Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Most Australians know about the Mabo and Wik decisions, but few know much about the decision makers — The High Court of Australia. Having gained historic access, THE HIGHEST COURT shows first hand the characters and drama of the High Court of Australia, the pinnacle of legal and constitutional processes in Australia. The role of the Court is explored as the film follows the handing down of two historic constitutional judgements, Kruger and Ha, and the appointment of two new Justices — Hayne and Callinan. For the first time cases have been filmed as they actually happen in the Court culminating with the recent Hindmarsh Island Bridge challenge.

A man blows balloons until they burst and thus expresses his accumulated aggression.

Don Johnson driving through bricks, old men driven to profanity over balding cures, sacrificial awards given to the gods of the Macarena, impossibly strong seniors, pathetic attempts at inspiration, a man saying “God is a blankety-blank fag”, WWF intervention starring a galaxy of stereotypes, grunge figure skaters, brainwashed teens, gay drifters, Sir Gary Coleman teaching safety in a lab coat, KISS on a kids show, religious freakouts and more.

Sartorius returns to his hometown in search of his wife, after spending fifteen years imprisoned in a concentration camp. On the train, he meets Beatriz and Bruno, a newlywed couple, and together they head to the mansion of an eccentric architect, where the former prisoner is supposed to meet his wife; but things don't go as planned...

The story about a young man who washes up on a deserted island and discovers that John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe are alive and well and living in exile.

In this feature-length documentary, three generations of the Caribou Inuit family come together to tell the story of their journey as Canada's last nomads. From the independent life of hunting on the Keewatin tundra to taking the reins of the new territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999, we see it all. The film is the result of a close collaboration between Ole Gjerstad, a southern Canadian, and Martin Kreelak, an Inuk. It's Martin's family that we follow, as the story is told through his own voice, through those of the Elders, and through those of the teens and young adults who were born in the settlements and form the first generation of those growing up with satellite TV and a permanent home.

Overbooking : male noun, neologism, method which consists in selling more tickets than there are available places in anticipation of a percentage of defections evaluated from statistical data. Surbook : A play with 6 characters, written to measure for Lagaf', a comedy based on this principle which consists in introducing more characters than there are places available in Lagaf"s room, gone on vacation in a dream club and which will not benefit from any percentage of defections, quite the contrary... Long live statistics!

A story of a man who has nine lives and a girl who falls in love with him. Is he a demon or an angel?

A man brings his date back to his house but she has no idea what she's in for.

Movie starring Vishnuvardhan, Amulya, Charulatha and is directed by U Narayan Rao.

An animated short film inspired by James Joyce's 'Ulysses.'

Savatage at Imperator, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Welcome Chance Jesus Saves Turns to Me Morning Sun Handful of Rain The Storm This Is the Time (1990) The Hourglass Blackjack Guillotine The Wake of Magellan Dead Winter Dead Labyrinths Edge of Thorns Temptation Revelation / When the Crowds are Gone / Believe Gutter Ballet I Am Sirens

Nobuko, a widow who is grieving after her husband, a jewellery broker, is murdered by someone, is caught up in an unexpected incident as she tries to end her affair and start a new life. Before her husband died, he hid a legendary jewel, one of a kind in the world...

A three-colour separation of Ivor painting the Arf Arf group and performing with them on the soundtrack. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Sam's a 17-year-old small town girl who arrives in New York to study architecture with nothing but the pack on her back. Sam's entranced by the East Village, but soon finds herself out on the street with no cash or resources. She can't call her parents - they didn't want her to leave - and the grandmother who prepaid her first semester's tuition has died, so Sam's forced to fend for herself as best she can.

The adventures of a bird who, when winter approaches, has to fly to warmer climbs.

A young girl is getting over a finished relationship. Meanwhile, a thief steals the traces of this relationship from her apartment.

Talk show host Rusty Defage introduces a series of short pieces that relate urban legends from around America in this anthology film.

Nanna needs Help for Dr. Puss Puss the Gynecology.

