A new production of Parsifal, Wagners huge, profound meditation on guilt, death and possible redemption, is always a remarkable event. This one, directed by Stephen Langridge, designed by Alison Chitty and conducted by Antonio Pappano, the creative team who…
China is the first country to label Internet addiction a clinical disorder. With extraordinary intimacy, Web Junkie investigates a Beijing rehab center where Chinese teenagers are deprogrammed, focusing on three teens, their parents and the health professionals determined to…
Twenty-seven years after turning one of Rudyard Kiplings best known works into a successful animated musical, Disney returned to the same source material for this live-action adventure, which hews slightly closer to the original source material. Mowgli (Sean Naeleli)…
In PARADISE: Faith Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to bear the cross. For Anna Maria, an X-ray technician, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her vacation to missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the…
This documentary follows an Australian Aboriginal familys struggle to survive. Djalu Gurruwiwi, Yolngu elder, and his sister, Dhanggal, strive to restore eroding tradition of the didgeridoo craftsman. While shepherding their Galpu clan through economic, environmental, and social pressures, they…
In 1970 Michael Eavis opened his 150-acre farm to 1,500 people each paying one pound to watch a handful of pop and folk stars perform over the summer-solstice weekend. With that the Glastonbury Festival was born. It is now…
Three troubled teenage girls are at the center of this 2007 documentary from German filmmaker Bettina Blümner. Klara, Mina and Tanutscha are all fifteen, and each has her own set of problems. Klara has had run-ins with the law…
