God Bless America - 2011 - Bobcat Goldthwait


Released in 2011
Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait
 

Storyline - On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old Roxy.






Virgin Mountain - 2015 - Dagur Kári


Released in 2015
Directed by Dagur Kári 

Storyline - Fusi, a 43 years old man still lives with his mother. His daily life is characterized by one of the monotonous routine. The appearance of vibrant Alma and young Hera will upset his old bachelor habits.






Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Utopia 1 & 2 - Original Television Soundtrack



Utopia 1 (Original Television Soundtrack)
 Soundtrack album by Cristobal Tapia de Veer


Tracklist

01.Utopia Overture
02.The Network (3:21)
03.Dislocated Thumbs (Pt. 1)
04.Mr. Rabbit's Game
05.Conspiracy (Pt. 1)
06.Meditative Chaos
07.A New Brand of Drug
08.Samba De Wilson
09.Slivovitz
10.Bekki On Pills (Pt. 1)
11.Where Is Jessica Hyde? (Pt. 1)
12.Arby's Oratorio
13.Jessica Gets Off
14.Mr. Rabbit It Is
15.Lovechild
16.Mind Vortex
17.Twat
18.Bekki On Pills (Pt. 2)
19.Fertility Control
20.Janus Saves
21.Evil Prevails
22.Conspiracy (Pt. 2)
23.Dislocated Thumbs (Pt. 2)
24.Utopia Descent
25.Where Is Jessica Hyde? (Pt. 2)
26.Utopia's Death Cargo
27.The Experiment
28.Utopia Finale








Utopia 2 (Original Television Soundtrack) 
 Soundtrack album by Cristobal Tapia de Veer


Tracklist

01. Brainwave Playground
02. Promised Land Utopia
03. Lucidity Gone
04. Life Out of Balance
05. Satan’s Waltz (Metamorphosis Stage 1)
06. Bambino Illuminatus
07. Bambino Criminale
08. Over the Rainbow
09. An Answer
10. V Day Baby
11. The Moaning Pyramid
12. Mind Splitting Lab (Metamorphosis Stage 2)
13. I Feel Separated
14. Fascinating Child
15. 8-bit Trauma
16. The Monarch’s Pyramid
17. To You All Kids Will Come… (Metamorphosis Complete)

 


Generation Kill - 2008 - Susanna White, Simon Cellan Jones


Released in 2008
Directed by Susanna White and Simon Cellan Jones
 

Storyline - A Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003.



Episode 01 "Get Some"

Episode 02 "The Cradle of Civilization"

Episode 03 "Screwby"

Episode 04 "Combat Jack"

Episode 05 "A Burning Dog"

Episode 06 "Stay Frosty"

Episode 07 "Bomb in the Garden"




Kukushka - 2002 - Aleksandr Rogozhkin


Released in 2003
Directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Storyline - The beauty of this movie is that you, as the reader of the subtitles, are the only one who knows what is going on. The woman and the two men all speak different languages. It is a comedy of errors up until the end.























Adam's Apples - 2005 - Anders Thomas Jensen


Released in 2005
Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen

Storyline - Adams æbler is about a neo-nazi who was sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.















Love Letter - 1995 - Shunji Iwai


Released in 1995
Directed by Shunji Iwai
 
Storyline - When exchanging letters two women discover new things about a man they knew.





















Angels of the Universe - 2000 - Friðrik Þór Friðriksson


Released in 2000
Directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
 
Storyline - Englar Alheimsins (Angels of the Universe) is about Páll, an artistic and sensitive young man. Getting dumped by his girlfriend, Dagny, triggers his descent into madness. We follow him on his way to inevitable doom; at home with his parents who finally can't cope, and in the mental institution, Kleppur.


My Kid Could Paint That - 2007 - Amir Bar-Lev


Released in 2007
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev 
 

Storyline - A look at the work and surprising success of a four-year-old girl whose paintings have been
compared to the likes of Picasso and has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars.


Crazy Love - 2007 - Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens


Released in 2007
Directed by Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
 
Storyline - The bizarre true story of Linda Riss and Burt Pugach.


The Seven Five - 2014 - Tiller Russell


Released in 2014
Directed by Tiller Russell
 
Storyline - Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of 80s Brooklyn.


Meet the dirtiest cop in New York City history. In the 1980s, Michael Dowd patrolled the mean streets of one of the toughest precincts in Brooklyn. He also headed a ruthless criminal network that stole money and drugs, ultimately resulting in the city's biggest ever corruption scandal.



