A little girl with a blind mother, accidentally becomes friends with a famous and rich singer who decides to help her in her life.Read More »

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After completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn’t going to stop White. While he is gunning down the opposition, he decides he’s going to give away the money he’ll make to modernize the hospital in his old neighborhood. Drug dealers aren’t the only thing he has to worry about however: a group of rogue cops decide they are going to take him down.Read More »

When a series of brutal killings of young male hustlers awakens the police to the threat of a serial killer, rookie detective Raymond Fates (Noel Palomaria) and his seasoned partner detective Tom Ellis (Charles Lanyer) battle an intolerant police department that is indifferent to these “misdemeanor killings.Read More »

24-year-old Nozomi quit her job at an ad agency and now works part-time at a convenience store. Her ordinary days are enlivened by funny and kind co-workers but her heart is troubled because she cannot tell her parents about her situation and she is haunted by her failure to meet the excessive demands at her previous workplace. One day, her former junior high school classmate Kanako appears and Nozomi begins to articulate how she feels.Read More »

A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.Read More »

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For over twenty years, Caryn Cline has handcrafted intimate films that reframe the familiar through experiments in scale and context. Join Cline in person for a free program showcasing her “botanicollage” technique of creating direct animation films using botanical elements.

Cline coined the term “botanicollage” to describe the technique pioneered by Stan Brakhage (Mothlight, Garden of Earthly Delights) in which flowers, leaves, and other organic matter are fused directly onto celluloid. Once small and overlooked, her weedy subjects demand the full cinematic frame, revealing often astonishingly beautiful qualities.Read More »

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This profound and disturbing Italian documentary is entirely comprised of archival film footage from London, Milan, Moscow, Vienna and Budapest of life in WWI prison camps. Some of the clips are from propaganda films from Germany and Czarist Russia. The compilers removed all original onscreen text and replaced it with title cards describing the location and the subject. The documentary is also unnarrated but for a vocal score and presents the subjects objectively. Scenes include the arrest of the prisoners, their entry into the prison camps, live within their confines and the grim fate suffered by many of the interredRead More »

An art dealer comes into possession of a fake Gaugin painting, which leads him into a downward spiral of murder and gangland crimes.Read More »

The liberation, exploitation, and oppression of Iran’s women, based on clips from films from the silent-film era up until the Revolution in 1979.Read More »