Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Hamid Kanfoudi, an orchestra conductor, wins the lottery. Contrary to his beliefs and expectations, he sees no improvement in his life.

The film documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night club, and the lifestyle that revolves around this scene. It presents a sometimes shocking look at the attitudes and motivations behind the movement through interviews with outspoken club-goers and band members of the Ramones, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dead Boys.

School supply teacher timid folk art Ales Brabec won first prize at a music festival and will therefore offer to work for the Prague little theater in the basement. Its director Soukup just needs a few songs for the upcoming musical, and so is willing to do everything to Alex to create the right atmosphere for composing.

An interview with RWF in the kitchen in a house he had rented close to Paris at that time. Four years before his untimely death, the interview shows a quite relaxed and patient Fassbinder who answers all kinds of (often contrafactual or at least uninformed) questions and reveals quite a lot about his childhood and current personal drama. Sober, chainsmoking, but very lightheaded, RWF.

Join outdoorsman Bill Mason in this short documentary as he and his family go canoe camping in the wilderness. Gain an appreciation for the art of canoeing while watching a small group experience the sheer joy and beauty of Nature. Along the way, the Masons experience countless adventures and some breathtaking scenery, including Indian rock carvings at Lake Superior.

The Pink Panther decides to lose weight believing he is 220 pounds when he really is 75 pounds.

This unusual Thai slice-of-life film chronicles the work of Puya (Piya Trakulrat), a schoolteacher working in a rural area of the country.

Interviews with single black parents.

Theodoro Bezerra is a member of the Brazilian elite, a farmer and politician since the 1940s who has been elected as a state congressman by the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He concentrates on his own characteristics as a popular leader, despite being sexist and elitist, as well as using public funds for personal causes.

The movie directed by Abdullah Al Mamun was adapted from a novel by noted writer Shahidullah Kaiser. The film based on the lives of people living in our costal areas, was admired by many while stirring up controversy for some bold statements it made.

Mother and daughter are both pop singers, but mom wants her little girl to get married. Wacky complications.

Based on Narayan Gangopadhyay’s creation, Potoldangar Charmurti is the story of Tenida and his three followers, who go on a holiday and end up solving a mystery case.

Four young African workers attempt to break the spell of their poverty-stricken lives in Paris by looking to small farmers on the Gold Coast for information adaptable to their own country.

In-Son is a young benchwarmer with aspirations of breaking into the first team, which is littered with established stars. The opening game of the season hands him his opportunity, but his lack of experience coupled with the expectation of the crowd leave him with little success on the pitch. The side loses, forcing the manager and the team back to the drawing board.

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are English-speaking and of Irish origin; many of them are also on welfare. Considered to be one of the toughest districts in all of Canada, Point St. Charles is poor in terms of community facilities, but still full of rich contrasts and high spirits – that is, most of the time.

Lesson of April 14, 1978 (class #1) Films discussed: Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, 1945), Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1958). In the vaults of Concordia University's Visual Collections Repository department slept some 30 ½-inch black-and-white video open reels. They contained Jean-Luc Godard's 14 lessons, spread out from April 14, 1978 to October 21, 1978. The sessions consisted of long and brilliant series of digressions (often uninterrupted), initiated by questions from the audience or from Serge Losique. There are dazzling reflections on editing, economics, actors and actresses, war, political commitment, the media, and we witness the setting in motion of a unique thought.

A portrait of three generations of wonderfully eccentric Italian American women living in a small town near Boulder.

Suzette thinks she’s liberated woman who doesn’t believe in marriage. On the other hand her boyfriend, Norman, keeps on proposing. These are conflicting beliefs of two students undoubtedly in love with each other. Their relationship is then put to the test when Suzette meets Manny, who happens to share the same belief with her. Will she swallow her so-called principle and be merry with the one she truly loves?

A ranchera singer and his band emigrate to Texas to try their luck there.

Mohanlal played Kuttappan, a mentally disabled servant in the movie and the story revolves around his life experiences. The film although completed and got a censor board approval, was never released.

