Sundance Channel : Printable Film Descriptions

Printable Film Descriptions

July 2008

Find out more about the films and series Sundance Channel has in store this month.

Office Tigers: (Episode 1)

In this episode, the CEO keeps an eagle eye on his employees’ business attire.

(2006) Color (27 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 9:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 5 2:30PM | MONDAY JUL 7 9AM

Office Tigers: (Episode 2)

In this episode, American management ideas encounter Third World culture.

(2006) Color (27 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 9 9:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 12 2:30PM | MONDAY JUL 14 9AM

Office Tigers: (Episode 3)

Episode three follows COO Lonnie as he tries to avert a crisis with a client.

(2006) Color (27 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 16 9:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 19 2:30PM | MONDAY JUL 21 9AM

Office Tigers: (Episode 4)

The concluding episode looks at management and motivation strategies.

(2006) Color (27 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 23 9:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 26 2:30PM | MONDAY JUL 28 9AM

638 Ways To Kill Castro

Director - Dollan Cannell

Every American president since 1960 has been plagued by the troublesome neighbor next door: Fidel Castro. According to Castro's former security chief, there have been 638 attempts on his life, many of them brainstormed by the CIA. Some of the more outlandish assassination plots involved exploding cigars, poisoned milkshakes and explosive, radio-controlled planes. Documentarian Dollan Cannell chronicles Castro's rise to power, America's response and the covert response from Castro insiders who turned against him.

(2006) Color and B&W (75 mins)

MONDAY JUL 7 6:35PM

Agnes Browne

Director - Anjelica Huston

For her second feature in the director's chair, Angelica Huston returns to the country of her youth with colorful vignettes of Irish life during the 1960s. Huston plays the titular Agnes Browne, a plucky but impoverished widow with seven children who can only afford to bury her husband by calling upon the services of a shady loan shark (Ray Winstone). Adapted from the popular novel The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll, who appears in a small role as a local drunk. Marion O'Dwyer costars and Tom Jones makes a cameo playing himself.

(1999) Color (92 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 3 3:35PM | FRIDAY JUL 4 5AM | TUESDAY JUL 8 7PM | MONDAY JUL 21 10:25AM | TUESDAY JUL 22 5AM

Avenue Montaigne

Director - Daniele Thompson

A huge hit in France, filmmaker Daniele Thompson's delightful ensemble piece uses a Parisian cafe as the setting for a wry reflection on human disquiet and desire. Cecile de France plays a wide-eyed newcomer to the city who takes a job as the first female waiter at an exclusive cafe catering to citizens from the worlds of theater, music, fashion and art. There she bounces from table to table as customers deal with crises of doubt, ingratitude, vanity and longing. "Delicious ... tart and sweet, steeped in Parisian glamour" - Salon.

(2006) Color (105 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 15 1:45AM | SUNDAY JUL 20 7PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 30 5AM

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Director - Sijie Dai

Dai Sijie adapts his novel about two educated city boys assigned to a re-education camp during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Luo (Kun Chen), the son of a dentist, and Ma (Ye Liu), a sensitive violinist, are forced to perform crushing manual labor in remote mines. Yet the situation hasn't dimmed their individuality, nor their desire for the forbidden — especially when they catch sight of a beautiful local girl and discover a collection of banned novels. A moving yet bittersweet tribute to the human spirit and the transformative power of literature.

(2002) Color (111 mins)

Black, White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

Director - James Crump

During the '70s and '80s, two of the most influential figures in American photography were maverick photographer-provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe and his aristocratic patron and lover Sam Wagstaff. Overshadowed by the fame and notoriety of his protégé, Wagstaff receives due recognition in James Crump's rich documentary as a visionary curator and collector whose aesthetic passions pioneered the acceptance of photography as a serious art form. Contributing reflections on the pair and their era are Patti Smith, Dominick Dunne and John Richardson.

(2007) B&W (76 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 6 4:45AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 9 2:50AM

Blue Vinyl

Director - Daniel B. Gold
Director - Judith Helfand

Appeared at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival
Vinyl is ubiquitous. It's found in children's toys and in intravenous bags that sustain the elderly. With dark humor and activist urgency, filmmakers Judith Helfand (A HEALTHY BABY GIRL) and Daniel Gold explore the long-term implications of the deadly PVC toxins involved in the manufacture of vinyl. Skillfully edited archive footage, old commercials, animation by Emily Hubley and interviews with industry spokespeople effectively strengthen this award-winning film's clarion call. Winner of the Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

(2002) Color (98 mins)

MONDAY JUL 7 at NOON | WEDNESDAY JUL 23 10AM

The Bow

Director - Ki-duk Kim

With his 12th feature, controversial Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk (THE ISLE; BAD GUY) embarks on a challenging voyage into unconventional realms of love, desire and trust. A grizzled fishing boat owner (Jeon Seong-hwang) lives at sea with a 16-year-old girl (Han Yeo-reum), whom he has raised in isolation since she was a child. Her world revolves around her elderly protector, and the two plan to marry when she turns 17. However, their watery idyll is upended by the unexpected appearance of a young man (Seo Si-jeok) who falls for her.

(2005) Color (89 mins)

MONDAY JUL 21 at MIDNIGHT

Bowery Dish

Director - Kevin R. Frech

In recent years, New York’s Bowery has undergone the urban facelift known as gentrification, as flophouses and gang hangouts have given way to ritzy restaurants and million-dollar luxury lofts. With interviews and archival footage, Kevin Frech’s lively and entertaining documentary traces the Bowery’s colorful and notorious history and examines what this sudden transition means for its long-time residents. "Captures an indelible moment in time!" — Library Journal.

(2004) Color (52 mins)

Breaking News

Director - Johnny To

Bravura cinematography, choreographed action and biting social commentary highlight this cops-and-robbers thriller from Hong Kong action master Johnnie To (THE MISSION). After some policemen are humiliated in the media, a hostage stand-off escalates into a battle of wits as the cops try to exploit the situation for favorable news coverage. Featuring a breathtaking opening sequence that has been favorably compared to the legendary beginning of Orson Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL. Starring Kelly Chen (INTERNAL AFFAIRS), Simon Yam and Richie Ren.

(2004) Color (90 mins)

MONDAY JUL 21 1:30AM

Breaking the Waves

Director - Lars von Trier

Emily Watson's film debut astounded audiences with an Oscar®-nominated performance of emotional intensity in this spiritual film by Denmark's Lars von Trier. Bess (Watson), a naive young woman living in a conservative religious community on the coast of Scotland, discovers true passion when she marries a rugged North Sea oil platform worker (Stellan Skarsgård). But she and her community are tested when an accident forces her to sacrifice everything for the man she loves. Von Trier won the Jury Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

(1996) Color (159 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 6 at MIDNIGHT | WEDNESDAY JUL 9 12:10AM

Iconoclasts - Season 1: Brian Grazer on Sumner Redstone

Director - Bruce Sinofsky
Director - Joe Berlinger

In this episode, writer and Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer (A BEAUTIFUL MIND) engages Viacom Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Sumner M. Redstone in a lively discussion about the evolving media marketplace. When they meet, Redstone takes Grazer on a surprising shopping spree at a local fish store.

(2005) Color (57 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 10 11PM | SUNDAY JUL 13 11AM

Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Build

In this episode, a visionary architect works with clients to build their first "green" home; a designer demonstrates his real-life tree house made of growing tree trunks; and environmentally conscious ideas are introduced to low-income neighborhoods.

(2007) Color (25 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 9:30AM

Cashback

Director - Sean Ellis

Sean Biggerstaff plays a toiler on the supermarket nightshift who has an artistic way of getting through the long working hours. Sean Ellis’s British short film was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short.

(2004) Color (17 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 12 1:30AM

Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Cities

In this episode, a real-estate developer helps turn a polluted brown field into a sustainable community; an energy innovator submerges two turbines in New York City's East River; and a band of guerilla gardeners covertly beautifies blighted urban plots of unused land.

(2007) Color (25 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 15 9:30AM

Congorama

Director - Philippe Falardeau

Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau serves up a playful drama about cultural identity, parenthood and the fate of the electric car. After Michel (Olivier Gourmet), a middle-aged Belgian engineer, learns from his dying father (Jean-Pierre Cassel) that Michel was adopted - and was born in a Quebec barn - he treks to Canada to learn about his birth parents. Fate brings him into contact with Louis (Paul Ahmarani), the driver of an electric car, and the two men uncover mysterious parallels as their lives become inextricably entangled.

(2006) Color (105 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 7PM | THURSDAY JUL 3 11:45AM | TUESDAY JUL 22 2:15PM

Conte de Quartier

Using images created by paint on glass, pastel and sand, animator Florence Miailhe draws a colorful portrait of a neighborhood in contemporary Paris and a handful of citizens who live there. As the Parisians independently go about their lives, the presence of a small doll serves to unify them. This film won Miailhe a Special Mention for Short Film at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

(2006) Color (16 mins)

FRIDAY JUL 4 11:30PM | TUESDAY JUL 8 8:35PM | SUNDAY JUL 27 7:45AM

Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Craig David, James Morrison & Dave Matthews

Director - AJ Jankel

This episode features Craig David, James Morrison and Dave Matthews.

