Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

Made just before the protagonist's death, Maria Kwiatkowska's film is a documentary portrait of one of the most outstanding Polish fashion and portrait photographers, Benedykt Jerzy Dorys. The co-founder of the Union of Polish Art Photographers talks about his artistic path and his personal life.

How Rubik's and Kubik's pearls were mined.

In 1988 it was exactly one hundred years ago that the Nicaraguan writer Ruben Dario published his first work. Azul was the first publication of modern poetry in the Spanish language. Legiarda-Laura has given the same title to his film, because he wanted to show the Nicaraguan poetic inheritance. 24 poems are read, interspersed with interviews and discussions. Thus, the cultural soul of Nicaragua is mapped out.

The story follows Taoist Mutul as he takes on 108 goblins and monsters, using his incredible martial arts skills and magical abilities to save the day.

The dreams of young Andrea. The camera accompanies the seven-year-old girl in 1976 when she was at school dressed up and singing as a flying butterfly. Later, at the age of 17, she wanted to be "free" from her parents and tried to realize her dream as a dancer at a ballet school in Leipzig, but quickly failed and gave up. From then on, she works as a waitress in a restaurant because she is around people and feels comfortable there. She meets new people outside of her parental home, learns to discuss and represent other opinions. Her boyfriend accompanies her on her new path, but she can rarely see him as he works in another big city, which in turn leads to problems. The life of Andrea, now 19 years old, is portrayed here with excerpts from the film "Butterflies" and shows us what happened to Andrea's dreams of "flying and being free".

Spoof focusing on Joe Private as the detective who does everything wrong.

Skin is not a documentary, but an evocative and moving dramatization of women coming to terms with the pandemic that is AIDS. The metaphoric voice of the skin provides a counterpoint as four women talk about how AIDS has disrupted their lives. Brenda and Hedde courageously address the isolation and stigma of their personal lives when they go public as People Living With AIDS (PLWAs). Ann and Lucille confront (through each other), the complex social, cultural and medical agendas surrounding women and AIDS. In Skin, women speak powerfully and urgently of their experience with AIDS, their voices breaking through the silence of neglect created by the media.

Aag Aur Shabab is a 1990 film, directed by C. P. Vijaykumar and produced by Dinesh Gupta. The film stars Captain Raju, Ravi, Kumar, Raj Verma, Sudha, Rohini, Radhu and Madhuri in lead roles. The film had musical score by G. Ramanathan.

The Stal sports club from Tczew has acquired a new player. He is a black basketball player. Unfortunately, the plane with Abraham lands in Gdańsk, not in Warsaw, where he is expected. The boy tries to get to Tczew on his own. Meanwhile, the welcoming delegation mistakes another black man for the basketball player and takes him to Tczew. When the mistake comes to light, everyone sets out to find Abraham. Eventually, the basketball player finds his way to his club. But a rival club is also interested in him and tries to sign him at any cost. Meanwhile, Abraham meets the daughter of the owner of Stal, Monika, and falls in love with her.

Mexican feature film

When an undercover policeman infiltrates organized crime and is seduced by the lifestyle, a second undercover policeman follows in his footsteps and finds that he is unable to resist the temptations that are offered him.

A Turkish woman with a Marilyn Monroe obsession hooks up with her new neighbor, an Arab. Although the young man occasionally intones Elvis Presley songs to the guitar, as requested by her, the relationship soon falls into crisis, especially since the fun-loving single mother also begins an affair with a blonde who bears a vague resemblance to Monroe. The love potions are watched curiously and commented on by other residents of the Kreuzberg apartment building.

Documentary, showing the last cantonal assembly that was held only by men in the town of Hundwil (Appenzell AR), Switzerland in 1990.

Chameleon presents a visual dialogue between the seen, the recognized and the unrecognized. A woman searches an inner landscape, a space that closes it up and encloses it. Her dress, a projection of femininity, becomes her means of expression. The film silently moves to the point of confrontation by means of rhythmic editing; the woman opens the door to the outside world. This shocking moment of violent interaction is reinforced by the only sound in the film.

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are unnoticed or discounted by whites—gestures, hesitations, stares, off-the-cuff remarks, jokes—details of an ideology of repressed racism.

A young princess falls in love with the castle's young music teacher, Roger Fleuirot, but he is shy and does not dare to show his love for her. When the music teacher goes to Paris, the princess follows him and pretends to be her own twin sister, who works in a shoe shop. Nils Poppe plays the cheerful shoemaker Fabian Filosel.

A mixed group of kung fu experts set out to fight a number of evil ninjas. They must set aside their differences to fight them. A hopping vampire/zombie of a kung fu master briefly appears in the movie.

This one is a collage of Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, filmed directly from the television set. The constantly recurring motifs of suspense and clichés of plot make it possible to move seamlessly among scenes from different films with different protagonists: uneasy sleep, getting up, listening at the door, turning on the lights, being startled, etc. In the montage, the movements and gestures of the actresses – stars like Lana Turner, Tippi Hedren, and Grace Kelly– seem choreographed and planned for each other. The soundtrack supports this effect with connecting passages of sound that imitate the stereotypes of the genre. The treatment concentrates the dramatic shift from the familiar to the eerie and shows how women become the victims of the voyeuristic glance of film.

A blacksmith and a car mechanic, harboring a hostile relationship they inherited from their grandfathers, must come to terms with a new way of dealing with each other, when the blacksmith faces economic struggle and the mechanic offers to buy him out.

An apartment dweller overhears a neighbor down the hall refer to him as a "poor miserable wretch". He complains to his wife about this, but she takes the neighbors side. While the man is willing to accept this assessment from his wife, he does not understand how it is that the neighbor could be in a position to make the same assessment. His wife explains.

