FRUIT OF THE VINE (Skate Documentary) 2002; DVD
Skate/Documentary/Skateboard DVD, Used
Long after most Hollywood films have faded into obscurity, Fruit of the Vine will stand as a vital, independent document of a thriving American subculture. We're talking skateboarding here--specifically, the maverick bicoastal pursuit of empty swimming pools to be ridden and mastered by expert skateboarders, some of whom have been perfecting their sport for 25 years or more. Codirectors Coan Nichols and Rick Charnosky have perfectly matched their subject with the grainy aesthetic of Super-8mm film, resulting in a no-frills work of art that captures, with time-capsule longevity, the obsessive mindset of those who pool skate despite numerous physical and legal obstacles. Fueled by a driving punk soundtrack, this is a loving portrait of outcast rebellion, embodied by such featured skaters as Tony Alva, Pat "Q-Man" Quirk, Mark Hubbard, and others who've turned skateboarding into a working-class religion. Simultaneously, Fruit of the Vine surveys a depressed American landscape, rotting and ripe for the infusion of energy that pool skating provides.
LOVESTRUCK Wrestling's No.1 Fan (Documentary), DVD
Wrestling/Australian/Documentary DVD, Used (ex rental) Rare
Sue Chuter is wrestling’s number one fan. She has dedicated her life to following the sport and its stars. She owns 4000 wrestling videos and DVDs and her house is wallpapered in over 3000 wrestling photos. She knows or has met almost everyone involved in wrestling from the local to the international stage. She’s a fascinating person who happily speaks of her great love. (Item is different to what is pictured.)
OVER THE TOP ROPE The legends of World Championship Wrestling Australia 1964 - 78; DVD
Wrestling/Australian/Documentary DVD, Used
Take yourself back to the time and action of World Championship Wrestling 1964 – 1978. Directed and written by Libnan Ayoub and Damian Kringas, OVER THE TOP ROPE charts the amazing events that saw ‘World Championship Wrestling’ establish itself as a weekend ritual in loungerooms across the country – and became a media juggernaut that mesmerised the nation during the 1960s and 70s.
10 years in the making – the most comprehensive documentary about World Championship Wrestling in Australia charts the events and extraordinary characters of World Championship Wrestling that mesmerised the nation between 1964 – 1978. It was a world where good triumphed over evil, heroes and villains fought – and a sport not for the faint-hearted. World Championship Wrestling became an iconic part of Australian sporting history, the likes you will never ever see again. The wrestlers were the ultimate characters of World Championship Wrestling – larger than life and each with their own unique style. Many were from different cultural backgrounds, and all appealed to the fans. Legendary wrestlers like Spiros Arion, King Curtis, Mario Milano, Abdullah the Butcher; commentators Mike Cleary and referee Tony Marino; and prominent Australians who were touched by the magic – like Ray Hadley, Santo Cilauro and the late, great sports doyen, Mike Gibson – all talk in their own words about the hey day of World Championship Wrestling – the events, characters and experiences that indelibly marked the time.
A two-hour DVD with extremely rare footage and photos, interspersed with interviews with the wrestlers, fans, commentators and referees. As a companion to the film, a bonus 32-page timeline booklet presents a chronological record of World Championship Wrestling highlights year-by-year, with never-seen-before photos and memorabilia.
AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE (2010); DVD
Documentary/Grindhouse/Exploitation/Sleaze DVD, Used
A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent movie era to the 1970s. This film begins with people debating on what a grindhouse film really is and after the release of the film GRINDHOUSE it seems like everyone was debating the true definition. This documentary covers pretty much everything that wasn't accepted by the mainstream. We cover a wide range of films starting with some early silents from Edison and then moving to Hollywood movies like FREAKS as well as trashier things like MANIAC, REEFER MADNESS and then going through other decades. Included are the "birth" films from the 40s, the nudist films of the 60s, the gore period starting with Herschell Gordon Lewis and then moving through the 70s with stuff like THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and the blaxploitation pictures. John Landis, William Lustig, Ted V. Mikels, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Kim Morgan, Fred Olen Ray, Fred Williamson, Allison Anders, Larry Cohen, David Hess, Don Edmonds and Jack Hill are just a few of the people interviewed here and they too have a wide range of opinions on the films covered here. The film also does a nice job at showing how certain production rules in Hollywood is what helped change the exploitation filmmakers and how Hollywood eventually had to drop what they were doing and offer people what they wanted.
NOMADS AND NO-ZONES Documentary; DVD
Documentary/Underground/Culture/Outsider/Punk DVD Rare
Drawn from the raw material of their drifts and detours, here's an album of radical diaries and personal documentaries from two of the West's bravest makers. Gritty glimpses of edgy experience in marginalized cultures, their authentic film stories afford rare access and insight into the lived poetry of a dozen-plus autonomous zones. A road-savvy Snider freight-hops her way up and down the Coast, tracking from Frisco punk rockers to apocalyptic messengers of the Sonoran desert, gambling and engaging with the losers and visionaries that she meets along the way. Criss-crossing her paths are the barefoot pilgrimages of Portand-based Renwick, whose wise eye and wild heart celebrate the secret meanings of animals and humble things, the agonies and ecstasies of outsider life.
