All Films

Barry Manilow: Big Fun on Swing Street

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

Barry Manilow and friends perform 1940s songs updated with a 1980s flair.

Bruce and Ronnie

1988 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Bruce Forsyth and Ronnie Corbett team up for this festive comedy show from 1988, featuring their own version of Gone With the Wind with guest star Fiona Fullerton as Scarlett O'Hara.

Define

1988 • 5 min

Oblique, episodic meditations on the semiotics and ethics of ethnic female identity are accompanied by a blandly cynical narrator explaining how to “win an invitation to the dominant culture.” —Kevin McMahon

In and Out Crowd

1988 • 2 min • United States of America

A spoof of "The In Crowd."

Tex Avery: King of Cartoons

1988 • 52 min

A documentary about the life and career of legendary cartoon director Fred "Tex" Avery.

An Experiment

1988 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A satirical film about bureaucrats.

Face Like a Frog

1988 • 5 min • United States of America

A frog is driving his alligator-shaped car when he is stopped by a shapely she-frog who steps into the road. She tells him that her house is haunted, so he goes along to assist.

The Universe of Dermot Finn

1988 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Dermot is in love with Pearl and is going to meet her family for the first time. But not everyone lives in the same world as us..

Faust's Other: An Idyll

1988 • 41 min • United States of America

“Faust Part 2” reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from the Greek idein, "to see"); also, a journey of the id. A sense of story is inferred through the complex interweaving of human gesture, expression, and bodily movement within vibrantly shifting colours and rhythmic development, creating multiple levels of metaphorical meaning. A collaborative work with paintings by Emily Ripley and soundtrack by Joel Haertling.

Le Rêve du Phenix

1988 • 12 min • France

"...The budget was 500,000 francs, financed by the Ministry of Culture, the OCTET agency in Populus [...] On this occasion, we created a production company whose name was inspired by the comic book of Jean-Claude Forest, Mystérieuse Matin Midi et Soir." - Minh

Byrne About Byrne

1988 • 60 min

In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.

Londeleau

1988 • 11 min • Canada

A young woman accused of witchcraft tells an inquisitor the story of her parents who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Alone at Last_1988

1988 • 14 min

Student film from Eiki Takahashi. Video art work about American writer William Burroughs. Affected by the cut-up / fold-in method, which involves chopping up existing texts to expose potentially hidden malicious intent in the texts. Using the text and narrative of Burroughs, he tried to reconstruct the language space of Burroughs by using 8mm video, photographs, and re-shooting them.

The Dubliner's Dublin

1988 • 51 min • Ireland

Irish Folk Band, The Dubliners, guide us through the history of Dublin.

Nao Saejima: Abnormal Experience

1988 • 50 min • Japan

A woman is attacked, later plotting revenge...

A Warm Reception in L.A.

1988 • 5 min

An author seeks fame and fortune in Hollywood.

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

1988 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and maximum hilarity, all rolled into one.

The Absent-Minded Professor

1988 • 45 min • United States of America

Henry Crawford is the titular absent-minded professor busy at work in his laboratory. He has a girlfriend, but she is getting frustrated at his repeatedly missing their dates and spending more time with his experiments than with her. One day, Prof. Crawford makes an incredible discovery a form of rubber that defies gravity with each bounce, which he names Flubber. Hopefully, with this invention Crawford can prove to his love that he's not just a hopeless loser stuck doing dead-end research.

Bluetoes, the Christmas Elf

1988 • 30 min • Canada

It's Christmas Eve and all of Santa's helpers are busy packing the sleigh... all except one unnamed elf who is too young and too clumsy to help. But in a dream come true he is riding with Santa helping deliver the toys and making a sacrifice which earns him his name "Bluetoes."

Isaac Asimov's Robots

1988 • 45 min

Elijah Bailey, the greatest detective of the 23rd century, is faced with his toughest assignment ever... and he needs your help. For the first time in 100 years, someone has attempted a murder. With the advent of the Robot, crime has virtually disappeared. Yet a murder attempt has been made, and it may happen again. Who did it? Was it an Earthling, a Spacer, or the unthinkable... a Robot? Only you can put together the pieces and uncover the identity of the perpetrator. You'll have to move quickly though, and catch the criminal before another attempt is made.

Stage By Stage: Les Misérables

1988 • 57 min • United Kingdom

An interview with the production team behind the hit Broadway musical as they discuss the conception and development of Les Miserables as a pop-culture phenomenon.

The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special

1988 • 23 min • United States of America

A special that shows the young Flintstones trying to raise money so they can go to a concert. The story takes a turn when older kids try to push drugs on them.

Ted E. Bear: Cub Reporter

1988 • 37 min • United States of America

Ted E. Bear and friends host a newscast.

A Woman Who Wants to Show Off, Exposed: Miki Inoue

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.