After a drug deal gone bad, Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) lies dead on the bathroom floor. Now, his spirit glides through Tokyo watching his sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), and the rest of his bottom-dwelling expat crew as they deal with the aftermath of his death. Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void?

Following the death of his mother, seventeen year - old Joshua 'J' Cody moves in with his hitherto-estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Janine 'Smurf' Cody, and her three criminal sons - the Cody boys. 'J' finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns his family upside down and which throws him directly into the path of senior homicide detective, Nathan Leckie. This a powerful crime drama exploring the tense battle between a criminal family and the police, and the ordinary lives caught in the middle.

El Caspar (Edgar M. Flores) is a member of a Mexican gang, but he is quickly growing tired of the life. He has just helped initiate the gang's newest member, and his girlfriend has been murdered by the leader. When he turns on his friends, he ends up with a group of illegal immigrants on a train heading North towards America. One of these is Sayra (Paulina Gaiton), a teenage girl who takes an immediate liking to El Caspar. He knows he is going to be caught and killed by the gang, and he doesn't want her caught in the crossfire.

A cinematic profile of the noted veteran New York City fashion photographer. The "Bill" in question is 80 New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours". Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller - who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling) has become one of the most articulate representatives of the New York neo-nazi movement so much so that the political branch of the movement, led by Lina Moebius (Theresa Russell) and Curtis Zampf (Billy Zane), are trying to recruit him to work for them. He's perfect material for a party struggling for prominence - he's young, intelligent, charismatic but also Jewish. As time goes on Danny finds it more and more difficult to mask this from his new found friends and more importantly from himself. The hate of his Jewish ancestry is strong yet despite his hateful and violent exterior, Danny is still unable to delete it from his life. Is it all as stupid as it seemed to him when he was a young teenager?

John Drean is a forest ranger whose 4-year-old daughter Pearl mysteriously disappears in the bush while in his care. The loss of his daughter naturally has a profound effect on John and his family long afterwards. Overwhelmed and exhausted, Drean accidentally burns down his house, and discovers his wife Ana is having an affair with his best friend David, a cop working on Pearl's case. With nothing recognisable left of his life, guilt and grief overwhelm him until an unlikely event brings him back to life. Based on the novel The Paraffin Child by Stephen Blanchard.

Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last 30 years and is, literally, our most influential woman photographer. She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and powerful, the exceptional and notorious. Her camera has documented the horrors of war - most recently in Sarajevo and Rwanda. Masterful at exposing her photographic subjects, Annie's own life has been private and protected. In this film, she made the decision to bare her artistic process, her personal journey and her delicate balancing of fame and family to the camera - a camera that is being vigilantly pointed by a filmmaker who is her younger sister. From her hectic studio to her idyllic farm, we will experience Annie's current work and the creation of her latest retrospective book; we will face her losses as well as her grand successes.

The story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming from Blue Ridge Mountains, who is charged with abducting and imprisoning Kirk Anderson, a young Mormon Missionary while he is in training in England. With her accomplice, and faithful admirer Keith Joseph May, She takes him to a Devonshire cottage, ties him to the bed and has sex with him for three days, report the excited tabloids. The Mormons soon reclaim Kirk, the only man McKinney has ever loved. McKinney tells her side of the story as the tabloids tell theirs. Some years later, McKinney rekindles media interest in her after having her favourite dog cloned in Korea.

Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may.

In 1844, in the final era of the Shogun, the cruel young Lord Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki) terrorises and brutalises his people, enjoying immunity from the law. He hopes to join the Council of his half brother and with the powers that come with his status, aims to turn his territory into his suffering playing. A secret plan is hatched by insiders to hire a group of samurai to assassinate him. The leader is chosen first, Shinzaemon (Koji Yakusho), who gathers 11 other samurai through his nephew Shinrokuro (Takayuki Yamada) and a network of connections. They are also joined by a forest dwelling young warrior, Koyata (Yusuke Iseya). The 13 men make plans to ambush Naritsugu and his men during a long journey to a clan across the land.

