DONALD CAMMELL: THE ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE DVD (1998) $14.99
run time: 75 minutes. UK. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Kevin Macdonald & Chris Rodley
description: British documentary about film director Donald Cammell, best known for his collaboration with Nicolas Roeg on Performance (1970). The lead actors in Performance, Mick Jagger and James Fox, are interviewed along with Roeg, Barbara Steele, Cathy Moriarty, and avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, who cast Cammell in his 1973 Lucifer Rising. MacDonald and Rodley trace Cammell's career from his days as a Paris portrait artist to such films as Demon Seed, White of the Eye, and The Wild Side, probing the dark side of Cammell's "dissociative personality" that triggered his 1996 suicide.

EUROTIKA! VOL.1-3 DVD (1999) 3-disc $23.99
run time: 373 minutes. UK. Color.
directed by: Andy Starke & Pete Tombs
disc one: Fantastic British TV Show focusing on trash cinema culture in Europe. This disc contains 5 episodes: "French Blue" (with clips from such films as Exhibition, Sin on the Beach, Pussy Talk, and Shocking), "Jess Franco" (with some great commentary by Franco himself as well as producers writers and actors, "Italian Horror" (with clips from giallo films such as Blood and Black Lace, Devil's Nightmare, & Torso), "Jose Larraz" (clips from Vampyres Black Candles The Coming of Sin and more!) and "Max Pecas" (director of I Am a Nymphomaniac I Am Frigid and Club Prive with many film clips and commentary by Pecas.)

disc two: Fantastic British TV Show focusing on trash cinema culture in Europe. This disc contains 5 episodes: "Jean Rollin" (with lengthy commentary by Rollin and some of his actresses including Brigitte Lahaie), Jose Benazeraf (French erotica/porn director), "So Sweet, So Perverse" (documenting European female starlets), Eurocine (the wonderful world of Eurocine producers), and "Mad Doctors" (Eurotrash films featuring mad doctors & scientists.)

disc three: Fantastic British TV Show focusing on trash cinema culture in Europe. This disc contains 2 episodes: "Spanish Horror" (with comments by Jose Larraz, Paul Naschy, and Jorge Grau), and "Michael Reeves" (with comments by friends actors and producers w/ clips from his films) This disc also includes "Kings of Ads 002," a compilation of TV commercials (30-60 seconds each) by many famous directors, such as: Hugh Hudson, Martin Scorsese, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlos Saura, Franco Zeffirelli, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Federico Fellini, Guiseppe Tornatore, Patrice Leconte, Andrei Konchalovsky, David Lynch, Helmut Newton, Nikita Mikhalkov, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and William Klein.

FURTHER "MODERN PROBLEMS" DVD (1997) $14.99
run time: 68 minutes. USA. Color.
description: MODCINEMA EXCLUSIVE! Led by brothers Brent and Darren Rademaker, and joined by Josh Schwartz & Kevin Fitzgerald, Further left a blazing trail of solid indie rock records from the mid- to late '90s. Lee Renaldo guested on their first album, by their 2nd album they had signed to Creation Records, and they later recorded a session for BBC's John Peel. After splitting up Further, Brent and Darren formed the Tyde, while Brent formed the country-pop group Beachwood Sparks. Now available for the first time, "Modern Problems" is collection of videos and live performances traces Furthers short-but-successful career from 1992-1997. Special features include a featurette documenting the bands live performance at the 1997 Monterey Pop Festival, and their never-before-seen performance at the 1995 KXLU Benefit live from the Whiskey-A-go-go in Hollywood. WATCH TRAILER

GOAL! WORLD CUP 1966 DVD (1966) $14.99
run time: 107 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Ross Devenish & Abidin Dino
description: This entertaining documentary of the World Cup Soccer tournament of 1966 follows the 15 countries competing for the sport's most coveted prize. Nigel Patrick narrates, with commentary provided by Brian Glanville. The executive producer spent $336,000 on the production and used 117 cameras to record nearly 48 hours worth of action. Four editors were employed to created the final 108-minute feature.

