First Run Features: Theatrical Catalog

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

	Animation
	Cult Classics
	Documentaries
	Erotica
	Family
	Films About Faith
	Foreign
	Gay & Lesbian
	Jewish Interest


E

The Embalmer	Matteo Garrone	100 min, Italian w/English Subtitles, 35mm, Color 2002
The story of a romantic triangle that starts when a middle-aged dwarf and zoo taxidermist, Peppino befriends an extremely tall teenager, Valerio, offering him his first job as Peppino's assistant, and then a place to stay, out of a growing love for Valerio. Peppino's hopes for a relationship with Valerio are frustrated however, when a young woman, Deboarah, enters the picture.

Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet	Nils Tavernier	100 min, French w/English Subtitles, 35mm, Color, 2001
A look inside the daunting and hierarchical universe of the Paris Opera Ballet. It's a world built around a demanding and total passion, where the notions of work and perfection are taken to their extremes.
Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship	Christina Andreef	12 min, 35mm, Color, 1994
This is "a silent musical" that was selected for official screening at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It is the first major work of an exciting and innovative producer-director team (Helen Bowden and Christina Andreef)


F

Faith and Fortune: The Reichmann Story	Alan Handel	90 min, Beta, Color, 2001
Chronicling the rise and fall of one of the world's most secretive and wealthy Jewish families, it tells the epic tale of a dynastic family that acquired staggering wealth, only to lose it all in a gamble of astonishing proportions at London's Canary Wharf.

Female Misbehavior	Monika Treut	80 min, 16mm, Color, 1992
Films by Monika Treut. From Camille Paglia to Annie Sprinkle, to S&M and transsexuals, Treut uncovers four controversial, outrageous and thoroughly captivating women.

Fidel	Estela Bravo	English and Spanish w/Eng. Sub., 35mm, Color, 2001
A Film by Estella Bravo. One of the most influential and controversial figures of our time, Fidel offers a unique look at the man through exclusive interviews with Castro himself, Alice Walker, Harry Melafonte, Nelson Mandela, and many more.

Fighter	Amir Bar-Lev	91min, 35mm, Color, 2000
A Film by Amir Bar-Lev. A unique adventure unfolds as two friends take a risky road trip into their past in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.

Fire from the Mountain	Deborah Shaffer	58 min, English w/Spanish Subtitles, 16mm, Color, 1987
Based on Omar Cabezas' acclaimed autobiography, Fire From the Mountain incorporates interviews and archival film to tell the author's story, from his youth under the Somoza dictatorship, through his days as a guerrilla fighting with the Sandinistas.

Fire on the Mountain	George Gage	72 min, English, 16mm, Color and B&W, 1996
A Film by Beth & George Gage. The story of the 10th Mountain Division, America's only winter warfare fighting unit, who fought the Nazis on skis in the high mountains.

The Fluffer	Wash West, Richard Glatzer	95 min, 35mm, Color, 2001
The story, set in the world of adult entertainment, centers around three characters: Johnny Rebel, a straight man who has become a star in the world of gay porn; Johnny's stripper girlfriend Babylon; and Sean, a naive young man in love with Johnny, who ends up becoming Johnny's "fluffer".

Flushed	Carrie Ansell	81 min, Color, 1998
A Film by Carrie Ansell. Set in the men's and women's bathrooms of a New York City bar, Flushed is a hilariously candid look into what the opposite sex does when they think no one is watching.

Forgiving Dr. Mengele	Bob Hercules & Cheri Pugh	2005, Video, 80 minutes
Eva Kor and her sister were victims of the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Haunted ever since, something shocking occurs: Eva finds the power to forgive him. But not everyone is ready to forgive the unforgivable.

49 UP	Michael Apted	2005, 135 minutes, color & b/w, English
In 1964 a group of seven year old children were interviewed for the documentary “Seven Up”. Director Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since, examining the progression of their lives. Now they are 49.

Freud Leaving Home	Susanne Bier	100 min, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 35mm, Color, 1991
At 25, Freud still lives at home with her parents, but just when her mother's 60th birthday approaches she falls in love and finally attempts to leave her nest.

Friends	Elain Proctor	109 mins, 35mm, Color, 1993
A Film by Elaine Proctor. Passion and politics mix in this powerful drama about three young women, all friends, in contemporary South Africa.

Fundi	Joanne Grant	45/60 mins, 16mm, Color, 1986
Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, Fundi reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement.


