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


I

I,The Worst of All	Luisa Bemberg	105 min, 35mm, Color, Spanish w/English Subtitles, 1990
A Film by Maria Luisa Bemberg. In 17th century Mexico, the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) enters a convent, and the local vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes her protectress and erotic muse.

I'll Sing for You	Jacques Sarasin	77 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 2004
In the sixties, the people of Mali awoke each morning to the sound of Boubacar "KarKar" Traoré's voice on the radio, singing of independence. But KarKar, like his native country, fell on hard times. Also featuring Ali Farka Toure.

Insomnia	Erik Skjoldbjaerg	35mm, Color, Norwegian w/English Subtitles, 1997
Norwegian filmmaker Erik Skjoldbjærg makes his directorial debut with the psychological police drama Insomnia. Swedish homicide detective Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård) and his partner, Erik Vik (Sverre Anker Ousdal), arrive in a small Northern Norwegian town to help the local police investigate the murder of a teenage girl.


J

The Jew	Jom Tob Azulay	85 min, 35mm, Color, Portuguese w/English Subtitles, 1996
A Film by Jom Tob Azulay. In 18th Century Portugal, a talented and popular Jewish writer battles the repressive and dangerous forces of the Inquisition.

Jewish Soul, American Beat	Barbara Pfeffer	60 min, 16mm, Color, 1997
film by Barbara Pfeffer. With insight and humor, Jewish Soul, American Beat explores the new landscape of Jewish tradition in America, from a feminist seder to a Yiddish Cabaret.

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop	Spike Lee	60 min, 16mm, Color, 1983
Spike Lee's first film dramatically recreates the world of the corner barbershop, the local meeting place where people talk, put nickels and dimes on their lucky numbers - and sometimes even get their hair cut - in this engaging tale of murder, suspense, and the dream of making the big "hit."

A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden	Michal Goldman	76 min, 16mm, Color, 1987
A Film by Michel Goldman. Klezmer is rediscovered in this celebration of the lively and eclectic music of Eastern European Jews.

Jumping The Gun	Jane Schneider	10 min, 16mm, Color, 1993
On the morning after a one-night stand, a woman fantasizes life together with her sleeping trick from honeymoon to breakup.

Just Desserts	Monica Pellizzari	14 min, 35mm, Color, 1993
A riotously funny look at the development of Maria Stroppi's sexuality through food. Set in the 1970s, the film deals with Maria's memories of her turbulent past growing up in an Italian Catholic family in Australia.


K

Kaddish	Steve Brand	92 min, 16mm, Color/B&W, 1984
A Film by Steve Brand. A candid portrait of a young Jewish activist who must face his father's traumatic history.

Karen Black Like Me	Jane Schneider	10 min, 16mm, Color, 1993
Karen Black Like Me is a hilarious spin off of the classic tv film Trilogy of Terror in which Karen Black is chased around her apartment by a vicious warrior doll.


Kestrel's Eye	Mikael Kristersson	86 min, 35mm, Color, 1999
A Film by Mikael Kristersson. A wonder-filled portrait of a family of kestrels (European falcons) who live in a church tower above a small Swedish village.

King's Day Out	Rob Kuhns	31 min, 16mm, Color, 1992
A Film by Rob Kuhns. Bill is an egotistical actor pet owner. His eager-to-please dog King, his cat Princess, and his male parrot who he thinks is female, are all played by human actors, who communicate with each other but canít seem to communicate with Bil.

Kira's Reason: A Love Story	Ole Christian Madsen	94 min, 35mm, Color, Danish w/English Subtitles, 2001
A Film by Ole Christian Masen.Enjoying life in their mid-thirties, Kira and her husband Mads have a large house and two wonderful children. Their world is perfectly secure and comfortable until Kira develops a psychiatric disorder, which eventually commits her to a hospital.


L

Last Dance	Mirra Bank	84 min, Video, Color, 2002
A Film by Mirra Bank. Go behind the scenes with the audacious, innovative dance company Pilobolus and legendary author-illustrator Maurice Sendak to reveal a stormy collaboration. Their shared creative venture - to create a work that confronts the Holocaust.

Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film	Marc Mauceri	57 min, Color, 1997
From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon Woman, Lavender Limelight explores seven successful lesbian directors with revealing interviews and entertaining clips.

Legend of Paul & Paula	Heiner Carow	106 min, Color, German w/English Subtitles, 1973
A Film by Heiner Carow. One of the most popular of all East German films, The Legend of Paul and Paula is both a romantic and an ironic view of love, with music by the German cult band The Puhdys.

A Life Apart: Hasidism in America	Menachem Daum & Oren Rudavsky	95 min, 35mm, Color, English, 1997
A Film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky. Seven years in the making, this extraordinarily intimate film takes us into the mysterious and joyous world of the Hasidic Jews, revealing a place few outsiders have seen and fewer yet could imagine.

