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Knock'em Dead

Knock'em Dead

2009 • 22 min
A documentary short which weaves together opposing career choices of openly gay comedian, Georgia Ragsdale. She is best known as a comic whose material deftly probes the awkwardness of life as a gay person and yet, unknown to most, she also has serious encouragement to pursue a calling as a professional boxer.
Uno de aquellos

Uno de aquellos

2009 • 6 min • Spain
Jazz Icons: Anita O’Day Live in '63 & '70

Jazz Icons: Anita O’Day Live in '63 & '70

2009 • 53 min
Anita O’Day boasts two wonderful concerts from 1963 and 1970 that present the “jazz singer supreme” in impeccable form. O’Day’s horn-based approach to singing is in full effect throughout both shows including stand-out renditions in each show of audience favorites “Tea For Two” and “Sweet Georgia Brown” (both reprised from her triumphant appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.) Two wonderful concerts from 1963 and 1970 that present the jazz singer supreme in impeccable form. O'Day's horn-based approach to singing is in full effect throughout both shows including stand-out renditions in each show of audience favorites Tea for Two and Sweet Georgia Brown (both reprised from her triumphant appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.) This DVD is a fitting testimony to one of jazz music's true originals and shows unequivocally why she is ranked in the top tier of vocalists along with Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday.
Gougnette

Gougnette

2009 • 46 min • France
A tribute to Raynal’s parents, who were Resistance fighters and communists in the South of France during World War II. The interviews with those who worked together to save the persecuted are unmistakably moving, at once intimate and sprawling.
Sammy's Walk

Sammy's Walk

2009 • 18 min
Sammy, 9 years old, embraces one day’s adventures with his father who makes most of the day hustling money. Father and son forge a deeper more meaningful bond when an encounter forces them to face the truth.
Green Day: Live at Fox Theater

Green Day: Live at Fox Theater

2009 • 54 min
01. 21st Century Breakdown 02. Know Your Enemy 03. ¡Viva La Gloria! 04. Christian's Inferno 05. East Jesus Nowhere 06. Last Of The American Girls 07. ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) 08. 21 Guns 09. American Eulogy 10. American Idiot 11. Longview 12. Welcome to Paradise
Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608

Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608

2009 • 55 min • Brazil
The audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary, from the research phase until the end of the filming of "Master, a Building in Copacabana".
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days

2009 • 4 min • United States of America
Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009) and to Jonas Mekas, who managed to breathe life into Kodachrome.
Take That: Where Did It All Go Right ?

Take That: Where Did It All Go Right ?

2009 • 44 min
Documentary charting the rise, fall and meteoric rise again of superstar British boy band Take That. Originally aired on 4th February 2009 on Britain's Channel 5.
LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug

LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug

2009 • 60 min • United States of America
LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug captures the fascinating story of LSD as it is eloquently told by Dr. Albert Hofmann, the 100-year-old sage-scientist who brought LSD into the world. With interviews and presentations by Rick Doblin, Alex Grey, Ralph Metzner, Carl Ruck, Goa Gil, and others, this historic message from the father of LSD is a timeless relic and an immediate source of inspiration. The story is told through an account of the 2006 International LSD Symposium in Basel, Switzerland. At the now-legendary conference, eighty speakers and two thousand participants gathered for three days in honor of Dr. Hofmann's 100th birthday and to hear Dr. Hofmann speak about his life, his discovery, and his thoughts on the psychedelic experience. It was also an occasion for leading doctors, researchers, artists and thinkers in the psychedelic field to present their work.
Edward VIII: The Nazi King

Edward VIII: The Nazi King

2009 • 47 min
Using declassified FBI information, this documentary investigates the extent to which British King Edward VIII sympathized with the Nazis.
Memory

Memory

2009 • 7 min • Japan
Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by nuclear war, it tells the story of a damaged robot found by futuristic soldiers investigating a devastated area.
Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules

Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules

2009 • 51 min • United States of America
This documentary views the career of WWE superstar Jeff Hardy
X Magazine Benefit

X Magazine Benefit

2009 • 12 min
Documents performances of DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC at a benefit concert for X Motion Picture Magazine and artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. It was shot in black and white super 8 and edited on video. It was filmed in 1978 but not completed until 2009.
Nobody's Girlfriend

Nobody's Girlfriend

2009 • 20 min • Malaysia
Made during Tan Chui Mui’s Cinefondation Residency in Paris where she met residents Nadav Rapid and Rusudan Chkonia, who are cast here. The story is inspired by Nadav Rapid’s “Emile’s Girlfriend”.
Dinner with DCU and Special Guest Star Kevin Conroy

Dinner with DCU and Special Guest Star Kevin Conroy

2009 • 56 min • United States of America
A round table discussion with Bruce Timm, Andrea Romano, Kevin Conroy, and Gregory Noveck about making the DC Animated shows and movies.
Bloodlust: My Bloody Valentine and the Rise of the Slasher Film

Bloodlust: My Bloody Valentine and the Rise of the Slasher Film

2009 • 21 min
Neil Affleck Returns To Give A Talk And Chat About The Film That Sky Rocketed His Career [Film] Including Various Interviews With Director George And The Cast And Crew Of The Film Adaptions.
Days of the Strange

Days of the Strange

2009 • 38 min
Stranger Than Fiction had so much footage left in the can that it made sense to release Days of the Strange, showcasing the days of filming you did not see. Plus a fresh batch of new bangers from all the usual suspects.
Ni tan largos... ni tan cortos

Ni tan largos... ni tan cortos

2009 • 60 min • Venezuela
Rene receives an anonymous phone call from a stranger who knows in depth his implication on illegal diamond traffic. The tension on the conversation grows by the time Rene realizes what his actions provide him. Miguel and his friends gathered to spend some time together. Everything is doing well until they ran out of drinks and one of them has to go for some more. In order to do that, they resort to the game they use to play to decide their arguments: a play card over the table, the one who plays must guess if the next card will be an upper or a lower card. Miguel loses so he has to be the one leaving the game. What stared as an ordinary night turns into a mixed up story in which a game of chance takes them changing the course of their relationships. What would you chose? High or Low?
Paco

Paco

2009 • 10 min
Jota is out every morning in search of love. Love is called Paco. Paco is the spirit of love and a spirit gets into the bodies of the cutest guys who walk around the mall. Jota is the only person who can see that spirit within those bodies he calls Paco.
The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics

The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics

2009 • 29 min • United States of America
The history and impact of the graphic novel Watchmen.
of the (sic): Your Nightmares, Our Dreams

of the (sic): Your Nightmares, Our Dreams

2009 • 52 min • United States of America
A retrospective about the chaotic period of time surrounding Slipknot's self-titled debut album. Included as bonus material on its 10th anniversary re-release.
An Evening Shoot

An Evening Shoot

2009 • 4 min • Thailand
A group of teens gather at a house near the rice field for the shooting of an unknown movie. Wearing army costumes, they practice with their gun, one by one, and point it at a young man, walking in the distance, who reincarnates miraculously after being shot.
15 minutos

15 minutos

2009 • 15 min • Dominican Republic
After getting dumped by his girlfriend for his laziness, Felipe answers a phone call and gets an opportunity of changing his life in 15 minutes.