Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

The first film of Yoshiko Chuma shows simple motion and action in front of the landscape in Maine, USA.

A fascist cowboy protects a tourist from Italian people.

Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the musical background which influenced his work. Composers Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter reminisce about Ives and discuss his music.

This ultimate talking-head documentary provides the lowdown on making it in showbiz: the casting couch, how to play the game, how to change you name.

The TV film depicts the loneliness that follows divorce.

Aired as part of BBC's 'Nationwide' programming, this documentary captures the leadup to 'The Tour of Life'.

Mrs. Wiesner has the fate of her family firmly under control. In her cramped janitor's apartment, she toils for the happiness and future of her children, who are supposed to be better off one day. Her daughter Helen thinks she is happily married to an American millionaire. Their son Herbert has managed to pass his A-levels with great difficulty and, unfortunately for him, is supposed to study medicine. Only the youngest daughter goes her own way, working as a waitress and socializing with foreigners. Nevertheless, everything seems to be in perfect order for mother Wiesner: her husband, a streetcar driver for the public transport company, is to inaugurate the latest streetcar as the crowning glory of his career. But as life goes: Happiness cannot always be steered into predetermined paths and sometimes things turn out differently than you would wish. When Helen unexpectedly returns from America with her child, Mrs. Wiesner's happiness begins to fade.

Taking the stage with the sun sinking in the West, Cheap Trick opened their Reading Festival appearance aptly with the raucous, quick-hittin' action of "Hello There", followed by the power pop rockin' "Come On, Come On". While Robin Zander commanded center stage in his lilly white threads and rock star cool, animated guitarist Rick Nielsen moved about the stage like a hyperactive kid on a pure sugar-binge. Between non-stop pick-flickin', spastic moves and leaps from the riser, Nielsen tortured the fretboard of each and every guitar he strapped-on.

The Investigator, busy with processing the clues to a number of rapes and murders committed in the same way, tries to catch the murderer, that is to find the would-be victim first and then to identify the murderer before he could strike again.

Three locals, with different gripes with the town's landowner and former congressman team up to serve justice.

After the 1978 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, children try to sing the national anthem as citizens search for hope in the war-torn South.

Widely known in the village how miser Berta is. Gossip says, even when her husband passed away a year ago she tried to buy a second-hand coffin to get him buried in. She's in good physical condition compare to her age, but one day she just can't get out of her bed. The village council hire a mom of 3 in order to help her in and around the house, and she paid by the council as Berta act like she has no money. Once, when the young mom doing her bed she finds her secret savings there, and turns out she is a wealthy woman. Now the council, as she can not be on social, decides to use her savings to pay her help, of course without letting her know that.

Discusses the effects of alcohol on the brain and behavior, particularly in relation to driving. It explains how alcohol impairs judgment, perception, coordination, and vital functions by affecting different brain regions. Factors influencing blood alcohol concentration (BAC) include the amount consumed, body size, sex, and the rate of consumption. The video also debunks myths about sobering up and emphasizes the importance of allowing time for alcohol to metabolize before driving. Even at BAC levels considered legally impaired, individuals may not recognize their diminished capabilities.

It was clear from the start that the Dead Kennedys were not your average band. Jello Biafra's lyrical themes were overtly political, attacking President Ronald Reagan, the Klan, big business, and such with a glorious sense of raging sarcasm that owes some credence to such wild luminaries as Lenny Bruce. Their appearance at the Earth Tavern in Portland Oregon in November 1979 was a rare step out of their native CA when Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables had just made the stores and Holiday in Cambodia was only just hitting the decks.

From the beautiful jungles of Sri Lanka, this is the exciting story of a boy and his pet elephant and the lesson that it's easier to hide an elephant than it is to hide your sins from God.

Opened by a self portrait, the film offers images of blind violence against women and children and a god killing an ant and with this crime, creating extinction of human race, it shows the images of cultural heroes, from Shakespeare to Einstein, to Mona Lisa and Don Quijote.

