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    Burden of Dreams (1982)

    Filmmaker Les Blank shows director Werner Herzog obsessed in the Amazon making his 1982...

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    Buddy (1997)

    An animal lover (Rene Russo) raises a baby gorilla in 1920s Brooklyn, along with a slew of geese,...

  • The Legend of Leigh Bowery picture
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    The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2003)

    Filmmaker Charles Atlas interviews friends, family and colleagues of the late fashion designer and...

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    The Cruise (1998)

    New York tour guide Timothy ``Speed'' Levitch offers a constant barrage of colorful commentary about...

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    Storefront Hitchcock (1998)

    Singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock mixes music and commentary as he performs in a New York...

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    How to Draw a Bunny (2004)

    Roy Lichtenstein and Christo are among the various artists, agents and critics who discuss the life...

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    The Eel (1998)

    Eight years after hacking to death his wife and her lover with a fishing knife, a man is released...

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    Welcome to Woop Woop (1998)

    An Australian (Susie Porter) kidnaps an American (Jonathon Schaech) and keeps him prisoner in her...

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    Tea With Mussolini (1999)

    An Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and her eccentric friends (Cher, Judi Dench) take in a boy named...

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    Zero Effect (1998)

    An eccentric private detective (Bill Pullman) and his emissary (Ben Stiller) investigate the...

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    The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

    A New Englander (Beau Bridges) and his odd clan run a hotel in Vienna.

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    Circle of Two (1981)

    A 60-year-old artist (Richard Burton) shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl...

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    I Like Killing Flies (2006)

    Filmmaker Matt Mahurin goes inside Shopsin's, one of New York's more colorful eateries, and profiles...

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    Arakimentari (2005)

    Filmmaker Travis Klose examines the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

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    Glam (1998)

    Traveling from the backwoods to Los Angeles to visit his cousin, a writer discovers a world of sex,...

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    Village of the Damned (1960)

    British parents (George Sanders, Barbara Shelley) realize their son is one of 12 evil alien children...

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    Brother's Keeper (1993)

    Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky show the 1990 case of a New York farmer accused of a...

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    Housekeeping (1987)

    A kooky long-lost aunt (Christine Lahti) joins two girls (Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill) in...

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    Joe Gould's Secret (2000)

    New York writer Joseph Mitchell (Stanley Tucci) profiles a hobo (Ian Holm) who claims to be writing...

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    Music From Another Room (1998)

    A young man (Jude Law) feels fated to marry a woman (Gretchen Mol) who is indifferent to him and...

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    The Sculptress (2000)

    A young artist (Katie Wright) develops a psychic bond with a deranged killer (Jeff Fahey) who lives...

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    Memories of Underdevelopment (1973)

    A bourgeois intellectual finds himself ambivalent to the changes going on in revolutionary Cuba.

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    Curtis's Charm (1996)

    A recovered Toronto heroin addict (Callum Keith Rennie) lends an ear to a crack-head pal (Maurice...

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    The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006)

    Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.

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    Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1990)

    The hero, a nameless Asian-American courier, descends on Hong Kong in search of the recipient of a...

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    Life Is Sweet (1991)

    A tale of everyday survival in Thatcher's Britain.

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    Age of Consent (1970)

    A New York artist (James Mason) goes to an island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef and hires a girl...

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    Pajarico (1997)

    Told from a child's point of view, the story follows 10-year-old Manu who arrives in southern Spain,...

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    Lost in Yonkers (1993)

    Motherless siblings observe their hoodlum uncle (Richard Dreyfuss) and strange aunt (Mercedes Ruehl)...

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    Tutti Dentro (1984)

    In this take-off on Italian corruption, the indefatigable Alberto Sordi appears as Annibalo...