(2007) Color (53 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 10 4AM

A Curtain Raiser

Director - Francois Ozon

Louis Garrell (THE DREAMERS), Mathieu Amalric (THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY) and Vahina Giocante star in a contemporary adaptation of a tale by Henry de Montherlant about a fussy young bachelor who becomes infuriated by his girlfriend's constant tardiness. Sharp wit, nuanced acting and lush cinematography distinguish this short film from bad-boy French auteur François Ozon (THE SWIMMING POOL).

(2006) Color (30 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 13 1:30PM

Cyclo

Director - Anh Hung Tran

Vietnamese-born filmmaker Tran Anh Hung (THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA) presents a dark, gritty and hallucinatory tour of the underbelly of contemporary Ho Chi Minh City through the eyes of a young pedicab cyclo taxi driver (Le Van Loc), known only in the film as Cyclo. When his pedicab is stolen, a brothel madame and a small-time hoodlum and pimp (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) recruit Cyclo to work off his debt. "A visionary piece of work, shot through with passion and poetry" - Chicago Reader. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

(1995) Color (124 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 12 4AM

The Danish Poet

Director - Torill Kove

Inspired in part by the story of her own parents, animator Torill Kove tells the tale of a blocked poet who goes on a pilgrimage to meet famed Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Unset. En route he meets and falls in love with a Norwegian farmer's daughter, who is already engaged to another. Liv Ullmann narrates this wise and witty modern fairy tale about fate and personal choice, which won an Oscar® for Best Animated Short of 2007.

(2006) Color (15 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 17 8:30AM

Dear Wendy

Director - Thomas Vinterberg

Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Two Danish filmmakers who are no strangers to controversy consider America's love affair with firearms in a film both mischievous and provocative. Thomas Vinterberg (THE CELEBRATION) directs a screenplay by Lars von Trier (DOGVILLE) about an 18-year-old pacifist (Jamie Bell) who is magnetically drawn to a handgun he nicknames Wendy. Soon he and other outcasts form a club dedicated to guiding principles of both pacifism and guns. Bill Pullman costars in an audacious, surreal and strangely comic view of America as seen from outside.

(2005) Color (105 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 30 1:30AM

Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Decorate

Traditional furniture, carpets and paint can exact a heavy environmental toll, be it in the depletion of virgin forests, the use of petroleum products or toxic emissions from paints and adhesives. But it IS possible to have stylish furnishings without messing up the planet, and this episode will introduce three designers who know how to beautifully and conscientiously feather a nest. We'll tag along with eco-interior designer Kelly LaPlante as she gathers furnishings for a trio of enviro-conscious vacation cottages. We'll see vats of cork granules - leftovers from the wine stopper industry - transformed into charming, sustainable furniture by New York designer Daniel Michalik. And we'll visit the Miami showroom of high-end designer Bannavis Sribyatta, whose PIE (Project Import Export) creations are inspired by nature and made from natural materials such as rattan, bamboo, water hyacinth and even tree mulch.

(2008) Color (25 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 22 11:35PM | FRIDAY JUL 25 12:35PM | SUNDAY JUL 27 5:35PM

Djangomania!

Director - Jamie Kastner

More than fifty years after his death, Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt is still influencing musicians around the world. Investigating Django’s swinging legacy and the cult that surrounds his work, filmmaker Jamie Kastner conducts a musical world tour ranging from Oslo to Tokyo (where he discovers dueling Django tribute bands). Both a celebration of the man Duke Ellington said was the only non-American to make an impact on jazz, and an investigation into the nature of fandom, DJANGOMANIA! is a delightful salute to Django and his art.

(2005) Color (55 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 10AM | SATURDAY JUL 19 8AM | SATURDAY JUL 19 4PM | MONDAY JUL 28 3:45PM

Dopamine

Director - Mark Decena

Appeared at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival
Is love just a manifestation of biochemistry - the action of neurotransmitters like dopamine prompting pleasure in the brain? That's the mechanistic belief of Rand (John Livingston), an emotionally risk-averse AI programmer. Yet when he meets Sarah (Sabrina Lloyd), an alluring - i.e. dopamine-triggering - teacher, Rand encounters someone with even more defense mechanisms than he has. This wistful romance from filmmaker Mark Decena won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. "Passionate ... graceful" - San Francisco Chronicle.

(2003) Color (85 mins)

Down to the Bone

Director - Debra Granik

Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival
"With an aura of authenticity so strong as to be mesmerizing" (Los Angeles Times), Debra Granik's celebrated feature debut tells the story of a weary working-class mother (Vera Farmiga) struggling with a secret cocaine addiction. Eager to kick the habit, she enters rehab. But there she encounters a dangerous temptation of a different sort. Granik won the Director's Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, while Farmiga received a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, and was named Best Actress by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

(2004) Color (102 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 10PM

Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Dr. John, LeAnn Rimes & Massive Attack

Director - AJ Jankel

This episode features Dr. John, LeAnn Rimes and Massive Attack.

(2007) Color (53 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 3 4AM

Easy

Director - Jane Weinstock

Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival
Twenty-something Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) names products for a living. But her personal life is an undefined mess. A self-described "jerk magnet," she has endured countless dead-end couplings before meeting two suitors who may be the real thing: a brooding poet (Naveen Andrews) who is also Jamie's former professor, and Mick (Brian F. O'Byrne), an Irish cable-television host. But in Jane Weinstock's wise, romantic comedy about the complications of single life, Jamie's worst enemy may be herself. "Funny and sexy" — Los Angeles Times.

(2003) Color (97 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 13 3:15AM

Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Eat

In this episode, an up-and-coming chef shows off his new green restaurant, where even the rooftop doubles as a produce garden; a burger restaurant uses sustainable meat and produce from farms within 100 miles; and a young entrepreneur finds treasure in another man's trash.

(2007) Color (25 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 29 9:30AM

Edvard Munch (Part 1)

Director - Peter Watkins

Of hundreds of dramatic films about the lives of artists, critics almost universally acknowledge that Peter Watkins's lengthy documentary-like examination of the life, work and times of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) has never been surpassed. Known for "The Scream" and images of sexual desire and dread, Munch (Geir Westby) is here revealed as believably human, a man formed and in conflict with the world around him. Part one depicts Munch's formative years, his oppressive upbringing and early love affairs.

(1974) Color (112 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 1PM

Edvard Munch (Part 2)

Director - Peter Watkins

The second half of Peter Watkins's acclaimed documentary-like examination of the life, work and times of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) charts the artist's emergence as a master. Reacting against the oppressive world of his upbringing, Munch travels to France, where he encounters the work of the Symbolist writers and painters. Here in self-exile, he pioneers a revolutionary personal, subjective style, which when exhibited in Germany causes a scandal among critics and painters. "A work of genius" - Ingmar Bergman.

(1974) Color (111 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 3PM

Ellie Parker

Director - Scott Coffey

Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Naomi Watts stars as a struggling actress in Scott Coffey's caustic film, "the sharpest, most authentic portrait of Hollywood life made in the last several years" (Salon). Mixing deadpan comedy with resonant authenticity, Ellie Parker captures the absurdity, the banality and the grinding frustration of trying to make it in a city where everyone is awaiting their big break. Ellie Parker began as a short shown at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, and in the years that followed Coffey leisurely worked with Watts to expand it into a feature.

(2005) Color (95 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 19 7PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 23 2:15AM

Emile

Director - Carl Bessai

After an absence of many years, a scientist (Ian McKellen) confronts a troubled family history when he returns to his Canadian homeland to receive an honorary degree. While in Victoria, he visits his adult niece (Deborah Kara Unger) whom he abandoned in an institution when she was a child. Filmmaker Carl Bessai's moving story of guilt and redemption has been favorably compared to Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries by many reviewers and features another carefully modulated performance by one of England's theatrical icons.

(2003) Color (92 mins)

Terminal City: Episode 1

Director - Rachel Talalay

In the opening episode, Katie gets a biopsy and unintentionally appears on camera.

(2005) Color (60 mins)

FRIDAY JUL 25 2AM | SUNDAY JUL 27 10AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 30 9AM

Swinging - Season 2: Episode 1

Director - Ben Kellett

In this episode, Tanya begins to regret she brought along her father to a job interview for a porn film; sex therapist Patty Edwards introduces her child substitute; Joe and Lucy get down to specifics after a great night at a restaurant; and the staff at a men's magazine prepares their first live show.

(2006) Color (30 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 19 9:30PM | MONDAY JUL 21 3:30AM

The Education of Ms. Groves: Episode 1

Director - Izhar Harpaz

In the opening episode, Ms. Groves meets her students, while they cautiously size up their new teacher. Soon, Ms. Groves is concerned with keeping discipline in class.

(2006) Color (28 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 30 9:30PM

Shameless Season 3: Episode 1

In this episode, Debbie (Rebecca Ryan) concocts a scheme to keep five-year-old Liam from being excluded from school.

(2006) Color (60 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 20 9PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 23 4AM | FRIDAY JUL 25 at MIDNIGHT

Ladette to Lady - Season 2: Episode 1

This week, the ladettes embark on their five-week diploma course, which includes wearing the Eggleston Hall uniform — a tight-fitting tweed suit, sensible shoes and pearl necklace — and attending a shooting party at one of Yorkshire's finest country estates.

