Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

After 11-year-old Petros loses his father in a car accident in Melbourne, Australia, his mother decides to move the family to her homeland, Greece. Petros has been planning to run away from home ever since the big move. After persuading his classmate, Adonis, to join him, the two boys decide to make the journey to Australia together. Their parents look for the children all over Greece to no avail. The only one who knows the boys' whereabouts is their best friend, whom nobody believes. Petros and Adonis' pictures are published all over the press, but no one comes forward with any information. Meanwhile, the boys continue on their journey...

Presents a psychological, Victorian murder mystery war of nerves that tries for a British-style quaintsy-quivery quality horror between a mannered gentleman who has just murdered his wife and Hannah, the cunning, illiterate chambermaid who knows his secret.

Live in Japan '89 is an unofficial Duran Duran live DVD, recorded during The Big Live Thing Tour at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on 22 February 1989. Setlist: "God (London)" "Big Thing" "I Don't Want Your Love" "Hungry Like the Wolf" "Do You Believe in Shame?" "Election Day" / "Some Like It Hot" "All She Wants Is" / "Planet Earth" "Palomino" "A View to a Kill" "The Edge of America" / "Lake Shore Driving" "Skin Trade" "Girls on Film" "Notorious" "Is There Something I Should Know?" "Drug (It's Just a State of Mind)" "The Wild Boys" "Save A Prayer" "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" "The Reflex" "Rio"

Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature film. A documentary full of humorous anecdotes regarding the dangers of shooting in Burkina Faso.

Kasino and Indro work at their uncle’s chicken farm. They are jealous of Dono, son of the uncle who studied in America, and returns with an American girlfriend, Madonna. But Dono is already arranged to marry Ayu Sukoco by his parents. The comedy is played out in the chicken farm, Madonna’s awkwardness in a village environment, Dono running away with his girlfriend because his parents disapprove of them, an auto repair shop, and a dream about entering Indian territory.

A half-dozen random people find themselves locked overnight in a floating discotheque and at the mercy of mysterious terror.

This live recording was made at the Royal Albert Hall during one of Londons famous Promenade Concert seasons. Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berliozs concert cantata. This feast of Berlioz launched Soltis farewell tour with the orchestra he had directed for twenty years and was described by The Times as the unsurpassable culmination of two decades of music-making...one that summarised all that has been most admirable about Soltis long reign in Chicago. Like reading the book by flashes of lightning was how one writer described the relationship of Berlioz to Goethe in this Dramatic Legend, his way of shaping twenty scenes selected from the story into a narrative in four parts. Though it has sometimes been staged, the works drama is to be found within the music itself, which illuminates the incidents with what the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham once called a bunch of the loveliest tunes in existence.

Podsekalnikov is a narrow-minded person, never working anywhere and constantly scandalizing with his wife and mother-in-law, is considering suicide. His neighbor Kalabushkin decides to make money on it ...

GOD DAMN YOU! GOD DAMN YOU!

A comedy about a man who conquers his dream woman with the help of a dialable telephone box, but fails due to the broken technology of his alarm clock. Anton is a lonely stranger. Every morning he sees a girl going to work. He is too shy to talk to her, but finds a way to get her around.

Sports officials are trying to decide the result of a football match before it starts. The stake is to stay in the top league.

An urban fairy tale in which three characters negotiate a space where myth and reality constantly collide. Syed uses the character of The Lady of Shallot as the films’ central theme. Interweaving sections of the poem ‘The Lady of Shallot’ by Tennyson, with her own text, the film explores feelings of isolation and the desire to connect.

Mile is a cab driver who lives a life for which he himself sometimes does not know where he is headed. On one hand, he has a ten year old relationship with a woman he fools into marrying her, and on the other he has a wife and an adult son with whom he constantly comes into conflict. When Mile's wife realizes what life is like, things take another direction.

The plot concerns two documentary film students who travel to a small, isolated town in the middle of nowhere to film a documentary about murders that occurred there. Soon they are stalked by someone who is afraid the students are getting to close to a close guarded secret in the town that led to the murders.

