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Female Harakiri: Glorious Death

Female Harakiri: Glorious Death

1989 • 45 min • Japan
Part of the Zankoku-bi: Onna harakiri 01 series.
88.9 Radio Redfern

88.9 Radio Redfern

1989 • 54 min • Australia
An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 Radio Redfern. Set against a backdrop of contemporary Aboriginal music, 88.9 Radio Redfern offers a special and rare exploration of the people, attitudes and philosophies behind the lead up to a different type of celebration of Australia’s Bicentennial Year. Throughout 1988, 88.9 Radio Redfern became an important focal point for communication and solidarity within the Aboriginal community. The film reveals how urban blacks are adapting social structures such as the mass media to serve their needs.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5, op. 73

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5, op. 73

1989 • 40 min
Munich Philarmonic Orchestra, Friedrich Gulda conductor. (1989)
Hockey's Hardest Hitters

Hockey's Hardest Hitters

1989 • 29 min • Canada
A video compilation of hard hits from the NHL. Hosted by Joe Bowen
Goofy's Field Trips: Trains

Goofy's Field Trips: Trains

1989 • 14 min • United States of America
Goofy visits a train station to see how it and the trains there operate.
Elli Fat Mat

Elli Fat Mat

1989 • 13 min • France
27 years after 1962, Antoine returns to Algiers...
Nóttin, já nóttin

Nóttin, já nóttin

1989 • 60 min
12 hours in the life of a young man who has just received bad news which change everything.
Four or Five Accidents, One June...

Four or Five Accidents, One June...

1989 • 25 min
A literal/metaphorical "map" of anecdotes, jump cut interviews, incorrect "talking head" shots, and hit-and-miss quotations. The film follows the route of a delivery driver encountering various characters, such as the glaucoma-stricken elderly owner of a bed and breakfast and a doctor's office receptionist who steals drugs for her father, a Hollywood producer.
Batmania: From Comics to Screen

Batmania: From Comics to Screen

1989 • 47 min
This is the fully documented story of Batman—his genesis, his development, and his overall entertainment career. Told with dramatic insight, this action-filled documentary will satisfy every fan who has ever delighted in Batmania.
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker

100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker

1989 • 54 min • Germany
On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker.
Stereotypes

Stereotypes

1989 • 30 min • Soviet Union
The cartoon makes fun of popular stereotypes about the Russians and the Americans.
Arrowhead

Arrowhead

1989 • 28 min • France
Climber Patrick Edlinger visits various climbing areas in the American West, including Joshua Tree (routes and bouldering), Yosemite (bouldering), Hueco Tanks (bouldering), and Smith Rock (routes). He is seen climbing alongside Russ Clune, Ron Kauk, Jean-Paul Lemercier, and Todd Skinner in numerous sequences accompanied by Native American-inspired music composed by Benoît Fromanger. Less well-known than his two previous films, "La Vie au bout des doigts" and "Opéra Vertical," it remains a benchmark for all climbing enthusiasts and admirers of Edlinger, the world's most famous climber. His familiar voice provides narration throughout many sequences with iconic phrases that encapsulate the man, such as: "Climbing, this useless thing to which I dedicate my life."
The Lottery

The Lottery

1989 • 3 min • United States of America
A music teacher realizes that she's won the lottery, but then promptly loses the ticket out the window. The short film then follows her exploits to recover the ticket as it is grabbed by a pigeon, blown down the street and into the subway.
No Such Thing as Gravity

No Such Thing as Gravity

1989 • 45 min • United States of America
Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects. "Troublemakers" and malcontents are exiled to an artificial planet called Terra Nova. Problems arise when Terra Nova suddenly shifts its orbit and threatens to crash into Earth.
Message to Man

Message to Man

1989 • 40 min • Soviet Union
In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its events, guests and participants, such as the American director Leo Hurwitz, the Latvian director Ivars Seleckis, and the ballerina Natalya Makarova, among others. It also shows the “engine room” of the festival: the work of the main office and the PROKKa professional cinematographers’ club, guests being greeted and seen off. A charity evening with Natalya Makarova, a memorial service to commemorate the victims of the war and excerpts of documentary films presented at the festival are also featured.
Big Ear

Big Ear

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union
An alien falls down from the sky in front of a wolf cub. His big ear allows him to listen to everything that happens in the universe. Yet somehow he fails to hear forest creatures calling for help.
The First Emperor of China

The First Emperor of China

1989 • 40 min • Canada, China
This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declared himself emperor in 221 B.C. During his reign, he introduced sweeping reforms, built a vast network of roads and connected the Great Wall of China. From the grandiose inner sanctum of Emperor Qin's royal palace, to fierce battles with feudal kings, this film re-creates the glory and the terror of the Qin Dynasty, including footage of Qin's life-sized terra cotta army, constructed 2,200 years ago for his tomb.
Itsuki Mariko: Kyonyû shigoku

Itsuki Mariko: Kyonyû shigoku

1989 • 54 min • Japan
Mariko. The son of a wealthy family failed his university entrance exam and is currently retaking the exam. However, he doesn't go to cram school at all, and instead hangs out with his friends instead of studying. He has no money to spare, so his parents bought him a computer, and he is absorbed in online communication at night. He meets a girl named Rain through the online communication. The man becomes fascinated by her innocent and cute writing, and eventually he falls in love with the girl on the computer...
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring

Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring

1989 • 30 min • United States of America
Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti subculture, his opening of the Pop Shop, and the social commentary present in his paintings and drawings.
La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte

La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte

1989 • 56 min • France
Film based on the lyrical tragedy of the same name by Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc, directed by Alain Françon at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
Rosie the Great

Rosie the Great

1989 • 25 min
The British Government wants to ruin the island of Longsea with a military base that they’re pushing forward with even after the Island’s council democratically voted to stop it - but Longsea’s past is unclear, and when an American journalist comes to town, their investigations might muddy the international waters…
Fairground in the Stars

Fairground in the Stars

1989 • 18 min • Japan
A young boy named Takeshi steals an origami crane from his friend Nobu. To Takeshi's surprise the crane begins talking to him and offers to take him and his friends to an amusement park in space where children from many planets play. While riding an attraction designed to test the children's courage, Akiko is sucked into a black hole, leaving Takeshi and his friends to save her.
V Is for Violet

V Is for Violet

1989 • 15 min • United States of America
A tale of two teens: Violet an actress wandering through the years of her career with remarkable ease and media attention despite her lack of an attention span or talent. And a young man also tries to make it in New York City, but his naivety leads him to a life of hustling. Violet and the hustler may be the same person.
Into the Mainstream

Into the Mainstream

1989 • 55 min
Every 'overnight sensation' in the music industry is preceded by a few years of fine-tuning the act. But 40,000 years? From the far north of Australia, YOTHU YINDI draws on the song cycle of its Arnhem Land ancestors to create a mesmeric mix of traditional Aboriginal music and rock 'n' roll. Into the Mainstream takes us on a journey across the vast continent of America with YOTHU YINDI, on the 'Diesel and Dust to Big Mountain' concert tour featuring MIDNIGHT OIL and American Indian band GRAFITTI MAN. The bands travel 16,000 km over 38 days and play to crowds of up to 10,000. On the way they meet American Indian communities to talk about land rights and cultural identity, culminating in the presentation of a gift from the Yolngu people in Arnhem Land to the Navajo elders in Big Mountain, Arizona. YOTHU YINDI proves to be a revelation on tour - Aboriginal traditional music and dance quickly become the latest American vogue in performing art.