All Films

Lust For Life

1987 • 42 min • Netherlands

Iggy Pop documentary.

Breakfast on the Grass

1987 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.

Barbie and the Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth

1987 • 25 min • United States of America

Following their concert for world peace in outer space, Barbie and her band the Rockers are going back home. During the trip back to Earth, the band's space shuttle inadvertently enters a time warp. Upon landing at an airport, they meet Dr. Merrihew and his daughter Kim and soon learn that they have been transported back to 1959. The band then decides to go on a tour around the city alongside Kim. After a performance at Cape Canaveral, Dr. Merrihew helps Barbie and the Rockers return to their time. Back in the present, they stage a big concert in New York City, where Barbie is reunited with an adult Kim and introduced to her daughter Megan.

Foster Child

1987 • 43 min • Canada

Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.

Hele Norges Sissel

1987 • 42 min • Norway

Portrait of the Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø.

DEFA: Wurzeln

1987 • 22 min • East Germany, Germany

The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA. Beginning with the founding event of DEFA on May 17, 1946, it continues with film clips from many test recordings of the first feature films after licensing. Well-known directors, screenwriters, actors and musicians accompany the historical newsreel and feature film excerpts and thus bear witness to the reconstruction work in the early post-war years. A documentary that reflects the diversity of DEFA productions in the film and newsreel sector.

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.

Mallet!

1987 • 3 min • United Kingdom

BRUTE!'s Malcolm Bennett wrote and acted as special consultant on this 1987 trailer for Mallet!, a ultra-violent cartoon noir directed by Blink animation director Bob Lawrie. Although it was never picked up by a major network, Mallet's influence can be seen in many films and animations that followed, namely the film adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City. Starring Bob Pugh as Mallet and featuring Stephen Haley as Skillet.

Jerry Seinfeld: Stand-Up Confidential

1987 • 55 min • United States of America

Stand-Up Confidential is a 1987 stand-up comedy special and the first starring Jerry Seinfeld with some skit inserts which were co-written by Joel Hodgson. The special aired on HBO on September 5, 1987 from Los Angeles, California.

Getting to Dylan

1987 • 50 min • United Kingdom

In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in the conversation.

Good Morning Althea

1987 • 52 min • Japan

The story revolves around Nikolai, apparently a part-cyborg; Galory, a young boy who apparently is part human/part Crest person, and Althea, who is entirely a Crest person. Seems the Earth and the Crest people were at war for 300 years so there's still a lot of bad feelings present. The ship Galory, Nikolai and others are on is ambushed and almost everyone killed by some kind of automated attack ships from a huge Crest ship that has been taken over by an automaton. Galory, Nikolai and Althea go to the ship to try and see if there are any survivors of an advanced party from Galory's ship that can be saved, and to see if they can destroy the Type 38 automaton in the ship's core.

Nerawareta hôkago: Zekkyô!

1987 • 60 min • Japan

This is a world of unprecedented aberration! A young woman screams in a park at night. Fresh blood spills out onto the hand of a man holding a knife.... It is the last day of school. Kishimoto jokingly tells Mariko that she should be careful with the newspaper of last night's murder in her hand and leaves. Yuri comes in, sees Kishimoto in the background, and says, “There was a murder last night. I tried to talk to him near the park where the murder took place, but he ignored me...” Yuri works as an accountant at the same school.

17 Reasons Why

1987 • 19 min • United States of America

17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look at the film frame itself.

Welcome Home

1987 • 23 min • United States of America

The Story of the Evangelical Orthodox Church

Push

1987 • 4 min • Japan

In a convenient world where vending machines offer just about everything, the hero procures whatever he needs from machines on his journey to see the creator. He tries to make a replacement purchase of the earth. But the creator declines his request, saying simply that there's no such thing as a brand new earth. The simplicity of the story illustrates the depths of Osamu Tezuka's despair at the earth's degradation, forming the gist of this 4-minute work.

Heavy Metal L-Gaim III - Full Metal Soldier

1987 • 57 min • Japan

The third movie in the OVA series is a sequel to episode 18, which has new enemies (Cy Quo Adder and Plater Quiz) and new Heavy Metal mechas.

Devil's Body

1987 • 50 min • Japan

Following a rape, a woman contracts a strange disease that makes men die after having sex with her.

Zabagabee

1987 • 36 min

Long-form Barnes and Barnes piece featuring a handful of music videos, sketches, and assorted weirdness.

1980 Seven

1987 • 28 min

This piece is sort of a prologue to East by Southwest. I prepare for that trip while visiting local artists here in San Francisco. You get to see unique sculpture by Mike Rudnick and meet the offspring and pets of the culturally inclined. There is also a gallery encounter with the late filmmaker, Curt McDowell, who attends an opening of his photomontages.

Seijo pettingu

1987 • 59 min • Japan

A man who felt the ideal in everything about women and took a mistress away from her partner. And so began a life of deep love between the two. But one day, when a female classmate came to stay with these two, they experienced a threesome and things changed. Furthermore, as she experienced it with many men, she felt the limitless joy of being a woman...

Roach Motel

1987 • 30 min

A sticky summer night in central Texas. Suzy Varden picks up an English hitch-hiker, Dan Sheets, en route to Mexico. They check into a seedy motel, where, with the help of a bottle of cheap bourbon, Suzy's story unfolds.

The Last of the Mohicans

1987 • 55 min • Australia

An animated version of James Fenimore Cooper's classic wilderness adventure during the French and Indian War in colonial America. Hawkeye is in his prime as the famous scout who rescues the daughters of the Commander of a frontier fort. Produced by Burbank Films Australia.

House of Horror: Matango Collector

1987 • 60 min • Japan

A perverted Matango collector attacks two women and takes them to a house of horror...

The Frozen Horror Show

1987 • 20 min • Japan

Iyo is an assistant in an antique shop. One day he displays an old refrigerator. But soon discover that it's a man-eating refrigerator.