Cinematic Era: 2009 Vintage

War is declared on the off world settlement. Everyone from suburban homemakers to super scientists are uniting to deploy an army of the giant killer robot Attackazoids.

Ishwar Sakshi is a Hindi drama starring Ankita Srivastava, Sandeep Bhansali, Chandan Madan and S.M. Zaheer. A father Seth Haridas (Zaheer) promises to marry off his daughter Jyoti (Srivastava) to a young man Madhav (Madan) with the statue of Lord Vishnu (Bhansali) as the witness. Later, he goes back on his word and Madhav appeals to the Lord for help.

A rural worker suffers an accident and understands that in a few minutes he is going to die. In absolute solitude and surrounded by a natural environment indifferent to his tragedy, he will face, without drama, the fact that these are his last minutes of life and nothing he can do to modify that destiny. Based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.

Latino comic Jeff Garcia aims to give you your money's worth with his signature shows in this special from 2008. Fellow friends and comics, Bruce Jingles and Rene Garcia, join him as they discuss race, dating and fighting style differences.

The story take place in a small French countryside village called Villemolle, where wild hamsters are converted into sausages.Then, one day a meteor hit the ground and the habitants turn into zombies. Don't ask me why...

After a brief hiatus, Luis Raúl returned in 2009 with another stand-up comedy tour titled "La cosa está peúla 3D" ("Times are Hairy 3D").

Rio de Janeiro. September, 2008. Three men stalk the gloomy back-alleys of the city's notorious slums. Spiderman, a 28-year-old drug lord, embarks on a routine patrol through the shadowy streets of Coréia, the sprawling slum he controls. Inspector Leonardo Torres, a muscle-bound operative from Rio's drug squad, inches through the alleys of another shantytown, shots ringing out around him. And Pastor Dione, an evangelical preacher intent on ending Rio's drug conflict, trawls the slums for lost souls. With unprecedented access to some of Rio's most wanted men, Dancing with the Devil in the City of God tells the story of Rio's drug war through the eyes of three men locked into one of the bloodiest urban conflicts on earth. Written by Jon Blair and Tom Phillips

A prodigious animated short film created using sketches scribbled on sheets of paper scattered around a room, which the author folds and unfolds as the story unfolds.

Documentary about the life and career of Vittorio Mezzogiorno through the voice of his daughter Giovanna.

Dame Shirley Bassey graced the Roundhouse stage with a unique performance celebrating 50 years at the top of show business.

"Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect" is a compelling documentation of a unique thinker and practitioner at the height of his architectural career. Through his conversation with architecture theorist and critic, Sanford Kwinter, Balmond reveals his vision and talent while the two tour his retrospective exhibition at the Graham Foundation in Chicago. Since the early 1980s Balmond has collaborated with many of today's important contemporary architects such as Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. With his astounding aesthetic algorithms, Balmond has introduced innovative structural concepts that have resulted in some of the most challenging buildings in the canon of contemporary architecture.

After the loss of his wife Michael struggles to pick up the pieces. His emotions get the better of him and he vents his grief in ways that are both confusing and frightening for his son David. David is determined to remind his father that only together can they take the first step towards moving on.

About someone who once loved a woman in a desert with a camera.

Jackson Blackman just can't get a break. He gets no respect from his roommate or friends, he plays out to empty coffee houses and scrubs money off his grandmother. Just when he thought things couldn't get any worse his car dies, but is it a blessing in disguise? After roommate Kato drives him to a music shop Jackson is mistaken for Jack Black. Kato convinces him that this could be a new and prosperous chapter in his life. That night he meets Farin, a girl that likes him for who he is.

An aspiring photographer tries to convince a girl to pose for his "art photos" by pretending to be a director. Ngo Dong (by Ha) dreams of becoming a famous actress. Quang Hy (by Hai) wants to take nude “artistic’ photos. They meet and Quang Hy lies that he’s a director to get Ngo Dong to participate in taking photos. Their relationship begins.

Historical documentary about the Sahrawi conflict: the exile, the wall, the mines… the last colony in Africa.

