All Films

The Crossroad Of Rock

1988 • 26 min • Soviet Union

Documentary film written by music critic Artemiy Troitskiy. It depicts the variety of Soviet and Baltic rock music and offers its viewer an idea that all this forbidden music is not really dangerous for society. Featuring music bands: "Круиз" (Tambov), "In Spe" (Estonia), "Новый мир" (Estonian hard-rock), "Великие Луки" (punk-rock from Tallinn). Moscow music scene represented by: "Тупые", "Нюанс", "Звуки Му". Leningrad music scene: "Джунгли", "Алиса". Also appearing: "Воплі Відоплясова" from Kiev and "Антис" from Lithuania. Not credited: Roman Neumoev with "Инструкция по выживанию" and Oleg Sudakov with "Гражданская оборона".

Nestor Sextone for President

1988 • 1 min • United States of America

The computer animated man Sextone runs for president, promising that humans will no longer take the roles of synthetic people.

Reflections on Children's Theatre

1988 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Cultural figures and artists discuss the present and future of children's theatre in the Soviet Union.

One of Those Days

1988 • 7 min • United States of America

A day in the life of the world's unluckiest guy. Starting the morning off with a shaving nick from hell, he endures fires, mad dogs, rampaging vacuum cleaners, horny neighbors, kids with ray guns and, of course, a steam-roller.

Monster Truck Parking Lot

1988 • 2 min

Unfinished and unreleased follow-up to Krulik & Heyn's "Heavy Metal Parking Lot", set in the same Capital Centre parking lot before a monster truck rally.

Home at Last

1988 • 58 min • United States of America

Billy, a streetwise kid from New York City, is sent to Nebraska and is taken in by a Swedish farm family, the Andersons. Initially fearful and resentful, Billy doesn’t fit in, and he clashes with his new family and adoptive father (Frank Converse). Not until a terrible crisis occurs does Billy realize that, for the first time in his life, he truly belongs and is Home At Last.

Bob Hope's Jolly Christmas Show

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

Hope's annual Christmas show, with songs, skits, and comedy routines.

The Banjo and the Bard

1988 • 57 min • Australia

A docudrama exploring the rivalry between bush poets A.B. "Banjo" Paterson and Henry Lawson, set in contemporary Australia.

Blake Ball

1988 • 16 min • United States of America

Using Baseball as a metaphor, this film explores the world of William Blake.

Derek Jarman: You Know What I Mean?

1988 • 52 min

Documentary exploring the life and work of artist, Derek Jarman.

The Space Insect

1988 • 40 min • Japan

A boy dreams of space and a strange egg falls on the book he is reading. What comes out of it is a strange insect. The boy tries to raise it, but his mother refuses, so he throws it away in a nearby mountain and continues to observe it. The worm continues to multiply and creates a civilization that rivals that of humans... Based on a novel by Shigeru Mizuki.

Grapefruit

1988 • 40 min

With an all-female cast, featuring Suzie Bright as John Lennon, Cecilia Dougherty's Grapefruit plays with the romanticized history of the iconic Fab Four, gently mocking John and Yoko’s banal squabbles and obsessive rituals of self-display. Based obliquely on Yoko Ono’s book, the piece works on many levels to reposition this mythic tale of the Beatles by casting '80s women in mod drag—effectively mapping the lesbian sub-culture onto heterosexual mass culture. Discounting the importance of reproducing facts and historical accuracy, Dougherty gives an incisive reading of the creation of pop culture icons: it doesn’t matter who plays John Lennon because ultimately John Lennon is not a person anymore. As a star, he is a projection of our society’s collective needs and desires.

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

1988 • 59 min

Read by actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post–World War I era in Europe. In this documentary, professor Frank Kermode, biographer Peter Ackroyd, and poets Sir Stephen Spender and Craig Raine examine the complex nature of Eliot’s influential poem, analyze its appeal, and trace the reasons why it became one of the best-known emblems of the 20th century.

Dinner at Noon

1988 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Writer Alan Bennett visits a hotel in the north of England, observes the guests, and reminisces about his experiences of staying in boarding-houses as a child.

Daniel Asleep

1988 • 11 min • France

The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.

Mickey's 60th Birthday

1988 • 45 min • United States of America

This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the angry magi so that no one will recognize him until he finds his own magic within. While Mickey is on his quest, network news teams around the country desperately try to find the famous, beloved mouse who has mysteriously disappeared. On his quest, Mickey pays a visit to the patrons of "Cheers", meets up with the Keatons from "Family Ties", and winds up on Disneyland's Main Street the night before his Birthday celebration is to take place. It is there that he finds he has all the magic inside him that he will ever need. The spell is broken and the Birthday bash commences as the whole World celebrates the beloved Mickey Mouse.

Drawing Restraint 2

1988 • 5 min

Black and white video Mathew Barney early work

Ferocious Bambr

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon tells the story of a fabulous creature named Bambre. He lived completely alone and frightened everyone who was approaching him, and his tail was kind and prevented him from doing dirty tricks. Once Bambre found friends and became kind.

Facts of Life

1988 • 40 min

Edinburgh 1963: Alice is 11 and fascinated by sex. But her mother's involvement with Francois introduces Alice to more facts of life than she had bargained for.

Theatre Papa Carlo

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlo's body, a path to the doors of freedom is laid.

Frank Gehry: The Formative Years

1988 • 58 min • United States of America

Narrated by the architect himself, Frank Gehry: The Formative Years explores his long standing career and unique eye. The film looks at a number of Gehry's projects from private homes to complex public institutions, all of which echo his experimental style and vision. Works such as The Norton House, The Aerospace Museum and Loyola Law School demonstrate Gehry's eccentric and distinctive touch. The Formative Years is a survey of his beginnings when Gehry experimented with his own house in Santa Monica, giving him notoriety in the architecture scene.

The Woman From Elsewhere

1988 • 24 min • Canada

At the age of twelve Helena Valero was kidnapped by the Yanomami Indians, with whom she spent 24 years in Brazil's Oneroque Basin. Upon returning to her own people in Manaus, she was rejected because of her children's mixed blood.

Of Dice and Men

1988 • 11 min

Using splashy hand-drawn animation, the story about a man who ends up in the hospital and probability theory is illustrated. When the guy awakens in a hospital bed, the doctor begins spouting all sorts of statistical probabilities--at which point the patient seems confused. So, the doctor explains the history behind probability theory as well as its application.

Loriot's 65th Birthday

1988 • 60 min • Germany

TV special that celebrated the comedian and filmmaker Vicco von Bülow’s 65th birthday. The special is a mix of retrospective and tribute to his incredible body of work, filled with humorous moments, interviews, and highlights from his career.