A short film in the Canada Vignette series. A cinematic portrait of a blind auto mechanic.

A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

Gaurishankar Srivastav (Sunder Purohit) lives with his wife Savitri (Nirupa Roy) and two sons Vikas (Sujit Kumar) and Ravi (Jeetendra). Vikas gets married to wealthy Nanda (Bindu) while Ravi continues his education in college. Ravi is attracted to Usha (Sulakshana Pandit) and hopes to marry her. Gaurishankar is nearing retirement while Vikas is unable to get employment. When Vikas get an offer, he must deposit INR 5000. Nanda borrows this money from her uncle and Vikas gets the job. Unaware of the fact, Gaurishankar who works as Cashier in a small firm, steals Rs.5000/- to provide money for his son, but is followed by the watchman. - This uses material from the Wikipedia article Khandaan, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

The tale of how a greedy gentleman took away a cow from a young herdboy, and the latter tricked her back.

The last performance of the Grand Circus in the 1978 season. The camera meticulously captures important details, gestures, situations and emotions on the faces of circus artists.

First Part "The Call" :The orphan boy is raise by his grandmother. Disturbed by his mischiefs she decides to let boy's grandfather take care of him. Between them, the boy and his grandfather, a lovely relationship develops. Second Part "Hellados": Tells a story about the friendship between Greek and Georgian boys

The intention of this film was to explore movement flow. Specifically, the consequences of cutting, inserting, and patching an image of a movement flow into itself. For material, I chose sequences of a Contact Improvisation duet between two dancers who had a great appetite for extended flow. My task was to devise real-time editing techniques that could re-create a sense of flow while disrupting an already flowing dance. Each study uses a different improvisational score for real-time editing actions. The technology was 3/4" U-matic. While watching two monitor screens above me, I had to press the editing buttons (in and out) forcefully while standing up, making the activity a full-body interaction with my eyes.

Based on the novella “This Strange Life” by Daniil Granin. Granin tells about the life of the biologist Aleksandr Lyubishchev. Based on the scientist’s diaries, the writer reconstructs his time tracking system.

One of the first Brazilian movies to conjecture about contraculture and its reflexes on the behaviour of a generation. A tribute to the late poet and friend Orlando Parolini.

A German Film Award winning short drama.

For Henry Lincoln six years have passed since he completed The Priest, the Painter and the Devil. That strange story of an obscure French priest who was led to immense wealth by ancient parchments has drawn Henry Lincoln deep into a mysterious historical underworld. In France, England and Jerusalem, he has unearthed a strange story of secret societies and a medieval ecclesiastical mania which began at the time of the Crusades and which seems to have conceived and reared to maturity the enigmatic Order of Knights Templar. Henry Lincoln's story is not to be found in the history books. At its heart is the enduring French legend of Le Roi Perdu - The Lost King - and a secret linked with heresy, astrology, alchemy and an esoteric society which has survived in the shadows of history for 1,000 years.

Expect the unexpected in this unusual short that combines live action and animation.

Ella Fitzgerald - Live At The North Sea Jazz Festival

A story about a Filipino religious leader.

Two beings, a man and a woman, coming from elsewhere, find themselves in a church in ruins after all life on Earth has disappeared.

Jean-Louis le Tacon’s Cochon qui s’en dedit is a nightmarish documentary on the life of a factory farmer, Maxime. Shot on Super 8 over 3 years, the film exhibits the kind of intimacy of filmmaker and subject found in the works of Tacon’s thesis director, Jean Rouch. The film is also a late example of the kind of collaborative militant cinema that the Medvedkin Group and others pioneered in the years after May ‘68. - Brian Rajski

Ten years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing "soixante-huitard" falls in with some young radicals who are influenced by a book he had written. But does he still have the guts to translate his ideas into acts against the state? And is he still attractive to younger chicks?

A collection of celebrity home movies from stars like Gregory Peck and Jack Lemmon.

