Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Adventures of a man who is only attracted to baristas.

An elegant, visual interpretation of Jacob Gade's Tango Jalousie from 1925, which axpresses passionately the drama of jealousy. An elderly violinist strikes the tune and he dances over the screen as a young man. People meet, hearts on fire, rejection and defeat, maturity and tranquility.

Kaoru Tachibana’s 8mm and 16mm filming course film workshop, 1996. Old Komaba campus Tokyo University student dormitory 3F. Shot & edited by Kenji Onishi and others.

Full-length recital by Michele Schottenbauer, at that time 20 years old, performing selections by Mozart, Scriabin, Schoenberg, Debussy, and Liszt.

La pièce de théatre qui à fait découvrir Les robins des bois avant leur apparition sur Comédie!.

With the success of the "Sexto Sentido" Tour, Xuxa Produções together with Globo Vídeo began selling the show's record at the end of 1995 as a test for a possible release. The sale was carried out only by telephone. After the satisfactory sales result, the commercialization of the VHS materialized in May 1996 and the home video started to be found in the main stores in Brazil, in addition to rental stores. VHS brings the show of the second phase (1995), but without the majority of Xuxa's interactions with the public, without the guests who sang between the blocks and the performances of You Can Dance. The VHS edition did not have a base show as in the subsequent releases of Xuxa, but rather a mix of several recordings from the tour, including some shows from 1994.

A gay German tourist meets a man in New York City's central park and takes home a souvenir.

A dedicated music teacher in East Harlem instructs a gaggle of underprivileged children in the art of the violin. In the climax, they play Carnegie Hall with some of the world's foremost fiddlers.

A Czech exiled in Paris, Mirek misses the bus that must drive him back to his native country., pushing him to ask for help from his compatriots living in the French capital.

Rarely seen movie trailers reveal Lana Turner's rise to stardom. Hosted by Robert Osborne.

Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government - where privatisation of state assets was part of a wider agenda that sought to remake New Zealand as a model free market state. The trickle-down ‘Rogernomics’ rhetoric warned of no gain without pain, and here the theory is counterpointed by the social effects (redundant workers, Post Office closures). Made by Alister Barry in 1996 when the effects were raw, the film draws extensively on archive footage and interviews with key “witnesses to history”.

Unlike any art movie you've ever seen, Making it in Manhattan is informed 'entertainment' about the people who make contemporary art. Artists, collectors, and dealers bring to life the art capital of the world, New York, as it plunges into the 21st Century. Presenting a cross-section of artists, the film discusses inspiration, aesthetics, and the meaning of success. With Louise Bourgeois, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Neil Jenney, Elizabeth Murray, Ashley Bickerton, Gary Simmons, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Rirkrit Tiravanija, St. Clair Cemin, Ivan Karp, Jay Gorney, Matthew Marks, Jerry Saltz, Herb & Dorothy Vogel, and others. From abstraction to figuration, from installation to conceptual art, from the privacy of the doctor's office to the posh gallery opening, Making it in Manhattan captures the reality of a special world. Music by Tom Waits, Don Braden Ryuichi Sakamoto, George van Eps, Piero Umiliani with Chet Baker.

A rising singer and her boyfriend become fugitives after a deadly clash with a corrupt deputy, fleeing across the desert in a high-stakes chase.

A short animated film by Trixy Sweetvittles

It is the beginning of the twentieth century. Edward, the second son of an historic Scottish baronial family, leaves home to join the army. One day, he receives a letter from his twin brother Laurence who has fallen ill. He begs Edward to return home. Edward does as he is bidden, only to learn that Laurence is seriously in debt and has mortgaged the family estate. Laurence expects Edward to assist him in his plight.

"Textile mills were once the backbone of Bombay’s economy and provided the city its working class culture. Today, foreign investment and rising real-estate prices have made selling mill lands more profitable than running mills. Mill ‘sickness’ is now an epidemic. OCCUPATION: MILLWORKER records the inspirational action of workers who, after a four-year lockout, forcibly occupied The New Great Eastern Mill."

