Jack Kerouac: On The Road With The King Of The Beats
(2001) [PG]

This is the award - winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel "On The Road," took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the process inspired unprecedented social and cultural change. Kerouac's life is examined...  More

Bully
(2001) [R]

Bully, based on a true story, sees Larry Clark return to the violent and disturbing underworld previously documented in his controversial and provocative 1995 debut Kids. A couple of good-looking small town teenage slackers, Bobby and Marty, have known each other forever. They work dead end jobs,...  More

Levity
(2003) [M]

Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton (Best Writing, Sling Blade), 1997), Academy Award winner Holly Hunter (Best Actress in a Leading Role, The Piano, 1994), Morgan Freeman and Kirsten Dunst star in the gripping, emotionally charged story of a paroled murderer's search to reconcile a single,...  More

Yi Yi (A One And A Two)
(2000) [M]

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partners make bad decisions...  More

Devil's Playground
(2002) [M]

Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.

"Haunting, Provocative and Unexpected" Los Angeles Times. Winner of: Best Documentary Grand Prize, AFI DV Festival; Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary International...  More

In Shifting Sands
(2007) [PG]

Ritter does not narrate the documentary but his interview footage appears extensively. "In Shifting Sands" was made before the 2003 Iraq invasion, but it illustrates and fills in the background of how the war came about, even if this was not it's intention. Another thing highlighted is how the UN...  More

Power And Terror Noam Chomsky In Our Times
(2002) [G]

Whether Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguist and political philosopher, is the most important intellectual alive, as the New York Times once famously called him, is open for debate. But without a doubt, Chomsky, now 73, is one of the most straight-talking and committed dissidents of our time. A...  More

11 09 01 September 11
(2002) [M]

This film is a unique and extraordinary response to the catastrophic events in New York City that shook the world on September 11, 2001. producer Alain Brigand invited 11 renowned international directors to look towards their own cultures, their own memories, their own stories and their own...  More

Tape
(2002) [MA]

After 10 years apart, three people come together at a motel to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. Anxious, edgy and fuelled up on drugs and drink, Vince (Ethan Hawke), a volunteer firefighter and dealer from the West Coast paces around his motel room awaiting the...  More

Adaptation
(2002) [MA]

Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Oscar winner Chris Cooper), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), neurotic Hollywood screenwriter...  More

Hard Eight
(1996) [MA]

Veteran gambler, Sydney, teaches John the art of professional gambling, but John soon falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and hooker. Sydney helps the couple to escape after John badly beats up a client but events soon lead to murder and revenge...  More

Lovely And Amazing
(2001) [M]

From acclaimed director Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bitter sweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Starring Academy Award nominee...  More

World Traveller
(2001) [MA]

An extremely handsome man in his early 30s, Cal has all of the outward trappings of success: a good career, a beautiful wife, a young son who adores him. But on the morning of his son's third birthday, something snaps inside Cal and he packs his bag and hits the road. On the road, Cal has a...  More

The Business Of Strangers
(2001) [MA]

Julie Styron, a world-weary newly named CEO (Stockard Channing) and her brash young assistant Paula Murphy (Julia Stiles) spend an alcohol-fueled night at an airport hotel exchanging confidences, lies and playing power games centering on a slick corporate head-hunter. Their games take a dark turn...  More

Fast Food Fast Women
(2000) [M]

A contemporary New York comedy, that follows the romantic twists and turns of the patrons of a Manhattan coffee shop and its overworked waitress Bella (Thomson) who, on the cusp of her 35th birthday allows herself to be set-up on a date with Bruno (Jamie Harris), an irresponsible cab driver and...  More

Ghost World
(2001) [M]

Thora Birch (American Beauty) and Scarlett Johansson (The Man Who Wasn't There) "sneak into your heart and stay there" (Rolling Stone) in this "eerie, masterful movie" (Movieline) from the acclaimed director of Crumb. Co-starring Brad Renfro (Deuces Wild), Illeana Douglas (Stir Of Echoes) and...  More

Cecil B.Demented
(2000) [MA]

In his never-ending quest to subvert Hollywood, young lunatic filmmaker Cecil B. Demented (Stephen Dorff) and his gang of film fanatics the 'Sprocket Holes' kidnap A-list Hollywood movie goddess Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) at the premiere of her latest film. Honey is given an alarming...  More

The Cat's Meow
(2001) [M]

In November of 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were, Charlie Chaplin, Hearst's mistress, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator, producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip...  More

Leunig Animated (2 disc set)
(2002) [G]

No-one looks at the world quite like whimsical Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig. His poignant, often controversial cartoons never fail to touch a chord. Michael Leunig is cartoonist, artist, philosopher, poet and social commentator. "Leunig" is an animated series produced by Australian actor...  More

The Man Who Wasn't There
(2001) [MA]

1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano...  More

The Royal Tenenbaums
(2001) [M]

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etherline (Anjelica Huston) had three children - Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson) and Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) - they were a family of geniuses, and then they separated. Years later, feigning terminal illness, the reprehensible Royal Tenenbaum...  More

Heist
(2001) [M]

David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny...  More

Waking Life
(2001) [M]

This is the story of a boy who has a dream that he can float, but unless he holds on, he will drift away into the sky. Even when he is grown up, this idea recurs. After a strange accident, he walks through what may be a dream, flowing in and out of scenarios and encountering various characters....  More

The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion
(2002) [G]

Someone is stealing millions in jewels from New York City's upper crust and the only man who can crack the case is completely clueless. Woody Allen stars as egotistical insurance investigator C.W. Briggs who falls under the spell of a crook and a beautiful colleague (Helen Hunt) in his most...  More

Keep The River On Your Right
(2000) [MA]

The story of Tobias Schneebaum, KEEP THE RIVER covers both spiritual and geographical landscapes. A Jewish artist who also turned out to be Gay, Schneebaum was an outsider’s outsider until he journeyed into the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon in the 1950’s and became even more odd: a possible...  More

Nurse Betty
(2000) [MA]

A Kansas City waitress (Renee Zellweger) with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband (Aaron Eckhart) murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol (Greg Kinnear). What she...  More

Divided We Fall
(2001) [PG]

Divided We Fall is a delicious black comedy which deftly deals with the compromises forced upon ordinary people during wartime. Based on real life events in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, Divided We Fall tells the tale of childless couple Josef and Marie Cizek, who offer refuge to David, a young...  More

One Night The Moon
(2001) [M]

The Australian Outback, 1932. Entranced by the moon, a young girl steps out of her bedroom window. When her parents check on her, she is gone. The police suggest Aboriginal tracker Albert Yang lead the search, but the father revolts - insisting there's to be 'No blacks on my land". Instead, he...  More

Mulholland Drive
(2001) [MA]

David Lynch's masterpiece Mullholland Drive is a slick, sinister, psycho-sexual thriller from the darkest recesses of Hollywood, a Los Angeles of strange dreams, unrequited love, and a jealous burning rage. As nightmarish as Lost Highway, as strange as Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive is Lynch at his...  More

Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back (2-Disc set)
(2001) [MA]

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a tale of adventure on the open road. When Dante and Randal (of Clerks fame) get a restraining order to keep the punchy Jay and his hetro life-mate, Silent Bob, from selling drugs in front of the Quick Stop convenience store, their lives are suddenly empty. They...  More