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Browse 90 movies from Columbia University School of the Arts
During a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, a young Wall Street investment banker and an old shoeshine man begin chatting and discussing their life philosophies.
Jan 1987
Playing hooky from school, Tony, a student/chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, spends the afternoon at Central Park's Sailboat lake and retrieves a remote control device left behind by a pair of sailboat racers. Back in the schoolyard, Tony pretends that he has a car to go with the remote control. When another boy tries to take the control from him, it falls on the ground and a red remote-control sports car miraculously appears. The car "dances" to rap music and even brings Tony a can of soda. One day, a sinister-looking man with a briefcase steals the car and flees into the subway. Tony and his classmates pursue the thief to the Wall Street area and ask to inspect the briefcases of passing businessmen. Eluding the students, the crook hails a taxi and hurls the briefcase from the window. Next morning, Tony hears the sound of a sports car during a church service. Returning to its rightful owner, the magical car mysteriously reappears at the end of the processional.
Jun 1990
Bolo McBane, a cowboy detective gets his first case watching over a dying woman's vegetable garden only to find that some things are just too hard to bury.
Jan 1991
Boy has a scary visit to the barber
Jan 1988
Explores the fantasies of a young man obsessed with his ex-lover.
Apr 1988
Deals with the efforts of Native Americans to preserve their culture in the face of that of the majority and the trials that often accompany the intersection of these two cultures.
Jan 1990
A boy on the verge of his first time is approached by the ghost of his old Italian grandfather who wants one more shot - at his grandson's expense.
Apr 1989
A neurotic love story about a woman obsessed with a man who doesn’t love her.
It's the 1990s. Toby, just out of college in Wisconsin, comes to Manhattan to spend the summer with his older cousin, Packard, a gay man whose lover John R. has just died of AIDS. Toby is shy, the openly-gay society around him makes him nervous. Packard gives Toby a pair of John R.'s shoes; when Toby puts them on, he has powerful visions of the pre-AIDS scene in the 1970s, as if he's there. He also takes on a different personality when he wears the shoes, more sure of himself, able to express his interest in men. Wearing the shoes, Toby goes to a bar, hooks up with Dick, and wakes up in Dick's bed. How will he handle it? And what will happen to the shoes?
Jun 1992
An eleven year old girl living in rural Pennsylvania turns to her older brother to escape the clutches of their abusive father.
May 1992
A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.
Dec 1989
Based on the short story from Ernest Hemingway. It is 1915, in a mountain forest of the American Northeast. Young Nick Adams follows his father across lake Minnewaska, to an Indian Camp. Here, Nick learns that his father will try to help an Iroquois woman deliver a difficult birth.
May 1990
It's a revenge scheme. It's a dessert topping! It's a revenge scheme. It's a dessert topping! Gosh darn it, it's both! Puffy, the world's most vengeful cat tries to break up its owner's marriage.
An mad, unhinged chef and his futile attempts at killing a cockroach in a restaurant kitchen. This film takes its cues from the giant-insect films of the 50's such as "Them!" (1954) and a nod in the direction of Kafka's "Metamorphosis."
The film is a comedy about a young New York artist full of himself who is at a party, at his home, in his studio bedroom, to celebrate his next and first exhibition in a gallery. The film focuses on envious friends, infidelity, a kleptomaniac and a large painting by Frank Sinatra. Shot in a single take, Greg set out to stage the movements of the actors and the camera so that the viewer would not be aware of the absence of editing.
After a rough, unsuccessful show at the club, a pitiful stand-up comedian goes to a convenience store in the middle of the night to get cigarettes, but only to desperately try to make a weary, Indian clerk laugh.
Wall Street business executives Bowers and his assistant Lisa get stuck in an elevator where the lingo of commerce is transformed into the language of love.
A young wife's downward spiral is triggered by suspicions of her husband's infidelity.
Jun 2015
Anna is in NY writing roach killer commercials while being infatuated with Marta a Barcelona based actress. Anna decides to get out of the closet and she does it to non other than to Marta's partner.
Story of a Japanese man's visit to his fiancee's family.
Jan 1985