Anna is trying to come to terms with the loss of her best friend to AIDS. The contradictions between her traditional Latin upbringing and her identity as a lesbian leave her conflicted on how to handle her grief. This short film movingly explores the bonds of friendship and love between gay women and men and the AIDS.

The action takes place in the boarding house of the Red Cross Landscaping Society.

The Strip District is a delicious old neighborhood in Pittsburgh. On most Saturday mornings, its one of the best places on earth, full of hungry people, crunchy fruits, snappy vegetables, world-class street food, cool characters and tasty surprises of all sorts. This 1996 documentary is a tour of the Strip including big breakfasts, shopping along Penn Avenue and Smallman Street, warehouses, churches and nightclubs, along with some amazing history. Producer Rick Sebak says, "It ends up being a big commercial for the Strip, but the neighborhood deserves lots of loving attention. Its a great, great place."

A joyful and light-hearted look at alienation. What we see: ugly modern buildings, too many tourists, uniformity - everywhere the same cafés, the same supermarket bags, beggars and homeless, Senegalese merchants selling small Eiffel Towers, police and people fleeing from them, aggressive restaurateurs, markets, crowded subways, traffic jams and exhaust fumes, prostitutes, street fights, clowns. What we hear: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals by Carl Stalling, a selection of sound recordings for Warner Brothers cartoons from 1941-50.

Pål Hollender recounts the experience of being abused by the father of a childhood friend. In abrupt shifts he is alternately the narration’s subject and object, the criminal and the case history, a fictional character and a real-life human being, pathologized and abandoned in a field of anonymous authority.

In this visually stunning short film set in the 1950s, a fair-skinned Aboriginal girl gains access to the local swimming pool where Aboriginal people are legally denied access.

How is proof constructed and just what exactly is it anyway? With quirky characters who exhort, muse and deliberate, animator Shelley McIntosh takes a whimsical look at the search for proof. Intuition and rationality are explored in this entertaining film which encourages the viewer to reflect on the notion of proof.

Live special featuring Brian Conley

As children, Carrie, Eric and Kevin happened upon a doorway to a magical Narnia-like land and had a grand adventure. Now, years later, as young adults, all three are struggling, and Kevin is determined to find a way back.

This video is quite unique since the journey was aboard Amtrak's Cardinal after a very heavy snowfall. The journey picks up at first light east of Maysville, Kentucky, and concludes with the stop in Clifton Forge, West Virginia, after traveling along the Ohio River, and later the famous New River Gorge. It's a rare treat to be onboard during the winter and on a crystal clear day. The music by Michael Lynch is exceptional for this video as well. Since it was winter we did not have the opportunity to do off train locations, but we have an added bonus of including some steam locomotive excursions that formerly traveled this same route east of Huntington and through the New River region.

The concert was recorded live on the Japanese leg of the band's Filthy Lucre Tour. This release is unique in that it is the only officially available full-length visual record of the band's performances on their 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour. Tracklist: 1. Bodies 2. Seventeen 3. New York 4. No Feelings" 5. Did You No Wrong 6. God Save the Queen 7. Liar 8. Satellite 9. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone 10. Submission 11. Holidays in the Sun 12. Pretty Vacant 13. EMI 14. Anarchy in the UK 15. Problems

This documentary examines the 80 year career of journalist George Seldes, his encounters with Lenin and J. Edgar Hoover, his long battle against press censorship, the tobacco lobby, and his eventual blacklisting.With Ben Bagdikian, Jeff Cohen, Daliel Ellsberg, Ralph Nader, and Marian Seldes

The third part of Jean Bitar's documentary series about Finnish children is about freestyle biking.

