1987 Movies

Elayne Boosler's second Showtime stand-up comedy special

A small meditation on light, wind, and Cecil Taylor

Using video colorising, pushing u-matic tape –tracking close to breakdown, and slo-mo, a video devoid of narrative structure, interspersed with insert...

Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the earlier...

“Double Portrait” and “I Love You” are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit. In “Double Portrait” they a...

Meaning of the Interval is an evocative, subjective essay that explores the inherent contradictions of contemporary Japan, from the rituals of Shinto...

Rossini's opera for La Scala. Considered one of Rossini's most brilliant compositions, The Thieving Magpie stars Ileana Cortrubas and Nucci Condo.

A cautionary animated tale in which a woman loses her head to a cat in return for a man. Jayne Parker discovered film as a medium when she was a sculp...

Unfolding depicts the gendered space of the launderette as both a site of oppression and possible resistance. “I was interested in making a film about...

The 1986-87 season saw the return to Arsenal of their former player George Graham as manager. Graham had been appointed just after the end of the prev...

A documentary about the 1967 Sexual Offences Act in England, which decriminalized homosexuality between consenting males over the age of 21.

A film about awakening. The winter returns after the spring was already in its rights. The stork back from the warm countries touches slightly the sno...

How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and cultural critic Donna Haraway untangles the web of meanings, t...

This enlightening documentary traces the rise and fall of Lemuria, a civilization that began 165,000 B.C. on the continent of Lemuria in the Pacific O...

Short doc about the "Miss Berlin" beauty contest in 1987.

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster's Workout is a film about legendary folk artist Howard Finster of Summerville, northwest Georgia. At the age of 60...

Documentary film.