Cinematic Era: 1992 Vintage

Join Emmy-award winning producer and feature reporter John Yeager (ABC affiliate KXLY-TV, Spokane) on a scenic and musical trip on Amtrak's Empire Builder as it wends it's way from Chicago to Seattle. The 2200-mile route was finished in 1893 by Great Northern Railway Founder James J. Hill. This documentary also chronicles the life and times of people who now work on the train and those whose lives it touches.

Short film by Katja von Garnier

Searching for the roots of Peter Greenaway in his films, this artful documentary begins with a workshop from 1991 in which Peter Greenaway discusses his film career, from his early short Revolution (1968) to The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989). Including a rare and exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette "A Walk Through Prospero's Library", with Greenaway discussing the inspiration for his classic film, Prospero's Books (1991).

Jasper Laybutt is a well known face on the Sydney scene and through his involvement with the Ms Wicked events. Here he talks about his life as a pre-op female to male transsexual and about his love of uniforms, women, and the arduous journey of re-creating his identity as a man.

A biographical account of the life and work of mathematician, codebreaker and computer visionary, Alan Turing.

Having abandoned her child at birth, Zinaida, after many years of living in prosperity and joy, decided to find her own child and thereby find a true heir to her property, which her lover had set his eyes on.

The community at Rincón de la Bolsa, just a few kilometres from Montevideo, is suffering from all kinds of environmental problems, and the local people organize and demand solutions.

An episodic meditation on a woman's breast - from feeding to cancer.

Live in 1954 and 1956, Robbins plays 12 songs including "Time Goes By," "I Can't Quit" and more. Tubb plays 14 songs including "So Many Times," "Try Me Once More" and others.

Red Shovel is an impressionistic documentary focussing on a few moments in a small town along the coast of Maine on the Fourth of July (American Independence Day). The approach to image is very painterly with the simple view transformed “with Turneresque luminosity.” Most of the unusual visual effect is from the careful use of a shallow depth of field and natural objects (blowing grass, bushes, etc.) to bend and twist the images into a languid sense of time. In the end the film documents a state of mind more than a particular spot. It also resonates with the ambiguous metaphoric threat of a national symbol impinging upon the child’s toy. - Canyon Cinema

Portrait documentary of the Swedish comedic actor Thor Modéen full of clips from his greatest roles.

An introduction to the great film critic Raymond Durgnat's appreciation of the nature of cinema.

A chimney sweep’s daredevil antics are meant to keep a young woman from jumping off the roof. But does she really want to jump? Or does he maybe? A street sweeper is watching and passes the hat round for our hero. Or is he part of the act too?

The famous Peruvian singer Luis Abanto Morales sings Cholo Soy while Cesar Galindo gives justice to indigenous Peruvians in a condensed cinematic sequence of documentary and fictional scenes.

Ripley, the vampire, was frozen in the late eighteenth century, but has revived in modern times and becomes a successful businessman. At a ceremony to invoke Satan, Ripley learns that his revival has come with a price: in the next three days, he must kill three women in order to gain another year of life. Miranda's father, Davenant, arrives and tells her that she must marry the Earl of Marsden to secure a business deal.

The first student film by Gerhard Friedl. The Title is short for "Männer der Wissenschaft" - men of science

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

Madeleine Dansereau was the first woman jeweller in Quebec. She started her career at the age of 47, just when doctors diagnosed her as having breast cancer. Her best known achievement was the Emblem for the National Order of Quebec. Her daughter, Mireille, reveals their relationship over the past twenty years, using as a backdrop her own work as a filmmaker.

Three stories about the life of a boy named Majid. Stories about misunderstanding and being misunderstood and the struggles he deals with at school. How a rosary scares him and how he thinks he's doing good while a bunch of other problems come up.

Hiroyuki Oki continues to develop his technical sophistication and his openness to new forms and themes, culminating in a sensuality that is apparent in this, one of his latest two films.

Three friends dream of purchasing St. Bernard puppies. But obstacles arise along their path, which require resourcefulness and ingenuity to overcome...

Christine Kröger has long run the family business "Kröger-Textilien" and now plans to hand it over to her sons.

Director: Dante Javier Writers: Humilde ‘Meek’ Roxas, Edmundo H. Tagalog Stars: Jestoni Alarcon, Sheryl Cruz, Rina Reyes, Johnny Delgado, Bembol Roco, Jorge Estregan, Dick Israel, Eddie Arenas, Leo Lazaro, Ester Chavez, Guila Alvarez, Mike Castillo, Ernie David, Dino Espiritu, Ronaldo Fernando, Joboy Gomez, Palito, Don Pepot

Director Jan Oxenberg's docu-fantasy narrative about aging and death, and how it affects her family.

