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Ulysses' Gaze
(1995) [M]

Ulysses' Gaze traces the journey of Greek-American filmmaker, "Mr. A" (Harvey Keitel), across the Balkans in search of the past. He seeks three lost film reels made in the early years of cinema by two Greek brothers. Their images, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth....  More

Mad City
(1997) [M]

Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta team with award-winning filmmaker Costa Gavras (Z. Missing) in a fierce tale of ratings-driven TV news gone mad. Travolta is Sam, a misguided museum guard who loses his job, then tries to get it back at gunpoint. Hoffman is Max, a local TV reporter taken hostage...  More

The Truman Show
(1998) [PG]

He's the star of the show-but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead poets Society) about a man whose life is a non stop TV show. Truman doesn't realise that his quaint hometown is...  More

True Crime
(1999) [MA]

"Exciting. Eastwood is at his best."- Jack Garner, Gannett News Service. Boozer, Skirt chaser, Careless father. You could create your own list of veteran reporter Steve Everett's faults, but right now there isn't time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner will die at midnight - a man Everett has...  More

Mclibel - Two Worlds Collide
(1998) [PG]

A documentary filmed over three years and following the lives of Helen Steel and Dave Morris, a postman and a gardener, whose trial against fast food giants McDonalds became the longest in English history. Their case develops from the basic issues of nutrition, animals, advertising and the...  More

Celebrity
(1998) [M]

With an incredible all-star cast, this critically acclaimed Woody Allen comedy takes an hysterical look at the pleasures and pitfalls of fortune and fame. Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in outrageously unpredictable directions. While Lee...  More

42 Up
(1998) [PG]

In 1964, Michael Apted interviewed seven-year-old English kids: five or six from privilege, a Yorkshire farm kid, East-End girls, and boys from a children's home. Every seven years, Apted re-interviews those willing (two declined this time). At 42, careers are stuck or flourishing; marriages are...  More

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
(1992) [G]

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and...  More

Start Up .Com
(2001) [M]

Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the...  More

Harrison's Flowers
(2000) [MA]

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn) is presumed dead in foreign territory, but his wife Sarah (Andie MacDowell) knows he's alive. Unable to convince her to turn back, Harrison colleagues join Sarah in her pursuit. Armed with their camera lenses, fellow...  More