All Films

An Evening with Bobcat Goldthwait - Share the Warmth

1987 • 55 min

Bobcat Goldthwait in concert, scaring the bejezus out of the people and being funny as hell!

Santa Cruz Skateboards - Wheels of Fire

1987 • 42 min • United States of America

Santa Cruz Skateboards video from 1987.

The Creeping Crimson

1987 • 15 min • United States of America

A short film by George Kuchar.

All Hallows Eve

1987 • 40 min • United States of America

A vengeful supernatural scarecrow stalks a group of teens and a drunk Michael Myers at a Halloween party in Northern Pennsylvania!

Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure

1987 • 60 min

Monologue by Spalding Gray about his misadventures in purchasing a home.

Little Debbie Snack Whore Of N.Y.C.

1987 • 2 min

A brief glimpse of the living conditions of the titular snackwhore.

Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker

1987 • 52 min

Documentary about the first self-made American millionairess, Madam C.J. Walker.

Minamata — These 30 Years

1987 • 43 min • Japan

A record of the stories of patients suffering from Minamata disease, 30 years after its discovery

A Silver Odyssey: 25 Years of Houston Astros Baseball

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

A look back at the history of major league baseball in Houston, starting with its humble beginnings at Colt .45 stadium, to the massive grandeur of the Astrodome and the birth of the Astros. Enjoy many of the great moments in Houston's baseball history including Ken Johnson's no-hitter, which he lost, Don Wilson's spectacular performances on the mound, and Nolan Ryan's triumph in overtaking Walter Johnson's strikeout record, just to name a few. Relive the story of the Astros as told by the stars who experienced it: like Rusty Staub, Joe Morgan and Mike Scott. From an expansion team in 1962 to today's National League Western Division Champions, "A Silver Odyssey" captures a quarter-century of history, humor and excitement.

The King's Faithful Jester

1987 • 38 min • Soviet Union

The King and his heir, Prince James, doted on the king's ward, the Earl of Leithbourne. He was like a brother to the prince, and like a son to the king. Both of them believed him and often consulted with him. But the Earl of Leithborn had his own devious plan. He wanted to take the throne himself. And it is not known how it would have ended if the court Jester had not suddenly intervened.

Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure

1987 • 59 min • Soviet Union

A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This film covers the second half of the book.

Metamorfosi

1987 • 27 min • Switzerland

Metamorfosi is a veritable dance ballet on the rocks, performed by a great climber, Patrick Berhault, set on the picturesque French Riviera and the Lingurian coast. Berhault's movements, in the sea, in caves, on rocks and precipices, are extremely difficult but are above all executed to give the movement an aesthetic value. Matemorfosi is the story of a cycle without words, told with gestures and music. Climber Monica Dalmasso also participates in the film.

The Shutter Falls

1987 • 60 min

A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.

Mayhem

1987 • 17 min • United States of America

In 1983, filmmaker and poet Abigail Child cut up old footage from Between Times, a documentary profile of high school girls in Minneapolis which she had produced for WNET/PBS back in 1975. That footage would then be integrated into work of a drastically different kind: The film was called Mutiny which, by its very name, signaled her abandonment of the humanist documentary tradition to which Between Times belonged, to become, in her words, “a prismatic rhythmic pinwheel” born of the artistic and political necessity to radically rethink form. Mutiny, in turn, stood as one of the most densely woven in a series of bold experiments that came to be known as Is This What You Were Born For?

Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

1987 • 7 min • France

For the France 3 show, Mosaïque, Sarah Maldoror met Assia Djebar on Sunday March 29, 1987 on the occasion of the publication of her book Ombre Sultane. She discusses the status of the traditional woman in the Arab Muslim world: "The woman is always on the move, she is never anchored. To the extent that she is always in the process of repudiation, she is in the process of leaving. With Ombre Sultana, I wanted to make the reader feel that these women from elsewhere are like her, even if the reader is Western.

Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

1987 • 23 min

Two tall tales based on Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories; featuring a Parsee man seeking for payback on a cake-munching piggish rhinoceros, and a lazy stubborn camel without a hump pays his debt for refusing to work. Narrated by Jack Nicholson, with music by Bobby McFerrin.

Viewers Of Optics

1987 • 11 min

Short film by Alexander Hahn.

The Volcano Watchers

1987 • 57 min

A 1987 program examining the work of Maurice and Katia Krafft, who studied and filmed volcanoes around the world before their deaths in a 1991 volcanic explosion. Scenes include a lake of molten lava in Central Africa; an eruption in Iceland; an evacuated school being devoured by Mount Etna.

Cirque du Soleil: La Magie Continue

1987 • 49 min • Canada

One of the earliest Cirque du Soleil releases, filmed during a tour of the troupe's native Canada in 1986 and filled with their trademark costumes, music and extraordinary feats.

Secrets of the Unknown: Hollywood Hauntings

1987 • 26 min • United States of America

Hollywood Haunting explores the mysteries surrounding Hollywood stars and their ghostly comebacks. Viewers decide for themselves whether sightings of legends such as Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, and Harry Houdini are truth or fiction. Highlights include an investigation of John Wayne's haunted yacht.

40 Plus No. 2

1987 • 56 min

Vice begins at 50!

Heavenly Bodies' Score

1987 • 2 min • Japan

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

Putovanie kukučky Kukulienky

1987 • 29 min • Czechoslovakia

Ivan Renč's poetically themed animated story, narrated by Gustáv Valach, tells the tale of a little cuckoo named Adelka searching for her mother, who is trying to hatch an egg in a foreign nest. The forest realm of animals and birds has its own strict laws. Among the most basic is the upbringing and care of young animals. Only the cuckoo breaks this old practice. She calmly lays her egg in a foreign nest and no longer cares about it.

No Reino das Mães - Adelina Gomes

1987 • 50 min • Brazil

Adelina Gomes, a poor girl, daughter of peasants, with a primary education and some manual training, shy and submissive to her mother, had never had a boyfriend until she was 18 years old, when she fell in love with a man who was not accepted by her mother. He submitted himself to the fact and gradually withdrew until one day he strangled the cat, which he liked very much. By killing the cat, Adelina denied herself as a woman, taking refuge in madness with great aggression.