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Baaba Maal Live at Royal Festival Hall Senegalese pop star Baaba Maal brings his incredible, haunting voice to London's Royal Festival Hall for this concert recorded on July 13, 1998. Also featured are his backing band, Daande Lenol (Voice of the People), Jamaican guitar master Ernest Ranglin, and Sinead O' Connor's The Screaming Orphans. This eclectic performance plays like…    more      Beautiful Boxer Beautiful Boxer, the acclaimed debut of Thai director Ekachai Uekrongtham, brilliantly captures the intensity of an underdog sports saga and weaves it with the poignant, impassioned drama of finding one's identity in the telling true-life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a transgendered kickboxer whose winnings from fighting in the ring…    more      Black Gold AVAILABLE FOR HOME USE ONLY! TO PURCHASE A COPY FOR EDUCATIONAL/INSTITUTIONAL SCREENINGS, PLEASE VISIT OUR FRIENDS AT CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL. BLACK GOLD asks us “to wake up and smell the coffee,” to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and…    more      Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros Just like the flower in the opening scenes, 12-year-old Maxi is a beautiful accent in the gritty underworld on the outskirts of Manila, where he lives. Living with his outlaw father and two older brothers, Maxi dutifully infuses everything he does for them with love. From cooking and sewing to braiding his brother's hair, Maxi fulfills…    more      Calendar Atom Egoyan, a Canadian photographer and his wife, Arsinée Khanjian, travel to their Armenian homeland so Atom can take pictures for a calendar. Though he does manage to print twelve beautiful photographs, his marriage falls apart in the process. Left all to himself, the photographer proceeds to romance a different woman each month…    more      Caravaggio Stewing in Rome’s underbelly during the late Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo da Caravaggio was plucked from the streets by the Catholic Church to paint austere Biblical exaltations. Derek Jarman masterfully captures not only his rampant flirtations with Roman counterculture, but also beautifully saturates the film with the same delicate…    more