Director: René Besson
Cast: Jim Vollman, John Bagdasarian,
Robert Berson, Gretta Hill

This film deals with the boxes that dominate our everyday lives. From the box you drive to work in, to the box  w/ 500 channels, to the box that you work out of, to the box that tells you who is calling - from the cradle to the coffin, life is a series of boxes.

Film was made for $285 dollars.  Total.

Winner: New York International Independent Film Festival Genre Award, Best Feature Film - Experimental, René Besson

Official Selection:
No Dance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
New York International Independent Film Festival
Meet your Maker, Minneapolis, Mn
Digital Talkies, New Delhi, India
Dallas Film / Video Festival

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selection, Letterboxed, Trailer, Filmmaker Audio Commentary, Still Gallery, Deleted scenes.

UPC# 825307-919196
CAT# PH-91919 - $24.98

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Comedy
NR / 2000 / 93 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Danny Schechter

Before reality TV, before "Girls Gone Wild", before the idea of young ladies baring their breasts for the camera became vogue, Ugly George roamed the streets of New York and persuaded young women to undress for his camera.

How did he get away with it? Why would any woman in her right mind cooperate? Could he possibly have had sex with more ladies than Wilt Chamberlain, as he claims?  "Boob Tube" documents two stories, one about a one man crusading machine against hypocrisy and two, about society's deep rooted obsession with naked women.

UPC# 825307-919097
CAT# PH-91909 - $19.98

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Documentary
NR / 2007 / 80 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Phillip Selkirk
Cast: Benazir Bhutto

This documentary features interviews with Benazir Bhutto, the Muslim world's first female leader, who was touted as a symbol of modernity and democracy, but her name became synonymous with corruption. Born into one of the most powerful families of Pakistan, Bhutto had a privileged upbringing. It was only after her father, the President, was deposed and executed by General Zia that Bhutto entered politics.

Benazir spent years in prison, and when she was finally released, she moved to England and dedicated herself to the overthrow of General Zia. In 1987, after years of exile, over a million people crowded the streets to welcome her back to Pakistan. Fast forward ten years. Twice elected Prime Minister, twice ousted from office amidst corruption charges, and again exiled, Bhutto said "There are things I would like to have done differently", "Mistakes that were made".

In October 2007 she again returned to Pakistan to try to regain power, but was assassinated only two months later.


UPC# 825307-918793
CAT# PH-91879 - $19.98

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Documentary
NR / 2008 / 65 minutes
Country: Pakistan
Language: English

Director: Emmanuel Razavi, Eric de Lavarene

Whatever happened to the hunt for Bin Laden? In the wake of 9/11, President Bush vowed not to "rest until we find him". But five years into the most expensive manhunt the world has ever seen, "Public Enemy Number One" remains at large. How has he continually evaded capture? Did he escape from Tora Bora or did someone let him go?  

In this controversial documentary, key personnel involved in the search speak out.

UPC# 825307-918694
CAT# PH-91869 - $19.98


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Documentary
NR / 2007 / 50 minutes
Country: Afghanistan
Language: English

Director: Peter I. Chang
Cast: Hisao Shinagawa

I WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA is a documentary about the street musician, Hisao Shinagawa, a Japanese singer/songwriter who has refused to give up on his elusive dream of success and stardom, regardless of personal cost and the solitary reality of his life. For 42 years, he has cast himself as the Japanese Bob Dylan. Moving from Tokyo to America in 1974, following in the footsteps of his hero Woody Guthrie, he befriended Johnny Cash and Townes Van Zandt after hitchhiking to Nashville. Now at 60, he plays his music on the streets of Los Angeles while living in near poverty, still hoping to find an audience in a manner that is admirable, bittersweet, and ultimately, heartbreaking.

THE ATOMIC MUSIC OF SHINAGAWA!

