All Films

The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places

1989 • 47 min • United States of America

Henry Crawford is tricked into job swapping by an old friend with an evil plan.

Life Under Water

1989 • 56 min • United States of America

Young man, who can't get along with the rest of the world, especially his mother, decides to try to take his life in his own hands. A TV movie directed by Jay Holman.

Who Shrunk Saturday Morning?

1989 • 30 min

A prime-time special previewing NBC's 1989-90 Saturday morning lineup, hosted by the cast members of NBC's "Saved by the Bell."

On the Edge

1989 • 59 min • United States of America

Vince bets his college roommate he can prove God exists, but he has no idea how. He takes him camping in the spectacular Yosemite National Park. Amidst the hiking, campfires, and storytelling, the laughter, sorrow, and plenty of action will definitely keep you "On the Edge" of your seat.

Le jour de congé

1989 • 19 min • Belgium

A girl working in a crisis center has a curious experience after receiving a call for help. Belgian actress and director Yolande Moreau has an unforgettable role here, one of her first films. A fauna of truculent characters lives this short film at once tender and joyful realized by the Quebecoise Carole Laganière during her studies in cinema in Belgium.

One Year in a Life of Crime

1989 • 55 min • United States of America

Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the "petty" crimes that are paralyzing America.

Icare

1989 • 6 min • France

The story of Icarus, son of Dedalus, imprisoned in the labyrinth, but with a twist...

Twilight City

1989 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asian cultural critics, historians and journalists. The choice of occupation for the daughter, a researcher, perhaps strains the narrative conceit too far. Nevertheless, for an avowedly political documentary the result is absorbing.

The Seven

1989 • 29 min • Czechoslovakia

A parody of the film The Magnificent Seven about seven transport company inspectors who bravely fight a gang of stowaways.

A Night on the Tyne

1989 • 48 min

When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.

Dias de Euforia

1989 • 44 min

Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of São Paulo, television broadcasts, and support from artists like Djavan, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Lobão, and Leci Brandão. Additionally, it features footage of the marches and Lula's first interview after his electoral defeat. A work that recounts fragments of the struggle for democracy in the country.

Párpados

1989 • 29 min • Spain

Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intricate script involving a delirious array of doubles, mirrors and word-play revolving around the central theme of amorous obsession.

Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!

1989 • 57 min

This profile of acting coach Stella Adler includes interviews with Adler and with colleagues, students, and friends, along with clips from her own acting performances as well as from her classes.

A Week In The Life Of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

1989 • 26 min

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe live performance documentary

El aprendiz de pornógrafo

1989 • 58 min • Mexico

Roman, a television student, invites his former lover, Lilia, to his apartment. With a small video camera placed at ground level, he will try to record the seduction and the subsequent intercourse. The film, made entirely with a Hi 8 video camera, plays with the viewer's perspective by presenting a set of situations susceptible to different readings.

Just Hold Still

1989 • 32 min • United States of America

In his New York City landscape, Cohen finds inspiration in disturbance. Looking to life for rhythm and to architecture for state of mind, he locates simple mysteries. Just Hold Still is comprised of an interconnected series of short works and collaborations that explore the gray area between documentary, narrative, and experimental genres.

Love Me True

1989 • 27 min

Love is in the air as newlyweds chomp on cake, brides marry werewolves, and hatchets fall on adulterous heads. Amid the real-life romance is mixed the real-life business of directing my film students in a tale of run-away passions for the silver screen.

Cycles

1989 • 17 min • United States of America

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the spirits (Orishas in the Yoruba tradition), receiving much needed inspiration and assurance in a dream. The film combines beautifully intimate still and moving images of the woman’s body and home space, along with playful stop-motion sequences. —Jacqueline Stewart, UCLA Film and Television Archive

¡Colores!: The Qatsi Trilogy

1989 • 19 min • United States of America

Journalist V. B. Price interviews director Godfrey Reggio about his vision for "The Qatsi Trilogy", fourteen years before its completion.

Mickey's Safety Club: Street Safe, Street Smart

1989 • 13 min • United States of America

Mickey and his friends take a close look at important street safety situations and tips.

Creating Rem Lezar

1989 • 48 min • United States of America

Zack and Ashlee discover the meaning of true friendship when they create an imaginary friend, the superhero Rem Lezar.

Honban kyojiri zeme

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu

Tahiti

1989 • 35 min • Cuba, Uruguay

A city, a trip, and end...

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

1989 • 53 min

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.