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- A collection of intertwined monologues from the point of view of multiple characters performed by one actor. Issues explored include art, insanity, philosophy, and the demons of the past. Learn to dance with the dreadful.
- Arlene teaches an online class on how to take photos of animals dressed as people, while also coming up with funny names like Tailor Swift and Paw McCartney. However, she isn't happy. Her true desire is to take photos of wine glasses dressed as people. It turns out one of her students, Liz, also has her sights set elsewhere. Liz wants to take photos of glass jam jars dressed as people. Her father Jim, however, is devastated, as he dedicated his life to animals and he expects his daughter to do the same. Later, Arlene confesses to her friend Irma her true intentions, but Irma also has dreams of her own. Irma has plans to start a photography business that shows off sexy stemware with names like Diana Rosè and The Supremes. Whose dreams will flourish? And whose will have to be put on "paws"?
- In this mockumentary, Anauka Shelley (Jamie Lynn Catrett) gets the funding to make her film "Unity of Women" on one condition: she must direct a children's theatre production of "The Wizard of Oz." She discovers that she has her hands full making a production with a less-than-stellar cast and crew. Will her own film ever happen?
- Unnoticed by her classmates, a young woman commits suicide during her French class. Adam smokes a cigarette; chats with a friend; a riot erupts. Jesse is injured in a skating accident; Adam offers medical assistance. A woman fires a gun. Amanda asks Jesse for help; a suave student offers his services. Later in the parking lot, Jesse shows Adam his little friend.
- Psychoanalysis has given our modern problems some colorful labels. "Obsessive Compulsive," "Mid-Life Crisis," "Uncontrolled Anger," "Wealthy and Disenchanted." Join four Elizabethans (who somehow find themselves in the high-rise office of a 16th Century therapist) as they delve into our collective angst. In iambic pentameter, of course. We'd like to think Shakespeare would have seen this short film as a way to get some closure.
- Alex Starbuck has it all... a high paying job, a beautiful home, and a wardrobe that any woman would die for. But there's a glitch in her portable, hard-driven life. While her job is stressful, the only physical release she receives from her hi-tech husband Mark are numerous emails. Things become hilariously complicated when Alex has a romantic encounter with Graeme, a start-up CEO who may or may not give Mark a top position at privy-track.com. With her soul recently stirred by the Battle in Seattle, and a 6.8 quake, Alex must now confront her discontent and improvise a plan to change her life...quickly.
- About the struggle to heal when dealing with the loss of a loved one. Chris Ryan, an aspiring writer, is hopeless and angry after the loss of his fiancée, Isabel. He leaves college and returns home. Unable to sleep at night, he takes a night job as a janitor to distance himself from his family and friends. His self-imposed isolation slowly dissipates as he begins to listen and confide in the people around him.
- Ian purposely loses his cell phone to meet girls, while a novelty newspaper creator deals with an egotistical drug user turned tattoo addict.
- In the 1950s and 1960s, Rochester, New York became known as a successful city with a thriving business community and few problems. On the other hand, large numbers of poor black southerners had been moving to the city in the recent years. Those black citizens were largely denied the good jobs at local factories. These underprivileged citizens also felt themselves the victims of excessive police scrutiny, as well as police brutality. On a summer night in July 1964, there were altercations between the police and African-American Rochesterians. Those events escalated into riots. Over several nights, Rochester stores were looted and the streets were scenes of chaos and violence. Governor Nelson Rockefeller called out the National Guard to help the police keep order.
- An ordinary man decides to devote his life to being Santa Claus and eventually buys a house in a small town and converts it to a permanent Christmas house. The resulting traffic, noise, and mess upsets the neighbors. A young woman (Shelley Long) is running for mayor gets involved, targeting zoning issues. A newspaper reporter (Barry Bostwick) is sweet on her but sides with the Santa.
- A Docu-drama exploring the events leading up to the attempted kidnapping of Princess Anne in 1974 by schizophrenic loner Ian Ball. The programme looks at Ball's life leading up to the fateful day and dramatizes the fateful evening in which he shot 4 people before being arrested. The action is inter-cut with interviews with the surviving participants.
- A moonshiner turned sheriff's deputy helps bring in the bad guys armed with duct tape. The local newspaper reporter now has some major events to write about, and a sleepy little Alabama farming community is making the news all over Dixie.
