All Films

Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas

2002 • 37 min • Spain

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.

Tales That'll Tear Your Heart Out

2002 • 12 min • United States of America

Excerpts from an unfinished 1976 zombie-western anthology film by Wes Craven, in the style popularized by Amicus films, which were given an official home video release with The Last House on the Left, and placed in sections of an American version of the Italian film, Zombi Holocaust.

"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"

2002 • 4 min • Japan

Parking

2002 • 5 min • United States of America

A parking lot attendant loses his temper when his working place is invaded by a blade of grass. A furious battle ensues.

Digimon Frontier: Revival of Ancient Digimon

2002 • 40 min • Japan, United States of America

Takuya Kanbara, Koji Minamoto, J.P. Shibayama, Zoe Orimoto, Tommy Himi, Bokomon, Neemon ride a Trailmon (Ball) through a desert when they get caught in a battle between human and beast Digimon. It is interrupted by the Lost Island, an island trapped between dimensions, crashing down between them and scooping all involved up.

Hope Along the Wind: The Story of Harry Hay

2002 • 57 min • United States of America

Harry Hay was one of the founding fathers of the gay rights movement, and for more than 50 years was synonymous with the term "gay pride." Director Eric Slade's documentary about Hay looks at both his life and the movement he did so much to define. In 1948, Hay founded the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles; the goal of the organization was to establish a "Golden Brotherhood," one that sought to redefine homosexuality as a normal, healthy way of life. The problem, Hay famously maintained, was not homosexuality itself, but the way it was treated by society. Dramatizations, photographs, archival footage, and interviews with original Mattachine Society members are all incorporated to tell Hay's remarkable story, one whose legacy continues to be felt in the treatment of gays and lesbians in culture today.

In the Darkness of Time

2002 • 10 min • France

Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity and, of course, cinema.

The French Doors

2002 • 13 min • New Zealand

A man installs a set of French doors during a renovation. What he doesn't know is that the doors harbour a secret. A dark secret...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2002 • 25 min • Ireland

A reworking of the 14th century Arthurian medieval poem as an animated film styled to look like stain glass windows.

War Game

2002 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Based on the picture book by Michael Foreman, WAR GAME tells the story of Will, Lacey and Freddie – three young Suffolk lads who leave their idyllic country lives to fight in the trenches of World War I. Surrounded by the chaos and confusion of war, they can only dream of their football team, their friends and the families they have left behind.

River

2002 • 50 min • Russia

The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one of the young male lepers. Soon she is bearing his child. His wife suddenly arrives from the outside world and tragedy ensues within this strange love triangle.

Welcome to Eltingville

2002 • 23 min • United States of America

The misadventures of four boys who are big fans of comic books, toys, trading cards, and science fiction.

The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver

2002 • 58 min • Czech Republic

A Czech director wrestles with problems personal and political during the Prague spring of 1968.

Pilot Candidate: Comrades

2002 • 23 min • Japan

A retelling of the TV series from the point of view of one of the Goddess Pilots.

Squish, Splat, Sploosh: The Stellar Sounds of 'Men in Black II'

2002 • 10 min

A look behind the scenes of MIIB to watch the foley artists at work adding all the background and special effects noises to the finished scenes. Covering everything from an alien battle to Agent J walking across a floor, we see what they use and how they use it.

The House Across The Street

2002 • 30 min

Farce written by Shaheen Khan and Sudha Bhuchar about two 39-year-old twins living with their manipulative mother in suburbia.

Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère

2002 • 55 min • France

Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminger, through Zulawski and Costa Gravas, she turned with the greatest. The directors interview those who knew her, who loved her, go back to the filming locations, make archive images speak for themselves... and try to detect the part of mystery that Romy Schneider conceals for ever.

Directed by Alan Smithee

2002 • 50 min • United States of America

This documentary on the elusive director Alan Smithee was first shown on the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable channel. We learn where the name came from and why the Directors Guild of America (DGA) first allowed his name to be used on Richard Widmark's western Death of a Gunfighter. The film follows the numerous problems that director Tony Kaye had during the production and post-production of the film American History X and why the DGA refused to allow Alan Smithee to be credited for that film.

Baba's House

2002 • 23 min

1977, Elvis is dead and nine year old Christina, grieving the loss of her mother, must spend the summer with her Ukrainian grandmother. Her only consolation is her new best friend, Ruby, who teaches her about the magic in raspberries and how to communicate with the dead.

Life Makes Sense If You're Famous

2002 • 7 min

A short film about a movie star from humble beginnings and his three friends.

The Bogeyman

2002 • 21 min • Spain

When 10-year-old Nemo's mother suddenly dies, the boy is forced to go live with his maternal uncle's family. They are cordial and treat him well, but his 12-year-old cousin, Iván, begins to tease and tell him stories about the Bogeyman and how he'll come and get him if he doesn't behave. At first young Nemo doesn't believe the stories, insisting that Iván is just making things up...

Don't Look Now: Looking Back

2002 • 19 min • United Kingdom

In this short making-of documentary, director Nicolas Roeg discusses the production history of the film and the unique qualities of Daphne Du Maurier's story that inspired it, while director of photography Anthony B. Richmond explains the significance of specific scenes, including the notorious sex scene, and how they were shot. Editor Graeme Clifford also discusses his contribution to the film.

Black Christmas Revisited

2002 • 37 min • Canada

A featurette hosted by Art Hindle and Lynne Griffin, who revisit the original house from the movie 'Black Christmas'.

Dentro

2002 • 1 min • Spain

Segment of "Dminutos del Calvario" for TVE.