PAST PROGRAMS – 1988

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Glorious Technicolor!
September 10–October 2, 1988
View details » Singin' in the Rain
Black Narcissus
Jet Pilot
The Wizard of Oz
Moon Over Miami
Reap the Wild Wind
Doctor X
Blood and Sand
Vertigo
The Eddy Duchin Story
Margie
Captain from Castile
El Dorado
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Phantom of the Opera
Leave Her to Heaven
The Band Wagon
The Black Swan
Summertime
Under Capricorn
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Hans Christian Andersen
The Gang's All Here

Media and the Vietnam War
September 10–October 7, 1988
View details » Viet Nam: The Fight for the Land
Surgeon in Saigon
Letters from Vietnam
The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Dong Xoai: The Town the Viet Cong Couldn't Kill
Changing the World: Southeast Asia, the Other War
Our Men in Vietnam
The First Television War
The Big Picture: "The Big Red One in Vietnam"
The Anderson Platoon
Washington Men in Vietnam
Last Reflections on a War
Grunt's Little War
America
Good Bye and Good Luck
The People's War
The World of Charlie Company
Vietnam: Topic A
Breathes There a Man
Why! The Television War
NBC White Paper: "Vietnam Hindsight"
Viet Vet
60 Minutes: "What Really Happened at Tonkin Gulf?" and "Amnesty"
CBS Reports: "POWs: Pawns of War"
John Hart Reporting from Hanoi
Gustav Mehrer: An American Soldier
Peace Begins: NBC News Coverage of the End of the War
CBS Coverage of the Fall of Cambodia and Vietnam
Spooks, Cowboys, Gooks, and Grunts
Vietnam: A War That Is Finished
The End of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Body Count
Smothering Dreams
Warriors' Women
Soldiers of a Recent and Forgotten War
Vietnam: Picking Up the Pieces
Vietnam: Talking to the People
Frank: A Vietnam Veteran
Going Back: A Return to Vietnam
Vietnam Requiem: Vets in Prison
Vietnam Memorial
You're in the Army Now
Necros: An Aftermath
The Haunted Heroes
Memories of Vietnam

Independent America: New Film 1978-1988
October 7–November 11, 1988
View details » Perfect Film
The Whole Shebang
t. and the small picture frame
Beginning Pieces
An Evening at Home
Creation
Unconscious London Strata
Egyptian Series
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Loud Visual Noises
The Dante Quartet
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
Standard Gauge
Adynata
Peggy and Fred in Hell
Peggy and Fred in Kansas
Seventeen
We Imitate; We Break Up
From Romance to Ritual
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Caligari's Cure
Willie
Born to Film
The Impostors
Sherman's March
Soldier Girls
Other Reckless Things
Daughters of Chaos
You Are Not I
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough
Digital Speech
Pleasures of the Text
Babel
No No Nooky TV
The Is/Land
RocketKitKongoKit
Da Fort
Louise Smells a Rat
"D" as in Dynamite
Who Do You Think You Are
Bedtime Story
Something Is Seen But One Doesn't Know What
Murder Psalm
Sappho and Jerry
Illusions
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Turner
Ciao Bella
Magdalena Viraga
Spying
Confidential, Part II
Living in the World, Parts I-III
Juntos en la Vida, Unidos en la Muerte
Recuerdos de Flores Muertas
New Left Note
A Few Tunes Going Out
Displaced Person
Cooperation of Parts
Ornette: Made in America
Chan Is Missing
Five Year Diary
Mongreloid
The Oneers
Yolanda
Cult of the Cubicles
The Cup and the Lip
Sorted Details
Under the Machines of Fire
Blessed in Exile
Crisis in Utopia
Nightmare Angel
Born in Flames
Money
New York Portrait: Chapter One
Stranger than Paradise
Light Years
Red Shift
Untitled: Part One, 1981
Signal - Germany on the Air
The Man Who Envied Women
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
My Brother's Wedding
Four Shadows
Mnemosyne Mother of Muses
The Red Thread
Suzanne, Suzanne
Bless Their Little Hearts
To a Random
Screamplay
Aqui se lo halla
Soft Fiction
Lucifer Rising
The Secret Garden
Big Brother
Midweekend
1966
In the Month of Crickets
The Nightingale's Fisted Wave
Her Fragant Emulsion
Bell Diamond
Silver Valley
Vernon, Florida
Poto and Cabengo
The Grandfather Trilogy
Nicaragua: Hear-Say/See-Here
In the Name of the Father
The Ties That Bind
Ismism
Incontinence
Harmful or Fatal If Swallowed
Judgement Day
Raw Nerves
L'Acadie
Scrolls
Slant or Slumber
diary of an autistic child/part two/ragged edges of the hollow
Chuck Will's Widow
The Chinese Typewriter
Reassemblage
Medina
She Had Her Gun All Ready
The Offenders
Vestibule
The Influence of Strangers
A Fairy Tale
No. 3
Kristallnacht
Department of the Interior
Perils
Mayhem
Mysterious Barricades
Limn
Pneuma
Alaya
Tom Goes to the Bar
Last Night at the Alamo
The Gardener of Eden
Forest of Bliss
War Stories
Diagram Film
Make Me Psychic
Asparagus
Ace of Light
Flying Fur
TZ
Trial Balloons
Fluke

