Cinematic Era: 2012 Vintage

The story of five young people's unique first experiences in New York City.

After the destruction of Troy, the Trojan warrior Énée sets out on a journey to found a new dynasty. He meets Didon, Queen of Carthage, and falls in love. But will Énée's love for Didon prove stronger than his sense of duty? LES TROYENS ('The Trojans') is a tour de force of music that ranges from fiery military marches to intense choruses, passionate soliloquies – such as those of the prophetess Cassandre – and the lyrical love duets of Didon and Énée. It is Hector Berlioz's largest work and he wrote the libretto himself, drawing upon his intimate knowledge of Virgil's Aeneid. To the composer's disappointment, LES TROYENS was only performed once in full during his lifetime and was often presented in shortened form during the 20th century. The Royal Opera's production provides a rare chance to see this epic work in its entirety. David McVicar's staging is on an enormous scale, assembling one of the largest casts ever seen at Covent Garden.

The true-life story of professional soccer player, Kurt Kuykendall is told in this riveting drama starring Jason Burkey of "October Baby."

The film is about Govinda, played by Komal, saving a software engineer who wants to attempt suicide. The software engineer tells Govinda why he tried to end his life and asks Govinda, who is also on the top of a building intending to jump off, for his story. Govinda tells his story in flashback about how he cheated on three girls and how he was cheated by the fourth one.

SETLIST: 1 Bloom--2 The Daily Mail--3 Myxomatosis--4 Morning Mr. Magpie--5 The Amazing Sounds of Orgy--6 Staircase--7 Identikit--8 There There--9 Feral--10 Idioteque--11 Paranoid Android

Fly-on-the-wall documentary on the day-to-day life of Evgeniy Alyokhin, russian poet and musician, and his girlfrend Oksana.

This is Caroline tells the story of how a darkly comic accident, misinterpreted as a suicide attempt, forces a girl to acknowledge real feelings of loneliness.

When Rasheed returns to Kozhikode from the Gulf, his friend locks him up in a commercial space with Thankam, a prostitute. Things go down the hill when his friend is unable to let him leave.

During WWII, Taiwan was occupied by Japan. Hai Sheng, a young man from Taiwan, was deeply influenced by Japanese militarism. He enthusiastically joined the Japanese vanguard and went to the mainland China to participate in the war together with his foster-brother, Yamamoto Ichiro. However, when he witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese army killing Chinese civilians, he only wanted to escape back to his hometown. On the way back home, Hai Sheng met four girls including Ning Yu. Forced by desperation, Hai Sheng agreed to send them to the occupied Nanjing city. Along the way, Hai Sheng not only had to protect the four girls, but also avoided the pursuit of Yamamoto Ichiro, the captain of the vanguard team. In the end, among the four girls, only Sakurako (Ying Zi), who was of Japanese descent, survived. When Ying Zi also saw the true face of the Japanese soldiers, Hai Sheng decided to work hard to cover Ying Zi to break out of the Japanese army camp.

This special showcases Chris Isaak s most beloved hits and his personal tribute to the glory days of the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis and the music created by Chris heroes in that famous room. Chris recaptures the heart and soul of the original songs with his own brilliant band of stellar musicians, while showing the heart and soul of his own deeply rooted musical identity. The show was taped before a live audience of music fans on the soundstage of Austin City Limits, the home of the legendary PBS music series.

Romance, in Russian

Pablo embarks on a journey towards the desert of San Luis Potosi with a super 8 camera and a small backpack. He doesn’t have a clue of what he pretends to discover in his improvised journey, yet he meets several persons along the way which orient him. As he goes deeper into the desert, Pablo’s hallucinations push him towards discovering his darkest fears.

She's as hot as Britney Spears. Hotter. She parties like Hollywood. She's way out of his league. Or that's the story he's sticking to.

Truck driving is all sixty-year-old widower Germain has ever known. When he is involved in a head-on collision that leaves a woman dead, his quiet life is suddenly thrown into a tailspin.

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow. As Marfa, the spurned lover of Ivan Khovansky‘s son Andrei, Doris Soffel unfolds such a rich palette of sonorities, from the pathos of the lower ranges to shaded discant heights, that “one is tempted to speak of a Russian mezzo”. The final chorus, which Mussorgsky did not compose, is played in the orchestrally transparent version of Igor Stravinsky – the third great Russian composer who contributed to making “Khovanshchina“ a timeless, gripping stage work. With his stripped-down sets and historicising costumes, director Dmitri Tcherniakov, one of the new voices of contemporary Russian theatre, builds a bridge to the political present. A lesson in history and music!

