All Films

All New Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers

1990 • 45 min • United States of America

An American direct-to-video film that features highlights and bloopers from the NBA from its beginning to the film's release in 1989. The film is hosted by broadcaster Marv Albert and former Utah Jazz coach and executive Frank Layden. The video features brief biographies of NBA personalities including Darryl Dawkins, Bill Walton, John Salley and Frank Layden, as well as footage of dolphins playing basketball, a group playing basketball while riding horses and a group playing basketball on ice skates. Recaps of the 1989 and 1990 NBA slam dunk contest are also shown.

Orgues, Toccatas, et Fantaisies

1990 • 55 min • United States of America

Director Bruno Monsaingeon stages this live musical journey into the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, featuring virtuoso Marie-Claire Alain playing organs hand-selected to best represent Bach's Baroque style. The tour incorporates venues at which the maestro himself would have performed, such as Haarlem, Rötha, Groningen and Dresden, and includes masterpieces such as Toccata in F Major, Trio Sonata no. 1, Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, and more.

Strawberry Rain

1990 • 7 min • Soviet Union

As the breeze brought the little animals clouds with strawberry, cheese and carrot rain - to everyone's taste.

Fierrot le pou

1990 • 8 min • France

A young man shoots hoops in an empty gym. He misses constantly. At the other end of the court, a young woman arrives and starts warming up. She rarely misses. He's white, she's black. From time to time, she glances at him and smiles. He's fully aware of her presence and of his lack of talent. Is there any way he can impress her? His imagination takes over.

End of Conservation

1990 • 12 min • Portugal

A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.

Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love

1990 • 50 min • France, United Kingdom, United States of America

A lyrical film portrait of the once famous, and now, largely forgotten jazz vocalist Maxine Sullivan.

Julie Andrews Sings Her Favorite Songs

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

This lively one-woman show is an exuberant overview of the singing career of the multi-talented British stage and screen star Julie Andrews. Mixing personal anecdotes with classic songs, Andrews works the audience well, as she describes her childhood signing career, her parents' vaudeville background, her first experience of New York, and more.

Carillon

1990 • 15 min

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Three from Pankivka Keeps the House

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Continuation of the comic adventures with the heroes of the previous issues of the series of cartoons about three strange friends from Pankivka.

Onetti, Portrait of a Writer

1990 • 52 min • Spain, Uruguay

A long interview with Uruguay's greatest writer, in Madrid a few months before his death. From his bed, Onetti talks about literature, creativity, and his origins.

Couple représenté en Mars et Vénus

1990 • 2 min

Short film commissioned for a presentation on the statue "Groupe impérial en Mars et Vénus", housed in the Louvre's Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities.

Cuantas viejas quieras

1990 • 35 min • Mexico

Rodrigo and Mariano plot a robbery; Rodrigo's station wagon will be the get away car. They dream of their wealth to be. A triangle is established when a whore appears, creating a relation of treason and mistrust amongst them. The prostitute and the drunkard rob Rodrigo and Mariano, leaving them without their dream and everything else.

Nicholas: The Boy Who Became Santa

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

Nicholas was still a young child when he discovered a very special secret that changed his life forever. It was the gift of giving, by which he brought happiness to many people; but in sharing this gift Nicholas had to face many dangers. Here is the fascinating story of the boy whose love and care for others make him one of the most popular figures of all times. Today, more than sixteen centuries later, the entire world celebrates the kindness and generosity of the man we call Santa Claus. Based on historical facts and traditions, NICHOLAS: THE BOY WHO BECAME SANTA, is the beautifully animated film worth watching all year long.

Willful Idol

1990 • 50 min • Japan

Two teenagers, Haruka and Natsuki, win a lottery and run off to Tokyo to enjoy life. There, they meet a third girl, Fumiko, and decide to form an idol group and break into show biz.

La mujer oriental

1990 • 60 min • Spain

Lorenzo is a market operator, who has just separated from his French wife. He is feeling very lonely, and his partner and friend decides to `bring him back to night life', going to nightclubs and meeting some women. However, this behavior does not fit with the personality of Lorenzo, and his friend shows him a place where he could buy an Asian wife after a trial period. Lorenzo gets enthusiastic with the idea, and brings a gorgeous woman, who does not speak Spanish, but is an excellent housekeeper, cook and lover. Lorenzo falls in love with her, and before they get married, he starts suspecting she has a lover. He decides to follow her, when many secrets are revealed.

Dyve In

1990 • 6 min

A young man in his bathtub travels to China, Murmansk and Paris.

Brain in the Desert

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.

Big Boobs Buster

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Another buxom bombshell falls prey to the masked vigilante, the Big Boobs Buster! Rumor has it that the vengeful villainess was once a mild mannered student ridiculed and rejected for her small bust size. Now, the spurned woman gets even by donning a ridiculous costume and taunting her well-endowed nemeses. Will bouncy coeds across the land be forced under cover? Is any bosomy beauty safe from the Big Boobs Buster?

Waiting for Santa

1990 • 45 min • United States of America

It's Christmas Eve and Santa's given Barney and his friends a special job to take Derek (the new kid in the neighborhood) to see if Santa knows his Address. After arriving in Barney's special sleigh, the kids frolic on the ice, pretend to be elves in Santa's workshop and learn from Mrs. Claus that "doing things for others is what Christmas is all about."

20 Minutes to Go

1990 • 48 min

A Startling new music video! It will send you racing one footstep ahead of danger and Death! One Heartbeat away from your wildest dream of love! A music video that will take your imagination by storm! It will plunge you into the dwelling place of the damned, then thrust you into a dimension beautiful beyond description!

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: The Movie

1990 • 59 min • United States of America

MC Hammer returns to his hometown and, with the help of some funky tunes, defeats a druglord who is using kids to traffic his stuff.

Tension

1990 • 6 min • United States of America, Switzerland

A short dance film by Gitta Gsell.

Uggla: en rockumentär

1990 • 57 min • Sweden

A live concert of Magnus Uggla put together with interviews.

Reisen mit Peter Maffay - Island

1990 • 28 min • Germany

Peter Maffay and his wife explore Iceland.