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Souls of Zen: Ancestors and Agency in Contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism
The Japanese population’s reaction to the catastrophe of March 2011 has been described as “stoic” by the Western media. The Japanese code of conduct is indeed deeply rooted in their Buddhist traditions, and young filmmakers Tim Graf and Jakob Montrasio observe in detail what this means for the people and their religion. At graveyards, in temples, at monasteries and with families, they question the impact this triple affliction has had on the lives and beliefs of the inhabitants. How deeply do their beliefs affect their grieving? What role do the monks play in assisting people with their grief? And, what effects has this enormous catastrophe had on their religious rituals? SOULS OF ZEN inserts the events of March 2011 into the context of traditional Zen Buddhism, examining Japan’s religiousness and the beliefs of those practising it at a crucial turning point.
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Darling, I Am Going Out for Cigarettes and I Will Be Right Back
Ernesto, an ordinary man who, after making a deal with a strange character, has the chance to return to the past and live his youth again, tries to recover lost opportunities and avoid certain behaviors to change his gray and insipid present.
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Frankie Boyle: If I Could Reach Out Through Your TV and Strangle You, I Would
Free the constraints of Mock the Week's panel show pleasantries, stand-up comedy's favourite pessimist Frankie Boyle takes to the stage in front of a live audience as part of his I Would Happily Punch Every One of You In The Face 2010 UK tour. Those easily offended, beware. Those with dark senses of humour and desire to be entertained, step up.
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Freedom Fries: And Other Stupidity We'll Have to Explain to Our Grandchildren
"Freedom Fries: And Other Stupidity We'll Have to Explain to Our Grandchildren" is a whimsical look at patriotism and consumerism in America. It explores the absurdity of many of the symbolic gestures that have recently pervaded American culture, such as the wasting of French wine and the waving of Chinese-made American flags. Freedom Fries shows that these idle gestures stem from our culture of consumption and do real damage to our democracy as well as our humanity. With the aid of a leading scholar and an outspoken social activist this film draws a concrete relationship between American consumerism and patriotism.
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Tatsuo Ikeda Unbroadcastable Scary Stories: Three Tunnels Beyond Space and Time ~ Vol. One
This is an astonishing documentary that faithfully recreates Ikeda's contact with the spirits and their complaints, and allows the viewer to experience scenes from his seance experiments that people would never normally experience.
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Willingness to Move On: Olof Palme and His World of Ideas
A collage of voices and film clips with Olof Palme that illuminates a number of central themes in his ideological thinking. In the film, close friends and colleagues talk about Olof Palme and comment on his political vision.
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A Really Short Story about Love, Killing and Still Another Feeling
A woman loves two very different men, who both are convinced they love her. She always chooses the other.
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Cincinnati: Great, Near Great and Not So Great Moments in Cincinnati History
A fascinating, fun-filled trip with segments on the 1884 courthouse riots, the 1937 Ohio River flood, Tony Trabert, Ezzard Charles, the Reds, the Bengals, the Stingers, the Royals, Coney Island's Shooting Star, and the Island Queen steamboat. Relive the Beatles' Cincinnati visits and discover the Cincinnati connection to Charles Manson, Annie Oakley, Jim Thorpe, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.
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Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
Mariangela Melato stars as Fulvia Bolk, a self-made tycoon interested in ecological preservation. She is fed up with the terrorists who are poaching Italy’s natural beauty, and as part of a crazy retaliation scheme she hires a former CIA agent to abduct the number-one violator, Giuseppe “Beppe” Catania and hold him for ransom.
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How Merrily I Shall Laugh: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub on Their Film Class Relations
Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about their then-current production, Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations), in which he, himself, performed as an actor.
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When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose
In the early 1980s, documentary filmmaker Stephen Schaller was instrumental in the rediscovery and restoration of The Lumberjack (1914), the oldest surviving film made in Wisconsin, and produced by a group of itinerant filmmakers who traveled from town to town making "local talent" pictures. Schaller's lovely and sometimes deeply emotional, 63-minute journal/essay film offers a look at the making of the Wausau, Wisconsin classic, including interviews with the one surviving cast member and the relatives of others who appeared in the movie.
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Fading Light on An Unidentifiable Object with Unhearable Music and Unreadable Words
Through an unidentifiable object, letters that are color-matched to their background form the autobiography of Philipp von Gönitzer. The light fades accompanied by John Cage's silent composition "4'33"
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President Kim Il Sung Met Foreign Heads of State and Prominent Figures April 1970-December 1975
The film tells the viewers that the President met with over 70,000 heads of party and state and prominent figures from 136 countries from March Juche 38 (1949) till the last moments of his life. It also records the facts that he made 54 official and unofficial visits to 87 countries for 685 days.
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Prince / Diamonds and Pearls Blu-ray audio with Dolby Atmos Mix
Prince's 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls is being reissued for 2023 and this blu-ray audio edition features a Dolby Atmos Mix of the studio album and a remastered hi-res stereo version. The album features the singles 'Get Off', 'Cream', 'Diamonds and Pearls' all of which reached the top five in either the USA or the UK ('Cream' was number one in America) as well as 'Money Don't Matter 2 Night' which reached the top 20 and top 30 of the UK and US charts respectively. This blu-ray audio (no video) features: Diamonds and Pearls Dolby Atmos Mix Diamonds and Pearls remastered stereo mix
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A Taste of Heaven: The Ecstatic Song & Gospel of Maestro Raymond Anthony Myles
Raymond Anthony Myles was the electrifying Gospel Genius of New Orleans. Like a comet shooting across the sky, he was here one minute – brilliant, incandescent and unmistakably unique. And then, just as quickly, he was gone… But Raymond was more than a maverick musician. He was also highly representative of a vital but scorned minority within the Black church: a queer man who struggled with dogma and Scripture that said, "God's love does not apply to you."
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