All Films

Transmission 37: Crosstown Traffic

2008 • 4 min

A short film set in the universe of “The Signal” (2007).

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

2008 • 29 min

Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a modern classic.

Ribbon of Sand

2008 • 26 min

At once exaltation and elegy, this documentary profiles the natural history of North Carolina's Outer Banks, a seascape of transitory barrier islands doomed to disappear.

Sueur

2008 • 45 min • France

Director Abdellatif Kechiche’s reedit of Rym’s belly-dancing sequence in THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN, a visual and aural interpretation of that film’s passionate climax.

Joseito

2008 • 25 min • Japan

A sunny summer's day, the trembling insides of a girl are painted by Dazai Osamu's hidden masterpiece, "School Girl," a "Kaku Nime" production.

Mateo's Night

2008 • 4 min • Mexico

The world of dreams keeps Mateo locked up, will he be able to wake up?

Louis C.K.: Chewed Up

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Profane, vulgar and obscenely funny, Louis C.K. insists on telling the truth, whether you like it or not! Join the Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic and TV star (Lucky Louie) as he shares his thoughts on the stuff everyone thinks about -- male bodily fluids, the joys of being white, the difference between women and girls -- but never has the nerve to say. It's Louis C.K. at his risk-taking best: fearless, honest and totally outrageous! Nominated for the 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special

In the Ocean, on Land

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Panasonic PV-GS83 in a plastic bag thrown in the ocean.

Jailbait

2008 • 24 min • Australia

The world’s most notorious jackass, Matt Pritchard of Dirty Sanchez fame, has been unceremoniously tossed into prison on a trumped-up indecent exposure charge. And life on the inside is less kind than you’d think for the mad Welshman who’s made a name for himself self-inflicting bodily harm and inserting assorted objects into places where the sun don’t shine. Like Paris Hilton before him, Pritch has become the ultimate Subservient Celebrity – and now you’re calling the shots.

Mind the Kitty

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

What promises to be the world's easiest babysitting job turns into a nightmare as Duck the duck, Punky the turtle, and Lemurman the lemur are locked out of the house by a psychotic kitten named Tabby, who's intent on making the evening a (painful) memory they'll never forget!

IMAX Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean

2008 • 42 min • Bahamas, United Kingdom

This documentary goes to coral reefs of the Bahamas and the waters of the Kingdom of Tonga for a close encounter with the surviving tribes of the ocean: wild dolphins and belugas, the love of a Humpback mother for her newborn calf, the singing Humpback males, an orca the mighty King of the ocean, and the gentle manatee. Little-known aspects of these creatures capable of sophisticated communication and social interaction. Documents the life of these graceful, majestic yet endangered sea creatures

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

2008 • 26 min • United States of America

Films beget films. Filmmakers influence other filmmakers constantly. But the most influential filmmaker of all time is Alfred Hitchcock.

Circles of Desire: Alan Williams on Max Ophuls' "La Ronde"

2008 • 36 min • Germany

Ophuls scholar Alan Williams discusses the French director's 1950 film

Rainman Twins

2008 • 50 min

This is the fascinating story of the only identical twin autistic savant sisters known to exist. Over 50 years time, Flo and Kay have literally memorized the world around them. They never forget a date or a song, what they ate or the weather on any given day. Like the Dustin Hoffman character in the movie Rainman, their lives are riveting. You'll never forget them. They'll never forget you.

The Employment

2008 • 7 min • Argentina

A man prepares and goes to work in a bizarre world, where the meaning of human workforce is taken to another level.

Americans in Pyongyang

2008 • 53 min

In summer 2007 the New York Philharmonic received an invitation that was unprecedented in the orchestra's history. North Korea, the world's most isolated and secluded country and technically at war with the United States, invited the orchestra to play in the capital of Pyongyang. Just a few months later, two hundred orchestra members and more than one hundred journalists disembarked from a chartered plane at Pyongyang's deserted airport. They were about to experience a historic moment, the first-ever performance by an American orchestra in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

2008 • 23 min • United States of America

A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD.

Who Messed With Mayra?

2008 • 10 min • Argentina

Teen Western in the middle of the Buenos Aires conurbano: girl bands, a role and a meeting schedule.

Jangarh Film One

2008 • 24 min • India

The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001. Through his art, places and stories, the filmmaker explores the traces he left on his path.

Deeflowered

2008 • 56 min

In a town that worships Satan, everyone is a creep. This is the home of the sunny day abortion clinic run by th incompetent alcoholic Dr. Sunny Day and his assistant, the homeless, deranged Griffin. As the controversy and the power of mass prayer causes a psychic energy mindfuck, it also resurrects the ghost of Jack the Ripper who fights the pro-life crusade by mutilating thte women responsible.

Svetlana About Svetlana

2008 • 44 min • Russia, United States of America

Svetlana Parshina was deeply moved by her childhood reading of Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter. Years later, learning that the now 82-year-old was living incognito in a Madison, Wisconsin retirement home, Parshina phones and requests an interview. After repeated denials, and only after insisting upon certain conditions, the now-82-year-old Alliluyeva finally consents to a rare filmed interview in which she discusses her education, marriages, her children, the development of her own humanistic philosophy, her CIA-assisted defection to the U.S., and her skeptical views on the competing Cold War ideologies. In more intimate moments, she discusses her childhood, her nanny, the suicide of her mother, her brothers Vasily and Yakov (who died in a Nazi concentration camp) and, of course, her famous father, who most Soviets saw as "a living God."

Chirokumar Shongho

2008 • 46 min • Bangladesh

A group of friends decides that they will remain lifelong bachelors, so they form an organization called the "Chirokumar Shongho"

The Fairly OddParents: Fairly OddBaby

2008 • 44 min • United States of America

Poof comes into existence when Cosmo and Wanda decide to have a child of their own, and Timmy wishes it so. However, because the fairy baby's magic is developing and uncontrollable, villains called the anti-fairies (polar opposite of fairies) and pixies (business fairies) seek to steal the fairy baby so they can take over the fairies' home, Fairy World.

And He Just Comes Around and Dances with You

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

An intense, despairing look at obsession and the twisted nature of attraction.