house. The result is this movie: an inner journey about the creation of a painting where its silence, its mystery and magic were filmed.

Documentaries that revisit a group of children every seven years is brought to post-apartheid South Africa. Here, filmmaker Angus Gibson interviews 11 young people of various races and backgrounds as they turn 21. The result is an insightful look at how they've changed and the issues they face such as crime, race relations, education and the AIDS epidemic which has killed three of the original 14 children.

The NSA is brought in to investigate a group of scientists after one of them breaks into a time travel facility and makes an unapproved time jump without leaving record of his travel log.

A devoted daughter spends a wonderful afternoon with her loving father as they both try to deal with a terrible tragedy in their past.

This documentary is the first report on videotherapy, a new and unexplored branch of psychology in Bohemia. The director has lent a camera to a psychiatric hospital pacient to let him record the images of his own world.

The life and death of New York's most notorious, dirty, and dangerous dive bar.

West Point is a 'film noir', a story of family and emigration. It's La Cabo da Rocha, Portugal, the western-most point of the European continent. Opposite the USA, it's a metaphor of Ellis Island. It's the street dances and it's the part of what has been forgotten that Alexander and his sister Jeanne must accept in order to break free from the original crime, the feeling of abandonment and the color of wheat.

Goals, goals, goals. More specifically, Arsenal’s greatest ever goals. The official collection of the most memorable and spectacular strikes from Arsenal’s greats right up to the present day. These are the goals which have won titles, trophies or simply tantalised with breathtaking skill and audacity. With hotshots from Adebayor, Wright, Smith

Live footage of the complete choreography by Angelin Preljocaj, based on Karlheinz Stockhausen's piece "Sonntags Abschied".

In northeastern Thailand lies a village with two types of families. Those who have a daughter married in Thy, and those who do not. The former live in large concrete houses, the latter in small wooden shacks. Sommai is the queen of the town. She works as a factory worker in North Jutland, but now she is back in Thailand, where young girls flock around her. They hope she can help them get to Denmark through marriage to a man from Thy. 'From Thy to Thailand' is a sequel to 'From Thailand to Thy', which described the terms of love between Danish men and Thai women in Thy.

Stig is a man in his forties. Probably middle-class, works full-time, gets a decent paycheck and drives a nice new car from a well-known Japanese brand. He is married and dresses well without being a snob. He is a normal Swedish man who performs what most people would consider totally irrational actions. Why?

A humorous parody addressed to the Turkish regime and its attempt to control people’s way of life by imposing standards on how to have a good time and achieve a perfect state of happiness.

Director and actor Ray O'Neill presents the movie Greater Threat in the year (2008). the movieis an action-crime film starring Ray Goodwin as Ray Kieffer, Ray O'Neill as Mike Johnson, Tamas Menyhart as Nicolai, Leeann Johnson as Carol Green, Chuck French as Steve Mancini, Caitlin Noah as Marie Kieffer, Jason McAleer as Sachon, Cheryl Goodlin as Eileen Conway, Ray Dippolito as Judge Overton, David Schramm as Ivan, Mikel Mahoney as Santos DeJesus.

Ana thinks she knows exactly what she wants with men. And with life in general. Tonight, though, her views will face a tough challenge. A meeting awaits her, and it will turn her world upside down.

Ambitious film students Jim and Laura and their nihilist, restless group of film student friends decide to adapt Macbeth and shoot it with a mostly homeless cast. Jim and his friends search for locations in abandoned buildings in Philadelphia and it's in one such building that their own story takes a very unexpected and cinematic turn.

Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel sculptures that both terrify and mesmerise, Serra believes that each viewer creates the sculpture for themselves by being within it. To this end, a Japanese family are reminded of the Temples of Kyoto, a Londoner finds sanctuary in the Serra near Liverpool Street station, and most movingly, a Holocaust survivor sees one piece as a wall separating the living from the dead. Contributors include Chuck Close, Philip Glass and Glenn D Lowry, Director of MoMA.

El Patotas Flores and Óscar La Chistosa Suárez are young stars playing with the Deportivo Barrio San Antonio soccer club. The word on the street is that El Patotas has never missed a penalty shot and that La Chistosa has never allowed one as a goalie. The two friends decide to make a secret competition, in order to determine who is the best of all, on the day a recruiter for Las Fieras shows up in order to offer a contract to only one player.

In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The Fire Within.

This collection of shorts focuses on the array of relationships boys have. Each film illustrates that there is no "norm" and how these boys are "No Ordinary Joes". Includes: Fruitcake (2003); George's Date (2005); Investigaytion (2004); No Ordinary Joe (2005); Porcelain (2004); Same Difference (2002); Spokes (1996); Work It Out (2001).

Special featurette included on the Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) DVD.

Departing from their previous sound and ushering in a new era of folk-influenced melodies, Panic! at the Disco presents a concert film documenting their performances in Chicago, Illinois during the tour for their sophomore album 'Pretty. Odd.' in 2008.

It takes stand-up comic Donzilla 15 seconds to get dirty on his first stand-up comedy video SMUT. There has never been a more appropriately titled release. There is nothing sacred for this comedian aside from freedom of speech.

What happens when the boring everyday life of an old woman and the exciting fun of four young girls become intertwined?

A scarecrow who has lived all his life in a field receives a visit from a nomadic fairy and both fall in love with each other. But after a short stay, the fairy must go to warmer places and the scarecrow must decide what to do, whether to stay in the place he knows or go in search of his love.

Can you define the identity of a country and its people? This film explores the identity of the uruguayan people through its more authentic artistic expression, the carnaval.

A painter named Vlado paints a portrait of an unknown woman. When the portrait "becomes alive" and the woman in the painting shows up at the artist's exhibition opening, Vlado's life is turned upside down. As Vlado becomes involved in a passionate affair with the mysterious woman, he does not even notice that he has fallen into the trap of Zom, a para-psychological organization which controls the actions of individuals by entering their thoughts, which is the meaning of "passing". A whirlwind of curious events and unexplained suicides takes him into a world where reality and fantasy are intertwined, a world created by a manipulative international corporation. In the world where relationships are just a means to an end and death is only an illusion, control and power are of ultimate value. Vlado realizes that he cannot trust anyone and even doubts his own sanity. However, it turns out that the naive artist is not such an easy target.

Between a wave’s rhythm and the breath of a young woman in her sleep, some animated paintings go on modifying each other.

Documentary about the female fighter pilots in the 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Union. In small planes made out of plywood and canvas they risked their lives every night during the last part of the second world war.

After discovering a bizarre book, a young man is plagued by unexplainable occurrences.

The contestants are murderers, guerrillas, and thieves. The winner will be crowned Queen, but she won't be invited on a press tour as a role model for young girls. Instead, she will be escorted back to her cell.