All Films

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies

1990 • 47 min

A special highlighting actor/producer/director Robert Redford's 30-year career in motion pictures and his special relationship with director Sidney Pollack.

The Man Who Created Systems

1990 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

The film analyzes the Titoist (Stalinist) rituals that were used to manipulate public opinion and the masses. In parallel, the film shows the monument of Edvard Kardelj, the main Orwellian ideologue of Titoism in the center of Ljubljana. The workers surrounding Kardelj are beings without articulated faces. Kardelj has the only human face. They all go to the so-called happy future. The monument confirms in an astonishing and perverse way that the so-called self-governing socialism produced a mass of impersonal and authoritarian individuals in the crowd, which the so-called communist elites rule unscrupulously by manipulating the feelings of the masses "about a better future".

Rockin' Reindeer Christmas

1990 • 31 min • United States of America

One of Santa's reindeer, Blitzen, is tired of always being last in the lineup. This year, he has a plan to butter up Santa so that he can guide the sleigh on Christmas.

Jack's Bicycle

1990 • 9 min • Ireland

Living with Dinosaurs

1990 • 48 min • United States of America

A socially awkward young English boy deals with his fears about his unemployed artist father, his pregnant mother, and his asthma, with the help of his favorite doll, a stuffed dinosaur named Dog.

Tim Allen: Men Are Pigs

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

Comedian Tim Allen shares his enthusiasm for power tools, automobiles, grunting, and the myriad obsessions of the American male in this special for the Showtime premium cable network, which was aired a few years before he rose to stardom with the television sitcom Home Improvement.

Cinderella

1990 • 26 min • United States of America

The well-known story of Cinderella.

The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'

1990 • 21 min

A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.

Bob Fosse: Steam Heat

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary profile of director/choreographer Bob Fosse. Includes clips from his films and television specials as well as interviews with Fosse, remembrances from his friends, and commentary by Gwen Verdon. A Dance in America presentation, broadcast as part of Great Performances.

Poison in the Rockies

1990 • 56 min • United States of America

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

Contre-courant

1990 • 11 min

About images and photographs of real estate and specific objects of the urban landscape, a voice speaks to us of the search for something that is unknown and hidden from the view of everyone in Paris. The film starts from the disappearance of the Bièvre river to talk about the pollution problems.

The World Within: C.G. Jung In His Own Words

1990 • 60 min

Documentary about Carl Jung based on footage of interviews in his last years of life. An introduction to 'Man and his Symbols', the last book he wrote.

The Audition

1990 • 25 min

When Jane, a film director, auditions her mother for a role in her latest television series she tries to keep their relationship professional. But her mother, disorientated by the cameras, refuses to play along. A professional casting quickly turns into an audition for the more personal roles of mother and daughter.

The Scarecrow

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Rosalia Zelma employs a traditional drawing to offer a story in which a scarecrow is attracted by a white hare. Sadly, the long-eared beauty’s affections hop elsewhere, in search of a suitor with deeper patchwork pockets filled with carrots.

The Phone Ranger Rides Again!: The Case of Careless Clyde

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

An DNA Productions Short

The Spirit Within

1990 • 51 min

This documentary looks at various Indigenous spirituality programs that run in western Canadian federal penitentiaries, as well as in some provincial institutions. These programs are led by elders, with assistance from liaison officers. They include workshops, ceremonies, and other traditional methods that help put the incarcerated back in touch with themselves, their culture, and their spirituality.

The Magic Finger

1990 • 25 min • United Kingdom

"When the Magic Finger is upon you extraordinary things begin to happen...." and when the Magic Finger is put upon the Gregg family for shooting some ducks, only the inventive imagination of Roald Dahl could have devised the events which take place!

The Hedgehog Must Be Prickly?

1990 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A cozy house in the forest lives a family of hedgehogs. All of them are good, but only one of their children has no thorns, instead of them were soft curls.

Banned in the USA

1990 • 49 min

A video portrait of 2 Live Crew as they fought to release their album "Banned in the USA" during the censorship crisis of the late 80s and early 90s that ultimately resulted in the "PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT" sticker. This 49-minute documentary was directed by Penelope Spheeris.

Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda!

1990 • 15 min • Brazil

Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife Marta is the family breadwinner. Things escalate in the relationship when the man starts to feel undervalued by his wife.

Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash

1990 • 48 min • United States of America

Celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the animated cat-and-mouse team, Tom & Jerry, including clips from their animated shorts!

Dig My Do

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

An Elvis-like dog sings an ode to his hairstyle.

Lyuba

1990 • 12 min • Soviet Union

A young girl takes refuge in the woods to escape her mother's rages. Here she reenacts scenes of her physical and sexual abuse using stuffed dolls. It seems she wants her late father back, despite the sexual abuse, for at least he loved her. Now all she has left is her physically and mentally abusive mother.

Introduction to the End of an Argument

1990 • 40 min • Canada, Palestinian Territory, United States of America

This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. Relying on valuable snippets from feature films such as "Exodus", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Black Sunday", "Little Drummer Girl", and network news shows, the filmmakers have constructed an oddly wry narrative, mimicking the history of Mid East politics.