DMDCAF Film

DMDCAF Film Productions

DMD graduation "performance" of June 23, 2002--a comic experience!

We Remember Maui 2002 is the exceptional adventure of fourteen Marina Middle School eighth grade graduates on the island of Maui!

One of a Kind: My Amazing Mom is the true story of Madeline Jane Dunham, at least according to "Purple Mad" in this oral history/documentary film project.

Coach is the true story of the most intense middle school girls' basketball coach in herstory.

Bay Area Repertory Theaters (click links for current calendars)

Castro Theater is the classic on Castro Street and now that they refurbished the seats, when the mighty wurlizter is going it doesn't get any better than here...but the theaters below may be in greater need of your patronage so don't forget them!

Fine Arts Cinema: The Fine Arts Cinema's doors have reopened until at least the end of 2002!! Support them until they close for about two years, but continue to check their web site or join their mailing list as they will be having some "on the road" screenings at various locations. Their unique programming is worth paying attention to, and worth looking forward to their full time return in 2004--particularly with the demise of the UC Theater--support independent theater!!

Pacific Film Archive is the University Art Museum's long running film program in Berkeley.. Fascinating international films that you'll find nowhere else in the Bay Area and much more.

Paramount Theater in Oakland was built in 1931 as a movie palace. It has struggled through many years, but now is a first rate concert venue and home to a special series of Friday night old time films, complete with newsreels, cartoons, Dec-O-Win with prizes, and the Mighty Wurlitzer.

Parkway Theater is Oakland's unique home of the "picture, pub, and pizza" for a unique big screen movie experience with couches, entrees, and alcohol if you like. A nice mix of slightly old mainstream, independent films, and midnight movies with commentaries!

Rafael Film Center is the fancy new headquarters/host of the Mill Valley Film Festival, but it also shows a fascinating mix of films you may not see anywhere else, including several other festivals throughout the year.

Red Vic Movie House is a wonderful co-op movie theater on Haight Street with a great selection of films and reusable popcorn and drink containers (and it's one of the first places Candice stood David up).

Roxie Cinema on 16th Street and Valencia in SF (just a couple blocks from the 16th and Mission Bart Station) shows a bunch of films that are too dark for us, but also is frequently the only venue to show a great many films we desperately want to see!

SF Gate Film Listings for an overall listing of films currently showing. They do a pretty good job of listing all of the short run films as well, though those are less likely to have descriptions. And you can find all your mainstream fare and showtimes here.

Film Festivals/Societies/Resources

Arab Film Festival runs November 1-12 this year and promises to be an intriguing collection of films showing at the Roxie, the Fine Arts Cinema, and the Castro.

Cine Accion hosts the Cine Latino! film festival every year in San Francisco in the fall and has events year round.

Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose every year has a plentiful program.

Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco has a festival in the fall, program throughout the year, and excellent classes/resources/equipment/information for aspiring filmmakers.

Gay/Lesbian Film Festival in San Francisco every June at the recently refurbished Castro Theater.

Goethe-Institut San Francisco regularly shows German films and every January hosts the oustantding Berlin and Beyond Film Festival.

NAATA is the National Asian American Telecommunications Association, with lots of information about Asian American film and television, including a link to this year's San Francisco Asian American Film Festival (March 7-17).

New College Film Series has a series of documentary films on Ecology and Social Justice at the New College of California on 777 Valencia Street in San Francisco.

The Orinda Film Festival had an amazing first year in 2002! Come join us for an even better second year September 26-28, 2003!!

SF Indiefest is hosting several diverse film festivals throughout the year--the wonderfully varied 2nd Annual San Francisco Documentary Festival was just completed, but check the web site for frequent screenings of films at Jezebel's Joint on 510 Larkin at Turk in SF.

San Francisco Film Society hosts the annual SF International Film Festival, among other events.

Director/Film Sites

Atom Egoyan is one of our favorite directors, most of all for making Exotica and Calendar, and it's a pretty interesting web site.

Internet Movie Database for all your searching possibilities.

Iranian Women in Cinema is a thorough and interesting site with lots of information about, you guessed it, the impressive world of Iranian women filmmakers.

Peter Jackson a page dedicated to the guy we think of as brilliant for having made Heavenly Creatures and Meet The Feebles, though some people mistakenly think a trilogy currently unfolding is his finest work.

Maysles Films is an outstanding site with a library of information on their films, as well as shorts on the site!

Lourdes Portillo is an innovative Chicana documentary filmmaker who deals with powerful subjects including the massive disappearances of young women in Juarez in Senorita Extraviada.

Tribute The Movie is a fun and funny look at rock and roll tribute bands, as well as SuperFan!.

