All Films

B.B. King: Blues Summit

1995 • 55 min • United States of America

Inspired by the 1993 Grammy-winning album, this historic meeting of superpowers stars the King of the Blues performing duets with a pantheon of fellow legends: Ruth Brown, Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Irma Thomas and Joe Louis Walker. Interspersed with exclusive interviews, it's an inspired and unprecedented gathering of blues greats that may never be equaled. The performances include B.B.'s signature song, "The Thrill Is Gone," and "Playin' With My Friends," which was penned by Robert Cray just for The Blues Summit. Best of all, with this home video, you sit right on stage where you don't miss a beat.

Das Loch

1995 • 12 min

A man dressed city-like walks across a wood and fields when he suddenly finds a perfectly circle-shaped black hole in the ground. The man begins to investigate the phenomenon...

Les Fleurs Magiques

1995 • 21 min • Canada

In the 1960s, a dreamy kid tells how he thinks he can change his alcoholic father's personality: with magic flowers. First film of a trilogy on father-son relationships.

Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella

1995 • 35 min

When you think of Latin percussion, think of Francisco Aguabella. Perhaps the finest Afro-Cuban master percussionist still living, he has become synonymous with his instrument — one of the highest compliments a musician can receive. Indeed, what Carlos Santana is to the guitar, Aguabella is to the conga drum.

Playboy: The Best of Anna Nicole Smith

1995 • 55 min

A collection of interviews, stories, news specials, and pictures.

Lucumi, l'enfant rumbeiro de Cuba

1995 • 27 min

A beautiful film by epic music scene film maker Tony Gatlif with Cuban legends Tata Guines and Pancho Quinto, while young Michael Herrera Duarte (Lucumi) stars as the centerpiece of the story. Lucumi is ten and lives in Havana's black district. Brought up to the beat of drums, he dreams of becoming a great rumbero. With other kids on his block he improvises rumbas on old cans and pots and pans. One Saturday the best of Havana's musicians decide to get together at the "Solar California" to honor the memory of Chano Pozo, otherwise known as "the drum of Cuba". With the rumba beat, Lucumi sings, dances, plays and talks about his life, as if better to express the hardships he's already endured and to have his message heard. On this Saturday he joins up with the great rumberos and wakes up the old spirits of the tumbadora.

Super-Horror Experience 4: Psychic Video

1995 • 30 min • Japan

J-Pop Girl Group stars in a series of low budget horror films, the fourth of the series focuses on a mysterious video tape."

The Last Gasp

1995 • 60 min • Sweden

A fictional meeting at the headquarter of the Swedish Film Industry between the former director Georg af Klercker and the business man behind SF (Svensk film): Director Charles Magnusson. A drunk and bitter Klercker baffles on about old movies, shared memories from their time together in Lidingö. Can he get a chance to make a new movie?

Super-Horror Experience 1: Death and Make-up

1995 • 30 min • Japan

J-Pop Girl Group Giri Giri Girls star in a series of low budget horror films, the first of the series focuses on the entanglement that happens between the girls and a creepy photographer.

The Boy Who Walked Backwards

1995 • 37 min • Denmark

Nine-year old Andreas struggles to cope with the death of his beloved older brother, Mikkel, who is killed in a motorbike accident. Andreas' family moves shortly afterward to begin life anew, yet neither a new school nor the friends he makes can ease his enormous pain.

Positive: A Journey Into AIDS

1995 • 60 min

Documentary following two actors from General Hospital as they research and talk to people living with HIV and AIDS

Nightmare

1995 • 9 min • Lithuania

Animated short.

Super-Horror Experience 3: Zombie Voices

1995 • 30 min • Japan

J-Pop Girl Group Giri Giri Girls star in a series of low budget horror films, the third of the series focuses on a mysterious voice luring one of the girls into another dimension.

Teddy Rhyme Time: Adventures in Nursery Rhyme Land

1995 • 41 min

An enchanting story of two teddies who magically come to life when their human "Huggy Friends" go to sleep, Once 'awake', Max and Mimms make their way to the children's toy box which, when opened, reveals a magical staircase to a world full of Nursery Rhymes and adorable teddy bear characters.

Beavis and Butt-Head: Butt-O-Ween

1995 • 24 min • United States of America

When Beavis and Butt-Head are watching a horror film, two kids show up at their door to do trick or treat. Butt-Head takes their candies and slams the door in their faces. Later Beavis eats all of the candies, transforming into Cornholio.

Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion

1995 • 60 min • United States of America

The story of the life and career of boxer Sonny Liston, who rose from being a violent street enforcer for an organized crime ring to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

Alkali, Iowa

1995 • 17 min • United States of America

On his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the Midwest. But things become clearer for him when he discovers via a rusty old lunch box filled with gay magazines that his father, killed in Vietnam, led a double life down on the farm. But as liberating as the discovery is for Jack, it is painful for his grandfather and mother, who have tried for years to keep it a family secret. Now Jack must decide whether to share this new information with his younger sister or allow it to remain buried a while longer.

Three Miles Up

1995 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Two brothers who have not seen each other for years take a boating holiday, during which they come across a mysterious young woman.

Die Asta - portræt af Asta Nielsen

1995 • 44 min

Documentary portrait from 1995 of the Danish star of the silent screen, Asta Nielsen.

1895

1995 • 29 min • Estonia

1895 is a picture about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who have immortalized their names as inventors of cinematography. What inspired them?

Amba - Second Movie

1995 • 10 min • Russia

People continue to grow genetically modified plants using the brain of a dog and a man-octopus.

Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden

1995 • 56 min • United States of America

"Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden" is Mariah Carey's fourth DVD/home video release. It presents Carey performing live at the Madison Square Garden on October 10, 1995. The home video was originally released in early 1996, and the DVD was released in late 2004. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Un Grillo per la testa

1995 • 51 min • Italy

The Cinema on the Road

1995 • 52 min • South Korea, United Kingdom

A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship.