All Films

Blue Film Masterpiece: The Wind Rises

1991 • 59 min • Japan

A beautiful mother and daughter live in an old house, where there is an incense burner with a curse that has been passed down since ancient times... A series of lustful picture scrolls are depicted in fantasy horror-style...

Morrissey - Hulmerist

1991 • 46 min

Seven promotional films by Morrissey, released initially on VHS in 1990 and then on DVD in 2004. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on 18 January 1991. The title refers to Morrissey's childhood home in Hulme, Manchester. The L is silent, so it sounds like "humourist". The music videos: 1) The Last of the Famous International Playboys 2) Sister I'm a Poet 3) Everyday is Like Sunday 4) Interesting Drug 5) Suedehead 6) Ouija Board, Ouija Board 7) November Spawned a Monster

Trap for Bambr

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The insidious and angry Hunter Stump kidnaps the Cat in order to exchange it for Bambra. Bambre agrees to the exchange and surrenders to the hunter. But loyal friends - Hermit, Mouse and Bird - do not abandon a friend in trouble and save the Cat.

The Crocodile

1991 • 9 min • Soviet Union

This story is full of images and context, even though it is a simple story about a crocodile that ate a disagreeable man, it turns out that also addresses the problem of property and economic principles. Of course, all this is done to give a humorous effect, denouncing the social order, which may be contrary to the common sense.

The Comic Book Greats: Sergio Aragonés

1991 • 50 min • United States of America

Stan Lee interviews Sergio Aragonés

Front and Back

1991 • 1 min • United States of America

An educational short film featuring the character of Luxo Jr. demonstrating the concept of "front" and "back."

Paul Reiser: 3 1/2 Blocks from Home

1991 • 58 min • United States of America

Paul Reiser says, "I kid, I joke, I come from love". Actually he comes from N.Y.C., just 3 1/2 blocks from the Palladium nightclub where this riotously funny special was filmed. In this intimate showcase of his stand-up style, Reiser tackles such problems as sharing food at Chinese restaurants, finding your seat in a darkened movie theater, and pretending to know someone you don't remember.

Al Green: Everything's Gonna Be Alright

1991 • 56 min

This 1991 concert performance was filmed at the Celebrity Theatre in Anaheim, CA, and features the LA Mass Choir.

The Kathy & Mo Show: Parallel Lives

1991 • 60 min • United States of America

Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney bring their award-winning Off-Broadway show to the screen, an evening of boundless humor that reexamines the ongoing quest to find parity and love in a contest handicapped by capricious gods—or in this case, goddesses.

Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos

1991 • 55 min

Featuring The Videos : Beautiful Red Dress / Language Is A Virus / Sharkey's Day / O Superman - Including Excerpts From : What You Mean We / Alive From Off Center / The Eleventh Hour - Plus Never Before Seen Live Footage - Interview Footage - And More...

Alchemists

1991 • 11 min • Canada

This short animation is a visual fantasy, a gripping tale that is "larger-than-life" in its themes: life, death and rebirth; creation and destruction; permanence and impermanence, spontaneity and control. Bold swoops of liquid colour surge with variations on Mozart's Requiem to a startling denouement. Alchemists will provoke reflection on creativity, relationships and the environment. Without words.

Zebras: Patterns in the Grass

1991 • 50 min

Zebras leave their trails across 300 km of grassland in Botswana on a yearly migration that begins with the first rains

Halloween Monster Bash

1991 • 46 min

1991's NBC Halloween special with John Astin and Rhonda Shear. Features clips from classic horror movies with commentary.

Sebastian's Caribbean Jamboree

1991 • 31 min

Written by "Mickey Mouse Club" staff writers Alan Silberberg and Jeff Zimmer, this special combined animation of Sebastian the Crab from "The Little Mermaid" with live action footage of Samuel Wright singing and entertaining at Disenyworld. The blend makes for an engaging half hour, especially for fans of Samuel Wright.

Queen: Days of Our Lives

1991 • 43 min

Queen documentary from 1991 hosted by Axl Rose.

Mother Earth

1991 • 11 min • Canada

This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film looks at human beings, their place on earth, and their deep interconnection with all other beings. Evocations of forces that threaten the planet and all its inhabitants also offer avenues for reflection.

The Adventure Machine

1991 • 22 min

It's a high flyin', springtime adventure when Buttons and Rusty borrow a broken model car and miraculously turn it into a flying adventure machine. Traveling out of Chucklewood, the cubs arrive in a far off forest facing all sorts of adventures...and causing a few problems, too!

But the Goat Survived

1991 • 10 min • Slovenia

Intolerance in front of a released prisoner triggers a wave of violence. The innocent survive.

Paty chula

1991 • 38 min • Mexico

Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse the invitation since the signing of the contract depends on this meeting. In 1993 this film received the Ariel Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best medium-length fiction film.

Dominoes: An Uncensored Journey Through the Sixties

1991 • 60 min

The Dominoes Movie is an audio-visual album of the sixties. Not the chronological 1960s, but the electric, turbulent decade of rock, revolution, and the Vietnam War. The Dominoes Movie focuses on a succession of thirteen evolutionary tableaus, conveying the director’s view that one thing leads to another, as in the domino effect where one change or event causes a similar one, which then causes an additional one, and so on in a linear sequence. A portrait of the Vietnam War decade without narration and presented entirely via news footage and a soundtrack featuring BB King, Marvin Gaye, The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana, Neil Young, CSN&Y, Van Morrison, The Incredible String Band, Canned Heat and David Peel.

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki

1991 • 33 min • United Kingdom

An interview with Aki Kaurismäki, with film clips and comments from colleagues.

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia

1991 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia, Germany, United Kingdom

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).

Nelson Pereira dos Santos - Portrait sentimental d'un cinéaste brésilien

1991 • 43 min

Portrait of the emblematic Brazilian filmmaker of the Cinema Novo movement: Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

One Thousand Faces

1991 • 2 min • United States of America

Mixed animation set to music.