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- Interested in what happened when a ship with a huge hole in the side washes up on shore, three boys, Joey, Allen, and Ned, stowaway in the cargo bay of a ship. When the ship gets attacked, they are left behind because they aren't on the roster. They are rescued by the rising of a gigantic underwater sea vessel (which the narrator decides he'll call a submarine even though they hadn't been invented at the time of the story) commanded by the enormous Captain Nemo, who doesn't want to hurt them but wants to keep his ship a secret. They fight a shark the the narrator insists is stock footage from another movie, beat up a crying octopus, get stuck between icebergs while the first mate is steering the ship, and ultimately get caught in a sea vortex before waking up.
- Scrutinized by comedians, Hardwick explores the Internet through clips and images, revealing its oddities.
- Shaharazad is trapped at the Baghdad Hilton, so she conjures up an ironic story of the great King Bush's attempt at "protecting one dictatorship from the attacks of another," which includes a guy in a Bush mask running around in the Mojave Desert doing metaphoric things.
- A bored goth girl briefly animates and narrates 8 operas (with no music), catalogs the scandalous actions, and counts the deaths (36). The operas included are La Traviata, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Aida, Tosca, Tristan and Isolde, Madame Butterfly, and The Ring of the Nielbelung.
- From the Golden Gate Bridge to the Mississsippi River and from the Haight Ashbury to the French Quarter we follow two of the NFL's most original Super Fans. From humble begining's these individuals have become icons in their cities showing the world what makes a true Super Fan.
- Every day is boring and the same to Amy, even her birthday. All the evidence her family puts forth that each day is different she rebuts with well-thought out responses of sameness. She is supposed to visit her Aunt Lucy to pick up her present from her, and instead meets weird characters who insist that her aunt has a beagle named Charlie and that she has turned into a butterfly. Eventually she encounters fairytale folk who thought their lives were normal before the events in their stories occurred.
- Wah Sang was a boxing champion seven years ago. He now works at a garage and cares for his seven-year-old son Henry. They live a small apartment and Wah spends much of his time gambling and drinking. Henry wants Wah, whom he addresses by that name him to return to boxing, but Wah is hesitant because he suffered a brain injury. Henry is a go-kart racer, and at the track, Susan sees her friend Jenny, whose son is also in the race, being rude to him, so she approaches him and bets him dinner if he can win the race. Henry tries to pass Jenny's son in a curve and runs into the grass. When his crew come to aid him, she sees Wah, her ex-husband, there, and confronts him, demanding to know if Henry is their son. Thus begins Wah and Susan competing for Henry's affections, though Henry does not yet know that Susan is his mother. Susan is married to a cardiologist, and she has a successful career in car sales (particularly to white English-speakers). They live in a large house and believe they can give Henry a better life, while Wah descends further into gambling and risks losing his son when he attacks his creditors for trying to take his son. Wah suggests that Henry ought to live with Susan for a while, and when Henry refuses, Wah slaps him around for addressing him so informally in order to get him to leave. Henry calls Susan, who takes him in happily, but when she tells him that she is her mother, he is outraged because Wah told him that his mother died shortly after his birth. Wah admits to Henry that Susan is his mother, and that he still loves her, but couldn't deal with her continuing with her career, then contemplates returning to boxing to pay his debts, even though this means risking his life.
- Abandoned as a child, Brahmachari lives in a mortgaged house with twelve young orphans. He saves a woman from dying and she changes his life forever. But first she has to deal with her own affairs.
- Michael Richards plays a guy who wants to know why his auto insurance keeps going up, even though he crashes into cars in front of and behind him when parallel parking on the way in to his insurance company, where they make him play a game about insurance costs that takes him through bizarre reenactments of history to explain his problem.
- When Xiao Bo's trans mother, who transitioned and wants to be called mom, is dying, she insists on having the taste of Xiao's milk (sperm) when she dies, so he gives him head. Soon after, he meets his best friend, Nana, for the first time after her transition, now a beautiful woman. Other acquaintances transition while Xiao copes with his loss. Nana becomes despondent at the prospect of never finding the right man.
- Unsold pilot for Saturday morning cartoon show inspired by a Mattel toy line. A gang of computer viruses gains sentience and escapes into the real world on hovercraft. Computer A.I. assembles a team of Computer Warriors to bring them in.
