18 August 1996 8 mins
Time and again a man will stand before a hardware store window eyeing the tools arrayed behind the glass; his mouth will water; he will go in and hand over $2.65 for a perfectly special kind of wrench; and probably he will never, never, use it for anything. -Walker Evans
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Mathew Zajac Producer
United Kingdom 18 August 1996
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1996:
02 August 1996
Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact.
01 January 1996
An old tango singer tries to contact his teenage son. A woman who is death or the Devil appears to him and asks him to sell his soul to connect with his son again.
01 January 1996
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
22 February 1996
Perhaps best known for his mathematic equations, Pythagoras was much more than simply a mathematician.
17 November 1996
An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts.
30 September 1996
The ghost of a girl who died in 1955 appears to a troubled teen living in her old house.
01 January 1996
On a supermarket shelf, a particular alarm clock keeps blaring off-hand, upsetting the staff and the customers.
27 April 1996
This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours.
17 November 1996
Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could lead to the ultimate disaster.
02 July 1996
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities.
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