The bizarre truth behind the enigma of Jim Moffatt, alias Richard Allen, author of the cult classic Skinhead series of novels for the New English Library pulp fiction publishers of the 1970s.
A Night With the Stars sees Kyle and Jackie doing what they do best – memorable and outrageous celebrity interviews. On their weekday Southern Cross Austereo radio show, Kyle and Jackie chat to the biggest names from the world of entertainment – and A Night With the Stars will continue that tradition. Guests will share their intimate, humorous and often different points of view with Kyle and Jackie.
In the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Furaha and Venantie, forge an unbreakable bond after experiencing unimaginable trauma. Together, they ignite a movement of empowerment that transcends their pain and inspires an entire community to reclaim their future.
There are many reasons why a dead body might need an exhumation: police investigations, transfer to another country, cemetery renovations or an administrative expiration of the grave. In all these cases Heinz is there to assist. He treats bodily remains with care and respect, whispering to the dead as if they were still alive. Carrying out this traditionally hidden work for 40 years, Heinz has become sensitive to not only the care of the bones, but the spirit and energy that lingers around them.
The film is part of the feature film "Hay motivo", made up of 32 short films directed by Spanish directors and actors against the policies of the Partido Popular just before the 2004 elections. In Portabella's participation, physics professor Pedro Arrojo addresses the urgent need for a new water culture.
A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.
In 1930, during what became known as the Industrial Party Trial, some members of the Soviet technical elite were tried for plotting to form a counter-revolutionary party. This documentary depicts that trial, in which a dozen men are prosecuted for crimes against the Russian Revolution. They promptly confess and are given the chance to address the court with an explanation. Full of remorse, they plead for the opportunity to pay off their debt to society by working. Then they wait for their sentence.
As part of the 2006 Mozart Year, 28 Austrian filmmakers, including Ulrich Seidl, were commissioned to create a minute-long film featuring Mozart's music. Seidl decided on the slaves' chorus from Zaide: "Brothers, let us be merry and bravely defy adversity" rings out while two dimly-lit men give themselves over to purposeless pleasure. They masturbate mechanically and monotonously. Paper towels stand ready next to them, as if waiting for consummation, the climax. Nietzsche claimed that all pleasure seeks to be eternal; Brothers, Let Us Be Merry depicts the hangover left by this unfulfilled utopia.
This film documents the train-wreck production and sudden shutdown of American Cannibal, the reality TV show produced by the promoter behind the Paris Hilton sex tape.
Hock Hiap Leong pays tribute to this a 55-year old coffee shop on Armenian Street that has been an incessant inspiration to many people. The urban re-development board’s demolishing plans in 2001 inspired the filmmaker to capture this epitaph of history.
Emmy and Grammy nominated comedian Tig Notaro returns with a hilarious and sharply observed stand-up special packed with delightfully awkward misunderstandings, health scares made hilarious, and family moments with her wife and children that are simultaneously sidesplitting and heartwarming. With her signature delivery and celebrated gift for storytelling, Tig’s new hour hits all the right notes.
Kordon tells the story of four ordinary women who, on the border with Ukraine in a station on the outskirts of a Zahony country that seems to stand still in time, do something extraordinary to help and give hope to a people under siege. A moving portrait of female resistance, courage and solidarity.
Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust; she also likes to stroll about Paris.
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration.