All Films

Tommy Davidson: Takin' It To D.C.

1990 • 29 min

Tommy Davidson shines in this classic 90s special. Whether he's talking about sex, the national anthem, cockroaches, or impersonating Prince & Michael Jackson, he's sure to make you laugh!

Sandy Comes Home

1990 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Sandy Comes Home is a bittersweet, unsettling elegy: the ghost of a suburban everyman narrates his own erasure and the transformation of his world. Through humour slowly turning to cruelty masked in civility, Humphries delivers a sharp satire of complacency, cultural displacement, and the quiet racism lurking in polite society.

Arata Isozaki II: International Projects

1990 • 57 min

Through a blend of Japanese history and Western influence, Arata Isozaki has built a career around his boldly distinctive architectural style. Constantly challenging the concepts of space, form and tradition, Isozaki’s work dares us to imagine a merging of cultures where artistic movements and methods bind together in riveting new forms. "ARATA ISOZAKI II: INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS" follows the architect to many of his most famous sites including the Barcelona Olympic Sports Palace, Disney’s Team Building in Orlando, New York’s Palladium nightclub, as well as the newly completed Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Gisèle Kérozène

1990 • 5 min • France

Three witches worship a bird statue in a postmodern city. When Gisèle Kerozene comes and steals it, the three witches jump on their brooms and initiate a hilarious chase.

Komino

1990 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The wise otter saves the hunter who falls into trouble.

Kazimir Malevich

1990 • 54 min

In 1915 the Russian artist Malevich declared a Black Square on a White Background an icon of his times and thus founded a new form of art, liberated from objects – Suprematism. Supported by the Bolsheviks at first, his ‘formalistic’ art was soon considered counterrevolutionary. 50 years later, in 1989, the first comprehensive Malevich retrospective outside Russia was held in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. It is here that Barrie Gavin outlines the artist’s creative phases and his life story. In doing so, he discovers the most diverse ‘isms’ of the 20th century and one of the most significant pioneers of abstract art.

Go! Anpanman: Omusubiman

1990 • 25 min • Japan

A spin-off work with Omusubiman as the main character, and it is the only work without Anpanman and Baikinman.

Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri

1990 • 34 min • Japan

Directed by Masami Akita,who is also one of Japan's leading noise musicians under the name Merzbow. With a soundtrack by the director himself, this intense and ultra-gory seppuku film shows a young woman taking her own life by an act of ritual harakiri.

Zug

1990 • 10 min • Germany

Poetic documentary about the deconstruction of a railroad track in South Germany.

Billy Martin: The Man, the Myth, the Manager

1990 • 60 min

An emotional tribute to Billy Martin -- a five-time manager of the New York Yankees in the 1970s and '80s -- this program combines game clips and on-camera interviews, including one with Martin recorded shortly before his untimely death in 1989. Footage features an all-star lineup of Major League Baseball personalities, including Mickey Mantle, George Steinbrenner, Rickey Henderson, Whitey Ford, Willie Randolph and Rod Carew.

Tokusha!! Jû-san-nin no Onanii

1990 • 55 min • Japan

The Craig Ferguson Show

1990 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Craig Ferguson tells jokes and introduces filmed skits.

Kamasutra The Ultimate Sex Adventure

1990 • 43 min • Japan

Hidden deep in the ancient Himalayan Mountains, a beautiful Princess is found in the ice. Frozen, but still alive, the quirky Dr. Aikawa revives the sensual Princess in his own special way. Now that the lovely Princess Surya has been brought back to life, the fun begins. With love struck eyes, Ryu, Dr. Aikawa's son, decides he must master the 48 positions of the ancient art of love, as described in the classic Indian text, the Kama Sutra. But little does he realize how much trouble a beautiful Princess can be, until he finds he must protect her from the vicious Indian cult, the Mali Clan.

The Mystery of Lanois

1990 • 27 min • Canada

About Daniel Lanois, the Canadian musician and producer, during one of his most productive years in life, living and recording in New Orleans, LA. Daniel Lanois was born in Hull, Quebec. Sept. 19, 1951. His family moved to Hamilton, Ont. in 1963. In 1974 he and his brother Bob built and operated the Grant Avenue Studio, where he produced records by acts such as Martha and the Muffins, Parachute Club, Raffi, and Ian Tyson. In 1989 he released his first solo album, "Acadie". He also produced "Oh Mercy" by Bob Dylan and "Yellow Moon" by The Neville Bros. during the same year.

In the Footsteps of the Bambr

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Bambr, Hermit, Bird, Cat and Mouse - already familiar from the film Ferocious Bambre, are faced with the insidious Hunter, who planned to turn Bambre into a hunting dog. But friendship and mutual assistance win this time as well.

Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes

1990 • 22 min

The making of the film Dick Tracy (1990).

Rita Rudner: Born to be Mild

1990 • 55 min • United States of America

Rita Rudner brings her standup to the Ohio Theatre in this special.

Daphne

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

When Eros shoots his arrows on the god Apollo, he falls madly in love with Daphne. But the nymph does not correspond to his love and escapes as she can from the harassment of Apollo. Animated short film based on the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne.

Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1990 • 46 min • United States of America

A special examining the appeal of real-life daredevils and heroic figures compared with their fictional counterparts as portrayed in adventure films.

Blazon Blatzom: El Pistolera Blatzo

1990 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A documentation of Jeff Keen painting, using montage to turn a mild-mannered English painter into a Wild West gunslinger.

Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand

1990 • 58 min • Germany

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification.

Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

1990 • 59 min • United States of America

Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday integrates film and video performances, recordings, words from her controversial autobiography (read by actress Ruby Dee) and interviews with artists who played with her (pianist Mal Waldron, trumpeter Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison), Milt Gabler (owner of Commodore and a producer at Decca), author Albert Murray and vocalists Carmen McRae and Annie Ross.

Home for Christmas

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

Dolly Parton returns home to Sevierville and to Dollywood where she joins her family and friends to share songs and memories of the holidays in this 1990 TV special to accompany her Christmas CD Home for the Holidays.

Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard

1990 • 10 min

A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash, featuring an interview with the director, prior to making of his film.