All Films

The Hands of Ida

1995 • 30 min

Repudiated TV movie directed by Guy Maddin. Rumored to have been destroyed "in a black magic ceremony."

Keychain

1995 • 1 min • Brazil

A woman leaves her apartment to go pick up a newspaper, opening and closing a multiple of locks on her way out and back.

R.E.M.: Rough Cut

1995 • 45 min

A behind-the-scenes documentary of R.E.M. as they prepare to embark on their 1995 Monster World Tour.

Maracatu, Maracatus

1995 • 14 min • Brazil

The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco.

Chikan densha: Binyû oshitsuke

1995 • 60 min • Japan

Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper

1995 • 40 min • United States of America

Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper is a 1995 short documentary film about Herbert Zipper. It was written, directed, and produced by Terry Sanders, with Freida Lee Mock co-producing. The extraordinary story of Vienna born musician and conductor Herbert Zipper who survived Dachau, Buchenwald, and a Japanese concentration camp to become one of the great music educators of the world, continuing at 92 to bring music to the inner city schools of America. In Dachau, Zipper organized secret concerts using makeshift instruments. He learned the lesson that music and the arts are essential to the very existence of life. For the last half of the 20th century, Zipper has pioneered in bringing professional orchestras into America's inner city schools. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at the 68th Academy Awards in 1996.

Hole: MTV Unplugged

1995 • 47 min • United States of America

On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Along with a string ensemble, The group played a mix of hits off "Live Through This," plus new material, covers by Duran Duran and Donovan, and unreleased Nirvana track "You Know You're Right."

An Audience with Shirley Bassey

1995 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Showbiz legend Dame Shirley Bassey delights a celebrity audience by singing songs and answering light-hearted questions. Enjoy renditions including Born to Sing and George Harrison's Something from the sequin-gowned Welsh songstress.

The Wisdom Of The Witch

1995 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A witch predicts an untimely end for Victor; Patrick and Pippa prepare to move far away from the Meldrews, but Patrick gets stuck with Victor while trying to escape his secretary's jealous boyfriend.

Daisy-Head Mayzie

1995 • 24 min

Daisy-Head Mayzie wakes up one morning to find a daisy has sprouted from the top of her head. Facing her classmates' taunts and her parents' dismay, Mayzie triumphs at last with the hard-won knowledge that love is more important than fame!

Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea

1995 • 16 min • Russia

The Cyclops Polyphemus falls in love with the beautiful nymph Galatea, but she rejects him in favor of Acis, a shepherd. Furious, Polifemo goes in search of Acis to take revenge. Animated short film that explores the love and the sexuality from Greek myth of Galatea and Acis.

Terror of Blood Gym

1995 • 28 min

Patrons of a private health club are getting workouts they never bargained for in this zany parody of modern health club hazards.

Springfield's Most Wanted

1995 • 19 min • United States of America

John Walsh presents various theories regarding the mystery of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?"

Promise of August

1995 • 50 min • Japan

Three college girls arrive in the countryside in search of an area where marijuana grows. Hitchhiking, they stop the car of a suicidal man, who falls in love with one of the girls at first sight.

The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit

1995 • 48 min • United States of America

Hop into a delightful, modern version of Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s story.

Mystery of the Maya

1995 • 38 min • Canada, Mexico

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.

Big Tit Monastery

1995 • 60 min • Japan

Sawano, an ordinary office worker, has worries that he cannot tell anyone about.

Little Orphan Annie's A Very Animated Christmas

1995 • 22 min • Canada, United States of America

Very first animated Orphan Annie--and a wonderful Christmas tale it is. Daddy Warbucks has Annie at his huge estate with Sandy, her big dog, It seems Daddy is more like Scrooge this season. He is irrated and crabby---so cranky that Annie runs off into the night with her beloved Sandy. Punjab tells Warbucks Annie is gone! and that this event is unlucky and will upset the Grand Order of things. So, Warbucks and Punjab take off searching for missing duo. An adventure begins and the rest you must find out for yourself because I don't want to give the plot away!

Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

1995 • 57 min

One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.

Clarissa

1995 • 30 min

Pilot episode of the cancelled follow-up series to Nickelodeon's "Clarissa Explains it All" in which debutante Clarissa Darling contends to her life in New York City and her internship at a local newspaper.

Travesty of a Mockery

1995 • 10 min

A 10 minute film that depicts a man and a woman having an argument. This domestic drama is enacted simultaneously on two separate projected screens—the man’s space is described by a chair standing against a blank wall, the woman’s by a fridge and a fragment of kitchen sideboard. Each participant is isolated within his and her own screen, the borders from one to the other being crossed by thrown objects such as a glass of milk or a frying pan and, occasionally, by one of the participants, who, unable to contain their rage, launches an attack across the divide. A soundtrack of tuning into a series of different radio stations accompanies the film, seeming to articulate the switching emotional tenor of the scenario as it moves through confusion, anger, sadness and resignation.

Cinefile: Reel Women

1995 • 60 min

Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. A program made to accompany a Channel 4 season of films directed and produced by women.

The Making of A Goofy Movie

1995 • 26 min • United States of America

Jenna von Oÿ takes viewers on a behind-the-scenes look at Disney's A Goofy Movie.

Pitch-Dark Period Drama

1995 • 48 min • Japan

Tales include: THE HILL OF OLD AGE, which tells of a conspiracy hatched against Japan's unifier, Oda Nobunaga. SEEING THE TRUTH, about the assassin sent to murder Nobunaga's successor leyasu Tokugawa. THE EAR OF JINSUKE, about a wandering swordsman saving a damsel in distress from evil spirits. PRINTS FROM THE FALL OF THE BAKUFU, features a tomboy from a woodcut works charged with making a print of the young warrior Okita Soji.