Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.

A hand-cranked film of a wind-up record player, hand-colored to simulate the unheard music.

The story of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, through the story of Gad, a young Nubian who comes to live in Luxor and accompanies Howard Carter during his search for the tomb.

Šelig's heroine Agata lives torn between everyday, real life and the eternal woman within her: a woman who connects Agata with the mythical, the archetypal, the forces of nature and the primal elements. The primal forces and energies of life intrude into Agata's everyday life of voluntary servitude or passive devotion. Agata experiences them as a possibility for a different existence, while Agata Schwarzkobler's triptych, with its depiction of Agata's double image, presents the viewer with the eternal mystery of human existence.

Little Kati lives with her mother Anna in a tiny apartment. The two of them are struggling to make ends meet by singing at the Christmas market. When Anna is once again late with the rent, her heartless landlord throws her out just before Christmas. Fortunately, Willy Wuff has heard about their misfortune and rushes to help. He puts them up in the villa of millionaire Jakob, who is on a winter vacation with his mistress. However, when he breaks off the vacation in an argument and returns home, he realizes who has taken up residence in his house. And Kati and her mother mistake the intruder for a burglar. The beginning of a series of amusing mix-ups.

A detective investigating a rash of mysterious drug-related deaths finds a society of Satanists bent on bringing about the End Times.

An old journalist, Omar, remembers the 70s and Salim a young 35-year-old journalist who had dared to investigate a corrupt senior state official. Omar knows it's a fight lost in advance but Salim refuses to let go. He resists because his duty as a journalist and his contempt for the untouchables who believe themselves above the law incite him to take all risks. But one day, the newspapers announce the death of Salim, cowardly murdered by a burglar. In short, a simple fact.

What happened next could never have been anticipated and forms the story line for the final film of the trilogy; Born Under The Red Flag examines China’s remarkable transformation after Mao’s death. In just 15 years, under Deng Xiaoping’s leadership, China raced forward at an astonishing pace to become a never-before-seen hybrid of communism and capitalism. The world’s most populous nation has reinvented itself, changing from a relatively undeveloped and isolated nation into an economic giant and a major international power. For many Chinese, this transformation has brought unprecedented prosperity, but it has also raised troubling questions of national identity and social inequality.

A vampire acts mean toward a small rural town.

Over half a million people packed into over 200 venues throughout the country during 1997 to see her best show ever. This tour included an unprecedented fifteen night sell-out run at the Royal Albert Hall, which the media hailed as the best stand-up show of the decade. With her cheek, charm and dazzling wordplay, she reduced her audience to a state of delerium. Recorded during her record-breaking tour, Victoria Wood Live is your opportunity to see the queen of humour at her most brilliant.

A theater directed by Dariush Moadabian

A bisexual artist is waiting to move to New York City to be with his male lover while living with his girlfriend in a sumptuous loft in Taipei. In order to save enough money to implement the trip to New York, he joins the dancing group that formed part of the fat stripteaser's show. Later on, he takes his girlfriend to Yenshui for the firecracker festival and happens to witness a weird murder with video recorder in hand. He then becomes the target of the mysterious killer...

Host Shelly Long takes viewers on a journey through some of television's most-watched moments of all time.

Shown at The Spectacular Optical, Threadwaxing Space, New York City, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. No Is Yes examines the inevitable co-option of counter culture through two teenage girls that accidentally kill and mutilate their favorite rockstar. It is inspired by MTV' s habitual use of experimental film and video techniques to render elaborate ads for their specialized product—the pop star.

A story of the lives of Aino and Oskar Kallas.

From her life in Cairo to being a discor star, from success to suicide, Dalida reigned over the hit parades throughout the world. Although the artist's career began at the same time as popular music emerged as an industry and was acclaimed everywhere as "la marchande de bonheur" (the merchant of happiness). She encountered unhappiness ; she experienced many deaths and rebirths. Her forced march towards fame resembles a frantic search ending in despair.

Delta Don is in each one of us; while we yearn for that perfect longtime companion, we usually settle for less. Delta Don, however, has the staying power of a good 70's pop tune. In spite of all odds, he inspires us to push harder, even if that takes us to the truck stops and rest areas along the I-75 in Georgia and Tennessee. A bittersweet, hummable comedy.

Utuniarsuak Avike is an Eskimo 87 years old, a hunter living in the Thule district of Northwest Greenland. With a bizarre sense of humour and the greatest possible naturalness towards the camera (he addresses the audience directly), Utuniarsuak tells about the life that lies behind him. Parallels with NANOOK OF THE NORTH, the famous Eskimo documentary that Robert Flaherty made in 1922, are obvious. Utuniarsuak tells how he became an orphan at a young age because his parents had succumbed to tuberculosis. The disease was introduced on the island by European whale hunters. He also remembers how Greenland was proclaimed a Danish colony in 1932 and how the inhabitants of the Thule district were given a family name for the first time in their lives, for registering purposes (until then Greenlanders had had only a single name). Danish was introduced as the official language, which explains why today only a few hundred from the Thule district still speak their original dialect.

The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance at the world-famous Salzburg Festival. Director Francois Abou Salem brings a modern Middle Eastern sensibility to this journey into Arabian and Muslim culture, filtering the comic tale of abduction for today's audiences. Soprano Christine Schafer portrays Constanze, a woman whose heart is torn between her fiance, Belmonte (Paul Groves), and her new master, Pasha Selim (Akram Tillawi). A sensual and resoundingly modern experience, this new interpretation casts new light on a classic musical work and infuses it with aching human emotion.

Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the hardest hit, toughest rides, most heart pounding moments of the 1996 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.

An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinematons have been screened.

Architect I.M. Pei speaks about his famous works, such as the addition to the Louvre in Paris, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. Footage of these projects shows both interiors and exteriors. Various other experts comment on the impact and importance of Pei's work.

A documentary comprised of concert footage and interviews focused on the infamous metal group Rockbitch. The band, comprised of mainly female members, became well known, and banned across Europe due to their over-the-top stage performances, including nudity, sex, simulated violence, and rituals, all often involving members of the audience.

Already twice a mysterious fireball descended into the deep taiga, forming a mysterious zone in the landing area. From distant Petersburg, a young scientist, an enthusiast Kairov, is going to the zone. Hearing that in the zone called "Devil's Ring", full of gold, his random companion Kuzmin, a thief and an adventurer, stole the looted jewelry together from his accomplices, sets off for Kairov. He is not afraid of the local claims that "damn gold" does not bring good to anyone.

After the events of the first movie, Moshe and Topaz get married, but things start to escalate..

One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city, there is such a group of people. They come from the countryside. Maybe they are not dressed well, or they have only finished elementary school, but they work hard with their own work. The piece of prosperity pays its youth and sweat. (Shot between 1997 and 1998)

An artistic masterpiece presenting the Volcom skate team tearing up all mediums of terrain from around the world. Freedom Wig was Volcom’s first skate film and would set the stage for an incredible journey in the years ahead. Shot entirely in film, the movie is a colorful look into the team’s personalities and different styles of riding.

One shot, taken using a time-lapse technique, of a sunrise in an Iranian mountain landscape. A thin band of light shines across a starry sky, the sun comes up, the dawn light glows.

This acclaimed documentary traces the building of the Getty Center—one of the most ambitious cultural undertakings of the twentieth century. Spanning fourteen years, from the early blueprints to the groundbreaking to the public opening of the Center in December 1997, the film takes viewers from California to a rock quarry in Italy where the Center's signature travertine originated.

Fourteen-year-old Michi cannot cope with the unexplained death of his father. After attempting suicide, his mother sends him to a Catholic boarding school, where he manages to endure the restrictive rules only with the help of his friendship with Lorenz, a drug-addicted priest, and Marenka, a kitchen assistant. A psychological, moving portrait of a 14-year-old boy confronted with first love and death.

Young people on the telephone.

A home video release documenting Malice Mizer's last indie live before signing with Columbia, at Shibuya Kokaido on 4/1/1997.

Poverty was one of the many unfortunate aspects of Cimrman's life. His traveling theater company, Lipany, suffered from high actor turnover. If an actor's departure was agreed upon well in advance, the situation could be managed. However, if it happened with shouting and slamming doors, often just a few hours before the performance, the troupe and its director experienced some tense moments. Such experiences form the backdrop to the play. Lovers of the work of this unrecognized Czech artist are now able to access testimony from this area of the master's life, in which his destiny was most fulfilled—the theater.

