When Women Kill

When Women Kill is a 1983 documentary film directed by Academy Award winner Lee Grant. The film explores life inside several women's prisons across the United States and the circumstances that led to the incarceration of a variety of inmates. Originally aired on HBO, the film is notable for its sympathetic, if level headed treatment of its characters. The film features women incarcerated for crimes ranging from drug use to first degree murder. A portion of the film follows Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten. Grant has spoken at length about the Manson family and the murder of her Valley of the Dolls co-star Sharon Tate.

The Ballad of Narayama (1958) (English Subtitled)

The Ballad of Narayama (Japanese: 楢山節考, Hepburn: Narayama bushikō) is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin, Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa. It is an adaptation of the story of the same name by Shichirō Fukazawa, which had previously been adapted for a 1958 film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. Both films explore the legendary practice of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die. Imamura's film won the Palme d'Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. Click on the above image for the full film.

The Queens Monastery (Water Colour Animation)

The Queens Monastery (Water Colour Animation) Conceived, animated and directed by Emma Calder. Music by Leos Janacek. Inspired by Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, The Queen's Monastery is about a woman whose lover, a former acrobat, has returned to her from war a changed man. Using a highly individual watercolour technique the narrative explores themes of love, escapist fantasy, obsession and guilt. A Pearly Oyster/ BBC Bristol co-production made with financial assistance from the London Production Fund, The Queen's Monastery was the first animated film to receive money from the National Lottery. Shown as a support for Love Is The Devil and other features throughout the UK. Distributed on film by Spike & Mike's Touring Animation in over 50 cinemas in North America. Non-exclusive video and DVD with Spike & Mike. Shown at international animation festivals. Best Professional Film; Bradford International Animation Festival, Special Jury Prize; Zagreb, Second Prize; Dresden, Silver Hugo; Chicago, Honourable Mention; Cinanima Portugal. The Queen's Monastery is featured in In Short: A Guide to Short Film Making in the Digital Age by Andrew Kelly and Eileen Elsey, published by the BFI. Format 35mm, Eastman Colour, length 6mins. Produced by Pearly Oyster Productions 1998 © Pearly Oyster Productions/ BBC Bristol www.pearlyoyster.com

Anthony Stern - San Francisco (1968)

Anthony Stern's San Francisco, could be described as a city film and allied with Jean Vigo's A Propos de Nice (France, 1930) and Walther Ruttman's Berlin: die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a City, Germany, 1927). It could also be described as a film of visible and invisible journeys. It moves between day and night, the city center and its outskirts, the shops and the counter-culture. The invisible journey travels between the two 1960s psychedelic capitals of the world, San Francisco and London.

In the Realm of the Senses / Ai no corrida

In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida), by the always provocative Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most controversial films of all time. Based on a true incident, it graphically depicts the all-consuming, transcendent—but ultimately destructive—love of a man and a woman (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda) living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control. Less a work of pornography than of politics, In the Realm of the Senses is a brave, taboo-breaking milestone, still censored in its own country.

The One. For New York.

Follow Dinosaur Jr. and friends across three wild days in the city as they take their “ear-bleeding country” from honky tonks to Tompkins Square Park with Thurston Moore, Snail Mail (Solo), Mike Kinsella of American Football, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Steve Gunn and Marc Ribot. Come for the noise. Stay for the stories and antics.

That Girl In Yellow Boots

That Girl in Yellow Boots is an English lanuage 2010 Indian thriller film directed by Anurag Kashyap and co-written by Kalki Koechlin. It stars Kalki Koechlin, Naseeruddin Shah and Gulshan Devaiya. The film tells the story of Ruth, a British expat, who has come to India to find her estranged dad. In her search she inhabits the bars, clubs and brothels of those who reject the mainstream values of a modernising India