Film But B

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.

A tongue in cheek look at the life of a student - the dingy bedsit, yearning for girls and general ennui of the misunderstood genius. All shot around Liverpool University campus and surrounding streets. - The North West Film Archive

At the end of every fairy tale, it always says, “The prince lives with the princess happily ever after.” When you close the storybook, you’d never know what happens afterward in real life. Eileen has sworn off marriage and childbirth, but destiny introduces her to Jacky! Wanting a divorce and contemplating strangling her husband a hundred times a week, living with in-laws for three years is more than enough. However, moving out is as easy as nailing Jell-O to the wall. Whatever Eileen says, Jacky insists, “But my mom said…” As a commercial film editor, she often wonders what would happen if she could fast-forward, rewind, undo, or re-edit her life. Perhaps she could have a better version of life? Whenever she resolves to get a divorce, something happens to prevent it or keep her from moving out.

The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing with $300,000 worth of bonds.

A suburban housewife uses a hidden camera to compulsively record everyone around her.

As Orson Welles, I might say: Art is the grand illusion, a mirror reflecting the complexities of the human soul. It's a symphony of ideas, emotions, and truths, played on the canvas of our shared humanity.

The documentary explores issues of beauty and acceptance in a culture increasingly saturated with idealised and unattainable ideals of femininity. It is a story about the world of young girls in today's Latvia, based on conversations about girls' attitudes towards the world and their place in it.

A Kentucky State Representative has proposed a bill to change the Christmas holiday’s name to something more inclusive. It is presented as the Holiday Bill, but if the bill passes and they do change the name, what will they call it? No one seems to know, just Anything BUT Christmas.

An eccentric college improv group and one magnetic movie star attempt to live life according to the rules of the improv game “yes and…”

El accidentally hits a mannequin with his automobile; believing he's killed a man, he and Tom set out to dispose of the body.

The twenty four hours of four amateur women boxers as they step for the first time into the ring.

Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).

Hamid and Ismail are two thieves who plan to rob a jewelry store which can only be broken into from the ground of the apartment above it, inhabited by a couple whose relationship is precarious and complicated.

Voldis Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to persuade Voldis to forget the past and move on. But when the crime boss Teksis proposes a plan to rob a jewelry store, Voldis agrees, thinking this will be his last crime before starting a new life. Marking the pinnacle of its director's filmography, To Be Unwanted is a psychological drama that centers not on a single crime or its investigation but on the emotional collapse of the criminal as he realizes that his amoral lifestyle has rendered him redundant within society.

TV presenter Katarzyna has been a teetotaller for a year now. She attends regular AA meetings and even takes care of a novice there. Will she really manage to stay sober?

Feature length documentary about Jonathan Larson and "Rent"'s journey from Broadway to the screen. Featuring director Chris Columbus, the entire cast, and dozens of friends and family of Jonathan Larson.

The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off the ship. Arrested at customs, he manages to escape but gets caught again as he tries to rejoin his girl whose father is trying to remove her from his influence.

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.

Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at the place where a murder happened? What constitutes trans* life? How to cope with daily violence and hatred? We begin to search for traces. We follow the tracks of resistance and survival. We are collectors of the expelled. We gather fragments of trans* lives inspired by texts of Nazim Hikmet, Foucault, Benjamin and Zeki Müren. Trans*BUT is a documental research study driven by the question: “What keeps you going when all else falls away?”