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Back to Basics Documentary Challenge Finalists!!!

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Finalists!!
Winner
  • Bleeding Borders by Steven Timper

  • Runner-Up
  • The Man with the Electric Boots

  • Finalists
  • Round Up

  • Lights Sabers Action

  • Mental Block

The Rules of Attraction
Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 9:00 PM EDT

Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel about the sexual, emotional, and chemical interactions of a group of wealthy and amoral college students is brought to the screen in this adaptation from writer and director Roger Avery. More




Havoc
Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 11:00 PM EDT

A pair of naive young girls learn that even the most insignificant actions can have lasting consequences in this music-driven take on teen culture starring Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips and directed by two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple. More




Trainspotting
Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 9:00 PM EDT

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. More




Reefer Madness
Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 10:35 PM EDT

This unabashed propaganda film (also known by the title Tell Your Children, a dead giveaway) has become a cult classic of comically bad cinema due to its dated, alarmist views on the dangers of "marijuana addiction" and the exaggerated symptoms thereof. More




The Thin Red Line
Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 9:00 PM EDT

The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. More




The New World
Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 12:00 AM EDT

Terrence Malick, the universally acclaimed American filmmaker responsible for the key 1970s features Badlands and Days of Heaven, returns for a rare directorial outing with the sweeping period piece The New World. More




State of Grace
Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 9:00 PM EDT

This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Kitchen beat. More




Assassination of Richard Nixon
Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 11:30 PM EDT

The true story of a man who, on February 22, 1974, was thwarted from an ambitious plan for political assassination provides the basis for this striking psychological drama. More




Monster's Ball
Wednesday, Dec. 31 at 8:00 PM EDT

Director Marc Forster, winner of Best Feature at Slamdance for his debut film Loungers (1996) and the "Someone to Watch" Spirit Award for his indie drama Everything Put Together (2000), follows up those acclaimed projects with this intense, racially charged romance. More




Body of Evidence
Wednesday, Dec. 31 at 10:00 PM EDT

Madonna plays Rebecca Carlson, a sex bomb who parades naked in front of the open windows of her houseboat at all hours while the lobstermen catch crabs. More