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Check Your Body at the Door is an exhaustive 20-year study of underground House dancing funded by the National Endowment of the Arts/ Dance Heritage Initiative and produced by dance critic and historian Sally Sommer, PhD. As a historical document, the film answers: What did House dancing look like? Who were the dancers? Why did they dance?
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As a way of escaping their dysfunctional families and their boredom in suburbia, Sarah and Stacey have embraced the L.A. underground rave scene. This gritty program, filmed in a cinema verite style, presents an insider's look at a world of teenagers fueled by techno music and synthetic drugs such as Ecstasy and methamphetamines. As enlightening as it is disturbing, the film eerily crosscuts the girls' roller-coaster ride of depression and euphoria...
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During the 1980s, The Hacienda became one of the most famous venues in the history of clubbing... until its tragic demise. Founded by New Order and Factory Records, the nightclub hosted gigs by legendary acts; became the cathedral for acid house; and laid the tracks for rave culture and today's electronic dance music. But as gangs, drugs, greed, and a hostile police force decimated the dream, it became an outlandish story of success, idealism, naïveté,...
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When her boyfriend commits suicide, Scottish supermarket clerk Morvern Callar disposes of his body by chopping it to pieces, then heads for warmer climes to spend his money. The money gone, she returns home to learn--oh, joy--he had even more money and he left it all to her. So it is back to the sun.
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