Cinematic Era: 2009 Vintage

A girl who loves reading stories about male romance wanders the streets of Japan fantasizing about guys.

A 1908 essay by Adolf Loos is here read by the incomparable Carola Regnier and set to virtual photographs of 18th-century marble inlays at St. John’s Cathedrale in Valletta, Malta.

The "Great Sichuan Earthquake" took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. In the days after, ordinary people salvage destroyed pig farms in the mountains, collect cheap scrapped metals, or pillaging other victims' homes. Behind the media circus of official visits is an inconsolable grief of families searching for loved ones. As the Lunar New Year approaches, vagabonds and family tell of the ill-handling of rebuilding schemes and misuse relief funds. As they prepare for another visit from a high official, the refugees are swept out of the town and into tent cities. The promise to put a roof over their heads before winter seems impossible to keep.

The prospect isn't good: situation seems like jail, porridge bowl bottomless and time is running out. An unexpected discovery changes it all though.

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Get the ultimate tour of Air Force One, including the President's bedroom and restricted areas where top-secret technology is housed. Then meet the presidential pilot and the crew charged with operating this global command center in the sky.

A group of misfits who must join forces for a struggle for survival while seeking to find the cause of a disastrous series of events. In the process they strive to get word to the only entities who can save them and a small town from total annihilation.

The manager of a failing gay bar and his macho dancer boyfriend are having relationship troubles as their business collapses around them. But things turn around when a provincial young man arrives looking for a childhood friend and becomes a part of their lives.

A bus carrying a group of cheerleaders after competing has a bus accident and enters a chasm. Derry, the team’s assistant basketball coach suggests to leave the bus and look for help, but Shanti, insists on waiting for help to come but eventually must run in to the cemetery. The rest of the group decides to take shelter in an old abandoned hospital. In their hopeless situation, they look for anything that could be used to get any kind of help. In the chaos, Derry and Lina find a diary containing the secret for the destruction of the hospital. They soon realize that they are indeed facing the ghost Suster Ngesot and the only way to escape is to confront her head on.

Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt…Where will it all end? How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers? And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt! Money as debt II explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT… and how we might evolve beyond it into a new era.

Takarazuka special performance.

How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participates for the first time in the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. The film follows the team from the formation of the squad to the end of the championship. The young people are from Timisoara and Arad, runaway children who now live in abandoned houses or who have managed to get a job and live in rented accommodation after going through orphanages or prisons. After taking a beating from many teams, the young Romanians manage to beat the USA. They are happy. They are all thinking of never going "home" again. It's warm and nice here, the people are nice. "In case I stay, I kissed you all!" says one of them cautiously. But after taking pictures of themselves on the beach with the ocean behind them and beautiful girls by their side, the seven return to Romania and get on with their lives.

This set features rare, one-of-a-kind performances from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, filmed over the past 24 years. The biggest names in rock 'n' roll perform in intimate settings, jamming in combinations not seen anywhere else. Plus, the anything-goes induction speeches by rock royalty, along with rare behind-the-scenes footage. For nearly a quarter century, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has honored music's most influential figures at prestigious black-tie events where performers and audience alike let down their hair. Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Live captures all the excitement of those ceremonies, from the wise and witty speeches, to the most incredible combinations of talent ever assembled on a single stage.

Sang-hoon loses his job. He even gets scammed by his friend. I have to find his friend and get my money back. A shipowner with a severe headache. It is difficult to cure with drugs. cut by the company Getting a job is not easy. And there are people who are entangled like a string between Sang-hoon and Seon-ju. normally or not.

This documentary explores the differences and similarities between music stars Michael Jackson and Prince.

Traces of a pirate action against the commercial world during the 2009 Climate Action Camp.

You and I can speak to each other without talking. We leave this moment, this time, for the moon.

US stage director Robert Wilson has teamed up with pop star Rufus Wainwright to bring Shakespeare’s sonnets to the stage in Berlin. Debuting on Easter Sunday, this highly stylized cross-dressing version of the archetypal love poems went down a storm with the audience.

Short-listed as one of the 15 best documentaries of the year, Mugabe And The White African is the story of one family's astonishing bravery as they fight to protect their property, their livelihood and their country. Mike Campbell is one of the few white farmers left in Zimbabwe since its leader, Robert Mugabe, enacted his disastrous land redistribution program. Once the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe has since spiraled into chaos, the economy decimated as farms given to Mugabe cronies are run into ruin. After enduring years of intimidation and threats, Campbell decides to take action. Unable to call upon help from his country's authorities, he challenges Mugabe before an international court.

