Natalie Merchant got her start at age 17 as the lead singer of the folk-pop outfit 10,000 Maniacs. Her silken voice and outspoken social awareness wooed music fans and cemented her status as one of the day's most astute and captivating artists. Though 10,000 Maniacs achieved a level of critical success as a major-label act in the mid-80's, Merchant decided to go it alone in 1994. Since then her popularity has bloomed in the wake of Tigerlily, Ophelia, Motherland, Live in Concert: Natalie Merchant and The House Carpenter's Daughter. Featured here are the hits in an intimate, one-of-a-kind setting. Tracks: 1. These Are the Days - 2. Carnival - 3. What's the Matter Here? - 4. Kind and Generous - 5. Break Your Heart - 6. Wonder - 7. Verdi Cries - 8. These Are the Days (Bonus Track) - 9. Life is Sweet (Bonus Track)
Christina wants to take revenge on her blind sister, who wants to take a prize in a popular music television show. She comes up with an evil joke in which she gives out a stage play organized by her friends for a real shoot in the Ostankino television studio. The sister believes what they are trying to convince her of, and Christina's rally becomes more and more like a mockery.
Don Poli, the patriarch of a family embedded in politics, faces the change of party in his state - after a hundred years in power - losing all his privileges. Humiliated and angry, he threatens to disinherit his family and leave to rebuild his life. This forces his children (Kippy, Ramses and Belén) to take extreme measures to ensure their future, causing everything that could go wrong to turn out worse.
A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.
An experimental film through the eyes of a man
Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.
Luffy et son équipage sont à la recherche du trésor de "Crown Island" dont Nami a récupéré une carte. Soudain le Going Merry est éjecté dans les air par la mer. Chopper dégringole dans la jungle de "Crown Island" où il est accueilli comme un roi animal attendu par une centaine d'animaux. Mais sur l'île se trouve également des chasseurs à la recherche des légendaires cornes qui procurerait un pouvoir immense à celui qui les mangerait. Luffy et ses amis doivent alors empêcher ces malfaiteurs de détruire le royaume des animaux.
When his sister disappears after leaving their home in hopes of singing stardom, Luis tracks her down and discovers the grim reality of her whereabouts.
Neri et son frère cadet Jo se font des centaines milliers de yens par nuit en trempant dans des affaires pas nettes. Ils mènent la grande vie jusqu'à ce qu'un jour, leurs fraudes leur retombent dessus...
Cameron Duncan wrote, directed and starred in this short film, the same year a lump in his knee turned out to be cancerous. Aged only 16, Duncan had already showcased his filmmaking talents on a series of award-winning short pieces made for Fair Go's annual programme devoted to commercials. With DFK6498, he channels his recent experiences into a short, stylishly-shot memoir of incarceration, frustration and freedom lost. The film went on to win a trio of awards at Wanganui's River City Film Festival and win praise from director Peter Jackson.
A short animation by Haruka Suzuki based on the poem "Asa" by Ikuko Shirakuma
Forced collectivism, famines, errors and mistakes mark Stalin´s ruthless rise to dictorial power and only increase his madness until he even declares a chicken to be an English spy that should be liquidated.
En 1598, la guerre d'Imjin, qui a duré sept ans, touche à sa fin et les envahisseurs japonais tentent une dernière offensive sur Joseon. L'amiral Yi Sun-shin prend la tête d'une armada marine avec la Chine des Ming, dans le but d'en finir avec l'impérialisme japonais. Les forces en présence s'affrontent dans le détroit de Noryang, là où la mer est la plus meurtrière et où l'amiral Yi livre son ultime bataille.
A guy going through a rough patch, turns to her unusual best friend for help.
Taking more than six years to complete, The Cut is a feature-length documentary that conclusively proves that female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM) can be found as a native practice on all inhabitable continents. From war zones in the Middle-East to bucolic Middle America, the film visits 14 countries and features key interviews with FGM survivors, activists, cutters, doctors and researchers to uncover an often secret practice shrouded in centuries of traditions, mysticisms and irrationalities.
San Francisco filmmaker Konrad Steiner took 12 years to complete a montage cycle set to the late Leslie Scalapino’s most celebrated poem, way—a sprawling book-length odyssey of shardlike urban impressions, fraught with obliquely felt social and sexual tensions. Six stylistically distinctive films for each section of way, using sources ranging from Kodachrome footage of sun-kissed S.F. street scenes to internet clips of the Iraq war to a fragmented Fred Astaire dance number.
Lorsque Jason Dyson refuse d'obliger son combattant prisé à lancer un match de MMA, un gangster notoire recouvre sa dette en tuant le combattant et en kidnappant la fille de Jason. Maintenant, il doit entraîner une prisonnière à endurer cinq combats souterrains consécutifs pour la sauver.
Dal Ho wakes up from a drunken state at a cementary. He then meets an alien hunter and hears that he'd been kidnapped by a UFO. He visits a hypnotist with his girlfriend and finds out many secrets that'd been hidden all along...
Reg Park returns to his antics of old as the man of iron in HERCULES THE AVENGER. The Son of Jove undertakes another journey into the nether realms battling zombies and monsters in order to rescue his son, allowing goddess Gia an opportunity to place her own slacker son in Hercules' sandals. There's something for everyone: ghouls, dragons, sweating men and girls in skimpy outfits.
Puccini’s heartbreaking story of young love in the garrets of Belle Epoque Paris has attracted many famous singers through the years. But with James Levine at the helm and the starry duo of Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto as Rodolfo and Mimi, every bit of emotion in the score pours across the footlights and seduces the audience. In this case, the audience was in the millions since this was the very first in the “Live from the Met” series of telecasts. The evocative production is by Fabrizio Melano, designed by Pier Luigi Pizzi.