All Films

It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown!

1996 • 23 min • United States of America

As springtime rolls around, Charlie Brown's team is performing the usual hopeless task of getting in shape for the new season. To improve the team's morale, Charlie Brown manages to find a potential team sponsor who agrees to provide uniforms, provided that the team wins the first game of the season. However, considering the usual competence of the team, including new members like Leland who is too young to even tie his shoes, the challenge seems impossible.

Magical Circle Guru Guru

1996 • 30 min • Japan

The hero Nike and magic user Kukuri learn of the "Pickle of Happiness", an item that will grant a wish to the one who eats it. With the help of old friends, they must beat the monsters to the Pickle and convince its guardian dragon to give it to them.

Get Going! Godzilland: Addition

1996 • 28 min • Japan

Join Godzilla and his Monster Island buddies as they learn addition.

Married Woman Breeding Diary: First Night of Affair

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Takeko was an ordinary married woman whose daily routine was to keep a diary. Takeko falls into a delusion due to her diary and begins to desire the body of a barbaric man...

Shiri garu uwakizuma: Vibe jigoku

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Ten years into her marriage, Tokieda was still caught up in a hollow feeling even while in the arms of her husband Koji. She had long since noticed her husband's infidelity, but she couldn't bring herself to blame him. When she thought about her life after the divorce, she couldn't take any drastic action. Then, by chance, Tokieda became addicted to an affair with a boyfriend from her school days, and she became immersed in the world of carnal desire...

France

1996 • 17 min • France

A young woman gradually locks herself in her fear.

Night imitate Summer

1996 • 10 min

A young salesman dives in and makes a sales pitch. He is led into a small company in an apartment building, but he can't see the face of the woman who is guiding him, or the man from the company who is dealing with the salesman. Besides, someone or something is sitting backwards in the back of the room.

Joyride

1996 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A power-line repairman gets off of work early and heads home (to his family?). Unfortunately, he gets kidnapped is locked up in the trunk of his own car.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: The Story Behind the Masterpiece

1996 • 25 min • United States of America

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: The Story Behind the Masterpiece is a behind-the-scenes documentary narrated by Corey Burton on the making of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It was originally made to commemorate the film's 20th anniversary, and was included with the film's subsequent home video releases. The special was made in 1996 by TV is OK Productions and was directed by Harry Arends.

The Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds

1996 • 57 min • United States of America

Brian Wilson and the boys of summer add a pinch of down-home twang to their classic harmonies with the help of country music's finest. In this 1996 recording session for the album "Stars and Stripes," The Beach Boys rework 12 of their songs, including "409" (with Junior Brown), "The Warmth of the Sun" (with Willie Nelson), "In My Room" (with Tammy Wynette), "Don't Worry Baby" (with Lorrie Morgan), and "I Get Around" (with Sawyer Brown).

Idlaflickorna

1996 • 58 min • Sweden

A meeting between two old ladies on a tourist trip. Lillemor is polite and a bit naive, while Barbro is demanding and challenging.

Bronze: Zetsuai Since 1989

1996 • 45 min • Japan

Famous rockstar Kouji Nanjou has fallen in love with Izumi Takuto, a soccer player with dreams of seeing "real" soccer in Italy. In angsty boy-love fashion, the story consists of Kouji stopping at nothing to have Izumi stay with him, Izumi dealing with his feelings until the time comes where he has no choice but to decide, and all the other things the two must face and the problems from Kouji's family.

Alliance of Desire

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Veteran detective Ishiyama and novice detective Kawanishi are in charge of a case in which a young man was raped and then murdered in a hotel. Kawanishi begins investigating Otori and comes into contact with several men. Is the culprit a martial arts enthusiast, an SM enthusiast, or someone unexpected? During the investigation, the following incident occurs. Kawanishi becomes lustful every time he meets men and begins to realize that he is gay. What did Kawanishi see the next morning, intoxicated with dazzling pleasure?

Heat After Dark

1996 • 50 min • Japan

Heat After Dark is director Ryuhei Kitamura's first theatrical release. This 50 minute film is predominantly a character study within an intense action drama. Those familiar with Kitamura's later works, perhaps especially Versus will realize this is the beginning of his characetristic modus operandi. Here, the well defined characters consist of the innocent (the cop), the relatively good (Atsuro Watabe), the relatively bad (Shinichi Suzuki), and the absolutely bad (Shigeru Izumiya ), and a few other Yakuza hoodlums thrown in for entertainment.

19

1996 • 51 min • Japan

A short film made before the feature adaptation four years later. A group of men are travelling aimlessly, repeating the chaotic behaviour of "stealing what they want and throwing it away when they don't need it". They kidnap a university student in broad daylight on the streets. The university student is taken in without knowing why, and although he is frightened at first, he gradually becomes fascinated by the pace of the three men, who are somewhat unlikeable. Then, one of the university students accidentally shoots and kills someone. The four set off to dump the body, but their car gets caught at a checkpoint...

Chikan densha: Kaiijiri

1996 • 59 min • Japan

Bank employee Ando witnesses Miki being groped on the train. He then becomes an obsessed stalker...

South Park: The Unaired Pilot

1996 • 28 min • United States of America

A short film that is the before product of the episode Cartman Gets an Anal Probe. The episode that was to become the pilot for the critically-acclaimed and beloved television series *South Park*.

Out of the Blur

1996 • 30 min • Hong Kong

14 vignettes without dialogue.

Hitozuma furin: Nokezoru

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Kyoko wants to have a child with her husband but he is infertile. This leads her to other men...

Pennywise: Home Movies

1996 • 42 min • United States of America

Documentary of shows and experiences of Southern California's punk rock band.

The Wire

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

A man discovers a wire coming from his back and follows said wire to an outlet where it's plugged into.

Sugared Peas

1996 • 12 min

Unrequited love gets a second chance when two women reunite several years after attending convent school together.

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy. Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry." It wasn't too long before the fine dramatic roles also came to her opposite the most popular leading men of the time, like Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum.

Streetwise

1996 • 50 min • United Kingdom

This film looks at the tough training regime undertaken by London's black cab drivers as they prepare for one of the hardest examinations they will ever take. It takes years to get to grips with the intricate road network and tangle of streets that weave their way through the heart of the capital and 70 per cent of applicants fail to finish. With repeat appearances at the Public Carriage Office to take the examination, it's a bumpy road to the coveted green badge.