- Zack and Ashlee discover the meaning of true friendship when they create an imaginary friend, the superhero Rem Lezar.
- Steve McQueen multiply remakes the most famous shot of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), in which the façade of a house collapses and Keaton is saved by being in exactly the right position as a window from a multitude of different camera angles.
- We begin with Shô Kosugi demonstrating the use of a katana, saying nothing about the film he is introducing. When Gordon is taking his girlfriend's picture in Hong Kong, several Caucasian thugs led by a Chinese man, Kogan, threaten her, so he beats them up. Elsewhere, Bernard Wong pays his workers extra money to continue digging his land after discovering human bones. The thugs are members of the Black Ninja Clan, whose dead are buried on Wong's site. One of their operatives strangles Gordon's girlfriend, believing she knows where Gordon has hidden the Golden Ninja statue that apparently gives him power and won't say, while another hires Ghost Ninja, a beautiful witch dressed in white to kill Wong, his daughter Fanny, her husband George, and her son, Bobo, for three million dollars. Fanny is frightened by a cat in the house upon move-in, and the Black Ninja leader keeps swinging her sword to hallucinate frogs jumping to their deaths out of her refrigerator and her soup ladle turning into a flying snake (strung on a wire that is highly visible without pausing despite being a split-second shot). The witch keeps spooking Fanny and Bobo, who insists on riding his bike in the living room, but George doesn't believe either of them. Gordon (sitting in front of a poster of a strangled woman marked "this could happen to you" and another poster of a swimsuit model) responds to their complaints (in shot-reverse shot, as they're obviously not in the same film) and commands Magic Chan, a wizard with a magic mirror he has forgotten, and his obese sidekick, Firecracker, in the same manor, and frequently keeps in touch on the phone after his Caucasian operative living next door, Sara, is murdered by a zombie man. Sometimes he uses a black phone, but more often it is a Garfield phone (which the camera moves and music suggest is supposed to be funny). The Ghost Ninja is more interested in her own desires than killing the family, and masturbates to the couple's lovemaking before spiriting herself into Fanny's vagina (there is no full-frontal nudity) in order to lure George away from her, though she makes him physically ill, as she did to Bobo by stuffing his mouth full of handfuls of grass. The Ghost Ninja, once compelled by the Black Ninja leader, calls upon more women like dressed her, plus one impersonating Bobo's grandmother as a lure for him, and the zombie man, in an all-out assault against the family, while the two bumbling idiots (Firecracker and Magic Chan) are having a drinking contest, and Gordon, in a red ninja suit, who has been offing the Caucasian ninjas, prepares to confront Kogan, the Black Ninja leader.
- Dirty Dingus Magee and his old rival Hoke Birdsill take turns at being either lawman or outlaw and being rivals or partners in crime, depending of the circumstances.
- Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
- A magnate buys an old house that has been abandoned since the early 19th century because it is haunted by a ghost of a 16 year old girl murdered by the lord of the manor, who, if carried across the threshold, will select a victim to kill from the inside out.
- The Frankish knight Roland captures Fierrabras, son of the Prince of the Moors, and out of chivalry has King Karl spare him. Karl remands Fierrabras to Roland's custody, and they become friends. Ronald is in love with Karl's daughter Emma, but as a simple knight, he is not of the status to marry Princess Emma, although she loves him. Emma is betrothed to Eginhard, King Karl's army commander. Roland and Emma decide to elope in the garden at night, but King Karl catches them. In the bad light, Fierrabras is able to take the fall for Roland, who spared his life, and gets put in prison. Eventually, King Karl learns the truth from Emma and sets Fierrabras free, and Fierrabras and Roland strike out together against the Moors. Fierrabaras will not strike his own father, however, and the opera ends in a happy reconciliation between the parties. In this production, Franz Schubert himself appears, taking bits of the spoken dialogue and manipulating the characters onstage, sometimes handing them sheet music from which to sing, as though he is composing the opera as it is being performed.
- An injection that can freeze cattle solid for later thawing is prepared by a woman's husband and nephew to be used on her. At her son-in-law's warning, she replaces the fluid with tap water and accepts the injection, faking the freezing, then tormenting them as a "ghost."
