Death of a President
(2006) [M]

Set in the near future, this shockingly real feature-length drama uses archive footage and documentary techniques to imagine the assassination of George W Bush and examine America's reaction to it. It is October 2007 and U.S. foreign and domestic policies have polarised the country's electorate....  More

Boy Culture
(2006) [MA]

Boy Culture is the candid confession of "X," a wildly successful male escort. After ten years of sex-for-pay, "X" gets romantically entangled with his two hot room mates and a reclusive elderly client, Gregory, But before Gregory will agree to sex, he tells an unsettling love story spanning fifty...  More

Apocalypto
(2006) [MA]

From Academy Award winning filmmaker Mel Gibson (The Passion of the Christ, Braveheart), comes Apocalypto , a heart stopping mythic action adventure set against the turbulent end of the once great Mayan civilisation. When his idyllic existence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force,...  More

The Work of Director - Stephane Sednaoui
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Anton Corbijn
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Mark Romanek
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Jonathan Glazer
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Michel Gondry
(2004) [M]

Michel Gondry is one of the most acclaimed and respected video directors in the industry. While studying at a French art school when he began directing videos for the band Oui Oui (in which he drummed). The clip's success attracted other bands, and it wasn't long before he was working...  More

The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [M]

Chris Cunningham's career as a music video director began in 1995 when, aged 25 and passionate about music, Chris persuaded Autechre to let him direct a promo for a track entitled Second Bad Vilbel. Following on from this video, Chris was soon working with a range of artists during the early days...  More

The Work of Director - Spike Jonze
(2004) [M]

Spike Jonze is most widely known as the director of Being John Malkovich (which garnered three Academy Award nominations) and Adaptation. A pioneer in the world of music videos, he was for many years better known as an award-winning music video, short film and commercial director. He began as a...  More

Takeshis'
(2006) [MA]

Beat Takeshi lives the busy, and sometimes surreal, life of a show biz celebrity. But his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, is still an unknown actor waiting for his big break. After crossing paths with Beat and a series of frustrating auditions, Kitano seems to...  More

Shortbus
(2006) [R]

Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob (Raphael Barker) and Sophia (Sook-Yin Lee) are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work,...  More

Fast Food Nation
(2006) [M]

Thanks to the popularity of their new burger, The Big One, fast food restaurant chain Mickeys are riding a huge wave of success. But there's a problem: laboratory tests have revealed faecal contamination in their burger meat. Desperate to avoid a PR disaster, marketing executive Don Anderson is...  More

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
(2006) [MA]

In this hilariously offensive movie, Kazakhstani TV news reporter Borat is dispatched to the United States to make a documentary on the "greatest country in the world." Arriving in New York City with a producer and cameraman in tow, Borat becomes increasingly interested in locating and marrying...  More

Wim Wenders on Film: The State of Things
(1982) [M]

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.  More

Marie Antoinette
(2006) [PG]

Lavish historical drama from writer/director Sofia Coppola. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) is only 14 years old when she's pledged to marry Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the 15-year-old king of France, in an alliance that has everything to do with politics and...  More

Wim Wenders on Film: Lightning Over Water (Nick's Movie)
(1980) [M]

Lightning Over Water is a penetrating documentary of the last days of cult film director Nicholas Ray. The film was lovingly assembled by Wim Wenders, whose idolatry of Ray is obvious in virtually every frame of his own work. Dying slowly of cancer, Ray reflects on a lifetime of accomplishments,...  More

The Wind That Shakes The Barley
(2006) [M]

Ireland, 1920. As a wave of Republican nationalism sweeps the nation, workers across the country unite to form volunteer armies to combat the notorious 'Black and Tan' paramilitary squads sent over from Britain to quell the rebel uprising. Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his native...  More

Breakfast on Pluto
(2005) [MA]

Set in the 1970’s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick Braden (Cillian Murphy), an endearing, but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown and aware from a very early age that he is different, Patrick survives this harsh environment with the...  More

A Prairie Home Companion
(2006) [PG]

Director Robert Altman and writer Garrison Keillor join forces with an all-star cast to create an unforgettable backstage comic tale about a homespun radio variety show that has somehow managed to survive in the age of television. On a rainy Saturday night in Fitzgerald Theatre, the cast and crew...  More

Thank You For Smoking
(2005) [M]

The directorial debut from Jason Reitman, the media satire Thank You for Smoking stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick, a man who has turned spinning news and information into a successful career for the tobacco lobby. He plots strategies with his colleagues (Maria Bello and David Koechner) on how to make...  More

Friends with Money
(2006) [M]

Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusak star in Friends With Money – the story of four best friends whose comfortable lives are thrown off balance as the realities of early middle age set in. It paints a painfully hilarious portrait of modern life in the...  More

Ten Canoes (2 disc set)
(2006) [M]

Set centuries ago in tribal times, Ten Canoes is a surreal tragi-comedy. Dayindi (played by Jamie Gulpilil, son of the great David Gulpilil) covets one of the wives of his older brother. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping,...  More

Hard Candy
(2005) [R]

Provocative thriller from director David Slade. For three weeks, 14-year-old Hayley Stark (Ellen Page) has been chatting on-line with 'Lensmaster319', a 32-year old fashion photographer, named Jeff (Patrick Wilson). The two agree to meet at a coffee shop called Nighthawks and they hit it off,...  More

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
(2005) [M]

From the team behind 24 Hour Party People comes the hilariously inventive adaptation of the notoriously un filmable comic novel 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen' by Laurence Stern. Skipping back and forth between the 18th century and efforts of the 21st century filmmakers to...  More

2:37
(2006)

situations that so many of today’s youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragedy will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers. As the film unfolds, the individual stories of the six teenagers are revealed, each...  More

Clerks 2 (2 Disc Set)
(2006) [MA]

At the age of 33, New Jersey mini-mart clerks and best friends, Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) and Randall Graves (Jeff Anderson) have it made. They work with each other, slack off all day and get paid for it. But when the local Quick Stop that has been their entire life and livelihood suffers...  More

The White Masai
(2005) [M]

At once a captivating romance and a breath-taking travelogue into the Kenyan outback, The White Masai is an epic journey based on the autobiography of Corinne Hofmann. It tells the unbelievable - yet true - tale of a white European woman who becomes the wife of a Masai warrior. The exotic African...  More

The Chumscrubber
(2005) [MA]

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell) finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to...  More

Brick
(2005) [M]

Off-beat drama from writer/director Rian Johnson, imitating the conventions of 1940s hardboiled film noir as a teenager investigates his ex-girlfriend's death in a small Southern Californian town. Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is an outsider at his high school, but when his ex-girlfriend Emily...  More