All Films

Persian Series #4

1999 • 3 min • United States of America

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures of every conceivable previous shape from the Persian Series. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Retrospective: Looking Back at the Wall

1999 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Interviews on the making of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). Included as a 2-Part special feature on the 1999 and 2005 DVD editions.

Again, Deuce: Red Square, or Golden Ratio

1999 • 8 min • Russia

A negligent student of the Academy of Fine Arts is late for a drawing lesson and instead of an analytical drawing of a plaster Venus, he hastily "paints" a red square, after which he is subjected to a demonstrative flogging by the professor.

How to Be Home Secretary

1999 • 49 min • United Kingdom

In the latest how-to-do-it guide, Michael Cockerell films behind the scenes in the normally secretive Home Office. As well as crime, prisons and MI5, the Home Secretary is responsible for nudist beaches, mad dogs and massage parlours. Jack Straw and his predecessors talk candidly about the Cabinet's most dangerous and fascinating job.

Ashputtle or the Mother's Ghost

1999 • 11 min • Australia

A mother has to go to help her child grow up, even if it means coming back from the dead.

Parkinson Meets Morecambe and Wise

1999 • 44 min

Michael Parkinson looks back at his 1972 interview with comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, who he describes as 'the funniest double act we ever produced. The interview, which Parkinson cites as the wittiest he ever conducted, sees Morecambe and Wise at their absolute best, speaking about their pasts, their heroes and their friendship.

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

1999 • 50 min

A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King.

Crack

1999 • 1 min

A guy freaks out, unprepared for his job as a sound man.

Metallica: Making of S&M

1999 • 41 min

Documentary featuring a look into the making of Metallica: S&M (1999), including behind the scenes footage, interviews with Metallica, Michael Kamen, the SF Symphony, and much more.

Pluto Gets the Paper: Street Cleaner

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

Pluto gets sucked up into the bowels of an oncoming street sweeper in his endless quest to fetch Mickey's newspaper.

Against Medical Advice

1999 • 11 min

A resident at a mental health facility plots his escape.

Robert Schimmel: Unprotected

1999 • 55 min

Stand-up comedy special starring uninhibited comic Robert Schimmel from the State Theater in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Razor's Edge

1999 • 14 min

An old barber finds himself at a loss when called upon to shave an unusually jittery customer. When all attempts at idle everyday chatter fail to calm the man, the barber desperately falls back on his last resort: to tell the only secret he knows.

Love Warrior Pantheon 1999

1999 • 45 min

An entry in the Love Warrior Pantheon tokusatsu series

Hollywood Rocks 'n' Rolls in the '50s

1999 • 44 min • United States of America

Journeying through the history of rock 'n' roll as it electrified the Golden Age of Hollywood.

D4 The Trojan Dog

1999 • 50 min • Australia

The magical tale of a colony of mice whose happy home is invaded by a band of nasty cats. The cats rule over the house with iron claws, making the mice miserable. Follow the riotous adventures of the mice and their mighty Trojan Dog, as they defeat the cats and win back their home ... and make a few canine friends along the way!

The Blair Bitch Project

1999 • 20 min • United States of America

Three student filmmakers run into trouble in the woods as they set out to make a documentary about the Blair Witch. This is a short parody of "The Blair Witch Project".

The Little Wooden Boy

1999 • 9 min • Denmark

The little wooden boy wants to conquer the world with his unfailing imagination and his pencil. In Hollywood he falls into the clutches of ruthless Mr. Strombolo, but is saved by the good fairy in the shape of the Queen of Denmark herself.

The History of Glamour

1999 • 40 min

The story of rock'n'roll singer Charles Valentine, who came from small-town Ohio and conquered New York. Charles' own narration is interspersed with interviews to people who know her — her friend Sarah, her brother Loren, her manager and more. Beauty, talent, charisma: Charles has it all, and it nets her a glamourous life. But is glamour enough for her? And what does glamour mean?

Overtone

1999 • 28 min • Japan

A young artist loses the love of his life after only a month of living together. He returns to his studio, the place of his memories of his beautiful girlfriend, who used to be a model, but the loss is so great that even when he is eating or sleeping, he has realistic illusions, as if her death was his mistake. Then one day, as if obsessed by something, he begins to make a statue of her in clay. On the night he finishes the statue, the moonlight shining into his studio breathes life into the lump of clay. And when he wakes up, he meets his beloved again...

The Witch

1999 • 1 min • France

Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 1999 by students from GOBELINS, the school of image.

Kino Staccato

1999 • 2 min • United Kingdom

This bright animation cuts from interiors to exteriors and pushes pictures of Keen at different ages up against violent actions and symbols of violence.

The Offspring - Live at Woodstock '99

1999 • 49 min

The Offspring performs live at the legendary Woodstock festival on July 23rd,1999. Setlist: 1. All I Want 2. The Kids Aren't Alright 3. Walla Walla 4. Gone Away 5. Have You Ever 6. I Choose 7. Bad Habit 8. Cool To Hate 9. Gotta Get Away 10. Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) 11. Intermission 12. Come Out And Play 13. Staring At The Sun 14. Why Don't You Get A Job 15. Self Esteem

David S. Ware

1999 • 52 min

A documentary about saxophonist David S. Ware.