G

The Goebbels Experiment	Lutz Hachmeister & Michael Kloft	107 minutes, 35mm, Color and B&W, 2004, German w/English Subtitles
Kenneth Branagh reads from the diaries of Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. A rare and chilling glimpse into a brilliant but toxic mind..

Go For Zucker	Dani Levy	2005, 35mm, 95 minutes, In German w/English Subtitles
Dani Levy's controversial and hilarious contemporary farce about pool shark and all-around hustler Jaeckie Zucker is the first German-Jewish comedy to come out of Germany since World War II.

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg	Kjell Grede	115 mins, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 35mm, Color 1990
A Film by Kjell Grede. The story of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg who helped Jews in Budapest, Hungary in 1944 obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Adolph Eichmann's deadly path.

The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick	Mark Steensland & Andy Massagi	80 min, Beta, Color, 2000
A Film by Mark Steensland and Andy Massagli. The ultimate trip into the mind behind Blade Runner and Total Recall.

Le Grand Role	Steve Suissa	90 minutes, Color, French w/English subtitles
Thinking he has been cast in a Yiddish version of The Merchant of Venice, Parisian actor Maurice tells his beloved wife Perla. But when the part goes to another, Maurice must play the role of his life to be sure she doesn’t find out.

Growing Up In America	Morley Markson	90 min, 16mm, Color and B&W, 1988
A Film by Morley Markson. Featuring 1960's heroes Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman and more in an entertaining and engaging look at the Sixties - then and now.


H

Hairway to the Stars	David O. Russell	12 mins, 35mm, Color, VHS, 1990
A Film by David O. Russell. As an elderly woman goes under a hairdryer in preparation for her 50th wedding anniversary, she blasts off into an inner world of fear and loathing where she must weather hilarious encounters with her husband.

Hamsun	Jan Troell	160 mins, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 35mm, Color 1996
A Film by Jan Troell. The shocking, true story of Knut Hamsun (Max von Sydow), the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author who stunned the world by siding with Hitler and the Nazis.

Heaven's A Drag	Peter MacKenzie Litten	96 min, 35mm, Color, 1994
Britain's first gay mainstream movie. A romantic comedy about commitment, AIDS, death, mourning and recovery.

The Heart of the Matter	Gini Reticker & Amber Hollibaugh	57 min, 16mm, Color, 1994
This provocative documentary focuses on the story of Janice Jirau, an HIV-positive African-American woman, as she reveals why she was at high risk and what she did when she discovered she'd been infected.

Hiding and Seeking	Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky	85 mins., English, Yiddish and Polish with English subtitles, Digibeta, Color, 2004
Hiding and Seeking tells the story of a father who tries to alert his adult Orthodox Jewish sons, whose views have shifted considerably from his own, to the dangers of insularity and intolerance of those outside the faith.

Hip Hip Hoorah!	Kjell Grede	110 mins, Swedish w/English Subtitles,35mm, Color, VHS,1990
A Film by Kjell Grede. Stellan Skarsgard stars in this acclaimed film about a group of Scandinavian painters who gather in Northern Denmark at the end of the 19th century.

History Lessons	Barbara Hammer	65 min, 35mm, Color, 2000
A Film by Barbara Hammer. Lesbian history is presented in an extraordinary array of archival footage that is playfully manipulated to make it seem as though lesbians were everywhere!

Homo Sapiens 1900	Peter Cohen	85 min, 35mm, Color, 1998
A Film by Peter Cohen. A haunting exploration of the history of eugenics, race hygiene and the idea of the 'new man'. Emerging at the turn of the century, eugenic movements spawned government sanctioned research projects.

Howard Finster: Man of Visions	Dave Carr, Julie Desroberts, Julie Paskel	23 mins, English, 16mm, Color, VHS, 1990
A Film by Julie Desroberts, Randy Paskal, and Dave Carr. A candid look at the unique Reverend Howard Finster, who, after forty five years of preaching, received instruction from God in 1976 to paint his spiritual messages.

Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train	Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller	78 min, 16mm, Color, 2004
This film documents the life and times of the historian, activist and author of the best selling classic A People’s History of the United States. Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Zinn as well as colleagues and friends including Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker.

Hunting of the Snark	Micheal Sporn	27 min, Color, 1999
Narrated by James Earl Jones. In The Hunting of the Snark, a high-masted ship sets sail to roam the seas looking for a Snark.