Maryte Kavaliauskas

This documentary shows a rare and intimate portrait of Hockney's private passion –- designing for the opera stage.

Three sectors of American society hit by recession in the mid-1980s: heartland farms, factory workers out of a job, and the new homeless. In Minnesota, 250 family farms are being repossesed each week; men and women talk about their farms, the nature of their bank loans, the onslaught of corporate farming, and their sorrow and despair. In cities where 3,500 jobs per day go overseas, unemployed workers contemplate their options. The newly homeless talk about the jobs they've lost, "Justice Ville" in Los Angeles (bulldozed by court order), and squatting in New York's abandoned buildings. A family living in a welfare hotel tells their story.

A short by and about Wim Wenders -- his life, work, thoughts, America, cinema.

Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály believed that music could be taught to children as readily as reading. The method he developed uses a child's own natural instrument, the voice. Beginning with simple musical intervals, the child progresses from folk tunes and children's songs to the complex notes and rhythms of composed music--from Bye baby bunting to Bach. [The film] is a look at the Kodály method of music training in public elementary schools in San Jose, California, and West Hartford, Connecticut. Ordinary children are shown in the film, but they exhibit extraordinary self-confidence, discipline, concentration, and an eagerness to learn. There is no such thing as failure in a Kodály classroom; in fact, the children are able to correct their mistakes themselves. Moreover, the children will bring much of 'how' they learn in their music lessons--counting and problem-solving, left-to-right progression, following directions--to their study of reading, writing and arithmetic.

Documental sobre los últimos días del gran director de cine americano Nicholas Ray, conocido director de cine con películas de culto como Rebelde sin Causa o Johnny Guitar. Cuando a finales de los setenta ya se estaba muriendo de cáncer, Ray se negó a ir a a un hospital y prefirió permanecer en su loft de Nueva York, rodeado de sus mejores amigos.

Una fotógrafa y su mejor amiga son compañeras de cuarto. Ella está atrapada con trabajos de filmación de pequeños cambios y sueña con el éxito. Cuando su compañera de cuarto decide casarse y marcharse, ella se siente herida y tiene que aprender a vivir sola.

El marchante americano Tom Ripley (Hopper) intenta poner a prueba la integridad de Jonatham Zimmermann, un humilde fabricante de marcos (Bruno Ganz) que padece una enfermedad terminal. Ripley le presenta a un gánster que le ofrece mucho dinero a cambio de que trabaje para él como asesino a sueldo. En un principio rechaza la oferta, pero, al pensar en el precario futuro que espera a su mujer y a su hijo después de su muerte, acaba aceptando el trato.