All Films

Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha

2007 • 5 min

Pedro, at Nick Cave's favorite caipirinha bar in São Paolo, gives a lesson in how to prepare the classic Brazilian drink.

O resplandor das Atochas

2007 • 44 min • Spain

The memory of a defeat, a barbarism: the destruction at the dawn of the civil war of people who fought for freedom, a group of anarchists from A Coruña located in the Atochas area. Through valuable witnesses and historical images a reconstruction of a metaphorical episode in the history of the country. This projection is made in collaboration with its author and the Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory.

Mano-a-Mano

2007 • 5 min

Two dudes go head to head to become gay phone sex operators.

Tourette de France

2007 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Documentary in which Keith Allen teams up with a group of young Tourette's Syndrome sufferers and takes them on a trip to the French hospital where the condition was first diagnosed to find out more about it. First, though, there is the matter of getting through customs on a decrepit red double decker with a gang of kids shouting 'Al Queda' and 'I've Got A Bomb'.

La main sur la gueule

2007 • 56 min

Bruno, accompaned by his friend Liliane, arrives at his father's place. His father lives alone in the middle of the countryside. Bruno wants to ask him something.

Andre Rieu : In Wonderland

2007 • 58 min • Netherlands

To the music of Thus spake Zarathustra the gates open to reveal an enchanting, fairy-tale world. There are stunning melodies, recorded at Efteling, one of the world’s most beautiful fairy-tale theme parks, and performed by André Rieu, his orchestra and choir and some fantastic soloists. It is a fascinating, magical film, exciting and amusing

Jamie Foxx Presents: America's Funniest Comics: Vol. 2

2007 • 60 min

Jamie Foxx kicks it with some of the country's funniest young talents in this second volume of stand-up comedy acts recorded before a live audience at Laffapalooza, Atlanta's premier comedy and arts festival, while Cedric the Entertainer serves as the hilarious host. These young lions of comedy, many of whom were handpicked to perform by Foxx himself, strike hard at the funny bone with this crop of fresh, outrageous material.

The Secret Life of Brian

2007 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.

「アイランドタイムズ」メイキング

2007 • 22 min

Making of Island Times

Travels with My Camera: The Happy Dictator

2007 • 48 min

A film crew goes into Turkmenistan pretending it's for a stag party, but they are really recording a documentary about the secretive country.

Portrait of a Choreographer

2007 • 23 min • United States of America

Documentary about choreographer/director Bob Fosse, and his influence on dance.

When Fear Eats the Soul

2007 • 25 min • France

Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, François Ozon creates a new film about cinephilic contamination.

The Real Edie

2007 • 29 min • United States of America

A documentary about Edie Sedgwick featuring photos of her and clips from Factory Girl, narrated by her real-life friends and loved ones, including her brother Jonathan, cousin John Sedgwick, roommate Danny Fields, artists Richie Berlin and Gerard Malanga, photographer Nat Finkelstein, designer Betsey Johnson, and others.

Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 2007 TV Special

2007 • 22 min • Jamaica, United States of America

The 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit show takes you around the world to where music comes alive. Even body painting has a music theme with iconic concert t-shirts painted on your favorite swimsuit models.

They Are Here: The Real World of the Poltergeists

2007 • 31 min

A two-part documentary contextualizing the events depicted in the film Poltergeist, featuring interviews with paranormal investigators, authors and other experts in the field, interspersed with clips from the film.

福井未菜 ミナフル

2007 • 60 min • Japan

2007 release

From Mambo to Hip Hop

2007 • 60 min

Through interviews and performance clips, filmmaker Henry Chalfant explores the history of music in the South Bronx, from the Puerto Rican and Cuban influences that created the local salsa sound to the rise of hip-hop after fires destroyed the area. Artists appearing in this colorful documentary include Eddie Palmieri, Angel Rodríguez, Benny Bonilla, Clemente "Kid Freeze" Moreno, Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, Bobby Sanabria and many others.

Touch Me Someplace I Can Feel

2007 • 53 min • Netherlands

This is a documentary about the provocative American cartoonist John Callahan. At the age of 21 Callahan got involved in a serious car-accident and was paralyzed from the waist down. Drawing cartoons has become his way to express himself although he can hardly use his hands. With a raw style, pen clutched between his hands, he draws cynical and ruthless observations of mankind. His work is praised and criticised. Callahan has provoked protest-marches and receives many angry letters. He was fired at The Miami Herald journal after drawing a cartoon in honour of Martin Luther King Jr. Day; a little boy with a wet spot on his pyjamas saying: "Mommie I had a dream".

At Close Range with National Geographic

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

National Geographic Magazine photographer Joel Sartore shoots in some of the most exotic locales on earth, often in wretched conditions for weeks on end, and always under pressure to produce worthy pictures. A husband and father of three, he often wonders if it's the best job in the world or the worst. ""At Close Range"" reminds us of where we fit in the cosmos, and what we owe to the next generation of all the earth's inhabitants.

Crowded House: Time On Earth

2007 • 20 min

Bonus DVD that came with CD release. Live Real World Session - 3 Tracks Interview Photo Gallery

A Massacre Foretold

2007 • 58 min • United Kingdom

On 22 December 1997, forty-five indigenous residents of the small Southern Mexican village of Acteal were attending a prayer meeting in their village church when they were slaughtered by unknown paramilitary forces. They were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas (The Bees), who were supporters of the revolutionary Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. The investigation into their deaths quickly went suspiciously cold. Scottish documentary maker Nick Higgins, an expert on Mexican culture and politics and the author of Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion, attains unprecedented access to the place, the people, and the story behind a barely-reported atrocity.

Sunday December 30, 2007

2007 • 5 min

I close the 365 Day Project and announce the 1001 Nights Project ---HASTA LA VISTA! ---

Rosa

2007 • 13 min • United States of America

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man, an act that ignited a movement that changed modern history.

Behind the Tunes: Wacky Warner One-Shots

2007 • 9 min • United States of America

Historians and modern animators discuss classic era Warner cartoons without "stars": characters who returned in subsequent cartoons.