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


V

Venus Boyz	Gabriel Baur	104 min, 35mm, Color, 2001
A Film by Gabriel Baur. A film journey through a universe of female masculinity.

Virgil Bliss	Joe Maggio	94min, Beta, Color, 2000
A Film by Joe Maggio. When Virgil Bliss, a mild-mannered Southerner and career criminal, is released from prison he finds himself on the mean streets of Brooklyn trying to build a new life.

Virgin Machine	Monika Treut	86min, English and German w/Eng. Sub., 16mm, Color
Dorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, leaves Germany for the Oz of San Francisco, searching for her long-lost mother and a cure for the malady of love. Installed in the Tenderloin, she peeps in on neighbors' bizarre sex rituals as well as does sightseeing of the more traditional kind

A Virus Knows No Morals	Rosa Von Praunheim	82min, 16mm, Color, 1987
A black comedy filled with everyone's worst fears of the AIDS crisis. Savagely funny and deadly serious, it covers every aspect of AIDS and its effects as well as attacking the rumors surrounding it.


W

The War at Home	Barry Brown & Glenn Silber	100 min, 35mm, Color, 1979
A Film by Glenn Silber and Barry Brown. One of the most important political films ever made, The War at Home chronicles the anti-war movement of the 60's and 70's, which grew into a genuine people's revolt as war in Vietnam escalated.

War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us	Gaylene Preston	95 min, 35mm, Color, 1995
A Film by Gaylene Preston. Stories of sexual passion, illicit love, heroic adventure, and painful death are told by seven women about WWII, who also confront the impact it had on their lives.

Watching Her Sleep	Rose Michels	6min, 35mm Color
A Film by Rose Michels. A girl imagines entire relationship as she waits by a supermarket's checkout counter.

The Watermelon Woman	Cheryl Dunye	85min, 16mm Color
Cheryl, a young black woman working in a video store, is making a documentary about an obscure black actress (known as "the Watermelon Woman") who had a white lesbian lover. Cheryl just happens to fall in love with a very cute white woman herself!

Wax, Or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees	David Blair	85 min, 16mm, Color, 1991
A Film by David Blair. The mind-blowing story of a weapons designer / bee-keeper who enters a hallucinatory alternative reality where A-Bombs, the Gulf War and insects collide.

We Were So Beloved	Manny Kirchheimer	16mm, Color and B&W, 1986
A Film by Manfred Kirchheimer. Kirchheimer explores the experiences of German Jews who fled Nazi Germany to settle in New York's Washington Heights.

Whitewash	Micheal Sporn	25 min, Color, 1995
A film by Michael Sporn, featuring the voices of Linda Lavin and Ruby Dee. When a fourth-grade African-American girl is the target of a hate crime, an outpouring of love from friends, classmates, and family draws the community together.

The Winners	Peter Cohen	85 min, English, French, Russian, Flemish w/English Subtitles, Beta, Color, 1998
A Film by Peter Cohen. One of the most prestigious arenas is the Queen Elizabeth in Brussels. This competition is to music what the Olympic Games are to sports. This film does not presume to be a value judgment on the merits of competition. A major prize can make a career. But it can also cause a great deal of pain.

Witness to War	Deborah Shaffer and David Goodman	30 min, 16mm, Color, VHS, 1985
A Film by Deborah Shaffer & David Goodman. Academy Award winning story of Dr. Charlie Clements who, as a pilot in Vietnam, seemed headed for a distinguished Air Force career until he refused further combat missions. Stripped of his military identity, Clements dedicated his life to non-violence and healing, ultimately to find himself tending wounded behind rebel lines in El Salvador.

The Wobblies	Deborah Shaffer & Stewart Bird	89 min, 16mm, Color, 1979
Wobblies integrates the songs of the period with photographs, newsreel footage, and contemporary interviews with remaining IWW members. Careful documentation of the cultural, political, labor and legal events of the time make this work an invaluable record of an unforgettable era of American history.

The Wolves of Kromer	Cheryl Dunye	82min, English, 35mm, Color, VHS/DVD
Directed by Will Gould. Narrated by Boy George and with tongue firmly in cheek, The Wolves of Kromer is both a modern gay parable and a playful, romantic comedy.


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Zombie & The Ghost Train	Mika Kaurismaki	Finnish w/ English Subtitles, Color, 1991
A black comedy from Mika Kaurismaki. Described as part docu-fiction, part Hamlet-style tragedy and just a bit screwball, this unusual road movie chases after a punk rock band that's never seen, always heard, all the way from Helsinki to Istanbul.