- To help his ailing mother, an un-named young man agrees to copy the Buddhist scriptures in a quiet place, bathe regularly, and avoid the company of beautiful women. With his slave boy, Ching, he goes to live at an abandoned estate believed to have a haunted well. Though he disbelieves at first, he discovers it is haunted by Su-Su, a ghost of a drowned girl merged with an enchated mirror spirit called Yau Ying. She is forced by a poisoned dragon to kill bad people, but claims that he is too righteous for her to harm, despite some ectoplasm-infected attempts to strangle him with her sash. She agrees to be his servant for shielding her from the dragon, and gives him the peace required for him to do his transcription, even receiving the approval of his mother. Ultimately, they are forced to confront the dragon.
- The director wants to make a tragedy, but it's a comedy studio. The writer doesn't have a script, so he may yet get to direct a tragedy. Sheldon, the producer, tosses a "gizmo" out the window--a horizontal tube on a wooden base topped with two artificial hands--and it inspires the writer to write a script about it as a wacky invention, although one of the actors believes it's a missing modern art piece by Fernando Fiasco.
- An animated bike named Ike explains the safety hazards of bikes, chanting "I like bikes" as he moves through various settings, then following live-action bike riders. One falls over in the street and is nearly hit by Lisa's parents. Ike then narrates Lisa's interest in bikes through to her teenage years when she gets a car to see if she can be attentive now that she's not using hers as much.
- Cameraless animation perfectly synched to the eponymous 1969 track by The Flock (Rick Canoff, John Gerber, Fred Glickstein, Jerry Goodman, Ron Karpman, Frank Posa, Jerry Smith, Tom Webb). The cameraless technique was essentially invented by Lawrence Janiak, Garland's instructor, well known in experimental film circles.
- Four operatic acts from different plays: "Shi yuzhuo" (Picking the Jade), a drag comedy, "Da shen" (Scolding the Gods), a monologue of a jilted lover vs. the gods, "Fengyi ting" (The Fengyi Pavilion), a story of a concubine seducing a father and son, and "Damian gang" (The Noodle Jar), a coarse sex comedy.
- Nathaniel Pickman Wingate has opened a gateway to another dimension using equations and equipment in his basement laboratory. His wife, Nancy, wants him to get ready for his own birthday party. He wants his son Sam to help him. Sam is up in his room looking at pictures of Jasmine on his computer, and a poster of her arrives which he puts in his closet. Although it is Nathan's birthday, the family is enthralled by a visit from Cousin Desmon, who is now a count in Liechtenstein. While Sam is away getting equipment for his father with his friend Alex, his father gets sucked into the other dimension, and a creature from the parallel universe escapes, pursued by another. The first temporarily traps the second with its spit, attacks Desmon, and becomes a duplicate, absorbing his thoughts from the unconscious body. The other manages to get free, and unable to find a human to mimic, finds the poster of Jasmine, and becomes her. Sam soon finds her, and becomes his new girlfriend, but she has to find the false Desmon and take him back to their dimension to keep him from harming himself or Sam's family. Sam's sister Linda ("Lindy") is obsessed with talking on the phone, and can neither spell "Desmon" (she spells it "Dezmon") or Chameleon (she spells it "Kamillion", hence the title), what Nathan called the creatures on his tape recorder. The false Desmon drives away Emma the French maid, and plays childish, seemingly deadly pranks on the rest of the family: Angelica, a slut who owns half the house, Larry, a minister, supposedly born again, but badly sinning, and Floyd, a mechanic. Both chameleons try to figure out the ways of the new dimension, while Desmon finds new ways to make mischief, but I can't give away why. Meanwhile, everyone is operating on Nathan's belief that after the four hours of coolant runs out, half the planet will be blown away.
- Four car-obsessed teenagers hang out in a clubhouse: two good kids: 4U, a guy with a toy car over his shoulders and his girlfriend, Euphoria, in a yellow blue frilly jump-suit, try to reform Fast Lane, a guy with slicked up fiery red hair and a cardboard hot rod around his shoulders, who often serves as a bad influence to Couch Potato, a chubby guy in a yellow jump-suit. They had vignettes, after which Bob Keeshan would sum up the lesson, surrounding the cartoons "Rainbow Brite," "Popples," and "Ulysses 31," the latter replaced mid-season with "The Get-Along Gang."