Produced by the International Dairy-Deli Association, this food safety training video centers on Alice, a new employee who learns how different areas of a deli operates and the importance of maintaining a clean environment to avoid "the Danger Zone" with the help of her co-worker Cathy and well-dressed teleporting man who goes by many names.

Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?

Short film by Paco del Toro

The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.

The film takes place in a small southern town, the main problem of which is the lack of uninterrupted water supply. The young deputy chairman of the city executive committee proposes to speed up the construction of a water pipeline by passing it through the village of Shanghai, which was arbitrarily built up by people, thereby depriving hundreds of families of shelter...

During the Vietnam war, soldier Phayu (Sorapong Chatree) barely escapes after nearly his entire platoon gets wiped out. He ends up in a village where he falls in love with Surita (Duangdeuan Jithaisong), incurs the wrath of one of her jealous suitors and must get revenge when bandits show up and kill Surita's family.

The actress is always lonely, she has nobody to love. She adopts a young boy from the orphanage, who formerly arrived on Earth by a flying suitcase and a policeman took him to the orphanage. The actress would be willing to adopt him, but there is no hope for this at the beginning.

Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. Furthermore, his relationship with Zineb, a young, beautiful bourgeois, only brings him more trouble. During one long winter night, Youssef wanders in search of an emotional haven, prey to all the questions that flood his memory.

Undercover agents investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a television station owner.

Have You Seen Drum Recently? is a 1989 film which uses photographs from the Drum archives to tell the story of the magazine and documents its contribution to the cultural and political life of South Africa.

Viva Villa Road deals with a handful of neighbors who completely unaware manages to go to Gran Canaria at the same time. For many, this would be a nice, but for Swedish Reidar Frank (Brass Brännström), pensioner Sigurd Vatne (Sverre Hansen) and crazy Alice Lindblad (Elsa Lystad) this is the worst thing that could have occurred. After countless neighborhood feuds they all had, by coincidence, decided to travel to the Canary Islands to escape the unwanted situation of Villa Road. Therefore, the disputes continue also in the holiday paradise of the other family members' great despair. This surprisingly leads to a lot of funny episodes that contain both problems with the travel company, absurd misunderstandings and intricate entanglement that eventually tie up to a pretty successful movie.

A secret agent tries to prevent World War III.

The plot of a modern parable about love, duty and purity of thoughts is based on the creative process of an opera theater troupe working on staging one of the most complex works of musical classics - G. Puccini's opera "Turandot".

Documentary about the making of Fabio Salerno's debut full length feature "Notte Profonda (Deep Night)".

One night Ashok gets stuck on a giant wheel with a woman. But knowing that his suspicious wife wont believe him, he goofs up the story that he was with his friend Anthony Gonsalves.

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.

The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. Founded by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, the group in its various incarnations has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide. With over 100 million records sold, the group is the best-selling instrumental band of all time. In 2008, the Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Saw the first 12? You ain't seen nothin' yet! Dennis Miller leads this parade of hot-'n'-heavy comics in their uncensored, live-mike routines. Catch stars like David Spade and Rob Schneider in this unabashed, exclusive HBO presentation.

Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by PETER LIECHTI, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Also native to eastern Switzerland is VOICE CRACK, the everyday household electronics duo of NORBERT MOSLANG and ANDY GUHL, whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechti s vision. Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress.

The story of a young man, his search for the meaning of life.

An epidemic of ritual abuse of children from infants to teenagers is sweeping through the country. According to recent TV and radio broadcasts 2 million children a year are reported missing, many too young to be runaways and 5 thousand unidentifiable bodies of children are found each year in the US alone. "Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism" takes you behind the scenes into actual black witchcraft and satanic rituals. Former Satanists, practicing witches and law enforcement experts explain the vastness and diversity of the movement. Experts tell why people join and how Satanists recruit their members as well as their victims. Parents are given clues to determine if their children are involved. Most importantly, dangerous doorways into the occult are exposed.

The apparent strangeness of two sisters becomes easily understood as they wreak appropriate revenge on one of their abusive husbands, by tying him up and imprisoning him on their rooftop. They slowly descend into madness as Stark wraps her head in bandages and paints her face white while clutching a baby doll.

