Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 99
- Edward De Bono's hand sketches out words and simple pictures on a scrolling sheet of white paper. It seems we have been put in a cryogenic freeze in 1988, and have been brought out after discovering a cure for whatever terminal disease each of us might have had. This creates problems with those of us who have children, because they will be older than us. Television, government, the workplace, marriages and relationships, and punishments are all detailed in an attempt to inculcate the audience into the society we have been resurrected into. The video was shot in one morning before noon and transferred to film, where it received theatrical showing, highly touting its mickeymousing score by a _Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)_ composer.
- Special CIA unit must deal with humans who mutated into beasts after being exposed to alien radiation and evil terrorists who attack the CIA base.
- Michael Mikaele is a young man in a catatonic state living in a psychiatric ward where his doctor thinks her sympathies for him justify raping him. It's all part of his mad world, and we see what brought him there. He's an artist from a broken home, working for eight years at a job that he loathes, drawing pictures from sayings on sexually suggestive T-shirts. Mike's unsympathetic boss, Bill, plays bad motivational tapes over the P.A., makes Mike's girlfriend (another employee) handle him during office hours, which is espied by co-worker Joni, and refuses to let Mike have the rest of the day off even though he is clearly ill. He ties together T-shirts out the bathroom window to escape, and befriends a man, Rod, whom, unbeknownst to him, is his girlfriends father. He, however, hallucinates that the cinematographer is walking around the apartment in nothing but a towel. When the two attend a party, where everyone in the film (except his parents, doctor, and nurse) seem to be, things really start to unravel into his present nightmarish state, as well as revealing his constantly disturbed state of mind.
- Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along with fornicating American explosives technician Major Burke, to defuse underwater mines so that a commando squad can prepare for a June 10 invasion to destroy a tank gun. Because Colonel Ackerman, whose troops killed his last platoon, is the leader of the platoon in charge of the gun, McPhearson insists on trying to complete the commandos' mission.
- Every day is boring and the same to Amy, even her birthday. All the evidence her family puts forth that each day is different she rebuts with well-thought out responses of sameness. She is supposed to visit her Aunt Lucy to pick up her present from her, and instead meets weird characters who insist that her aunt has a beagle named Charlie and that she has turned into a butterfly. Eventually she encounters fairytale folk who thought their lives were normal before the events in their stories occurred.
- Abandoned as a child, Brahmachari lives in a mortgaged house with twelve young orphans. He saves a woman from dying and she changes his life forever. But first she has to deal with her own affairs.
- Charles Santore, in an expansion of his discussion in Oz: The American Fairyland (1997) (V), tells about his experience making an, unfortunately, he admits, abridged storybook of _The Wizard of Oz_. He tells of his inspirations, the little girl who modelled for Dorothy, the tin man in folk art, and a left to right progression in a journey of identity, with opposing forces pushing the movement in art back to the left.
- During World War II, an Italian-American commando outfit disguised as an Italian Army unit is parachuted behind Axis lines in North Africa.
- Emperor Draygon awakens from a cryogenic sleep one hundred years after a global nuclear war. Even though he is unable to recall his name or who he was, he begins to discover that he may be the key to save this world from destruction.
- A struggling single father's kids are ashamed of him for taking a job as the voice of the title character on a new sitcom called _Dad's a Dog_. In the show within the show, the father had been struck by a bus and reincarnated as a dog. The dog would give the TV family advice with the actor behind the couch. He has to deal with the typical troubles of the single father, and the fact that his kids are berated about the show while at school.
- Eyes dart across a road, a car runs forward, then becomes a newspaper headline: "Dead Skunk," what follows are black and white and color tinted photographs of roadkill, and diagrams all out of biology texts, set to Loudon Wainwright III's famous song.
- A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.
- Dirty Dingus Magee and his old rival Hoke Birdsill take turns at being either lawman or outlaw and being rivals or partners in crime, depending of the circumstances.