- New Year's Eve special for kids inspired by the 1963 film The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors. A pair of twins enthused by a musical television program and dreaming of getting into show business leap into their TV and run around in the palace of King Tarrop the 77th, who is viewing numerous musical performances in his throne room, many involving campy ethnic stereotypes. It does not really follow the plot of the original film, and is primarily devoted to the musical performances (which include several songs in English, one in French, and one in Italian) but the eccentric characters are largely recognizable even without bearing a close resemblance to the originals.
- Huangmeixi tragic opera in which Bai Suzhen, and her younger sister, Qingqing are centuries old snake spirits who have trained to take on human form for a thousand years. Suzhen takes the form of a young doctor and falls for Mr. Xu, a poor pharmacist who rescued her beaten snake form in a previous incarnation, and Qinqing her handmaiden and matchmaker. Although the medicine Suzhen makes has saved countless people, many monks insist that they are snakes and inherently evil, and try to make Xian escape them and become a monk himself. When he learns the truth with the posions from the Dragon Boat festival, he is literally scared to death. Suzhen, though pregnant, must then fly to the celestial mountains and battle for the flower that can restore him to life.
- August 7, 1930 was the night of the final lynching ever to take place in Indiana, in the northern town of Marion. One survivor and several witnesses and descendants recall one of the worst events in that city's, and indeed the state's, history.
- Young office employees and a gay delivery boy who wants to be a dancer, all desirous of leaving their day jobs, pitch in money and number selection on a lottery ticket. Bing, who has a severe stutter, is sent to get the ticket, and refuses to supply it. His co-workers, all staying late at night to finish a proposal for their manager, Gloria, torture him in order to make him supply the ticket, even attempting to get him to sign an insurance policy before they kill him. All the while, they try to avoid getting caught by Gloria, who expects them to be working.
- Modern dress version of Shakespeare's "problem comedy" emphasizing the darker elements of the play and eliminating most of the humor, as Claudio is dragged to the police station on charges of fornication, and given a rectal exam in front of a window.
- TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man who is the sole financial supporter of his family until he awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becoming a nuisance to his family, who must now learn to rely upon themselves.
- A compilation of four short science fiction films: 'Peter Billingsley' and Robert Meyer Burnett's _Sacred Fire, The (1994) _, 'Eric Wallace''s Dark Faith (1991), 'Lazslo Bene''s Public Image (1993), and Bud Robertson's Crystal Ball (1989). No additional material is included save for bumper credits.
- Two-hour condensation of a nineteen-hour opera production in which Liniang, daughter of Governor Du, who is summoned to Huangzhou to fight off an invasion of Tartars, falls into a deep sleep and dreams of falling in love, and dies of love sickness. She is sent up from the underworld as a spirit in order to marry her destined love, a scholar from Canton, Liu Mengmei, whose name is a comination of willow and plum (which has poetic significance). Robert Powell's voiceovers keep us up to speed through the massive cuts.
- A lone man sits at a table dreaming. He dreams of singing a few bars of Schubert's lied, "Nacht und Träume." Then unseen people give him a communion cup and wipe his brow. He is shown dreaming again, then the dream repeats, only much slower.
- A murderer, with the help of Chinese vampires, does battle with the ghost of a dead gambling lord's wife and the gambling lord's living brother.
- Eight segments of opera films: Sheng Xinma performs a monologue from _A King's Revenge (1955), followed by an excerpt of _The Patriot's Sword_ (1958). Cibo Liang is featured in _An Immortal Refuses Love_ (1958), and Yutang Bai appears in _The Wonder Boy_ (1961). Segment five shows Xingbo Liang, Jiasheng Lin, and Cibo Liang in _The Impartial Bao Gong_ (1967), while segment six is a performance by Northern opera actress Suqiu Yu. The last two are versions of _Red Maid, The Matchmaker_, first a 1958 film with Yanfen Fang and An Banri, followed by one titled _The Little Go-Between_, featuring Baobao Feng and Cibo Liang. It was originally double billed with _South China Stars Special_.