UPC# 825307-918595
CAT# PH-91859 - $24.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, Biographies, Soundtracks, Outtakes.
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Documentary
NR / 2006 / 66 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Trace Burroughs
Narrated by : Michelle Rolshud, Rosie Lee Vanno, Melven Shrebnick

Endless Orgy for the Goddess of Perversion is a documentary that immerses you into the campy world of the grindhouse film era with dozens of sexy, strange and humorous clips taken from rare trailers and outrageous feature films. Expert testimony from a dozen "professors" and those who contributed to that era, is the hilarious glue that fuses it all together.

Grindhouse refers to the operations of a 24 hour theater that grinds out films around the clock. The term grind comes from the cranking sound that the old projectors made. Others say it refers to the early grindhouse films that showed girls stripping and grinding in back street 1930's burlesque theaters.

The grindhouse films were hyped as the scourge to decency, attracting sexually oppressed and frustrated urbanites to seedy theaters that featured these movies all night long. These films thumbed their nose at the morality of puritan ethics that millions abided by but secretly hated.

Grindhouse Film Era! Sexy Outrageous Campy!

UPC# 825307-918892
CAT# PH-91889 - $19.98

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Mockumentary
NR / 2006 / 82 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Quentin Lee
Cast: Tedd Szeto, Ray Chang, BP Cheng

A 22 year old gay filmmaker talks about his work and personal life with an unseen person behind the camera. Also included are four of his short films. "Hysterio Passio" which evokes images of men's passions. "Matricide," in which a lawyer asks a young gay man why he killed his mother. "Key in the Heart," in which an Asian man in drag hunts vampires. And in "Fall, 1990" college students meet their roommates. "Flow" begins with a satiric look at the vectors of viruses and ends with a chat with our fictional filmmaker's hip mother.

"Each one reveals a vibrant cinematic imagination and a detached self-awareness... What ensues is edgy, wryly amusing, tender, wise and credible."
-- Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times

"His way with symbolism... is sure-handed, recalling at its best, classic surrealist movies and their impenetrable yet perfectly knowable truths. And so these shorts... feel emphatically cohesive and immediate."
-- Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, LA Weekly

Official Selection:
Vancouver International Film Festival
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Outfest
San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Verzaubert Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Mix New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival

UPC# 825307-918397
CAT# PH-91839 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selection, Trailer, Featurette "Making Flow", Film Notes, Director's Bio, Still Gallery.

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Drama/Gay Interest
NR / 1996 / 82 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Vita Lusty

'Til Death Do Us Part takes the viewer on a journey with incarcerated battered women, as they relate their stories from first falling in love, through the abuse by their spouses, the murder, trial, parole process, and finally, for one woman, freedom. It is thought in our society that a woman can leave an abusive relationship at any time. However, the women in this film prove the contrary. They were under the age of 24, isolated from their families and had virtually no money. They all reached a point where there was a final beating in which the survival instinct prevailed. In these final moments, they snapped and killed. No one has heard their stories until now.

UPC# 825307-918298
CAT# PH-91829 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selection, Director's Film Notes, Extra short "Cops to Courts: Saving Our Own Women", Live Performance video of Faith Nolan.
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Documentary
NR / 2008 / 90 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Michael W. Hunt
Narrated by: Keith Burberry

Over 200,000 stray cats now live in Rome, descendants of Egyptian cats brought there 3,000 years ago. These stray cats are not wild, but need human help to survive. However, some Romans consider them equal to rodents. This film documents six months at an Italian cat sanctuary, where it's a never ending struggle for the cats and the people who take care of them.