(2005) Color (50 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 4AM | FRIDAY JUL 11 9AM

It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 1

In the opening episode, Dick helps a family with a ground-source heat pump and wind-turbine. Later, assisted by son James, Dick helps another family grow and cultivate fresh fruit and vegetables for a child with multiple allergies.

(2006) Color (30 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 29 9PM

It's Not Easy Being Green: Episode 1

In episode one, the Strawbridges move in and build an aqueduct to bring the stream to a waterwheel.

(2006) Color (29 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 22 9AM

Outrageous Wasters: Episode 1

In the opening episode, the Witheys, a two-car family that produces 40 bags of trash a month, is packed off for a two-week stay at a House of Correction, a strict eco-boot camp with no electricity or plumbing, and shelter provided by a Mongolian yurt. During their absence, a crack team of experts gives their middle-class home a radical eco-makeover.

(2007) Color (58 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 1 9PM | FRIDAY JUL 4 10AM | SUNDAY JUL 6 3PM

Shameless Season 2: Episode 10

Local elections, a seemingly tragic death, a stolen identity and a tearful goodbye highlight the second-season finale.

(2004) Color (49 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 13 9PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 16 4:15AM | FRIDAY JUL 18 at MIDNIGHT

Terminal City: Episode 10

The concluding episode reflects on the surreal, life-shattering events of the previous eight months.

(2005) Color (60 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 17 9PM | FRIDAY JUL 18 2AM | SUNDAY JUL 20 10AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 23 9AM | THURSDAY JUL 24 at MIDNIGHT

Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 1: Eddie Vedder + Laird Hamilton

Director - Joe Berlinger
Director - Bruce Sinofsky

This episode brings musician and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder together with big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton to talk about life, art and nature as they experience the awe-inspiring sights and sports of Maui. The discussion continues backstage at a Pearl Jam concert in Santa Barbara.

(2006) Color (45 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 24 11PM | SUNDAY JUL 27 11AM | TUESDAY JUL 29 at MIDNIGHT

The Hill: Episode 1: Fighting the Good Fight

With the 2004 national election fast approaching, Congressman Wexler and his staff pour their energies into scheduling television appearances, issuing press statements about the mounting chaos in Iraq, and taking the President to task for his Middle-East policy. Traveling to the Congressman's home district in Florida to get out the vote, Halie faces police intimidation and the troubling fact that her boyfriend is working the same turf for the Bush campaign, while Lale takes a leave of absence from the Wexler office to work on the Kerry campaign.

(2006) Color (28 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 4PM

City of Men - Season 4: Episode 1: The Line Up

Director - Roberto Moreira

In this episode, Acerola searches for Laranjinha after he is caught in a shootout between rival drug gangs. Directed by Roberto Moreira.

(2005) Color (24 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 12 3:30AM

Terminal City: Episode 2

Director - Rachel Talalay

In this episode, the host of Post Op! is fired and Katie is lured to be his replacement.

(2005) Color (60 mins)

Swinging - Season 2: Episode 2

Director - Ben Kellett

In this episode, Becca tells her friend Liz about her distinctive new boyfriend; Tanya's dad wonders if his daughter's career is headed in the right direction after she is offered a role in a film produced by Naughty Angel Films; and Patty Edwards is invited to speak at a sexual heath conference.

(2006) Color (30 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 26 9:30PM | MONDAY JUL 28 3:30AM

One Punk Under God: Episode 2

Director - Jeremy Simmons

In the second episode, Jay visits his gravely ill mother and considers whether his church should welcome gay and transgender parishioners.

(2006) Color (24 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 3AM

It's Not Easy Being Green: Episode 2

Director - Susanna Handslip

In episode two, Dick designs an innovative greenhouse, constructed from recycled bottle glass.

(2006) Color (29 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 29 9AM

Shameless Season 3: Episode 2

In this episode, Ian (Gerard Kearns) discovers another side to Lip's (Jody Latham) dangerous new friend.

(2006) Color (60 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 27 9PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 30 4AM

Ladette to Lady - Season 2: Episode 2

In the second episode, the seven remaining ladettes are faced with a daunting challenge. A selection of eligible bachelors is coming to dinner and the girls must master haute-cuisine cooking to prepare a meal of quail and pheasant.

(2005) Color (50 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 15 4AM | FRIDAY JUL 18 9AM

Outrageous Wasters: Episode 2

In this episode, the Buchanans of Glasgow leave a luxurious gadget-filled home and three cars for a stay at an eco-boot camp, where they will learn to be self-sufficient for the first time. Meanwhile, a crack team of experts gives the Buchanan home a radical eco-makeover to reduce a carbon footprint that was three times larger than that of the average British household.

(2007) Color (56 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 9PM | FRIDAY JUL 11 10AM | SUNDAY JUL 13 3PM

The Hill: Episode 2: Less Feeling Please... More Doing

With Bush back in office and pushing Social Security reform, Wexler and his staff move aggressively to offer an alternative plan - a strategy that wins them no love from their party's leadership. Foreign policy wonk Halie pushes the Congressman to join a press conference about Darfur, and Eric brainstorms a pointed legislative response to revelations of White House involvement in the CIA leak case. Lale puzzles over her habit of dating Republicans, and comes in for much teasing from her co-workers.

(2006) Color (28 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 4:30PM

Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters

Director - Bruce Sinofsky
Director - Joe Berlinger

In this episode, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and chef Alice Waters share their philosophies of art, food, teaching and community with visits to New York's Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Edible Schoolyard Project in Berkeley, California and at a dinner at Waters's legendary restaurant Chez Panisse.

(2006) Color (45 mins)

FRIDAY JUL 25 3AM | FRIDAY JUL 25 6PM | SATURDAY JUL 26 9AM

City of Men - Season 4: Episode 2: Too Much Month

Director - Pedro Morelli

In this episode, Acerola considers going into business with Laranjinha after he finds it difficult to support his wife and child on a window washer's salary. Pedro Morelli directs.

(2005) Color (31 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 19 3:30AM

One Punk Under God: Episode 3

Director - Jeremy Simmons

In this episode, Jay's gay-affirming stance begins to impact his church's financial health; later he travels to Missouri to see his estranged father.

(2006) Color (24 mins)

MONDAY JUL 7 11:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 12 3AM

Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 3

Director - Kevin Carlin

This episode includes a '60s-era instructional film about party etiquette and the temptations of alcohol and cigarettes; a slumber party, at which girls take a magazine quiz about the royals; a sensational tabloid, where the publisher inquires about a new angle on Camilla Parker Bowles; and preparations for Kim's wedding.

(1994) Color (30 mins)

MONDAY JUL 7 3AM | MONDAY JUL 7 9:30AM

Ladette to Lady - Season 2: Episode 3

In the third episode, three ladettes visit a prestigious Swiss ski resort, where they are responsible for preparing gourmet meals and playing hostess to eight demanding men. At Eggleston Hall, the remaining ladettes learn elocution and flower arranging.

(2005) Color (50 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 22 4AM | FRIDAY JUL 25 9AM

Outrageous Wasters: Episode 3

This episode features the Fowler family, whose casual attitude toward conservation includes a house with 12 TVs and the opinion that global warming might not be bad as it could transform England's weather into something like Spain's. Can the Fowlers survive two weeks at an eco-boot camp, living off the land without access to electricity or plumbing?

(2007) Color (56 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 15 9PM | FRIDAY JUL 18 10AM | SUNDAY JUL 20 3PM

City of Men - Season 4: Episode 3: Fatal Attraction

Director - M Pink Christofalo

In this episode, Laranjinha is entrusted with a major responsibility when his cousin recommends him for a DJ shift at the favela radio station. M. Pink Christofalo directs.

(2005) Color (31 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 26 3:30AM

The Hill: Episode 3: Putting In My Two Cents

In episode three, Eric's preoccupation with work creates tension at home with his partner, while Halie prepares to take a major step in her relationship with her new Democratic boyfriend. In the office, the staff grapples with how to respond to President Bush's nomination of John Roberts for the Supreme Court.

(2006) Color (28 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 5PM

Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple

Director - Bruce Sinofsky
Director - Joe Berlinger

In this episode, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and musician Fiona Apple talk about movies and music in Austin, Texas, where Tarantino attends Apple’s concert and she tours the set of his film, GRINDHOUSE. They also explore some local hangouts and hidden treasures, including an urban bat colony.

(2006) Color (45 mins)

One Punk Under God: Episode 4

Director - Jeremy Simmons

In episode four, Jay is confronted with the difficult prospect of not only leaving the city he loves, but also the church he founded seven years earlier.

(2006) Color (24 mins)

MONDAY JUL 14 11:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 19 3AM

Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 4

Director - Kevin Carlin

In this episode, the tabloid writers try to out a big-name celebrity rumored to hang out with men and wear flowing robes; news cameras go into bush country to cover a protest at a merkin farm; superheroines gather to vent their frustrations; and a medical report covers the newly diagnosed illness "Juliette Lewis Syndrome."

