Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

Meshing the visceral and the intellectual, "Sherman proposes, through editing and parallel camera movement, that the act of reading is exhilarating, like riding a roller coaster."

Malayalam language film starring Jayan and Prameela.

Short film from director J.R. Bookwalter set in Salem.

Documentary about the way in which the citizens of the town of Aguada, Puerto Rico asserted their civil rights before the construction of a coal plant that the government intended to establish in the municipality.

Short film about Martín Adán (pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, Lima, 1908) one of the great contemporary poets in the Spanish language and the settings of his poetry

The film begins with a series of events on a crowded outdoor market street. Women on stages perform "private" rituals: shaving legs and armpits, fixing their hair, etc. A woman tries to disrupt their "work." She struggles to set herself apart from them, to resist the forces of habit, but gradually becomes more involved than she is willing to admit. Although she sets in motion a chain reaction of rebellion, she isn't able to keep the momentum going. She stops before carrying it to the logical conclusion, and ends up on the stage herself. Can we hold a knife without stabbing ourselves? Can we hold a knife without even thinking of doing that? And do we need knives?

Produced to mark the 30th anniversary of Warsaw's Documentary Film Studio, the film recalls the achievements and successes of the studio, which has been associated with many outstanding documentary filmmakers for years. It also shows the work of the cameramen of the popular Polish Film Chronicle, who accompany all important events in the country with their cameras.

An evening of television is apparently reduced to a few minutes. The image is blue, with an occasional hint of red for contrast.

A Brazilian avant-garde film matching the image of John Wayne on horseback to incongruous discourse in Portuguese.

A couple make the decision, after twenty-five years of marriage, to live separately, so as not to fall into the trap of routine. On their wedding anniversary, Brigitte and François Dupuis announce their decision to separate, to the chagrin of their children. After twenty-five years, they chose to enjoy their life, but each on their own. Everything is going for the best. François rediscovers the life of a bachelor, meals with friends, at night with friends. Brigitte, for her part, met a movie buff whom she took as a lover. From time to time, François and Brigitte meet again. It doesn't take long for them to realize that they get along better and better ...

16 year old Linus, living in 1930s Stockholm, dreams of becoming a poet, while working in a bookstore. After visiting a brickhouse with his father, Linus becomes involved with several of its inhabitants, including an enigmatic Ambassadress; her housekeeper Abigail, who Linus falls in love with; the janitor, who manages a brothel in the basement; Linus’ father’s best friend, who gets murdered.

Bernard Roué records an exhibit of Michel Journiac's piece of the same name.

Based on a novel by Ismail Kadare. A group of partisans is tasked with reestablishing Radio Tirana.

A cinematic journey into the past, following the items that the absentee family gathered in an apartment in an old tenement house. Everything had a beginning which was the end of something. Time rolls on like a glass ball and it breaks into pieces.

36 year old welder Karin works at an agricultural factory in Mecklenburg, Germany.

Martijn receives little attention from his parents, who run a village bazaar, and is often left to his own devices. He has plenty of imagination, but cannot live up to the expectations placed on him. If he fails his school exams, he will be doomed. Only his grandfather in the retirement home understands him and listens to his stories. When a film crew arrives in his hometown to shoot a fairy tale movie, Martijn is chosen for the lead role and his grandfather is given the role of wizard.

A view of man's perpetual struggle for self-destruction, in which we glimpse a world where rockets are part of everyone's lives.

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

There are three works in the MOVEMENT series. At the time, I was fascinated by the ability of an 8-mm camera to shoot frame-by-frame. I enjoyed visual experiences that left the everyday and the feeling of speed spun out by compressed or chopped-up time. (Takashi Ito)

The comical live-in life of Yuki, a stylist, and Dodoichi, a first-year college student who has come to Tokyo to visit his senior. The film is full of dark episodes such as infertility, prostitution, suicide, etc., but the filmmakers are careful not to lose the light touch, and how to make the best use of the characters in each situation is enclosed in a scene setting like a scene in a famous movie. The film is full of enthusiasm to show us the setting and storyline that could easily become a pattern of a cheap melodrama.

A short history of Canada's greatest sailing ship.

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Montreal of 1905-1910 with hand-painted vintage postcards.

Documentary about the painter Ismael Nery, which intersperses daily street scenes with paintings by the artist, under the narration of his 1931 Post-Essencialista poem.

Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (played by Joanna David and Heather Page).