A young family takes their grandmother. After all, the city apartment needs to be furnished with new furniture, which they buy with the proceeds from the sale of the village house. But the son and daughter-in-law cannot find a suitable place for their grandmother in their spacious apartment ...

After the semantic body (Double Labyrinth) and the libidinal body (L'enfant qui a pissé des paillettes, Soma) we are dealing here with another theme: that of the painful body or, more precisely, the memory of the body in relation to pain lived.

A play about the Reformation in Germany, a broad religious and socio-political movement in Western and Central Europe of the XVI - early XVII century, aimed at the transformation of Catholic Christianity in accordance with the Bible; about the main ideologists of the Reformation - the leader of the peasant-plebeian masses Thomas Munzer and the representative of the interests of the conservative part of the German burghers Martin Luther.

Father, Cokro, has a disagreement with the son, Baskoro, while there is a revolt of the factory workers in the cigarette factory. During the upheaval, Baskoro has an accident that forces him to stay at home and he loses his self-confidence. He falls in love with his nurse, Sumi, unaware that his stepmother is also attracted to him. The leader of the factory revolt, Prabowo, is really the illegitimate child of Cokro; while Sumi is also their little sister as their mother is now married to Doel, the chauffeur of the family. The narrative is complicated and twisted.

Film based on a play by Mihail Sebastian. Three guys all fall in love with the same girl. For a month they all forget about the real world, but it all comes to an end.

College student falls into the orbit of pop singer Juan Gabriel and they become very close, despite opposition from a woman scorned in his background, her abusive boyfriend and her parents.

Time. In HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a long process a year it takes to cross a railway station. The film consists of an image of a train crossing a bush in the garden Ando. The film was shot from the same angle fixed for six months, through the seasons.

The short film takes place on the set of a costume drama. The main character is an extra—one of the soldiers climbing a pile of earth in full uniform. The emaciated man steals a hare, for which he is fired from his job. The director believes that he could only play dead people. The former extra lives with a wanted criminal and a stray dog. When the men are ready to throw out the dog, which they have to feed, the director decides to hire him for the film.

"This idyll was made for a Dracula film project by Ernst Schmidt of Vienna, who wrote to various European filmmakers in order to produce a bigger film with their participation." (HHK)

Humpty Dumpty lives in a faraway kingdom surrounded by a great wall, but trouble happens when an evil dragon persuades him that he's better than everyone else and tries to get him to cross the wall. In this adventure, Humpty learns an important lesson about forgiveness.

The mischievous princess Anka annoys her father and her surroundings with her original tricks. So as punishment, the devil Haramáš takes her to the robbers and she makes their pleasant life of robbery literally hell on earth. How the devils would like to return her to her royal parents now! But Anka decides that she must be properly freed from captivity. She gets a dragon and a prince and organizes a big liberation performance...

Isolation and loneliness slowly drives a woman towards madness and murder.

Whenever the mankind suffers and is at th mercy of the tyrant, the Lord takes birth to demolish the forces of the evil. Thus, when the people of Mathura were tyranised and tortured by Kansa who threw his parents in jail and killed seven children of his sister Devaki, the Lord took birth as Krishna in the prison. And before Kansa could destroy his sister's eight child born to kill him, he was taken away to Gokhul where he was brought up as the son of Nand and Yashoda. When Kansa came to know that his enemy was growing up in Gokul, he sent one demon after another to kill him. But instead, Putana, Kaliya and all other demons were destroyed by Krishna. Ultimately Kansa sent Akrura to bring Gopal Krishna to Mathura-little knowing that he was inviting his own death!

A political drama about Roald, a young man stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. Roald is politically ambitious but he does not have enough real-world savvy to protect himself from the shark-infested waters around him. After all, he has only been in office for a short time. His tendency to compromise on issues gets him into trouble in an election year when it is discovered that the CIA has been funding the Norwegian Young Labour Party.