All Films

Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

1986 • 3 min

Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s film points the way toward a more polyvocal understanding of the role of France’s National Library worldwide.

Valuable Parcel

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how a grumpy crow found a book of rules of good manners and, teaching them to the inhabitants of the forest, became polite herself.

Wild in the City

1986 • 17 min • Canada

This short documentary films some of the wild animal species that have adapted to the city of Vancouver, from the familiar pigeons and starlings to the less familiar herons nesting in Stanley Park and a coyote in a farmer's field.

Richard Meier

1986 • 58 min • United States of America

Meier guides the viewer on a retrospective of his white buildings, from private houses of the 1960s to the Frankfurt and Atlanta Museums of the 1980s--all variations on his trademark spatial and planar treatment. His influences from Corbusier, Wright, Mies, and Baroque Germany are shown. Clients and colleagues offer opinions.

Myth Makers 9: Sarah Sutton

1986 • 59 min

This Myth Makers combines two interviews with Sarah Sutton; one filmed at Harrison’s Rocks, the main location for Castrovalva; the second recorded in a London studio eight years later and featuring some familiar monsters. Sarah chats to Nicholas Briggs about working with Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Matthew Waterhouse. There are also many behind-the-scenes stories about working on Doctor Who.

Burp!

1986 • 11 min

A hooker is stranded at a bustop, and a man crashes his car next to a phonebooth there. The hooker is attacked by punks, but fends them off; the man is attacked by the phone, and doesn't fare as well.

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

1986 • 28 min

Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography and filmmaking. This documentary which examines his life through his films and photographs, includes interviews with many of his collaborators and contemporaries. Written, directed and edited by Philip Brookman, Amy Brookman

The Walk

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A brilliant, bright, festive work by Inessa Kovalevskaya. Children, themselves like little bell-flowers, find themselves in a huge, rainbow-colored meadow-world, filled with joyfully dancing dragonflies and butterflies and marching busy ants, a cheerful world where you can play tag with sparkling sunbeams. The music used is by Sergei Prokofiev from the collection "Children's Music."

A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema

1986 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s Lynn on the making of Hugh Hudson’s Revolution, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski.

A Few Things I Know About Miami

1986 • 30 min • United States of America

This film consists of five segments which interweave archival footage with interviews to highlight aspects of Miami's history. The segments are: On Flagler Street--about the old movie palaces; Down on Second Avenue--the Black entertainment mecca of the 1920's and 1930's; Waiting at the station--the railroad; Night lights--a family of neon sign makers; On the river--Plato Cook and commerce on the Miami river.

The Honourable Member for the Unemployed

1986 • 30 min

Unemployed Harry Morgan from Tyneside takes over the duties of Conservative MP Matthew Parris for a week, in a sequel to the programme in which Parris lived on unemployment benefit for a week.

The Tin Soldier

1986 • 30 min • Canada

This timeless tale written by Hans Christian Andersen tells the comic adventures of a tin soldier accidentally knocked off the toy shelf, and of two lovable, lonely mice who inadvertently place the soldier in danger, then set out to rescue him and return him to the music box ballerina.

Good Morning, Belgrade

1986 • 57 min • Yugoslavia

In the center of this docudrama are the events and tensions of the shooting of a feature film about Belgrade in the future. The director sets up unrealistic requirements to the producer, who breaks the law by overstepping the budget. During a court trial where the crew members are at the witness stand, we follow up the drama of how a film is made.

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986 • 28 min • Germany

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.

Tv War

1986 • 39 min • Japan

Performed live on September 15th, 1985 on the SONY JumboTRON at Tsukuba Expo, Tukuba, Japan

Merry Christmas

1986 • 15 min • Japan

Slightly Wacky Aussie Doco

1986 • 30 min • United States of America

Covering everything from the Spoleto Festival to Vegemite, the team led by Host and Producer Rick Sebak experienced Melbourne, Australia. They also make stops at Port Fairy in Victoria, and in Hamilton near the Grampian mountains where they met emus, kangaroos, and koalas. The crew returned to Melbourne to film the rest of the Spoleto festival and interview festival founder, Gian Carlo Menotti.

Conversations by a Californian Swimming Pool

1986 • 6 min

Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.

A Winter Story

1986 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A family of foxes raid a farm to get a turkey for Christmas dinner and survive the winter. However, the farmer and his domineering wife are aware of their presence and are intent on shooting them down.

Mötley Crüe | Uncensored

1986 • 45 min

This official Home Video contains eyeshattering excerpts from the first two "never before seen" videos: "Take Me To the Top" and "Public Enemy Number One" plus 25 uncensored minutes behind the scenes with the Crue. Plus: Livewire, Looks That Kill, Too Young to Fall in Love, Smokin' in the Boys Room, and Home Sweet Home.

Super Duper Bloopers

1986 • 57 min

This compilation of flubs and bloopers features TV goofs from Star Trek, M*A*S*H, sports games, newscasts, and more, plus classic film outtakes with major stars of the day.

Destination Nicaragua

1986 • 58 min • United States of America

Documentary about a group of Americans who go to Nicaragua to learn about the conflict between the Contras and the Sandinistas.

Video Visits: In Love with Paris

1986 • 49 min • United States of America

Journey to Paris, the City of Light. Marvel at the panorama from the top of the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. Walk down the Champs-Élysées from l'Etoile to Place de la Concorde. Go inside Maxim's and Tour d'Argent to experience an elegant French meal, then pause at Dux magots for a cafe au lait. Stroll along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore and window shop at Dior and Lanvin. Enter the Louvre to view Winged VIctory, Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa. Glide down the Seine on a bateau mouche, past Notre Dame and the Ile St. Louis. Zoom through traffic in a Parisian taxi and ride the Metro. Climb to Montmartre, Sacre Coeur and Place du Tertre. Take a side trip to Versailles and be dazzled by the Hall of Mirrors.

Freshwater

1986 • 3 min • Japan

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.