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AHLAAM
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Artwork
not final
Coming
Fall 2008
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Director: Mohamed
Al-Daradji
Cast: Aseel
Adel, Bashiral-Majid, Mohammed Hashim
Director
Mohamed Al-Daradji
literally risked life
and limb to bring you
the only film about
the Iraq War told from
the Iraqi point of
view. A film Variety
calls "an ambitious
work that's both harrowing
and beautiful". "Ahlaam" is
the tale of three patients
in a Baghdad mental
institution running
through rioting streets
after their hospital
is decimated.
The
filmmaker had a camera in one hand and an AK-47 in
the other. His crew was beaten and lined up to be shot
by the insurgents, interrogated by American Soldiers,
his 14 year old boom man was shot in the leg and someone
from the cast was kidnapped. Somehow, the footage survived
and has evolved into a powerful, bone chilling story
of human beings struggling to make sense of unimaginable
circumstances.
"Apocalypse
Now and Deer Hunter are masterpieces that can be watched
time and time again from the safe position of it being
historical. But Iraq is a tragedy still unfolding,
potentially set to be replicated in neighboring countries,
It's rare that cinema is so relevant and vital, [the
filmmaker] deserves every support in getting this film
to the widest possible audience" -Netribution.
"Harrowing & Beautiful"
- Jay Weissberg, Variety
UPC#
825307-917598
CAT# PH-91759 - $24.98
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SPECIAL FEATURES (subject to change):
Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, 16x9 Anamorphic
Video, Letterboxed, ON/OFF English Subtitles, Biographies.
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Drama
NR / 2006 / 110 minutes
Country: Iraq
Language: Arabic
with
English subtitles
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ELEVATOR
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Director: Zeb
Haradon
Cast: Zeb
Haradon, Robin Ballard
Jim is a shy,
withdrawn loner, pervert and virgin.
Lana is a friendly and outgoing born
again Christian who has renounced her
promiscuous drug filled past. They have
never met until they step into an elevator
together one day. The elevator gets stuck
between floors, and they start to get
to know each other. A building maintenance
man assures them over the elevator's
emergency intercom that a repairman is
on the way. Hours, days, weeks, and months
pass, and no repairmen arrive. Jim and
Lana spend their days screaming into
the intercom trying to get the maintenance
guy to answer again. He doesn't.
Starvation
is not a problem, as Lana entered the elevator with
a bag full of groceries, which is mysteriously found
to be filled with fresh food every morning. After enough
time passes, Jim gives up hope of escape and resigns
himself to building a new life in the elevator with Lana,
who he sees as his first girlfriend. Lana on the other
hand desperately wants to escape, and clings to her faith
in God to provide them with an opening of the elevator
doors. Eventually, a reluctant and desperate romance
begins--
Clearly
inspired by early Lynch, Buñuel, Cronenberg, and
even the recent work of James Fotopoulos. And if you know
anything at all about any of these filmmakers you'll rightly
conclude that Elevator Movie firmly belongs under
that prickliest of classifications:
Not For Everyone.
-FILM THREAT
UPC#
825307-919592
CAT# PH-91959 - $24.98
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Drama
NR / 2004 / 95 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
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WAITING
FOR NESARA |
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Director: Zeb
Haradon
Cast: The
Members of the Salt Lake City, Utah "Open Mind
Forum"
September
11, 2001. Salt Lake
City, Utah. A messianic
group called "The
Open Mind Forum" awaits
the implementation
of NESARA, a
secret law 100 years
in the making. Once
implemented, NESARA
will abolish the IRS,
remove George W.Bush
from office, expose
Bush as a reptilian
alien, and install
a UFO-flying Jesus
as America's new leader.
NESARA
was already delayed as a result of 9/11. If Bush declares
war with Iraq, there's no telling how much further
this crucial law will be denied. "The Open Mind
Forum" must
channel all their faith and prayers toward the desperate
hope that their UFO allies will intervene this war, thereby
establishing NESARA and delivering us peace and harmony
on Earth.