Teenage Babylon presents the aftermath of three teenage suicides through the medium of what purports to be 1960s vintage black and white police file footage. The film's haunting images, evoking teenage love gone wrong, are counterpointed by a series of saccharine torch songs, celebrating falling in love and the end of a masquerade. Through a kind of bathetic synthesis, the dialectic of Eros and Thanatos, love and death, is consummated in the 'morgue' of the forensic archive.

1989, New York City's Alphabet City and East Village. A year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot, squatters and their community allies try to stop the demolition of their building after an arson. Police forces occupy the neighborhood while the demolition continues. A portrait of an East Village that is no more. An homage to the voices and sounds of a neighborhood before its gentrification.

This is a fictional story of early days of cinema theaters in Iran in early 20th century in the dawn of Persian constitutional revolution. Roosi Khan and Aghaiev who are supported by ...

Secrets of the Unknown daringly showcases the bizarre, the terrifying, and the unmistakably real. First, explore the scientific cause behind the unnatural disasters of twisters with testimony from survivors and "storm chasers." Then, speak with people who believe they've spotted UFOs - as well as those who claim to have been abducted by aliens and subjected to painful tests, before being safely returned to their homes.

This film depicts from the inside the murderous intent of a street thug who attacks a passing pregnant woman. One day, after cutting a maggot to death, the man's previously dormant madness overflows like a dam and floods him with the next carnage. A maggot, a cockroach, a small dog and a pregnant woman. The film uses black-and-white and colour to depict the mental state of the protagonist as he slowly builds up to the murder. In the last scene, the inner world of the man is symbolically expressed, and the urgency with which he searches for an answer is overwhelming. This is a highly accomplished film, both visually and thematically.

After spending 20 years in American, a young man returns to his home country of Indonesia.

The film followed the further adventures of Lavinia, Enfys, Glenys and Rhisiart, Delyth and Bethan following the film Ibiza! Ibiza!

Take a tour with the staff of the Milwaukee County Zoo.

Pimsai went to San Francisco to find her boyfriend. She doesn't know that he went to go be a boy-toy for an old widow. He sold his apartment to John. Pimsai, thinking her boyfriend is still living there, goes to the apartment and sleeps in John's bed. Since she has no place to go or any contact with her boyfriend, John lets Pimsai stay and they become roomates. He takes her to work at a friend's restaurant. That's just the beginning of their story.

Moving documentary looks back on the remarkable life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and combines the tragedy of his untimely death with the rememberances of those who knew him best and those who knew him not at all. James Earl Jones reviews the brief life of JFK. His triumphs. His failures. His inpiration and contribution to our history. The story is told through previously unseen and rare video and home movies. and by many people who were there, ordinary people. The story is built around the exclusive historic videotape from WFAA, the dallas station whose studios are located so near the infamouse "grassy knoll" where the President was shot. We see the events as they happened, from JFK's arrival in Dallas to his funeral in Washington four days later.

Hanna and Leo are expecting a child. They live near Innsbruck where the mountains touch the sky and where absolute bliss seems to reign. But things turn out quite differently.

Ishmael Huston-Jones physically carries his mother, Pauline Jones, into the improvisational dance space. While she dyes eggs and speaks about family history, he improvises a rhythmic dance-counterpoint to her speech.

In a post-apocalyptic future, two men who have lost the ability to speak fight to preserve the last remnants of their humanity. They travel across a ravaged France and, in a desperate act, break into Paris. The city, turned into an impenetrable fortress, is the last stronghold of a wealthy and decadent elite.

The film is made up of two independent episodes, which only have the basic setting in common. The little schoolteacher in Free Saturday, when she wakes up in a hotel room with 100 marks in her handbag, invents the "quickest way" to get to her flat. The newlyweds in The Council Fairy Tale find the "surest way" to an apartment by moving into the council building. There is no doubt then, what is the common default position, the impossibility of getting an apartment...

a short documentary filmed by Keith Barnfather in 1989 about Babcock Transformers.