UPC# 825307-918090
CAT# PH-91809 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selection, Still Gallery, Bonus Scenes: Photo Shoot, Interview with Lia Dequel, Cat Pride March, A Midsummer Night's Dream, My Feline Colony, The Farinello And Nelson Stories, Puppy Love, Scaldasole and Claire, Going Home.
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Documentary
NR / 2007 / 72 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: English

Director: Leyla Leidecker
Cast: Geneve Brossard, Melissa Hernandez, Justine Herrera

This film tells the story of women competing in Golden Gloves boxing. Women had been trying to get into the competition for many years, but not until 1994 was the case for women given real attention. Threatened with a civil lawsuit from the ACLU, women were finally let in for the first time in 1995. As of today, boxing is the only sport in the Olympic games exclusively for men. This film follows eight women in the 2005 tournament who each think they can be the next champion. The filmmaker, Leyla, was a sparring partner for Hilary Swank while preparing for "Million Dollar Baby".

UPC# 825307-918199
CAT# PH-91819 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selection, Deleted Scenes, Still Gallery.
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Documentary
NR / 2007 / 73 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Hisashi Saito
Cast: Shinya Tsukamoto, Miako Tadano, Makiko Ono

Shinji and Yui are boyfriend and girlfriend. They live together. They also work together in a video store. One evening, Shinji is found lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood. Is it an accident or murder?   

Okamoto, the manager, has had a crush on Yui and uses this as an opportunity to be alone with her. He loads her into his van and drives her as far away as possible. So far away, it becomes a bizarre road trip that leads to an unpredictable destination.

Official Selection:
Toronto International Film Festival
Montreal International Film Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival

UPC# 825307-917994
CAT# PH-91799 - $24.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES (subject to change):
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, Letterboxed, Film Notes by Roseanna Lawrence, ON/OFF English Subtitles, Biographies.
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Drama
NR / 1998 / 86 minutes
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
with English subtitles

Director: Keisuke Yoshida
Cast: Sora Aoi, Yutaka Mishima

"Raw Summer" is the story of a man who sacrifices everything for a teenage girl who does not even know he exits. He follows her every move, from the subway, to her school, to her home. He must be around her, any chance he gets. His twisted love for her devours his life.

Winner of the 17th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival Off-Theater Competition Grand Prix in 2006. Hailed by Tobe Hooper, the director of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

"Sora Aoi is a major Japanese porn star with a face that enables her to act the part of a high school girl... First-time director Keisuke Yoshida manages to make the businessman-stalker both monstrous and worthy of pity... combining the tone with creepiness and deadpan humor."
- Andy Klein, City Beat

UPC# 825307-917390
CAT# PH-91739 - $19.98



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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, Letterboxed, Making of, ON/OFF English Subtitles, Biographies.
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Thriller/Dark Comedy
NR / 2006 / 60 minutes
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
with English subtitles

THEATRICAL RELEASE

Director: Larry Price

By Nazi law, anyone who was 25% Jewish was a Jew. Remarkably, many of these partial Jews, or "Mischlinge" (the German word for "mutt") were proud Germans, with roots that went back hundreds of years. Many were drafted into the Nazi army.

This fascinating documentary examines the life of four men who faced this paradox. "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" tells an engrossing story of madness and vicious absurdity; a look into the systematic mind of Hitler's personal chaos.


UPC# 825307-917796
CAT# PH-91779 - $24.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Still Gallery,
Director's TV Interview.
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Documentary
NR / 2006 / 60 minutes
Country: Israel
Language: English

Director: Natasha Guruleva
Cast: Everett Phillips Jr., Elena Roth, Arina Gray

Dave's life is hopeless, pathetic, a vacuum of deep loneliness. But it has one purpose. The search for perfect feet. If a woman with a decent personality happens to be attached, even better. His social skills are awkward and maybe even frightening. But, that does not stop him from trying, again and again, to find the perfect feet.

UPC# 825307-917291
CAT# PH-91729 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery,
Deleted Scenes.
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Drama
NR / 2006 / 90 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Stan Lim
Cast: DJ Hideo, DJ Honda, Sahsa Singleton

A sexy, hip hop journey into the fast moving, high rolling Asian American youth market. Follow DJ Hideo, one of the most recognized DJ's to hit the West Coast scene, as he explains how, why and for whom the scene exists.

