All Films

Inside the Body of Henry VIII

2008 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The team of experts that looked at the historic symptoms of the Tudor king are: historian, Lucy Worsley, Henry historian, Robert Hutchinson and medical doctor, Dr. Catherine Hood.

Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)

2008 • 2 min

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

La vie qui va avec

2008 • 13 min

While divorcing, Sarah takes her two sons to Ikea to choose their new bedroom...

Et si tu disparaissais...

2008 • 10 min

Victoria had an accident. While Marc, her husband, rushes in her bedside, the memory of a discussion rcomes back to him. What is the dream of Victoria? This question which haunts henceforth his unconscious will it find an answer near his wife. But without mystery, can their love again remain?

Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

No director-composer collaboration has been more seminal to motion pictures than the partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. In this documentary we examine the long and sometimes painful partnership that produced unforgettable musical scores for such films as Vertigo, Psycho, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Saul Bass: Title Champ

2008 • 11 min • United States of America

Set to a bebop jazz beat, this documentary brings to life the extraordinary work of graphic designer Saul Bass, whose groundbreaking title sequences for Hitchcock's films transformed the art of movie titles. Through interviews with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro, this film reveals why Bass is still considered the medium's greatest artist.

Heavy Metal in Istanbul

2008 • 46 min

Follow up to Heavy metal in Baghdad. We see the band after they move to Turkey.

Sprinters

2008 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A visually striking and meditative study of a team of athletes, including British Olympic finalists Jeanette Kwakye and Sarah Claxton, filmed over the two months leading to the start of the 2007 outdoor season. Sprinters is an intimate and arresting portrayal of the frequently brutal world of top level athletics, revealing the mental and physical barriers confronted by the runners as they pursue their dreams, and a world in which agony, ecstasy, winning and losing are separated by a hundredth of a second.

Bad Religion: New Maps of Hell

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

"New Maps of Hell" has been hailed as the band's best album in years. This full 23-song live DVD from House of Blues Las Vegas showcases some of their best material from the last thirty years.

The Finster Finster Show

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

Meet Finster and Finster. They're two brothers with a passion for television and sibling rivalry. When Mrs. Finster tears them away from the TV to take a trip to the supermarket, they devise a plan to drag the television with them-the only snag in the plan being that their precious TV is then stolen by angry chickens, ready for battle.

The Boy Returns Home

2008 • 43 min • Iran

A theater directed by Masoud Saketof

Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)

2008 • 7 min

Coil's performance, which based on the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian intellectual, activist, poet, writer and director

Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict

2008 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Ben Rogers was a bright schoolboy from a loving, middle class family. He played in the orchestra, loved cricket and enjoyed the annual family holiday. But his future promise was halted when he started taking drugs in his teens. Early drinking led to cannabis, harder drugs, and then the revelation to his family, at the age of 21, that he was addicted to heroin. Over the next 13 years Ben and his family battled with his addiction, going through detox, rehab and attempts at 'cold turkey', but his health gradually declined. Whilst attempting another detox aged 34, he died from a brain haemorrhage. But during the last two years of his life, Ben filmed an unflinching video diary showing his final desperate attempts to come off heroin. It's a portrayal of his descent; intimate, raw, and at times difficult to watch, he talks to his glove puppet as he injects into a vein in his groin.

Ah, Man

2008 • 15 min

A comedic short film in which we are invited to observe the week of a mass-produced modern man, as he does all sorts of common activities with the abilities that God supposedly gave him.

Go Fast Connexion

2008 • 22 min • France

An exclusive report on the traffic of cannabis completely shot in the housing area of Clichy Montfermeil, renowned impenetrable zone of no-right.

The Massive

2008 • 44 min

Tanner Hall and The Massive crew are on the shred mission. Follow the action from the super-pipe at Copper Mountain to the powder of Retallack BC. From the heavy slo-roast in Pemberton BC to the bluebird crushfest in Haines Alaska. And bring it all home with an end of the year jam at Mt. Hood Oregon!

Monty Python Conquers America

2008 • 55 min

This documentary follows the evolution of the British sketch comedy troupe that redefined humor and shaped an entire generation of American comics, focusing especially on their conquest of the American comedy scene,

Snack Break

2008 • 2 min

During a road stop, Ben and Gwen want something from the vending machine. When Ben's snack doesn't come out of it, he plans to retrieve it as Grey Matter.

Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

2008 • 59 min

Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility throughout a variety of landscapes. After its role in the last century's call to a radical new architecture and urban life, glass architecture is today more ubiquitous than ever.

Outback Art: The Gold Rush

2008 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A look at the recent trend for collecting aboriginal art and the issues surrounding it.

Zuoz

2008 • 2 min

Filmed in Switzerland and released as part of a triptych with A Walk, Zuoz features the filmmaker Robert Beavers skating on ice. Beavers represents another “new beginning” in Aurand’s practice. She recalls seeing his work in the late ‘90s and “enter[ing] a space beyond the images where one is entirely within oneself and simultaneously in the world … where one is simply present and receives the full gift of the film.”

Blackadder Rides Again

2008 • 60 min

This documentary marks the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of The Black Adder in 1983 and reunites the iconic cast to give their opinions on all series and specials. Narrated by John Sergeant, this in-depth guide includes interviews from the cast and crew, a clip from the pilot episode, clips from all four series and the specials, opinions about certain moments in the show, and much more. With interviews by Rowan Atkinson, writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, producer John Lloyd, Miriam Margolyes, Rik Mayall, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Tony Robinson and editor Chris Wadsworth.

America's Phoneless

2008 • 12 min • United States of America

The world is a cruel place for those without a cell phone. Meet Cliff, a quiet, unassuming man whose world is about to be turned upside down, all on account of being out of touch with society.

Coldplay at the BBC

2008 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Coldplay showcased several tracks from their new album in an open-air concert at the BBC Television Centre in London. The gig – broadcast live on BBC Two – featured new material such as 'Violet Hill' and '42', alongside old favorites including 'Clocks', 'Fix You' and 'In My Place'. The band left the main stage briefly to perform an acoustic version of 'Yellow' against the backdrop of the Television Centre building. The gig ended with a rousing version of 'Lovers in Japan' that involved showering the crowd with thousands of paper butterflies.