Cinematic Era: 1978 Vintage

Rod McKuen's Christmas show from 1978 with special guest Dusty Springfield.

The firefly had a very important thing to do: every evening he hung lights all over the forest and lit stars in the sky so that no one would get lost, and then one day he saw a special light in a drop of dew... That's where the real friendship began.

Guerrilla style documentary about Finnish Neo-Nazi and occult wacko Pekka Siitoin.

"Step by Step" presents an historical view of childhood, including sacrifice, slavery and war. Scenes of past horrors give way to a lullaby of hope. We watch the global child work, play and learn, while experiencing poverty and plenty. Concluding with a look at the basic rights of children, we are asked to take the first step towards assuring these rights to all the world's children. This film was made in honor of the International Year of the Child

The legend of immortal love..that fascinates you forever!!

Retelled and based on the short story by the American novelist O. Henry.

In his childhood haunts, in the village of Várzea dos Amarelos, the filmmaker films peasant life with its seasonal and daily rituals: a festive meal, the slaughter of a pig, bread-making. The film slides into imagination and blends with fiction: memories and dreams, imagination and reality intermingle in this work full of enthusiasm that has an enormous freedom of form and a zest for life and discovery of the world. With a strong documentary element, it mixes professional actors with the inhabitants of a small village, telling the story of a small film crew in a village living day to day.

A family move into an old house, which turns out to be haunted by the ghost of a soldier.

A single, divorced mother with a boy, resists the advances of truck drivers from her working class milieu, disappointed with her former experiences. However one of the drivers looks for a serious relationship and family.

The story of a girl named Neng, hunting the man who was called Harun, in revenge for the death of his mother and sister.

Dickey Betts & Southern Rock - Rockpalast 30 Years Of Southern Rock /1978-2008)

Kevin is a daydreamer obsessed with the rock and roll lifestyle of 50s America. Unfortunately for Kevin, he lives in 70s Stockport. Will his ambition to become a DJ like his American idols come to fruition?

Director Inudo's first film, influenced by Masato Hara's "Ballad of Sadness Colored by Strangeness," Kazuki Omori's "Flying Saucer" series, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "School Days. A film about the breakup of the group and another film shot on the same day. In the summer of 1978, a boy who is too absorbed in the stage and the movies gets his first menstrual period, and by making a film called "Change Your Mood," he changes his mood and gets through his period. The power of showing the film as being about something familiar and then lifting it up to a fictional structure and putting everything that the filmmaker feels about the time period in which he lives into it is overwhelming. The power of this film is overwhelming to the viewer.

A feature film with documentary inserts about freedom of speech in Norwegian film, from the "witch" dance in Hønefoss in 1977, to the challenging of Norwegian film censorship today.

Artist John Smith tells stories about tower block life, editing in bold, unconventional fashion, cutting into the material and highlighting the components and conventions of the film form - yet an intimate portrait of the block's inhabitants still emerges.

Catrasca is a photojournalist with a fondness for women of all kinds.

The main character of the film is grandpa Ivan, a trembita player from Ivano-Frankivsk region. Through his story, Oleksandr Koval returns to his favorite method - looking at the Ukrainian village via intimate stories of his inhabitants.

A film based on a theatre play made by Paco Sagarzazu. It was the first feature film made in Basque language. It criticized the authoritarianism of traditional teaching.

A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud is a short film

The use of an old Victorian law of ‘being a suspicious person’ commonly known as ‘sus’ was used against young black peoplein the mid 70’s in the UK. Interviews include Rudy Narrayan, Stuart Hall and Paul Boeteng. Breaking Point is the first documentary directed by a black director for mainstream British Television.

Todri, a patriotic teacher, returns in his homeland to bring the Albanian letters.

Hong Kong movie

In this ten-minute documentary experiment, director Herz Frank films a group of children watching a puppet show, keeping the camera fixed on their faces in a single continuous shot. The performance itself remains unseen, while the children’s shifting expressions—fear, laughter, curiosity, and suspense—suggest the story unfolding before them as ten minutes of their lives quietly pass.

The Pink Panther's tail becomes unusually long after being accidentally exposed to growth serum.

Retired musician Parvateesam struggles to find a groom for his daughter Kalyani.

“Story of a streetwise black teenager who gives his views on life and on living in Deptford, London.” - BFI.