Light Keeps Me Company	Carl-Gustaf Nykvist	76 min, 35mm, Color, English & Swedish w/English Subtitles, 2000
Film by Carl-Gustaf Nykvist. An intimate look at the life of legendary Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist, including interviews with Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Susan Sarandon, and more.

Like It Is	Paul Oremland	93 min, 35mm, Color, 1998
A Film by Paul Oremland. London's gay club world comes alive in this sexy, funny drama about two young men who fall in love despite enormously different backgrounds. With Roger Daltrey.

Linnea in Monet's Garden	Lena Anderson	30 min, 16mm, Color, 1993
A Film by Lena Anderson and Christina Bjork. From the pages of the best-selling book comes the charming animated tale of a little girl's love of the paintings of French Impressionist Claude Monet.

Little Women in Transit	Barbara Heller	7 min, 16mm, Color, 1995
Twelve-year-old Jennie is seated in the back seat of the wood-panelled station wagon, wedged between her two jeering sisters, enduring that special hell--the family car trip

Live Nude Girls Unite!	Julia Query & Vicky Funari	70 min, 16mm, Color, 2000
A Film by Julia Query and Vicky Funari. Follow Julia Query, peepshow stripper, on her raucous journey to organize the only union of strippers in the US.

Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness	Kermit Cole	72 min, 16mm, Color, 1993
A Film by Kermit Cole. A crowd-pleasing, eye-opening film about HIV positive people who rely on dignity and humor to combat images of HIV and AIDS.


M

Machine Dreams	Peter Krieg	87min, 16mm, Color, 1989
A Film by Peter Krieg. From a Marilyn Monroe robot to the ethics of artificial intelligence, Machine Dreams explores humanity's love affair with machines and computers.

Making Grace	Catherine Gund	86 min, Color, 2005
Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan want to be mothers - together. Making Grace allows us to experience with Ann and Leslie the challenges and joys of motherhood, including those unique to lesbians.

The Man Who Bought Mustique	Joseph Bullman & Vikram Jayanti	78 min, 16mm, Color, 2000
A Film by Joseph Bullman & Vikram Jayanti. A deliciously entertaining look at a Scottish lord who bought the tiny Caribbean island of Mustique in 1956 for a song and turned it into a playground for the rich and famous.

Marquis	Henri Xhonneux	88 min, 35mm, Color, 1990
A Film by Henri Xhonnuex. Based on the life of the Marquis de Sade, Marquis combines animation and live action to create a bizarre tale of sex, lust, and the French Revolution.

Me and my Matchmaker	Mark Wexler	55 min,16mm, Color, 1996
A Film by Mark Wexler. A Jewish matchmaker in Chicago and a lovelorn filmmaker learn about the complexities of love, dating and friendship in this funny and insightful film that eventually turns on its maker.

Mendel	Alexander Rosler	98 min, 35mm, Color, Norwegian w/English Subtitles, 1997
A Film by Alexander Rosler. When a Jewish family relocates from post-war Nazi Germany to Norway a young boy must learn how to fit in as he uncovers the secret his parents are keeping from him.

Melvyn Schmatzman, Freudian Dentist	David Grotell	20 min, 16mm, Color, 1997
A sexy comedy, the film was Grotell's thesis film.

Merci Pour Le Chocolat	Claude Chabrol	99 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 2000
A Film by Claude Chabrol. With his accomplice, the world's greatest living screen actress, Isabel Huppert, French master Claude Chabrol weaves a tangled, nervy web of circumstance, mischief and malevolence.

Midnight Dancers	Mel Chionglo	100 min, 35mm, Color, 1994
A Film by Mel Chionglo. The erotic yet compassionate story of three brothers who work as exotic dancers in a Manila gay club.

Mob Queen	Jon Carnoy	80 min, Color, 2004
A Film by Jon Carnoy. Brooklyn, 1957. In the world of dockworkers, mobsters and streetwalkers, two small time hoods set up their boss with the new prostitute on the docks, only to discover that she has an unbelievable secret.

Monumental	Kelly Duane	80 min, Color/B&W, 2005
From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he fought to preserve the American wilderness for future generations.

Moscow Parade	Ivan Dykhovichny	103 min, 35mm, Color, Russian w/ English Subtitles, 1993
A Film by Ivan Dykhovichny. Set in Russia before the Nazi invasion, Moscow Parade focuses on a sexy cabaret singer (Ute Lemper) who is caught between shifting alliances.

The Mozart Brothers	Suzanne Osten	98 min, 35mm, Color, Swedish w/English Subtitles 1986
A Film by Suzanne Osten. Stars of the Stockholm Opera are terrified by an opera director's erotic vision for an avant garde production of Don Giovanni.

My Body	Joel Moffett & Matthias Visser	30 min, 16mm, Color, 1997
After years of denial, Charlie opens himself up to his true sexual orientation, leading to a new and rare disease called "Sexually Repressed Shedding Disorder."

My Father Is Coming	Monika Treut	82min, 35mm, Color, 1990
A Film by Monika Treut. When Vicki, a New York actress, finds out her father is about to visit from Germany, she goes to great lengths to hide her bisexuality.