- The French painter Edouard Manet painted four canvases depicting the execution in 1867 of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. This short dramatic film evokes the artist's studio and the events of Maximilian's death, using a single, uninterrupted shot to present the artistic thought process through the eyes of the painter. The narration, written by the film's director, takes the form of an imagined interior monologue, presented in voice-over style in French and German with English subtitles. It alludes to the narrative, historical and visual texts that Manet drew upon to form his four versions of the painting.
- Filmmaker David Diaan, an expatriate residing in Los Angeles , left his native Iran 24 years ago, unable to return due to the sudden and fierce changes that rocked Iran in 1979. However, motivated by a deep longing to visit his motherland and the recent easing up of tensions, he finally deemed it safe enough to pay a visit. Ready for a culture shock, yet haunted by fading memories of his childhood, Diaan filmed his journey with an adoring eye, eager to capture every moment. He cautiously traversed the streets without a crew or equipment, armed only with a hand-held camera small enough to hide from the authorities, hoping that somehow he would be able to smuggle his tapes out of the country without them being confiscated. Through candid and unrehearsed interviews on the streets, Diaan delves into the hearts and minds of a humble people surrounded on the one hand by the remnants of mythical Persia, and the encroaching realities of a modern world on the other. What strikes him most, however, is the beauty and promise of a bright new generation of Iranian youth that is sure to demand the freedom and the happinesss that the citizens of every land deserve.
- Howzer Cassel and his sister Deborah, feel like run-always long before they one day, at the ages of 12 and 14, scrape up enough money and actually flee to California.
- People and ideas mingle in Old Hearts Cafe. Feed yourself with poetry and intellectualism...or just try the scones.
- A Japanese mother and daughter wish to start an art museum with their collection. The location is a nature preserve deep in the Japanese mountains. I.M. Pei is contracted as the architect. The project faces several hurdles: the building must be no taller than forty feet, the roof must be sloped, and so on. The architect, owners, and builders surmount all obstacles. A magnificent and innovative bridge connects visitors to the tunnel by which they enter the museum. After construction is complete, a large percentage of the building is covered with earth, which is then reforested to give the illusion that the site was hardly disturbed. Interviews with I.M. Pei show his awe and gratitude at being involved with such a grand project.
- Rimuru, now a teacher at the Freedom Academy in the Kingdom of Ingrassia, has become involved in the school's outdoor training event with his class. The outdoor training event is an annual competition in which the students of each class guard the teachers on a journey to a nearby town. Rimuru is assigned to Class A, while his own students in Class S escort the young Tiss-sensei. All the students are eager to show how much their daily training has paid off, but the situation turns around when they're attacked by thieves.
- A wealthy young widow begins to date a suave European man. A mutual friend tells her that the European has trouble clearing his fortune with customs, so he needs a certain amount of money. She makes a large loan to the European man, keeping his valuable stamp collection as collateral. Eventually, the European and his collaborators disappear, leaving the young widow to discover that her boyfriend was a fraud, and the stamp collection is almost worthless.
- A comedy blog based around Scottish culture, pop culture and classic traditions.
- A documentary filmmaker attempts to make his movie about the life of a Los Angeles actress.
- A short silent comedy in which a young actress enters a casting director's office for an audition. The director (loveable Bob Cresse) appears to be bored by her demonstration of acting and cuts to the nitty gritty. The actress is unabashed and procedes to do a striptease. As she completes her "act" the door opens to admit... the REAL casting director! The bogus director fumbles with his fancy cravat, removing it and begins to use it as a duster... exit the office cleaner, stage left.
- Nero Wolfe is approached by a wealthy businessman who wants an investigation of his daughter-in-law because he believes she is giving his confidential business information to his primary competitor. Archie is sent in to the household undercover as the businessman's new secretary. As he investigates, others connected with the household start being murdered.
- During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites sought their former jobs and positions in the community. In 1919, a race riot occurred. Whites put the African-Americans on railroad cars and ran them out of town. In Trouble Behind, members of the Corbin community speak out on the issue. The filmmakers also interview former members of the Corbin, which at the time of filming had only one black family. Some Corbin residents express confusion as to why African-Americans don't move back. Others openly use racial epithets. Some young adults seem troubled by the racism, past and present. Others don't.
