Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

The wanderer managed to restore justice in the city and punish the greedy judge.

Short film by Bill Toepfer

She’s a blast at the beach…and a siren on a steamy summer night. Lynne hails from Florida’s Gulf Coast where the climate’s just right for swimming and sunning, but not for clothing. Why, even a bikini can too much for this beauty to wear at the beach or on the water as she invites Playmate pal Donna Edmondson for a wet and wild jet-ski adventure.

Petros is a lawyer specializing in adultery cases. His female clients often tempt him, but he remains faithful to his beloved wife. However, while his wife is away, he finds himself at home with three naked women. How will he be able to prove his innocence when his wife finds three women under their bed?

Helga Reidemeisters poetic documentary gives various residents of East and West Berlin a chance to have their say. They discuss their different ways of life and the nature of their divided city. All interviews are refreshingly sincere when they consider the future of the city, and none of them are even remotely pro-American.

Short documentary scrapbook about movie palaces and one screen theaters in Washington, DC. The project was started in 1984 and completed 1987. It aired on Washington DC PBS Station WETA.

In the middle of the most famous red light (prostitution) area in Paris, there is an apartment building on the Rue Saint Denis whose young adult inhabitants engage in lustful and romantic alliances of all kinds, in this independent film by first-time director Stephanie de Mareuil. One standout from the cast of mostly newcomers is pop musician Caroline Loeb.

A landmark Christian music concert film, Sandi Patti: Let There Be Praise – The Concert Video captures the award‑winning soprano at the height of her 1980s popularity, delivering a powerhouse live performance filled with warmth, inspiration, and signature vocal brilliance. Filmed during her 1986 Let There Be Praise tour and released by Word, Inc. in 1987, the concert showcases Sandi Patti’s soaring range and expressive stage presence, supported by the acclaimed vocal trio First Call, who appear courtesy of DaySpring Records.

Hari leaves home after some unexpected happenings.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Two artists, Anne Spengemann and Kay Weber, meet each other drawing. The camera moves further and further away from its viewer's point of view and is part of the drawing at the end.

Documentary about a railway that linked towns in the Girona region.

A lively classroom discussion starter, this animated film uses satirical humor to present some of the difficulties graduating students may encounter when looking for work. The film tells of two young people whose career ambitions seem constantly to be thwarted. Their scramble to make a living leads both of them through a succession of odd jobs and, by a strange twist of fate, to a remote lumbering camp. In following their picaresque adventures, the film explores the attitudes needed for surviving in an uncertain world and promotes reflection on how to bridge the gap between ideals and reality.

Economic study of the different types of subsistence of the Lyasa who live in South Cameroon. The daily tasks are shared among women and men: women are in charge of the agriculture and the forest, which have no secret to them; men are in charge of the line fishing. Lyasa have an important monetary income, but they do not save a lot. They appreciate to live well and to celebrate.

A film poem shot in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Huntsville, Alabama and New York City in which missiles, bricks, huts, humanoid-types and people emerge from civilization's whimsical debris. The Apocalypse - now and after. The bomb is in YOU.

Through clever stylistic composition, this experimental film shows that everything is interdependent, even in the arts, and that, inevitably, both the artist and the viewer are being manipulated.

The neglected wife of a homosexual finds finds sexual fulfillment with a former boyfriend and student.

Short animation film in which a dancer is beset by a dragon. In avoiding the huge monster's mouth, she changes into a little monster.

Released as part of the "Comic Strip" video lineup. Contains "The Fish Tank" and "Sark to the Rescue."

Inspired by Wendy Lichtman's story, Ustaoğlu's second short film portrays a little girl's discovery of death.

The Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour was a tour that was undertaken to pay tribute to the original band members who died in a plane crash in 1977. The tour began in the fall of 1987, in honor of the 10-year anniversary of the plane crash. A number of surviving members reunited for the tour. Original members Gary Rossington, Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson were joined by Ed King (original member who had left the band in 1975), Artimus Pyle (drummer at the time of the plane crash), Randall Hall and Johnny Van Zant.

Humorous tale about a boy who imagines that his candle-lit pumpkin turns into a monster on Halloween night.

DEFA documentary about the Khanty people of Siberia.

Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a woman. A study in visual obsession and a twist on the notion of the “gaze”.

In this 80s answer to burlesque for the video age, a comedian hosts / introduces a succession of strippers.

The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his poetic and intellectual contributions to Italian Marxism than anyone except a highly intellectual Italian Marxist could possibly want to know. This is hardly surprising, given that the neophyte director of this film has a day job as an assistant professor of "the sociology of conscience." Pasolini, who at one point was convicted of the crime of "offending the religion of the (Italian) state" (Catholicism), later received the Grand Prize from the Catholic Film Office for his straightforward and stunning film of Il Vangelo Secundo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew).

