All Films

The Self-Levitation Video

1997 • 19 min • United States of America

Michael Maxwell not only teaches you how to properly perform The Balducci Levitation but he also shares exclusive inside tips from David Roth. David has made the levitation one of his featured effects for lay audiences for many years and never tipped the "real work' until this video was made.

Making of Biohazard 2 TV-CM

1997 • 11 min • Japan

From the legendary director who redefined the zombies in film industry (George A. Romero), comes a bold new vision that blurs the line between game and horror cinema. Follow the camera behind the scenes of one of the most talked-about TV commercials ever made, created in collaboration with Brad Renfro and some of Hollywood’s top talent. Based on the world of Resident Evil, the hit survival horror game that had already terrified millions since its debut in 1996, this commercial heralds the arrival of its highly anticipated sequel. Breaking a two-year silence, director Romero returns with a haunting production of cinematic ambition. With a staggering budget of over 150 million yen (more than one million USD), the shoot took place on a chilling replica of a Los Angeles police station, transformed into the shadowy world of Raccoon City.

The Chest

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Comedy drama about John Croft (Neil Morrissey), a failed businessman who is heavily in debt when he finds a wallet which contains a map which he later finds could lead him to hidden treasure. He decides to search for the treasure alone, but Roland Blood (Jim Carter), a dealer in naval antiquities, is not far behind. Croft follows the clues on the map from a castle to a church to a seaside promotory and finds the spot where the treasure was buried is the site of a new beachside housing development. He tries to buy the house, but his bank manager does not look kindly on his proposal and his wife is about to discover that he re-mortgaged her home. He decides to take drastic action…

Snow White Lucie

1997 • 4 min • France

Pierre Huyghe's work questions how diverse languages can apply to the same reality. In his short film Blanche-Neige Lucie (Snow White Lucie), Huyghe tells the story of Lucie Dolene who sang in the French version of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film shows an aged Lucie humming the famous song while an interview with her runs as subtitles to the images. This mirroring of dubbing and translation serves as the vehicle for Huyghe's questioning of multiple identities and the ideal of translating a meaning to create a universal image.

Out for Love... Be Back Shortly

1997 • 55 min

Dan Katzir's autobiographical film expresses the outcry of his generation, as it struggles to find love and privacy amidst the reality of daily terror and hate. Mr. Katzir, a former officer and paratrooper intimately reveals his loves story with Iris, a charming girl about to begin her army service. A truly poetic film filled with beauty innocence and wisdom. This film is also an important historic document with rare and shocking footage from the era of assassinated prime minister Yitzchak Rabin. Made with much love and humour, this brave film examines Israel's most painful scars.

Equinox: Black Holes

1997 • 55 min

Documentary on nature's ultimate abyss, the black hole. It is the darkest thing in the universe and its gravity is so powerful that not even light can escape. Most start out as brilliant stars which, after millions of years, eventually collapse forming a bottomless pit from which there is no escape. Narrated by actor John Hurt and directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Richard Smith, the program is a journey into interstellar space to explore these mysterious "prisons of light", via an imaginary computer-generated space ship. Guides for the journey include Professor Stephen Hawking, Britain's Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees, and Homer Simpson. The program also examines the history surrounding black holes, from the first conception of them in 1859 to the present day.

X-Mix: Transmission From Deep Space Radio

1997 • 41 min

Kevin Saunderson mixes the ninth installment in the X-Mix series.

Theatro Mvnicipal de São Paulo

1997 • 60 min

By Ministry of Culture.

Sweethearts?

1997 • 11 min • Denmark

Skal vi være kærester? is a 1997 Danish short film directed by Birger Larsen. In the story, a boy tries to win a girl's heart through the art of music. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

When Cars Attack

1997 • 46 min • United States of America

Utilizing footage from various police pursuit features and traffic cameras, this mockumentary's sardonic host (Richard Belzer) demonstrates how automobiles and other evil steel monsters can capture and confine their unsuspecting and allegedly powerless operators while causing tremendous mayhem on our streets and highways. IE - it's not the irresponsible drunk drivers and criminals who do these things, it's their cars. The human occupants are simply victims.

Mermaid

1997 • 10 min • Russia

An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.

Denji Sentai Megaranger Super Video: You Can Be One Too! A Mega Hero

1997 • 13 min

Denji Sentai Megaranger Super Video: You Can Be One Too! A Mega Hero is the Super Video of Denji Sentai Megaranger.

Cupid's Arrow

1997 • 20 min • Canada, United States of America

A lonely computer expert (Andrea Peters) decides to look for love on the Internet, only to find something far more frightening.

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty

1997 • 28 min • France

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

home sweet movie

1997 • 33 min • Japan

Between go-signals and stop-signals, Saburo's expectations of love grow. Rika toys with him, wondering how far he is conscious of her. Emi, who knowingly or unknowingly says nothing. By depicting the tension in the less-than-triangular relationship in a leisurely and fluffy manner, the film succeeds in summing up the game played by the three in a classy manner. The happy ending is convincing.

The Banana

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The Velvet Underground's John Cale tells the story behind Andy Warhol's famous LP cover, Auberon Waugh and John Walters recall their first encounters with the fruit after the war, and footballer Brendan Batson considers how they became a symbol of racism hurled from the terraces

Nobody I Know

1997 • 8 min • Australia

A young gay man experiences the difficulties of bringing a pal home for the evening when mom and sis are home.

Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band

1997 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A profile of the Hippest band of the 60's and 70's as they prepare for a reunion gig.

Quest

1997 • 12 min • Germany

A being made of sand wakes up in the desert. It finds a bottle near him, but it's empty. The noise of dropping water can be heard not far away. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

WWF Rock And Rumble

1997 • 49 min • United States of America

A USA Network Special that aired on January 14th, 1997 in the lead-up to that year's Royal Rumble show. Produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)

Mao's New Suit

1997 • 51 min

For decades people in China modelled themselves on Chairman Mao who wore a simple worker’s outfit in blue or grey, known as the ‘Mao Suit’. MAO’S NEW SUIT charts the course of two Beijing fashion designers amidst the staging of their first collection in Shanghai’s annual Fashion Week.

Clancy's Kitchen

1997 • 52 min

Londoner Clancy Self has everything, a sucessful TV cooking show, good looks, fame, and a beautiful girlfriend. Clancy also has Jamie a live in lover. When a dead body is found in Clancy's kitchen, Clancy also has one more thing... a big problem.

Pink Doll

1997 • 10 min • Russia

A careless mother is going on a date with another fan and, in order to brighten up her daughter's loneliness, leaves her alone with a pink doll - the same doll that "wanders around the city and why it is vain to destroy little children". The girl considers the doll to be very realistic, therefore she associates it with herself, and herself with her mother. So begin the serious experiences of a girl who understands that this doll bought off her. At night, the girl dreams a terrible dream in which the doll embodies all her fears... "Pink Doll" creates the illusion of a spellbound fall into the abyss of children's dreams, fantasies and nightmares. The sensual effect is achieved by the game of scale and angle, the nervous rhythm of intraframe movement and graphic thickening of reality.

Penthouse: Lost Treasures

1997 • 60 min

From the vaults of Penthouse Video comes never-before-seen footage so erotic, so provocative, that only now can it finally be released. Take a steamy trip to Paris with blonde beauty Julie Smith. Get up-close and very personal with the sultry Jami Dion. Explore the erotic side of sex star Julia Ann. These are just some of the tantalizing treasures contained in this special collection featuring more than a dozen Penthouse Pets.