Hello Mister Video - Vancouver, BC

Emerging Australian filmmaker Murali K. Thalluri has been honored with the nomination of his seminal debut feature film 2:37 in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Arguably one of the most important Australian films in recent years, Thalluri’s 2:37 dramatizes the inner and outer turmoil of six students of Adelaide High […]

The Cuban revolution is at the center of Mikhail Kalatozov’s (The Cranes are Flying) strange, poetic film from 1964 that unites four stories. Originally controversial because of a uniquely Russian view of Cuba, it was not widely seen. In the years since its initial release, the film, which features a poem by Yevgeni Yevtushenko, has […]

Bucharest 1989 – Last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory […]

British filmmaker Shane Meadows wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical portrait of a 12-year-old boy growing up in a dreary coastal town in northern England. Having lost his father in the Falklands War, Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) stumbles upon a role model in Woody (Joe Gilgun), the leader of the local skinheads. This Is England follows a […]

A collection of seven films from Michael Haneke, “perhaps the most important European filmmaker currently active” (Robin Wood, Artforum). Included: The Seventh Continent (Austria, 1989, 104 mins., German with English subtitles), the obsessive tale of a ordinary family’s cosmic and suicidal indifference; Benny’s Video (Austria, 1992, 105 mins., French with English subtitles), the second film […]

Syndromes and a Century is a film in two parts which sometimes echo each other. The two central characters are inspired by the film-maker’s parents, in the years before they became lovers. The first part focuses on a woman doctor, and is set in a space reminiscent of the world in which the film-maker was […]

Juzo Itami (Tampopo)turns his acid humor to Japan’s infamous institution–the Yakuza gangs–in this film about a courageous attorney who rallies all of the employees at a hotel in an effort to resist the Yakuza blackmail. After the film was completed, thugs viciously attacked the director, forcing him to go into hiding. A brilliant, satirical look […]

Urgh A Music War is all about the New Wave, Punk Rock sound that shook the 1980’s, with live performances of Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, The Cramps,The GoGos, DEVO, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Athletico Spizz 80, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Echo and the Bunnyman, Magazine, Wall of Voodoo, etc.