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

American TV-Drama

A biographical film, in English throughout, telling the story of film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) from his childhood in Riga, Latvia to receiving the 'Stalin Prize' in Moscow. Based on his own writings, the film uses actual film clips of Eisenstein at various points of his life as well as photographs, illustrations and archival film of a variety of locations around the world. Eisenstein's talent as a satirical cartoonist and later an artist is particularly highlighted with many photographs of his work. Films discussed include "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin", "Oktober", "The old and the new", "Alexander Nevsky" and "Ivan the terrible". There is a detailed account of Eisenstein's world tour during which time he met and worked with other leading film-makers, writers and personalities including Einstein, James Joyce, D. W. Griffith and Walt Disney. Includes anecdote on his visit to High Table at Trinity College, Cambridge and its inspiration for a scene in 'Ivan the terrible'.

The surprising destiny of Pierre Naboulet, who became a soldier during the terrible war of 1870 that he crossed with a lost child.

As the Iran-contra scandal was still unfolding, Frontline correspondent William Greider revealed how the US began supporting the contras in Nicaragua and why our involvement there continues. The program is a meticulous reconstruction of US policy toward Nicaragua, and an investigation into how US foreign policy is made.

A typical criminal. A typical taxi driver. A typical route through the night of Porto Alegre, from the bus station to a deserted street. But at the time of the crime, the driver doesn’t react as he should. Meanwhile, on TV, Brazilian Minister of Justice make a speech against violence.

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.

Documents an eight-year project begun in 1979 under the direction of Larry M. Rymon to reintroduce the osprey into Pennsylvania. Due to loss of habitat and wide use of agricultural chemicals, the bird has disappeared from the state for nearly forty years

A concert featuring singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie. Performing from Austin, Texas, the folk-singer is joined by guest artists.

Life on the range is observed in Big Piney, Wyoming, where the romantic image is contrasted to the hard life and harder hours of reality.

Three students complete a film about an area slated for demolition, over difficulties.

Documentary on the impact of the monopoly in the milk business on small farmers in Peru

G.I. Baby: Directed by Cesar Aquino, Francis Posadas. With Myrna Castillo, Bobby Benitez, Mark Joseph, Sheila Muñoz.

About the controversial French author, poet, and creator of pataphysics, Alfred Henri Jarry (1873-1907), a symbolist writer who is best known for his play "Ubu Roi" (1896).

On July 10, 1987, Nina Simone performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, one of the most prestigious annual music events in the world.

State of the Nation documentary concerning 1980s Britain.

Grant Page & friends demonstrate stunts all over the world.

Since 1915, the French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné has maintained and even strengthened its position in the press, without losing any of its wit or bite. This multi-part documentary recounts the history (53 min.) of the newspaper, when Maurice Maréchal decided to fight against the propaganda of the mainstream press, beholden to lobbies and the powerful. It features portraits (45 min.) of some of the newspaper's journalists and cartoonists. Its traditions (34 min.) are deeply rooted and faithfully upheld in the spirit of irreverence, insolence, and freedom in the face of all forms of power. The documentary also delves into the scandals (40 min.): if "Le Canard" was able to launch investigative journalism in France, it is because it has remained "free, independent, and clean," as its founder intended, thus retaining the trust of its readers.

The poor shoemaker's daughter was hardworking, kind, and honest, and with her character and immense beauty she won the castle lord over. However, the envious goldsmith's wife and daughter did not wish her love and wanted to get their happiness by force.

A young woman discovers she is a long lost princess and heir to a throne in her home country.

Stop-motion experimental short where two men communicate with one another, talk on the telephone, smoke cigarettes, and contort themselves. Produced 1987 and released in 1988 on the VHS compilation Fat of the Land, released via Factory Records video imprint IKON. "Here is the first tape of a new British cinema which should be seen by everyone who loves film. The official British cinema is truly dead, alive only in admens bought dreams. This is the way to go."- Derek Jarman

In a coastal port city’s middle school, Principal Han Qiong bundles the lowest achievers into a “Class 2-7,” hoping to boost overall scores. Instead, students Wang Haiyang and Liu Yei fall in love, illegally run a tourist photo stall, only to have their camera seized, and are expelled for cheating on exams.

Documentary film.

A man steals a warehouse and, to hide from the police, enters a house where a girl and an old man live. Short film made by Víctor A. González (\" Ciudad de Dios \ ") during his time at CERC (Centro of Experimentation and Filmmaking), which earned him the ban to continue directing within the institution.