All Films

José Cardoso Pires - Diário de Bordo

1998 • 52 min • Portugal

A documentary about the life and work of José Cardoso Pires. The information was gathered through a series of interviews made by the journalist Clara Ferreira Alves during autumn and winter of 1997 and also by people who were close to him.

Lino: His Art and Life

1998 • 39 min • Philippines

A documentary TV special on the life of Lino Brocka, released in 1998 for Pinoy Blockbuster Original.

Amazing Amazon Beauties

1998 • 60 min • United States of America

Julie Strain and others star in this video centerfold of Penthouse Pets in Amazon-like settings.

Bed Scenes

1998 • 25 min • France

Seven brief scenes, each with a couple, explore the surprises and the changes of heart that can occur during sexual encounters. Only one of the seven couples has been in bed together before; several are strangers or new acquaintances. A prostitute and her john, an older woman and a youth who follows her home, two women friends, a gay man with a straight man, a man with distinctive ideas about soap and water, a woman who wants the light left on, and a Spanish-speaking woman with a French-speaking man make for an array of possibilities and unanticipated consequences. The 7 bed scenes are titled: The Black Hole [Le trou noir]; Mr. Clean [Monsieur Propre]; Madame; Heads or Tails [Tête bêche]; The Ideal Man [L'homme idéal]; Love in the Dark [L'amour dans le noir]; and The Virgins [Les puceaux].

Banned from Television

1998 • 54 min • United States of America

A series of videos containing footage of real life events that were too disturbing for television.

Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am

1998 • 58 min • United States of America

A famed athlete, linguist, scholar, lawyer, actor, singer and activist, Paul Robeson left behind an irreplaceable legacy in American life. Friends, artists and writers recount the efforts of this tireless champion of African-American rights, whose actions ironically made him a target of McCarthyism. This eye-opening profile of the American icon is designed for students in middle school, high school and college.

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square

1998 • 29 min • Canada

This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.

PJ Harvey: Bizarre Festival 1998

1998 • 39 min

August 21, 1998 - Bizarre Festival, Cologne, Germany

Seeds in the Wind

1998 • 29 min • France, United Kingdom

In DES GRAINES DANS LE VENT, the handful of British workers tramping towards Amsterdam to fight for their rights in the “European March Against Unemployment, Insecurity and Exclusion” look pretty lost. Kramer accompanies the little group, but is overcome with doubt from the beginning: “You shouldn’t being doing something like this if you don’t want to, Robert.” Kramer leaves the group after a week, after being given advice about what isn’t working in the film that is still in the process of being made.

The Righteous Babes

1998 • 51 min • United Kingdom

The Righteous Babes shows how the self-affirmative music of young women is renewing the 90's feminism. In the film, audience can experience feminism not in the library but in the rock concert hall. The film shows interviews and performances. In addition, controversial feminists along with American and British women journalists share their views on pop culture.

You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Costume Party

1998 • 25 min

You're Invited to Mary-Kate and Ashley's Costume Party encompasses several American cultural eras from poodle skirts to disco fever, and learning about these eras provokes the twins to throw a party in their basement.

Children's Scary Story "Hell Phone"

1998 • 30 min • Japan

An original video featuring four short horror stories, aimed at children.

Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion

1998 • 59 min

This sports documentary tells the remarkable story of the man voted the greatest boxer in history. Spanning his career from the early Depression-era days until his death in 1989, this special brings to light the many sides of Robinson: flashy public icon, womanizer, comeback kid, philanthropist, fighter. Includes rare film footage, never-before-seen home movies and interviews.

Live From Longmont Potion Castle

1998 • 30 min

Live From Longmont Potion Castle is a video by Longmont Potion Castle, originally released on VHS in 1998 and later included on the Longbox Option Package DVD in 2006. It includes prank calls to TV shows, prank phone calls to businesses that were surreptitiously videotaped by an accomplice.

Making of R.H.

1998 • 39 min

Idol 廣末涼子 Ryoko Hirosue VHS tape Making of R.H. released in 1998.

The Singer and the Swinger

1998 • 59 min

The Singer and the Swinger tells us as much about Australia's relationship to American pop culture as it does about Johnny O'Keefe's to Lee Gordon. Two different men brought together during the years 1953-63.

Nathanial Hornblower’s: The Robot V the Octopus Monster Saga

1998 • 9 min

The full short film used as a basis for the Beastie Boy's Intergalactic. Included as a bonus feature on Criterion's Beastie Boys Video Anthology.

Sang Remords

1998 • 8 min • Canada

A bedridden female vampire needs to suck the blood of victims to regain strength.

The Shooter

1998 • 52 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

A drama set in a war-torn Sarajevo.

Just Add Water

1998 • 16 min • United States of America

A family meeting to decide what to do with the ashes of recently deceased Nanna takes an unexpected turn when Nanna comes back from the dead in an attempt to sort out some of the personal problems of her offspring.

I have been looking at the dream continuously

1998 • 20 min • Japan

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Kids Are Punny

1998 • 30 min

This HBO special, based on Rosie O'Donnell's book of the same name, uses animated and live action segments to explore the vital role that humour plays in our lives.

Conditions of Love

1998 • 60 min

Also known as 'Condition of Mistress' and 'Mistress Meiki Warts to the back'.

Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth

1998 • 2 min • Russia