All Films

The Road to Terror

1989 • 52 min • United Kingdom

In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city that is preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1978. Behind its strange images, the struggle for power in the Iranian revolution has followed a pattern uncannily similar to many of the great revolutions of the past: just as 200 years ago in France, the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.

Mario's Magic Carpet

1989 • 30 min

Our heroes are counting on the magic of Aladdin's Lamp to help them defeat Koopa when they are captured by an evil Sultan. The Marios and Toad are enslaved and the Princess is sold to none other than evil King Koopa. The Marios escape the wage a wild magic carpet battle to save the Princess's life.

Death in the Seine

1989 • 44 min • France

Between 1795 and 1801, 306 drowned people were recovered from the Seine river, near Paris. Peter Greenaway propouns a historical approach were 25 significant cases of drownings are catalogued, dissected and elaborated, with multilayered visuals and 'documentary' asides.

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

1989 • 42 min • France, Switzerland

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

Black Leather Jacket

1989 • 50 min • United States of America

Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings through to it's 'bad boy' reputation and considers whether it has now become emasculated by pop culture.

Metal Mania

1989 • 36 min

Bob Larson interviews various metal bands and talks about their satanic influence on the youth. Featuring Slayer, Lȧȧz Rockit, and some lame Christian Metal guy.

Dixie's Diner

1989 • 24 min

Come on down to Dixie's Diner and enter a whimsical world of laughter and fun. A world where every kid can live out their wildest, most hilarious dreams. Where you can dance as long as you want, sing as loud as you want, and feed your face on an endless supply of chocolate shakes and sundaes. It all spells fun and romance with a cast of frisky, lovable and talented Rock 'N Rolling kids. Dixie's Diner - You're going to love this place!

Romagnolo

1989 • 3 min • Italy

Romagnolo is a short film contained CinicoTV series by the duo Maresco & Ciprì .

P.J. Funnybunny

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

P.J. escaping a boring family reunion to become famous by contacting alien beings with his friends. However, with the villainous Weasel Brothers looking to cause trouble, P.J. and company have to get creative to battle the wicked bullies.

Nabokov on Kafka

1989 • 29 min • United States of America

Vladimir Nabokov, widely considered one of the world's greatest writers, was also a remarkable professor at Cornell University. Here, Plummer portrays the witty Nabokov, providing an entertaining and insightful lecture upon "Metamorphosis," Kafka's bizarre story about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has turned into a giant bug.

Diary

1989 • 30 min • Japan

Idol and actress Megumi Odaka Diary, 1988 VHS.

Yoko's Moving

1989 • 23 min • Japan

A cold landscape spreads across the reclaimed land. A road that stretches in a straight line. Hasegawa wanders into this place while his girlfriend, Yoko, is moving. However, the conversation between the two is awkward and doesn't mesh well. By chance, Hasegawa is left alone in this empty landscape. He starts playing with the bouncing ball. This work expresses the inability to communicate well and the feeling of loneliness through a cinematic space created by the contrast between the "stillness" of the landscape and the "motion" of a rolling ball. The sight of a single person standing alone in a desolate landscape has an almost existentialist feel to it.

The Blue Shutters

1989 • 42 min • France

A film about a relationship that wasn't meant to be.

Fear of Drowning

1989 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Peter Greenaway presents this "Commentary in one hundred parts" on Drowning by Numbers (1987), discussing and analyzing many of the film's more intriguing features.

Layer Cake

1989 • 47 min • Soviet Union

The Wavebreaker

1989 • 27 min • Soviet Union

Since early childhood I have been playing different games. And the older I get, the more dangerous it is for me to lose, and the more dangerous it is for others to win. God! Leave me one game - hide and seek. This is the only game I agree to play for the rest of my life.

Cipher

1989 • 41 min • Japan

Two brothers are in the spotlight: one a movie star making a football movie, the other a musician who occasionally goes to school (to cover for his sibling). What will destiny bring them?

Incredibly Strange Film Show - Tsui Hark

1989 • 20 min

Tsui Hark documentary

Black Mother Black Daughter

1989 • 29 min • Canada

Black Mother Black Daughter explores the lives and experiences of black women in Nova Scotia, their contributions to the home, the church and the community and the strengths they pass on to their daughters.

Elayne Boosler: Top Tomata

1989 • 60 min

Elayne Boosler's third Showtime stand-up comedy special.

The Drift of Juicy

1989 • 10 min

A possible staging of spaces; artificial places, in which the laws—of physical, social or cultural origins—are expanded, changed, ignored, perverted or transformed.

Desenho Abstrato n° 2

1989 • 3 min

Brazilian animated film, hand-painted on 35mm film.

Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

In this animated special featuring the characters from the "Blondie" comic strip, Dagwood decides to give Blondie something extra special to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

America's Lost Valley: Craters of the Moon National Monument

1989 • 24 min • United States of America

A film about Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve.