Legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's new documentary explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity, and authenticity are formed, experienced, and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries. NR / 143 min.

The film that launched generations of kung fu acolytes, a popular film series and a few thousand rap songs, this iconic film will also have KILL BILL fans experiencing serious déjà vu. Five skilled martial arts students -- the Centipede, the Scorpion, the Lizard, the Snake, and the Toad -- are mysterious, masked disciples of a clan leader whose dying wish sends his favorite student off to find out whether they intend to carry on for good or evil. Kickass fight scenes and psychedelic lighting that would make Dario Argento beg for mercy give FIVE DEADLY VENOMS “essential viewing” status, possibly even more popular now than ever -- and the film’s climactic five-way battle is the stuff of legend, “as good as -- if not better than --any on-screen fight before or since” (MutantReviewers.com) R / 98 min. @2000 CELESTIAL PICTURES LTD. ALL RIGHT RESERVED