All Films

Christmas on Ice

1990 • 60 min

Figure skaters perform festive musical numbers.

The Real Story of the Three Little Kittens

1990 • 25 min • United States of America

Tom, Dick and Harriet, a mischievous trio from Whiskers End, get more than they bargain for the day they skip school to play in the snow. Unfortunately, the kittens lose their way and wander into the Fearful Forest, domain of Freezelda the Ice Queen.

Project A-Ko Versus Battle 2: Blue Side

1990 • 52 min • Japan

It will take a lot of strength to slay a three-headed dragon, perhaps more than A-ko, B-ko and Maruten can muster. As these intrepid souls invade a space station ruled by their nemesis, they encounter star pirates, hidden explosives, seductive spirits, and female warriors with no discernible loyalties. And, of course, that fire-breathing beast with football field-size wings and a trio of mouths -- each brandishing saber-length teeth!

The Day of Reckoning

1990 • 53 min

A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated chicken farm.

Celebrity Guide to Wine

1990 • 60 min

Spago restaurant maître d’ Bernard Erpicum hosts this program featuring Hollywood stars as they share tips for choosing the best wine for any occasion. Dudley Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Steven Seagal, and Peter Weller are among the guests. Added advice is provided by Robert Loggia, Kelly LeBrock, Herbie Hancock, and Shelley Hack. Other topics covered include quickly ordering from a restaurant's lengthy wine list and selecting the proper stemware for home entertaining.

Chronometer

1990 • 26 min

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

Kidsongs: Ride the Roller Coaster

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

The Kidsongs Kids go for a wild ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain, singing and dancing all the way. Zoom around on a roller coaster, get soaking wet on the roaring rapids ride, drive bumper cars, and play games at the arcade with the Kidsongs Kids in this musical amusement park trip you'll never forget. A comical dolphin show, sing-along fun aboard a pirate ship, and spectacular fireworks are just part of the fun, along with song favorites like "Let's Twist Again," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Here We Go Loopty Loo," "Splish Splash," and more!

Greger Olsson köper en bil

1990 • 30 min • Sweden

Greger Olsson and his wife are expecting their first child and she wants to buy a stroller, but Greger has other plans.

Some Enchanted Evening

1990 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Bobby Buffet is a musical director who has been dragged to London to remount a Broadway musical in the West End. A rather unwilling participant, he finds himself in a hotel without a piano. When one finally arrives, there could be emotional strings

The Crash of 1929

1990 • 55 min • United States of America

Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

1990 • 49 min • United Kingdom

A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

1990 • 56 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.

Tango Schmango

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

A haunting tango song inspires a dancing couple to try steps and moves that Fred and Ginger never imagined.

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

1990 • 55 min • United States of America

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His love for mushrooms, his Zen beliefs and use of the I Ching, and basic bio details are all explained intelligently and dynamically. Black Mountain, Buckminster Fuller, Rauschenberg, Duchamp are mentioned. Yoko Ono, John Rockwell, Laurie Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz make appearances. Fascinating performance sequences include Margaret Leng-Tan performing on prepared piano, Merce Cunningham and company, and performances of Credo In Us, Water Music, and Third Construction. Demystifies the man who made music from silence, from all sounds, from life.

TOKYO CITY Mercen 3 Champ/SHOUT

1990 • 60 min • Japan

1990 Original Video.

Un po' di Giappone

1990 • 3 min • Italy

In the 1980s, Michelangelo Antonioni traveled with his partner, actress and filmmaker Enrica Fico Antonioni, to Japan with the intent of creating a documentary, Un viaggio in Giappone, that would chronicle “the social transformations undergoing in Japan through the experimental use of new film technologies,” specifically the Betacam. Un po' di Giappone is the shortened version of the documentary.

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away.

Äkta makar: Britt och Bosse

1990 • 59 min • Sweden

Britt and Bosse are a married couple who are returning from a party where Bosse has been drunk. This is the start of a conflict.

Gotham

1990 • 4 min

A film set to "Batman" by Naked City. Taking the band’s name and first album cover as a clue, Henry Hills drew heavily on themes in WeeGee’s photographs, recreating many of his pictures in their actual Lower East Side/Little Italy locations.

Playboy: Wet & Wild II

1990 • 50 min

"From waterfalls to water-sports, crystal-clear pools to tropical island lagoons, Playboy's famous playmates get 'wet and wild' in an all-new series of exciting escapades and provocative nude scenes."

Things That Aren't There Anymore

1990 • 59 min • United States of America

Remember when Forbes Field was the world’s greatest ballpark? When the Dips roller coaster at West View Park came out to Route 19? When everyone went to the Allegheny County Fair? When streetcars ran all over town? They’re all parts of this warm and winsome program about Pittsburgh’s past, this heartfelt tribute to great and old places where people used to go to have fun.

Groper Train: Panty Hole

1990 • 59 min • Japan

Takashi Sonoyama's wife Akiko is far from being a housewife, so he started cheating on her with Etsuko, whom he met on a train. He then tried to break up with Akiko and marry Etsuko, but... On the other hand, Wataru Todoroki's wife Kumiko, who works both jobs, comes home late every night, so he asks Iwabuchi, a private investigator, to investigate her background, but he says there's no sign of cheating. However, surprisingly...

From the Dead

1990 • 33 min • Sweden

A man is assigned to measure out land for subdivision on an estate. People and animals behave strangely, and the man hears a strange story about a woman who disappeared without a trace from the estate twenty years earlier.

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.