All Films

Sam Kinison: Family Entertainment Hour

1991 • 49 min • United States of America

Get ready to scream with laughter! Sam Kinison's primal scream will echo down through the comedy hall of fame summing up so much of modernity's horror and stupidity. This concert was taped at the Wiltern Theatre where Sam was joined with the Randy Hansen Band and a salacious slew of sinuous sirens, including his wife Malika. Join Sam Kinison and guests for a concert guaranteed to make you laugh 'til you cry for more - there's something for every member of the family - Sam Kinison style!

The Invited

1991 • 50 min

One evening three friends go on a joyride, only two return. The other, accidentally killed. They thought no one had witnessed their accident, they were wrong.

Director: Alan Clarke

1991 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Documentary - Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" and "Elephant" inspired a generation of British actors, writers and directors that changed cinema forever. This documentary features rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with friends and colleagues of Clarke, including Tim Roth, Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels. -

Sunday on Mars

1991 • 15 min

William has to spend another boring Sunday with his grandparents. He has only a box of Lego and his imagination for comfort. Gradually the crises aboard his spaceship become entangled with the fate of his sleeping grandmother.

Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head

1991 • 26 min • Belgium, France

The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose work centered on humans in various stages in torment, as depicted in expansive canvases with gore galore. Smolders has basically taken a standard documentary and chopped it up, using quotes from the long-dead artist, and periodic statements by a historian (Smolders) filling in a few bits of Wiertz’ life.

Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon

1991 • 58 min

Reenactments of passages from the controversial Kenneth Anger collection of tawdry gossip about the golden age of Hollywood.

Effie's Burning

1991 • 60 min

An elderly lady suffers from the mysterious condition of spontaneous combustion.

Merlin and the Dragons

1991 • 37 min

A young King Arthur is awoken from his sleep by bad dreams, about a boy who is made king because he pulls a sword from a stone. He goes to Merlin to seek his counsel, and Merlin begins a story of his own, about a young boy with strange abilities and visions. The boy, called Emrys, is feared in his village called of as a demon. Eventually, King Vortigern comes and forces his village to build a tower for him. However, the tower crumbles. His wizards advise him to find a demon boy and spill his blood upon the ground. However, when the boy is brought before Vortigern, he predicts that there is a pool of water beneath the foundations of the castle that weaken it. The workers find a pool of water and two strange stones, from which two beasts emerge, a white and a red dragon.

Ushiro no Hyakutarou

1991 • 58 min • Japan

A boy named Ichitarou Ushiro deals with various horrifying phenomena with the help of his guardian spirit Hyakutarou.

Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes

1991 • 23 min • United States of America

Bugs has to defend the Earth's right to exist in an intergalactic court.

The Letter M

1991 • 1 min • United States of America

The letter M in various typefaces.

Bad Karma

1991 • 36 min • United Kingdom

A group of people is having a barbecue party when two Krishnas appear at their doorstep, both of which transform into hideous monsters and start killing everybody in gory ways. The survivors retreat to a friend's house and realize something bigger is going on...

Kidsongs: Very Silly Songs

1991 • 30 min • United States of America

The Kidsongs Kids are swept off to SillyDillyVille and the silliness begins! A walk "Down By The Bay" finds a llama in pajamas, a pet pig who wears a wig and a whale with a polka dotted tail! The kids are charmed when they meet "Jim Along Josie", a marvelous orangutan who has 20 different ways to make you laugh. It gets even sillier when the very cute "Purple People Eater" comes to earth and announces his intention to be a rock star.

The Letter X

1991 • 1 min • United States of America

The letter X in various typefaces.

Models: The Film

1991 • 52 min • United States of America

Chronicles five of fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh's muses, the supermodels of the early 1990s.

The Last Ninja Gaucho

1991 • 5 min • Argentina

Classic short film by Farsa Producciones, second version of an even more classic short, also called "The Last Ninja Gaucho".

Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield

1991 • 1 min • Canada

A one-minute vignette on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield's pioneering procedure to cure epilepsy.

Winnie the Pooh & Christmas Too

1991 • 26 min • United States of America

Pooh is so busy gathering up his friends' wish lists for Santa that he forgets to include his own. After retrieving the list and adding his own desires, he realizes he's late getting it where it needs to go. Off he goes to the North Pole on Christmas Eve, with pals Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Rabbit, and Christopher Robin missing him

Timeless Tales: Puss in Boots

1991 • 25 min

Young Carlisle is a poor miller's son with a most unusual inheritance: a cat named Puss who reveals her can talk and think. Puss helps Carlisle win the favor of the King and the attention of the beautiful Princess. To complete his plan, Puss journeys to the land of a sinister sorcerer, where he must use all his cat-wits to outsmart both the malicious magician and the King's scheming jesters.

Tudo Ao Mesmo Tempo Agora

1991 • 33 min • Brazil

Making-of about the recording and release of the album Tudo Ao Mesmo Tempo Agora (1991), with the brazilian rock group Titãs.

Olímpicos

1991 • 7 min • Brazil

At a poker table, five players discuss the possibility of having, in the Olympic Games, instead of the bow and arrow, the game of poker as an official modality.

Secrets of the Unknown

1991 • 47 min • United States of America

A special reenacting of the experiences of people who have seen first hand the power of psychic phenomenon in their lives. A mother finds justice for a lost child and closure through clairvoyance, a woman's ulcer is healed through hypnosis, and a priest heals through transmutation.

Ravissement

1991 • 7 min • Belgium

A small, empty boudoir slowly becomes populated by a series of young women, their still and open expressions gradually engulfing the screen, as a nun narrates an account of religious rapture. Belgian filmmaker Olivier Smolders continues a brilliant exploration of religious ecstasy, figured in and epitomized by the erotic, death-defying gaze of the camera lens, in this sublime black-and-white treatment set to excerpts from the theological writings of Saint Teresa of Avila.

Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis

1991 • 59 min • United Kingdom

BBC TV documentary