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Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya

Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa. Filmed from the perspective of actually being one of the performers, this mind-blowing IN YOUR FACE document captures the spirit of Libyan folklore and the essence of emotion armed with pounding rhythms and wailing vocal choruses. Both men and women are featured here equally as overseers of the hybrid forms of expression where central African traditions collide with the tones and colors of the Arab world creating one of the most unique overviews of Saharan folk music ensemble and dance the outside world has ever witnessed. The diversity of faces is extraordinary, every costume is stunning, and the women are among the most beautiful on earth.

French & Saunders: Back with a Vengeance

The hilarious comedic team of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, the wizards behind the British television hit "Absolutely Fabulous," pair up for a Christmas special that showcases their refreshingly quirky, unnerving humor. No subject is sacred or hands-off for the duo, who dish out on-the-nose send-ups of some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters (including The Last Samurai and Kill Bill), to great effect.

Friday Night Fever

Yuri, a Russian immigrant to the US, finds work in New York City as a housekeeper and janitor while telling his family back home that he is continuing his journalism career. One day one of his employers leaves a suit that needs to be taken to the cleaners. Yuri decides to try on the suit and in doing so becomes a new man, with a dance sequence to prove it.

Documentary Comedy

From Caliban To The Taliban

Recorded live at the sold-out 2003 Paramount Comedy Festival in Brighton, stand-up comedian Robert Newman performs From Caliban To The Taliban - 500 Years of Humanitarian Intervention; a painstakingly researched tale of capitalist expansion and America’s global terror campaign waged “with goodwill to all.” Few stand-ups have attempted to create causal links between a 1609 Bermuda shipwreck and US adventures in Guatemala, via Shakespeare and Sir Francis Bacon. Hardly a laugh a minute you might think, but Newman has managed to pepper this unlikely comic dish with the endearing gags that made him famous.