All Films

Berlin 1990

1990 • 25 min • France

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.

Сладкая репа

1990 • 8 min • Soviet Union

McGee and Me!: The Big Lie

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

Eleven-year-old Nick, along with his parents and 14-year-old sister Sarah and little sister Jamie, moves into his grandmother's house in Eastfield, Indiana. In an effort to make friends and avoid a bully, Louis tells lies about George Ravenhill's house, Nick sneaks into the old man's cellar, scares himself, and Louis, Renee and the kids at school create stories about the encounter that spiral into lies. Derrick and his friends wreck the house and Nick is forced to clean it up as punishment. His dad helps him learn an important lesson about lying, elders, fear, speaking up, and bullying.

Der lange Weg

1990 • 11 min • East Germany

A beautiful seagull is injured during a storm, ends up in a forest and joins a family of woodpeckers. She is rejected by the older members, but the young woodpecker falls in love with her. So he leaves the forest at home and takes her to the sea, where the seagulls live. There the alien is also rejected. Now they are both looking for a land where they can be happy undisturbed. Several times we see a lonely seagull soaring over the waves of the sea and a woodpecker knocking on the trees of the nearby forest - before both find each other again in the community.

The Human-Faced Dog

1990 • 39 min • Japan

A "documentary" that explores the myth of the Human-Faced Dog. The legend of the Human-Faced Dog goes all the way to Tokugawa era Japan. In stories, the Human-Faced Dog is initially mistaken for a normal, mangy dog, but as the unlucky passerby gets closer the human features become apparent. Sightings are always at night, and the dog, if approached, will morosely tell people, “Leave me alone”. The Human-Faced Dog took on a new life in more recent times, its peak of popularity in the late 80s and early 90s, where it was claimed to have been seen on highways, chasing cars at enormous speeds and causing car crashes.

IDn3

1990 • 47 min • Sweden

A family travels through Egypt in 6 months.

Vignette: Para Sight

1990 • 1 min

An active organism leaps and quivers in this bouncing one-minute vignette.

The story of Mrs. Yivga

1990 • 23 min

A film adaptation of Valerian Pidmohylny's short story of the same name. The story of the complex relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat during the Bolshevik coup.

Croak x Croak

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Hometown Creativity Theory: Kimiko's Tamaokoshi

1990 • 55 min • Japan

As part of the "Hometown Creation Project," Matsuzaka Kimiko visits Kamiyubetsu Town in Monbetsu County, Hokkaido, which is suffering from depopulation, and unconditionally has sex with the male townspeople in an effort to revitalize the town with eroticism and help them overcome depopulation

Hen, His Wife

1990 • 13 min • Soviet Union

Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead.

What's Wrong With This Building?

1990 • 25 min

This film, which documents a controversy over plans to alter the original architectural design of the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines some of the problems raised by the decision, including Modernist and Post-Modernist styles, architecture as art, the responsibility of art museums to the public, and the role of the architect

The Lost Stooges

1990 • 55 min

A documentary hosted by Leonard Maltin featuring rare clips of the Three Stooges

1990 New York Mets: Story of a Season

1990 • 40 min

In 1990, the Mets once again proved to be one of the most consistent teams in baseball-battling for the division title to the end- winning more than 90 games for the sixth time in seven years.

Alvin and the Chipmunks Go to the Movies: Batmunk

1990 • 25 min

Alvin and the Chipmunks put a high-flying new spin on one of the biggest box office hits of all time. Batmunk is a thrilling adventure that'll keep you on the edge of your seat ... with laughter! Simon (in the most heroic role of his long, brainy career), plays the Caped Crimefighter to mischievous Alvin's hilariously villainous jokester, an arch criminal whose cult of crooked clowns has been stealing all the toys in the city. When the thieves go after "the greatest toy in the world," Batmunk decides to teach the bad guys that crime doesn't play!

The Devil Made Me Do It

1990 • 46 min • Australia

Ian Leslie (The Aussie Geraldo Rivera) focuses on well known cases of Satanic killings in the United States and England. It gathers a group of victims, heavy metal singers, clergymen, experts and Satanic leaders for a lively studio debate. The Australian counterpart to Exposing Satan's Underground.

Whatever Happened to Mason Reese

1990 • 12 min • United States of America

One of the early short films of director Brett Ratner.

Soundgarden: Live in Germany 1990

1990 • 41 min • Germany

The amazing Soungarden captured live in their early years, in this 1990 concert given in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Morning

1990 • 23 min • India

Maya is a teenager young girl who is working as a housemaid in a rich family. She is required to do all household work and also look after a small child. She toils from dawn to dusk and cannot get peaceful sleep. She, therefore, wants to get rid of it. One night, she kills the child in the cradle and then, relieved of her burden, quietly sleeps on the ground.

Dance Crazy in Hollywood

1990 • 56 min • France, United Kingdom, United States of America

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

Into the Woods: A Conversationpiece

1990 • 53 min • United States of America

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine discuss their stage musical Into the Woods

Grasshoppers

1990 • 9 min • Italy

An animated short by Bruno Bozzetto which condenses the whole of human civilization into 9 minutes, focusing primarily on the human race's predilection for warfare and the vanity of war. It was an Oscar Nominee for Best Animated Short in 1991. Each piece of history is presented as a simple vignette, usually depicting a few simply-drawn characters arguing and making war, over and over again. Generally, a single figure is meant to stand in for an entire group (i.e., a single Caesar-like caricature for the entire line of Roman Emperors). There is very little spoken dialogue; instead, most of the cartoon is accompanied by a bouncy piano-driven score, which frequently changes style to suit the particular historical era. However, the score is all based around a single simple theme, to which it frequently returns in between vignettes.

Chimps: So Like Us

1990 • 30 min

An educational documentary on chimpanzees, narrated by and based on the work of zoologist Jane Goodall.

The Emperor's New Clothes

1990 • 9 min • United States of America

An adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale