All Films

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990 • 46 min • United States of America

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.

'Twas the Fight Before Christmas

1990 • 27 min • United States of America

Nick tries to help his classmate Derrick understand the true meaning of Christmas.

Lifestyles of the Ramones

1990 • 58 min • United States of America

Documentary on the Ramones, including archival footage, interviews and music videos, this was first released on VHS in 1990 and later re-released on DVD as part of the WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES box set in 2005, with expanded content. HEY, HO, LET'S GO!

La mujer lunática

1990 • 60 min • Spain

A man falls in love with an unusual woman

Companion of Caviar

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how Professor Mintz, using a time machine, sent a group of citizens of the city of Guslyar to 1948.

Timeless Tales: The Elves and the Shoemaker

1990 • 25 min

With fewer and fewer customers needing shoes, village shoemakers Bertram and Bettina and their faithful dog Woof are in quite a fix. Then, a trio of tiny wood elves arrives and cobbles the finest footwear ever seen; but a nasty cat named Squint has an appetite for elves, and only Woof can save the industrious pixies from a cat-astrophic fate!

Performance Pieces

1990 • 10 min

Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance artist, Jack Narwhal, who cut himself into pieces for display in major museums around the world. In this film, he explains his bodiless condition to a belligerent workman who is setting up another exhibit in the gallery.

Andre's Mother

1990 • 48 min • United States of America

Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her son to AIDS. Set at Andre's memorial service, the film follows Katherine's journey as she confronts the death of her son, the anguish of his lover Cal Porter (Richard Thomas), and, in flashbacks, the key moments of denial and miscommunication with those closest to her. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season nine, episode four).

Gryphon

1990 • 55 min • United States of America

When Rickey and his friends put a snake in the desk of the new substitute teacher, to their surprise, she lovingly picks it up and puts it around her neck. Soon her strange stories of the wonders and beauty of the world around them helps them to see there is more to life than ever imagined.

Playpen of the Damned

1990 • 53 min

Documentary on the porn industry at the end of the 1980s.

What's Up Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

This salute to Bugs Bunny reveals the loony, creative atmosphere in which Bugs was born and developed and includes ten original, full-length cartoons that represent the stages of the wascally wabbit's evolution.

Summer of Love

1990 • 1 min • United States of America

Produced in collaboration with MICA-TV, Summer of Love is a public service announcement produced for the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Featuring The B-52’s, David Byrne, Allen Ginsburg, Quentin Crisp, John Kelly, and others.

School Girl: Harakiri

1990 • 45 min • Japan

A school girl kneels on her mat looking over an old photo album containing pictures of people committing seppuku. Becoming aroused by what she sees, she touches herself and licks her fingertips. She pulls out a knife of her own, takes off her uniform, and in a very fetishistic manner proceeds to slit open her stomach and then pull out her guts.

Trojans

1990 • 33 min • Greece, United Kingdom

A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.

And Another Honkytonk Girl Says She Will

1990 • 28 min • United States of America

When a beautiful country girl leaves her farm and baby behind to pursue a singing career in Nashville, her naïve dreams of stardom descend into a perverse nightmare.

Chilling Out

1990 • 50 min

Drama-documentary featuring a group of young Black actors exploring the experience and the spirit of being Black in Britain

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

1990 • 58 min • United States of America

Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting — and the woman who would be with him for most of his meteoric career. He was Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's highest paid stars — and one of its most difficult, most rebellious and, when he wished, most charming.

The Fire and the Rose

1990 • 51 min

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Box City

1990 • 1 min • United States of America

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

Big Police Tale

1990 • 16 min • Soviet Union

One day the police were checking city blocks and found a dragon egg, which was immediately taken to the lost and found table. And there a five-headed dragon hatched from the egg and ate everything that was in the lost and found table for storage. Not knowing what to do with the charming monster, the police are trying to place him either in an orphanage or in an animal protection society. But everything is in vain, because in fact the dragon is an enchanted princess.

The Unkindest Cut

1990 • 20 min • United Kingdom

When Mikey's parents discover he has failed his accountancy exams for the third time, they are concerned. When he falls in love with a girl from the Salvation Army, they are horrified. Fleeing from the disapproval of his parents and the Jewish community Mikey finds help from a sage with a six-foot beard.

The Yum Yums: The Day Things Went Sour

1990 • 30 min

It's almost opening day at Yum Yum Fun Park - but something terrible has happened! Those mean and yucky Sourpusses have set out to spoil the big day. Come join the fun as those yummy-smelling Yums Yums meet scary sewer rats, trick a ferocious sewer gator and match wits with the Sourpusses. Will they be able to rescue their magic toolbox and complete repairs in time to make Yum Yum Fun Park... once again... the sweetest and most fantastic amusement park on earth?

The Ghost Writer

1990 • 27 min • United States of America

Blocked novelist Anthony Strack is desperate enough to plot suicide. Before he completes the deed, he is visited by unearthly beings, whose presence helps him to write again.

The Zombie From Paradise

1990 • 57 min • Japan

An old man who died and entered paradise returns to the world of the living, creating terror and confusion.