- A hoodlum named Harry the Horse tries to convince Butch the safecracker to take a job. Butch, long retired from crime, agrees to take the job, but his wife has entrusted him with their infant son. Butch accepts the safecracking job, and minds the baby all the while.
- Rimuru and the Class S students have made it through the first exercise of the Freedom Academy's annual outdoor training event. Class S has arrived first at the destination, the mansion of Count Guratol, and now they're ready to begin the second exercise, a cave exploration - but awaiting them there are thieves who hope to kidnap the students and make a fortune returning them for ransom money. Just when it seems like Rimuru's students have fought them off thanks to the skills he taught them, they realize a monster is lurking among the thieves.
- Anyone who's seen Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope, will likely tell you that Grand Moff Tarkin destroyed the planet Alderaan to scare the bajebus out of Princess Leia thereby forcing her to tell him where the rebel base was. Well, I don't think that was the real reason. I think it was revenge. This film explains the real reason Alderaan was destroyed.
- In the early 1990s, teenager Nicole Althaus began an unlikely friendship with a teacher at her high school. Soon after, she accused her father of sexual abuse and rape. Local law enforcement arrested the father, and pursued a case against another couple as well. A psychiatrist diagnosed Nicole as having post-traumatic stress disorder, brought on by sexual abuse. As Nicole's stories and accusations became even more wild (murder, a woman flying around on a broomstick, etc.), one police detective became skeptical. Eventually the charges were dropped. Nicole sued the psychiatrist in civil court, and won.
- Bobby goes to bed, with a thunderstorm raging outside. He listens to music and reads a comic book before lights out, then the storm causes the electricity to fail. A huge chicken-like creation assembles itself from various items inside Bobby's room. Is Bobby's imagination running wild, or is this really happening?
- Richard Tuttle is an unconventional artist. Many of Tuttle's works are small pieces made of unusual materials, such as wire, or string, and many are both sculptures and paintings. Utilizing a wide variety of materials and possessing a unique sensibility, Tuttle produces works which confound art critics and museumgoers. Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist explores Tuttle's work and critical response to it. The film examines Tuttle's art and its impact in several locations: his home in New Mexico, in New York with collectors, and in Miami Beach, where Tuttle was chosen to create a rather large piece of public art.
- After his fiancee breaks up with him and gets engaged to another man, Dennis can't get over the idea that the cheap engagement ring he bought may have triggered it. When she dies, he convinces two grave robbers to steal the new ring from her body, in hopes of learning how much true love really cost, whilst partaking in "wet" cigarettes.
- A young elephant goes to live with his eccentric uncle when his parents are lost at sea.
- For almost 60 years the B-17 bomber, the Memphis Belle, called Memphis, Tennessee home. In Oct. 2005, The U.S. Air Force removed one of the most famous aircraft in the world from the possession of the City of Memphis because of the lack of public support. This is the story of 60 years of neglect, apathy and disinterest by the City of Memphis to one of it's most important icons. A documentary film that focuses on the history of the Belle in Memphis and emphasizes the final days and the volunteers who tried to keep another Memphis icon from disappearing.
- A dramatic short about a troubled gay man named Gary. Gary's a reclusive, middle-aged nobody, obsessed with the idea of reproducing himself. He's caught up in a hostile social climate, which furthers his isolation and exacerbates his desperation. But despite this, he presses on. Gary eventually meets Madonna, an old street woman for, as Tom McSorley of Take One Magazine calls, "some of the most awkward and decidedly twisted sex in all of Canadian cinema." The film explores deep into the psyche of the protagonist, touching the viewer in more ways than one.
- Probably the first TV drama that portrayed gay relationship/sex openly and positively on a national television in Japan. It started as 'school reunion' (that's the title). This high school sweethearts couple just married. Then the wife (Y Saito) discovered that her husband (K Nishimura) is a closet homosexual. One night she goes to a gay town in Tokyo to discover his 'another life'. She got confused, got drunk and had sex with a bi-sexual boy (T Yamaguchi), who later would have a relationship with her husband... It's not one of the best TV dramas ever made but good acting (those three and the always good K Oginome) and the theme helped its purposes.
- A light-hearted "feel-good" romantic comedy about sibling rivalry, set in the backdrop of the independent film world.
