All Films

Compiler Festa

1995 • 50 min • Japan

Compiler and Assembler have been given 3 days to return the the 2-D world. If they do not return the council has sworn to destroy it. How will the they spend their last days on earth. Will they be able to confess their love. If only things were that simple. Now a mysterious character is eliminating other individuals from the 2-D world. Can Compiler and Assembler stop this new fiend and be together with those they love.

Bibleman: Back to School

1995 • 27 min

Bibleman's neighborhood friends invite him to come along as they bring the dynamic Bibleman Show to the entire school. Then join Bibleman as he challenges the malevolent Madame Glitz. Will she keep him captive? Will he break free from Madame Glitz's evil Snare? Stay tuned to find out!

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

1995 • 51 min • France, Switzerland, United Kingdom

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger Super Video: Member Notebook

1995 • 13 min • Japan

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger Super Video: Member Notebook is the first Super Video of Chouriki Sentai Ohranger.

Minka

1995 • 26 min • France, Guinea

"Minka tells the story of the friendship between two children, Minka and Kany. Minka's father and mother have died. His step-father Karfa is the boss of the village community. Karfa's brother is owner of the source of income in the village, the granite mine, where many adults and children work. Karfa is a callous man who treats Minka badly. The girl Kany can no longer bear seeing Minka treated so badly. She calls on the children of the village to go on hunger strike. Karfa is furious, the terrible consequences are for Minka." - IFFR

Two by Dove

1995 • 51 min

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Royal Swedish Ballet perform two works by choreographer Ulysses Dove, "Vespers" and "Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven."

George and Junior - Look Out Below

1995 • 7 min • United States of America

Classic duo George and Junior attempt to fix a lightbulb an angry pigeon keeps breaking.

The Great Muta: The Origin Of The Demon

1995 • 18 min • Japan

A short film about professional wrestler, The Great Muta's, origin.

Accent on the Offbeat

1995 • 57 min • United States of America

Accent on the Offbeat is a cinema vérité film about the creation and premiere of the ballet Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements), composed by trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis and choreographed by Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins of the New York City Ballet. A focus of the film is the remarkable contrast - in background, temperament, style and creative approach - between Martins and Marsalis as they unite the disparate worlds of ballet and jazz.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

1995 • 6 min

An intense study of the physical, psychological, and social breakdown of the human condition, this documentary questions a system that has lost its aspiration to reform.

Piccadilly Circus by Night

1995 • 19 min • United Kingdom

European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend, Tanya draws closer to her employer's husband. The sights and sounds of the Capital at Christmas form a deceptively romantic backdrop, for this brief meditation on loneliness and love.

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

1995 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.

Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces

1995 • 45 min • United States of America

Born Creighton Chaney, this is a biographical documentary on Lon Chaney Jr, the only star to play all four of the classic monsters: the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein and Dracula.

Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker

1995 • 60 min • Portugal, France

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

Hello Kitty: Santa's Missing Hat

1995 • 55 min • United States of America, Japan

A collection of Hello Kitty and Friends holiday specials. Includes Hello Kitty - Santa's Missing hat, Keroppi - the Christmas Eve GIft, and Santa and His Reindeer Kuppi. (1995) From the Family Home Entertainment Christmas classics series.

Souvenirs d'Othello

1995 • 49 min • Canada

Actress Suzanne Cloutier is interviewed about "Othello", Orson Welles' masterpiece, in which she played Desdemona.

Léon G. Damas

1995 • 26 min • France

Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist Léopold Sédar Senghor. Cosmopolitan and always in transit, his writing is a chorus of melodies and imagery imbued with angst and melancholy and strongly influenced by jazz and blues. Punctuated by images of the landscapes of French Guiana and the voice of the artist, the film exemplifies the poetic documentary form to which Maldoror frequently returned.

I Am Curious, Film

1995 • 54 min • Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek

1995 • 48 min • United States of America

How real is the 'science' in Star Trek?

Picture Windows: Lightning

1995 • 30 min • United States of America

Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows," Joe Dante’s "Lightning" is a Gold Rush tale marking Brian Keith’s final screen role. As an aging prospector strikes it rich with the help of a quick-witted mule, two schemers move in—only to find the animal has the last laugh.

Evilio vuelve (El purificador)

1995 • 12 min • Spain

Evilio asks a family for help that decides to ignore him. Later that night, he appears at their house to punish them.

Heritage Minutes: Sitting Bull

1995 • 1 min • Canada

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

Historias Breves I: Dead King

1995 • 12 min • Argentina

A wife tries to leave her village to get away from her abusive husband.

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

1995 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.