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With this 2-DVD set you'll spend an insightful humorous and no-holds barred evening with independent film director Kevin Smith--director of CLERKS MALLRATS CHASING AMY DOGMA and JAY SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK. Smith unabashedly discusses everything from his films and how he got them made to religion sex and human relationships in up close personal and hilarious program!

FOUR BLACK WOMEN, PROFANE AND BRASSY, BRING STAND-UP TO MEMPHIS'S ORPHEUM THEATRE.

Smith's film is a poignant commentary on what it takes to make an independent film. It also happens to be a genuinely hysterical crowd-pleasing romp. Trying to get his masterpiece NORTHWESTERN off the ground but failing miserably due to lack of funding and support struggling Midwestern filmmaker Mark Borchardt instead turns his attention to COVEN an abandoned 37-minute horror film that he began filming in 1990. His hopes are to sell enough copies of the video to enable him to clear his current debts and begin moving forward with his real baby NORTHWESTERN. The painstaking effort to get COVEN in the can and onto the screen for the film's world premiere provides the greatest laughs in this undeniably entertaining documentary.

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John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime on Fishing With John. Traveling with his special guests to the most exotic and dangerous places on earth, John Lurie battles sharks with Jim Jarmusch off the tip of Long Island, goes ice fishing with Willem Dafoe at Maine's northernmost point, braves the Costa Rican jungle with Matt Dillon, takes Tom Waits to Jamaica, and searches for the elusive giant squid with Dennis Hopper in Thailand.

Two Buster Keaton's for the price of one from the National Film Board of Canada. The great comic genius of the silent era still shines in these two programs. "Buster Keaton Rides Again" (55 min.) is a documentary filmed while Keaton was making "The Railrodder." The 1965 documentary provides an absorbing portrait of Keaton relaxing, telling yarns and plotting the next day's action with considerable flair. In "The Railrodder" (25 min.), Keaton travels across Canada aboard an open railway trackspeeder. Perched on his seat, this endearing traveller chugs nonchalantly past some of Canada's most spectacular landmarks. These programs are a memorable and intimate view of one of the most indestructible of slapstick comics.

In this classic American folk tale, apple-loving Jonathan Chapman (Martin Short) comes of age and shuns the comfortable life his parents lead, deciding instead to set out west and "find himself." With a frying pan on his head and his pockets stuffed with apple seeds, he travels across the land planting apple trees. Extensive print advertising including ads in TimeOut New York Kids, Popular Mechanics, Parenting, Child, FamilyFun, Mothering, Parents and Working Mother. Broad publicity campaign including radio, broadcast and online.

Say "I do" to this hilarious "mockumentary" about a trio of wacky couples who vow to win the coveted title of "Most Original Wedding of the Year." The dueling duos include the tuneless Matt (Martin Freeman) and Sam (Jessica Stevenson) whose unfortunate wedding theme is Hollywood musicals; the hypercompetitive tennis partners Josef (Steven Mangan) and Isabelle (Meredith MacNeil), and the outrageously uninhibited nudists Michael (Robert Webb) and Joanna (Olivia Colman). At stake is a million-dollar dream home, but can love survive in the midst of unbridled prenupital chaos?

This two pack includes the two movies ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY and QUEENS OF COMEDY. The first is Spike Lee's acclaimed documentary detailing the raucous hilarious performance of four of the world's funniest black stand-up comics. Lee presents the action in a straightforward unobtrusive manner letting the Kings and their jokes speak for themselves. The QUEENS OF COMEDY a female counterpart stars four equally funny and biting comediennes.

This provocative and disturbing movie is based on an incident that happened in the first winter of the war in Bosnia in 1992. Two childhood friends, one a Serb the other a Muslim, square off on opposite sides of war, their friendship tattered and in ruins. Interactive Menus, Production Notes, Scene access, Trailer