Richard Thompson (featuring Linda Thompson): Live at the BBC

TV performances by Richard and Linda Thompson (and Richard Thompson solo) recorded for the BBC between January 1974 and 2009. These are the first ever collection of BBC recordings sanctioned by Richard Thompson.

Busy Buddies

The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. But when they take him to a pasture to practice, Curly doesnt know a cow from a bull!

The Conspirators

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

Nartanasala

Radha Krishna runs a boxing school for women and saves Manasa, who is being harassed by a man, and falls in love with her. His father Kalamandir Kalyan arranges his marriage with Satyabhama, daughter of a powerful leader. To avoid this marriage Radha Krishna claims he is gay. The marriage is cancelled, but trouble starts as Radha Krishna gets a proposal from a man.

The Umbrella

A school teacher meets a boy in the pouring rain.

Sed

Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane into an inside and an outside.

Wawa

Featuring speakers of Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest, WAWA begins slowly, patterning various forms of documentary and ethnography. Quickly, the patterns tangle and become confused and commingled, while translating and transmuting ideas of cultural identity, language, and history.

Gorący czwartek

Adam, Siwy and Dworaczek are teenage boys from poor Silesian families. They spend their time wandering around dumps, robbing cars. From time to time they try to sell the stolen items, but usually get into brawls with adults in the process. One day the boys are faced with the possibility of making their "big heist." However, it turns out that this act brings them nothing - neither a sense of success nor money. Will their dreams of escaping the monotonous, tedious reality never come true?

Savage

After his family is murdered, and he's left for dead, a farmer awakens in the desert and finds himself transformed into a savage warrior, with all the powers and skills of the ancient gods. Guided by his "spirit masters" he's given a mission; destroy Tital Corporation, the world's most powerful high-tech computer company and its ambitious leader, Michael Burroughs. Burrough's has discovered the technological remains of an ancient race and a secret that will allow him to open the Vortex and achieve immortality. Out in the desert, ancient powers collide with sophisticated technology as the Savage and Burroughs meet in a titanic struggle that could destroy mankind.

Millenium - The Cinema Show

Recorded live at Kijów-Centrum, Kraków, 7.11.2015

Stuart and Dumplings

The story of Stuart, a young Doctor Who fan with Down's Syndrome who's receiving an online cooking lesson from his grandmother, with his social worker/care manager, Khadija, also in on the call. The ensuing conversation is both funny and moving, as it lays bare the stresses and strains of life in lockdown.

Dream of the Red Chamber

Documentary about rock club in the city of Sverdlovsk, USSR. The title is not connected to the communist ideology, it's a reference to one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. The idea is that the phenomenon of Soviet rock music is as extensive and complicated as the structure of the book. Featuring rock bands: "Агата Кристи", "Чайф", "Наутилус Помпилиус", rock singer Nastya Poleva and her band "Настя"

Victory of the Chinese People

Film about the victory of the Chinese people under the leadership of Mao Tse Tung in the war with the puppet regime of Chiang Kai-shek and the establishment in 1949, the People's Republic of China.

Anushka

Vienna during the fin de siecle. Farmer's daughter Anuschka has to sell the farm after her father's death to the rich but mean farmer's wife Nowarek and her friendly son Jaro. Anuschka goes to Vienna and starts to work as a housemaid until she is wrongly accused of theft.

Flushed

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Nègres Ashantis: Toilette d'un negrillon II

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.