DOPE (1968) Documentary (DVD)
Documentary/Drugs/UK/Rare DVD; New
A feature documentary about a young girl's descent into drugs. Shot in 1960s London, we see Caroline, a ravishing sixties naif, become a junkie, caught in the contemporary drug culture of the age. A protege of psychedelic artist Vali Myers, Caroline-tattooed head to toe in honor of her idol-cavorts with Myers in her famous mountain hideaway before spiraling downward from marijuana and psychedelics to heroin and cocaine. We come to understand not only the drug lure of the era, but also the soul of a free spirit who is caught in the grip of forces she cannot penetrate or comprehend. Like a butterfly caught in a web, Caroline struggles against her fate but its seductive attractions threaten to vanquish her. Featuring Caroline Thomson, Casey Deiss (later immortalized in a Shawn Phillips song "Ballad of Casey Deiss), with Vali Myers in a supporting role. Music by Geno Foreman.
DARK DAYS (2000) Documentary; DVD
Documentary/DJ Shadow/USA/Controversial DVD, Used
Near Penn Station, next to the Amtrak tracks, squatters have been living for years. Marc Singer goes underground to live with them, and films this "family." A dozen or so men and one woman talk about their lives: horrors of childhood, jail time, losing children, being coke-heads. They scavenge, they've built themselves sturdy one-room shacks; they have pets, cook, chat, argue, give each other haircuts. A bucket is their toilet. Leaky overhead pipes are a source of water for showers. They live in virtual darkness. During the filming, Amtrak gives a 30-day eviction notice.
BEATDOWNS The largest collection of real street fights ever assembled; DVD
Real Footage/Street Fights/Violence/Shocking DVD, Used
"The absolute most hardcore fight video to hit the scene, this is the most comprehensive collection of real street fights ever assembled on one DVD! Packed full of never-before-seen footage from all over the world. Brutal, bare- knuckle beatings, back-alley slugfests, police evidence assault videos, lynch mobs, bar brawls, gang fights, head-butts, take- downs, girl fights, and 1 blow KOs! All set to a slamming soundtrack of hip-hop & punk hits."
SNUFF PUPPETS Nyet Nyet's Picnic; DVD
Theatre/Art/Indigenous DVD, Used
Bunyips are creatures from Australian Indigenous mythology seen as servers of important warning from the land. They live in creeks, riverbeds, waterholes and swamps, emerging to terrify and sometimes devour animals and humans. In the 1880's bunyip sightings were reported in the Australian press and lonely, isolated white settlers/invaders wondered and worried about the existence of these native Australian monsters. The Snuff Puppets are honoured to co-present Nyet Nyet’s Picnic with a team of Indigenous artists. The show features over a dozen huge puppets and original live music with the world of bunyips comes to life through humour, terror and fun. The show premiered on the banks of the Yarra River as the cultural highlight of the City of Melbourne’s Reconciliation Week in 2005. This DVD is as rare as shit, and here is an example of the Snuff Puppets if you are not already a fan: https://youtu.be/CnbxO7P7Xnk
DRIFT (Lee Ranaldo/Leah Singer) 2005; DVD
Art/Experimental/Sonic Youth DVD, New
DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes. Lee Ranaldo is the guitarist and a founding member of the band Sonic Youth. His books of poetry and prose include JRNLS80s and Road Movies among others. Leah Singer is a visual artist and photographer and her work has been seen in print, performances and in exhibitions around the world.
FIFTY24SF & Upper Playground - Dithers; DVD
Art/Street Art/Graffiti/Underground/Design DVD, Used
FIFTY24SF in collaboration with Upper Playground is proud to announce Dithers, an extraordinary showcase DVD featuring some of today's most influential fine, graffiti and street artist, designer and photographers. The double-sided DVD features interviews with 30 artists, including: BIGFOOT / TIFFANY BOZIC / DAVID CHOE / DUG ONE / GRAY / JEREMY FISH / JEST / SHEPARD FAIREY / BRIAN FLYNN / SAM FLORES / GIANT / RICH JACOBS / QUIK / ANDY HOWELL / JO JACKSON / DAVE KINSEY / STASH / ALBERT REYES / SEEN / ANDY JENKINS / ANDY MUELLER / RICKY POWELL / SSUR / DALEK / TEAM / KEVIN LYONS / KOSTAS SEREMETIS / REVOLT / JAMEL SHABAZZ / ZEPHYR (Cover may differ from image)
OTHER PEOPLES MIRRORS (Nick Zedd) 2004; DVD
Erotic/Art/Transgressive/XXX/Nick Zedd/Underground/Rare DVD, New
Other People's Mirrors is a pseudo sci-fi trip of pornographic proportions. The camera seems to be an extension of the character that it follows. The movie centers around the journey of Echo Transgression. Echo is a schizophrenic sex addict, who believes that if she follows the instructions being transmitted directly into her spine she will escape to her own version of nirvana. Underground legend Nick Zedd plays the alien phantom of Narcissus, a secret agent who makes sure she stays on course. Written and Directed by: KRISTIE ALSHAIBI Stars: ECHO TRANSGRESSION, NICK ZEDD