A revealing documentary window into the lives of nine New Zealand gay men aged 24 through 78, Men Like Us highlights the common threads in our continuing struggle for everyday happiness in a straight man's world. It's a tapestry of uplifting and challenging tales of ordinary men overcoming the extraordinary obstacles that life throws in our way, including body image and masculinity, bullying and bereavement, migration and ageing, HIV, cultural identity and spirituality. A unique look into the stories behind the faces we see every day in our bars, at our pride events, and on our smartphones, the diverse stories in Men Like Us are a sharp reminder that simple conversation and caring can change the course of our lives for the better.

Point Blank stars Gilles Lellouche as hapless hospital orderly Samuel, whose pregnant wife Nadia (Elena Anaya) is suddenly kidnapped. Samuel then receives a phone call, ordering him to break heavily guarded patient Hugo (Roschdy Zem) out of hospital if he ever wants to see his wife again. Samuel manages to get Hugo away from the police but things quickly go from bad to worse as he discovers he's caught in the middle of a vicious war between ruthless criminals and corrupt cops. When the police name Samuel as a fugitive, he realises he's going to have to join forces with Hugo if he's going to have a hope of rescuing Nadia.

Thomas Newton (David Bowie) is a mysterious man. Appearing out of nowhere, Newton makes the acquaintance of patent lawyer Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry). It seems Newton is a genius and has developed many fascinating new inventions. Using this newly patented technology, these two men start a company called World Enterprises. Soon, WE is everywhere, and the firm and Newton are known around the world. But like Howard Hughes, Newton shuns the public. No one really knows who he is or what he wants. All that we can determine is that he does have some agenda, for he needs to make as much money as possible. For what? We don't know. Unorthodox college professor Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn) is highly intrigued by the enigmatic Newton. He has studied Newton for years, and now he has been hired by World Enterprises to work on their new space project. Now on the inside, Bryce, like so many others, wants to know Newton, but he remains distant from everyone. But this new space project is very important to Newton, and he soon visits Bryce to encourage the professor to explore certain avenues. As the two men meet, Bryce begins to think he's discovered Newton's secret. Bryce thinks Newton is an extraterrestrial trying to return to his home planet.Years pass and Newton seems to defy aging. He remains as youthful and pale as the first day Farnsworth met him. Edging closer and closer to his secret goal, Newton becomes restless. What is Newton's goal? Who is he? Is he really an alien or just an eccentric man?

Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.

Revolutionary Spanish eatery El Bulli is a Michelin three-star restaurant in Roses, Spain (two hours northeast of Barcelona); each night, it serves a tasting menu of 30 courses, prepared by over 40 chefs, to a single seating of up to 50 guests. For the current season, its last before transforming into a culinary academy, over two million requests were received for the 8,000 available seats. Head chef Ferran Adrià , who took over the restaurant in 1987 and instituted the tradition of yearly developmental sabbaticals, has become the leading inspiration for avant-garde cuisine worldwide, alternately referred to as a mad scientist or Salvador Dali of the kitchen. For six months of the year, the head chef works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, this documentary is a rare inside look at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adria himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needs an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia (Marisa Paredes), the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig... (2011) El Deseo presents a film by Almodóvar ; produced by Esther García ; written by Pedro Almodóvar in collaboration with Agustín Almodóvar ; directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo.

Cool It follows Danish author and scholar Bjorn Lomborg, a gadfly to many environmentalists, who contends that though global warming does exist, our environmental situation is far less grave than the fear propaganda of alarmists such as Al Gore lead us to believe. Lomborg refutes four of the scariest facts presented by Gore's An Inconvenient Truth while also criticizing the all-talk and no-action of international conferences (such as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2009 Copenhagen Summit) which proposed outlandish actions (such as Cap and Trade and Carbon Taxing) that would cost billions and have very little positive change. Cool It ponders whether the current budgets allocated towards climate change, global poverty, clean drinking water, education and disease could be spent more wisely. Lomborg reasons that rather than focusing on controlling carbon emissions, we should research how new energy strategies (solar, wind, algae and wave power) can be made more affordable and practical than coal and oil. Lomborg also asserts that we should simultaneously develop strategies via geo-engineering to protect the world from the effects of global warming as well as focus on fighting hunger and disease to create a better present (and future) for the world's population. Lomborg suggests that a yearly budget of $250 billion would address all of these problems worldwide. Based on the book Cool it: the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming by Bjørn Lomborg.

