Film Rest

Chris & Jorge try to restore a rundown town and discuss what it's like to be a gay couple in rural West Virginia.

Krazy sends off for mail-order music lessons; he gets back a saxophone and an instruction book (we actually follow the mail going both ways) . His first attempts are so bad the saxophone tears up his diploma. He pours honey into the sax, and it improves, barely. Using his new talent, Krazy is rejected in turn by his goldfish, a street band, all the houses in a neighborhood (even the outhouse leaves, holding its nose), a saloon, and finally a woman drawing water from a well.

This cine-portrait of New York City uses digital effects to turn the countless riders of the subway system into living, breathing paintings.

From London's Globe Theatre, the hallowed open-air stage where many of William Shakespeare's greatest plays were performed, comes this special that chronicles 18 months of work by the University of California at Berkeley's Shakespeare Program. Their mission: the planning, rehearsal and performance of the Bard's "Much Ado About Nothing" -- a show that would mark the first recorded Elizabethan production in the newly restored Globe.

Documentary about the efforts to preserve and restore the films of German director Wim Wenders.

Europe's refugees are met at eye level in a film by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who defends the ideals of humanism in the midst of the crisis.

An expiremental avant-garde piece that harnesses the audiovisual representation of insomnia and a restless spirit.

Voices Restored is an award winning documentary about a project to restore the voices taken by cancer in Costa Rica. The success of this project led to similar efforts in Peru and the Philippines.

Based on his own personal memories of his long-time close friend, actor and voice actor Jim Thurman, Fierlinger recounts a number of unbelievable events they experienced together. A memory travelogue.