Anita Pallenberg

Heads

Peter Gidal

Francis Bacon, John Blake

Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99

Madonna, Tomas Arana

A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, Rain, Secret, Take A Bow, Bedtime Story, Human Nature, Love Don't Live Here Anymore, Frozen, Ray Of Light, Drowned World, The Power of Goodbye, Nothing Really Matters, and Beautiful Stranger.

The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile

Stephen Kijak

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

In 1971, to get breathing room from tax and management problems, the Stones go to France. Jimmy Miller parks a recording truck next to Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg's Blue Coast villa, and by June the band is in the basement a few days at a time. Upstairs, heroin, bourbon, and visitors are everywhere. The Stones, other musicians and crew, Pallenberg, and photographer Dominique Tarle, plus old clips and photos and contemporary footage, provide commentary on the album's haphazard construction. By September, the villa is empty; Richards and Jagger complete production in LA. "Exile on Main Street" is released to mediocre reviews that soon give way to lionization.

Le Berceau de cristal

Philippe Garrel

Nico, Dominique Sanda

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.

Dillinger è morto

Marco Ferreri

Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg

A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen.

Influence and Controversy: Making 'Performance'

Greg Carson

Sanford Lieberson, Frank Mazzola

2007 film about the influences on the making of Performance (1970).

Performance

Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell

James Fox, Mick Jagger

In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

John Maybury

Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig

Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

Invocation of My Demon Brother

Kenneth Anger

Speed Hacker, Lenore Kandel

The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Power of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling Spiral Force, the solar swastika, until the Bringer of Light—Lucifer—breaks through.

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel

Volker Schlöndorff

David Warner, Anna Karina

It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice.

Mister Lonely

Harmony Korine

Diego Luna, Samantha Morton

In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli

Abel Ferrara

Giovanni Capalbo, Luigi Maria Burruano

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.

Sympathy for the Devil

Jean-Luc Godard

Mick Jagger, Sean Lynch

An exhilarating, provocative motion picture. The Rolling Stones rehearse their latest song, "Sympathy For the Devil," in a London studio. Beginning as a ballad, the track gradually acquires a pulsating groove, which gets Jagger into a rousing vocal display of soulful emotion that Godard captures on film.

Cheri

Stephen Frears

Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

Mord und Totschlag

Volker Schlöndorff

Anita Pallenberg, Hans Peter Hallwachs

When a young woman accidentally kills her ex-lover during a fight, she decides to conceal the body. Unfortunately, however, our anti-hero is less than honorable and becomes involved with not one but both of the men she finds to help her with his disposal at a construction site. And that's just one of the problems this little case of murder and deception starts.

La Traversée du désir

Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle, Michel Houellebecq

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.