(1994) Color (30 mins)

MONDAY JUL 14 3AM | MONDAY JUL 14 9:30AM

Ladette to Lady - Season 2: Episode 4

In the fourth episode, the teachers leave five ladettes alone at Eggleston Hall to host a country house weekend. They will be provided with domestic staff, including a butler, and must prepare two days of hospitality for a selection of eligible bachelors.

(2005) Color (50 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 29 4AM

Outrageous Wasters: Episode 4

This episode focuses on the Armotrading family from suburban Maidenhead. Besides their three cars, a "drive-in fridge" and 35 loads of laundry a week, the Armotradings confess to being addicted to a comfortable, materialistic lifestyle. As they are shipped off to an eco-boot camp, a crack team of experts gives their home a radical green makeover.

(2007) Color (56 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 22 9PM | FRIDAY JUL 25 10AM | SUNDAY JUL 27 3PM

On the Road in America: Episode 4 - Mississippi

Director - Jerome Gary

In this episode, the quartet gets an introduction to blues and gospel, and attends a black church service. Mary Lambert directs.

(2007) Color (24 mins)

FRIDAY JUL 4 4AM

Iconoclasts - Season 2: Episode 4: Isabella Rossellini + Dean Kamen

Director - Bruce Sinofsky
Director - Joe Berlinger

In this episode, actress/filmmaker Isabella Rossellini and inventor/scientist/entrepreneur Dean Kamen discuss approaches to helping others as they try out innovative devices under development at Kamen’s research labs in New Hampshire. Later, Rossellini tours New York with a seeing-eye dog she is training.

(2006) Color (45 mins)

The Hill: Episode 4: What Should Democrats Be Saying?

In episode four, the staff is working on Iraq and environmental policy matters when Hurricane Katrina hits. Having experienced FEMA's incompetence during Florida's previous hurricane season, Wexler is incensed by the unfolding catastrophe and becomes an angry, articulate voice on behalf of Katrina refugees.

(2006) Color (28 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 5:30PM

Swinging - Season 1: Episode 5

Director - Ben Kellett

In the fifth episode, sex therapist Patty Edwards describes the physical toll exacted by her work; imprisoned in a Spanish jail, David explains to his wife the new security measures; and Miss Beasley, the inappropriate art teacher, tries to comfort 17-year-old Nick after delivering some terrible news.

(2005) Color (22 mins)

MONDAY JUL 7 3:30AM

One Punk Under God: Episode 5

Director - Jeremy Simmons

In episode five, Jay prepares to move to New York and delivers an emotional farewell sermon in Atlanta before handing over the reins.

(2006) Color (24 mins)

MONDAY JUL 21 11:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 26 3AM

Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 5

Director - Kevin Carlin

In this episode, a '60s instructional film covers the new women's liberation movement and includes a lesson on the health hazards of throwing away a razor; high-powered women executives unwind after work; the fashion world is upended when Yves St. Laurent ends the era of Kate Moss by declaring "fat is in;" and it's the morning of Kim's wedding.

(1994) Color (30 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 19 9PM | MONDAY JUL 21 3AM | MONDAY JUL 21 9:30AM

Ladette to Lady - Season 2: Episode 5

In the final episode, the three remaining ladettes face the ultimate challenge: "coming out" at a Debutante's Ball alongside seven real debs. Each of the trio will be judged on their poise, grooming, confidence and elocution by a selection of aristocrats.

(2005) Color (50 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 1 4:05AM | FRIDAY JUL 4 9AM

On the Road in America: Episode 5 - Montana

Director - Jerome Gary

A stay at a dude ranch, a dip in a thermal pool and a trek in Yellowstone are highlights in this episode, directed by Jerome Gary.

(2007) Color (24 mins)

City of Men - Season 3: Episode 5: Father and Son

Director - Paulo Morelli
Director - Regina Casé

In this episode, Laranjinha and Acerola apply for social security, a process that inspires Laranjinha to seek his 'lost' father. Directed by Regina Casé and Paulo Morelli.

(2004) Color (34 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 3:30AM

The Hill: Episode 5: Nothing Is Fun In A Hurricane

In episode five, Wexler's district takes a devastating hit from Hurricane Wilma, despite his best efforts to ensure preparation and coordinated policies on the ground. While the Congressman focuses his attention on his constituents, Halie settles into a new apartment and Lale, Eric and James visit Lale's parents.

(2006) Color (28 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 6PM

Swinging - Season 1: Episode 6

Director - Ben Kellett

In the sixth episode, Patty Edwards discovers that she can still be surprised after 10 years as a sex therapist; a man attending a séance is contacted by his late wife, who offers some unexpected reassurances about their sex life; and David's wife shares a bit of gossip while visiting her husband in prison.

(2005) Color (23 mins)

MONDAY JUL 14 3:30AM

One Punk Under God: Episode 6

Director - Jeremy Simmons

In the concluding episode, Jay prepares for his first sermon in Brooklyn while he also deals with news from North Carolina that Tammy Faye's health has gotten worse.

(2006) Color (24 mins)

MONDAY JUL 28 11:30PM

It's Not Easy Being Green: Episode 6

Director - Susanna Handslip
Director - Jonny Young

In this episode, the Strawbridges install their first wind turbine to pump water from a spring.

(2006) Color (29 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 1 9AM

Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 6

Director - Kevin Carlin

The final episode includes a look behind the scenes at the creative pressure cooker of network television; a heart-to-heart conversation between a mother and daughter that becomes a little too intimate; a visit with Kath and Kim on the day of Kim's big event; and the slumber party girls venturing into the frightening big world.

(1994) Color (30 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 26 9PM | MONDAY JUL 28 3AM | MONDAY JUL 28 9:30AM

On the Road in America: Episode 6 - Los Angeles, Part 1

Director - Jerome Gary

In the first of two episodes set in Los Angeles, the quartet encounters LA's entertainment culture. Danny Bilson directs.

(2007) Color (24 mins)

The Hill: Episode 6: It's Time To Be Mad As Hell

In the final episode, Democratic Representative John Murtha, a decorated war veteran, announces his position that the United States should withdraw its troops from Iraq. A day later, the Capitol is thrown into chaos when Republicans counter with a resolution forcing a vote yea or nay for immediate withdrawal.

(2006) Color (28 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 6:30PM

It's Not Easy Being Green: Episode 7

Director - Susanna Handslip
Director - Richard Maxwell

In episode seven, the Strawbridges confront the realities of raising pigs for food - butchering time.

(2006) Color (29 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 1 11:50PM | FRIDAY JUL 4 12:50PM | SUNDAY JUL 6 5:50PM | TUESDAY JUL 8 9AM

Terminal City: Episode 7

This episode finds Katie a media darling, while her family and friends face some huge challenges.

(2005) Color (60 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 9AM

On the Road in America: Episode 7 - Los Angeles, Part 2

Director - Jerome Gary

In the second episode set in Los Angeles, the quartet visits a mosque and discusses life in America after 9/11.

(0) (24 mins)

Terminal City: Episode 8

In this episode, Katie must confront the state of her health and her future on TV.

(2005) Color (60 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 3 9PM | FRIDAY JUL 4 2AM | SUNDAY JUL 6 10AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 9 9AM

Shameless Season 2: Episode 8

In this episode, some dubious accident-claims sales reps try to strike gold after a shop door hits Frank in the face.

(2005) Color (42 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 4AM | FRIDAY JUL 4 at MIDNIGHT

It's Not Easy Being Green: Episode 8

In the final episode of season one, Dick builds a composting toilet, but will anyone want to use it?

(2006) Color (29 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 11:40PM | FRIDAY JUL 11 12:40PM | SUNDAY JUL 13 5:40PM | TUESDAY JUL 15 9AM

On the Road in America: Episode 8 - Big Sur, Part 1

Director - Jerome Gary

A stop at the Esalen Institute and an open forum discussing Middle East-American relations highlight this episode, directed by Jerome Gary.

(2007) Color (24 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 23 9PM | FRIDAY JUL 25 4:30AM | FRIDAY JUL 25 1:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 26 2PM | MONDAY JUL 28 11PM

Terminal City: Episode 9

In the penultimate episode, Katie's husband (Gil Bellows) faces his biggest challenge.

(2005) Color (60 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 10 9PM | FRIDAY JUL 11 2AM | SUNDAY JUL 13 10AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 16 9AM

Shameless Season 2: Episode 9

In this episode, as Fiona (Anne-Marie Duff) suffers from morning sickness, her recent affair precipitates a showdown.

(2005) Color (48 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 6 9PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 9 4:05AM | FRIDAY JUL 11 at MIDNIGHT

On the Road in America: Episode 9 - Big Sur, Part 2

Director - Jerome Gary

In the second episode set in Big Sur, Ali, Lara and Mohamed discuss their experiences in a relaxed group forum. Jerome Gary directs.

(2007) Color (24 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 30 9PM

The Event

Director - Thom Fitzgerald

Appeared at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival
Don McKellar, Olympia Dukakis, Parker Posey and Sarah Polley costar in writer-director Thom Fitzgerald's compelling drama about love, the law and assisted suicide. Posey plays an ambitious assistant district attorney in New York investigating a number of suspicious deaths of AIDS patients. As she interviews friends and family of a recently deceased musician, Fitzgerald reveals in flashbacks what transpired on the final day of his life. "Fitzgerald has a wonderful feel for the absurd … a very serious picture [that's] never a downer" - Salon.