Tears of Gaza - 2010 - Vibeke Løkkeberg


Released in 2010
Directed by Vibeke Løkkeberg 

Storyline - In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.



Disturbing Footage
You've been warned!





Soupçons - 2004 - Jean-Xavier de Lestrade


Released in 2004
Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
 
Storyline - Soupçons (French for "Suspicions", also known as Death on the Staircase and The Staircase) is a 2004 French television miniseries by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade documenting the trial of Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife, Kathleen Peterson.

Following from de Lestrade's Oscar-winning Murder on a Sunday Morning, filming began soon after Peterson's indictment. Camera crews were given access to the accused's extended family, the defense attorneys, and to the court room. The film features a brief appearance by Mike Nifong, a future figure in the Duke lacrosse case, working with the team prosecuting Peterson.
The 8 Episodes + Extras


Burroughs The Movie - 1983 - Howard Brookner


Released in 1983
Directed by Howard Brookner
 
Storyline - Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs' unique literary style and his wildly unconventional life, including his travels from the American Midwest to North Africa and several personal tragedies. Burroughs: The Movie is the first and only feature length documentary to be made with and about Burroughs.
The film was directed by the late Howard Brookner. It was begun in 1978 as Brookner's senior thesis at NYU film school and then expanded into a feature which was completed 5 years later in 1983. Sound was recorded by Jim Jarmusch and the film was shot by Tom DiCillo, fellow NYU classmates and both very close friends of Brookner's.




Extreme Private Eros - Love Song 1974 - 1974 - Kazuo Hara


Released in 1974
Directed by Kazuo Hara

Storyline - In this intensely intimate documentary, filmmaker Kazuo Hara takes on a very difficult subject: his former lover, Takeda Miyuki. A feminist bisexual in 1970s Japan, Miyuki is a maverick in a rigid society driven by convention. As much a participant in this film as he is the filmmaker,

Hara follows Miyuki to Okinawa and documents her uncommon life as his feelings unravel in front of the camera. As Hara himself confessed, "I like to make something happen and then shoot it." With its grainy black and white scenes and its out-of-synch sound, Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 creates the illusion of a home movie, but its intimacy pushed the bounds of the documentary cinema in Japan.


Gokushiteki erosu: Renka 1974 (Extreme Private Eros : Love Song 1974) was shot over several years, mostly in handheld b&w and often with out-of-synch sound, this raw confessional has Hara following his ex-wife, 26-year-old radical feminist Miyuki Takeda. The two lived together for three years and share a child, and this 93-minute documentary captures their post-break-up relationship and her new life without him. This was a brutal dose of reality for notoriously-private Japanese viewers to swallow, as it matter-of-factly tackles heartache, sex, insecurities, gender politics, and even on-camera childbirth.


Beginning in 1972, Miyuki and her child have moved to Okinawa, and Hara stays with her for a few turbulent days. During Miyuki's travels, her barfly girlfriends provide a bleak peek into Okinawa's skankiest nightclubs and their resident sluts, such as 14-year-old Chichi, who prefers funkadelic-dressed American G.I.'s to junior high. Later Miyuki shacks up with a black G.I. who can barely speak Japanese, but has no trouble getting her pregnant (and in a touching family-phone-call moment, Miyuki's mother urges her to dispose of it).

And when she misguidedly tries to distribute pamphlets to the local prostitutes, she's nearly beaten up. On top of that, Hara continually interrogates his ex, he begins crying on camera, and if he can add to the on-screen tension, he does -- like recruiting his current (much cuter) girlfriend Sachiko to interview increasingly-bitter Miyuki.


Moving back to Tokyo in '73, Miyuki works at a "birth commune" for new mothers. And when she has her baby, Hara is there with his trusty camera, as she delivers it at home without any help whatsoever. Although the entire sequence is out-of-focus, it's quite a sight; one long, uncut shot of Miyuki laying on the floor, spread-legged, squeezing out her "mixed blood" child onto the ground.

This insanely intimate document never flinches, as Miyuki verbally shames her infant son for looking and acting like his father, and Hara's narration continually criticizes Miyuki's screwed-up lifestyle. Sneaky Hara also captures some dialogue without Miyuki's apparent knowledge, such as a nasty conversation with Sachiko, as she insults everything about her ex, including his lousy bedroom prowess.
Hara was blasted by critics when this was released and I can understand why. I've dealt with ex-girlfriends and it can be a tense scene -- but I'd never dream of filming it for posterity!

This Love Song is an emotionally scalding yet absorbing cinematic open wound.