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Daniel, a young and arrogant Londoner, is bored to death in his life. His jewish grandmother asks him to go through Europe in order to find his grandfather’s grave. Not only will Daniel find his long lost grandfather’s trace, but he also will understand his deep-rooted jewish culture.Read More »
Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration.
When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is
denied insurance money because it was ‘an act of God’. He re-registers as a lawyer and
sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself.
The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna
Redmond (Davis).Read More »
Bruce Campbell stars as Carl, a man who launches a full-scale heist to steal mob money from the prison that just released him. With the help of an old friend, a driver and a safe-cracker, Carl’s attempt to carry out the heist is fraught with incompetence and bad luck. As the clock ticks and the circumstances turn tragic, Carl is forced to make the most important decision of his life. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” and filmed over twenty years before Sam Mendes’ “1917”, writer/director Josh Becker designed “Running Time” to play out using the “one continuous shot” technique with no computer-assisted trickery. Expertly photographed and edited on film to take place over 60 minutes of real-time, this gritty crime drama was shot entirely on location in the streets of Los Angeles.Read More »
Matt Stevens is the big man at high school. He sweats the students for protection money, acquires copies of tests for a fee, and has rigged the votes so he can beat Kelly in the election for student president. Aside from his anointed acolytes, Matt is almost universally despised. His parents are obscenely rich and spend their time travelling in Europe rather than giving him the parental guidance he needs. Things begin to get ugly when some of the teens resist his power and show Matt up at the drag race.Read More »
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The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck’s iconic novel, is looking for a better life in California. After their drought-ridden farm is seized by the bank, the family — led by just-paroled son Tom — loads up a truck and heads West. On the road, beset by hardships, the Joads meet dozens of other families making the same trek and holding onto the same dream. Once in California, however, the Joads soon realize that the promised land isn’t quite what they hoped.Read More »
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.Read More »
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A visionary neuroscientist explores the limits of consciousness through isolation tanks, communication with dolphins, and psychedelic experiments, transforming himself from researcher to mystical explorer.Read More »
A child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract learning-games taught to the child bear an eerie resemblance to mammoth tasks and obstacles that hinder him in his journey. Can he complete the quest before his 8 days are up, and what lies at the end of this arcane sunless world? The gray, stagnating civilization place all their hope in a future they cannot comprehend and learned tasks whose meaning they no longer understand.Read More »
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This documentary film examines, dissects and all but lobotomizes the wealth of music, literature, theatre and film that have assisted in creating Waits legendary genius and, results in hand, reviews the life and career of Tom Waits from this fascinating and rarely identified viewpoint. With exclusive interviews, rare and often previously unseen footage and contributions from Toms legendary producer Bones Howe Moris Tepper and John French from Captain Beefhearts Magic Band and occasional TW collaborator, Ken Nordine Harry Partch associates David Dunn and Dean Drummond BBCs head of music Chris Ingham Beat-era scholar John Tytell plus Tom Waits historians, music academics, and respected writers. Also features numerous seldom seen photographs, much archive film and a host of other features which all at once make for an educational, inspiring and joyous celebration of Tom Waits and those he holds close to his heart.Read More »