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Palm Pictures is a US-based entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell. Palm Pictures produces, acquires and distributes music and film projects with a particular focus on the DVD-Video format. Palm places an emphasis on such projects as music documentaries, arthouse, foreign cinema and music videos. Palm Pictures' entertainment properties include a film division, a music label, sputnik7.com, epitonic.com, Arthouse Films and RES Media Group, publisher of RES magazine.
Palm Pictures has its own customised content channel on Audiotube.
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Be Here to Love Me (2004)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Kinky Friedman
Townes Van Zandt was a well regarded and influential musician and songwriter. The film follows his life as an artist, and documents the impressions he made on other musicians, his commitment to a mental facility, involvement in music, drugs and alcohol, departure from his family, several of his live performances, and general life on the road.
The Flower of Evil (2003)
, 1h44Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon, Bernard Le Coq, Mélanie Doutey, Thomas Chabrol
In a grand house at Bordeaux lives Gérard, owner of a pharmaceutical business. A drinker and fornicator, he disgusts his son François, recently returned from the USA. To Gérard’s disgust, his second wife Anne is a candidate in the municipal election.
Bright Future (2003)
, 1h55Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Joe Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji, Takashi Sasano, Ryō Kase, Ryō
Yuji Nimura (Joe Odagiri) and Mamoru Arita (Tadanobu Asano) are two factory workers, who are constantly irritated by their boss, Fujiwara (Takashi Sasano). Mamoru entrusts his poisonous jellyfish, which he has been acclimating to fresh water, to Nimura.
, 1h30Directed by Mitsuru Meike
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Emi Kuroda, Yukijirō Hotaru
Sachiko Hanai (Emi Kuroda) works as a call girl or soap girl specializing in sexual roleplay, or cosplay. In her work, Sachiko portrays a home-tutor, hence the film's original title, Horny Home Tutor: Teacher’s Love Juice. While at a café after one job, she witnesses an altercation between two men, one a North Korean and the other from the Middle East, who turn out to be spies in the middle of a transaction. When the argument escalates to gun-play, Sachiko foolishly starts to take a cell-phone picture of the incident and is shot in the forehead. Rather than killing her, the bullet lodges in her brain and gives her extraordinary mental powers, including the ability to understand languages of which she previously had no knowledge, arcane philosophical insight, advanced mathematical knowledge, and ESP. After fleeing from the scene, she finds a metal cylinder in her pocket which contains a cloned copy of the finger of United States President George W.
Purple Butterfly (2003)
, 2h7Directed by Lou Ye
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Zhang Ziyi, Toru Nakamura, Li Bingbing (李冰冰), Liu Ye, Feng Yuanzheng, Crazybarby Leni Lan Yan
Cynthia (Zhang Ziyi) and a Japanese student, Itami (Tôru Nakamura), have fallen in love in Japanese controlled Manchukuo prior to the war when Itami is forced to return to Japan.
Noi the Albino (2003)
, 1h33Directed by Dagur Kári
Origin Islande
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Actors Tómas Lemarquis
Nói Kristmundsson is a 17-year-old living in a small unnamed remote fishing village in western Iceland with his grandmother Lína (Anna Friðriksdóttir). His father Kiddi (Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson), an alcoholic taxi driver, also lives in town, but Nói appears to have a distant relationship with him. As an alopecia totalis his appearance is strikingly different from others in the village. Much of his time is spent either wandering the desolate town, at the town bookstore, or in a hidden cellar at his grandmother's house, which serves as his private sanctuary. The town is a sort of purgatory for Nói, surrounded by mountains and attainable only by boat during the winter, when the roads through the mountain passes are snowed over. There are signs that Nói is highly intelligent, but he is totally uninterested in school and seems to have an adversarial relationship with the faculty, particularly his math teacher. More often than not he cuts class to go to the local gas station, where he frequently breaks into the slot machine and rigs it for an assured jackpot. The bleak town seem to offer few prospects for the future, and Nói doesn't seem to fit in there.
Sex and Lucía (2001)
, 2h8Directed by Julio Medem
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Striptease
Actors Paz Vega, Najwa Nimri, Javier Cámara, Daniel Freire, Elena Anaya
Lucía (Paz Vega), a waitress, is talking on the phone with her depressed writer boyfriend Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa) after they had a nasty argument, where-after she walked out. Since he's been in a 'funk' for a while, she's worried, and goes home to console him. Finding an empty apartment, Lucía is frantic. She receives a phone call from the police while finding a suicide note, and is so afraid of bad news that she hangs up, assuming the worst. They call back, but she ignores the ringing phone, packs a bag, and flees. Looking for a new beginning, Lucía travels to the mysterious Balearic Islands that Lorenzo had always talked of, but had recently been very negative about.
