All Recommendations
Zero Hour Society
A formerly heroic air force pilot, now an alcoholic loser with a failed marriage, is appointed by his older brother in the Ministry of Commerce to investigate a tragic plane crash that killed 28 people. As he goes through the motions in an alcoholic daze, he gradually comes to realize that the wreck was due to criminal negligence and failure to follow mandatory safety regulations.
Work
In an economically struggling small town, Jenny, a young married woman, begins an affair with June, her college-bound, African-American neighbor.
Fist of The North Star: Legend of Heroes
This short 6 minute 3D CGI film of Kenshiro’s final battle with Raoh was created in 2006 and came out on DVD in 2007. This will most probably remain an exclusively Japanese release.
Scissor Sisters: Return to Oz
A short documentary about New York glam-pop group Scissor Sisters, how they met, how they got started (dingy gay NYC clubs) and how they're dealing with fame...
Dawn Flight
Haunted by a mysterious super-pilot, a young glider pilot first flees, then confronts his challenger. Nominated for an Academy Award. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Arcade Fire: Madison Square Garden New York, NY 2010-08-05
Live Concert. Directed by Terry Gilliam
Luz's Motives
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
Flytopia
A dark fantastical tale in which a man enters into a pact with all the insect inhabitants of his small cottage.
The Secrete of Life
Filmed with hand-painted cut-out paper characters and background sets. Rated X for violence, nudity and sexual activities by paper people. "The film takes you into the repressed areas of the psyche, the dark regions of the soul. It is a trip deep into the self, beyond the limits of conventional morality where good and evil merge into one. There are no governing laws at this level of the mind and that is the terror and its fascination." -David Bienstock, Curator of Film, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972
Who Is Undercover
In 1934, agents of the Kuomintang government round up suspects and torture them to find out which one is an undercover communist spy.
My Family Essay
An orphan narrates his essay “What is Family?” and how he found his answer when he met “Surfing Uncle” developing a bond like a father, uncle, grandfather and brother from the — heart.
English Estate
Nora dreams of one day owning her own interior design firm in America. What she gets instead is distant relative Edmund’s old countryside estate in England.
The Long Night
Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver.
Please Hold
Fearing he may have HIV after the condom breaks during sex with a stranger, a young gay Asian American befriends the condom company's customer service representative over the phone as he waits for his HIV test results.
Tom Gleeson: Joy
Australia’s 2019 Gold Logie winner. Chief celebrity interrogator. Host of the highest-rating quiz show on TV. There’s not much Tom Gleeson hasn’t been up to lately. Gleeson is one of the sharpest minds in Australian comedy. His shows are relentlessly hilarious and masterful. Now the world can watch the great man live on stage, in his natural habitat and in the form of his life. Experience the JOY.
THE PRINCESS AND THE BUGS
A beautiful princess lives in a magnificent lotus palace. Keen to test the devotion of her numerous insect suitors, she declares that she will only marry the one who brings her a spark of fire.
Psycho
Anna - an ordinary woman 35 years old. She works in a small office, she is divorced, single mother with a son. Repeated attempts to arrange a personal life and find a good father to the boy came to nothing. One day, returning home, the main character accidentally witnesses a politician's assassination.
