You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know…
Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque.
The Living Desert
Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between desert…
Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing
Artist Mike Mills follows the French electronic duo AIR on their 1998 Moon Safari tour. The ennui of travel and waiting to perform is broken up by several Godard-ian segments…
Black Is… Black Ain’t
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes….
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase bitterly takes in his roast.
Mama/M.A.M.A.
Mama/M.A.M.A.: Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy is the provocative investigation of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, a perplexing psychological disorder where a mother secretly but deliberately harms her child in order to…
Earth from Above
Yann Arthus-Bertrand has flown over hundreds of countries to create an extraordinary aerial portrait of our planet as never seen before. This DVD from the Panoramica Motion Gallery is ‘Ambient’…
Finding Christa
A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.
The Best of the Martial Arts Films
The most explosive barehanded combat sequences ever filmed. An electrifying video of martial arts mastery and mayhem. This program takes a behind-the-scenes look at the weapons, the mystical eastern philosophy,…
Long Time Comin’
There is a cultural revolution going on in Canada and Faith Nolan and Grace Channer are on the leading edge. These two African-Canadian lesbian artists give back to art its…
My Best Fiend
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to…
Root of All Evil?
In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as ‘a process of non-thinking called faith’. He describes his astonishment that, at the start of the…