Jerry Lewis: A Film and Television Retrospective
November 11–December 9, 1988
View details » The Ladies Man
The Jerry Lewis Show
The Geisha Boy
Colgate Comedy Hour
The Caddy
Artists and Models
Don't Give Up the Ship
My Friend Irma
Texaco Star Theater
Welcome Aboard
Rock-a-Bye Baby
Martin and Lewis at the Copacabana
Who's Minding the Store?
Living It Up
Person to Person: Jerry Lewis
The Nutty Professor
Telethon for the U.S. Olympic Committee
The Errand Boy
The Wacky World of Jerry Lewis
Hollywood or Bust
The Family Jewels
You're Never Too Young
The Bellboy
County Hospital
Towed in a Hole
Frank Tashlin Cartoons
The Delicate Delinquent
The Big Mouth
The Disorderly Orderly
Ben Casey: "A Little Fun to Match the Sorrow"
The Patsy
The King of Comedy
The Stooge
Cinderfella
It's Only Money
Cracking Up

Biblical Spectacle Films
December 9, 1988–January 6, 1989
View details » Samson and Delilah
Esther and the King
King of Kings
Quo Vadis
Ben-Hur
Salome
The Silver Chalice
The Big Fisherman
The Bible: In the Beginning
The Greatest Story Ever Told
David and Bathsheba
The Robe
Sodom and Gomorrah
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Jesus Christ Superstar

What Does She Want
December 9, 1988–January 19, 1989
View details » WE ARE NOT SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE
Mom Tapes
Suburban Queen
Split
That's It Forget It
Killing Time
Chevrolet Impala Commercial
Modern Marriage
This Charming Couple

BAD ATTITUDE
JFK Political Campaign Ad
Suzanne, Suzanne
Ronald Reagan Campaign Ad
Perfect Leader
Nixon/Agnew Campaign Ad
Homage to May 19th: Kathy Boudin's Story
LBJ Campaign Ad
Anne Waldman's Uh Oh Plutonium
Mitchell's Death

FACT IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
Illusions
Kleenex Napkins' "Cling Like Cloth"
Semiotics of the Kitchen
Design for Dreaming
Possibly in Michigan
Art World Wizard
Leaving the 20th Century

A CRACK IN THE TUBE
Made for TV
Betty Furness for Westinghouse
Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry
Aqui en esta esquina (Here on This Corner)
Joan Does Dynasty

VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Lowell Moves to New York
A Perfect Pair
Luchare
Doublecross
Modern Love
Two in Twenty

WOMEN WITH A PAST
Christine Choy Interview
Yvonne Rainer Interview
Martha Rosler Interview
Nancy Spero Interview

American Movie Posters: 1910-1950
Lecture by Richard Allen and Stephen Rebello
September 28, 1988

Adynata, Peggy and Fred in Hell, and Peggy and Fred in Kansas
With Leslie Thornton in person
October 8, 1988

Seventeen
With Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines in person
October 8, 1988

Combining Sound with Moving Images
Demonstrations by Clive Smith
October 9 and November 20, 1988

Magdalena Viraga
With Nina Menkes in person
October 15, 1988

Spying, Confidential, and Living in the World: An Evening with Joe Gibbons
With Joe Gibbons in person
October 15, 1988

New Left Note and A Few Tunes Going Out
With Saul Levine in person
October 16, 1988

Displaced Person and Cooperation of Parts
With Dan Eisenberg in person
October 16, 1988

Hollywood Still Photographers
Lecture by Marvin Heiferman
October 20, 1988

Mongreloid, The Oneers, Yolanda, and Cult of the Cubicles: An Evening with George Kuchar
With George Kuchar in person
October 21, 1988

Untitled: Part One, 1981 and Signal - Germany on the Air
With Ernie Gehr in person
October 23, 1988

Four Shadows, Mnemosyne Mother of Muses, and The Red Thread
With Larry Gottheim in person
October 29, 1988

Bless Their Little Hearts
With Billie Woodberry in person
October 29, 1988

The Ties That Bind
With Su Friedrich in person
November 4, 1988

An Evening with Manuel de Landa
With Manuel de Landa in person
November 4, 1988

Medina
With Mark Lapore in person
November 5, 1988

The Influence of Strangers
With Mark Daniels in person
November 6, 1988

Design and Technology
Lecture by Victor Papanek
November 10, 1988

Envisioning the Future
Lecture by Syd Mead
November 13, 1988

An Evening with Jerry Lewis
Presentation by Jerry Lewis
November 16, 1988

The Film and TV Work of Jerry Lewis
Presentation by Scott Bukatman
November 20, 1988

The Union of Sight and Sound
Lecture by John Belton
December 11, 1988