All Films

Murder by the Book

1986 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.

Carlton Dekker

1986 • 7 min • France

Rickles... On the Loose

1986 • 60 min • United States of America

Special featuring Don Rickles in his live comedy act at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, mixed with footage of Rickles "on the loose" across the state of California.

Kansas City Blender Massacre

1986 • 26 min

Lost Todd Sheets short about a killer using a blender.

Charley

1986 • 60 min • Netherlands

Because of her incestuous past Charley (Marie Kooiman) refuses to talk. Together with her friend she invites men to her house, seduces and poisons them and removes their male parts. Then it is revealed that she can talk after all.

Alger la blanche

1986 • 28 min • France

Farid, a teenager of Algerian descent, spends his free time hanging out with the wrong crowds in the suburbs south of Paris while maintaining a secret relationship with illustrator Jean. Both Jean and Farid are unsure about the future of their relationship - Farid wants Jean to move to Algiers with him, but Jean doesn't want to continue being Farid's secret. But when Farid becomes embroiled in a police matter, both his passionate private life and conservative family life hurtle towards one another, with explosive results.

Ganbare Swimmy

1986 • 25 min • Japan

Ganbare, a black fish born into a shoal of red fish, tries to fit in amid adventures as he is chased by tuna and must evade the Great Octopus.

The Siege of Barton's Bathroom

1986 • 17 min • Australia

A young girl locks herself in her family bathroom in order to protest her father and neighbor's plan to cut down a beloved tree in the family's backyard. Later adapted into the pilot for a TV series called "The Bartons," with a different cast.

Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert

1986 • 60 min • Australia, United States of America

Admired as one of the best lyricists of pop rock, Bob Dylan has his name recorded in music history. During his four decades career, he has been through many facets: from acoustic to electric guitar; from politicized to religious lyrics; from minimalist to very highly sophisticated arrangements. And his characteristic voice, for some, hoarse and full of style, for others a little out of tune, still influences many musicians. In this presentation filmed at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia over February 24-25 1986, Dylan is accompanied by Tom Petty and the band The Heartbreakers, as well as a very fine selection of new compositions. To close the spectacle, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty perform a vocal duet in "Knockin' on heaven's door", one of the most famous songs of this compositor.

McDonnell Douglas Information Systems

1986 • 16 min • United Kingdom

McDonnell Douglas Information Systems was a subsidiary of the giant McDonnell Douglas aircraft company in America. In 1986 Reeltime Pictures was commissioned to make a video documentary showing the customers story.

Kôkô kyôshi: bôkei

1986 • 58 min • Japan

A high school teacher runs afoul of a vindictive female student and is terrorized by a stalking rapist. But despite her fright she finds her body passionately responding with each new attack.

Disney's DTV Valentine

1986 • 60 min • United States of America

A Valentine's Day special featuring rock and roll music set to scenes from Disney animation.

The Last Hello

1986 • 20 min

A friend visits from Canada and we relive the past as the future becomes more and more obscured by a cloud of burning vegetation wrapped in cigarette paper and exhaled by a pair of lungs unable to supply a brain with the necessary oxygen (mercifully) to remember the past.

The Tale of the Bunny Picnic

1986 • 51 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

As they get ready for their annual Bunny Picnic, Bean, a young, imaginative bunny eager to help, is told he's too little. Hurt, he wanders off into the lettuce patch where he comes face to face with the grumpy old farmer's junk yard dog! Bean runs and warns the others but no one believes him. Undaunted, little Bean helps the Muppet Bunnies in a big, big way!

The Wuzzles: Bulls of a Feather

1986 • 26 min • United States of America

The first episode of the television series THE WUZZLES as released theatrically in Europe.

Pelican Road Club Culture

1986 • 55 min • Japan

Kenichi Watanabe, a high school student nuts about his MBX50. He and his friends set up a bike club called Culture, and this story chronicles their adventures on the journey towards adult life.

Frivolous Branislav Nusic

1986 • 58 min • Yugoslavia

The frivolous Branislav Nusic is a 1986 Yugoslav television drama. It was directed by Aleksandar Djordjevic, and the screenplay was written by Miodrag Djurdjevic based on the person of Branislav Nusic.

Submit to Me

1986 • 10 min • United States of America

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 minutes and given an accompanying score.

Greetings from Boulder

1986 • 50 min • United States of America

"One of the earlier video diaries where George vacations in Colorado, reflects on scenery and animal life and visits people." – Video Data Bank

Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

1986 • 41 min

Rare proshot from 1986

Plötsligt skulle vi skiljas

1986 • 38 min • Sweden

A couple that seems happy on the surface considers a divorce.

Chinese Characters

1986 • 21 min • Canada

Best known for his work in video, Richard Fung has made the politics of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation his central focus. Chinese Characters (1986) examines the ambiguous relationship of gay Asian men with white gay porn.

Var Var Vari

1986 • 25 min • India

Mother Nature and human emotions are placed in this melding of myth and aesthetic enigma in Kumar Shahani's short film of 25 minutes starring Mita Vashisht, created as a diploma submission for the Film and Television Institute of India(FTII) by editor and film's co-star Nandini Bedi.

The Great Cheese Conspiracy

1986 • 55 min • Czechoslovakia, Germany

Three mice live in a cinema. One day, inspired by the gangster movies, they decide to conduct a grand robbery in a cheese shop.