All Films

Twilight City

1989 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asian cultural critics, historians and journalists. The choice of occupation for the daughter, a researcher, perhaps strains the narrative conceit too far. Nevertheless, for an avowedly political documentary the result is absorbing.

The Seven

1989 • 29 min • Czechoslovakia

A parody of the film The Magnificent Seven about seven transport company inspectors who bravely fight a gang of stowaways.

A Night on the Tyne

1989 • 48 min

When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.

Dias de Euforia

1989 • 44 min

Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of São Paulo, television broadcasts, and support from artists like Djavan, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Lobão, and Leci Brandão. Additionally, it features footage of the marches and Lula's first interview after his electoral defeat. A work that recounts fragments of the struggle for democracy in the country.

Párpados

1989 • 29 min • Spain

Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intricate script involving a delirious array of doubles, mirrors and word-play revolving around the central theme of amorous obsession.

Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!

1989 • 57 min

This profile of acting coach Stella Adler includes interviews with Adler and with colleagues, students, and friends, along with clips from her own acting performances as well as from her classes.

A Week In The Life Of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

1989 • 26 min

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe live performance documentary

El aprendiz de pornógrafo

1989 • 58 min • Mexico

Roman, a television student, invites his former lover, Lilia, to his apartment. With a small video camera placed at ground level, he will try to record the seduction and the subsequent intercourse. The film, made entirely with a Hi 8 video camera, plays with the viewer's perspective by presenting a set of situations susceptible to different readings.

Just Hold Still

1989 • 32 min • United States of America

In his New York City landscape, Cohen finds inspiration in disturbance. Looking to life for rhythm and to architecture for state of mind, he locates simple mysteries. Just Hold Still is comprised of an interconnected series of short works and collaborations that explore the gray area between documentary, narrative, and experimental genres.

Love Me True

1989 • 27 min

Love is in the air as newlyweds chomp on cake, brides marry werewolves, and hatchets fall on adulterous heads. Amid the real-life romance is mixed the real-life business of directing my film students in a tale of run-away passions for the silver screen.

Cycles

1989 • 17 min • United States of America

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the spirits (Orishas in the Yoruba tradition), receiving much needed inspiration and assurance in a dream. The film combines beautifully intimate still and moving images of the woman’s body and home space, along with playful stop-motion sequences. —Jacqueline Stewart, UCLA Film and Television Archive

¡Colores!: The Qatsi Trilogy

1989 • 19 min • United States of America

Journalist V. B. Price interviews director Godfrey Reggio about his vision for "The Qatsi Trilogy", fourteen years before its completion.

Mickey's Safety Club: Street Safe, Street Smart

1989 • 13 min • United States of America

Mickey and his friends take a close look at important street safety situations and tips.

Creating Rem Lezar

1989 • 48 min • United States of America

Zack and Ashlee discover the meaning of true friendship when they create an imaginary friend, the superhero Rem Lezar.

Honban kyojiri zeme

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu

Tahiti

1989 • 35 min • Cuba, Uruguay

A city, a trip, and end...

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

1989 • 53 min

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.

Borders

1989 • 53 min • United States of America

A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary, computer graphics, dramatizations, and investigative journalism, Borders probes the unsettling paradoxes behind immigration, drugs, Star Wars, and other topics.

Savannah Bay

1989 • 14 min • Austria

The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.

Ogami Matsugorou

1989 • 50 min

Schoolboy gang-leader Matsugorou swears revenge when his lieutenant Koume's house is burned down by a land speculator in an insurance scam.

Interrogation

1989 • 5 min • France

A man is horribly tortured by another who wants him to reveal where his girlfriend is hiding.

My Brother David

1989 • 30 min • United Kingdom

David Scarboro, who played Mark Fowler in EastEnders (1985), fell to his death at Beachy Head in 1988. Simon, his younger brother, presents this tribute, featuring David's achievements as a young actor as well as his problems.

Ano Ko ni 1000%

1989 • 10 min • Japan

Azusa Kawahara is the soccer team manager who is going out with Ikumi, one of the team members. Lately Ikumi has been busy after school and this is making Azusa uncomfortable.

Happy Christmas, I Love You

1989 • 39 min

It is Christmas Eve. Bruce and Renee speak to us from the appropriate corners of their home and we discover that, after 23 years of marriage, they know absolutely nothing about each other.