A film that ressembles a dream. Shot over a period of several years, it is composed of fragments of memory and moments of life woven together to create a sequence of microscopic stories. “Vagabonding Images” is a film that plays with the forms of cinematic language inspired by the poetic collage techniques of the French Surrealists and Japanese Haiku poets.

An analysis of South Africa's new, democratic regime.

A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the desperate soldiers, enraged by intense Chinese resistance, stormed the then capitol of China and over a six week period systematically raped, tortured, and killed many of the inhabitants of that city. This is a matter-of-fact although polemical documentary, with many of the horrifyingly intense images taken from home movies made by an American missionary who was there.

Mock trailer for the fictional grindhouse kung-fu Mexploitation action epic "Harry Knuckles."

Director Paul Devlin's fast-paced documentary follows four bards as they head to the 1996 National Poetry Slam in Portland, OR. The competition begins with the Grand Slam tournament at New York City's Nuyorican Poets Café, and then it's off to the nationals for chaps Saul Williams, Beau Sia, Mums the Schemer and Jessica Care Moore. The quartet vies against 26 other teams from across the country in a dramatic contest awash with tension, enmity and controversy.

A drug dealer discovers that a double-crosser is the one who is responsible for exterminating the great leaders in the business.

In 1996, at age 30, native son Tim Kirkman returns to North Carolina to explore the parallels and differences between himself and Jesse Helms: they're from the same town and college, with media interests, from families blessed by adoptions, Baptists by upbringing.

Wade Hampton finds himself trapped. After fifteen mind-numbing years on a factory assembly line, he finally snaps. He walks away from his job, his family, his entire life - to drive to Jerome, AZ to become an artist.

Documentation of a performance at a strip club, along with an autograph session and interview.

A camera tracks a line of swimmers, each in turn removing an item from their clothing until the bodies are revealed. The film ends with the start of the race.

Two quirky bush critters cut to the chase in a roadkill race around New Zealand. The game is fast, the stakes are high, the prize is a juicy dead possum.

The documentary film is not a search for the survived truth of the inhabitants of the Ruthenian village Ladomírová. It captures their subjective memories, often frozen in time and in everyday life. Only strong impressions of sadness, joy, suffering, which reflect the great history of the 20th century. There is no truth about the past, it is only the human mind that actually makes morytates - bloody enlightening stories and legends.

A businessman gets in serious financial troubles. When his mother dies, he thinks he's saved, but she only leaves 50.000 francs (1.500 USD). His brother Bruno, a customs officer, wants to use the money for her funeral, but our businessman prefers to use it to shake off his attackers. He promises them they will get through customs without problems with a certain package... Now his only problem is to convince Bruno...

A short documentary that depicts the explosion of second generation South Asian talent in mainstream British culture in the late 1990s; features musicians Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation and Cornershop as well as fashion designers and writers.

After a former mental asylum is converted into a haunted house attraction, a former inmate returns and starts murdering patrons.

The impetus for writing the play was a real event - the investigation of the loss of the class register at a boys' school in Vienna's 4th district. The perpetrator was most likely a student named F. Kirchner. Cimrman was a police inspector in Vienna's 4th district at the time, and the school principal turned to him when all educational measures had failed. Six police officers followed the suspect for three days, but to no avail. Cimrman therefore decided to influence Kirchner in a different way: he wrote a play about the theft, which was staged by the police department's drama club as a compulsory school performance. The author expected that seeing the suffering of the teacher, principal, and inspector during their futile investigation would lead the culprit to regret his actions and confess. However, the stubborn boy, the son of a nun, was not moved.

"Kagaya" is a downtown public bathhouse run by the widow Emiko (Yuko Koma). The drama unfolds at Kagaya, involving various human relationships among her only daughter Hitomi (Yoko Satomi), the bathhouse manager Shuji (Yuichi Minato), the lodgers, the man who courts Hitomi, and the prostitutes.

Bobby, a man who has it all, is suddenly diagnosed with leukemia and told he has only 3 months left to live. While he deals with this news, dark secrets become uncovered as several supernatural forces begin to appear in his life.

The history of Argentine Montoneros guerrilla group , since its founding in the early seventies, until its dissolution under the military dictatorship of 1976 .