Rohit goes to town for his higher studies and falls in love with Preeti, the hot sister of a criminal, Ranjit. However, Ranjit refuses to accept their alliance and this leads to problems between the two men. The story takes a few turns before it ends in a happy note.

After the death of Yanek’s father, his mother, whom he hasn’t seen for years, visits him and makes claims on the flat where he and his father lived. He meets his stepbrother Norberth, who insists on staying with him. During a quarrel, Yanek’s finger gets cut-off. His mother visits him in the hospital and follows him home...

Featuring: The Mae Shi, Foot Village, Ponytail, Abe Vigoda, High Places, Gowns, BARR, No Age, HEALTH, and Captain Ahab. A fundraiser for The Smell, and a toast to its... scent. [This DVD] captures 10 of the most vital bands to perform at The Smell, downtown LA's essential all-ages venue. With over 2 hours of high-quality live performance footage, this is an essential video document for the alternative / indie / noise-rock fan. From the hyper-active intro by The Mae Shi, through the heavy moods of Gowns, the precise thrash of HEALTH, to the dark techno dystopia of Captain Ahab, Live At The Smell presents a showcase of the excellent music that the community-oriented venue presents on any given day of the week, without booking agents, backroom deals, bouncers, velvet ropes, ID checks, schmoozing, or hype. All footage was shot from Sept-Oct 2008.

Life is a question of luck.

Self-portrait of Mónica Coronado, who for twenty years has worked as a street prostitute in Barcelona's Raval neighborhood.

After Dewayne's parents go on a vacation, his mischievous best friend Reggie insists they throw a house party. Trouble soon comes about for Dewayne as he has to deal with people such as his principal, his neighbor and his grandmother who all try to keep an eye on him.

They are seekers, madmen, and angels hell-bent on riding across America on a bicycle in less than ten days. But what begins as the adventure of a lifetime is transformed in an instant when tragedy strikes the race. These voyagers discover what is truly at stake as they pedal on, praying for the deliverance only the finish line can bring. By journey's end, some are saved, others are lost, but all learn that the fuel that takes a soul toward its own true destiny is desire.

Hello, My Name Is Lesbian shows modern lesbian lifestyle and culture in all it’s diversity as it is lived in one of the most sexually liberated countries in the world. Set against historic footage from the last five decades, women aging from 19 to 84, share their views on sex, family gatherings, parental roles, night life and careers: every facet of the lives we lead, viewed through the eyes of women who have chosen identities departing from the norm.

In 1909, looking to shed its rough frontier past, the young city of Seattle decided to host a World’s Fair in the same grand spirit as those that preceded it in Chicago and St. Louis. Seattle welcomed the world to the University of Washington campus where visitors walked among palaces, saw new inventions that would change the world, and mined for mirth on the Paystreak - AYP’s Midway. Featuring thousands of historical images, rare archival footage, and contemporary interviews, the film explores the fair’s historical reverberations.

While there is hope for the future as science gains momentum, millions of Americans are currently affected by the painful and deadly consequences of Alzheimer's. This documentary profiles seven people living with the disease, each in an advancing state of dementia, from its earliest detectable changes through death.

An unlikely band of misfits has made their home on a roof between a feed mill and the municipal waste treatment plant. But life is good, away from society and living of this leftovers. Lisbeth, Herbert and Walther have created their own self-sufficient little paradise. While Herbert is hunting cats, Lisbeth tends to the self-grown vegetables and Walther angles for usable scrap from the dump down below. One morning though, the peace is disrupted: A nameless, suit wearing stranger has appeared overnight and set up his tent among their huts. He does not speak, but obviously he intents to stay. The rooftop dwellers are anxious. Will he destroy their perfect little society? Or can he be part of it… incorporated so to speak... ?

A failed musician in a forgotten neighborhood piano bar, an incompetent lover and insecure since childhood, it seems that no one can save Johnny from his personal impasse. Takis, however, an unstable taxi driver, will appear out of nowhere to change his life forever.

