All Films

Emergency! A Critical Situation

1999 • 52 min • Canada

Shot at the Pierre Boucher Hospital in Montreal, this film takes us into the emergency room to see how our healthcare system is holding up. What it reveals is a powerful indictment of management that sees only the bottom line while human lives are at stake.

La beauté du monde

1999 • 53 min • France

A sensitive young lady painter retreats to the countryside, where she can bask in the presence of beauty, possibly at the expense of an awareness of the needs of other living beings.

Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

1999 • 44 min

A&E Biography about life and times of the beautiful actress of the '40s and feature interview of her ex-husband, her second daughter and her co-star.

Playboy's WildWebGirls.com

1999 • 52 min

It uncovers the hottest, sexiest and wildest girls on the World Wide Web. Join host Danni Ashe for an unbridled ride through the Internet that will leave you wired for sex. Get up close and personal with the women behind some of the most titillating sites as they reveal their sexual fetishes, sensual fantasies and voyeuristic tales. Let Playboy take you on an exclusive tour of the girls and sites that make the Web truly interactive.

Araby

1999 • 21 min • United States of America

Based on the story "Araby" from the collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce.

Public Lavatory: I've Been Loitering

1999 • 60 min • Japan

Ayano, a young author hopes to express female erotic desires in her writings. For research, she visits public lavatories where she encounters cross-dressing men.

Maestro Minnie: Brahm's Lullabye

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

When Minnie conducts an orchestra-come-to-life, she keeps dozing off during her favorite lullaby. Fortunately, the instruments take over and wake her up!

3 Minutes

1999 • 6 min • Brazil

Three minutes. The time to leave a message. Passing the baton and run 1600 meters. To cook an egg. The time to make a decision that can change your life.

Me and the Big Guy

1999 • 10 min • United States of America

In a totalitarian society Big Brother watches everyone. That means he also must see Citizen 43275-B all the time. How unlucky.

Occasional Meeting

1999 • 20 min • Azerbaijan

Tamara and Murad, who once loved each other very much and then broke up, meet by chance on the street 20 years later. Murad does not “recognize” Tamara and turns this meeting into a “game”.

The Dark Redemption

1999 • 25 min • Australia

Set two days before the events of Episode IV, Jedi Mara Jade has received a copy of the Death Star plans, which she must somehow get to the rebel forces. Unfortunately, she is being held prisoner by the Empire, and only two rebel soldiers, Zev and Klaus, can save her. As if breaking into an Imperial prison and getting the plans wasn't hard enough, bounty hunter Boba Fett is also in the neighborhood to complicate matters.

Wavelengths

1999 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A woman searches for emotionally safer sex via gay bars and the internet.

Un futuro sostenibile

1999 • 53 min • Italy

Steven Holl: The Body in Space

1999 • 58 min

"Steven Holl: The Body in Space" explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of his most acclaimed works, including the Makuhari Housing Complex in Chiba, Japan and the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle. Centered around the completion of Holl's Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, the film observes his process and reasoning throughout the duration of the project

TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: The Devil's Video - Ghostly Apocalypse

1999 • 43 min • Japan

The shocking spirit-summoning experiment “Kokkuri-san” proves it was truly a dangerous game. And now, we present all-new, spine-chilling night tales from the master storyteller of terror, Kinzō Sakura.

It's a Jolly Life

1999 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Reverend IM Jolly looks back at his career as he prepares for his final Last Call

Letter to America

1999 • 20 min • Ukraine

Two friends from Odesa try to compose a video message to their pals, emigrants to the United States. One of them rents his apartment to a tricky girl who invents various excuses not to pay the rent. An exceptional story about people on the verge of despair who nonetheless manage to enjoy life, even if these joys are beyond good and evil.

Meltdown at Three Mile Island

1999 • 60 min

In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat. The lives of half a million people soon hung in the balance, as human error and mechanical failure combined to create the worst nuclear accident in American history.

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.

1999 • 45 min • United States of America

Narrated by Connick himself in a candid look at his own life and career, the program features interviews with jazz greats Branford and Wynton Marsalis and their father, Ellis Marsalis.

O som i Markoolio

1999 • 28 min

This mockumentary tells the story of actual Swedish/Finish rap-star Markoolio. By a not too serious tv-reporter, we are told that 'Markoolio' is an ancient Finish expression which means "He who is rapping" and two models reveal the true story of Markoolio's embarrassing debut performance in bed.

Blues Masters

1999 • 47 min

In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greatest blues performers to gather in a studio in Toronto, recording together and individually in sessions that lasted three days. The result was originally televised as part of the CBC "Festival" series, and now the session video tapes have been found, restored and re-edited. The great Muddy Waters and his band perform "You Can't Lose What You Never Had" and "Got My Mojo Workin'," the latter with James Cotton on harmonica. Willie Dixon goes solo on "Bassology" and (helped by a little '90s technology) performs "Crazy for My Baby" with host Colin James. Plus rare appearances by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Mable Hillery singing "How Long This Train Been Gone," and delta blues piano player Sunnyland Slim, introducing a whole new generation to this inspiring, soulful music.

Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath

1999 • 7 min

In a dark no-place evocative of Superman's own psychic 'Fortress of Solitude' the alienated Man of Steel recites those sections of Plath's writings that utilize the image of the bell jar. Superman directs these lines to Kandor, the bell jar city that represents his own traumatic past, for he is the only surviving member of a planet that has been destroyed. Kandor now sits, frozen in time, a perpetual reminder of his inability to escape that past, and his alienated relationship to his present world. For us, Kandor is an image of a time that never was — the utopian city of the future that never came to be.

She and Her Cat

1999 • 5 min • Japan

She and Her Cat details the life of a cat, entirely from the cat's perspective, as it passes time with its owner, a young woman.

50 Years of Cyprus: Final

1999 • 40 min • Turkey

32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!