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Life's A Beach and Limited Partnership
Altman
(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Ron Mann; Writer: Len Blum; Stars: Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Julianne Moore, James Caan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Keith Carradine, Elliott Gould, Lily Tomlin, Robert Altman, Philip Baker Hall, Sally Kellerman, Lyle Lovett, Michael Murphy)
A look at the life and work of the US filmmaker.
Burroughs: The Movie
(Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Howard Brookner; Stars: Mortimer Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Lucien Carr, Jackie Curtis, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, James Grauerholz, Brion Gysin, Lauren Hutton, Patti Smith, Terry Southern)
Portrait of the author, built around a series of encounters with him and interviews with many friends, including Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, John Giorno. and Brion Gysin.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films
(Country: Australia, US, Israel, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Mark Hartley; Writer: Mark Hartley, Mark Hartley; Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Molly Ringwald, Bo Derek, Marina Sirtis, Olivia d'Abo, Robert Forster, Richard Chamberlain, Elliott Gould, Mimi Rogers, Cassandra Peterson, Catherine Mary Stewart, Alex Winter, Franco Nero, Diane Franklin, Michael Dudikoff)
Examination of exploitation cinema.
Family Goldmine
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Robbie Fraser; Stars: Claude Nicolay, Moira Nicolay, Craig Nicolay, Pierre Nicolay)
A family sets out to make its fortune through gold mining in Mali, despite having absolutely no experience.
Life's A Beach
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: John Baker; Stars: Jerry ‘Mungo’ Francis, Billy Francis, Jodanna Stone)
A documentary about a man campaigning for the right to keep living in the home he built from driftwood on Folkestone Beach.
Stray Dog and On the Trail Of The Far Fur Country
Limited Partnership
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Thomas G Miller; Stars: Tony Sullivan, Richard Adams)
Two men who married in Colorado in 1975 recall their struggle for true equality and talk of the love that kept them going.
On the Trail Of The Far Fur Country
(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Kevin Nikkel)
A filmmaker retraces the steps of a 1919 expedition which documented the voyage made by the Hudson Bay Company, discovering traces of Aboriginal Canada along the way.
Queens Of Syria
(Country: Lebanon, Jordan, UK, UAE; Year: 2014; Director: Yasmin Fedda)
60 Syrian women set out to perform Greek tragedy The Trojan Women in Jordan, where they have found refuge.
Red Army
(Country: US, Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Gabe Polsky; Writer: Gabe Polsky; Stars: Mark Deakins, Anatoli Karpov, Vyacheslav Fetisov)
The story of Russia's Red Army hockey team.
The Salt Of The Earth
(Country: France, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2014; Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders)
Documentary about photographer Sebastião Salgado.
The Salt Of The Earth and Burroughs: The Movie
Stray Dog
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Debra Granik; Writer: Debra Granik; Stars: Ronnie Hall)
Portrait of American war vet and biker Ronnie ‘Stray Dog’ Hall.
Tales Of The Grim Sleeper
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Nick Broomfield)
The case of the notorious serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," who terrorised South Central Los Angeles for 25 years.
Warsaw Uprising
(Country: Poland; Year: 2014; Director: Jan Komasa; Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Miroslaw Baka, Jeff Burrell)
Archive footage, colourisation, lip reading and dubbing have come together to tell the story of the Warsaw ghetto.
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