(2003) Color (112 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 3PM | THURSDAY JUL 17 7PM | TUESDAY JUL 29 11:35PM

Everything's Gone Green

Director - Paul Fox

Paulo Costanzo (“Joey”) stars in this Vancouver-based romantic comedy directed by Paul Fox and written by Douglas Coupland (GENERATION X). After losing both his job and his ambitious girlfriend, laid-back Ryan (COSTANZO) takes a gig writing profiles of Canadian lottery winners for a promotional magazine. However, as Ryan ponders the very idea of winners and losers in a consumer society, his fortunes change when he becomes involved in a sleazy money-laundering scheme. “Hip, charming, funny and dressed to kill” — Chicago Tribune.

(2006) Color (94 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 1 7PM | SUNDAY JUL 13 5AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 23 3:15PM | THURSDAY JUL 24 5AM

Father and Son

Director - Aleksandr Sokurov

Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK) is widely hailed as contemporary cinema's poet of the Russian soul. Here, in the second part of a trilogy examining complex family bonds, Sokurov tells the story of a middle-aged widower (Andrey Shchetinin) and retired officer, and his troubled relationship with his only child (Aleksey Neymyshev), an 18-year-old military cadet. Less concerned with conventional narrative than with capturing psychological mood and dreamlike imagery, Sokurov presents a unforgettable film that is both uniquely beautiful and melancholy.

(2003) Color (82 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 10AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 23 5AM | FRIDAY JUL 25 3PM

Female Perversions (1996)

Director - Susan Streitfeld

Appeared at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival
First-time filmmaker Susan Streitfeld deftly takes ideas from Louise J. Kaplan's non-fiction Freudian study, Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary, and suggests dramatically how deviant behavior may be a manifestation of societal conditioning. Tilda Swinton plays a high-powered attorney who is being considered for a position as a judge. But behind the expensive lipstick, the woman who has it all is coming apart with feelings of repression and inadequacy. Costarring Amy Madigan as a kleptomaniac with a taste for lingerie.

(1996) Color (114 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 19 at MIDNIGHT

The Flower of My Secret (1995)

Director - Pedro Almodóvar

Appeared at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar (TALK TO HER; ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) finds earnest poignancy in the melodramatic story of a romance novelist and her triumph over her philandering husband's rejection. Middle-aged Leo (Marisa Paredes) believes her marriage is ideal. So when her husband (Imanol Arias) abruptly brings it to an end, Leo is unable to continue writing bestselling fiction and falls into a deep depression. "Like a ravishing old-Hollywood sentimental drama drunk on sangria and dancing to a flamenco beat" - Variety.

(1995) Color (103 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 3 7PM | SATURDAY JUL 19 at NOON

Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Fuel

This episode investigates the future of automotive fuel with segments on a truck that runs on vegetable oil from a fried-chicken party; one-woman's bio-diesel publicity campaign; and the test of an ethanol racing car at Daytona.

(2007) Color (25 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 1 9:30AM

The Funeral

Director - Abel Ferrara

Avoiding the romantic clichés that have surrounded cinematic tales of mobsters for decades, filmmaker Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT) and writer Nicholas St. John revisit 1930s gangland New York with a somber and raw meditation on family violence. Christopher Walken, Christopher Penn and Vincent Gallo play three Italian-American siblings who rise into their father's crime business. As the youngest lies in his coffin, Ferrara and St. John present, in cinematic flashback, a chilling examination of the brothers' long, dark, brutalizing legacy.

(1996) Color (99 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 2:15AM

Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Garbage Warrior : THE GREEN

Director - Oliver Hodge

For more than 35 years, maverick architect Michael Reynolds has been passionately creating self-sustaining buildings from simple natural materials and the detritus of consumer society: tires, beer cans, glass and plastic bottles. These off-the-grid “earthships” utilize simple natural phenomena — gravity, radiation, convection — and have no sewage pipes, water pipes or electricity lines. Filmmaker Oliver Hodge profiles a true visionary and his battles to overturn the inflexible zoning and housing laws that endangered his creations.

(2007) Color (84 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 10:10PM | FRIDAY JUL 11 11:10AM | SUNDAY JUL 13 4:10PM

Garden

Director - Adi Barash
Director - Ruthie Shatz

Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival
In a run-down neighborhood of Tel Aviv known as the Garden, gay hustlers and drug dealers ply their trade. Here, documentary filmmakers Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz spent a year following Nino, a 17-year-old illegal Palestinian, and his 18-year-old friend Dudo, an Israeli Arab. Despite their grim circumstances, Nino and Dudo survive on mutual friendship and dream of a future elsewhere. While showing a segment of Israeli life seldom seen on film, Garden also presents a frank consideration about the urge to find one's place in the world.

(2003) Color (84 mins)

MONDAY JUL 14 1:35AM

Gemini

Director - Shinya Tsukamoto

Shinya Tsukamoto, whose 1989 cult film TETSUO: THE IRON MAN foreshadowed the Asian horror film phenomenon, loosely adapts a story by Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo, set during the Meiji era a century ago. Motoki Masahiro plays both a wealthy doctor and the physician's mysterious doppelganger, whose unexpected appearance coincides with the deaths of the doctor's parents. This beautifully composed, highly stylized macabre period piece revisits one of Tsukamoto's central themes: humanity's dual civilized and animalistic impulses.

(1999) Color (83 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 22 2:30AM

Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Genesis

Director - Claude Nuridsany
Director - Marie Perennou

In a follow-up to 1996's Microcosmos, their award-winning, intimate look at life, death and sex in the insect world, French documentary filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou take on nothing less than the birth of the universe and the origin of life. A creation narrative told by a West African griot poetically frames Genesis's artful melding of current scientific theory and myth, as it follows a progressive chronicle from the Big Bang to the evolution of terrestrial life. "A lyrical masterpiece...luminously photographed" - Time Out.

(2004) Color (80 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 22 10:10PM | FRIDAY JUL 25 11:10AM | SUNDAY JUL 27 4:10PM

Gettin' Square

Director - Jonathan Teplitzky

Comedic characters, deft dialogue and crackerjack performances distinguish director Jonathan Teplitzky and lawyer-turned-screenwriter Chris Nyst's Australian crime caper. Sam Worthington, David Wenham and Timothy Spall (SECRETS AND LIES) costar as three former losers who are trying to put their checkered pasts behind them and go straight. Alas, a criminal investigation committee makes their new lives difficult, prompting the trio to exact a unique way of squaring accounts. "Slick and effortlessly stylish" — Hollywood Reporter.

(2003) Color (100 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 3 1:45PM | SATURDAY JUL 12 at NOON | WEDNESDAY JUL 23 5PM

Ginger and Cinnamon : Dillo con parole mie

Director - Daniele Luchetti

A summer vacation brings Meggy (Martina Merlino), a precocious 14-year-old, and her repressed aunt Stefania (Stefania Montorsi) to Ios, the sun-drenched Greek "Isle of Love." Here Stefania is hoping to recover from the end of a long-term romance, while her niece covertly makes plans to rid herself of a private burden: her virginity. Alas, when making her choice for this momentous occasion, Meggy's eyes fall on someone all too familiar to her aunt. Danielle Lucjetti's romantic comedy was dubbed "An hour and a half of pure fun" by La Repubblica.

(2003) Color (109 mins)

Going All the Way

Director - Mark Pellington

Appeared at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival
Ben Affleck and Jeremy Davies costar in this nostalgic flashback to 1950s Indianapolis directed by music video veteran Mark Pellington (ARLINGTON ROAD) and adapted by author Dan Wakefield from his popular 1970 novel. Insecure Sonny (Davies) and golden boy Gunner (Affleck), two discharged vets home from the Korean War, strike up an unlikely friendship as they pursue the local women, deal with difficult parents and question their place in their seemingly confining home town. With Amy Locane, Jill Clayburgh, Rachel Weisz and Rose McGowan.

(1997) Color (103 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 8 11AM | FRIDAY JUL 18 7PM

The Great Happiness Space: Tales of an Osaka Love Thief

Director - Jake Clennell

Documentary filmmaker Jake Clennell provides a disturbing glimpse behind the doors of Osaka's Cafe; Rakkyo, a nightclub famed for its elite cadre of glamorous host boys who enact a bizarre reversal of the Geisha tradition. Each night, the boys, under the tutelage of their leader Issei, entertain beautiful young women by making them laugh and feel good about themselves. In return for this flirtatious adulation, the women come back night after night, purchasing bottles of expensive champagne and often spending as much as $1000 an evening.

(0) (76 mins)

MONDAY JUL 28 9PM

Green Porno : THE GREEN

Director - Isabella Rossellini

Green Porno is a series of very short films conceived, written, directed by and featuring Isabella Rossellini about the sex life of bugs, insects and various creatures. The films are a comical, but insightful study of the curious ways certain bugs "make love".

