10/1 HD Cinema Premiere Movies
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
Summary: This outstanding documentary by Mark Kitchell, six years in the making, is a comprehensive and insightful story of campus and community activism as born at the University of California at Berkeley. Using extensive archival footage and bridging the distance between past and present with more recent interviews, Kitchell shows how a 1960 protest aimed at the House Un-American Activities Committee was the launching point for the Free Speech movement, which evolved into organized opposition against the Vietnam War, support for the Black Panther party, and the feminist movement. No simple valentine to student-demonstration days, the film brilliantly uses contemporary perspective to show how great legacies and inevitable failures were simultaneously born in a charged atmosphere. Not to be missed. --Tom Keogh
Summary: Delicious high comedy results when aa conductor stages an opera in Paris with a multinational cast. Glen Close stars and Kiri Te Kanawa vocalizes in this stylish David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) production. Year: 1991 Director: Istv n Szabs Starring: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson
Summary: Survivors of a luxury liner, crowded in a lifeboat, bond and emerge as distinctive, if somewhat familiar, characters--the prim, selfish matron; the rough, shifty workman-- but the survival of each is soon determined by a ruthless evaluation of their abstract value as human beings.
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1
Summary: A rancher having 6000 head of cattle to get to market hires two gangs that hate each other. He figues each gang will not let the other rustle the cattle. Tex arrives looking for the man that killed his wife and took his horses. Finding his horses he joins the gang that are now riding them. Caught in the battle between the gangs when one double-crosses the other, he now finds the man he is looking for.
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
Summary: An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: Hitler's epiphany while viewing Wagner's opera 'Rienzi', the rise of the homo-erotic Grecian/Nordic ideal, the parallels drawn between the 'degenerate' art of the cubists and dadaists and the mentally ill/physically deformed, the Nazi obsession with purity and cleanliness, and, finally, the descent of the Jewish people to the level of a virus/vermin.
HD Cinema (104): Berkeley in the Sixties ***+ (1990, Doc)
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
Summary: This outstanding documentary by Mark Kitchell, six years in the making, is a comprehensive and insightful story of campus and community activism as born at the University of California at Berkeley. Using extensive archival footage and bridging the distance between past and present with more recent interviews, Kitchell shows how a 1960 protest aimed at the House Un-American Activities Committee was the launching point for the Free Speech movement, which evolved into organized opposition against the Vietnam War, support for the Black Panther party, and the feminist movement. No simple valentine to student-demonstration days, the film brilliantly uses contemporary perspective to show how great legacies and inevitable failures were simultaneously born in a charged atmosphere. Not to be missed. --Tom Keogh
Divine-HD: Meeting Venus **+ (1991, Comedy)
Divine-HD: Meeting Venus **+ (1991, Comedy)
Summary: Delicious high comedy results when aa conductor stages an opera in Paris with a multinational cast. Glen Close stars and Kiri Te Kanawa vocalizes in this stylish David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) production. Year: 1991 Director: Istv n Szabs Starring: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson
CinemaClassics-HD: Abandon Ship! *** (1957, Action / Ad)
Summary: Survivors of a luxury liner, crowded in a lifeboat, bond and emerge as distinctive, if somewhat familiar, characters--the prim, selfish matron; the rough, shifty workman-- but the survival of each is soon determined by a ruthless evaluation of their abstract value as human beings.
CinemaGunslingers-HD: Robbers' Roost ** (1955, Westerns)
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1
Summary: A rancher having 6000 head of cattle to get to market hires two gangs that hate each other. He figues each gang will not let the other rustle the cattle. Tex arrives looking for the man that killed his wife and took his horses. Finding his horses he joins the gang that are now riding them. Caught in the battle between the gangs when one double-crosses the other, he now finds the man he is looking for.
HD Cinema (104): The Architecture of Doom ***+ (1991, Doc)
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
Summary: An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: Hitler's epiphany while viewing Wagner's opera 'Rienzi', the rise of the homo-erotic Grecian/Nordic ideal, the parallels drawn between the 'degenerate' art of the cubists and dadaists and the mentally ill/physically deformed, the Nazi obsession with purity and cleanliness, and, finally, the descent of the Jewish people to the level of a virus/vermin.
