1998
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As Pearl sleeps, she journeys to Hypnopompia. Well, you'll understand when you watch it....we hope.
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Let's get this out of the way immediately: Forbidden City Cop is the most hilarious martial arts film ever made. Period! Filled with slapstick, silly high jinks and goofy cinematic references, it'll leave you N- yes, I dare say N- rolling in the aisles. The story goes something like this: His name's Fat, Ling Ling Fat. He's one part mad inventor, one part Inspector Clouseau, and has somehow become one of the king's guardians. Fat is out of favor at court because his Kung Fu is kung fooey.
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The central character of Hamilton Sterling's Faith of Our Fathers is an optimistic chimneysweep N- there ends any similarity to Mary Poppins. Charles starts out in L.A. full of hope, believing he can succeed in turning an honest buck through honest effort. He encounters a failed priest, the ironically named Nicholas Nickleby, who radiates a tireless cynicism that would shock a politician. In most films, old Nick would be a glowing guardian angel, magically appearing and guiding the neophyte away from evil. Sterling instead assigns Charles a fallen angel of the streets.
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Resck camp isn't even marked on the map,'' muses Comrade Nagi as he threatens an elderly inmate. A hopeless situation for the internees in this prison. Save for one man's mission to escape from behind the Iron Curtain and broadcast to the world their existence. Gyala Molnar is detained by the police on New Years Eve, 1948. He is never seen again. Unknown to his family and friends, Molnar is locked away in a secluded labor camp outside of Budapest. By a twist of fate, Molnar's arresting officer has also been imprisoned.
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Many children prefer to leave the closet light on to keep the monsters away at night. Some end up in their parents' bed. Those monsters, however, are but imaginary. But the monster who is the main focus of Barry Hershey's feature debut The Empty Mirror is far too real. A bold re-imaging of the man who committed the most heinous crimes in history, we find Adolf Hitler (Norman Rodway) if he had survived WWII, left to contemplate his deeds. If Hitler lived to write his memoirs, how would he justify his actions? Hershey challenges us to examine the myth vs.
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National winner of Children's Film Festival, showing the dangers of child labor.
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Diversion, Vietnam is the account of three women who volunteered to serve their country in the Southeast Asian war zone.
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San Francisco-based filmmaker Marcia Jarmel never identified herself as a Jew. That was before a friend's wedding where she was drawn into the Orthodox Jewish world. She takes her camera to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the center of Lubavitcher Chassidic life, to explore what draws modern, educated women to choose such a restrictive way of life. Along the way, Jarmel learns about her own Jewish identity as well as the choices one makes in life and the rich benefits of community.
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In 1992, the small peninsula community of East Palo Alto was filled with crime and designated as the ''murder capital of the United States.'' This absorbing, in-depth documentary by Michael Levin tells the 100-year history of this misunderstood town. A superb blend of historical research and a revealing and hopeful portrait of how people can make a difference.