- Failing to obtain any vultures--the only potential food in the severe drought of Northeastern Brazil--Didi and his friends Soró and Tatu', put their hut on a wagon pulled by their burro Salvation and head for the town of Oróz, believing they can find water there. On the way, they find a Scarecrow, whom Didi calls Clowbrush (clown+brush), besieged by vultures reminiscent of the crows in _Wiz, The (1978/I)_. They kill and eat the vultures and take the brainless Scarecrow with them, hoping a doctor at Oróz will put them in. They next stumble upon a warehouse, finding a man in a metal vat of rum, which is his blood, who desires a heart. In the town of Oróz, Sheriff Lion works for Colonel Ferreira, who owns a pond using gigantic frogs to keep people from obtaining water without paying. Lion's girlfriend, Aninha the schoolmaster, thinks he is a coward for not standing up to the Colonel. The Tramps, with Vat and Clowbrush, arrive and promptly rob a bakery. Sheriff Lion puts Soró and Tatu in jail, while to redeem himself, he is ordered to supervise Didi, Vat, and Clowbrush in a search for water, which is their punishment. After disguising themselves as Ferreira's guards, they are nonetheless discovered, so they flee to a desert, where a saint points them to the Wizard of Oróz, who fiendishly supports their mission - The film, while a spoof of a famous story, was also intended to make people aware of the conditions in the Northeast, which Aragão said he could not show in any greater detail, lest the film be terrified by the reality of the plight in that area.
- Local kids' program in which Peggy and her wizard friend, Don, run an Indianapolis diner with Chef Choufleur and a staff full of puppets and show Terrytoons including Deputy Dawg, Hector Hethcote, and Hashimoto-san.
- Interview featurette on the DVD of The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors in which Andrei Stapran discusses how he was cast in the film, working with Aleksandr Rou, and an incident at school related to the length of his hair for the role. He then discusses his later life as a director and promotes the socially conscious films he made about Chernobyl, The Caribbean Crisis, and the Afghan War.
- The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.
- L. Frank Baum is attempting to write a new story. Before he has written more than his name, he is interrupted by his youngest son, Kenneth, and their dog, Dorothy. Persuaded to write about Santa Claus by Kenneth, and with the support of his butler, he spins a yarn about a "Santanapping" preventing Santa Claus from performing his annual duties and the ambition of the young ryl, Whisk, to assist in Santa Claus's rides, who, with Kilter the pixie and Nutter the knook, has to do just that, according to Santa Claus's emergency orders.
- After Ronald Reagan decides to spend 42% of the budget on defense, a family of four (including an artificial son Katya really did think was her brother) act like they are constantly in a war zone--driving a camo car, wearing camo, always armed and prepared to shoot, even simulated targets. Millner narrates based on data and a Dear Abby story, and makes the final comment that then 2 1/2 year old Katya would say "video clothes" whenever she saw people wearing camouflage.
- A thief is caught robbing a couple's home when they arrive early from allegedly going to the theatre. He tells them all their belongings are too worthless to steal, but convinces them he needs to steal something so they don't look like poseurs.
- A pseudo-vampire bites a cop, falls in love, has a son who becomes a powerful slayer, and struggles with his relationship with God.
- Shiza, Hope, and Anjola must put aside their differences if they wish to succeed in a Nollywood acting school.
- When a nurse leaves her job to walk home, a young boy tries to grab her pocketbook, but she wrestles him to the ground, gets her pocketbook back, and drags him to her apartment in a headlock. There she feeds him and teaches him some valuable lessons before sending him home.
- Three clownish parodies of the crooks in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) rob a bank. When the dorky getaway car man gets out after the couple take to long, he tries to grab the money, spilling much of it on the ground. All three manage to get in the car, shooting away as they grab as much of the spilled money as they can. This leads into a narrator discussing various safety rules and signals.
- Four drivers are examined in this instructional film. Young Andy knows the rules of the road but lacks experience. Edith, a senior citizen, has the most experience, but tends to be too careful. Mr. Albert is a business man always in a rush. Rocky never thinks about what he is doing. The film simulates real-life potential accidents with this colorful cast of characters in a humorous way. Everybody makes mistakes, but Rocky causes the most trouble.
- William Douglas Me reports to his psychiatrist a strange story while reporting on his various physical ailments. Mr. Me went on a trip to Indonesia and picked up a valuable crown jewel at a video store for only five dollars American. The woman he got it from sold it to the wrong person and pursues him back to his home in Lebanon, Indiana, as does the villain for whom she stole it. Everyone in town soon learns Me has the jewel, including a friend who wants it for his wife, a meter reader who wants to quit, some kids and a teenager who rides a hobbyhorse, and a virtually silent thief, who speaks with intertitles.