The COI Collection Volume 6: Worth the Risk

The COI Collection Volume 6: Worth the Risk 2011

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Complimenting the safety messages in COI Volume 4: Stop! Look! Listen!, this volume of COI films examines the issue of risk in our everyday lives. Here, we get advice on crossing the road, the Welfare State, the dangers of drinking and of playing with matches, the complexities of decimalisation, surviving nuclear attack... and much much more. All peppered with the COIs characteristic mix of horror, humour and gentle persuasion. Highlights include: Skateboard Safety (1978), play safe,'you mad skateboard dogs'; Charley's March of Time (1948), pioneering animation explains the workings of the new Welfare State; Green Cross Code (1973), David Prowse is on hand to admonish and advise; Hole in the Ground (1962), an unnerving civil defence film from the Cold War era; Say No to Strangers (1981), Bernard Hill, Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall star in this creepy and uncompromising film

2011

Making Tracks

Making Tracks 2011

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Amber Lawrence is a country music singer who spent her childhood not on the stage but at the running track. And one thing running taught her, is practice makes perfect.

2011

Austin High

Austin High 2011

6.20

What would happen if a group of high school slackers grew up and became the faculty at their own high school?

2011

The Company of Thieves

The Company of Thieves 2011

6.00

A lone thief, Dex, seeks vengeance after he is left for dead in the woods by his partner; so he makes a deal with the Devil and goes on a mission to kill his partner and get his loot back.

2011

Foodsploitation

Foodsploitation 2011

10.00

A food exploitation fantasia. Specializing in cringe cuisine and gastronomic humiliation, no ingredient is safe from The Chef.

2011

Cavalleria rusticana - Pagliacci

Cavalleria rusticana - Pagliacci 2011

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A double-bill of operas filmed by Franco Zeffirelli. 'Cavalleria Rusticana' features performances by Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, and Renato Bruson, while 'Pagliacci' again features Plácido Domingo, along with Teresa Stratas and Juan Pons. Georges Prêtre conducts the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala.

2011

Blessed Blessed Oblivion

Blessed Blessed Oblivion 2011

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BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, as manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing parlors.

2011

Rescue Wife

Rescue Wife 2011

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Rescue Wife follows the thrilling adventures of our eponymous heroine. Ever vigilant, steadfast and true, she keeps the neighborhood safe for man and child alike.

2011

In Harm's Way

In Harm's Way 2011

8.50

A gritty crime drama about the interconnecting lives of drug dealers, criminals, cops, a washed up actor, an actress and an innocent man and woman all on a deadly collision course with each other.

2011

Five Star Existence

Five Star Existence 2011

5.00

Director Sonja Lindén's personal and sensitive quest to the core of the modern information society where technology and human beings get more and more entwined. This documentary explores our society on the verge of turning ubiquitous - a wireless society, where the laws of time, space and distance are revolutionizing the concept of liaison. Do the consequences of the technological revolution increase our freedom, or do they limit us? Is it possible to find a balance between one's natural rhythm and the society that spins at an ever increasing and demanding speed? Are we chasing echoes of our lost inner wholeness in our everyday lives, which are becoming busier and more fragmented than ever before?

2011

Ulakam Chuttum Valiban

Ulakam Chuttum Valiban 2011

4.40

As Jayashankar has huge debts, he seeks training under his uncle and becomes a smart thief. However, situations get tricky and hilarity ensues when he lands up becoming a sub-inspector.

2011

Dreamland

Dreamland 2011

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California has long been known as a land of dreams - a place where visionaries come to innovate, create, entertain, fulfil their dreams and change the world. Dreamland tells the story of one day in the lives of a group of Californians who are pushing the bounds of the possible. They are entrepreneurs, daredevils, entertainers, scientists, politicians, chefs, and technologists.

2011

ZOMBIE

ZOMBIE 2011

9.00

ZOMBIE, a 19 minute psychological horror film, is based on the award-winning novella by literary icon Joyce Carol Oates. A Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial killer attacks his last victim. Or does he?

2011