GREAT SCOPITONE CLIPS (FRENCH POP 1962-1969) DVD $14.99
run time: 82 minutes. Color.
description: Great, rare collection of french pop scopitone videos featuring: Brigitte Bardot, Serge Gainsbourg, Diana Sur, Nicole et la Combo, Francoise Hardy, Savage Cats, Nancy Holloway, Jerry Faiselle, Frand Alamo, Nicole Pacquin, Less Brass, Dion, Marie Chontell, Cheri Cantrell, Margaret Thompson, Les Chants Amiable, Pop People, Jerry Faiselle, Golden Stars, & more! WATCH CLIP

LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF DVD (2003) 2-disc $19.99
run time: 169 minutes. USA. Color.
directed by: Thom Andersen
description: Voted Best Doc of 2004 by The Village Voice. A must-see for Los Angeles history buffs and cinema enthusiasts, who will marvel at the hundreds of archival and film clips revealing an almost secret history of the City of Angels. "This cinematic essay focuses on the discrepancy between the lived-in urban reality of Los Angeles and its various century-deep cinematic mythologies. The movie is about more than just what the movies get wrong. It's about the way the imaginary space of cinema intrudes upon the actual space of our lives, so that the L.A. of the movies becomes a kind of separate urban reality unto itself." -- The Toronto Star

NICOLS & MAY: TAKE TWO DVD (1996) $14.99
run time: 55 minutes. USA. Color & B&W.
directed by: Phillip Schopper
description: The brilliant comedy duo of Mike Nichols and Elaine May are the subject of this rare documentary originally broadcast on PBS in 1996. Their combination of great comic timing and natural improvisational ability is showcased, here, in rare clips of their comedy sketches. Featuring interviews with Steve Allen, Tom Brokaw, Steve Martin, Arthur Penn, Robin Williams, and more.

ORANGE JUICE "DADA WITH JUICE" DVD (1986) $14.99
run time: 47 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Mike Mansfield
description: Live performance from seminal Scottish post-punk band Orange Juice, recorded for BBC's Channel 5. Featuring the line up of Edwyn Collins, Zeke Manyika, Paul Heard, & Johnny Britten, this 1986 concert features some of Orange Juice's hit songs such as "Salmon Fishing In New York," "Falling And Laughing," "Simply Thrilled Honey," "Rip It Up," "Poor Old Soul," "The Day I Went Down To Texas," "In A Nutshell," and many more!

PHIL SPECTOR: HE'S A REBEL DVD (1983) $14.99
run time: 57 mins. UK. Color & B&W.
directed by: Binia Tymieniecka
description: Biography of famed record producer Phil Spector, noted for discovering and producing the records of such rock icons as The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes and The Crystals, and who worked with such stars as Ike and Tina Turner and even The Beatles. Included is footage of him rehearsing The Blossoms in a recording studio, and interviews with two of his recording engineers who explain how his famous "Wall of Sound" was created. Narrated by Rodney Bingenheimer!

TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON DVD (1967) $14.99
run time: 90 minutes. UK. Color. Japanese subtitles.
directed by: Peter Whitehead
description: This 1967 documentary of the London scene in the swinging-60's is a visual treat for Mod enthusiasts everywhere. Featuring a who's-who of the scene, Tonight Let's All Make Love In London is a visual patchwork of 60's culture, seen through the eyes of the people leading it. Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, Vanessa Redgrave, Allen Ginsberg, and Julie Christie are all here, alongside counter-culture artists and other musicians who helped shape their generation and future ones to come. Most of the musical content comes in the form of extremely rare concert footage and inside studio recording sessions, while other segments include candid interviews, strange political demonstration footage, and even a segment on the radical art of body painting! Yes, politics and sex are on the palette here as well as a psychedelic soundtrack from a very young Pink Floyd.

UN, DOS, TRES, AL ESCONDITE INGLES (1969) $14.99
run time: 81 minutes. Color. SPAIN.
directed by: Jose Luis Borau & Ivan Zulueta
description: A Spanish film from 1969 with many nods towards the Beatles and U.K. music of the sixties. A group of record store proprietors and music fans decide to boycott the song that represents Spain in the Mundocanal song contest (a parody of Eurovision). They resort to diverse strategies so that the selected groups do not go to the festival to interpret the selected song, "Lie lie." Featuring performances by artists such as Los Pop Tops, Los Beta, Los Buenos, Formula V, Los Mitos, and The End. Please note: this movie is in Spanish with no English subtitles.

THE VERY STRANGE STORY OF JOE MEEK DVD (1991) $14.99
run time: 60 mins. UK. Color & B&W.
directed by: Alan Lewens
description: Originally broadcast in 1991 as part of the Arena series of programmes and reshown on BBC4 on ... 5 September 2007 as part of the Hidden Lives season. A profile of the legendary maverick producer and song writer Joe Meek, composer of the massive hit Telstar who recorded most of his hits in a home studio using innovative recording methods in Holloway Road. Meek was obsessed with the occult and suffered from depression and paranoia, and in 1963 had been charged with 'importuning for immoral purposes'. In 1967 after becoming paranoid he'd be framed for a murder of someone he knew, he killed himself and his landlady.