"Unbelievably outrageous, supremely
ridiculous, absolutely f***ing crazy.
What Haradon captures on film is truly fascinating."
-Daniel Wible, FILM THREAT
UPC#
825307-919493
CAT# PH-91949 - $19.98
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Documentary
NR / 2006 / 77 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
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PREACHING
TO THE PERVERTED
Guinevere Turner Signature Edition
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Director: Stuart
Urban
Cast:
Guinevere Turner, Christien Anholt
Peter
is hired to infiltrate the seedy, psychosexual London
S&M scene. He must gather evidence of "physical
assaults" to prosecute and shut the down this sexual
hell. Inevitably, Peter goes too deep and falls for the
irresistible Mistress Tanya Cheex. Will he accomplish
his mission or be lured into this modern day Pompeii?
The
world's first feature film set in the fetish club scene,
released in 1997 to both controversy and acclaim, 'P2TP'
soon reached "cult favorite" status (The Boston Phoenix)---
and was the last film of the twentieth century to be
banned in Ireland (and other countries)!
"Shockingly
hilarious - Turner is a sex goddess"
- EMPIRE
"A fun and deftly erotic
adventure"
-Film Threat
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SPECIAL FEATURES (subject
to change):
New 10th Anniversary Audio Commentary by
Guinevere Turner, New 16 x 9 Anamorphic Video, Commentary
by Director Stuart Urban , "Making of" documentary, Premiere
Party Featurette, Tanya's Toons: Interactive Comic Story
Strip.
UPC#
825307-918496
CAT# PH-91849 - $24.98
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Comedy/Lesbian, Fetish interests
NR / 1997 / 100 minutes
Country: England
Language: English
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Director: Danny
Schechter
Forget the hanging chads and butterfly ballots. The
Presidential 2000 election is still a mystery to most
Americans. What actually happened with the 180,000 uncounted
Florida votes that would have elected Vice President
Al Gore? And who was responsible for the injustice? Was
it the disorganized media or the irresponsible state
of Florida?
"Recount Democracy" investigates
charges of disenfranchisement, racial exclusion, voting
rights violations and the subverting of a recount in
the most contested and controversial election in U.S.
history. Nearly a decade later, the story every American
must know is told in unflinching detail.
UPC#
825307-919394
CAT# PH-91939 - $19.98
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Documentary
NR / 2004 / 77 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
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TALIBAN II:
The Revival
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Villagers
proudly display the scalps and fingers of their defeated
enemies. Lynched thieves hang from lampposts. The bodies
of traitors are dragged through the streets. "We
killed these people and sent them to God," states one
man proudly. In Pakistan, "The Taliban" has established
an administration with their own laws.
This
is documentary about how a "Taliban" is
born, trained and recruited. What type of person becomes
a "Taliban", and why. In Pakistan, "Taliban" means "student".
Like students anywhere else in the world, there are many--
and they are ready to be taught a way of life until death.
UPC#
825307-918991
CAT# PH-91899 - $19.98
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Documentary
NR / 2007 / 51 minutes
Country: Pakistan
Language: English
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THE
MAKING OF AN ARMY |

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Sergeant
Alvarez has only four weeks to train a group of men into
soldiers. But the typical training methods do not work
with these recruits. That's because the recruits are Iraqis.
They don't speak a word of English. They don't understand
commands or swear words. They refuse to shave their mustaches,
let alone their entire heads. Meanwhile, outside the base,
the insurgency is raging.
How do American soldiers mold Iraqi Soldiers? How do
they train Iraqis to storm an insurgent stronghold? This
fascinating documentary follows the making of an army,
an Iraqi Army that fights for America, a key to America's
success during this endless war. This story asks, can
an Iraqi Army be built to support America?
UPC#
825307-919295
CAT# PH-91929 - $19.98
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Documentary
NR / 2005 / 52 minutes
Country: Iraq
Language: English
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