Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

About how wine and fame turned a talented donkey into a stupid donkey.

The film depicts the counterattack by Haimis, who was swindled out of a large sum of money by a marriage swindler. Shizue (Tomoko Hoshino) goes to visit her parents' grave and meets Yamakawa (Ryo Tamura), who works for an airline company. Shizue is unwittingly captivated by his stylish manner and charming manner of speaking. However, Yamakawa is a marriage swindler. Shizue is lured by his clever words, and is forced to pay him over 5 million yen in tribute.

‘Dungeness’ was originally made for ‘Dungeness: The Desert in the Garden’, a multi-media theatre production directed by Graeme Miller. By selectively framing and alternating monochrome fields within the Dungeness landscape the film creates a series of abstract rhythms. Incidentally, and unbeknown to myself until years after filming, ‘Dungeness’ features a guest appearance from Derek Jarman’s then recently acquired Prospect Cottage.

The pot-bellied bucket samovar Ivan Ivanovich gathers the whole large family for a tea party. And only a small cup of tea is not enough for a lazy couch potato.

Documentary film on apartheid

Follows U.S., Canadian, and European scientists from the barrens of Labrador - where archaeologists uncover an ancient stone burial mound - to sites in the U.S., France, England, and Denmark, and to the vast fjords of northernmost Norway where monumental standing stones testify to links among seafaring cultures across immense distances.

Images of the filming process of Bernardo Montet on a beach.

​A young woman seeks solitude and peace by retreating to an old, isolated peasant house in Italy. Instead of finding tranquility, she becomes increasingly overwhelmed by her strange surroundings, the silence of inanimate objects, and the constant presence of insects.

A short Super 8 horror film by Matt Jaissle

A sick man asks his friend to help him dig a pit.

L. S. Lowry, one of the most celebrated English painters from the mid 20th century, liked to call himself just a "simple man". But was he?

Thriller set in a Chicago skyscraper.

On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.

When you get involved in a love triangle, it's sweet. But what happens when two sweethearts end up in your studio apartment? Ask the young writer, who got involved with not two, but three.

1987, 30 sec, color, sound Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of animation according to the representation of women, from the cell imagery of Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series to the contemporary digital effects of television. In Birnbaum's vision, Fleischer's spilled inkwell releases cartoon bubbles containing images of women from MTV music videos. With wit and panache, Birnbaum reverses the traditional sexual roles of the producer and product of commercial imagery: The final image is that of a female artist on whose video "palette" we see a glimpse of Fleischer.

Film introduces a gay alphabet, with the aid of images and music, which it is argued is a defense against heterosexual language, and the hidden insults contained within.

After Women in Turkey gained the right to be elected, Sultan, one of the women of the village in a countryside, works hard to be elected as Muhtar, first by learning how to read-write. On her success to election, not only her husband but also the men of the village stand as the biggest handicap.

On a deserted beach, two 17th century gentlemen duel for the honor of a beautiful 20th century woman.

A circus owner attempts to capture a mysterious Bunyip, but Dot and her bushland friends try to foil his plans. Dot soon discovers that the circus is merely a front for an international wildlife smuggling operation. Backed by her pals, Burra the Kookaburra and two boxing kangaroos, Dot goes on the warpath.

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotional journey through the trial, imprisonment and beyond.

Thip turns sixteen this year. She is a daughter of wealthy family and in high society. She is raised by strict and conservative rule. She meets high school football player. One day they have sex and Thip's pregnant. They decide to elope, after that her life turns upside down.

A village in a different world that I do not know anywhere. There are five laws in the village, and if you break that rule you will be punished. The driver of the bus with the synonym of "Bengal's Tiger" attempts to escape from the village with two friends, but failed five times. By the instruction of the computer of "city", memory is erased as punishment. After that, the village steadily got dominated by the computer of the "city", and the driver of the bus who lost his memory kept living calmly while being watched by the lover. Meanwhile, a guerrilla group had been expecting the collapse of computer control.

Notice the guy is a Malaysian comedy film which was screened in 1987. The film was directed by A.R. Badul is also a screenwriter and the main driver of this film. The film revolves around the two friends who moved in a rented house. There they met a young lad and also interested to host the rent. Follow the lives of three of them face the various trials.

A conversation with Enrique Cornejo Villanueva, the director of the 1927 feature film Luis Pardo. In this interview, he reflects on the filmmaking process and shares scenes from this silent film.

This film was made in the Vierlande prison and tells the story of what it is like to be imprisoned. Nothing is explained; only fragments are visible, which slowly come together. A gaze that often cannot believe what it sees, that "does not trust its eyes."

After her mother deserts the family, thirteen-year-old Lisa fulfills her mother's role until her father finds his own replacement and sends Lisa to stay with her grandfather who still clings to the memories and personal belongings of his departed wife. As Lisa lives in her grandmother's dusty room, this unreal world turns from being a burden to a pleasure.

Comic Alan King brings his humorous everyday insights and biting topical wit to the stage.

A portrait of three remarkable women who were once celebrated figures in the German cultural scene: film star Dolly Haas, dancer Lotte Goslar and artist Maria Ley, Erwin Piscator's widow.

Loosely updates the Hansel and Gretel story to a world where the wicked witch is now a scantily-clad quasi-hippie.

A historic concert by the progressive rock band Los Jaivas in Vancouver, Canada. Funded and televised by Shaw Cable 10.

What better way to share and enjoy your visit to the Spruce Goose and Queen Mary than with this exciting and educational video program. Tour in and around these engineering marvels, including interior views not seen on the public tours. Plus, you will learn the fascinating history of each with priceless old documentary film and still pictures.

A documentary set in São Paulo, Brazil, about transsexuals who talk about theirs lives and problems.

The Joffrey Ballet's 1987 production of Vaslav Nijinsky and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring used reconstructions the original sets, costumes, and choreography from the 1913 production.

A prank comedy shot mostly in South Africa. Among the pranks in the film: a caveman is shown on display in the Carmel Market, a man sneezes on passersby, an inspector writes citations for women wearing bikini on the beach, a lookalike of the Queen of England visits Africa.

The brothers Aleinikov lay out turgid governmental speeches about "the rearing of a new man" under footage of dudes goofing around in space-alien costumes. They roll footage of apple-cheeked future Stakhanovites upside down and backwards. They crudely animate - in a certain South Parkian way - CCCP (USSR) icons in a goofy manner.

Setting stage at 1930s London, William (Bill) is a young man brought up in the villages and the next heir to the Earldom of Hareford. This is the story of how Bill grew as a proper gentleman, and the romantic comedy masterpiece between him and his lover, Sally.

Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in her cellar for five years. She gets pregnant with his child and has the baby out of the wedlock. Despite the hardships and gossip she holds much better than he. In 1956 when the political climate changes, he resurfaces and is arrested, but then acquitted by the court.

Mexican feature film

Film set during the Albanian Renaissance, focusing on a group of Albanian outlaws fighting against the Ottoman Empire.

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...

A portrait of the famous photographer, shot for his 1987 exhibition at the musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis.

A TV spy listens to his familiar tape recorder as a couple dines. This seemingly innocuous beginning builds and eventually boils over into a complex and intriguing auditory and visual experience filled with love, suspicion and violence.

A young family from the province moves into the ground floor of a quiet building in Zagreb and with their lifestyle and behavior disrupts the idyllic atmosphere that reigned in that neighborhood until then. All attempts by the natives to bring them into order are unsuccessful, so they hatch a conspiracy. But their revenge will have serious consequences...

Thai horror film.

Why do people wave their hands when they say goodbye? We embarked on a dream journey from Borges' The Circular Ruins. Filmed in 16mm by the Japanese Isao Yamada, filmmaker, graphic artist and manga author.

The story of legendary jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim and his struggle against apartheid in South Africa.