Film Dictionary

Infamous Indonesian film that justifies the 1965 genocide. The uncensored version is 271 minutes long. The censored version is 217 minutes.

Half-way through the film, there are some terrific kung-fu fights involving Jackie Chan and Samo Hung, but the rest is a boring historical d...

Chikako Yuri stars in this excellent black comedy from Japan.

Pascale Bussieres plays a young girl riding on buses.

An excellent music video from The Cars. It received four MTV Video Music Awards nominations (including concept, art direction and experime...

Probably the most famous positive political commercial of all times.

Legendary commercial for the Apple Computers.

Innovative film about two runaway girls in Paris.

Short Australian film about sexual harrassment.

Oscar-nominated Soviet documentary about the Siege of Leningrad and the rebuilding of Pavlovsk.

Short film with a memorable ending.

Excellent short film directed by Robert Morin and Lorraine Dufour.

Music video directed by Steve Barron.

Autobiographic film by Jane Campion, about a pubescent girl's sexual desires and yearnings.

A superb cartoon presenting the point-of-view of a little bouncing ball as it flies higher and higher above ground. The Grand Prize winner...

A clever parody of the famous Shakespeare's play.

Clearly inspired by Norman McLaren's works (particularly "Mosaic"), this computer-animated film presents intricate patterns, f...

A beautiful film about birds, nominated for an Academy Award. A wonderful musical score by Zamfir (i.e. the Master of the Pan Flute).

A claymation film about two painters (one tall, one short, just like Laurel and Hardy). There are plenty of great gags as they try to paint...

Brief cartoon about an apple trying to detach itself from a tree.

Excellent cartoon from Israel.

An Oscar-winning cartoon about some not-too-clever folks who fail to solve some very simple charades ("Dracula", "Jaws...

A little boy's home is turned into a subway station.

A unique film conceived by Marv Newland. It consists of 22 separate segments, executed by 22 different animators. The first drawing of each...

An animated subway ride.

Flickering images of various rectangles. Colors: yellow, red, green and blue. **

Non-narrative cartoon with interesting, but pointless images.

A brief tribute to Emile Reynaud, an animation pioneer. A nice song by Edith Piaf.

Little Sigmund (Freud) is watching television. Winner of the Second Prize at the Hiroshima Animation Festival.

The birth of a little girl and the first steps of a little boy. A mix of live-action and direct animation from Pierre Hébert.

Piosenki: "Szampanski humor" * "Robmy cos" * "Mloda wdowa" * "Pobudka zagra" *

Piosenki: "Hej da dana!" * "Widzicie ludzie flagi na budzie" * "Tajemnica poliszynela" * "Stonka" * ...

A documentary about the persecutions of gay people in America before the famous Stonewall riots in the summer of 1969.

An American actress is recruited by the Mossad.

A widow (Sally Field) tries to save her family farm.

Molly Ringwald plays a sixteen-year old ugly duckling (sic!), whose family forgets her birthday.

Weird film about punks, repo men and alien creatures. It's a meandering mess, lacking coherence and focus.

Eddie Murphy was brought in to save this boring Dudley Moore comedy, but he failed miserably. Murphy's character was added to the film a...

Helen Slater stars in this very boring action movie.

1.  "Koyaanisqatsi"  (Godfrey Reggio, USA) 2. "Fanny And Alexander" (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden) 3. "Monty Pytho...