- Dorothy is carried back to Oz by a green turkey balloon on the final Thanksgiving she is to spend with her aunt and uncle, who are moving to a retirement community. She meets Jack Pumpkinhead, The Hungry Tiger, and Tik Tok, while stopping the evil Tyrone the Terrible Toy Tinker (looking suspiciously like John R. Neil's depiction of the Nome King), who brings the balloon to life to conquer the Emerald City and all of Oz.
- A young man searching for his brother steals a boat that shipwrecks on Letchi island, where terrorists have enslaved the Infant Island natives. Discovering Godzilla asleep, he and some others decide to awaken him to liberate the natives.
- Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
- Some time in the 21st century, Kovarick, said to be the most evil man who ever lived, is met by a resistance force. One of their members, Dr. Bahler, invents a time distorter held within a ring, which he uses to go back to ancient Egypt, where he dies. 75 years before he left, the ring is found by scientists, who are killed by a small mafia group, but not before it is thrown to a bum, who pawns it for fifty cents. An obnoxious gentleman, Steve, then buys it to give to Jill, a local actress he has fallen for, but does not reciprocate. The mob boss attends her performance to get the ring back, and when he threatens to kill her, an interjection creates a paddageway to the middle ages, and she and her airy friend Kirsten go through. In the middle ages, their princess costumes make everyone mistake them for fleeing princesses who had been forced to marry ogre-like men for acquisition of land. Eventually, they escape the pursuing mob to the old west, where Wild-Eyed Cody and his men have come to loot the town, confronted by a loony sheriff and "Calamity" Jill, refusing to wear townlady's clothes and instead claiming to be a cousin to "Calamity" Jane. The distorter is set to return to its point of origin, so after trouble strikes again, Jill unknowingly repeats the interjection, and returns to Kovarick's future, again with Kirsten and still pursued by the mob, who side with Kovarick. The resistance force realizes there is not enough power left in the ring to allow their plan to work without forcing Jill and Kirsten to stay in the future, so the two decide to help in whatever way they can before returning...
- A teacher assumes a position at a school that's run by a vampire.
- Near the end of WWII, Germans transport the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster to Japan, where it is seeming lost in the bombing of Hiroshima. Years later a wild boy is found, born from the immortal heart.
- An injection that can freeze cattle solid for later thawing is prepared by a woman's husband and nephew to be used on her. At her son-in-law's warning, she replaces the fluid with tap water and accepts the injection, faking the freezing, then tormenting them as a "ghost."
- Several students from Freddi's film studies class are sitting around a table complaining about her course. "Why can't she just let us enjoy the films?" one of them says. As another says "Freddi's sexy!" Lights flash and things fall about in the house. They go outside to discover a spacecraft, a cardboard door upon which opens to reveal several green slimy creatures armed with guns firing red laser beams. How can they stop the slugs?
- Akira Ifukube has arranged music from his fantastic films into a three-movement symphony, presented here with scenes from the films the music was originally written for. The second half features Makoto Inoue's synthesizer arrangements of Ifukube's music. In this portion, all the music is by Ifukube, but it shows scenes from films Ifukube did not work on.
- In a cyberpunk future, Kyron-5 supercomputer attempts to exterminate the human race, but Gunhed mechs stop it. In 2038, five thieves break into a condemned island facility to steal Kyron's dead CPU. The place turns out to be a deathtrap.
- Evil Queen Himiko and her army invade a small rural province in order to kill a Phoenix in order to achieve immortality, a young boy survives and goes on an adventure to amend the injustices.
- The wicked king wants his daughter, Princess Gloria, to marry a horrid courtier though she loves the gardener's boy Pon. After encountering Dorothy, Pon and her team up to defeat the evil witch Mombi and to rescue the princess.
- Attempting to shoot a script with a leading actor missing.
- Cameraless animation perfectly synched to the eponymous 1969 track by The Flock (Rick Canoff, John Gerber, Fred Glickstein, Jerry Goodman, Ron Karpman, Frank Posa, Jerry Smith, Tom Webb). The cameraless technique was essentially invented by Lawrence Janiak, Garland's instructor, well known in experimental film circles.
