In a country where bella figura is a national pastime, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the maestro of media manipulation. Having risen to political primacy with the aid of his Mediaset empire, he now controls 90% of the bel paese’s television channels including the state-run RAI network. Quantity, it seems, does not equal quality. Fed on a diet of semi-naked dancing girls, inane competitions and rickety reality shows built around the most ridiculous of premises, is it any wonder that Italians are becoming a nation of fame-hungry wannabes?

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up emp...

A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...

Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking proce...

A filmmaker's lifelong dream quickly becomes his worst nightmare when he attempts to make a low budg...

Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the ...

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/...

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In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to...

An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn do...

In 20 years, he's directed more films than Martin Scorsese, He's produced more profitable movies tha...

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...

In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters...

This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rig...

A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed f...

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produ...

Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues define our...