The wedding is in full swing, and classmates are rehearsing in the school auditorium—until Chen Guixian’s daughter suddenly collapses. Abandoning the wedding without hesitation, Chen rushes to the hospital, only to be hit with devastating news: her daughter was born with liver insufficiency and urgently needs a transplant. Without giving her fiancé Lao Huo an explanation, Chen decides to donate part of her own liver. But tests reveal she suffers from severe fatty liver due to years of driving and stress. A nurse tells her it can be reversed through exercise. Determined, Chen begins rigorous workouts and efforts to qualify as a donor. Meanwhile, Lao Huo secretly goes for a compatibility test, posing as her husband. The death of a young patient in the next bed shakes Chen’s already fragile resolve, as the looming risk of surgery fills her with dread...

Cicadas come out of the ground for a party at the end of their lives.

An unemployed stay at home dad begins venturing out at night. Befriended by a group of petty criminals and strippers, he begins to feel alive. But when he is implicated in a murder, he finds himself indebted to a psychotic gangster and is drawn into a world of violence that threatens his life and his family's safety.

A geological team travels to the hinterland of Lop Nur to conduct potash surveys.

How do we carry on living, afterwards. When we've grown up under a dictatorship, when we shaped our lives under a dictatorship. When it's part of us. Second part of a trilogy about Romania after Stella (2007).

Shot at a sold-out show in London's famed Brixton Academy, Steel Panther brings back the '80s in full force with a blistering set of their greatest hits. This DVD also includes a hysterical behind the scenes documentary; total running time is over two hours. The British Invasion tracklisting: 'Eyes Of A Panther' 'Eatin' Ain't Cheatin' 'Fat Girl' Hair Solo 'Party All Day' 'Hell's On Fire' 'Stripper Girl' Guitar Solo 'Asian Hooker' 'Turn Out The Lights' 'Girl From Oklahoma' 'We Want Pussy' 'Community Property' 'The Shocker' 'Death To All But Metal'

Paul (Paulo Vilela), not gay assumed that shares a room with his heterosexual friend Daniel (Thierry Figueira). In the course of the plot, Paul falls in love with Daniel. Disgusted and surprised to discover the sexuality of his friend, Daniel turns away from him, which, sad and hurt, decides to confide in her best friend Marina (Giovanna Ewbank), which, until then, not knowing that Paul is gay, cultivates a passion for him. The story then goes on to mix many feelings: love, hate, prejudice and revenge.

Johann, a brilliant young scientist, conspires with his friend Eric to perform a dangerous chemical experiment with an exhilarating goal: the secret of eternal life. Their fraternal relationship is tested to the limit by the addition to their duo of the beautiful, capricious Ines.

A group of young unknown actors arrive in Hollywood with dreams of fame and fortune. When they are cast in a horror film they become the unsuspecting participants in a snuff film - theirs.

Director Louis Thévenon followed Pascal Laugier on the set of The Secret in British Columbia. Shaking the conformism of traditional making of, In The Shadow of The Tall Man invites us to enter the bowels of an intense feature film.

It is the 1950s. Mary and John are getting a divorce. If only Mary had tried harder to please her husband... if she had cared enough to do whatever necessary to lose those last 5 pounds, it's possible her marriage could have been saved. If only she had trusted in modern science... ladies - don't be a Mary. Watch this clever modern film, lose those last 5 pounds. Your marriage, and your country, are depending on you.

Comedy starring Nikita Anand, Kurush Deboo and Dinesh Hingoo

Macky Galvez is a depressed young man contemplating why he had several failed relationships. Galvez meets Ces Bricenio, a modern-day woman who is afraid of commitment.

Bandera by Mila Janis, 1:44, 2011, Cuba

Stinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) retreats to the safety of her parents’ ramshackle upstate country house — just 45 minutes from Broadway— where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's fiance, a real- estate executive, (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder. Family secrets, sibling rivalries, theatrical hysterics and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge.

An inspiring look at how wonderful birth can be when your right to choose how, where and with whom you give birth is respected & protected. Every woman has the right to be informed about their options in childbirth. Through an exploration of home birth, this 87 min film looks at what natural, physiological childbirth really is. Is birth a medical emergency waiting to happen or a profound, natural and physiological event that women are designed for? The most comprehensive film ever made on home birth and a voice of reason in the debate, The Face of Birth outlines the importance of education in birthing and the right of a woman to choose the best and safest birth method for her and her baby.