"Montréal under the snow and the cold winter. It is the period of the year when the garage owners strike it rich. The automobile at the service of man? This small opus would rather show the contrary. This is one in a series of eight films titled “Chronicle of Everyday Life,” a project that filmmaker Jacques Leduc took four years to realize, and whose goal was to revisit Direct Cinema at a moment when it was already heavily “contaminated” by mainstream TV." - Anthology Film Archives

...Dancing to the border of exhaustion. Dressed in little, the black earth sticks to their skin. Yes, to the point where it hurts. A document of early Pina Bausch, an authentic recording of one of the most outstanding choreographies of the 20th century.

An interview-based documentary broadcast by the BBC in May 1978, made to coincide with a season dedicated to King at London’s National Film Theatre (now BFI Southbank). The 90-year-old master was in attendance at the tribute event and was interviewed on camera. Film clips aside, King of the Movies relies almost entirely on the brilliance of King’s storytelling, which entertains, illuminates and charms. Elegantly dressed in his typical late-period style of bowtie and horn-rimmed glasses, resembling a professor of American history, King reminisces on half a century in “the strangest business in the world”.

The Wizard of Oz meets Carrie on the streets of San Francisco.

Although they used to be a couple, time has changed everything for Alym and Salima. Seeing how happy she is without him, Alym realizes he might be a failure.

Steina trained as a classical violinist, pushing her experience as a professional musician into the electronic realm with this seminal work. Originally performed in the late 1970s as a live recital with monitors, "Violin Power" began with the idea of generating a video image solely through the sound and movement of the bow. This signal switch, from audio to visual, grew in possibilities and variances as technology continued to expand in the ensuing decades. The most recent iteration of this performance involved Steina working with a MIDI violin and laptop.

A 70s collective film examining the significance of work for people and society, explaining the changes that have taken place in working life. With a soundtrack by great jazz composer Edward Vesala

This MET production of Bedrich Semtana's classic folk opera boasts a superb cast, including Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Teresa Stratas, and Marti Talvela. The staging and mis-en-scene is traditional and very well done. Everyone seems to be enjoying this presentation. Although not to the same standard as today's HD productions, this is still a wonderful way to get to know this delightful opera.

A down-on-his-luck waiter struggles with one humorous mishap after another as he tries to find any kind of success or fulfillment in work and life.

The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.

Ilse Siedel lives her life in a wheelchair. Through her window she follows what is happening outside. In her imagination she deals with how to conquer some love for herself.

"I believe that every artist needs to be reborn", declares Marcel Janco, one of the co-founders of the Dada movement. Janco, 82 during filming, tells in this film about his various periods as an artist: from the first sketches on a school notebook, to the foundation of the Dada in Zurich, ending with foundation of the artists' village Ein Hod in Israel

Ancestors is a film about spiritual forefathers and mothers in a purely fanciful sense. These are classical figures, anatomical figures, fairy tale figures and romantic figures all thrown in together - all my creative root-sources, in a kind of playful tribute. Like part 2 of Duo Concertantes, it's a moving single picture, now doubled.

Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.

"FOREGROUNDS, like SAUGUS SERIES, is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities. The most visceral of these prints a rotating boulder, occupying half of the screen, over a slow lateral pan across the desert (painted by Neon Park). A faint superimposition of leaves on top of the landscape has the effect of pushing its vista farther back in space. Correspondingly, the boulder bulges out of the picture-plane like a Cezanne apple. The effect is so strong that even when O'Neill begins to animate 'scratches' over the image, one's eye refuses to surrender the illusion of volume." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

Don Juan Tenorio finds himself at the gate of Hell, where he is confronted with the consequences of his 1003 seductions.

An insider's look on the making of Penn's tennis balls, from their creation in a factory to the final stages of quality control.

Avant garde film from 1978, by playwright and filmmaker Richard Foreman.

An animated film about the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.

Animated short film based on "Hans in Luck" (German: Hans im Glück), a fairy tale of Germanic origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm.

Two people with completely different lifestyles and social backgrounds have found each other in the decision to leave life together.

A close-up of the artist slowly cutting her own tongue with a razor blade, letting blood spill from her mouth.

A man is sitting at the table eating. He is interrupted by the sound of the bell ringing at someone’s door. In his troubled mind he sees his childhood, the war, his parents in a Jewish ghetto and all possible forms of aggression, which he has experienced right up to this day…

A boy who plays hooky from school learns that lies only increase a problem.