All Films

Just Die Alone

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Ken has been chasing after his ex-boyfriend, who he lost touch with after he was transferred to Southeast Asia, but his sadness at not being able to see him again leads him to have an impromptu relationship with a local man who asks him out. Three years have passed since then. One day, while living with his new partner, Masashi, Ken noticed something strange about his body and wonders if his body might have been infected with HIV...

The Real Malcolm X

1992 • 60 min • United States of America

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The film intercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, scholars, and writers. CBS documents Malcolm's move from being Elijah Muhammad's deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam: his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be. CBS details his death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm. Maya Angelou, Dick Gregory, and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments. "He was our manhood," eulogized Ossie Davis.

Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom

1992 • 60 min

Co-stars and celebrity admirers go through Benny's entire career

Gahan Wilson's Diner

1992 • 6 min

On a dark and stormy night, a rookie trucker is asked by his supervisor to check up on an eerie nightmarish diner where a ghoulish cook and a giant monstrous chef try to put him on the menu.

Tight Spot: New Year's Special

1992 • 33 min • Yugoslavia

After Šojić has been imprisoned, Pantić hopes that the new boss will be better than him only to find out that the new boss is an exact copy of Šojić.

The New Adventures of William Tell

1992 • 50 min

To intercede for his son Christian, William Tell goes to the city is in jail. On the road falls into an ice cave where you see the Ice Warrior presents him with three arrows: the Truth, and of Deception who concedes nothing. William refuses to bow before the evil Governor and this forces him to shoot an apple placed on the head of Christian.

Theology

1992 • 3 min • United States of America

Computer animation that follows a mysterious egg, directed by art pop musician Todd Rundgren. 3 years of production for 3 mins of animation.

Earth of the Blind

1992 • 24 min • Lithuania

The film springs from at least three ideas connected to each other in an irrational way: the story of a cow being taken to the butcher, the description of simple pleasures, how to ascend to the top of a hill and descend in a wheelbarrow, and the portraiture of a several blind people. The great, big eyes of the cows are seen in contrast to the unseeing eyes of the blind people.

Chô waisetsu ikizukai

1992 • 56 min • Japan

Pinku distributed by Shintoho

Ménage

1992 • 12 min • France

Blanche is a maniac for the housekeeping. Colette, after having a sleepless night very eventfull, is coming to visit her.

Summer Session

1992 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Rob Brydon auditions to be the Doctor, whilst some Daleks escape to an auction in Wales.

Likely Consequence

1992 • 45 min • Taiwan

Filmed performance of Yang's one-act two-character play which shifts back and forth from comedy to much darker tones as a married couple try to figure out what to do with the body of a man the wife has killed in their kitchen.

DragonStrike

1992 • 33 min • United States of America

A magical kingdom once peaceful and lush. Now it lies shrouded beneath a cloud of doom, trapped in perpetual night. Into this realm stride four unlikely heroes a warrior wizard, thief, and elf . Together they must face their greatest challenge ever... to conquer a deadly sorcerer and lift his curse of darkness. It's an epic adventure in a land where dragons rule the sky and danger lurks at every turn!

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America

1992 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standards as September Song and Speak Low. Director Barrie Gavin describes the film as "the history of an artist ... struggling to write music which could have real meaning for the society he had just joined." Weill is remembered by the conductor Maurice Abravanel and the actor Burgess Meredith and there are extracts from several of his works.

Black Hearts Bleed Red

1992 • 16 min

A stark adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find.

The Cardinal and the Corpse

1992 • 39 min • United Kingdom

‘The Cardinal and the Corpse' marks the beginning of Petit’s loose partnership with writer Iain Sinclair. There’s a nod towards narrative here involving a book-search launched by graphic novelist Alan Moore and a dealer (the dapper but barking Driffield), but it’s little more than an excuse to showcase a number of authors and other miscreants.

Black Sabbath: The Black Sabbath Story, Volume Two

1992 • 47 min

“The Black Sabbath Story, Volume Two” is a documentary video by heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It discusses the line-up changes Black Sabbath experienced during the period between 1978 and 1992.

The Mill

1992 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A young girl journeys through a strange landscape of dream and memory.

Basse tension

1992 • 6 min • France

A hitman must fulfill a contract aboard a train. He faces great difficulties going to the sleeping car where sleeps the man he must kill.

Mr. Petrified Forrest

1992 • 26 min • United States of America

In Matt Reeves' directorial debut, a passport photographer named Steven Forrest is petrified of death following the sudden demise of his fearless buddy in a martini accident.

Female College Student Confinement: Vibrator Hell

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku distributed by Xces.

Black Sabbath: The Black Sabbath Story, Volume One

1992 • 60 min • United Kingdom

“The Black Sabbath Story, Volume One” traces the roots and origins of Black Sabbath on an album by album basis and features rare performance footage including N.I.B. Paranoid, and War Pigs. Watch Ozzy and company slay the 300,000 plus crowd at California Jam 1974 with a blistering rendition of Children of the Grave. Black Sabbath is a highly visual band and one of the earliest metal groups to experiment with promotional videos. Their hilarious video for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath captures the spirit of similar videos put out by The Beatles. There are a couple of other songs here captured live from the “Never Say Die” tour including Snowblind, Symptom of the Universe, and Rock ’n’ Roll Doctor. All of these performances are professionally shot and Warner Bros. shows them uncut and without narration. “The Black Sabbath Story, Volume One” covers all the bases of the Ozzy years.

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

1992 • 51 min

When his mother rents their vacant room to a peculiar composer, Christoph can't believe his bad luck. But as the abrasive boarder, Ludwig Van Beethoven, begins creating his masterful 9th Symphony, Christoph is won over by the majesty of his music. This lighthearted family drama was awarded the 1993 Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.

Soundgarden: Motorvision

1992 • 57 min • United States of America

Motorvision is a home video by the American grunge band Soundgarden. It was released on November 17, 1992. It features eight songs performed live at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington on March 5, 1992 and March 6, 1992 during the Badmotorfinger tour.