All Films

Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee

1999 • 6 min • Japan

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

Natal 71

1999 • 52 min • Portugal

Natal 71 is the name of a record given to the soldiers of the portuguese colonies overseas for Christmas 1971. Niassa's Songbook is the title of an audiotape illegally recorded by soldiers during the war years, in Mozambique. They are memories from a country which was shut from the rest of the world, poor and ignorant, laid to sleep by a stale and primitive propaganda which tried to hide all the conflicts from us and kept us from thinking and recognising the repressive nature of the regime we lived in.

Paul F. Tompkins: Driven to Drink

1999 • 30 min • United States of America

In this (mostly) one-man show, comedian Paul F. Tompkins holds forth on alcohol, pretension and Hollywood, managing to drink four full pints of Guinness over the course of the performance.

Dance of the Goofys

1999 • 5 min • United States of America

As they do every night, the Goofy Fairies come out to close all the flowers. When the goofiest Goofy Fairy causes his boss to be captured by a young boy with mad scientist ambitions, he must overcome his goofy shortcomings and come to the rescue before his boss becomes a science project.

Welcome to Primetime

1999 • 47 min • United States of America

A documentary about the Nightmare on Elm Street series.

Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs

1999 • 38 min

A tribute to stopmotion supremo and special effects genius extraordinaire Ray Harryhausen, the man behind some of cinema's greatest fantasy films - The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason & The Argonauts and One Million Years BC. Featuring exclusive footage of Harryhausen at work on his first stopmotion for over 20 years, and contributions from many of Hollywood's top special effects directors and creators.

A Little Christmas Story

1999 • 58 min • Finland, Sweden

A little girl gets separated from her teddy bear and is inconsolable.

Beast Academy

1999 • 58 min • Japan

When Kanako a schoolgirl was making love with a teacher at the back of schoolhouse, she broke the stone monument which was built to seal lewd beasts. Then the beasts came back.

The Love of Three Oranges

1999 • 60 min • Taiwan

Taipei, 1990s. Pizza boy JJ bumps one day into his ex-girlfriend Pony who is now pursuing a lesbian relationship with Mimi. On his first visit to the girl JJ gives in to Pony's seduction and makes love to her in the presence of Mimi who is seemingly asleep... Pony is now enjoying the secret excitement of her affair with JJ while Mimi tries hard to put up with it. But as days go by, JJ finds himself more and more obsessed with Mimi. At this stage none of the three is sure of what they want from love...

50 Glorious Years: A Royal Celebration

1999 • 50 min

Celebrating the 50 year marriage of Her Majesty the Queen and her husband and consort Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, the Duke of Edinburgh.

Persian Series #4

1999 • 3 min • United States of America

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures of every conceivable previous shape from the Persian Series. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Retrospective: Looking Back at the Wall

1999 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Interviews on the making of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). Included as a 2-Part special feature on the 1999 and 2005 DVD editions.

Again, Deuce: Red Square, or Golden Ratio

1999 • 8 min • Russia

A negligent student of the Academy of Fine Arts is late for a drawing lesson and instead of an analytical drawing of a plaster Venus, he hastily "paints" a red square, after which he is subjected to a demonstrative flogging by the professor.

How to Be Home Secretary

1999 • 49 min • United Kingdom

In the latest how-to-do-it guide, Michael Cockerell films behind the scenes in the normally secretive Home Office. As well as crime, prisons and MI5, the Home Secretary is responsible for nudist beaches, mad dogs and massage parlours. Jack Straw and his predecessors talk candidly about the Cabinet's most dangerous and fascinating job.

Ashputtle or the Mother's Ghost

1999 • 11 min • Australia

A mother has to go to help her child grow up, even if it means coming back from the dead.

Parkinson Meets Morecambe and Wise

1999 • 44 min

Michael Parkinson looks back at his 1972 interview with comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, who he describes as 'the funniest double act we ever produced. The interview, which Parkinson cites as the wittiest he ever conducted, sees Morecambe and Wise at their absolute best, speaking about their pasts, their heroes and their friendship.

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

1999 • 50 min

A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King.

Crack

1999 • 1 min

A guy freaks out, unprepared for his job as a sound man.

Metallica: Making of S&M

1999 • 41 min

Documentary featuring a look into the making of Metallica: S&M (1999), including behind the scenes footage, interviews with Metallica, Michael Kamen, the SF Symphony, and much more.

Pluto Gets the Paper: Street Cleaner

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

Pluto gets sucked up into the bowels of an oncoming street sweeper in his endless quest to fetch Mickey's newspaper.

Against Medical Advice

1999 • 11 min

A resident at a mental health facility plots his escape.

Robert Schimmel: Unprotected

1999 • 55 min

Stand-up comedy special starring uninhibited comic Robert Schimmel from the State Theater in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Razor's Edge

1999 • 14 min

An old barber finds himself at a loss when called upon to shave an unusually jittery customer. When all attempts at idle everyday chatter fail to calm the man, the barber desperately falls back on his last resort: to tell the only secret he knows.

Love Warrior Pantheon 1999

1999 • 45 min

An entry in the Love Warrior Pantheon tokusatsu series