Watch as Chopblock cameras documents Asian American Hollywood nightspots, the Go Go Girl phenomenon, and of course, the hip hop Asian American music of today. "Sit back and relax, you're about to ride The California Roll ."

Special appearances by; Sasha Singleton, Thuy Li, Christine Mendoza, Kim Lon, Eric Young & Billy Chen of Vision Shock, DJ Joel of Proof Positive and Forte Social, DJ Motiv8 BEP, DJ Honda and more

UPC# 825307-917895
CAT# PH-91789 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, Bonus music videos by: Dance by Cali Casino and I'm Fresh by Mic Check, Short documentary from party "SCREAM 1", Biographies.
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Documentary
NR / 2005 / 50 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Biray Dalkiran
Cast: Akasya Aslitürkmen, Murat Yildirim,
Kubilay Tunçer

Eda's doctor warns her against an abortion, because she is over three months pregnant. She decides to have one anyway. Three years later, Eda discovers that she is being haunted by her unborn daughter. The ghost desires motherly affection and will not go away until she gets it!

Everywhere Eda goes, she sees her little girl. It drives her mad. Her life falls apart. Her friends think it's psychological, but Eda is convinced the ghost is real. It is not long before Eda lands in a mental hospital. The perfect place for the little girl to haunt her more frequently.

UPC# 825307-917697
CAT# PH-91769 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, 16x9 Anamorphic Video, Letterboxed, Music Videos.
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Horror
NR / 2006 / 97 minutes (Uncut Original Version)
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish
with English subtitles

THEATRICAL RELEASE

Director: Natasha Guruleva
Cast: Richard Virga, John Dorhmann, Elena Roth

Tanya sees her life in Russia headed nowhere, if only she lived in America. She submits her picture to a catalog of Russian brides and Middle aged Americans plead to marry her. Blake is a workaholic who rarely meets any girls, a lonely, aging man who has no idea how to treat women. The idea of a Russian wife is pleasing. This is the man Tanya chooses to spend the rest of her life with


UPC# 825307-917192
CAT# PH-91719 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Letterboxed, Trailer, Still Gallery, Making of, Deleted Scenes.
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Drama
NR / 2006 / 97 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English/Russian

Director: Masato Tsujioka
Cast: Aya Hashimoto, Mami Higuchi

Saki's life is thrown into chaos when her mother drops dead. She finds herself joining an evil crowd. The high school madam and her rogues becomes her social life. Her friends no longer recognize her. Her only salvation is to find her sister. They were separated at a very young age. The vicious sex and violence will all be worth it, if only she could find the sibling she never knew.

UPC# 825307-917093
CAT# PH-91709 - $19.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, 16x9 Anamorphic Video, Letterboxed, ON/OFF English Subtitles, Biographies, Making of.
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Cult/Drama
NR / 2006 / 60 minutes
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
with English subtitles

Director: Naoki Ichio
Cast: Shinya Tsukamoto, Reiko Kataoka

A man finds his wife dead in the bathtub. He picks up the phone to call an ambulance, but put sit down before dialing emergency. Instead he makes himself a cup of coffee. Then, he drains the bath and brings his wife's corpse to the living room couch, where he falls asleep beside her.

The next morning, he is stunned to find himself in his bed. Even more surprising, his wife walks into the bedroom like nothing happened. Why is she alive? Last night, she died. Today, she is alive. The husband becomes obsessed with the improbability of his wife's resurrection.

"Icho's debut feature is very simple...
in the way that late Buñuel films are...
yielding a vision that you'd have to call surreal."
- Tony Ranes, Vancouver Int'l Film Festival


UPC# 825307-917499
CAT# PH-91749 - $24.98

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, Film Notes by Roseanna Lawrence, Making of, ON/OFF English Subtitles.
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Drama
NR / 2000 / 82 minutes
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
with English subtitles