A cop presses a former organized syndicate criminal to turn over his associates.

Recovered Zulueta short.

A direct cinema observation of student and faculty life at Haverhill High School in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Marcelino Pan y Vino is a Filipino TV movie from 1979 directed by Mario O'Hara. The film is a remake of Ladislao Vajda's 1955 film of the same title, about a boy brought up by monks and encountering Divinity. The story revolves around Marcelino, an orphan abandoned as a baby on the steps of a monastery in nineteenth-century Spain. The monks raise the child, and Marcelino grows into a rowdy young boy. He has been warned by the monks not to visit the monastery attic, where a "very big man who will take him away" lives, but he ventures upstairs anyway, sees the man and tears off back down the stairs.

American film director John Huston is interviewed in this episode of a Canadian television series.

A documentary exploring the existence of extra-terrestrials.

Ulvi Indrikson trains her daughters Kaire and Kaja and supports them at the competitions. Training in the gym and swimming competitions. Support by the audience, the participants' intense fight for the first place.

The second martial arts documentary film written and directed by Ikki Kajiwara. It features many famous fights of different martial arts fought by Antonia Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, and Oyama Baidatsu, the founder of Kyokushin Karate! Many of the fights are by Kyokushin Karate fighters, and there are many precious images of Hikaru Ninomiya winning the All Japan Kyokushin Tournament, where he beat the later famous fighters Makoto Nakamura and Keiji Sanpei. Kick legend Toshio Fujiwara is also included in three matches: against Prayut Seesonhop, Sinsak Sosiripan, and the second round of the Seaplay Cat Songpop.

Short work.

Abstract animation set to music

A silent film

The letters KB refer to the official term `Keluarga Berencana’, i.e. `Family Planning’. This is a “Non KB” film. A spontaneous vision on the introduction of family planning.

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be a groundbreaking combination of electronic and manual animation. One of the first films produced specifically for video disk.

Directed by Efren C. Piñon.

A reworking of material from the 16mm film ‘Blue Bathroom’, a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and materiality. By superimposing and alternating identical framings of two windows filmed by day and by night the film uses their positive/negative aspect to construct and break down representational images and sounds.

In a western country, the police are on the lookout for a counterfeit money gang. During the closure of a brothel, the small inspector of the vice squad receives a reliable tip. The chief of police wants to take credit for the success and leads the bust of the counterfeiters. While he celebrates his success, the little detective gets into an almost ruined bank with a piece of counterfeit money he has captured by chance and becomes a rich man in high society.

An army of beautiful androids commits a series of singular murders: they explode when penetrated.

"Suddenly the Light" is a true story based on the life of Beverly Massegee. This is an exciting and heart-warming story about her life as a performer. A life that led to a dark and empty existence, and how God was able to turn it all around. This story shows the difference that faith in Christ can make in facing the realities of life.

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.

Separated from a wagon train, Mr. Parish and the children are attaced by armed men, forcing young Anna and Jamie to flee into the wilderness with their father's fate unknown. They don't realize they carry a secret treasure map, but with gold-hunting George and Buzz in pursuit and wild-eyed mountain man McTavish on the loose, there's plenty to fear. Yet help comes from the unlikeliest of places, including a ferocious wolf pack, the majestic wild eagle, Balderdash, and even a maternal grizzly, which they name after their friend Mrs. Mullen.

A visual review of the importance of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the life of the nation from the conquest to the present day.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Rapunzel imprisoned in a tall wooden tower by a witch, allows a young man to climb her long brown hair to visit her.

A documentary about dolphins that cover the recent story of a Japanese massacre of dolphins as well as other footage of swimming with dolphins.

A sleeping girl is plagued by strange dreams; manifold images fuse to create a bewildering puzzle, which finally dissolves and gives way to relief when the agitated girl, calmed by her mother, falls asleep again. An experimental film, also for children.

Directed by Mira Nair, this documentary records street life in the traditional Muslim community surrounding the Jama Masjid in Old Delhi. Filmed as an observational portrait, it focuses on everyday activities and the responses of residents to the filmmaker’s presence.

A ruthless Warlord from Manchuria builds a martial arts labyrinth that contains 18 martial art amazons, many try to enter but none leave, until Dragon Lee, seeking to avenge his father.

The doomed love story of Sher, a kitemaker, and his cousin, Tahera. A tale of Old Kabul, based on a short story by Akram Osman.