This film, long unavailable, was restored and released on DVD a couple years ago by New Yorker Films. It’s a documentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation that occurred in Detroit 1971. It was comprised of the testimony of about thirty Vietnam Veterans against the War on atrocities that were being committed daily and systematically by […]

Gorgeously presented by the British Film Institute, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life has just arrived on region 2 DVD and is now available in Media Services. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3074 Released in 1956, less than a year after Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life stands next to Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows […]

Apparently the Italian volcanic island of Stromboli is active again, spewing lava and such.link Those interested in geology, Italy and the sea might want to check out Roberto Rossellini’s Stromboli: terra di dio (Stromboli : land of God). This Neorealism classic from 1950 improbably finds Ingrid Bergman on the island of fire. Media Services call […]

If you’ve been on the fence about whether you want to become a vegetarian, this documentary may help you decide. From vegetables to livestock filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s vivid images of the mechanization of modern food harvesting on an epic scale are fascinating, disturbing, and often just surreal. This 80 minute film hasn’t a single line […]

For many years American political strategists have consulted on the campaigns of presidential hopefuls in other countries, discreetly molding the opnions of the voting puplic, spreading US-style politicking around the world. This riveting documentary follows James Carville and a team of consultants as they help Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada become president of Bolivia. The same […]

From the ALADIN record –“California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. As the day progresses, it becomes apparent the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 million is their Hispanic heritage. Based on […]

This documentary provides probably as much of the story of outsider artist Henry Darger as you are ever likely to learn. Darger was a recluse who avoided all but a few people during his relatively long life. Upon being admitted to a hospital late in life, his life’s work, an enormous and truly unique trove […]

What starts out as a humorous take on the food chain from a middle-class Brazilian perspective suddenly evolves into a scathing indictment of the social system as it looks at what becomes of the garbage produced by the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil. This 13-minute film is little-known in the US, but it garnered enough […]