"The Titanic is still news nearly a century after the world’s finest and largest ship struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in April, 1912. The events of that fateful voyage are told through dramatised contemporary accounts. These are enhanced by an extensive interview with survivor Eva Hart MBE, who was a girl of seven at the time. This is not only the story of a great tragedy, but also of Edward John Smith a potter’s son who rose from the backstreets of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, to become the premier sea captain of his day. Don Smith shows us some of Captain Smith’s possessions, handed down through the family. It is also the story of how such a terrible disaster can be turned into something of national pride by the press of the day. Pride in a captain and crew who could uphold the great traditions of the sea captured in Captain Smith’s last call from the bridge of the doomed ship. Be British!."

One of those days when you may all of a sudden become a murderer.

In a car accident, the boy loses his parents and is confined to a wheelchair. Becoming the creator of his world and his destiny, the young hero overcomes personal tragedy.

Recorded live on October 10th 1998 at the Las Vegas Hilton. Alabama performed all 41 of their number one hits including Tennessee River, Mountain Music and Love In The First Degree.

For millions of years, herbivores and carnivores have competed in the race of evolution. Over time, they developed more and more specialised features, survival techniques and superior sensory abilities. They can see, smell and hear what we cannot, way beyond natural human experience. Telescopic vision. Advanced radar. Instant, wireless communications. Animal e-mail. Graphically illustrated in 3D, and filmed by the world's top wildlife cinematographers, Sense and Scentability explores the animal evolution and the phenomenal world of animal's super-senses. Dramatic footage of the hunters and the hunted, and their advanced mechanisms of defence and attack, in Africa's great wilderness areas.

Kallinen from Hervanta homicide, and his new partner, Kuokka, fight against the evil crimelord of Hervanta, known as Kunkku (The King), who has killed a teacher who stole drugs from him.

Anita and her married boyfriend, András, get involved with some heavy hitters who smuggle from Ukraine into Hungary. The deeper into it they get, the more their relationship is strained; things aren't helped by the unexpected visit that András's pregnant wife pays Anita and her mother. At a nightclub, Anita meets Alex, a Ruthenian who's a collector of folk songs. The two of them begin an affair, and András may be left out in the cold, with the local mob still waiting for him to deliver the goods. How patient will they be, how desperate will András get, and how will Anita sort out loyalty and infatuation?

In this moving drama, three young Canadian women embark upon a journey to face and lay to rest their painful pasts. Though Kirsti (Jhene Erwin) is twenty-one and living independently as a college student, she remains haunted by horrible memories of being raped by her stepfather Harold (Jim Kinney). He also performed this vile act on her little sister Jessie (Melissa Hood). Unable to bear the psychological anguish, Kirsti decides to confront her abuser and so visits her mother (Diana Tabak) only to find that Harold and his son Jacob (T.J. Grist) are at their fishing cabin up north, the very place where the attacks first occurred.

A fragmented self-portrait.

Three cheers for compromise as quiet-as-a-mouse Sophie learns to assert herself with bossy, big-mouthed Wendell.

A professional hitman who, despite his "deadly" profession, finds himself in increasingly absurd and mundane situations. Unlike the cool, calculated assassins of Hollywood, Neo’s character is a reflection of the "everyman" -- struggling with ethics, bad luck, and the bureaucratic frustrations of life in Singapore.

Fayrouz in Baalbek 1998

Witness a behind-the-scenes rehearsal session with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, led by French conductor Pierre Boulez, who is regarded as one of the foremost contemporary classical composers of the 20th century. Boulez and the orchestra rehearse his own composition "Notations I-IV" as well as Alban Berg's "Three Pieces for Orchestra," op. 6. The program also includes interviews with Boulez that explore his approach to Berg's work.

An homage to the girls who do it faster, higher and lovelier.

A live performance by Lennie Norman and Claes Malmberg, two of Sweden's top notch stand-up comedians. Taped live by Kanal 5 in Louis De Geer-hallen in Norrköping, Sweden in 1997, during their highly successful 'Kramgoa Killer 97' tour.