What I Got is an outstanding documentary looking at the lives of five intriguing women.

Women Make Movies is an excellent site dedicated to women who make movies, including a catalog, news, and more.

DMDCAF Film Library (all available for loan)

Almost Famous	Untitled with The Bootleg Cut, commentary, and interview with Lester Bangs
An American Werewolf In London	Commentary with David McNaughton (Mr. Dr. Pepper) and Griffin Dunne
Bad Taste	Peter Jackson's first film, include documentary Good Taste Made Bad Taste
Baraka	Stunning world photography
Syd Barrett's First Trip	For devoted Syd Barrett fans only.
Being There	Peter Sellers and television
The Big Sleep	Bogart and Bacall
Billy Elliot
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils	Last title in DMD's infamous introduction of film titles beginning with the word "Blood" in his 1986 Schlock Film speech (speech co-written by Lexy Green); includes audio commentary by Ted V. Mikels
The Book of Life	P.J. Harvey in a Hal Hartley short film
Braveheart	Commentary by the Australian Mad Max himself
Jeff Buckley--Live in Chicago	An intimate live Jeff Buckley performance.
Buzzcocks--Aug Wiedersehen	Live Buzzcocks on German TV in 1981.
Calendar	Commentary by Atom Egoyan and Arsinee Khanjian
Camelot	Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave with documentaries and remastered soundtrack
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	Fun-Filled Optional Sing-Along Feature
Chuck and Buck	Miguel Artesta and Mike White Commentary
Citizen Kane	Doc: The Battle over Citizen Kane; Audio commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich
Clockwatchers	A Stephen Mirrione edited film, unfortunately no editor commentary
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee and James Schamus Commentary
The Daytrippers
Ani DiFranco, Render	Live Ani Difranco and behind the scenes of tour documentary
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb	Kubrick documentary; interview with George C. Scott and Peter Sellers
Do The Right Thing	Criterion with Spike Lee, Dickerson, Wynn Thomas, Joie Lee commentary; video introductions by Spike Lee; Cannes footage; interview with editor Barry Brown
Exotica	No special features, but a great Atom Egoyan film!
Fahrenheit 451	1966 film of classic Ray Bradbury tale
Family Viewing / Next of Kin	Atom Egoyan commentaries plus previous Atom Egoyan short films
The Fisher King
Five Corners
Fried Green Tomatoes	Jon Avnet commentary; film documentary
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T	Dr. Seuss classic musical a must for anyone who has had a piano lesson or not
GalaxyQuest	Thermian language audio track
Gandhi	Original Gandhi newsreel footage; Ben Kinsley interview
Glory	Picture in picture commentary with Ed Zwick, Morgan Freeman, and Matthew Broderick; documentary
Go	Stephen Mirrione editor commentary
Haiku Tunnel	Josh Kornbluth monologue turned movie with commentary by Jake and Josh Kornbluth
Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King	One of a kind documentary on a one of a kind band with director's commentary, Jad Fair interview, and extra footage of Half Japanese live
Harold and Maude	Cat Stevens, Ruth Gordon, Northern California...it's all there!
Heavenly Creatures	The real masterpiece from Peter Jackson (now of Lord of the Rings fame)
Hidden Hawaii	Excellent 35 minute, IMAX documentary on Hawaii
Home for the Holidays	Jodie Foster commentary
The Hudsucker Proxy	DMD's favorite Coen brothers film, but I guess I'm just a softie.
I'm The One That I Want	Margaret Cho's hilarious and raunchy live show; commentary, behind the scenes
Jacob's Ladder	Commentary and deleted scenes
The Jungle Book	The Bare Necessities
Kurt & Courtney
Little Women (1994)	Gillian Armstrong commentary, deleted scenes
Lolita (1961)	Kubrick, Sellers, Mason, Winters, Lyon, Nabakov
Love and Basketball	Documentary: Breaking the Glass Ceiling - The Rise and Acceptance of Women Competitors; commentary with Gina Prince-Blythewood and Sanaa Lathan
Kentucky Fried Movie	Landis, Zuzker, Abrahams, Zucker, Weiss commentary; on-set home movies
The Killing Fields	Roland Joffe commentary
The Kinks: Come Dancing	Comed Dancing videos and Ray Davies' film, Return to Waterloo
LoneStar	One of the many outstanding John Sayles' films
The Maltese Falcon	John Huston classic with Bogart documentary, trailers
The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer commetary; interview with Sinatra, Axelrod, and Frankenheimer
Meet The Feebles	Peter Jackson's gross, sweet, muppet masterpiece
Monty Python and The Holy Grail	Commentaries, sing-alongs, and a load of rubbish
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Frank Capra, Jr. commentary and remembers
Music of the Heart	Small Wonders documentary on which this movie was based; commentaries
Perfect Profile	Nancy Lieberman stars in the worst of a long line of bad basketball themed films
Pink Floyd - The Wall	Two documentaries and Roger Waters/Gerald Scarfe commentary
Pleasantville	Gary Ross commentary
Pop and Me	Audio commentary and deleted scenes
Il Postino	Michael Radford commentary, documentary
Reality Bites
The Royal Tannenbaums	We're in the minority, but this is our favorite Wes Anderson film; Criterion collection with commentaries y mas
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer	Classic stop action animation we grew up with, Burl Ives rules
Salesman	Criterion: Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin commentary
Salt of the Earth	The Hollywood Ten documentary of the blacklisted "Hollywood Ten"; history and stills of embattled production; congressional testimonies of blacklisted filmmakers
Salvador	Oliver Stone commentary, deleted scenes
School Daze	Spike Lee commentary
The Unkown Peter Sellers	Documentary on the peculiar, amazing actor/comedian
Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh commentary
Shadow of a Doubt (1942)	DMD's and Hitchcock's favorite Hitchcock film; making of documentary
Shine
Short 4	85 minutes of shorts
Short 11	Over 150 minutes of shorts and commentaries
Shrek	Commentary, record your own voice as a character, technical goofs
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
The Sound of Music	Robert Wise commentary; Multiple documentaries on second disc
Spanish Festival: Scenes of Spain	A Naxos musical journey
Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads)	Commentary with Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads; bonus tracks
Storefront Hitchcock	Robyn Hitchcock live in a New York storefront, directed by Jonathan Demme
The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egayan and Russell Banks commentary+
Thelma and Louise	Alternative ending; Ridley Scott commentary
There's Something About Mary	Farrelly Brothers commentary; no extra footage of Jonathan Richman--boo!
The Thing (1982)	John Carpenter and Kurt Russell commentary; documentary with interviews including special effects wizards
Thirteen Days	Film commentaries and several relevant historical documentaries
This Is Spinal Tap	Spinal Tap commentary, Flower People press conference, y mas
Threesome	Director commentary, alternate ending
Traffic	Criterion: Stephen Mirrione editing demonstration and what else could you ask for!
The Twilight Zone #2	"Time Enough at Last" (Burgess Meredith); Monsters are due on Maple Street"; "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" with William Shatner
West Side Story
When Harry Met Sally	Rob Reiner commentary
The Who -- Who's Next	Behind the scenes of making of Who's Next with bonus tracks
Willow	Warwick Davis commentary
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory	Commentary with the five kids (now grown); four sing-along songs
The Wizard of Oz	Behind the scenes; original recording of radio broadcast

