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Cinema Verite (2011)

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan (actress), Rolfe Kent (composer), Diane Lane (actress), Tim Robbins (actor), Lolita Davidovich (actress), David Seltzer (writer), Sean O'Bryan (actor), James Urbaniak (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Robert Curtis Brown (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), Don McManus (actor), Emilio Rivera (actor), Deborah Ricketts (miscellaneous crew), Steve Gehrke (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Drama,

Dirt! The Movie (2009)

Actors: Gene Rosow (producer), Gene Rosow (director), Jamie Lee Curtis (actress), Vandana Shiva (actress), Vandana Shiva (actress), Jonathan P. Shaw (editor), Dileep Singh Rathore (producer), Lisa Yesko (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Yesko (producer), Brian Singbiel (editor), Christine Deitner (producer), Eleonore Dailly (director), Eleonore Dailly (producer), Rob Seidenglanz (editor), Alexandra Komisaruk (editor),

Plot: A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt and humans couldn't be closer. We started our journey together as stardust, swirled by cosmic forces into our galaxy, solar system, and planet. We are made of the same stuff. Four billion years of evolution created dirt as the living source of all life on Earth including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last ten thousand years we humans understood our intimate bond with dirt and the rest of nature. We took care of the soils that took care of us. But, over time, we lost that connection. Our species became greedy and careless. We still depend on dirt, but now we abuse and ignore it. We are destroying our last natural resource with our agriculture, our mining, and our paving over the planet for cities. We turned dirt into something "dirty." In doing so, we transform the skin of the earth into a hellish and dangerous landscape for all life on earth. A millennial shift in consciousness about the environment offers a beacon of hope - and practical solutions. Around the globe, pioneers are coming together to save earth's last natural resource. Tiny villages rise up to battle giant corporations slaughtering their land. Scientists discover connections with soil that can balance global warming. Generation X brands organic farming as trendy and children begin to eat from edible school yards. Inmates find inner peace and job skills in a prison horticulture program. Medical researchers explore dirt's capacity to provide solutions to such devastating health crises as AIDS. Major religions are rediscovering the reverence for the natural world that unites them all. Uses animation, vignettes, personal accounts and story telling.

Keywords: civilization, deep-ecology, destruction-of-planet, ecological-footprint, ecosystem-interrelationships, environment, environmental-crime, environmental-destruction, environmental-issue, global-ecology
Genres: Documentary,
Taglines: A story with heart and soil.

Quotes:

Founder - The Wine Library: With the amount of species that live in a teaspoon of dirt, I think it's very obvious dirt might be more alive than we are.

Johnny Carson: How long would that take to, to grow with proper care to a fairly good size, 4 or 5 feet?::Founder - Tree People: Two, three years.::Johnny Carson: And this is gonna be a redwood?::Founder - Tree People: It's already a redwood.::Johnny Carson: Oh, excuse me.

Female Inmates: God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt. Put it in your mouth and let it work. Dirt!

Child: Yes, dirt you made my lunch. Yes, dirt you made my lunch.

Whose Barrio? (2008)

Actors: Paula Serrano (actress), Arlene Davila (actress), Dylcia Pagan (actress), Jose Serrano (actor), Mariposa (actor), James Barrow (actor), Melissa Mark-Viverito (actress), Jose B. Rivera (actor), Vagabond Beaumont (actor), Oscar Dominguez (actor), James Garcia (actor), Hector Cordero Guzman (actor),

Plot: Jose Rivera is a lifelong resident of Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) but is afraid that gentrification will force him out. James Garcia has just bought an apartment across the street from public housing and wonders why locals resist his moving into the neighborhood. James Barrow worries that a construction project in an empty lot behind his building will threaten his apartment. Oscar Dominguez and Movement for Justice in El Barrio protests against gentrification. A town hall meeting pits community members against a City Councilwoman who supports a massive development project in East Harlem.