(2008) Color (16 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 22 8:30PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 23 12:05AM

Eco Documentaries - Season 2: The Greening of Southie : THE GREEN

Director - Ian Cheney

Documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney tells the unlikely story of Boston's first residential "green" building and how it united a tight-knit community. With its sloping grass roof and recycled materials, The Macallen Building seemed an odd addition to South Boston - "Southie" - a traditionally working-class neighborhood. Yet The Macallen not only won high marks for its sustainable design ideas and offered its diverse residents luxury features, its creation also spurred construction workers and environmentalists to think about the city of the future.

(2007) Color (82 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 29 9:35PM

Grey Gardens

Director - Ellen Hovde
Director - Albert Maysles
Director - David Maysles
Director - Muffie Meyer

Albert and David Maysles offer a compelling cinéma vérité view of the complexity of mother-daughter relations and genteel poverty in this affectionate documentary portrait of 79-year-old Edith Bouvier Beale and her 55-year-old daughter, Edie. Together in their once-stately Long Island mansion, they live in only one of its 28 rooms, cooking on a hot plate and sharing it all with a brood of cats and fleas. This eccentric and enchanting duo, revealed to the public upon the film’s 1976 release, was related to Jackie Onassis.

(1975) Color (94 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 3 10AM | MONDAY JUL 14 7:15AM | MONDAY JUL 14 5:15PM | TUESDAY JUL 22 10AM | SATURDAY JUL 26 10AM

The Guys

Director - Jim Simpson

In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, an unlikely pair of New Yorkers - an Upper West Side journalist (Sigourney Weaver) and a Brooklyn fireman (Anthony LaPaglia) - come together to shape eulogies for four deceased firemen. Anne Nelson's acclaimed two-person stage drama of mourning and tribute premiered just weeks after the tragedy at Ground Zero under the direction of Jim Simpson, who helms this film adaptation as well. Weaver also reprises her stage role. "The scenes between LaPaglia and Weaver are spectacular" - Salon.

(2002) Color and B&W (84 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 11:45AM | FRIDAY JUL 25 4:30PM | SATURDAY JUL 26 5:45AM | TUESDAY JUL 29 7PM

Harvie Krumpet

Director - Adam Elliott

Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival
Australian filmmaker Adam Elliot’s Oscar® winner for Best Animated Short Film tells the darkly comic biography of Harvie Krumpet, a nobody with perpetual bad luck. Harvie is a working-class Polish boy, diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome, who is ineptly home-schooled by his mother, giving him a twisted view of the world. From Australian immigration and marriage to parenting and old age, Elliot chronicles Harvie’s engrossing saga using stop-motion animation and a deadpan narrative delivered by Geoffrey Rush. “A mini-Candide” — Village Voice.

(2003) Color (22 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 13 6:15PM | MONDAY JUL 21 6AM | MONDAY JUL 21 10AM | SATURDAY JUL 26 11:35AM | SATURDAY JUL 26 8:30PM

The Hawk is Dying

Director - Julian Goldberger

Appeared at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Paul Giamatti (SIDEWAYS) stars as a middle-aged auto upholsterer who seeks transcendence via a passion for falconry. George (Giamatti) lives a mundane existence with his sister (Rusty Schwimmer) and her mentally challenged son (Michael Pitt). Alas, George's avian obsession appears to be yet another disappointment—at least initially. Julian Goldberger, who garnered international attention with his feature debut TRANS (1998), returned to the Sundance Film Festival with this adaptation of a novel by Southern writer Harry Crews. "Enthralling" — Village Voice.

(2005) Color (106 mins)

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Director - Asia Argento

Asia Argento co-wrote, directed and stars in an adaptation of J. T. Leroy's purportedly autobiographical stories chronicling the travails of an underage, cross-dressing, HIV-positive prostitute from rural West Virginia. Actors Jimmy Bennett, Cole Sprouse and Dylan Sprouse play young Jeremiah at different ages, as he is removed from a foster home by his drug-addicted birth mother (Argento) and taken on the road, where he endures psychological and physical ordeals. (J.T. Leroy was subsequently unmasked as a literary hoax.)

(2005) Color (98 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 4:15AM | MONDAY JUL 21 4AM

Height of Sky

Director - Morleigh Steinberg

Prior to moving from Japan to America, acclaimed Butoh dancer Oguri had never seen a desert. When he encountered the unforgiving vastness of the California deserts, Oguri was inspired to undertake a four-year personal and artistic journey, during which he created more than fifty original site-specific dances within and around Joshua Tree National Park. Dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Morleigh Steinberg observes and documents Oguri as he explores the literal and psychic borderlands between the body and the landscape.

(2004) Color (75 mins)

MONDAY JUL 21 3PM

Help!

Director - Richard Lester

A year after conquering the pop music world and making their screen debut in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, The Beatles reunited with director Richard Lester for this loose musical chase comedy, ostensibly about an evil cult which is after a sacred ring owned by Ringo Starr. When it screened in American theaters alongside tired comedies with Bob Hope or Jerry Lewis, HELP!'s ironic cool, youthful energy and absurdist comedy seemed as startling and fresh as the music revolution the foursome had ushered in a few months earlier. Leo McKern costars.

(1965) Color (92 mins)

FRIDAY JUL 18 10PM

The Hi-Lo Country

Director - Stephen Frears

Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup play a couple of World War II veterans who return to the cowboy country of northeastern New Mexico and enter a business partnership. But their dreams for the future don't take into account the changing cattle business and a rivalry for the same woman (Patricia Arquette). Director Stephen Frears's intelligent and moving look at two men facing the end of an era was described by the New York Times as feeling "like an epic hybrid of RED RIVER and THE LAST PICTURE SHOW." Penélope Cruz costars.

(1998) Color (115 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 9 3PM | THURSDAY JUL 10 5:30AM | SATURDAY JUL 26 10PM | SUNDAY JUL 27 at NOON | SUNDAY JUL 27 7PM

Hilary and Jackie

Director - Anand Tucker

Superb performances from Best Actress Oscar nominee Emily Watson and Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee Rachel Griffiths highlight this revealing account of the short life of cellist Jacqueline du Pré (Watson), and her relationship with her talented older sister (Griffiths). During the '60s, young, beautiful Jacqueline du Pré was the queen of Britain's classical music world. But behind those fiery, passionate performances was a cruel, selfish and troubled person with profound insecurity. "Insightful and wrenching" - New York Times.

(1998) Color (121 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 10PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 16 7AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 16 7PM | TUESDAY JUL 29 1:30PM

Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: The Hoosiers, The Black Keys & Manu Chao

Director - AJ Jankel

This episode from the second season features The Hoosiers, The Black Keys, and Manu Chao.

(2008) Color (51 mins)

House

Director - Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai became one of the first Israeli filmmakers to confront the implications of the 1948 war on Palestinians in this 1980 documentary, the story of a West Jerusalem abode owned by a Palestinian family that was requisitioned by the Israeli government after the war. Controversial at the time of its release, House was initially banned from transmission on Israeli Television, which helped produce it. This is the first part of Gitai's House trilogy, which continues with A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM (1998) and 2005's NEWS FROM HOME/NEWS FROM HOUSE.

(1980) B&W (49 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 6 8:05AM | MONDAY JUL 7 3:15PM

A House in Jerusalem

Director - Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai became one of the first Israeli filmmakers to confront the implications of the 1948 war on Palestinians in his 1980 documentary HOUSE, the story of a West Jerusalem abode requisitioned by the Israeli government after the war. In A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM, 18 years have elapsed since Gitai made the earlier documentary, and he returns to observe changes that have taken place for the neighborhood and its residents. This is the second part of Gitai's HOUSE trilogy, which concludes with 2005's NEWS FROM HOME/NEWS FROM HOUSE.

(1998) Color (88 mins)

MONDAY JUL 21 12:30PM

I for India

Director - Sandhya Suri

Appeared at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Sandhya Suri's intimate documentary considers issues of cultural identity and family obligation with the story of her father, a young doctor who emigrated from India to England in 1965. Over the years, Yash Pal Suri and his family in India kept in touch by corresponding via Super-8 movies and tape recordings. Four decades later, these family movies — supplemented with interviews and historic film clips — offer a revealing chronicle of assimilation, racism, changing cultures and one family's evolution. "A miraculous mini-epic" — The Guardian.

(2005) Color (70 mins)

MONDAY JUL 28 2:30PM

I'm Not Rappaport

Director - Herb Gardner

In one of his last screen performances, Walter Matthau plays a cantankerous 81-year-old Jewish radical whose daily routine on a Central Park bench belies his role as a modern-day Don Quixote raging against the dying of the light. Listening to his rants, and joining him in some spirited cons against a callous and indifferent world, is fellow bench-mate Midge (Ossie Davis), a building super whose job is endangered when a tenants' committee decides to go co-op. Writer Herb Gardner (A THOUSAND CLOWNS) directs this adaptation of his hit play.

(1996) Color (135 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 9 12:35PM | THURSDAY JUL 10 10:45AM | SATURDAY JUL 12 6:15AM | TUESDAY JUL 22 6:35AM

Imagining Argentina

Director - Christopher Hampton

Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson star in Christopher Hampton's (CARRINGTON) adaptation of Lawrence Thornton's award-winning novel. During the reign of Argentina's rightist military junta of the late '70s, government henchmen kidnap an outspoken journalist (Thompson). After receiving no word of her fate, her husband (Banderas) discovers he possesses psychic powers that enable him to envision what has become of the "disappeared" - 30,000 Argentinean political activists and intellectuals who were secretly tortured and murdered.