On December 8, 1995, at the age of 43, Jean-Dominque Bauby, editor-in-chief of ELLE Magazine, suffered from a stroke and fell into a coma. When Bauby awoke he found himself completely speechless and paralyzed. In Locked-In Syndrome, director Jean-Jacques Beiniex follows Bauby's efforts to write The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was later adapted into a critically acclaimed film.

With quiet intelligence and wry humour, retired documentary filmmaker Kathleen Shannon takes us through the arc of her life and career. Beginning with childhood, moving through her formative years, to her overwhelming desire to give women a chance to tell their stories, this film paints a vibrant portrait of one woman who blazed the way. It's a story of struggle, persistence, and success… and of course, of the NFB's Studio D.

After years of painstaking research, Dr. Robert Ballard finally located the ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic, nearly two-and-one-half miles down the icy Atlantic. Here in this short documentary he covers Titanic's dramatic end and enduring legend, slow sinking into the ocean taking over three hours on a clear night and the people onboard who really made the story. Produced by National Geographic Television, 1997

Lloyd returns once again in this third animation to wreak even more havoc on himself. Includes teeth pulling, shooting himself in a cannon, stepping on nails and more.

A burglar gets caught on a farm by an older woman. The religious woman, who's body is covered with ulceration, believes he is there for a reason.

Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kisses and green banknotes.

Extinct for millions of years, dinosaurs continue to fascinate as scientists struggle to understand the creatures that went from domination to extinction seemingly overnight. This four-part documentary series attempts to provide some answers. From the badlands to the Yucatán Peninsula, paleontologists scour the earth to learn about the predatory habits of carnivorous dinosaurs, the land area required to feed a large sauropod and much more.

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches through the many levels of pain and finds it in its unique position between disaster and pleasure. Pain is..thus plunges us instantly into the midst of controversy and the unknown.

A feast of old chestnuts from the glory days of Christmasses past with this look at the rise and demise of the Christmas light-entertainment spectacular, from Christmas Night with the Stars to Val Doonican and Christmas Snowtime Special.

Gabriele Haring and Josef Broukal guide you through cyberspace in a virtual studio, where they meet numerous Austrian experts and internet pioneers.

An old man, Loukas (Lazaros Andreou), constantly avoids facing the evils of his life. But when he falls in love with Zena (Aphrodite Al-Saleh), who is entangled with a spiral of antiquities, he finally decides to act vigorously and save her.

Opening with a nightmarish montage of an avalanche, Snowriders 2: The Journey Continues, from the master of ski films, Warren Miller, quickly transforms into an exuberant celebration of downhill glory. In Miller style, gorgeous footage of some of the world's most skillful skiers tackling the world's gnarliest slopes is combined with intelligently chosen rock music to create an entertaining mix. Miller's film crews shoot skiers in the Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, track Americans making a lengthy pilgrimage to tackle the remote and forbidding slopes of Kazakhstan, and follow a tattooed and pierced snowboarder from his apartment in Greenwich Village to Killington, Vermont.

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) is perhaps best known for his colourful and joyous fauvistic paintings but also produced a dazzling array of ceramics, wall-hangings, dress fabrics and furniture designs. This film, which includes interviews with patrons, dealers and models who knew Dufy, puts the case that he was one of the fines draughtsmen of the twentieth century, a designer whose influence is still much in evidence and a painter of genius to rank alongside Matisse and Léger.

A recording of a Marilyn Manson performance in the Copps Coliseum, Hamilton.

Making out, speaking out, coming out. Queer youth gettin' busy with a camcorder at Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS).

The fortuneteller Rosita and her assistant Raoul are with their caravan on a fair. Earning money is not easy for them because their clumsiness leads to one disaster after the other.

This film is based on the testimonies of some of the actors still alive (in 1995-1996) of the Occupation period, whether they were on one side or the other. Each of them tells the story of the French militia, which was created in Vichy at the end of January 1943 by Pierre Laval, from his own point of view.