She Fell Among Thieves
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the…
Honky Tonk Nights
Former stripper turned aspiring country singer Bette Barnette gets a gig performing at a seedy tavern run by the no-nonsense Georgia. However, poor Bette can’t get the rowdy male patrons…
The Feast of the Baked Potato
Drama about Aleksandra Avramovna Derevskaya (1902-1959), who, between the two wars – the Civil and Great Patriotic War, raised 48 orphan children of different nationalities. After her death, each birthday,…
The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah…
Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys
The Bixby family has turned cattle rustling into their occupation, which the neighbours have had enough of. Their plan to stop the Bixbys meets resistance leading to turmoil in this…
Flying Masters of Kung Fu
In order to avenge her father’s murder, Hsiang Ying trains herself in the deadliest form of swordplay. Her only goal – to kill all of her father’s vicious killers. From…
The Day Santa Claus Cried
A Night Full of Rain
Lizzy (Candice Bergen), a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo (Giancarlo Giannini). Then finds she can’t live with him or without him. Bergen (Murphy Brown) and Giannini (Seven…
Leave Yesterday Behind
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Solange is depressed: she’s stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be…
Inside Out
Over three silent sequences, the short film shows moments of sustained, internal tension just before an emotional outburst on the part of the protagonists.
A Breach in the Wall
Up in Smoke
The Being On Time Game
Faces of Death
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.
Fast Break
Evoking a cinema verite feel not found in most sports documentaries, Fast Break examines the 1977 Portland Trailblazers basketball team in a surprisingly personal and compelling fashion. Inter-cutting excerpts from…
Amazing World of Ghosts
Do ghosts come from outer space? Are they amongst us? The Amazing World of Ghosts seeks to unveil the mysteries that defy mankind’s understanding and define the modern age… and…
Every Girl Should Have One
Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Initiation
Left to viewer interpretation, this beautiful dance piece displays a spiritual or religious initiation. A short work, this film was released as part of Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic…
New York After Midnight
Monique is a 35 year old French woman, living in New York. The daughter of a French diplomat who has remarried, Monique has no financial worries, and holds a good…
Karajan Brahms En Deutsches Requiem
This unique document from the 1978 Salzburg Festival has fortunately been released on DVD and is a magical interpretation, prodigiously realized with a sublime fusion of timbres, a cohesion and…
Visions of a City
Sepia toning lends a romantic (even wistful) quality to Larry Jordan’s film Visions of a City, which he shot in San Francisco in 1957 and edited in 1978. The pace…
Almost Crying
Electric Light Orchestra: Out of the Blue – Live at Wembley
TV-Ping-Pong
An early video work by Ivan Ladislav Galeta that underlines the perceptual presumptions of video-media.
Comrade Nikanorova Awaits You
Katya Nikanorova leaves her village in order to find her loved one.