All Films

Directed by Almodóvar

2007 • 27 min • United States of America

A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.

Twilight Cameraman

2007 • 14 min

A Great Historical Program for a Visual Effects Class. Twilight Cameraman gives a rare glimpse into the remarkable craft of optical printing which was of great importance in the field of visual effects. It demonstrates the step-by-step procedures used to shoot film opticals. Before his transition into digital, Visual Effects cameraman Mark Sawicki documented the old style craftsmanship of the traditional optical cameraman. This program is a wonderful companion piece to the Albert Whitlock: A Master of Illusion as Sawicki worked as cameraman for Whitlock's protg's Bill Taylor and Syd Dutton (now effects supervisors). This program pays homage to an exciting craft that was handed down from one camera person to another in the last age of apprenticeship.

Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar

2007 • 25 min • United States of America

The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, and Almodóvar experts.

Louis C.K. Animation Short

2007 • 2 min • United States of America

Louis hates his Dad in Animation

This Is the Way the World Ends

2007 • 9 min • United States of America

A young octopus learns the solemn story of mankind's extinction and how their greatest achievements were buried on the ocean floor. An animated companion film to Southland Tales.

Gangs of Iraq

2007 • 55 min

Day after day scores of bodies litter the streets of Baghdad. To staunch the violence, the U.S. has spent billions to “stand up” the Iraqi forces. In Gangs of Iraq, a joint production of FRONTLINE and the “America at a Crossroads” series, FRONTLINE takes a hard look at how the four-year training effort has fared and how the coalition-trained forces have themselves been infiltrated by various sectarian militias. Now, with President Bush sending new U.S. troops to Iraq, it remains to be seen if America and its allies can build a national Iraqi army and police and restore order.

Death of Shula

2007 • 24 min • Israel

The film depicts the day where Yosi (73), the father of the Korman family, redeems the family dog Shula from agonized dying of numerous diseases by putting her to sleep. Yosi decides to take Shula's inanimate body with him and bury it in the sands, nearby home. The participants in the film (the director himself, and the members of his family) play themselves in a cinematic story based on true event.

This Is My Element

2007 • 50 min • United States of America

Element's 8th skateboarding video featuring Nyjah Huston, Chad Muska, Brent Atchley, Chad TimTim, Justin Schulte, Jimmy Lannon, Bam Margera, International Team, Mike Barker, Levi Brown, Mike Vallely, Bucky Lasek, Collin Provost, Tosh Townend, Darrell Stanton, and Tony Tave

It Wasn't God's Will

2007 • 15 min • Portugal

The story of Ramiro, a young boy, who is leaving to war; his return and his missing with the love of his life, Laurinda.

Marionette

2007 • 10 min • Greece

Once upon a time and place, there was a toy-maker, living alone, in a cabin up on a mountain. He created a wooden puppet, as an opponent for his games of chess. But can a puppet become a worthy opponent? Unless...

Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920

2007 • 32 min • United States of America

A documentary about the early days of animation.

Cymatic Cocoon

2007 • 1 min • United States of America

This film explores cymatics and telepathy among twins

Black Santa's Revenge

2007 • 21 min

A down-and-out Santa is robbed of all the toys for all the poor kids in town. He searches for the thugs responsible and serves up his own brand of holiday cheer.

Kyrie Eleison

2007 • 15 min • Sweden

Lars-Lennart Forsberg's 15 minute long film, based on Marianne Hall's sculptures. The music, Prayer of the Heart, is written by the English composer Sir John Tavener and performed by Björk.

Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

A special concert celebrating the music of children's music entertainer Ella Jenkins, based on the Grammy award-winning album.

From the Ground Up

2007 • 54 min

With few words and no polemics, From the Ground Up shows how an ordinary cup of coffee occupies center stage in the world economy. Traveling with the filmmaker from Guatemala to South Carolina to New York City and seeing each phase of coffee production unfold—the growing, picking, processing, distribution, brewing and selling—one comes to understand that most products we use have passed through the hands, and lives, of countless people in numerous countries. As the world’s second most traded commodity after oil, it’s all about the coffee, and about everything else we consume, consume, consume….

There is Nothing to Be Silent About

2007 • 23 min • Poland

It's not easy to find the one - especially when you are shy. And if we fall in love at first sight, is it worth to trust Cosmopolitan and seek advice from a seer?

In the Wall

2007 • 26 min

The Telltale Heart meets It's Alive in this gruesome short. A man murders his pregnant wife & walls up her body - only to find being deranged runs in the family, and he just woke the baby...

After the Revolution

2007 • 55 min • France

Staying in the Argentinian capital, Vincent Dieutre compares his memories of a Buenos Aires magnified by the Argentinians in exile at the end of the 1970s, and with whom he associated, with what the city offers him today. His film rings out like an adieu to the fantasies of the past, while fulfilling a promise: the unfailing welcome reserved for the poetic powers of the present.

Voyage: Killing Brigitte Nielsen

2007 • 60 min • Greece, United Kingdom

Extreme hidden camera comedy at its finest. Six unsuspecting Men and Women think they are there to experience Greece at its finest but they are very wrong. They think they are making a pleasant documentary on sailing but take part in one of the most interesting and bizarre human experiments ever captured on tape. Whilst on a tour of the islands the motley team of documentary makers chance on Brigitte Nielsen the movie-star, on holiday. After several carefully orchestrated mishaps, Brigitte falls in love with one of the Volunteers. Brigitte is murdered by drug traffickers, and the Volunteers quickly find themselves with blood on their hands! After a series of even more bizarre events, they all end up in a Greek jail where they are filmed whilst under interrogation. A prison break ensues, followed by the big reveal.

To Live and to Die in Samarkand

2007 • 39 min

Having gone to Samarkand in search of traces of colonial culture, of which there were quite a few left there, having carefully photographed them, we suddenly discovered that it was not the dead buildings that were much more interesting, but the living carriers of this very colonial culture. The result is a film about people who live on the ruins of an empire.

Tropic of Gallagher

2007 • 60 min

Gallagher rants about homosexuality, individuality and Spam then has some fun with audience members. Then it's time for the sledge-o-magic.

Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic

2007 • 60 min

Tony Bennett's most recent album Duets: An American Classic featured Bennett recording duets of his greatest hits with today's greatest stars including Bono, Elton John, Paul McCartney, John Legend, Sting, Billy Joel, Michael Buble, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, and many more! Now, Duets: The Making Of An American Classic goes into the studio for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Tony Bennett's acclaimed 2006 album. Features Elton John, Bono, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Sting, the Dixie Chicks, and others who participated in this musical celebration of Bennett's 80th birthday.

Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire

2007 • 52 min • Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria, Romania

On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula - the first true horror movie. Its worldwide success catapulted the film's lead actor, Romanian-born Bela Lugosi, to overnight stardom. "Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire" traces the life and career of this mysterious man whose name became synonymous with the evil, yet magnetically compelling Count Dracula. Using archival still and film clips as well as interviews with film historians, actors and Lugosi himself, the special chronicles the meteoric rise and then precipitous decline of a talented yet tragic man who forever changed the face of horror films.