All Films

Follow That Sleigh

1990 • 24 min • United States of America

Two kids accidentally steal Santas sleigh. It's up to Elvis the Rockin' Reindeer to save the day.

Ministry: In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up

1990 • 58 min

Filmed during the famous "The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" tour with guest artists like Ogre (of Skinny Puppy) and Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys).

Kiss of the Veggie Vixen

1990 • 16 min

A portrait of Marion Eaton, film and stage actress, etched with a green thumb and a brown nose.

On the Trail of Ed Wood

1990 • 56 min • United States of America

A documentary on the life and career of filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr., with clips from his films and interviews with the cast and crews of some of his films.

Tokubetsu kikaku: The tôkô shashin

1990 • 54 min • Japan

Yumiko goes to a hotel with Funaki, whom she met at a park, and after having an affair, he is photographed nude. Her husband, Goro, happened to see a photo posted in an erotic magazine, and although her eyes were erased, he was convinced that it was Yumiko and blamed her. However, she strongly denied it, so she met with the magazine's editor and had him show her a photo of her. She was definitely Yumiko...

A Passage to Wetness

1990 • 15 min

An island. A mountain. A City of Angels who scoop up the pellets dropped by other winged creatures.

Christo in Paris

1990 • 58 min • United States of America

Documentary about conceptual artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude's attempt to "wrap" the Pont-Neuf in Paris.

Free Tyrant

1990 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A modest earthling, Korneliy Udalov, finds himself on a planet that is a large concentration camp, where the entire population works in prison, and only one tyrant is free.

Robin Harris: One Night Stand

1990 • 27 min

American stand-up comedian Robin Harris performs his legendary comedic jokes as part of HBO's classic comedy series One Night Stand.

White Clothing: Harakiri

1990 • 45 min • Japan

A black and white preface shows a woman in a traditional kimono climbing the stairs as WWII era Mitsubishi Zeros fly through the sky and footage of the Japanese military of the era is superimposed over the footage. She stops at the top of the stairs to say her prayers, rings a bell, and heads inside where the footage is shot in color. She unravels her kimono and rubs her face with the cloth before wrapping her blade and lovingly touching it. She pulls it across her stomach and slits herself open, falling to the mat. She crawls across the mat, dying, slipping in her own slick blood until she can't move anymore.

Something Alive for Poor Kal

1990 • 27 min • Sweden

Every Christmas Kal, a handicapped and bedbound boy, wants something "alive", but never gets it. But soon it's Christmas again and Lame-Kals landlord's cat is going to have kittens. The landlord's two daughters, Annastina and Lillstumpan, now intend to cheer Kal by giving him something alive...

The Perfect Date

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

16-year-old student is convinced his upcoming date with the school prom queen will be the perfect date. However it turns out to be anything but the perfect date.

Riki-Oh 2: Child of Destruction

1990 • 46 min • Japan

Riki finds himself in the town of Misaki, dotted with illegal nuclear power plants and run by a religious fanatic military organization called "God's Judgment." He is taken prisoner and made to fight in gladiatorial matches in a sprawling arena. He finds his brother, whose special powers have given him the name of "Savior," but his reunion with his resentful sibling turns sour rather quickly.

Snowie and the Seven Dorps

1990 • 9 min • United States of America

Puts a new slant on an old favorite fairy tale, bringing it up-to-date to explain such new age pop-psych phenomena as passive/aggressive behavior, co-dependency, compulsiveness and enabling. It even brings a new insight on the Prince's immediate passion for the sleeping Princess!!

Assault Locker Room Tearing

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master II"

1990 • 21 min

Revisit the killer puppets and paranormal researchers, whose brain fluid they craved, with in-depth BTS footage and commentary from the cast and crew.

Weather Diary 6

1990 • 29 min

Scenes from a vacation. Music comes on loud and clear and washes over a series of visual impressions of the land and the sky and the faulty plumbing that submerges porcelain bottoms in a sea of unmentionable froth.

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990 • 46 min • United States of America

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.

'Twas the Fight Before Christmas

1990 • 27 min • United States of America

Nick tries to help his classmate Derrick understand the true meaning of Christmas.

Lifestyles of the Ramones

1990 • 58 min • United States of America

Documentary on the Ramones, including archival footage, interviews and music videos, this was first released on VHS in 1990 and later re-released on DVD as part of the WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES box set in 2005, with expanded content. HEY, HO, LET'S GO!

La mujer lunática

1990 • 60 min • Spain

A man falls in love with an unusual woman

Companion of Caviar

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how Professor Mintz, using a time machine, sent a group of citizens of the city of Guslyar to 1948.

Timeless Tales: The Elves and the Shoemaker

1990 • 25 min

With fewer and fewer customers needing shoes, village shoemakers Bertram and Bettina and their faithful dog Woof are in quite a fix. Then, a trio of tiny wood elves arrives and cobbles the finest footwear ever seen; but a nasty cat named Squint has an appetite for elves, and only Woof can save the industrious pixies from a cat-astrophic fate!

Performance Pieces

1990 • 10 min

Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance artist, Jack Narwhal, who cut himself into pieces for display in major museums around the world. In this film, he explains his bodiless condition to a belligerent workman who is setting up another exhibit in the gallery.