VHS

Comedy

American Werewolf in London, An

Andy Kaufman Show

Andy Kaufman Tribute (TV)

Bedazzled (1967) w/Dudley Moore and Peter Cook

Big Picture, The

Bill Cosby--Himself

Blue in the Face

Comedy Tonight: Andy Kaufman, Robin Williams, + (1977, HBO)

Dana Gould: Insomnia

Dave Letterman (1996 Video Special)

Defending Your Life

Ed Wood

Everyone Says I Love You

Getting In

Girls of the Comedy Store

Green Card

Groundhog Day

Jake Johannsen: This'll Take About An Hour

Kids in the Hall (TV, sketch comedy)

Living in Oblivion

Mask, The

Meatballs

News Radio (TV comedy, various)

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Raising Arizona

Son-in-Law

What About Bob?

Williams, Robin--An Evening with

Wonder Years, The (Comedy TV Series, many episodes)

Documentary

60 Minutes Expose: Smoke in Your Eyes (PBS)

8-year old blues guitar player (short)

Act of Conscience, An

Act of War: Hawaiian Nation

Africa (part of PBS series)

Altered States: A History of Drug Use in America

American Hollow

American Pimp

Andy Kaufman (TV, bio)

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

Beauty Pageants: Miss or Myth

Berkeley in the 60s

Big One, The (Michael Moore)

Bob Newhart (A&E Bio)

Born in the USSR--14 Up

Celluloid Closet, The

Cesar Chavez: The Fight in the Fields

Charcoal People

Companions: Tales from the Closet

CPS Forensics Night 1984

Cruise, The

Culture Jammer's Video: Seven TV Uncommercials

Dadetown

Don't Look Back (Bob Dylan)

Eating Well (PBS)

Errol Morris' First Person (TV, various)

Errol Morris, A Brief History of

Errol Morris--The Kiler Inside Me

FAT (Frontline Doc)

Feed

First Year (PBS, Teaching)

For Better or For Worse (documentary of 50+ year relationships)

Gates of Heaven

George Seldes

Girls' Hoops (PBS)

Gleaners and I, The

Harry Hay: Hope Along the Way

Hidden Agenda

Hiroshima

History of Schools (PBS)

KPFA: On The Air

Live Nude Girls Unite!

