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- A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.
- In "Landscape Suicide" Benning continues his examination of Americana through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette Prott was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an insult in 1984. Benning's distanced approach to such grisly material is as far removed as possible from sensationalism, however. Although the acts of murder are both bizarre and violent, Benning dwells on them only minimally, emphasizing instead the details of psychological motivation, which in both cases seem frighteningly mundane. Benning has created a script which is a masterpiece of understated colloquial writing, and the actors he employs to re-enact confessional testimony and incidents recounted in trial transcripts perform with a flatly convincing lack of affect reminiscent of Gary Gilmore. The two monologues are embedded in Benning's characteristic meditations of landscape: long shots of the Wisconsin farmlands, general stores, dirt roads and pick-up trucks, and the carefully tended lawns, swimming pools, sprawling bungalows and malls of the middle-class California suburb. These images are offered in the classically spare mise-en-scene which Benning has perfected in his work as a cinematic poet of the contemporary American environment. Here, in his most accessible film so far, the beautiful, open vistas are dense with the significance of the catastrophes they engendered
- Family is everything. Dallas is a successful executive with a beautiful wife. Austin is his younger gay brother. Each thinks the other "has it so good." By a strange twist of fate, they switch places and the fun begins.
- Too Perfect explores the power and depth of the moment before a big change happens...the kind of change that forever marks your heart and soul and gently nudges you straight into adulthood. Too Perfect reveals the spiritual journey that a young boy goes on as he becomes a grown-up
- A young hit man falls on hard times and gets a job as an usher in a movie theatre. He can't handle it.
- A teenager with no confidence meets what seems to be the girl of his dreams one night at a coffee shop. However, once they get to a party together, he quickly discovers that she's way more than he can handle.
- To get his estranged wife back, a retired reclusive ventriloquist plans to use his dummy to put on a show she'll never forget.
- Things go awry when a deal between a client and a mob boss goes so terribly wrong.
- A queer video-diary following the ruminations of a confused twenty-nothing as he retreats from his urban woes to the pastoral jogging trails of his bucolic motherland.
- Independent movie theaters are struggling to keep their doors open, which is a serious problem, especially in smaller communities. The Orinda Theater is a historic theater that remains an important cornerstone in its community and continues to innovate in order to attract moviegoers from around the bay area.
- Set in 1955, The Second Shine tells the story of proud and determined Dominic Cavalle, his new job with the Mob, the fiancée who drove him to it and her hard luck brother Charlie: the one man who unwittingly stands between Dom and his white picket fence. Interweaving this post-war race to keep up with the Joneses, the law and the rent, The Second Shine mambos between space and time to show how fortunes are made, fish become sharks and women stop being ladies.
- Three men go camping in the forest, only two come out. One is badly hurt and taken to the emergency room. The other is taken to the police station. Both have the same story: their friend went crazy and tried to kill them. Are they both telling the truth? Or are they both lying? Where is this "third man"? The hunt is on.
- A documentary series that presents prominent guides for those who would use psychedelics to develop greater consciousness or to seek emotional and physical healing. Speaking from personal and professional experience, these guides offer insight into exploring trauma, end of life, depression, and spirituality.
- Travis is a typical teen, but has one not-so-typical characteristic: the shadow of a rabbit. Join him on a journey to understand, and accept, that being different is not so different after all.
- We take a trip to the Oakland Temple and make all sorts of funny videos.
- After working a lifetime, some people just can't relax when they retire. Instead they decorate or customize their homes and backyards in sometimes amusing and bizarre ways.