A 1965 film by David Friedman about a group of hippies searching for a 50-foot mountain of LSD; presented on video by the Psycho-Rama Film Society.
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British documentarian Paul McGuigan makes his dramatic debut with this taut trilogy of stories by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), set in the bleak workers' precincts of Edinburgh.
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Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey directed this 1997 history of the American Civil Liberties Union, soliciting comments from such diverse personalities as Oliver North, Dave Barry, and Molly Ivins.
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Felix and Edmundo Padilla, a father and son who screened movies along the Tex-Mex border during the silent era, are the subjects of this 2006 documentary by Gregorio Rocha.
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“You are victims of corrupt men who have enough riches to feed many, yet their own hunger never ceases,” a fortune-teller explains to the heroes of this moody, facetious allegory—two siblings named Franny and Zooey, whose scalps erupt in giant boils after Zooey is exposed to contaminated tap water.
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Extremely seedy and violent, this 1972 feature by Barry Shear and cinematographer Jack Priestley makes extraordinary use of Harlem locations in telling the story of three punks who rip off $300,000 from the syndicate's numbers bank.
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Rod Steiger plays an embezzler on the lam who kills a stranger in order to assume his identity, little realizing that his victim is wanted for the same crime.
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John Huston's sort-of sequel to The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet together again in an equally obscure plot, involving Nazi spies in Panama.
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This technically impressive if dramatically hokey 3-D Imax film about the “American immigrant experience” and New York City, at the turn of the century and in the present, requires the use of a helmet for maximal sound and image impact.
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A documentary about Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner of Colrain, Massachusetts, “whose home was seized by U.S. marshals and IRS agents after they publicly refused to pay federal taxes as a protest against war and military spending.”
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"It is sad but beautiful," declares the mother of a child killed by a lightning bolt before her eyes while he prayed at the foot of a large cross on a Mexican mountaintop.
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Stan Brakhage's convulsive personal and silent documentary about a Pittsburgh morgue, made in 1971, is one of the most direct confrontations with death ever recorded on film.
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