Madonna: Truth or Dare

Manufacturing Consent

Margaret Sanger (PBS)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Biorhythm (MTV)

McLibel (LinkTv)

Merchants of Cool, The

Natural History of Chickens, The

Never Fully American (Chinese American)

Nick Park: Making of Wrong Trousers

Noam Chomsky Doc

Not for Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (PBS)

On Death/Dying (PBS doc)

One Of A Kind: My Amazing Mom (Purple MAD)

Poles Apart (Women's journey to south pole)

Pop (frontline on father w/altzheimer's

Postman Blues

Promises

Presidential Debates History (PBS)

Presumed Guilty--Public Defender (PBS)

Rising Waters: Global Warming & Fate of Pacific Islands

Roger and Me

Run Like A Girl (PBS)

San Francisco: The First 150 Years (KRON)

School of the Americas (Link TV doc)

Senorita Extraviada (Lourdes Portillo)

Speaking in Strings

Stonewall

Stopwatch (labor, Frederick Winslow Taylor)

Than in the Invisible War

Third Choice, A (PBS, 3rd parties in U.S. politices/cut)

Tomboys (PBS)

Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

Vernon, Florida

Wheel of Life: Shaolin Monks

Wonderland

Zoot Suit Riots (PBS American Experience)

Music

Barenaked Ladies (60 min)

Big Time (Tom Waits)

Billy Bragg: Which Side Are You On?

Billy Nayer Show, The: short films

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds (VH1, 6/6/1999(

Dave Matthews Band: Listener Supported

Divine Madness

Doo Wop Reunion (PBS)

Drum Corps Championship, 2001

Gipsy Kings (60 min)

Gipsy Kings: Fuego!

Hawaii: Songs of Aloha (PBS)

JAMES: Video Compilation

Jane Siberry Boy Collect One

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: The Videos

Nick Cave on Dave Letterman (Love Letter)

Pogues: Live at the Town and Country

Robyn Hitchcock: Gotta Let This Hen Out

Sarah McLachlan (60 min)

Sharkira Unplugged

Waits, Tom (VH1, 6/13/1999)

Waits, Tom: (12/5/1978)

Waters, Roger: Radio KAOS

Drama

5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The

A Bronx Tale

A Hard Day's Night

a.k.a. Don Bonus

Amistad

Animation #19 (Volume One)

Animation #22 (Volume Four)

Anne Frank (ABC)

Baby Fever (cutoff)

Bar Girls

Barton Fink

Before Sunrise

Big House, The

Bitter Sugar

Blue

Braveheart

Celebrity

Central Station

Chungking Express

City of Hope

Coeur en Hiver, Un

Corrina, Corrina

Crooklyn (taped from Bravo)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

Dangerous Minds

Dead Again

Dead Zone, The

Deja Vu

Double Life of Veronique, The

Drylongso

E.T.

East is East

Eat Drink Man Woman

Exotica

Falcon and The Snowman, The

Finding Forrester

Fisher King, The

Flamenco

Get on the Bus

Getting to Know You

Ghost Dog

Gia

Glenn Mille Story

God Saiid Ha!

Good Will Hunting

Gray's Anatomy

Gridlock'd

Help!

Hilary and Jackie

How to Make an American Quilt

Husbands and Wives

Illuminata

Indian Runner, The

John Sayles Interview (IFC)

Joy Luck Club, The

Ju Dou

Junior

Kika

Last Night

Little Women (1994)

Little Women (Katherine Hepburn)

Longtime Companion

Matador

Matewan

Monster In A Box

Moulin Rouge

Mr. Jealousy

NAATA Shorts (PBS)

Night on Earth

Picket Fences (TV, various)

Picture Bride

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Pleasantville

Pushing Hands

Rebound

Rendez-Vous

River Wild, The

Safe

Sense and Sensibility

Serpico

She Said Shorts

Short Film International (PBS)

Siege, The

Slam

Solaris

Sophie's Choice

Stand By me

Starmaps

Stranger Than Paradise

Strangers in Good Company

Sweet and Lowdown

Swimming to Cambodia

Talented Mr. Ripley, The

Tampopo

Tango Lesson, The

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Twilight Zone (various episodes)

Two Small Bodies

Unstrung Heroes

U-turn

Venice, Venice

Virgin Suicides

Waking the Dead

Walking and Talking

Watermelon Woman, The

What's Cooking

White

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