Lesson Plan is a documentary featuring interviews of the original students and teacher of the 1967 Third Wave experiment. This exercise in fascism took place in Palo Alto, California. Within one week, 30 students grew to 200 as the Third Wave took on a life of its own, and the students unwittingly re-enacted the roots of the Third Reich.

Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon), is a working man in small-town Ohio with his beautiful wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and their young, hearing-impaired daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart). When Curtis' recurring dream of ominous storms becomes increasingly vivid, he fears for both his sanity and the safety of his family. Internalising his anxieties, his outward behaviour becomes progressively stranger to his wife and fellow workers, and then the hallucinations start to invade his waking life with terrifying consequences. Is Curtis experiencing deranged visions or premonitions?

Manhattan is set in 1979 - the year it was made - but the Gershwin score and glorious black-and-white cinematography remove it from time and displace it from reality. This isn't a New York that has ever really existed, except in the minds of those who view it from afar. The protagonist is Isaac (Woody Allen). Isaac is a twice-divorced, neurotic TV writer who has grown weary of his day job. He longs to write a book, but lacks the courage to give up the financial security of his monthly paycheck. He is dating 17-year old Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a precocious high school student who claims to love him. Isaac feels uncomfortable with her affection, insisting that a relationship between them - a young girl who really hasn't started living and a middle-aged man - has no future. Isaac's best friend is Yale (Michael Murphy), whose happy marriage is being endangered by an affair he's having with Mary (Diane Keaton). Eventually, Isaac and Mary meet, and they prove to be as incompatible as any two people who have been tossed together by fate. She starts things off by trashing his taste in art, then follows it up by making deprecating statements about his favorite director, Ingmar Bergman. But, like oil and vinegar when shaken up, they complement each other. The initial disdain morphs into friendship, then something more. But Isaac is reluctant to take matters further until Yale decides that he can no longer be unfaithful to his wife and breaks it off with Mary.

When Arthur, self-proclaimed son of God, sets off on a mission to find the Queen of Heaven, his world changes.

Machete Maidens Unleashed! is a fast paced and very funny look at the way a group of US-based filmmakers found the perfect backlot for their low-rent, bloody, and sleazy action/horror pics in the Philippines. What made the location so perfect for these exploitation moviemakers was, in the words of one veteran, Human life was cheap. Film was cheap. It was a great place to make a picture. The well-known troubles of Apocalypse Now, some of whose survivors are interviewed here, may be the most famous of all US-Filipino runaway productions, but its saga of bad luck and weirdness is put into sharp relief. Maidens is also about the Filipino filmmaking pros who were willing cohorts in the mayhem. There are a lot of responsible filmmakers, intones a jocular John Landis, but sometimes what's fun are the irresponsible ones. The tone is buoyant but somewhat dark, with the occasional sobering fact. After all, many of these movies were ground out while Ferdinand Marcos was dictator of the Philippines. After World War II the Philippines had a strong, professional film industry that produced some 350 movies a year. No one saw them outside the Philippines. By the early '60s, local veterans like Gerry de Leon and Eddie Romero figured that they could exploit the potential in the US drive-in circuit, so they started making movies in the tradition of B movie king and schlockmeister Roger Corman and followed the rule of the three B's: Blood, breasts and beasts. These movies were hits, big ones. Made on budgets with $100,000 ceilings, they grossed millions. They look like they came from another planet, explains filmmaker Joe Dante, a genre movie veteran. The irony was that while Marcos was fighting rebels (and offering army equipment and men as extras in genre pics), Corman and co. were producing pics celebrating revolution, many of them starring Pam Grier - who is interviewed here to along with genre vet Jack Hill. Corman, also interviewed, started making movies in the Philippines soon after he formed New World Pictures in 1970. He already had a strong fan-base for his stateside nudie pics, like Fly Me (1973). The Filipino flicks The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972) and The Hot Box 1972) combined the girls with gore, guns, whips and shower scenes.

