All Films

Derek Zoolander: Male Model

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

The short film that introduces the character of Derek Zoolander, first shown at the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards.

De Tripas, Corazón

1996 • 16 min • Mexico

The coming-of-age story of young milkboy Martín (García Bernal). While his friends Jesús (Altomaro) and Roberto (Mora) are cocky and apparently they have a lot of experience in sex, young Martín is shy, quiet and virgin. Everything changes when the young cocky boys want to prove they're men and go to a brothel without Martín.

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

This documentary celebrates the ridiculous stunts used by Hollywood over the years to market its worst movies. These include the ’50s drive-in where moviegoers could drop off their dirty laundry and pick it up after the show, horror filmmaker William Castle’s vibrating seats and producer Sam Arkoff’s offer to pay for the funeral of anyone scared to death by his film. Amusing interviews with critic Roger Ebert and director John Waters, creator of Smell-O-Vision, enliven a program that has one central failing: host Frankie Avalon, who remains as schlocky as ever.

Zohra à la plage

1996 • 8 min • France

Crossroads of Laredo

1996 • 23 min

Tex is a gunslinger who murders a cowboy and steals his money. Lem is an honest man who wants nothing more than to marry Barbara. When Tex marries Barbara and treats her badly, Lem decides to settle the score.

Christian B.

1996 • 10 min • Germany

Love, death, lurking in the streets. Will she ever see her dead lover?

Clarkson: Unleashed on Cars

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Jeremy Clarkson drives a wide range of vehicles as he attempts to find the "best car, in the world, ever."

Garage Sale

1996 • 30 min • United States of America

When Julia thinks her boyfriend Brent is cheating on her, she sells all his designer clothes in a garage sale.

Grandmother

1996 • 10 min • Russia

Family history. About how the Grandmother taught the boy to save. Saving another creature, the boy begins to live. Personality formation is taking place (and the boy may not even know about it). Grandma did it all right, but she was tired.

Siberia

1996 • 41 min • United States of America

Take off on a ski adventure in Siberia with two of the world's best extreme athletes. The crew takes a harrowing ride by helicopter to their destination. Will the day be too extreme?

Christmas in Cartoontown

1996 • 46 min • United States of America

It's Christmas Eve, and Irv the Elf is usually the Santa's helper who helps get the reindeer in the air, but this year, things are a little different. Somehow, Irv's gotten trapped inside a plastic snow globe, and now a couple of kids named Heidi and Alex are going to have to team up with the heroes from their favorite fairy tales like Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Pinocchio, in order to make sure Christmas happens for boys and girls all over the world.

Tout doit disparaître

1996 • 14 min • France

In Paris, men are waiting for a possible daily job in an agency. Among them, two novices Jean-Pierre and Théo. They find themselves in the suburbs to make a regular move.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Adele Givens

1996 • 28 min

Stand up special

We Greeks

1996 • 8 min • Greece

A satirical, revealing and entertaining film that unmasks modern Greeks and their vices but always by sweetening the pill. The film dips into the cultural and artistic heritage of Greece with the use of historical figures and everyday common characters.

Medusa Suicida

1996 • 13 min

Early short film by Angela Christlieb

Two Little Red Dolls

1996 • 11 min

One night, a killer is seemingly stalking two lesbian lovers in their flat. Is it all a bad dream, simple paranoia or a real threat that's closer than they think?

Disney Presents: Main Street Electrical Parade - Farewell Season

1996 • 25 min • United States of America

Catch the spark after dark at Disneyland Park. And say farewell to one of the Magic Kingdom's most celebrated traditions - The Main Street Electrical Parade. Where else, but in The Main Street Electrical Parade, could you see an illuminated 40-foot-long fire-breathing dragon? And hear the energy of its legendary melody one last time? It's unforgettable after-dark magic that will glow in your heart long after the last float has disappeared.

Dashan - Ambassador to China's Funny Bone

1996 • 50 min • Canada

Mark Rowswell may well be one of the most popular comedians Canada has ever produced. A virtual unknown in his own country, Rowswell has an enormous following in mainland China, where he is known as Dashan. His appearances on Chinese television have drawn up to six hundred million viewers. Together wih his Chinese partner and mentor, Ding Guangquan, Rowswell practices a comedic art form known as crosstalk, whose roots stretch back centuries.

Breasts: A Documentary

1996 • 50 min • United States of America

Twenty-two women (ranging in age from 11 to 84), with 41 breasts, talk about their breasts; most are topless as they speak. They talk about adolescence, bras, commercial images of women's figures, having implants or, in one case, a breast reduction, health problems with silicone, doctors' exams ("I think you have a throat infection, let me examine your breasts"), breasts as power tools and as objects of pleasure, cancer, living with mastectomies, and the effects of time and gravity. Two mother-daughter teams and two strippers participate. The women (and the girls) are humorous, straightforward, reflective, and good-natured about their bodies and their selves

Tick

1996 • 9 min

A brisk look into the lives of two bomb diffusers. John Hamburg's student film.

It Is a Crime

1996 • 5 min • United States of America

Using footage from mainstream British and Hollywood films, and excerpts from a poem by Shani Mootoo, this video explores the impact of cultural imperialism and the erasure of language—residual tools of oppression on members of post-colonial societies.

K.

1996 • 10 min

Short film by Ciprì/Maresco.

Caesar's Writers

1996 • 60 min

On January 24, 1996, at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles, CA, legendary comic Sid Caesar was reunited with nine of his writers from Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. The event was taped for release on PBS and BBC in a 1-hour cut, and later on VHS and DVD in its full 2-hour length. Be prepared to laugh non-stop as the panel, made up of head writer Mel Tolkin, Caesar, Carl Reiner, Aaron Ruben, Larry Gelbart, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, Sheldon Keller, and Gary Belkin share stories about their time working on Caesar's shows and offer their insights about writing comedy.

Melodrama

1996 • 56 min • Cuba

Rolando Díaz's comedic Melodrama follows Esperanza, a dying newscaster, desperate to have a child through whatever means necessary - even if it means bypassing her husband and sleeping with her fellow coworker or a local librarian.