A member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leading a delegation of stage artists, comes to Moscow and a female russian government official welcomes his entourage. The congressman is hoping, through the results of the visit, to make a name for himself in order to move up to the Senate. Meanwhile, the female government official - whose nickname is "Iron Lady" - keeps a watchful eye on the him in suspicion of espionage. As a result, the two get along like cats and dogs.

Experimental middle school short

The Cast and Crew of a shoe string budget horror film are in for more than they bargained for when they travel to a desolate house in the woods run by the eccentric Aunt Bee.

Fresh from his huge national tour, Bafta nominated, award winning comedian Rob Brydon has arrived with a show that cements his status as a multi-talented and incredibly funny man. Full of hilarious stories, abundant with quick witted audience interaction, fast paced humour, improvisation and the most amazing impersonations, this is a show that is sure to delight old and new fans alike. Be prepared, you should expect the unexpected!

Actors Kazuko Yoshiyuki and Tatsuya Fuji discuss the making of the 1978 film "Empire of Passion."

The film is a musical and comedy film that tells about young people's love and current life, and is aimed at giving lessons and understanding to children and young people.

Julien, a young french comedian, disembarks in Chacahua, a fishing community in Mexico's pacific coast.

Three years in the life of Swedish singer Olle Ljungström.

Igor Semyonov, a successful entrepreneur, forty-year-old owner of a holding company and director of Beta Bank, who has been working abroad for the last ten years, arrives in Moscow. After a meeting with his subordinates, instead of going to a planned corporate meeting, he suddenly decides to go to a country villa. There he catches his wife Vika with her lover. This event knocks him out of his usual routine. Having entrusted the divorce process to his deputy, he gets drunk and, without knowing why, goes to the small Moscow suburb of Prigorsk. Once he grew up here, without a father, in utter poverty. He tried to forget his past.... But unexpectedly there are a series of meetings and events that will completely change his life.

Pete Correale was named one of the top ten comics to watch by Entertainment Weekly in 2008. His affable New York charm and hilarious tales of life and love of the "everyman" put him on the path to comedy stardom. You've seen Pete's breakout performances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The Late Show with David Letterman," and Comedy Central's "Premium Blend." He has performed at all the major comedy festivals, including Montreal, Aspen, and Kilkenny, and can be heard daily on the Sirius Satellite radio show "Breuer Unleashed."

The spiritual journey of a teenager who discovers a passion for painting in the context of a hard working neighborhood gray Bilbao during recent years of the Franco dictatorship. In this hostile environment of beauty and art, a group of foundry workers spends his free time painting. They are fond of painting by pure love of art.

Susana is Pablo's girlfriend but Pablo's just realized he's gay and he's in love of Javi, his best friend who, at the same time, is going out with Susana. How are they going to tell to each other? How are they going to react? And how will all this end?

In advance of his fight with Al ‘Blue’ Lewis at Croke Park in Dublin, Cathal O’Shannon interviews Muhammad Ali about boxing, and his life outside the ring. When a fight is coming up Muhammad Ali (formally Cassius Marcellus Clay, junior) admits he deliberately intimidates his opponent. He does this because historically in America black people have always been taught to be subservient. ’Muhammad Ali V Cathal O’Shannon′ was filmed in RTÉ Television’s Studio 1 on 17 July 1972. It was first broadcast on 18 July 1972, the night before the fight with Al ‘Blue’ Lewis at Croke Park. The programme was re-mastered in 2008. This was re-edited and re-transmitted as ‘When Ali Met Cathal’ on 5 January 2009.

Nassim Guammaz wants to become the best skateboarder in the world. His father says he has to choose a secure future, and the boys from his neighbourhood think skateboarding is not for Moroccans. But Nassim follows his heart and does what he wants. This summer, for the first time, he is not going to Morocco with his family, but staying in the Netherlands to compete in important skateboard competitions.

Dancing flames of a burning log in a fireplace can take you out of yourself and connect you with a deep and primal place. Echoes of holidays past with the sleigh bells that run through the piece while underscoring the enchantment of losing yourself in this elemental ballet.