Television adaptation of Richard Heuberger's operetta of the same name.

In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin tells about the history of the founding, economics and social contradictions of a major center of the US steel industry - the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Anno directed and also appeared in this short, live-action film when he was in the third year at high school. Starring Akimasa Nakamura, the student council president, it was made as the Art Club’s exhibit for the school festival. The film condenses his favorite elements, makes full use of effects such as stop motion and film scratching, and the images that are spontaneously and freely constructed solely by his senses represents the starting point of Anno’s special effects live action films. The adapted version which was re-edited by Anno in 2005 is screened.

Marginal/unemployed dude with heart of gold tries to make life better for crippled niece, unapproachable girlfriend, others.

The Pink Panther sells his cow for some beans and grows a large beanstalk, later facing a giant.

This reel consists of three short films, two in black and white and one in color, that treat of a water wheel on the Sorgue. The essence of the work rests on a series of cross-references that are set up between the operational mechanisms of the filmed object and the recorded characteristics foregrounded by the choice of film stocks and filming circumstances. The title reflects the process involved. Roulement = rotation, rouerie = wiliness, aubage = paddle wheel unit. - Film Makers' Coop

Domestic drama by Alma Cullen

A man, his dog, and the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on the landscape. Not even time can wash away the residue of what they left behind.

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years.

Barry's second TV special aired on ABC in 1978.

A loose series of encounters brings together French and Swedish men and women exploring sexual freedom across apartments, country houses, and holiday settings. Any hints of character or conflict quickly dissolve into episodic group situations, with the film favouring atmosphere and fantasy over narrative resolution.

A series of Mondrian painting animated to Boogie Woogie music and assembled by an animated version of the artist himself.

Láda Pitras (Ludek Sobota) and Oto Vacák (Petr Nározný) founded in the company Pragokov a Research department of recruitment of labor. For recruitment of workers in professions sought after both recruiters worked out an effective, often almost illegal methods. They followed secretly for instance the welder Niederle and managed to record his lovesick courting to his colleague Anicka. The fear of his jealous wife made him to join Pragokov.

This is the story of Svojislav who was accustomed to walking the way he was taught by his mother. However his four friends each try to teach him their style of walking convinced that theirs is the best way. Svojislav has a hard time getting away from his "redeemers" but having done so, he continues walking the way he always has.

Vicious Tactics Torment a Woman! Sexual Humiliation and Abuse! Mother Complex!

Thin Lizzy in concert during their "Live and Dangerous" tour of 1976 in London.

The short film answers the question of whether illiterate people are able to read.

A short documentary on wet t-shirt contests at a Chicago bar.

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who are hurting, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Sweden out of the crisis. SVT's documentary filmmaker Olle Häger passed away in November 2014. We remember him by showing some of his appreciated films during the summer.

The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and ambitious Gypsy boy. Having finished only two terms at school, the eighteen-year-old boy leaves Németfalu with two of his companions to find employment in Budapest and to break out of his miserable existence in the village cottage with the help of his small savings.

DET ÄR SERVERAT inspelad 1978 på Berns Salonger i Stockholm. Härenstam och Brännström framför sketcher som "Ouvertyr med arg servitör", "Goddag, God dag", "De ä bar å åk! I helvete heller!" "Kirurgerna".

An expedition into the mountains of Old Mexico follows a group of treasure hunters searching for legendary buried gold and silver linked to the era of the Mexican Revolution. Combining history and folklore, the journey explores the enduring mystery of lost riches hidden in a harsh and unforgiving landscape.

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape.

Snehathinte Mukhangal is a 1978 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Hariharan and produced by K. C. Joy. The film stars Prem Nazir, Madhu, Jayabharathi and Janardanan in the lead roles. The film has a music score by M. S. Viswanathan.

A shy village girl becomes possessed by a demon and an exorcist is called to help her.

A 2000-year-old woman has a pact with the devil to preserve her youth. She must extract the essence of life from the people she has sex with.