Year 2012 - 477

Yakov Smirnoff stand up show from his theater in Branson, MO.

The Clash The Ultimate Review Drawing on extensive rare footage, much of it previously unavailable on DVD, this is the ultimate critical review of the music of The Clash on stage, on record and on film. Veteran film maker Don Letts heads a team of leading critics, reviewers and Clash insiders in this powerful review of the music that changed a generation. Includes rare film from The Punk Rock Movie and the 1983 US Festival, Mick Jones' last gig with The Clash. Features London Calling, Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Rock The Casbah, White Riot, Tommy Gun, Police And Thieves, Garageland, Safe European Home, Guns Of Brixton, Brand New Cadillac, The Magnificent Seven, Somebody Got Murdered, I Fought The Law, Clash City Rockers, White Man In Hammersmith Palais, Know Your Rights and more...

Little white panda and his friends in the panda family defeat the evil red fox.

This documentary follows three filmmakers as they research for a fictional feature film about a sex slave from Latin America. But after a dangerous trip through a dozen Latin countries, their hearts are changed by the brokenness of the victims, and their quest to make a movie becomes a compelling story within itself. With first-hand interviews on the streets of the Latin sex trade and the front lines of this social injustice, VOLVIENDO uncovers the adversary, discovers the ally, and joins the advance against sex trafficking.

Four Studies of Oslo and New York was produced for the solo show The Rich Should Be Richer at Kunsthall Oslo. The Rich Should Be Richer raised the question of the ownership of sunlight in the late-capitalist metropolis and the association, both metaphorical and real, between poverty and darkness. The exhibition consisted of a series of screenprints, a proposal for a public art work, a parallel exhibition of Gustave Dorés engravings from London, and the 15 min video Four studies of Oslo and New York. The film placed discussions of new development in Oslo alongside Diego Rivera's painting of Manhattan, 'Frozen Assets' (1931), and scenes from the film 'The Fountainhead' (dir. King Vidor, 1949).

Buddhist Iwonka falls in love with Oskar, who extorts money from her to help children in Africa, and disappears from her life. Lenka is a fortune teller and has a gift for extracting money from clients. She predicts to Ivona that she will find love in her next incarnation. To achieve fulfillment in her feelings, the woman decides to commit suicide. Despite repeated attempts, she still fails. Oskar's colleague, home-grown inventor Antoś, rushes to her aid. Lenka tries to correct the mistake she made. She wants to make Oskar fall in love with Iwona.

No One But Me is a 2012 documentary film about Scottish jazz musician Annie Ross.

In Rocketown four friends, Tom - also known as Captain Bob, Eric and John, are a strange game in the office of Professor James. The professor is Tom's father and the famous paleontologist, who recently died in mysterious circumstances.

From grueling rehearsals to the world premiere, Romeos & Juliets offers an unprecedented behind-the-curtain look at the National Ballet of Canada as ten dancers vie to perform the lead roles on the coveted opening night of "Romeo and Juliet," as envisioned by acclaimed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky in celebration of the company's 60th anniversary.

An observational essay shot in the southwestern city of Chongqing, CHINA CONCERTO probes the uses of public spectacle in contemporary China. Born and raised in Chongqing, filmmaker Bo Wang visited his hometown at the height of now-disgraced politician Bo Xilai's campaign to revive Mao-era "red culture", promoting among other things the public singing and dancing of Communist songs. Alongside these participatory street performances, CHINA CONCERTO looks at images from the media, including Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo-China, and news media and advertising that address the capitalist present in forms reminiscent of the communist past. The situation is explored in a narration modeled on Chris Marker's Sans Soleil, which is delivered by a woman with an ambiguous accent. Perched between an insider and outsider perspective, CHINA CONCERTO considers the persistence of totalitarian ideologies and images.

Video diary footage as found by New Zealand police.

This is the true-crime story of the multimillion-dollar yuppie drug ring run by a then, twenty-six year old Larry Lavin and two of his classmates. In the high-flying 1980's, Larry Lavin was a clean-cut, Ivy-League-educated dentist living the good life in suburban Philadelphia. But, what his upper crust neighbors didn't know was that Lavin led a double life - one that would finally be exposed by a shocking narcotics investigation. Awash in sex, drugs and money, Lavin oversaw a cocaine conglomerate, buying and selling enough white powder to anesthetize thirteen Eastern seaboard states ... until the FBI cracked the ring. How was he able to create such a well-oiled network? And what brought about his untimely downfall?

Toby Hadoke takes a humorous look at the history of robots, with particular reference to their appearances in Doctor Who.

In May 2011, Ming Chow, at her 27 years old, having studied the barista certificate course for only two months, defeated many experienced baristas from the locals and the overseas at the Grand Barista Championship, Hong Kong region. What made Ming Chow's coffee hit the cord of the jury who were international coffee experts?

It's the first warm day of spring. Little Pig is feeling happy and decides to go for a swim. On the way she meets a hedgehog with too few prickles, a crow whose beak is too long, a green lamb and a little calf covered in white spots. None of them look quite 'normal'. They all set off with Little Pig to go swimming. They help out a turtle, who grants each of them a wish. But nothing turns out quite the way they planned.

Love conquers all – ruthlessly and irresistibly – as Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea remove the obstacles to their union. At Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu David Alden’s visually sumptuous production, with its suggestions of a giant game of chess, puts the opera’s potent blend of sex and politics in a context that sets ancient against modern– just as the action juxtaposes scurrilous comedy and stark drama. Monteverdi’s magnificent score, meanwhile, accommodates intrigue, wit, nobility, tragedy and sensuality, and, led by the intense Sarah Connolly and the delectable Miah Persson, the cast brings both drama and music startlingly to life.

A beautiful young woman, Lucy, has a passionate and bloody affair with Count Dracula. Many years later, as she recovers from a strange amnesia, she begins to realize her true identity as a creature who is thirsty of blood. Occult expert Van Helsing tries to save Lucy from the clutches of the vampire, but will her dark dream of living eternally with Dracula come true'