Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

In 1975 a middle-aged anarchist recruits a policeman's daughter for an attempt to blow up Emperor Hirohito's train.

In 1987 in Arkansas two high school seniors were brutally murdered, their bodies strewn across train tracks to be dismembered by a speeding train. Upon further investigation, the evidence of this crime leads to the heart of a massive C.I.A. drug and weapons smuggling operation based in Mena, Arkansas, and raises questions about past C.I.A. involvement in drug and weapons trafficking worldwide.

Starlake Amphitheater, Burgettstown, PA - June 12, 1999. Pro-shot video with soundboard sound. The DVD copy I've seen from this show is from a VG quality VHS source that looks to be several generations down, but I've seen some excellent quality copies listed (can't confirm these though). The soundboard audio from this show that is circulating in CD-R format was taken from this video. Set List: Intro-Sabbath Medley, War Pigs , Bassically -> N.I.B. , Fairies Wear Boots, After Forever , Electric Funeral , Sweet Leaf , Into The Void , Iommi/Nicholls intro, Snowblind , Black Sabbath , Iron Man , Embryo -> Children Of The Grave , Supernaut [intro] -> Paranoid .

One spring day, Mike Horn left his beloved wife and two daughters on a shore to circumnavigate the globe alone, following the equator. On foot, by dugout canoe, by sailboat, or by bicycle, across three oceans and two continents, Mike Horn journeyed along this invisible thread, never straying more than forty kilometers from it. Here, he recounts how a solitary man manages to blend into nature, choosing whether or not it will let him pass. In the Brazilian rainforest, bitten by a snake, he remained blind for four days, semi-conscious. But the greatest danger is humanity and its wars. In Africa, rebels arrested Mike Horn and sentenced him to death. He escaped by the skin of his teeth. Why all this? Because he wanted to fulfill his dream, to delve deeper into the encounter between nature and humanity. In this extraordinary story, we discover a man who is afraid, who marvels, who is in pain, but who moves forward, always.

An audiovisual testimony about the history and evolution of Tiro de Gracia, one of the most iconic Chilean hip-hop groups. Created at a time when the genre was beginning to establish itself in the national scene, this documentary showcases the group’s trajectory following the success of their album Ser Humano!! (1997), which marked a before-and-after in the country’s urban music.

Emilia Klein from Norilsk, Siberia, and her daughter Christina have organized a dance group in Allermöhe. 300 girls and boys participate, and the trend is increasing.

Commissioned by Stephen Kent Jusick of MIX - NY, premiered at Anthology Film Archives. Deco Dawson and I drove to Regina for our first taste of optical printing at Sask Film Pool. The guitar player on the right is Serge LaCroix, a shaman friend whose been semi-conscious in a coma for a few years now. He complained a lot when I shaved his chest for the shoot, but I'm glad he's preserved on film. -Noam Gonick

A cousin stays overnight at a couple's place as both of her parents are missing. The husband suspects that she is a vampire as he keeps seeing corpses and her biting into them in his nightmares. Suddenly he becomes a vampire and hell breaks loose and must find a way to put an end to this.

A young man, desperately in need of reassurance in a chaotic world, crosses paths with a church minister who severely misinterprets the bible in hilarious and troubling ways.

Eyewitness explores the lives of three artists forced to work in secret while living in Nazi death camps: Jan Komski, Dinah Gottliebova, and Felix Nussbaum, and who all witnessed and painted the horrors of the Holocaust.

Video documentary about Mark Parland's life during the years 1997 - 1999.

An Action Movie

Over 30,000 bikers turned up in 1998 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Stone and recreate the funeral scene.

Teatro Amazonas is an elaborate, intriguing formalist experiment investigating the cinematic gaze and cultural exchange, and offering an unconventional ethnographic record of its Amazonian subjects engaged (and disengaged) in the act of spectatorship.

The streets and bars of San Francisco's famous Castro district come alive in this "colorful, fast-paced, affectionate, often funny insider's look" at life and love among a diverse group of 'out and proud' gay men.

Masayoshi Yamazaki, a Japanese folk singer, walks Mississippi, trailing Robert Johnson's footsteps. Getting a Mojo hand, playing the blues with real blues men, singing in King Biscuit Time, at last he meets Robert Johnson... at his grave.

Documentarian Richard Morris examines both the onstage and offstage lives of veteran cabaret entertainers John Wallowitch and Bertram Ross. Since 1984, Wallowitch and Ross have been a performing duo, entertaining nightclub audiences with such acid-tongued musical parodies as "If You Don't Love Me, I'll Kill Myself -- Or Maybe I'll Kill You" and "Don't Do To Me What Woody Did To Mia." Wallowitch and Ross have also been lovers for 30 years, who met while while both were active in the New York creative community; Ross spent close to three decades as a dancer with the Martha Graham company and Wallowitch is a Julliard-trained pianist and songwriter with over 1,000 compositions to his credit. Morris exmines Wallowitch and Ross both as artists and members of the gay community without patronizing or exploiting them in the process.

The Bearded Lady tells the gay mainstream to shut the fuck up and listen, turn its scrutinizing eyes on their own transphobia, racism and poorbashing, and to think hard about their misuse of the term “community”.

Pentrex takes you to South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin for more of the best in Midwestern railroading! We visit several shortlines including the Minnesota Central, Dakota Southern, and Nebkota. Pentrex captured Nebkota's beautiful A-B-A set of F-units just days before it was sold to Canadian Pacific for use on executive trains. Class I railroads create an abundance of action in the Midwest. Union Pacific is one of the busiest on its ex-Chicago & North Western mainline through Iowa. Burlington Northern Santa Fe is not far behind on its transcontinental mainline between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. Canadian Pacific makes an appearance on its former Soo Line trackage with a variety of power from "Red Barn" SD40-2Fs to newly delivered AC4400s. From jointed rail to ribbon rail, the Midwest offers a great variety of shortline and mainline action. It's all here for you in The Best of the Midwest Volume II!