Chuck Close travels into the world of one of the late 20th and early 21st century's most highly singular visual artists. The eponymous subject of the title opted, early on, to exclusively devote all of his time and creative energy to constructing massive human likenesses, "deconstructed" into enlarged photographs, self-portraits, images from other artists, and a host of other ephemera. From a close vantage point, the overall image can be neither discerned nor detected, but when one stands at a considerable distance, the smaller components "coalesce" into a fluid whole. As documentarist Marion Cajori subtly reminds the audience time and again, the most astonishing aspect of Close's artistic construction (especially given the photo shoots, image selection, and other elements that go into the process) involves his 20 year physical paralysis. The central narrative of Cajori's film witnesses Close's construction of one such portrait (with the help of many assistants) over an 80+ day period; she also works in footage from a biographical sketch of Close that she shot in 1998, clips of the artist and his colleagues, and a number of additional sources - hence mirroring, in the creation of her own biographical portrait of Close, the process by which Close creates a new work of art. Chuck Close also represents the final cinematic work of acclaimed documentarist Cajori, who died shortly after editing this motion picture; it took her 13 years to complete, from 1993 to 2006. The documentary features Close's friends and colleagues, including Brice Marden, Robert Storr, Dorothea Rockburne, Philip Glass, Arne Glimcher, Kiki Smith, Elizabeth Murray, Alex Katz, and Kirk Varnedoe.

An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate twenty-seven years after his untimely death. His inimitable music and writing reveal and insightful world-view that we are still unravelling - his complex recording technologies, including overdubbing, was unprecedented. Though there have been many documentaries about Gould, most are distracted by his eccentricities, focusing on the pills, gloves, and scarves while missing the man and message behind the music. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould pierces through the myths, revealing the man beneath the icon. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould weaves together an unprecedented array of never before seen footage of Gould, photographs and excerpts from his private home recordings and diaries plus personal interviews with Gould's most intimate friends and lovers, some who have never spoken about him publicly before, to reconstruct his thoughts on music, art, society, love, and life.

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

When author James Miller (William Shimell) launches his new book in Italy, Elle (Juliette Binoche) attends the press conference with her young son (Adrian Moore). She extends an invitation to James, who comes to her art gallery and their conversation touches on many things, including the intrinsic value of copies as opposed to the original. They spend the day together and she takes him to a small village in Tuscany, where different aspects of their relationship come to light.

Buck Brannaman is a horse trainer like none you've ever seen. A trick roper as a child and an advisor on the Robert Redford film, The Horse Whisperer, he is an incredible hand on a ranch and his skill with horses is uncanny. Any of the traditional ideas of breaking horses with violence never cross his mind but, with a gentle hand and a genuine respect for our equine friends, he can get even the toughest specimens to do nearly anything he wants. From director Cindy Meehl, Buck follows Brannaman across the highways of America as he puts on training clinics, not to show off his skills, but to educate horse owners and enthusiasts on how they can do the same (or at least an approximation of it). It is a lovely, heartfelt documentary about one man's rise from a terrible situation to create a good life for himself and help others along the way.

A Dangerous Method is based on the stage play by Christopher Hampton (The Talking Cure) and stars Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung, an up and coming psychoanalyst in 1904 Zurich who decides to test Freud's controversial talking cure on beautiful, deeply disturbed Russian patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley). Incredibly the cure works and soon Sabina is expressing a desire to become a psychoanalyst herself, whilst as a result of his success, Jung travels to Vienna and begins a working friendship with Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), who in turn, comes to see Jung as his disciple and the heir to his ideas. However, when Freud sends sex-obsessed patient Otto Gross (a scene-stealing Vincent Cassel) to Jung for treatment, Otto's outspoken ideas about desire have a strong effect on Jung and he soon begins a passionate affair with Sabina that involves lots of spanking. As a result, Jung's evolving ideas lead to tension in both his relationships with Freud and his wealthy wife Emma (Sarah Gadon).

A confronting dramatic short film revisiting the events that took place around the robbery of a Manurewa liquor store in 2008 in which owner Navtej Singh was tragically murdered.

On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell (Tom Cullen) heads out to a nightclub. Just before closing time he picks up Glen (Chris New). And so begins a weekend - in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex. By the end of the two days, their casual encounter has assumed an important new significance. Glendale Picture Company production with The Bureau in co-production with Synchronicity films in association with EM Media ; written and directed by Andrew Haigh. Starring: Tom Cullen, Chris New, Kieran Hardcastle.

Spider (Ralph Fiennes) moves - tentatively - into a half way house, many years after a traumatic event that sent him to an asylum. Here, not far from the giant gas tank that is close to his childhood home, his memories are awakend of his boyhood in the care of his beloved mother (Miranda Richardson) and his wicked father (Gabriel Byrne) whose affair with the blonde (Miranda Richardson) in the local Dog and Beggar pub triggered the dramatic events that robbed him of his mother - and his mind. Based on the novel by Patrick McGrath.

