
Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!
1997-10-09
4.3
Everyone says he is incorrigible... Little Robert is an only child who has everything, he needed to be responsible for something, to take care of something. At least that's what the roommate of the apartment building where Robert lives thought, and sent him a live guinea pig by mail. The guinea pig gets lost in the apartment and Robert, to the amazement of his parents, studies books about animals and is sad that he lost the guinea pig. Imagine the astonishment of his father and his colleagues from the design studio when the father finds the guinea pig in his briefcase...
6.0In Russia, the attitude to death is paradoxically irrational – we all seem to live forever. Entrepreneur Sergey Yakushin is the only reasonable "madman" who conducted a funeral "revolution" in his native Novosibirsk. Yakushin himself turned around to face death after being diagnosed with late-stage cancer 15 years ago. And they gave me a year of life.
7.8Emin's video CV is an accompaniment to her work on paper, Tracey Emin CV 1995 (Tate T07632), which is a potted history of the artist's professional and emotional life from conception until 1995. This CV, read aloud by Emin, constitutes the sound-track to the video and provides contrasting background to the visual information on display. As Emin narrates her story of trauma and abuse, mixed with pleasure and success, the video takes the viewer on a journey through the artist's home. The artist is not visibly present in person until the last frames when she appears curled up naked on the floor of her sitting-room at the feet of her mother (who wears black sunglasses and looks away from both her daughter and the camera). Like Emin's handwritten CV, the video constitutes her self-portrait, in this instance adding the component of a journey around the space of her apartment to her narrating voice. -Tate
6.3Namie Amuro's 13th tour, (FEEL Tour 2013) covered 44 venues in Japan. The set list featured only songs released after 2011: Alive, Hands On Me, Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!, Hot Girls, YEAH-OH, Poison, Ballerina, Rainbow, Go Round, make it happen, La La La, Let Me Let You Go, Wonder Woman, Damage, Higher, In The Spotlight (TOKYO), ONLY YOU, Love Story, Supernatural Love, Big Boys Cry, Stardust In My Eyes, UNUSUAL, Neonlight Lipstick, Let’ s Go, Heaven, Fight Together, Can You Feel This Love, and Contrail.
5.7Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
6.2Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
4.5A depressed man who lacks inspiration must write a successful hip hop record for a super-star singer, while his relationships with his daughter, his former girlfriend, a new girl he met on a social network, his roommate and his therapist (all women) will (directly and undirectly) help him to solve his personal, familiar and working problems.
6.5While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say “the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto with the best metaphor for what making a film is all about. In his opinion, filmmakers work images in the same way that stonecutters work stones.
7.0Three talent scouts are auditioning for the best eponymous 'trick'. After kicking out a magic chef type, a guy comes in who unfolds a magic door from a pen.
5.0The masked avenger of 1830s California leads his two swashbuckling children into battle against a tyrannical governor.
8.0Ron is intelligent, charming and full of life, but every day, his movements are increasingly limited by cerebral palsy. This, while he watches his twin run and play soccer with their brother. The film follows this remarkable family's struggles as the parents do everything in their power to raise three children who are happy with their lot, despite the unfathomable gap between them. A daring trip to the US to undergo a complex surgery to halt the progress of the disease reveals different approaches to life as well as the incredible power to live with one's fate.
4.0The girlfriends of softball players decide to form their own team as a way of avenging their neglect.
6.5An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.
10.0A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away.
7.0Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.
7.2A single mother and her eight year old son meets her man from her past after nine years.
9.0Jiminy Cricket explains how the ear works, both for hearing and balance.
6.4A child from Lakshadweep sets off to Mumbai in pursuit of Akbar, an elder brother who left the island due to his sexual orientation.
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
5.0Santander, 1967. Tina's desire is to leave her hometown and move to London, but her mother does not approve her choice.
0.0John's first independent work from 1989. Won Best of Fest Shorts at the Cinequest Film Festival, CA. The film is comprised of highly rendered drawings with very little moving parts to tell a complex story of relationships "gone to the birds".
9.0Bubble a young otter, lives with three mossy stones and thinks of them as her family. Bulle imagines them as real otters, but as she becomes aware of their true nature, she has to face her loneliness.
1.0A married man calls the wrong number for phone-sex and winds up being stalked by a psychotic man.
6.0This short film tells the story of Alexis, a 16-years-old hockey player who, after discovering he is gay, must face a heartbreaking dilemma: come out to his homophobic friends at the risk of being rejected and ridiculed, or stay in the closet even if that would mean abandoning Elliot, the only person who really loves him for what he is.
7.0An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter wonderful stories. But as the little girl grows bigger, they start running out of space inside the house.
3.0Four young women walk home alone after a trip to town. They are all confronted with the general fear and paranoia when a woman walks home alone late at night. But not all dangers lurk in the unknown.
0.0Two homeless people, one blind and the other disabled travel the city streets with a supermarket trolley on an endless journey.
5.2American CIA Field Operative, Johnnie Allen, is assigned to Denmark for his first mission. An American spy highly placed in the Kremlin is to be spirited out of Russia, and it is Johnnie's job to get him safely to Antwerp where the agent will board a freighter. Johnnie, who is a young gay man, meets and falls in love with a Danish lad named Sander, who is apparently straight. Wanting to keep his friend close to him, he makes the mistake of bringing him on the mission. What will become of their friendship if Johnnie confesses his love to Sander? And is the Russian agent all he seems to be? Set against a backdrop of European espionage, Happy Endings Sleepover is a celebration of gay youth in a world where love should never be Top-Secret.
0.0Jin-Hua and Jin-Tien are twin sisters. Quiet and shy Jin-tien is an animal trainer at an aquarium. When her sister suddenly goes missing, Jin-tien must stand for her in a magic show. While inside the box, she is confronted with the childhood Jin-tien, Jin-hua and their mother. A very lyrical film about memories of loved ones.
When a flea market salesman finds major success with his raunchy, pushy pitch style, what led him to fame leads him to a world of trouble.
A pre-operative transsexual defies social barriers to announce to her boss and mother her intentions of marrying her lover Maurice.
0.0In a few minutes, all four seasons of the year will flash by in the forest, where a spruce tree grew, which decorated someone's house for the New Year holidays.…
8.1On an idyllic beach in the Pacific Northwest, curiosity gets the better of a young raccoon whose frustrated parent attempts to keep them both safe.
2.5A married factory worker confronts his feelings as they bubble to the surface, two boxers fight for more than just keeps, a countryside coming out doesn't quite go to plan, while at the beach a boy makes an unreal discovery. Come and explore a thoroughly Dutch view on life and love. The 5 short films are: Brick [Steen] (2013); South of Heaven [Ten Zuiden van de Hemel] (2019); Lukas by the Sea [Lukas aan Zee] (2016); Dante vs. Mohammed Ali (2018); Beautiful Alexander [Mooie Alexander] (2019).