The film tackles the issue of sexual harassment and one of the main motives behind it, and how explicit music videos affect the youth.

When we ask ourselves about loneliness and about man, we started to cross the bridge for understanding both. This film explores and portrays the cruel beauty of loneliness and age-effect evident in the landscapes and places of the Trás-os-Montes region (Portugal).

The documentary takes the viewer on a visual journey to the recent past where extreme optimism is going to be replaced by sobering reality in the course of a year in Estonia.

“Soy Huao” is a film that is installed in the Toca family to watch from them and through the contemplation of a camera -which manages to become invisible-, a world organized by its own values and rules that far from any idea of consumption and urban well-being, it moves with very different customs in the midst of nature and survival in the face of vegetation loaded with a dense forest, the tropical humidity of the climate, and the variety of species of small animals. A plane that visits them every so often, connects the Huao community with the world. How long can a community that has struggled so hard to preserve its freedom resist the influence of the world as we know it?

Raised in a small farming village in the mountains of southern Peru, Feliciano works as a porter on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in hopes of some day taking his son to live in the city. Framed by the seasons, Mi Chacra chronicles one year in Feliciano’s life, from the planting season in his community to the harvest, and through a season of work on the Inca Trail. The film paints a vivid picture of this man’s world, of the conflict between his love of the land and the work he has learned from his father, and the desire to see his son living what he sees as a better life in the city.

Driving through the mountains. The sounds of chords, beauty, art and death echo through the places and elements. The trip ends in the city of Venice which appears exhausted and deserted.

The documentary travels between Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles to meet Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, John Barry and Michel Legrand, four composers who revolutionized the relationship between music and image. Also among the interviewees are the electronic duo of Air, Mike Patton and David Holmes, contemporary musicians whose work is strongly influenced by the masters of the 1960s and 1970s, a certain worldview and pop culture of the golden age of film music 1965 - 1975.

Documentary about the Nanjing (alt. Nanking) massacre, featuring interviews and accounts from both Japanese veterans and Chinese survivors

Chinese men are 'inscrutable'; none more so than Tony's Dad who works in a Chinese takeaway. Tony is Chinese but has lived in the UK all of his 20 years, during which his Dad has hardly uttered more than a few sentences to him, and never once touched him. It is the Chinese way. Tony has accepted it all his life. However, when Tony's Dad has a near-escape in a car accident, Tony begins to yearn for a deeper, more expressive relationship with him. This is easier said than done as Tony recalls the few occasions on which his Dad has ever spoken to him; his Dad has never wished him a happy birthday in his entire life; he failed to say goodbye when Tony left home at 18, and even neglected to congratulate him on his wedding day! Dad doesn't even utter a word when his wife - Tony's Mum - passes away. Tony wonders if his Dad has any feelings at all. Time finally runs out for them both when his Dad has yet another car accident; this time a fatal one. Thus, Tony has his Dad taken away without ...

TGV Paris-Bordeaux, tuesday january 6th 2009 : dawn... And airs grown calm when white the dawn appeareth And white snow falling where no wind is bent . . . Guido Cavalcanti (1255, 1300) Film (numérique) de 6', HD 720p, juin 2009 rom black to brown and then white, red and yellow, the light of this snowy dawn was astonishing. I had this phrase from Guido Cavalcanti in my head. I wanted to put it into colors. I wanted to film a landscape in movement, a landscape unfolding, a landscape that would go to our hearts through the play of fragile materialety and of pictural poetry.

"The images of “Memory Fade” are not lost… they are spectral and the dance steps repeated over and over in time fights the Fade – a falling down that breaks the spine of the book of life (mankind)."

Albert Rosen conducts the Wexford Festival Opera's production of the classic Antonín Dvorák tale about a young woman who defies her parents by insisting on dancing even if it means she must dance with the devil. Anne-Marie Owens plays Kate, who's dismayed to discover that her spontaneous outburst has attracted the attention of one of Lucifer's minions. Joseph Evans stars as Jirka, the handsome shepherd who risks a voyage to hell to rescue her.