- "Getting The Knack" chronicles the controversial career of power pop stars, The Knack. Viewers will witness a compelling tale of instant stardom and spectacular failure, a story marked by heroin addiction, alcohol abuse, vicious inner-band feuding and massive critical backlash. "Getting The Knack" explores the group's career via candid interviews with the original band, producers Mike Chapman and Jack Douglas, Sharona Alperin, (the inspiration behind their biggest hit), Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols, Rick Springfield, Elliot Easton of The Cars, Devo's Bob Mothersbaugh, comedian Weird Al Yankovic and many more. Narrated by Cherie Currie of The Runaways, "Getting the Knack" is augmented by scores of rare photos and previously unseen archival footage providing a no-holds barred look at the rise and fall and ultimate resurrection of the group.
- Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living with injustice and oppression, many African-Americans advocated a non-violent resistance. Williams took a different tack, urging the oppressed to take up arms. Williams was stripped of his rank as leader of the local NAACP chapter, but he continued to encourage local African-Americans to carry weapons as a means of self-defense. Wanted on a kidnapping charge, Williams and his wife fled to Cuba. His radio show Radio Free Dixie could be heard in some parts of the United States.
- Teenage girl doesn't understand why her father is against her campaign to promote literacy at his factory. Until she discovers that her father can't read.
- The Calico docks in San Francisco just as the Golden Gate Bridge collapses and the city's citizens frantically flee from something...but what?
- Rimuru, who is teaching Shizu's students as a substitute at the Kingdom of Ingrassia's Freedom Academy, takes part in an orientation in actual field combat in the school's annual outdoor training event. Transfixed by the prize he gets if he wins, he accepts a challenge by the teacher Jeff. However, an enemy appears before the students.
- Cultures clash humorously for a Seattle artist when his cowboy father thinks art's a joke while an Indian family believes art is his destiny. Fireworks go off when falls for his "Indian Family's" exotic daughter.
- National Geographic takes a behind the scenes look at the Special Forces of the United States.
- The leopard and his friend the Ethiopian hunt for animals (like the kudu) on the veldt. The animals move to the jungle, into the shade, for safety. The leopard himself visits the jungle, and discovers that his prey are well hidden in the mixture of sun and shadows that exists beneath the canopy. The leopard must adapt also, in order to survive.
- Otto Feldman is obsessed with keeping everything in its place - down to the contents of his refrigerator. So when Otto gets fired from the family business, his entire life gets thrown into disarray. Taking the advice of his persistent neighbor Shinui Chaim, Otto attempts to win back his job and his piece of mind. But how far will Otto go to bring back stability in his life? Irreversible is a time-bending, thought-provoking thriller that like Otto, tries to put itself back where it started. But is it possible to restore balance without making a major change?
- The rotation of the world is slowing down. So, DM immediately heads for the North Pole, where Baron Greenback is attempting to hold the world to ransom by stopping the world with a anti gravity rotation retarder of some sort.
- On the day of the Halloween party, boys Soup and Rob are finding plenty of ways to get into trouble: swimming in a local pond (though their mothers prohibit swimming so late in the year), pitching apples over a barn, and borrowing a cart which had drifted away from its owner. The grandest mischief of all, however, comes from their attempt to win the prize at the Halloween party, given to the entrant with the largest pumpkin.
- John Singleton directed the movie Boyz n the Hood at the age of 22, from a script that he wrote. Friendly Fire: Making an Urban Legend documents how the film came to be. Through interviews with the director, cinematographer, casting director, a studio executive, and actors, the documentary explores the filmmaking process as well as the climate of tension and fear that existed in South Central at the time of the film's production.
- Baron Silas Greenback has created a dream machine. The device resembles a colorful cloud. The dream machine descends upon DangerMouse and Penfold. They see no possible escape. Within the dream machine, whatever Penfold says is created. Terrified for a few minutes, DangerMouse and Penfold find a way to create just what they need to confront and defeat the villainous Greenback.
- Marcus Garvey emmigrated from Jamaica to New York City in 1914, bringing with him a message of black empowerment. After touring the United States with his message, his organization started publishing The Negro World, a newspaper. With millions of followers worldwide, Garvey decried racial prejudice in the U.S.A., and urged African-Americans to invest in shares of his organization's shipping company, The Black Star Line. Garvey also promoted the idea of millions of African-Americans moving to Africa to found their own nation.