(2004) Color (107 mins)

FRIDAY JUL 4 3PM | SUNDAY JUL 13 10PM

In Short: Festival 8

Director - Diego Quemada-Diez
Director - Olivo Barbieri
Director - Jörg Wagner

MOTODROM
Appeared at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Death-defying motorcyclists fueled by gasoline and adrenaline confront the chopper ring of hell. Documentary filmmaker Jörg Wagner won an Honorable Mention at the Sundance Film Festival for this high-octane short film. (2006)

I WANT TO BE A PILOT
Appeared at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Diego Quemada-Diez's award-winning short profiles Omondi, a 12-year-old boy living in a Kenyan slum, one of 15 million sub-Saharan African children orphaned by poverty and AIDS. (2006)

SITE SPECIFIC: LAS VEGAS
Is it a magnificently detailed scale model, or the real thing? Italian artist and experimental filmmaker Olivo Barbieri presents a day- and nighttime aerial look at America's glittery playground and discovers it's more than a little artificial. (2005)

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WEDNESDAY JUL 2 8:20AM | WEDNESDAY JUL 30 3:25AM

In the Edges: the Grizzly Man Session

Director - Werner Herzog

This documentary chronicles the creation of the score for Werner Herzog's documentary GRIZZLY MAN. A group of musicians, including legendary guitarist Richard Thompson, improvise a musical accompaniment while watching the film and create a lyrical original score.

(2005) Color (55 mins)

FRIDAY JUL 25 11PM | MONDAY JUL 28 1:30PM

Eco Documentaries - Season 2: In the Pit

Director - Juan Carlos Rulfo

Appeared at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
To give a human face to seemingly unendurable labor, Mexican documentarian Juan Carlos Rulfo visited a major construction site as workers toiled to build an upper deck of Mexico City's immense Periferico Highway. Crane operators, masons and laborers — largely anonymous to motorists who speed past them — speak to the cameras about their lives, hopes and beliefs, and about their risky and often deadly profession. Rulfo's "absorbing" (New York Times) documentary won the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

(2005) Color (80 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 15 10:10PM | FRIDAY JUL 18 11:10AM | SUNDAY JUL 20 4:05PM | MONDAY JUL 28 at NOON

Inside Deep Throat

Director - Fenton Bailey
Director - Randy Barbato

The same month as the Watergate break-in, a film opened that changed America. DEEP THROAT, a porno quickie which some found "numbly, grindingly, trouser-saggingly dull", became a national sensation, the most profitable independent film in history, and ushered in "porno-chic" and a resultant feminist backlash. Documentary filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE) tell the bizarre story of how this grind-house blue movie financed with mob money eventually ignited a culture war. Dennis Hopper narrates.

(2005) Color (92 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 5 at MIDNIGHT

Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Jamiroquai, Damien Rice & The Goo-Goo Dolls

Director - AJ Jankel

This episode features Jamiroquai, Damien Rice and The Goo-Goo Dolls.

(2007) Color (53 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 17 4AM

Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: John Mayer, Norah Jones & Richard Ashcroft

Director - AJ Jankel

This episode features John Mayer, Norah Jones and Richard Ashcroft.

(2007) Color (53 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 24 9PM

Kadosh

Director - Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai, Israel’s most celebrated and controversial filmmaker, brings a critical eye to gender relations in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in this award-winning drama. Rivka (Yael Abecassis) and Malka (Meital Barda) are sisters whose lives are ruled by strict Hassidic tradition. Childless after ten years of marriage, Meir (Yoram Hattab) is ordered by his rabbi to divorce Rivka. Meanwhile, Malka enters an arranged marriage to a religious fanatic (Yussef Abu Warda) even though she is in love with a rock singer. “Compelling” — Time Out.

(1999) Color (110 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 9 5PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 30 4:30PM

Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Kasabian, Josh Groban & The Good The Bad and The Queen

Director - AJ Jankel

This episode features Kasabian, Josh Groban and The Good The Bad and The Queen.

(2007) Color (53 mins)

Kill The Man

Director - Tom Booker
Director - Jon Kean

Appeared at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival
Luke Wilson and Joshua Malina play Stanley and Bob, a pair of slackers who take on a corporate juggernaut after their small business is threatened by a conglomerate chain store across the street. As their business wanes, the pair declares total war against their nemesis by enlisting a rapping radical revolutionary (Phil LaMarr) and unleashing a comic blitzkrieg of dirty tricks. Meanwhile, Stanley must defend himself against a second onslaught from his marriage-minded girlfriend (Paula Devicq). Tom Booker and Jon Kean wrote and directed.

(1999) Color (96 mins)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Director - John Cassavetes

Unjustly neglected at the time of its release, John Cassavetes's highly individual foray into the shadowy world of contemporary noir profiles an unlucky strip-club owner (Ben Gazzara) forced to consider committing a murder in order to erase a debt to loan sharks and save his establishment. Gazzara gives an unforgettable performance as Cosmo Vitelli, a small-time businessman whose good-time grinning charisma obscures self-doubt and existential angst. This version is Cassavetes's original 1976 edit, 30 minutes longer than the 1978 release.

(1976) Color (134 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 12 10:35PM

King of the Hill

Director - Steven Soderbergh

Adapting writer A.E. Hotchner's colorful memoir of his youth in Depression-era St. Louis, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh delivers a small gem of a film. Twelve-year-old Jesse Bradford (Aaron Kurlander) has to fend for himself after his mother (Lisa Eichhorn) goes to a sanatorium and his traveling salesman father (Jeroen Krabbe) hits the road. Surviving on his wits, and an ability to fool listeners with elaborate fantasies, Jesse resourcefully learns the ways of the world in a seedy universe of alcoholics, con men and intimidating adults.

(1993) Color (103 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 2 1:15PM | THURSDAY JUL 3 6:30AM | FRIDAY JUL 11 2PM | THURSDAY JUL 17 1:15PM

Kings & Queen

Director - Arnaud Desplechin

Filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin (MY SEX LIFE, OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT) has been called "the least predictable, most interesting of younger French directors" by the Village Voice. Here he presents a rich psychological drama circling around a beautiful, composed career woman (Emmanuelle Devos) who suddenly discovers she must reevaluate her life. A witty and inventive narrative, madcap situations, outrageous characters and a wonderful cast (including Mathieu Amalric and Catherine Deneuve) are among the reasons Salon dubbed it "a masterpiece."

(2004) Color (150 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 16 1:45AM

Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: The Kooks, Wynton Marsalis & Muse

Director - AJ Jankel

This episode features The Kooks, Wynton Marsalis and Muse.

(2007) Color (53 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 24 4AM

Lights in the Dusk

Director - Aki Kaurismäki

The final part of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki's austere trilogy, which commenced with DRIFTING CLOUDS (1996) and continued with THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST (2002), is a haunting film noir about a solitary loser in contemporary Helsinki. Koistinen (Janne Hyytiainen), a night watchman, gets no respect. So when a blonde bombshell (Maria Jarvenhelmi) sidles up to him and says she senses he has rock and roll in his blood, Koistinen is oblivious that she might be interested in something other than his magnetism - like some secret security codes.

(2006) Color (75 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 10 7PM | TUESDAY JUL 15 4:45PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 30 11:45AM

Little Terrorist

Director - Ashvin Kumar

Filmmaker Ashvin Kumar tells a tale about a Pakistani Muslim boy who accidentally crosses into Hindu India and is mistakenly viewed as a terrorist. A hopeful story about how human solidarity can eradicate artificial boundaries, LITTLE TERRORIST was nominated for an Oscar® for Best Live Action Short Film and won top honors for short filmmaking at the Montreal World Film Festival.

(2004) Color (15 mins)

SATURDAY JUL 12 11:30AM

Look Both Ways

Director - Sarah Watt

With humor and empathy, filmmaker Sarah Watt presents a surprisingly poetic and romantic film about our universal fears about mortality. When an artist (Justine Clarke) witnesses a fatal train accident, the incident sparks a string of connections among a group of people confronting some very big questions about life and death. One of the most acclaimed Australian films of recent years, LOOK BOTH WAYS won the Discovery Award at the Toronto Film Festival. "Fearless - and casually life affirming" - Los Angeles Times.

(2005) Color (100 mins)

loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies

Director - Steven Cantor
Director - Matthew Galkin

The Pixies, the influential alternative rock band known for their pounding punk and angular angst, drifted apart in 1993. When they reunited for a reunion tour a decade later, documentary filmmakers Steve Cantor and Matthew Galkin were there to create this revealing concert-reunion road movie. Reflecting its title, LoudQUIETloud captures both the onstage thunder and the uncomfortable silences of the offstage moments when the band members are not making music and dealing with issues of substance abuse, divorce, death and parenthood.

(2007) Color (85 mins)

FRIDAY JUL 4 10PM | MONDAY JUL 21 6PM

Lower City

Director - Sérgio Machado

Buddies Deco (Lazáro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) make a modest living running cargo in an old motorboat around the city of Salvador in Brazil. However, when they meet Karinna, a stripper and prostitute played by Alice Braga — described by the New York Times as "one of the most forthrightly and powerfully sexual screen actresses in the world" — the duo's long friendship encounters rough sailing. Filmmaker Sérgio Machado's steamy, sexy and passionate debut feature about love and friendship pulses with adrenaline and the rhythm of life.

