Clear Filters
Showing 24 of 207,644 films
Asteroids: Deadly Impact

Asteroids: Deadly Impact

1997 • 60 min
Every year, millions of asteroids and comets or "stray bullets" streak through the skies, and tons of small meteorites strike our planet! Some 65 million years ago, dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the earth, in what many believe was the aftermath of a massive cosmic collision. Could something like this happen again? Scientists believe that the impact of an asteroid only a mile wide would be globally catastrophic. Join extraordinary geologist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife Carolyn who have remapped the heavens with their discoveries of more than 30 comets and hundreds of asteroids. Now that we know what's out there, how can we defend ourselves?
The Day My Aunt Was ill

The Day My Aunt Was ill

1997 • 24 min • Iran
When Hana’s aunt goes to the hospital to have a nose job, grandpa comes to take care of the kids. The kids go play in the alley, but to be on the safe side, grandpa suggest they’d come back home. They accept to return home on the one condition that they would be allowed to use the video camera to make a movie…
Thérapie russe

Thérapie russe

1997 • 55 min • France
How will Charles manage to become a man again now that his wife has left him, that he can't even roll a simple joint and that even his cleaner thinks he's a jerk ? By inviting Leonid, a chimney-sweep with a Russian accent to join him? By letting him move in while he's still living in his appartment? By talking to him frankly and listening blindly to his suggestions? Russian therapy has its good points, even if its founding principles are rather strange...
Home Invasion

Home Invasion

1997 • 45 min • United States of America
Are you ready for some card tricks? ABC fills the pesky non-Monday Night Football hour with the gregarious Penn Gilette and the silent Teller popping up at malls, schools, private homes and the beach with a dizzying array of sleight-of-hand tricks. For anyone who has ever been left wanting after seeing one of their tricks on David Letterman's show, this is an overflowing bounty. Duo's signature is a constant state of misdirection, flubbing one or more aspects of a trick --- even to the apparent point of death or mutilation --- to make the finale that much more spectacular. They even explain tricks: one with cards so anyone can do it at home and another with cups and balls that, rather than explicate, is an astonishing display of technique. Throughout, Penn combines carnival barking with political soapbox ranting --- subversive, sublime and wildly amusing --- and bolsters the weirdness factor of even the most ordinary trick.
Richard Jeni: A Good Catholic Boy

Richard Jeni: A Good Catholic Boy

1997 • 60 min
This hightly rated and critically acclaimed performance brings the audience to thier feet with hilarious riffs on late night infomercials, dating rituals, a penis cross-examined on a witness stand, inflight emergencies, movies, religion, and more. "Flat Out Hilarious!"
Soft Bodies: Sweethearts

Soft Bodies: Sweethearts

1997 • 58 min
soft bodies sweethearts
No Night No Day

No Night No Day

1997 • 15 min • United Kingdom
What darkness the film will have in No Night No Daywill not be connected to nature's night, equally light will be unconnected to 'day' as a lived concept and reality. A distension from any nature, including the nature of film, or the viewer's natural 'seeing', is probably closest to what my concerns with this film are. Attempting to grasp, attempting to know, the usual problems. - P.G. 1998.
Larry and Steve

Larry and Steve

1997 • 9 min • United States of America
A dog is adopted by a moron, and is taken to the store to go shopping.
Vincent Gallo Directs

Vincent Gallo Directs

1997 • 30 min • United States of America
A documentary on the making of “Buffalo 66."
Foxes of the Kalahari

Foxes of the Kalahari

1997 • 54 min
As the desert dries out after the rain, antelope move away in search of greener pastures, but the bat-eared foxes remain. Their den, a burrow that’s borrowed from the meerkats, provides underground shelter and the foxes wait out the long, dry months, determined to survive. It is a lean time between rains and our bat-eared fox family must outsmart hungry Jackals, Cheetahs and Lions. Their super sensitive ears alert them to predators and help them find food.
Snake Feed