Aired in June 1996 on TV Globo, the special "Xuxa 10 Anos" celebrated Xuxa's first decade at the network, presenting a retrospective of her career. Hosted by Renato Aragão, the program revisited memorable moments from shows such as Xou da Xuxa and Xuxa Park. The special included music videos for three previously unreleased songs ("Valeu (10 Anos de Amor)," "Dez Anos," and "Vamos Comemorar") and featured tributes to Xuxa, covering her personal and professional life.

JP takes us on a 15-minute trek through the musical careers of assorted crew members of the Enterprise (and others). Broadcast in 1996 as part of a BBC Star Trek Night.

This documentary focuses on the Civil Rights Movement in the heavily segregated steel industry and its equally segregated union, The United Steelworkers of America (USWA), at the time when this industry—devastated by mismanagement and global competition—began to crumble. It is a powerful picture of black working-class life in the latter part of the 20th century, told in a combination of interviews and documentary footage. Through live testimonials and revelatory archival materials, Struggles shows the contributions of African Americans to the steel industry and to the labor movement more generally. (via cinema.indiana.edu)

While he explored every other avenue of musical composition -- including chamber music, concertos and symphonies -- Johannes Brahms never ventured into opera. Still, many critics hold him solely responsible for the revival of what they term "absolute" music. Part of a comprehensive series of films celebrating the most influential composers of all time, this educational program reviews the progression of his works and analyzes his creative genius.

A recruitment rock video for secretaries into bike shorts.

A silent watchman, named Cornelio, share joys and tequila with his friend Ray inside a car...

The story revolves around a possessive single father who dotes on his daughter but cannot accept the idea of her marriage, deliberately creating obstacles between her and her prospective groom.

Documentary explores how sex has become pervasive in every genre of television. Includes clips from talk shows, soap operas, game shows and cartoons from countries around the world that have more liberal broadcast regulations than the United States.

Out in the wild west, they have a particular brand of bikini girl who favors one particular type of bar – the bar at the end of the runway, lined in men whose pockets are lined in dollar bills. Greenbacks. They’re dancers – exotic dancers. And as soon as the music starts, the bikinis drop. And as soon as the bikinis drop, the jaws drop. Join hostess Leigh Matchett in a table-dancing hop through the notorious “Gentlemen’s Clubs” in and around Hollywood. With the best in the bar, down the bar – and even on the couch – The Player Girls. Gotta dollar, Bill?

Mickey enters a large institutional waiting room and dutifully collects his ticket. When numbers are called, the relevant ticket holder exits the room, never to return. As Mickey notices that his ticket is a different colour to everybody else, he is forced to decide whether to keep or swap it.

Edmund Husserl observed: "All perception is a gamble", which Robert Anton Wilson expands upon when he suggests that "[others] just have a different reality tunnel, and every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we are willing to listen." All seen through the mirror of João Queiroz’s art.

Four friends roam the streets, bars and boxing clubs in a bubbling and bewitching big African town.

Using footage from mainstream British and Hollywood films, and excerpts from a poem by Shani Mootoo, this video explores the impact of cultural imperialism and the erasure of language—residual tools of oppression on members of post-colonial societies.

Sherman must learn how to deal with his changing family situation with the help of his good friend Corny.

A young woman gradually locks herself in her fear.

Prelude 24 returns to the tempo of single-frame printing. Its shapes and forms are composed of nearly black torques of ink, flickering with white and only faintly, now and again, tinged with color.

London during March of 1996. 1. When all golden turned to shit, 2. Interlude, 3. 1999: Karmakeddon Warriors.

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

Portrait of french author and painter Pierre Klossowski

A film depicting the process of weaning a criminal prisoner, Charlie, from drugs, with the help of another prisoner, Shlomo, and with the help of several key personnel from the prison service, who lend a hand to the success of the project. The film also depicts the bond of friendship that is formed between the two prisoners who grew up around different social ideologies, and the place, despite its difficult nature, manages to connect extremes, bridge the gaps and create a deep and positive friendship.

Film about writer Malraux, with photographs portraying great moments of his life and accompanied by his most famous speeches.