Charming short film depicting children playing the eponymous game on a playground.

Explores the bittersweet process of an American artist's frenzied attempt to achieve fame and recognition through manufacturing his own hype and manipulating public perceptions of his constructed persona.

Thousands of women leave their homes and families in the Philippines every year to work abroad as domestics. Thousands have made their way to Canada, forming part of “the Third World in our living rooms.”

Consider what it is like to travel through an underpass, such as you might find in any city in the western world. It is an experience that most of us have had, at some time or another. Even if we have not, it is not difficult to imagine. For we all carry around with us a mental databank of generic images of the world that surrounds us, fed by popular culture and the mass media as much as by direct experience. Tunnel is intended to evoke the idea or the memory of such a journey, rather than to simulate the experience of any actual event. It is closer in feeling to the images that form in the mind while dreaming, or when thinking about what it might be like to travel through an underpass, for instance.

The sequel to the award-winning Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas focuses on the town's annual Christmas Yard Display Contest, a mysterious "Christmas Phantom" vandalizing the yard displays, and the town's perspective on what Christmas is really about.

Interviews with the planners and architects Egbert Kossak, Dieter Patschan, Gerhart Laage, Günter Wilkens and Ingrid Spengler, who worked in Allermöhe and explain their work.

It's a movie released in 1999.

40 people meet. 20 pairs. Each pair is a total of 100 years old. A one-year-old and a ninety-nine-year-old; a two-year-old and a ninety-eight-year-old; and so on and so forth. 2000 years of life.

Part 2 of No Place Like Home

In/Dividu questions the integrity and stability of things by disassembling them to basic elements and researching their origin. An experimental research of deconstruction and dislocation of matter.

Video by Michel Auder.

Jao Mapa (Jao Mapa), once the Philippines It-Boy, has retired from his thriving career fr a real life, but his biggest fan has trouble letting him go. Alexa (Marnie Arcilla) goes to great lengths to keep him. A hilarious black comedy short.

Behold the ultimate face of horror … like you've never seen it before! (And man, is it ugly!) After a 25-year incarceration, a hideously maimed, homicidal maniac has just busted out of a maximum-security asylum for the criminally insane, and now the surrounding countryside is about to become, well, a lot less bucolic. If looks could kill, this guy has cornered the market. Looks like a case of a little too much nip and tuck. …

Christian music's most successful selling group is still together. While a break up has long been rumored, especially in light of their critical and commercial solo success, dc talk is here to stay.

Jamie Maxfield's graduate thesis project in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts. A Silver Medal winner at the Student Academy Awards.

A video portrait of the legendary late performance artist, fashion designer and nightlife icon Leigh Bowery. Atlas's camera follows Bowery as he flamboyantly strolls through Manhattan's Meatpacking District, outrageously costumed in a self-made reinterpretation of "Mr. Peanut," the Planter's Peanut mascot. Bowery's molded full-bodysuit, accessorized with a floral print dress, top hat and transparent-heeled platform shoes, draws stares from onlookers. Peanut-related pop songs accompany him on the soundtrack.

A gypsy is falsely accused of theft and put to death by German Party members in 1938. But her anguished spirit returns to exact revenge by possessing the body of her granddaughter and kidnapping, torturing and then killing the ancestors of her accusers.

The magnificent Precious Moments Chapel near Carthage, Missouri, contains some of the most beautiful and inspiring original works of art ever created by artist Sam Butcher, creator of the Precious Moments collection. Vast tableaux, majestic story murals, a Sistine Chapel-inspired ceiling, exquisite stained glass windows are just a few of the artistic creations that await you in this scene amid rolling wood and stream. Pause for reflection and meditation, as you are transported to a place of complete tranquility and peace, where Nature and Man have come together to honor God through art, music, and word. The Precious Moments Chapel awaits you. Come and rejoice in its beauty and wonder, and experience the inspiration that brings more than a million visitors each year to this very special place.

Helen Hill remembers her grandfather just before his death (in part) by a metaphor involving him as a rapidly diminishing mouse.

hong kong film

Two men compete for the love of a woman with an unexpected destiny.

According to their author, these were two pilot shorts for a possible series that never aired.

For this film, extracts of colors have been chosen in the city (Paris), they have been analysed then assembled into a certain order (chromatic circle). This apparently scientist classification reveals a strong poetical power of evocation.

Two of Africa's 'savannah giants'- one a predator and one a bovine are on a collision course of epic proportions. An injured buffalo is one of Africa's most dangerous animals but for the lions of the Savannah taking down buffalo is in their genes. One wrong move and the hunter could become the hunted- it's a constant war between predator and prey and every day is a constant battle for survival out here in the African Savannah.

This film tells us the story of a long walk through Manhattan. Hafif has been walking aimlessly throughout the island for a long time when she realizes that a woman appears to be following her. And so we visit the streets of Manhattan while she provides a detailed explanation of the route.

In August of 1999, two of Blair's oldest friends (Shannon and Paula) pick up one of her college pals, Coley, whom they've never met, and set out from L.A. for Malibu where Blair is getting married. Shannon puts herself in charge of the map, and soon they're parked at the base of a hill, walking up a narrow trail. Before too long, the map has been put to more practical uses, they're lost, and strange things begin to happen.