It is 1845 and a wagon team comprising of three families have hired mountain man Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood) to lead them over the Cascade Mountains to the Valley beyond. But when the group follows Meek along a shortcut he claims to know, they find themselves lost in a dry, harsh desert without water. As they continue along their way, conserving water and plagued by the uncertainty of their predicament, they come across a Native American Indian (Rod Rondeaux). While Meek suggests they shoot the Indian, the others believe he may be a more reliable guide than the man they have employed. Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams) shows herself to be the strength of the group as they struggle against the elements and their lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival.

Details the gritty prison career of Malik. Arriving at the jail he is cornered by the leader of the ruling Corsican gang and forced to carry out a number of dangerous missions including drug trafficking and brutal hits. Over time Malik is able to earn the gang leaders's confidence and rise up the prison ranks, all while secretly devising his own plans.

The Jiro of the film's title is Jiro Ono, an 85-year-old sushi chef and a legend in his field. His Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant seats only 10, but it's considered the best place for sushi in Japan, with a full meal costing upward of 300,000 yen ($300); the three stars it has been awarded by the Michelin Guide only sweetens its prestige. "No one ever has a bad experience there," says Masuhiro Yamamoto, a food critic who's prominently featured in the film. Jiro Dreams of Sushi details, among other things, the painstaking process that goes into creating these mouthwatering pieces of sushi-from picking the pieces of fish for the day to getting rice from his usual provider, and from formulating his menu for a given day to presiding over his band of chefs as they serve the sushi to his customers, many of whom have had to reserve their precious seats about a year in advance. The man is incredibly precise in his process. Not just any fish will do; in fact, at the fish market he frequents, he often participates in a tuna auction in order to procure the ones he wants. And in the kitchen, he makes sure to always have a taste of whatever sushi is made in order to make sure they all suit his palate.

In the early 1900s, Dr. Albert C. Barnes made his money inventing a treatment for gonorrhea. He spent that money immersing himself in the exploding 20th century art scene. It wasn't long before he formed his own ideas about art; chiefly, that it was cheapened and commodified by profit-driven museums and their bourgeois patrons. So Barnes bought hundreds of impressionist, post-impressionist, and modernist paintings by folks like Matisse, Renoir, Monet, and Picasso and promptly hung them in a custom-built mansion in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He established the Barnes Foundation, a school that taught art history to blue collar-types and kept its doors closed to the public (except for a few open viewing days per week). Needless to say, Barnes made a lot of people angry, specifically the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fast forward to Barnes's death in 1951: suddenly the foundation is in flux, having been left to Lincoln University and thrown into a power struggle between Philly elitists, charities, and board members. Barnes's trust forbid the showing or moving of his art, but his collection was immediately taken on a tour of the world, opened to the public, and is now being moved to a new home along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Does this priceless collection of art belong to the world, or should a man's last will and trust be upheld at all costs?

Morgan Spurlock takes an inside look at the marketing process behind closed doors, inside the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which ultimately inform our everyday entertainment decisions. Sponsors were provided with brand category exclusivity. The brands that agreed to sponsor the film placed Spurlock front and centre in their brand campaigns and advertisements, both on and off-line.

This documentary chronicles the transformation of The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk, as the Internet redefines the media industry by surpassing print as the main source of news. During the most tumultuous time for media in generations, filmmaker Andrew Rossi gains unprecedented access to the newsroom at The New York Times. For a year or more (2009/10), he follows journalists on the paper's Media Desk, a department created to cover the transformation of the media industry. Through this prism, a complex view emerges of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity, especially at the Times itself. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based, original reporting that helps to define our society? This up-close look at factors and actors that produce the "daily miracle" of a great news organization is a nuanced portrait of journalists continuing to produce extraordinary work under increasingly difficult circumstances. Deep trouble -- Two things -- Meetings -- Page one guy -- Blogging -- Media Armageddon -- Executive editor -- The big board -- Diplomatic cables -- Debt -- The truth -- End notes.

Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of David Lynch's creative process as he completes his latest film, Inland Empire. We follow Lynch as he discovers beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision. The director of the documentary immersed himself in David Lynch's world; living and working at Lynch's home. His unobtrusive style has captured a personal side of David Lynch not seen before. The film reveals Lynch not only as one of the most original and compelling directors of contemporary film but also as an artist who continues to explore and experiment in countless mediums. We witness his hands on approach to painting, sculpting, music and screenwriting. His enthusiasm is infectious; inspiring us to tap into the well of creativity that Lynch believes we all have.

In 1920 Ireland, the ordinary people of the land unite to form volunteer guerilla armies to face the ruthless Black and Tan squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland's bid for genuine independence. As the freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to breaking point, a treaty is declared. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and men who have fought side by side, now find themselves pitted against one another as enemies, in disagreement about the treaty signed with Britain. Some say it's not real freedom for the Irish, while others see it as a start.

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre'. All inhabitants are scoffing at Francois, the postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophe - but everybody tells him, how important his work is. Sneering up Francois continues in the evening of the festive day. Made drunk, some 'friends' persuade him to watch a short-movie in a tent.

The story of a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rockstars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever.

The interior of the Chauvet Cave in southern France houses the world's oldest cave paintings, hundreds in number, which were discovered in 1994. In this subterranean world of the 32,000-year-old artworks - created at a time when Neanderthals were roaming around as were cave bears - we come face to face with pristine and astonishingly realistic drawings of horses, rhinos, cattle and ice-age lions, which for the briefest second come alive in the torchlight as we learn more about Paleolithic art and its creators.

The conceit at the heart of Think Global, Act Rural, a French documentary by Coline Serreau, is that modern farming methods are actively harming the land and failing to provide the most effective production of food. It espouses the virtues of traditional farming techniques, of not using ploughs, of focussing on soil, rather than plant quality and of using natural fertilizers and pesticides. It initially weaves a web of conspiracy theory whereby the companies that invented farming chemicals perpetrate their use for material gain, rather than biological effectiveness and are then protected by the politician. Then the film starts to provide both evidence and micro-biology level facts. In French with English subtitles.

The rumored-to-be-haunted Yankee Pedlar hotel is shutting its doors for good at the end of the weekend, so its last two employees, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) are staying over to find some ghosts. However, a former sitcom actress-turned-medium (Kelly McGillis) begins getting signs that maybe Claire and Luke won't like what they find.

It's peace time in Japan in 1640, leaving many samurai out of work and impoverished. The wealthy house of Li have become aware of ronins (masterless samurai) asking feudal lords to let them use their courtyards to commit ritual suicide, knowing that they will take pity on them and pay them off instead. When ronin Hanshiro (Ebizo Ichikawa) asks unsympathetic clan lord Kageyu (Koji Yakusho) for the use of his courtyard, Kageyu recounts the tale of young Ronin Motome (Eita) who was forced by Kageyu to go through with the ritual and cut out his own heart despite only possessing a wooden blade. Unknown to Kageyu, Hanshiro was Motome's father-in-law and is seeking revenge for his cruel death.

He won Grammys and an Academy Award; wrote many #1 songs from Barbra Streisand's "Evergreen" to the Carpenter's "We've Only Just Begun" as well as Kermit the Frog's biggest hit, "The Rainbow Connection"; starred in a Brian DePalma movie; put out his own hit records and albums; was a guest on The Tonight Show fifty times; and is the president of ASCAP... and you might not have heard of him. This is the charmingly self-narrated story of the journey of the legendary songwriter and 70's icon Paul Williams.

Amy (Melanie Lynsky) is once again living at home with her folks while she goes through a painful divorce. Ruth (Blythe Danner), is Amy's hard to please mother, and doesn't think Amy can ever do anything right. Stan (John Rubenstein) is her disengaged workaholic father, who appeases both women. At a very important dinner party for Amy's lawyer father, she meets Jeremy (Christopher Abbott), the son of the VIP couple her parents are trying to impress. Even though Jeremy is much younger than Amy, the two have an immediate connection and begin a secret affair. Jeremy listens to her like no one else does and allows Amy to be herself, instead of living the charade that is her life.

The definitive biography of the group's fall from grace after they made it to Shea Stadium USA and were on their way being a worldwide success. This story is one of the most shocking of the music industry of the 1980s. The story has never been told before: The Collapse of The Clash unravels as the ultimate rock 'n' roll tragedy.