(2005) Color (98 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 23 12:30AM | SATURDAY JUL 26 4:05AM

The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Director - Robert Crawford

Robert L. Crawford’s Emmy Award-winning film is notable as one of the first extended documentary looks behind the scenes at the creation of a major dramatic feature, in this case George Roy Hill’s winner of four Oscars, one of the most popular films of 1969. Featuring interviews with Robert Redford and Paul Newman, and extensive commentary by director Hill, this documentary also provides a fascinating historical look at location filmmaking in the late 1960s, just as the old studio system was rapidly fading away.

(1970) Color (42 mins)

The Man of the Year

Director - José Henrique Fonseca

Jose Henrique Fonseca's kinetic directorial debut presents a darkly satirical portrait of lawless corruption in Brazil and how a simple twist of fate can turn an ordinary working stiff into a contract killer. After he kills a local bully, Maiquel (Murilo Benicio) becomes the toast of the town. Even cops pat him on his back. Soon his dentist is offering him free work if only he will rid the world of the man who raped the dentist's daughter. Named Best Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival. "Brilliantly shot" - Walter Salles.

(2003) Color (106 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 30 10PM

The Man Who Cried

Director - Sally Potter

Filmmaker Sally Potter (ORLANDO) serves up a sweeping historical panorama about the early years of the 20th century with the saga of a young Jewish girl who, after being separated from her family, flees the Russian pogroms for England, where she is taken in as a foster child. Settling in France as an adult ten years later, Suzie (Christina Ricci) joins a musical troupe, where she befriends an energetic dancer (Cate Blanchett), meets an egotistical opera star (John Turturro) and falls in love with a charismatic Gypsy horseman (Johnny Depp).

(2000) Color and B&W (100 mins)

TUESDAY JUL 1 1:30PM | WEDNESDAY JUL 16 5:15PM | THURSDAY JUL 17 3PM | FRIDAY JUL 25 7PM

Manufacturing Dissent

Director - Debbie Melnyk
Director - Rick Caine

Fans of celebrity documentarian Michael Moore (FAHRENHEIT 9/11), filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine set out to interview the man whose successful films transformed the documentary genre. Ironically, Moore proved even more elusive than former GM head Roger Smith in Moore's 1989 hit ROGER & ME. Delving into his past and listening to former associates, Melnyk and Caine present an intriguing portrait of a driven and intelligent filmmaker with a reputation for fudging facts, being difficult and leaving a trail of unhappy acquaintances.

(2007) Color (96 mins)

MONDAY JUL 14 at NOON | MONDAY JUL 14 7PM

Iconoclasts - Season 1: Mario Batali on Michael Stipe

Director - Joe Berlinger
Director - Bruce Sinofsky

In this episode, award-winning restaurateur and Food Network Iron Chef Mario Batali serves up a tribute to Michael Stipe, founding member of rock band R.E.M. and one of the first alternative rockers to achieve mainstream success. Stipe is now almost as well known for his social and political activism as he is for his music.

(2005) Color (57 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 17 11PM | SUNDAY JUL 20 11AM | TUESDAY JUL 22 at MIDNIGHT

Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Matchbox Twenty, The Script & Def Leppard

Director - AJ Jankel

This episode from the second season features Matchbox Twenty, The Script, and Def Leppard.

(2008) Color (51 mins)

Monsoon Wedding

Director - Mira Nair

In the spirit of other classic films about the joys, comedy and family chaos of weddings, Mira Nair offers an invitation to a rollicking and colorful Delhi ceremony. The Verma family is preparing for their daughter (Vasundhara Das) to wed a computer programmer (Parvin Dabas) in a traditionally arranged marriage. But neither the bride nor groom consider themselves traditional. Meanwhile other developments — some romantic — circle around the chosen couple. "Deeply sensual … pulsates with unforgettable characters" — Washington Post.

(2002) Color (114 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 6 10PM | FRIDAY JUL 11 7PM

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Director - Terry Jones
Director - Terry Gilliam

Following the controversial success of THE LIFE OF BRIAN (1979), the British comedy troupe Monty Python returned to their sketch comedy roots with this dark, rude and pointed consideration of life, death and some of the in-between. Memorable moments include Terry Jones as Mr. Creosote demonstrating the dangers of gluttony; a sex-education class taught by schoolmaster John Cleese; Eric Idle delivering his outrageous "Not Noel Coward Song"; and the uplifting song-and-dance number "Every Sperm Is Sacred." Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam direct.

(1983) Color (107 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 9 7PM | SUNDAY JUL 20 3:05AM | SATURDAY JUL 26 at MIDNIGHT

Murderball

Director - Dana Adam Shapiro
Director - Henry-Alex Rubin

Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Documentary filmmakers Dana Adam Shapiro and Henry-Alex Rubin extend an invitation into the ultra-macho world of quadriplegic wheelchair rugby, a rough and tumble competition that's part MAD MAX, part roller derby. Despite the Road Warrior ethos, the competition has brought meaning and hope to men coping with life in seemingly shattered bodies. Often critically compared to HOOP DREAMS, MURDERBALL was nominated for a Best Feature Documentary Oscar and won the Audience Award and a Special Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

(2005) Color (86 mins)

MONDAY JUL 21 9PM

Ned Kelly

Director - Gregor Jordan

The saga of legendary outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang has fascinated Australians for as long as films have been made. In filmmaker Gregor Jordan's retelling of the folk hero's short life, Heath Ledger plays the iron-clad robber as a man wronged, forced into a life of crime by repressive and corrupt law-enforcement officials. Naomi Watts and Orlando Bloom costar, while Geoffrey Rush plays a counterinsurgency expert dedicated to bringing Kelly to justice. "Fans of American Westerns will find plenty to like" — Dallas Morning News.

(2003) Color (110 mins)

THURSDAY JUL 10 2AM

Nice Bombs

Director - Usama Alshaibi

Chicago-based filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Iraq, the country of his birth, after an absence of nearly 24 years. Accompanied by his American wife, Alshaibi reunites with his cousin and childhood friend Tareef, who acts as tour guide and driver, as well as many members of his extended family in Baghdad. What he discovers is a city permeated with the smell of gasoline, and everyday Iraqis who offer reflections ranging from exultation at Saddam's downfall to despair for the future of their country. "Surprisingly warm" — Chicago Tribune.

(2006) Color (76 mins)

MONDAY JUL 7 1:40AM | MONDAY JUL 14 2:45PM

Noise (2007)

Director - Matthew Saville

Appeared at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Innovative sound design and a refreshingly revealing perspective on police work and the psychological scars of violent crime distinguish this award-winning thriller, the feature-length directorial debut of Australia's Matthew Saville. The diverted career path of a young police constable (Brendan Cowell) suffering from tinnitus and blackouts collides with the investigation of a disturbing murder, which has filled a shocked suburban Melbourne town with guilt and suspicion. "Jaw-droppingly tense...a film of quiet exhilaration" - Empire.

(2007) Color (108 mins)

WEDNESDAY JUL 9 10PM | SUNDAY JUL 20 10PM

One Take Only

Director - Oxide Pang Chun

Going solo, filmmaker Oxide Pang — who teamed with brother Danny on the Asian horror hits BANGKOK DANGEROUS (1999) and THE EYE (2002) — presents a stylish tale of a minor drug dealer (Pawarith Monkolpisit) with delusions of grandeur, and his prostitute neighbor (Wanatchada Siwapornchai). Hoping to settle down after making "that one last big score," Bank and Som discover escaping their violent world isn't as easy as it appears. Oxide Pang's energetic visuals, and charismatic performances by the two leads, highlight this fast-paced Thai thriller.

(2001) Color (89 mins)

MONDAY JUL 7 12:10AM

Opening Night

Director - John Cassavetes

Appeared at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival
Gena Rowlands stars as an alcoholic Broadway star none too serenely entering middle age and confronting multiple self-doubts in John Cassavetes's incisive backstage drama. In New Haven for a tryout, Myrtle (Rowlands) is haunted by the tragic death of an obsessive fan and the new drama, in which she plays a character with uncomfortable parallels to her own life. Rowlands won the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell and Cassavetes costar. "Intelligent and intriguing" - Time Out.

(1978) Color (144 mins)

SUNDAY JUL 13 12:50AM | TUESDAY JUL 15 6:35AM | THURSDAY JUL 24 6:35AM

Our Brand is Crisis

Director - Rachel Boynton

In 2002, things looked bleak for the political future of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivia's widely unpopular former president. Yet as he once again set his eyes on the presidency, he also called upon the services of famed political consultant James Carville and his associates to bolster a sagging reputation. Granted astounding inside access, filmmaker Rachel Boynton follows Carville, pollster Jeremy Rosner and ad man Tad Devine as they plan their strategy - including a smear campaign - and repackage a new and improved Sánchez de Lozada.

(2005) Color (85 mins)

MONDAY JUL 21 7:30PM

Oyster Farmer

Direct