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- In a seemingly abandoned house, a group of people engage in wordless acts of passion. From evening to morning, the sexual couplings among the members of the house become increasingly harrowing as daylight arrives.
- Lisa and Jamie, residents of the Alton House Children's Home, learn that the home is to close because of government cuts. They decide to run away, and meet up with Mr. Skeeter who brings them food but steals their emergency money.
- A young British punk and roadie for The Clash navigates life in socially torn 1970s England.
- Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
- St. Nick is the story of a brother and sister on the run. They've left their home for some unknown reason and are living in the woods, hiding in barns and sheds, doing what they can to survive. As the bitter Texas winter sets in, they strike up residence in an abandoned country house and, for a brief, happy period, manage to escape the harsh realities of their circumstances.
- Cowboy, and assorted blue collar buddies, inneffectually try to save a true Texas Honky Tonk from closing for good.
- Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel elsewhere, however, to truly begin to understand why she fixates on the wrong kind of guy.
- A young boy living in a large house with his sisters is subjected to very frightening phenomena and doubts about who he is after his scriptures teacher discusses black magic in the classroom.
- After a nuclear war, a group of children at an isolated farmhouse debate what the outside world might be like. Soon one of them leaves the house to investigate, and finds out that things aren't the way they thought.
- Hoping to improve his life, the temperamental Rodolfo Cano enlists in the Army. But when another Rodolfo Cano receives his sign-up orders, the two Rodolfos' lives collide - with the first Rodolfo's girlfriend adding to the confusion.
- When 10-year-old Willie is evacuated from the East End of London, he is chosen by Zander, 13-year-old son of an army captain, to be his companion in a rambling country house. Zander's upbringing makes him snobbish and a bully. Willie does not enjoy shooting birds, playing with toy soldiers, or boxing; his only friends are Zander's nanny, and a young soldier called Blake. His father turns up in the nearby woods, having deserted the army. The nanny gives him food till one night, in panic, Blake shoots him.
- Lloyd (Lou Perry) and Frank (Sonny Davis), two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has developed a new invention that he's sure will finally lead to the success he and Frank have been chasing their whole lives. Their golden ticket is a combination mop, vacuum cleaner and floor polisher, but before prosperity arrives, reality intrudes on their plans.
- When Kelly and Max, two 13-year olds from widely different social backgrounds, form an unlikely alliance and take off in Max's father's Ferrari for an illegal trip to Brighton. On the way they discover more about life and each other than they had bargained for.
- An unpopular boy returns to Cathedral Choral School from his broken home, to learn that he is to be "beekeeper", a symbolic role merely requiring plenty of singing.
- A group of low-budget filmmakers make a horror movie.
- Tobe Hooper grew up in motels, hotels and movie theaters. He says he watched at least two films a day. Some of his favorite films were produced by the iconic British horror filmmakers at Hammer Films. THE HEISTERS (restored at 2K from a 35mm print) is Hooper's trippy, Looney Tunes send-up of those films. At the time Hooper was the only student in the University of Texas Austin film department. THE HEISTERS introduced him to Hollywood (he mixed the film at Todd-AO) and whetted his appetite for features. Five years later he would make his first narrative feature, EGGSHELLS.
- After his wife is murdered and his house torched, a judge becomes the vigilante title character and seeks revenge on the criminals who destroyed his life.
- A group of likeable eccentrics whose sense of their own culture sparks them to try to buy up their houses from developers. Contradictions abound. Affectionate comic sense deftly captures the afterglow of a generation.
- In this low-key thriller, a community of Oregon winegrowers in need of revenue grow marijuana in order to finance their vineyards.
- A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house of their grandfather, who has been estranged from the family for the past ten years.
- A young girl kicks all of her rubbish under her bed creating a monster which she and her brother must fight. A funny family film with cameos from The Goodies.
- The story of old people living in a forgotten village. Once a week they need to push the carriage with bread for several kilometers towards their gloomy settlement.
- A visual meditation on the progressive history of the United States as seen through cemeteries, historic plaques and markers. Inspired by Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States".
- Floyd and Jimmie Lee are a couple of rowdy Texas good ol' boys who can't seem to keep a job or stay out of trouble.
- Canary Industries specializes in "organ redistribution" or leasing organs to people who need them. The catch is that those who accept these organs must also sign a "Conscientious Usage" contract that allows Canary to repo the organs if the recipient abuses their body.
- This excellent low-key documentary records the daily life of an elderly blind man in Russia. He spends his days at home in a tiny flat making bags out of string. His only companion is a cat, which persists in unraveling the man's bags and tangling the thread. Once the man has completed a set of string bags, he goes out to the street-corner and tries to give them away to passersby for free. Sadly, no one wants them, even though they are much nicer than the grimy plastic bags commonly used on that street.
- An American filmmaker living in Paris meets an American serviceman stationed in Iraq returning home on furlough. He shares his photos and movies with her and then tells her, in detail, the things he's seen in war.
- The highway of the title is a 2,000 mile dirt road in Kazakhstan. Along this route, a traveling family circus journeys in their crowded hand-cranked bus, stopping in villages. The filmmaker accompanies the Tadjibajevs, capturing their quarrels, performances, and intimate moments.
- A look at the life and work of independent Texas filmmaker Eagle Pinnell.
- When a wealthy businessman loses his job and his girlfriend on the same day, he asks his estranged college-aged daughter to live with him temporarily and care for his young son from a failed second marriage.
- Middle-class parents have bought a run-down school in the country. Their two children, plus an assortment of friends, are staying there over the summer. One day an old lady is found in the school, claiming she used to work there. The children hold her to ransom, but no-one takes any notice.
- Six short films originally curated by Jonathan Demme for a screening at New York's Collective for Living Cinema. David Boone's INVASION OF THE ALUMINUM PEOPLE, Brian Hansen's SPEED OF LIGHT, Louis Black's FAIR SISTERS, Neil Ruttenberg's THE MASK OF SARNATH, Tom Huckabbe's and Will van Overbeek's DEATH OF A ROCK STAR and Lorrie Oshatz's LEONARDO JR. have all been restored by Louis Black and Mark Rance. The films came out of the punk rock scene in Austin in the late seventies and early eights and represent the cultural explosion of the music and film communities in Austin at the time.
- Questions of race, workers' rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else. Shot on Super 8mm film, which gives it a lustrous, saturated color, Mississippi Chicken reveals the textures, moods and struggles of the New South.
- A father, son and a mysterious woman deal with life in a country where traditional values are being replaced by modernization.