A man can't get to sleep and encounters various characters during his long fit of sleeplessness.

Short animation

An inside look at Debbie's world tour plus in-depth interviews.

A bloody adaptation of a William Carlos Williams poem. The film begins with Williams’ question “What are these elations I have at my own underwear?” and Reeves answers with a not so elated, transgressive statement.

Follows the adventure of a group of kids and a paper boy named Peter. Plane ride, box car racing and bad neighbours are all included. Iceland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990

Svullo grisar vidare is a swedish comedy from 1990 from a video diary point of view. Svullo mocks regular people during his travel from Stockholm to Malmö through Mjölby and Lund.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Arachnophobia, hosted by Mark Taylor.

Boys-in the flesh, and from "Johnny Quest."

Mexican feature film

This hidden masterpiece, a hallmark of “instant noodle cinema” is a story of love, music, loss, and resilience, featuring Mai, a young woman who loses her sight in a fireworks accident and must navigate the pain of her father’s thirst for revenge, while holding on to the emotional strength that music offers. The film culminates in a whimsical, moving musical finale set in the rain, a moment of joy and transcendence.

First commercial art ad that was played on a late night television.

7 COLOURS is an innovative short dance film, a series of seven sequences, a kaleidoscope of colour, lighting effects and fluid body movement. Stephen Page from the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre and Victoria Taylor, with her background at the Sydney Dance Company, bring two very different cultures together to create the movement for this piece.

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

The leitmotif of this editing film is the images of the first May marches, which were noisy every year during the communist era. The streets of Warsaw are walked by properly formed and organized masses of people, and from the grandstand they are greeted by successive leaders. There is an atmosphere of more or less artificially inspired enthusiasm. As time goes by, however, more and more images appear, contrasting with this idyllic vision of a constant holiday. Alongside images of official ceremonies, materials showing competitive, independent celebrations, organized by the illegal opposition, and pacified with the help of properly trained ZOMO troops, find their permanent place.

Four more segments in which helpless victims are slaughtered in various ways. Slapped together by John Marshall from PKF Studios and Hank from Rue Morgue

A fleshy nightmare barrages the viewer with an onslaught of abstract gore and nonsensical terror.

Short film about the profession geologist

A story about the Latgale Song Festival in Daugavpils, building a bridge between Latvia's fateful days in June 1940 and the 1990 festival, which is like a prelude to the upcoming 20th Latvian Song Festival in Riga. The director, who was born in Latgale, narrates the film himself, sometimes speaking in Latgalian, sprinkling in heartfelt jokes, drawing historical parallels, and radiating emotional excitement. The film features conductors Terēze Broka and Gunārs Ordelovskis, priest Aleksandrs Madelāns, composer Raimonds Pauls, and politician Anatolijs Gorbunovs, whom Streičs calls the president of Latvia because he was the first head of the restored state. The emotional climax of the film is composer Jānis Norvilis' song Daugav's abas malas (Both Banks of the Daugava) with Rainis' words "... Latgale is ours!"

The Fucker, a phantasmagorical death machine, materializes from a haunted VHS tape of Evil Dead II to wreak havoc on unsuspecting parents, teens, and babies.

Myat Htun, a modest writer, and Khin Mi navigate the challenges of love, parenthood, and conflicting ambitions in this intimate portrait of a marriage under strain.

“Sydney. Another symphony of the city...inspired by the hectic, rollercoaster times. Buildings were going up left right and centre...‘Money Makes the World Go Round’ came to mind...I developed a little device which carried lenses in front of the camera, with a motor which made the images actually go around...people in the city...people and money going ‘round and ‘round. The soundtrack was pinball machines and muzak. Sydney was showing off its wealth, spreading out and up...Darling Harbour...more and more sparkling glass. A lot of it was the Emperor’s new clothes...many of those ‘buildings’ are still only holes in the ground.” (Paul Winkler)

A game music festival held at the Nippon Seinenkan on 25th August, 1990 and released on home video. Featuring the video game sound teams Sega Sound Team and ZUNTATA (Taito)

AnOther Love Story was produced to dispel the myths around HIV & AIDS for women in general, lesbians in particular. The video illustrates how relationships are affected when one or both partners must begin to grapple with the possiblity of HIV infection. It also educates women on safer sex practices in an entertaining, non-threatening way.

Short documentary film about Bitterfeld, now part of the city Bitterfeld-Wolfen, which became a symbol for ailing economy, contaminated air and polluted land on account of its numerous industrial plants.

Concert with orchestra recorded for the promotion of the album Rapsódia Rock, from 1990.

Frontline profiles the efforts of the surviving families of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, to seek justice for their loved ones. The families' crusade focuses attention on issues of airline and airport security, on the lack of coordination between international police and intelligence services, and on whether the US government has the will and means to respond effectively against terrorists and the countries that support them.

A 1990 Russian language short film directed by Vladimir Tyulkin.

On May 19, 1990, French rap pioneers Lionel D and DJ Dee Nasty performed on the stage of La Clef in Saint-Germain-en-Laye for what would be one of the first French rap concerts whose stage was in operation. full structuring. For more than 80 minutes, Dee Nasty plays scratches and instrumentals while Lionel D on the microphone alternates studio pieces, egotrips, freestyles on the social themes of the time and improvisations with the public.

Puppet film about pre-Christmas. Puppet world is united with natural scenes with kids, traditional fairy-tale land with gnooms and Santa Clause is revitalized. The film is meant for children.

A-Cheng seeks money to save his sick wife via cheating in a gambling house.