- The evil Wizard Malkil has survived the first battle, but only in the form of four elementals. The bouncing knight Kuros sets out again to defeat him, this time with the aid of shop and inn-keepers, and four animal kings, the eagle, frog, dragon, and bear, for whom he must find the golden egg, golden fly, golden crown, and golden tankard, after which they will give passage to the realms of the elementals before the final confrontation on the mountain after assembling the four pieces of Ironsword.
- Four operatic acts from different plays: "Shi yuzhuo" (Picking the Jade), a drag comedy, "Da shen" (Scolding the Gods), a monologue of a jilted lover vs. the gods, "Fengyi ting" (The Fengyi Pavilion), a story of a concubine seducing a father and son, and "Damian gang" (The Noodle Jar), a coarse sex comedy.
- A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
- A UN reporter broadcasts a report on the appearance of a prehistoric monster that emerges from hibernation while a pharmaceutical company seeks publicity with a monster of their own. (US Version)
- A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
- In this minimalist stage version of the MGM film, Dorotea is swept to Oz by an offstage tornado, greeted by Glinda and flowery Munchkins, not played by actors. Glinda looks suspiciously like Mother Ema (not Aunt). A Wicked Witch appears with blacked out teeth who looks like Dona Brujilda, who has been trying to get rid of Dorotea's dog. She meets Espantapajaros (the Scarecrow), Hombre de Hojalata (The Tin Man), and Leon (Lion). Professor Maravilla, dressed like The Wizard in Baum's silent films, but very young, sings "Do you hear me?" in Spanish, to the tune of "The Jitterbug," and when he appears as the Wizard, he is dressed like the Grand Poloni, with an emerald green turban. The Wizard sends them to retrieve the Witch's broomstick. The witch sings about her sleeping potion to the tune of "Just Call Smarmy" from the Disneyland Cowardly Lion of Oz record. A madcap chase ensues with the Witch's hunch-backed servant, Espantapajaros and Hombre de Hojalata French double kiss the witch's cheeks, to her great anger, and as they rest from the chase no one can tell who they are talking to, and so tired, they eventually drink the witch's "agua fresca" and fall asleep.
- August 7, 1930 was the night of the final lynching ever to take place in Indiana, in the northern town of Marion. One survivor and several witnesses and descendants recall one of the worst events in that city's, and indeed the state's, history.
- Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.
- Parody of Steven Spielberg's Amblin, in which a hippie guy and girl (played by a guy) go on a road trip together. Their spitting of olive pits develops into spitting of dog bones and various sport balls, while the drug trip sequence has a deliberate slip of having a trampoline stick out at one corner of the screen. The secret of the guitar case is not business attire, but a machine gun, so the girl blasts him while he is in the water, the fake blood spraying out of Noah's bare chest.
- Modern dress version of Shakespeare's "problem comedy" emphasizing the darker elements of the play and eliminating most of the humor, as Claudio is dragged to the police station on charges of fornication, and given a rectal exam in front of a window.
- An embattled planet, which is on the edge of doom, sends an S.O.S. and an intergalactic team comes to its rescue.
- TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man who is the sole financial supporter of his family until he awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becoming a nuisance to his family, who must now learn to rely upon themselves.
- Warlock sends out his henchman while the benevolent Vampire and Monster (of Frankenstein), shrunken by an evil spell, are watching TV at the home of Jack, a lazy, girl-crazy teenager who has taken them in. The two must battle through the house outside on the streets, in the sewer, at a construction site, through a Chinese restaurant, and finally through monster mountain. Major foes include Spring-Heeled Jack, Bigfoot, Kraken, Gremlin, Medusa, and Warlock.
- A lone man sits at a table dreaming. He dreams of singing a few bars of Schubert's lied, "Nacht und Träume." Then unseen people give him a communion cup and wipe his brow. He is shown dreaming again, then the dream repeats, only much slower.