Snake Feed

1997 • 23 min • United States of America
Snake Feed is a glimpse into the lives of Irene and Rick, two people struggling with life-long addiction and marginal employment. The film follows a day in their lives at a time when Rick is dealing in the small-time pill trade and Irene is intent on rebuilding her life. In the course of the story, Rick betrays Irene's trust, which causes her to take action on behalf of herself and her children. The setting, a small town in upstate New York, is woven into the film through the inclusion of details of daily life.
To Catch a Glimpse

To Catch a Glimpse

1997 • 52 min • United States of America
A film that delves into director Jean Carlomusto's family history by trying to find out if the rumors about her grandmother's death -- trying to rid herself of an unwanted pregnancy in 1939 -- are true.
Dinosaur Jr.: 930 Club 1997

Dinosaur Jr.: 930 Club 1997

1997 • 34 min
for HBO Reverb
Advertising Missionaries

Advertising Missionaries

1997 • 53 min
In Papua New Guinea, where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising mediums of television, radio or print, 'the market' must be developed by other means. Small theater groups travel the remote highlands performing soap operas devised around advertising messages for a variety of products.
1943-1997

1943-1997

1997 • 9 min • Italy
A child escapes the Nazi raids in the ghetto of Rome. He finds refuge in a cinema.
Little Bear: Winter Tales

Little Bear: Winter Tales

1997 • 30 min • Canada
4 Snowy Tales "Snowball Fight" "Winter Solstice" "Snowbound" "Little Bear and The North Pole"
Heracles, Acheloos And My Granny

Heracles, Acheloos And My Granny

1997 • 29 min • Greece
Dimitra Koutsiabassakos is 88 years old and lives alone in the village of Armatoliko in the Pindos mountain range, on the banks of the ancient river Acheloos, named after the mythical river god who fought Heracles for the favors of a woman and who could take on many forms. Dimitra’s home is located near the place where a great dam is being built and lies right in the middle of the area destined to become a lake after construction is completed. By a strange quirk of fate, the materials used in the construction of the dam are a product of a cement company named “Heracles”, so that it seems that the age-old contest between Acheloos and Heracles continues to the present day! Dimitris, Costas and Petros decide to pay their grandmother a visit and make a documentary.
Gondora

Gondora

1997 • 2 min • Japan
A short movie about a guy living in his own world.
Historias Breves II: Aluap

Historias Breves II: Aluap

1997 • 16 min • Argentina
The military coup of '76 means that the birthday of a little girl named Paula does not pass normally.
The Devil & The Angel

The Devil & The Angel

1997 • 26 min
A woman is provoked by a loud neighbor in her New York apartment.
The Human Voice

The Human Voice

1997 • 7 min • United States of America
The artist sits in a chair in front of a table and, looking at the camera, cuts tape to turn on a radio in which a pre-recorded speech sounds with which she tries to coincide in a simultaneous reading of it from a text she carries on paper. Part of a book by Miguel Cereceda, The Origin of the Subject Woman to deliver a discourse on the space of enunciation of the woman in the symbolic order while slowly "silencing" her voice by sticking the tape in her mouth until it is finally "silenced".
A Healthy Baby Girl

A Healthy Baby Girl

1997 • 58 min • United States of America
Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter and hope to dinner table conversations, Helfand invites us to witness her personal journey from radical hysterectomy patient to vocal opponent of toxic exposure. From her suburban home to the halls of Congress, the intensely private becomes widely public, and an American family is transformed and strengthened.
Photographer

Photographer

1997 • 10 min
The film "Photographer" shows the last day of the old photographer working in his studio. He succeeded in his life-long efforts to stop time.
The Week Elvis Died

The Week Elvis Died

1997 • 16 min • United Kingdom
Set in England in 1977, The Week Elvis Died is an evocative and bittersweet look at life from a child's point of view. Karen (Jennifer Williams) aged 10 is bullied at school by Julie and her gang. Her dysfunctional family can't help her and she doesn't confide in them. All she has for comfort are her descant recorder, her pet rabbit Elvis and her adoration of top disc jockey Tony Blackburn.