Little Anna is waiting for her first Christmas.

Part of The Entertainer (5 Disc Music DVD Box Set) NBC Special - This Is Garth Brooks: Reunion Arena Dallas Texas September 1991: Not Counting You

The Hawaiian system of land use allowed access to all resources in the ahupua‘a, a land division that stretched from mountain to sea. Within the ahupua‘a, highly specialized technologies such as fishponds and lo‘i kalo (taro gardens) ensured an abundance of food. 
Our Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) ancestors achieved a rare balance between meeting their needs and enhancing the productivity of the land and sea. Their social system ensured survival from generation to generation.

TV film made in St John's, Newfoundland for the CBC

Film about a young mechanic who learns about life by becoming a boxer.

A look at the northern lights (aurora borealis) from aboriginal beliefs to scientific theories.

Based on the play Hip Hip Ufa by Dalmiro Sáenz, a womanizing "rich kid" falls in love with a prostitute.

The king promised his little golden-haired princess to be married to the prince, the son of his royal friend. The princess grew up to be a beauty, but not golden-haired, but rusty?

Eddie, an unemployed actor gets in troubles with a group of criminals.

This is a myth about a wandering tribe striving to exist according to the laws of nature and merge with it. In its flight from the conventions of civilization, it despises the blood and spiritual ties between people. Any manifestation of personality — a protest against this rigid system — is immediately suppressed...

A woman trapped between the love of a husband and a lover. She needs to choose in the end, where she would find her true happiness.

In the 1980s, Catherine Destivelle, nicknamed "Rock Queen," won several world titles in climbing competitions. In the early 1990s, weary of competitions, world championships, and the pressure of elite sport, she chose to return to the essentials: the mountains, alone and facing the challenge. In 1991, she established a new route—solo—on the west face of the Drus in 11 days. Her ascent garnered admiration, but for many, she remained primarily a rock climber. On March 9, 1992, around 5:00 a.m., she proved the skeptics wrong. After months of preparation on ice with her friend Jeff Lowe, she set off alone on the icy north face of the Eiger, and 17 hours later, she reached the summit. The mountaineering world bowed in awe; she entered the pantheon of mountaineering. Catherine Destivelle will be the first woman to have climbed the three great north faces of the Alps: the Grandes Jorasses, the Matterhorn and the Eiger – solo.

Recorded live at London’s Town & Country Club in February 1992, Barclay James Harvest play a selection of their most popular and timeless classics. Coinciding with the 25th Anniversary of the band’s formation, this live concert is an evocative testament to one of the greatest exponents of British progressive rock. Opening with an extended and haunting rendition of Mockingbird, the guitars of John Lees and Colin Browne blend magnificently on Medicine Man and Play to the World, with Les Holroyd rendering a dramatic vocal performance on the latter. BJH’s more ponderous progressive rock set pieces are pierced by the rousing upbeat guitar-based Life Is for the Living and the crowd pleasing Stand Up.

Seol Hee-ju, the eldest daughter-in-law of the chairman of the Pluto Group and wife of Ko Bong-sik, president of Pluto Motors, is found dead with a stab wound to the chest.

The Mob Rules Computer God Children of the Sea Time Machine War Pigs I Die Young Guitar Solo Black Sabbath Master of Insanity After All (The Dead) Drum Solo Iron Man Heaven and Hell Neon Knights Paranoid

A movie shot in almost one single take. The parable should not be interpreted in words.

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.

In this infamous structural film, Ernie Gehr takes to the glass elevator attached to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and rides its 24 stories up and down, constantly shifting the orientation of his camera to offer images of the city as a zone of constant flux, freed from gravity and in perpetual rearrangement.

In the year 2700, a comic book artist encounters a mysterious alien while seeking revenge against the pyromaniac who burned down her printing presses.

The film’s action takes place in November 1982, on the day of L.I. Brezhnev’s death. Ivan Chashkin, a worker from a Siberian village, is rushing to his mother’s funeral in the Moscow region. The leader’s funeral creates numerous obstacles on the way of the film’s hero…

A drama that chronicles travelers passing through a remote service station located in the Australian Wheat Belt.

Children of lesbian mothers talk frankly about their mothers' coming out, their own homophobia, and how they feel about being raised by lesbian mothers.

A retelling of the classic Clement Moore poem that brings to life the spirit of anticipation and delight that Santa's annual visit brings to every child.

A young boy with down syndrome attends his first year in a "regular" classroom. This documentary traces that year and the changes that take place for Peter, his teacher, and the other students. Oscar-winning documentary short from 1992.

Two of the models of Toulouse Lautrec take a happy break from their posing.