- Eight segments of opera films: Sheng Xinma performs a monologue from _A King's Revenge (1955), followed by an excerpt of _The Patriot's Sword_ (1958). Cibo Liang is featured in _An Immortal Refuses Love_ (1958), and Yutang Bai appears in _The Wonder Boy_ (1961). Segment five shows Xingbo Liang, Jiasheng Lin, and Cibo Liang in _The Impartial Bao Gong_ (1967), while segment six is a performance by Northern opera actress Suqiu Yu. The last two are versions of _Red Maid, The Matchmaker_, first a 1958 film with Yanfen Fang and An Banri, followed by one titled _The Little Go-Between_, featuring Baobao Feng and Cibo Liang. It was originally double billed with _South China Stars Special_.
- This two-strip Technicolor record of the 1936 freshman pageant, acted out entirely by women, begins with Dorothy escorting the Wizard to the throne, assisted by Ojo, whereupon he looks in the Magic Picture on the University of Michigan, and the typed students complaining about school. The Wizard decides to bring them all to Oz, transforming them into Oz celebrities: Tippetarius, the Scarecrow, Nick Chopper, Tik-Tok, Old Mombi, Jinjur, Scraps, The Shaggy Man, Betsy Bobbin, and Jack Pumpkinhead. After a party and registration, it's on to class with Professor Wogglebug. When Tip and Jack carry him out of the classroom, he subjects them to a blue book exam, after which they wish to return to the U of M. The equivalent characters are not played by the same people, so there transformation, their "true self" appears behind them in the early scenes.
- The first part tells of the life and works of L. Frank Baum, along with his career as a writer and filmmaker, centering on the creation of Oz. This portion continues with the effect of Oz after his death, with novelties, dolls, radio, stage, and screen adaptions, and advertising gimmicks based on his work, culminating with MGM's Wizard of Oz, The (1939), and discussing some of the major alterations between the book and the film, such as MGM making Baum's real-life adventure a dream. The second half is about interpretation of Oz by other artists, including Helen Kish, Barry Moser, Barry Mahon, Evelyn Copelman, Robert Tonner, Robin Woods, Michael Hague, Lizbeth Zwerger, Pavel Arsyenov, and Charles Santore. The documentary concludes with an analysis of Baum's work and its profound effect on American culture.
- After a week showing his feature films (all but The Baby of Mâcon (1993) and The Falls (1980) in that room, at IUPUI, or at the Madame Walker Theatre Center, Peter Greenaway gives a talk about his films in an auditorium at Butler University. There, he trashed on "illustrated text" films like The English Patient (1996), decrying adaptations in general (when questioned about Prospero's Books (1991), he responded "Yes, but Shakespeare wrote plays, and plays were written to be performed." He was also asked about his influences, though despite flying over to France as a youth to see nouvelle vague films, he suggested he had none, and that all his story ideas ("My only ideas are sex and death," he admitted) came from his early twenties. He was questioned about Stanley Kubrick, the Zantac commercials of Brian Dennehy, and if they had any relation to The Belly of an Architect (1987), and discussed his art exhibitions, his opera (featuring extensive male nudity, which he thinks will keep it from playing in America), and spoke a great deal about his eight-hour multimedia project, which he believes will be his last film, as well as his reactions to the cinema in general.
- A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
- A scientist fears that the prophecies of Nostradamus, including the end of all life on Earth, are coming true one after another.
- Steve Reagan presents a prologue on symbolism, then Barbara introduces Marc, who has a task neither easy nor difficult. He walks the streets of Chicago with a bouncing ball animation on Willie Nelson's "Stay all Night", (stay a little longer). He then finds a metal ball under a box of McDonald's. Meanwhile, a man in a tuxedo top and tails and bell-bottom jeans starts a tape of Mozart's 40th symphony, and pretends to conduct it from a bridge over highway 240. Then Marc is covered in silver cloth and Christmas lights.
- In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal.
- After Dorothy's friends are robbed of their prizes by a revived Wicked Witch, she is sent back to Oz to set things straight once again.