The budding romance of a wannabe filmmaker, disturbed marital life of a techie, business troubles of the manager of the coffee shop are dealt with in detail.

Alice is a young street girl, she is looking for a place where she can stay...

Admiring the legend, Yasuyuki defeated and absorbed the teams that ran rampant in Tokyo, mainly in Shibuya, one after the other. However, the team that had always been the strongest and had done whatever they wanted, could easily fall apart. Against the aspiring and disciplined Yasuyuki, rebels were born, and the blood of evil, which had once again dived into the darkness, began to turn even their friends red!

Experience America's failing drug war through the magic of song!

A family moves into a possessed bungalow. A sudden turn of events in the house leaves them astonished. When things worsen, escape seems to be their last resort.

The film is about an ordinary middle class man whose life turns upside down when a criminal tries to control him. It's about his struggles and how he comes to terms with his life.

‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are painted white. So when we debuted our current program, ‘Crazy Camel,’ in France, and we came on stage covered in gold-colored powder, the fans and experts there thought we were pioneering a new style,” 72-year-old butoh master Akaji Maro says in a recent email interview. “In fact, this gold-powdered showy performance style has existed as a cabaret-show flip side of orthodox butoh since not long after the genre was started in 1959. It was developed by two trailblazers — Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) and Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010).”

During a robbery attempt at the local cinema-plex in 1977, Shawn Davis reflects on the last three years of his life. Movies, cars, girls, college, drugs and personal life-changing decisions.

A jet-setting model leads a freewheeling life in Mexico City until she falls in love with an artist.

When Molly, a spirited and independent woman, locks horns with Pranav Roy, a rigid government officer, a small dispute turns into a battle of ego and conviction. Through wit and determination, Molly challenges his authority and proves that courage has no age or limit.

The film centres around three friends who love their bachelorhood so much that they place a bet among themselves that whoever decides to marry first will lose a huge amount in shares that were contributed by all three. All is well until one decides to take the plunge and make a commitment.

Two strangers struggle to make an authentic connection in a chance, and brief, encounter at a cafe.

The setting is Russia, late in the 19th century. An engagement party is being held for Mitzy, the daughter of a duke, and the young nobleman Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, at the estate of Duke Korchagin on the outskirts of Moscow. A large crowd of people, including Nekhlyudov's aunt Ivanovna and his friend Schonbock, have come out to bless the young couple. But news arrives at the party informing Nekhlyudov that the start of a trial in which he has been enlisted to serve as a juror has been moved forward. He leaves Korchagin's residence to fulfill his duty.

Anton Yelchin and Amber Heard star in a short film directed by Kurt Iswarienko. Inspired by the classic, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, this modern short format rendition was created for Interview Russia to accompany an 18 page Fall 2012 Fashion Story Kurt Iswarienko shot for the magazine.

A poetic coming-of-age story as a teenage boy explores love.

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

Hanna Forster is still waiting eagerly for the return of her husband Karl, who has been in Russian captivity for seven years. Hanna brought the family and joinery on her own through the war and post-war years. When Karl finally returns, Hanna is overjoyed, but luck does not last long. Heavily injured and traumatized, Karl finds it difficult to get used to everyday and family life again. To prevent the bankruptcy of the joinery, Hanna makes a momentous decision.

A brand new live DVD from the brilliant comedian - coming in 2012. Recorded at his last ever tour. Frankie Boyle has been pilloried, misrepresented and demonised. And for what? For Telling It Like It Is. Now he will attempt a final tour, to heal Britain's fools. To support its rioters. To offer the inchoate laughter of despair to a culture in freefall. These are The Last Days Of Sodom.

Antonia Quirke looks at the history of the colour film industry to find out who produced the first moving colour images.

Srinivas is a gullible lover who gets used by girlfriends for his money. Shreya is fed up with guys who wants to take their friendship to next level in order to have a physical relationship. They happen to meet each other when they decided to not to fall in love. Their relationship starts with hatred and lies. The rest of the story is all about how Srinivas and Shreya unite after many twists and turns

The documentary film Dragon Girls tells the story of three young Chinese girls training to become Kung Fu fighters, far away from their families, at the largest Kung Fu school in China. These girls, in a crowd of 26,000 children, are under constant pressure to conform to the norms and structures. They are turned into fighting robots and yet, if you look behind the curtain, you see children with dreams and aspirations. It show the controversial world of selection of the fittest in a totalitarian system.