Cha’mone Mo’Fo’Selecta! showcases a host of brand new rubber faces including; Diana Ross, Uri Geller and Ken West (Kanye West) as well as Bo'Selecta! favourites Craig David, Mel B, Keith Lemon, Avid Merrion and the Bear. The show takes a chronological look at Michael Jackson's life featuring hilarious spoofs of Thriller, Bad, Beat It and Billy Jean with special guest appearances by Spice Girl Emma Bunton, Peaches Geldof, Paddy McGuiness and David Gest. It's the final curtain for the Bo'Selecta! Michael Jackson and a salute to the gloved one.

Michael McIntyre, the comedy sensation of 2009, is back. Michael McIntyre’s meteoric rise to fame took the comedy world by storm last year. He sold out over 100 tour dates around the UK and his first DVD release Michael McIntyre Live & Laughing became the fastest selling debut stand up DVD of all time. Michael sets off on his biggest tour to date taking his new show to arenas around the UK.

A struggling screenwriter falls victim to an unscrupulous talent & literary agent while trying to break into the entertainment industry.

Days of Dirt DVD is the fifth feature release from Allout Productions, 'Days of Dirt' offers up a buttery blend of downhill & freestyle action. From the hills of Oakland to Crankworx, the film showcases America's finest riders gettin down n dirty doing what they do best.

Urmila and Shashank are a happily married couple. But their relationship is tested when Alok, a soldier, claims that Urmila is his lover and her real name is Charulatha.

Feature film created by 10 famous Armenian film directors and scriptwriters. The movie consists of 10 short stories lasting about seven minutes each, "10 life stories" beaded like "pearls" on an "endless thread" called Yerevan. Each story is shot in a definite genre and differs from the rest by its concept as well as signature, yet all the stories integrate into a bright mosaic, reflecting nowadays Yerevan life.

25 years have passed, and old McCreedy rots away in a mental hospital, raving about demonic creatures. Meanwhile, Kevin and his friends, now all grown up but not all that much wiser, are visited by a bunch of wish-fulfilling monsters.

Bergensbanen is a real time documentary film of the entire journey by rail from Bergen to Oslo in Norway. The journey, lasting almost seven and a half hours, was filmed by cameras on the outside of the train, and is interspersed with interviews, archive footage and music. An alternative cut (the version commonly available on the internet) consists entirely of unbroken phantom ride footage.

Set among the Native American, Greed Eats the Soul is a story based on Leo Tolstoy's 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?', it is a story that tackle the existentialist question of Greed and man's failure to control it.

The year is 1993, democracy is at hand, and South Africa's townships are burning. Gugu, a sixteen year-old from a Zulu speaking family falls in love with Andile, an eighteen year-old Xhosa youth. Their love is frowned upon by both communities.

In Fatima, Portugal, between May and October 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared to three young children. The Lady of Light appeared to them on the 13th day of each month for six months, promising that on her last visit she would perform a miracle.

When reaching the station a soul is told he has won another chance at life. He is placed in the body of 14 year old Makoto Kobayashi, who just committed suicide. He is watched over by a spirit named purapura. The soul is granted with the task of discovering the greatest sin he committed before time runs out.

For twenty-two years, Leo Huff has been working as a secretary in the same office. Living with the same wife in the same suburban bungalow, with the same old furniture and is the same old daily routine, his life is a monotonous statement. Things take a sudden turn when Leo has to stand in for an engineer and give a presentation in a small rural community. There, Leo is swept away by Lou, a distressed young woman who takes him beyond the beaten track. This encounter spells a new beginning for Leo, a strange, chaotic journey filled with unexpected twists and turns.

A series of twelve short films, each encapsulating a different aspect of the famous Dublin inner-city community. The vibrancy of the streets, the humour of the inhabitants and the skills of the traders and craftspeople are all captured here.

Longhaul is a documentary about a corruption that spreads across America, from one coast to another, and it is a corruption that you, the Reader of this statement, are apart of. In this documentary Joe Brown, a truck driver, exposes how every OTR(Over The Road) driver is forced to break the law every single day in order to make a living. And, these laws are not small laws, they are serious laws.

Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is a visual ride presenting the treasures of rain forest biodiversity and the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations.

Young and athletic Sydney Harris finds out that she has six months to live unless she and her husband can come up with the money for her medical treatment. Sounds simple enough; get the money, save her life. But her underpaid, working class husband can't afford the treatment. And time is ticking away. As Sydney begins to seek out a means to save her life, she begins to question her existence and does some soul searching, only to find herself falling in love with a single mom in the neighborhood that Sydney and her family have just moved into. Sydney is then forced to choose between her religious upbringing, her husband and son, and a love that she hides, all while fighting a losing battle to save her own life.

William Kunstler was one of the most famous lawyers of the 20th century. His clients included Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, Abbie Hoffman, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Leonard Peltier. Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore their father’s life, from middle-class family man, to movement lawyer, to “the most hated lawyer in America.”

Interview with the italian composer Claudio Gizzi about his lifetime and work as part or the extras of the Blu-Ray edition from What? (Che?) (1972) from Roman Polanski

The story of one man's grief following the death of his wife. The film captures a desperate journey, played out against isolated highland landscapes.

Variations on relationships in a New Year Day atmosphere set in a huge and rundown 1980s style hotel awaiting demolition by Lake Balaton, Hungary. Three women and five men in various ways.

Psychotherapist Anna Sergeevna Bochkareva has everything that is considered to be indicators of success and solvency in life. She lectures at the institute, her articles are published in respected scientific publications, she has her own practice and a house in perfect order. But one day the system into which the heroine turned her life is destroyed because of one single meeting. In the charity orphanage where Anna works, a new patient appears - a strange Old Man who has only a few months left to live, and he makes Anna look at many things in a new way - at the events of the past, at the value of human feelings, at repentance and at the meaning of our being...

B'z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2008 -GLORY DAYS- is a home video by B'z, released on February 25, 2009 on DVD and December 22, 2010 on Blu-ray. The release covered the band's 20th anniversary tour B'z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2008 -GLORY DAYS- that concluded exactly twenty years to the day of their debut at Japan's largest concert venue, Nissan Stadium.

To the outside world, Yvonne is a strong, happy and successful woman. But when she returns home to be with her sick mother, she is forced to make life-changing decisions and the facade that she has carefully constructed begins to collapse.

Comedian Maz Jobrani showcases his brilliant and laugh-out-loud talents in his first solo stand-up comedy special. He tackles topics on politics, race and religion, and hilariously breaks down stereotypes about the Middle East.

When David, Sarah, and Nicole stop at a gas station, they are robbed. Then they spend the night at a meat market but have no idea that the butcher slaughters humans for meat.

This is the diary which the French philosopher Simone Weil kept when, as a twenty-five-year-old, she took a one-year sabbatical from school and her studies and worked in a Parisian factory from December 4, 1934 until August 1935, running the presses at the Alsthom electric company. This experience formed the basis for her book La condition ouvrière. The written chronicle of her days is visually accompanied by a continuous flow of dark rooms and the urban landscape of Île Seguin (suburbs south of Paris), paying particular attention to construction sites and factories.

6 December 2008, few minutes after 9 pm - Time Zero of the December Revolt. Two policemen shoot against a group of youngsters hanging out on a Saturday night, at the heart of the Exarcheia district of central Athens, an area with a long history of insurrection against authority and riots for socio economic and political grounds, inhabited mainly by anarchists, anti-authoritarians and liberals. The police bullet finds in the heart and kills 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. As soon as the news of Alexis' murder spreads mainly through the internet, hundreds of people from the rest of Athens gather at Exarchia, which is circled by hundreds of riot policemen and that in turns infuriated people and the neighborhood quickly goes "on fire" with flaming barricades and stone attacks against the police, that lasted all throughout the night.

Based on Minoru Nagao's 1969 experimental book Illustrator: Basara ningen.

A young man trying to help his mother climb out of debt falls into the world of prostitution.A veteran hustler takes him under his wing and helps him find work.But it isn't long before he runs into a job that he isn't willing to do, and he's made to face just how far he's willing to go to survive.

Chain, starved for beauty in her desolate underground community of scavengers, appears to commit the crime of growing a flower by using scarce water. As Munk, who oversees the roulette type death punishment breathes in this world’s only flower she pauses in awe of the miracle, but the gun is loaded and the trigger is squeezed…

A man's search for the existence of life outside our universe takes a remarkable turn when he connects with a recently bereaved family.

Ann and Mark Savin slowly discover through live TV reports that zombies are attacking. After accepting the unbelievable, they must make life or death decisions before it is too late. Do they leave their life behind and go on the run or do they stay and fight?

Sex, drugs, money, murder - not to mention love, heartache, humiliation, guilt, revenge, redemption - are central themes in this wicked dark comedy. Tracking six not-quite-so-young oilmen and dancers as they pursue life with reckless abandon in boomtown Houston during the Eighties, the story careens from casual pick-ups to painful break-ups, from betrayal to reunion with hardly a pause for breath.

When he learns that a co-worker is friends with his old high-school girlfriend, Jennifer, stockbroker Gary helps his former flame get a job at his company in order to pursue her affections all over again. But when Jennifer rejects his advances and dates other men, Gary becomes increasingly obsessed with winning her back.