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Down By Law (1986)

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Former Cult Member Hears Music For The First Time

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Debt Begins at 20 Directed by Stephanie Beroes

With music by The Cardboards, The Shakes, Hans Brinker and The Dykes. By combining semi-fictionalized and documentary material, this film is as definitive a record of the Pittsburgh punk scene during its nascent underground as anyone could hope for. Beroes’ band footage is radical departure from the gimmickry of stereotyped rock band documentary in its use of pans and slow dollys, capturing small glimpses of the musicians at work that a ‘PR’ film would have avoided at all costs. The cinematography demands a reconsideration of the rock band documentary’s hoary technical vocabulary. From the time this film was made changes have already taken place in Pittsburgh punk-dom as the bands have moved from an insular salon society to more ‘legitimate’ venues. Some say things are better than ever, others mourn the passing of Pittsburgh punk’s innocence. Beroes in Debt Begins at 20 has produced not only entertainment, but also a small and very precious time capsule.

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Made In Britain (Complete Movie) 1982

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.

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George’s Room (1967) - dir. Alan Clarke

A man is interviewed by a young widow as a potential lodger, and learns some disturbing facts about the woman’s relationship with her dead husband.

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Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston? (Short Film- 2015)

Daniel Johnston stars in this psychedelic short film about an aging musician coming to terms with the dreams of yesteryear.

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Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

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Christine (1987) Alan Clarke

Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend’s house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent.

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Seven Sinners (1936) by Albert de Courville

A U.S. detective and his girlfriend (Constance Cummings) abroad hunt a British gunrunner who wrecks trains.

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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936) by Alfred Zeisler

A bored millionaire steps into big business without his fortune or position just to prove he can survive on his own.

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Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein

When they are fed rancid meat, the sailors on the Potemkin revolt against their harsh conditions.

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Night of the Living Dead (1968) by George A. Romero

A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour.

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M (1931) by Fritz Lang

A madman is stalking the streets of Berlin, abducting small children. As public hysteria mounts, both the police and the criminal underworld start to hunt him. Bit by bit, the net tightens…

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Roadtrip (2014) by Xaver Xylophon

Julius can't sleep. To get his head empty he decides to go on a roadtrip, but somehow he can't manage to leave.

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Girl on the Escalator (2016) by Kayhan Lannes Ozmen

Rio-based filmmaker Kayhan Lannes Ozmen directed a literal retelling of the Notes of a Dirty Old Man writer (Charles Bukowski)’s poem “Girl on the Escalator.”

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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) by Errol Morris

Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. This Academy Award-winning documentary, augmented by archival footage, gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.

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Boy Interrupted (2009) by Dana Heinz Perry

Evan Scott Perry received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder when he was a preteen, and in 2005, committed suicide at the age of 15. Evan had first exhibited suicidal tendencies when he was only 5. Directed by his mother, filmmaker Dana Heinz Perry, the film traces Evan's growing mental illness, including videotapes made throughout his short life and interviews with his friends and doctors.