All Films

Greger Olsson köper en bil

1990 • 30 min • Sweden

Greger Olsson and his wife are expecting their first child and she wants to buy a stroller, but Greger has other plans.

Some Enchanted Evening

1990 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Bobby Buffet is a musical director who has been dragged to London to remount a Broadway musical in the West End. A rather unwilling participant, he finds himself in a hotel without a piano. When one finally arrives, there could be emotional strings

The Crash of 1929

1990 • 55 min • United States of America

Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

1990 • 49 min • United Kingdom

A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

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

Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.

Tango Schmango

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

A haunting tango song inspires a dancing couple to try steps and moves that Fred and Ginger never imagined.

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

1990 • 55 min • United States of America

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His love for mushrooms, his Zen beliefs and use of the I Ching, and basic bio details are all explained intelligently and dynamically. Black Mountain, Buckminster Fuller, Rauschenberg, Duchamp are mentioned. Yoko Ono, John Rockwell, Laurie Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz make appearances. Fascinating performance sequences include Margaret Leng-Tan performing on prepared piano, Merce Cunningham and company, and performances of Credo In Us, Water Music, and Third Construction. Demystifies the man who made music from silence, from all sounds, from life.

TOKYO CITY Mercen 3 Champ/SHOUT

1990 • 60 min • Japan

1990 Original Video.

Un po' di Giappone

1990 • 3 min • Italy

In the 1980s, Michelangelo Antonioni traveled with his partner, actress and filmmaker Enrica Fico Antonioni, to Japan with the intent of creating a documentary, Un viaggio in Giappone, that would chronicle “the social transformations undergoing in Japan through the experimental use of new film technologies,” specifically the Betacam. Un po' di Giappone is the shortened version of the documentary.

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away.

Äkta makar: Britt och Bosse

1990 • 59 min • Sweden

Britt and Bosse are a married couple who are returning from a party where Bosse has been drunk. This is the start of a conflict.

Gotham

1990 • 4 min

A film set to "Batman" by Naked City. Taking the band’s name and first album cover as a clue, Henry Hills drew heavily on themes in WeeGee’s photographs, recreating many of his pictures in their actual Lower East Side/Little Italy locations.

Playboy: Wet & Wild II

1990 • 50 min

"From waterfalls to water-sports, crystal-clear pools to tropical island lagoons, Playboy's famous playmates get 'wet and wild' in an all-new series of exciting escapades and provocative nude scenes."

Things That Aren't There Anymore

1990 • 59 min • United States of America

Remember when Forbes Field was the world’s greatest ballpark? When the Dips roller coaster at West View Park came out to Route 19? When everyone went to the Allegheny County Fair? When streetcars ran all over town? They’re all parts of this warm and winsome program about Pittsburgh’s past, this heartfelt tribute to great and old places where people used to go to have fun.

Groper Train: Panty Hole

1990 • 59 min • Japan

Takashi Sonoyama's wife Akiko is far from being a housewife, so he started cheating on her with Etsuko, whom he met on a train. He then tried to break up with Akiko and marry Etsuko, but... On the other hand, Wataru Todoroki's wife Kumiko, who works both jobs, comes home late every night, so he asks Iwabuchi, a private investigator, to investigate her background, but he says there's no sign of cheating. However, surprisingly...

From the Dead

1990 • 33 min • Sweden

A man is assigned to measure out land for subdivision on an estate. People and animals behave strangely, and the man hears a strange story about a woman who disappeared without a trace from the estate twenty years earlier.

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.

The Clean Club

1990 • 15 min • United States of America

Talking germs and objects teach kids the importance of proper hygiene.

Jungle Book

1990 • 28 min • United States of America

The infant Mowgli, separated from his family and lost in the jungle, is found and raised by the animals. Baloo the bear tries to teach Mowgli the ways of the jungle, but some of the other jungle animals have their own plans for the young man-cub!

Groper Train: When We Come, Together

1990 • 60 min • Japan

The company president loves molesting women on trains. He ends up secretly creating a molestation room in the company, with two hanging straps hanging from the ceiling and a sound system that plays the rumbling sound of trains with a realistic quality. He gives a special allowance to two office ladies who are financially struggling among the employees, and makes them secretaries for the molestation room. Eventually, the two of them conspire to come up with a plan to make the president take his breath away and get out of this life...

Steam Clean

1990 • 3 min

A Gay Men’s Health Crisis sex education PSA in which an interracial gay male couple hooks up at a bath house, having steamy sex safely.

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

1990 • 47 min • United States of America

While the Muppets prepare a tribute to the late Jim Henson, they learn about the life and career of the renowned puppeteer/film maker.

South

1990 • 9 min • Germany

A lonesome car. The wind is whistling. A door of an undefined building opens—is it a holiday bungalow, a shed or a ruin? A woman is standing at the window. The heat of an idle day of holiday, perhaps. The South, a place of longing.

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

1990 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.