Scratch (2001)
, 1h32Directed by Doug Pray
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hip hop films, Musical films
Depuis plus de vingt ans, le rap n'a cessé de prendre de l'ampleur : cette musique dont le grand public découvrit l'existence dès 1979 avec le tube de Sugarhill Gang Rappers' delight est devenu un genre majeur, infiltrant peu à peu les hit parades du monde entier et les habitudes vestimentaires de la jeune génération. Cependant, dans l'ombre des rappers occupant le devant de la scène musicale se trouvent les DJs. Ce documentaire, ponctué d'interviews d'Afrika Bambaataa et de GrandMixer DXT, retrace l'histoire de ces artistes, des années 70 à nos jours, et en particulier des experts du scratch, indissociable du phénomène hip-hop.
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)
, 1hOrigin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Mos Def, Debi Mazar, Tupac Shakur
The Cup (1999)
, 1h33Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Films about Tibet, Association football films, Films about Buddhism
Actors Neten Chokling, Jamyang Lodro
Alors que la Coupe du monde de football 1998 est disputée en France, Palden et Nyima, deux jeunes tibétains ayant fui leur pays arrivent dans un monastère bouddhiste au nord de l'Inde. Ils y reçoivent leur ordination à la vie monastique, mais celle-ci va rapidement laisser place à la passion du football. Palden se retrouve entraîné par Orgyen, son camarade de chambre, à regarder la nuit le match des quarts de finale dans le village voisin. Sur le chemin du retour, ils sont pris sur le fait par le geko, le maître de discipline du monastère, qui les punit. Avec l’approche de la finale, Orgyen réussit, non sans peine, à autoriser la diffusion de la finale de la Coupe du Monde au monastère. Ne possédant cependant pas de télévision, une course contre la montre commence afin de récolter assez d’argent pour en louer une. Après de nombreux obstacles, les résidents du monastère réussissent finalement par regarder la finale France-Brésil tous ensemble.
Six-String Samurai (1999)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about music and musicians, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Musical films, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Buddy films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Jeffrey Falcon, Dan Barton, Rheagan Wallace
In 1957, the Soviet Union attacks the United States with nuclear weapons, rendering most of the nation uninhabitable. The American government has collapsed with the exception of the haven known as "Lost Vegas", ruled by King Elvis. The Red Army has been besieging Lost Vegas, but the lack of supplies over the years has relegated them to a gang of thugs. Forty years after the Soviet invasion, King Elvis dies and radio disc jockey Keith Mortimer announces a call for all musicians to come to Lost Vegas to try to become the new King of Rock 'n' Roll.
Thicker Than Water (1999)
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Mack 10, Ice Cube, CJ Mac, Big Pun, B-Real, Kidada Jones
In Los Angeles, two rival gang leaders are also trying to be music producers. When DJ's (Mack 10) equipment shorts out and Lonzo (Fat Joe) is cut out of the action by a record producer, the two join forces, which also requires a tentative peace between gangs. With backing from Gator (CJ Mac), a smooth New Orleans drug king, DJ and Lonzo start drug dealing, organizing their gangs into pushers. Just as their finances are looking up, one of Gator's team pulls a double cross and two of DJ and Lonzo's gang bangers start a shooting war. Can the erstwhile music producers salvage anything of their bond or their plans?
Perfect Blue (1998)
, 1h20Directed by Satoshi Kon
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Animation
Actors Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Yōsuke Akimoto, Masaaki Ōkura, Yoku Shioya, Hideyuki Hori
Mima Kirigoe, the lead singer of the fictional J-pop idol group "CHAM!", decides to leave the group to become an actress, believing that the idol group life is a dead end job. Her first project is a crime drama series, Double Bind. Some of her fans are upset by her change in career, including a stalker known as "Me-Mania". Shortly after leaving CHAM!, Mima receives an anonymous fax calling her a traitor. She also finds a website called "Mima's Room", which features public diary entries that seem to be written by her that discuss her life in great detail. She brings the site to the attention of her manager, ex-pop star Rumi Hidaka, but is advised to ignore it.
Amarillo By Morning (1998)
, 29minutesDirected by Spike Jonze
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Spike Jonze
Stop Making Sense (1984)
, 1h28Directed by Jonathan Demme
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors David Byrne
Jonathan Demme filme les Talking Heads en concert. Le film a été tourné durant trois jours de concerts donnés au Pantages Theatre d'Hollywood en décembre 1983 alors que le groupe était en tournée pour promouvoir leur nouvel album Speaking in Tongues.