Keywords: gentrification, manhattan-new-york-city, new-york-city, spanish-harlem-manhattan-new-york-city
Genres: Documentary,

The Search for Inflata-boy (2003)

Actors: Patrick Rea (actor), Patrick Rea (editor), Patrick Rea (director), Ryan Scott Jones (director), Patrick Rea (writer), Patrick Rea (producer), Ryan Scott Jones (producer), Kevin Willmott (actor), Mark von Schlemmer (actor), Novotny Lawrence (actor), Mark Frank (actor), Fernando Arenas (actor), Bethanie Ann Frank (actress), Kenneth Aduddell (actor), Ed Rutherford (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

DNA vs. the Book of Mormon (2003)

Actors: Joel P. Kramer (writer), Joel P. Kramer (director), Scott R. Johnson (editor), Thomas W. Murphy (actor), Jeremy Reyes (director), Jeremy Reyes (editor), Steven Whittington (actor), Trent Southerton (actor), Denis O'Rourke (actor), Randall Shortridge (actor), David Glenn Smith (actor), Simon Southerton (actor), John McLaughlin (actor),

Genres: Documentary, History,

Spanish Fly (1998)

Actors: Carlos Lucas (actor), Danny Huston (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Martin Donovan (actor), Marianne Sägebrecht (actress), Mary McDonnell (actress), Mario de Benito (composer), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Fernando Trueba (actor), Felipe Vélez (actor), Joan Potau (actor), Toni Cantó (actor), Alicia Agut (actress), Fernando Merino (actor), Caroline Biggerstaff (editor),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Tim Allen: Men Are Pigs (1990)

Actors: Tim Allen (writer), Tim Allen (producer), Tim Allen (actor), Ellen Brown (director), Richard Baker (producer), Rick Messina (producer), John Schmidt (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets (1984)

Actors: Kieth Merrill (director), Bill Conti (composer), Ricardo Merino (actor), Kieth Merrill (producer), Kieth Merrill (writer), Stephen L. Johnson (editor), David Douglas (miscellaneous crew), Frank Kanig (actor), Richard W. James (producer), Gary Kalpakoff (actor), Bruce Simballa (actor), Douglas Memmott (producer), Randy Gleave (actor), Stuart Reeder (actor), Lars Niemi (actor),

Plot: The human history of the Grand Canyon is explored in this documentary, focusing on the earliest native civilizations about which little is known, through the coming of the Europeans, the scientific expedition of John Wesley Powell which mapped the canyon and boated the Colorado River rapids, into modern times. Both aerial and river-level photography is used to propel the viewer into the experience of the canyon.

Keywords: explorer, grand-canyon, imax, river-rapids
Genres: Documentary, Short,
Taglines: A timeless adventure.

Rabbit Test (1978)

Actors: Roddy McDowall (actor), Roddy McDowall (actor), Peter Marshall (actor), Michael Keaton (actor), Peter Elbling (actor), Billy Crystal (actor), Ben Frommer (actor), Richard Deacon (actor), Francis De Sales (actor), Norman Fell (actor), Billy Barty (actor), William Callaway (actor), Hamilton Camp (actor), Ron Rifkin (actor), Tom Poston (actor),

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Great rabbit movies you have known and loved: A Hare Is Born; Paws; King Karrot; Hare Wars The story of the world's first pregnant man... it's inconceivably funny.

Quotes:

The Minister: She's a truck. She'll need a forklift to get into heaven.

Sergeant Danny Bonhoff: Of course I know what a uterus is; he's the guy who killed Ceasar.

Meine Tante, deine Tante (1956)

Actors: Carl Boese (director), Hans Moser (actor), Rolf Olsen (actor), Hans Hermann Schaufuß (actor), Oskar Sima (actor), Georg Thomalla (actor), Ethel Reschke (actress), Bobby E. Lüthge (writer), Jutta Hering (editor), Paul Heidemann (actor), Fritz Imhoff (actor), Theo Lingen (actor), J.A. Hübler-Kahla (writer), J.A. Hübler-Kahla (producer), Harry Fuß (actor),

Plot: Tommy is basically a nice guy, but he's got a criminal record and no money. Trying to get a little portering work at the railway station, he carries some bags for a couple of crooks, but the bags are stolen: they actually belong to Lola, a cabaret performer. Tommy finds out that the crooks are just out of prison and are planning a big bank robbery, and he decides to get in on the job, so as to expose them later. They need to rent a flat above the bank strong room, and the caretaker, (Hans Gippner) will only let it out to women. Luckily the stolen suitcases contain all of Lola's stage costumes, fortunately in sizes suitable for all three men. Back to the flat, and Gippner is taken in by the "women". The owners of the flat are two anthropologists who suddenly return from Africa and want their flat back: Gippner had no right to let it out. However the tense situation is defused when two of the crooks, still in drag, flirt with the two men and are invited out to dinner. Predictable slapstick ensues; but will Tommy turn over a new leaf and return to the straight and narrow?

Keywords: bank-robbery, chimpanzee, drag, farce, germany, railway-station
Genres: Comedy, Crime,