Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

A musical television play based on French folk tales.

Pink film by Kaoru Umezawa.

A 1980 Indian Bengal Drama Film directed by Salil Dutta.

Film about the Parisian nightclub Concert Mayol, one of the last bastions of the traditional Parisian nude show. The film follows the final three weeks of the clubs existence, before the business is closed. It documents the lives of the women who work there, including when the strippers went on strike.

MOVE: Confrontation in Philadelphia is a fast-paced, independently created award-winning documentary film of the events of the summer of 1978 which lead up to the Philadelphia police arrest of nine MOVE members.

South Slope: What Love Tells Me is a 16mm film made in 1978-1980 by the artist Abbott Meader. It is a dramatic portrait of a piece of land in Maine as seen through the seasons filmed over a period of two years. It is both a documentary and a film poem structured to respond to the 6th Movement of Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony as performed by the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra, which kindly donated the performance recording for use in this film. Mahler's subtitle for the 6th Movement is "What Love Tells Me."

Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann’s powerful documentary Bastion Point: Day 507 depicts the eviction of protestors from Bastion Point during the struggle for Māori land rights.

hong kong film

An animated film for children about how a hunter decided to go hunting.

T and K are so close that they are said to be homosexuals. T has a steady girlfriend named T, but things are not going well. The two meet in a park, where they meet Yoko, the singer of a folk group, and Yoko and K have a secret attraction. Meanwhile, T-girl is trying to get back together with her old boyfriend. In the midst of such a mundane group of high school students, T's malice and Yoko's sudden mistake. Some just stare at the blank time of grace in front of them. This film, produced by a large group of people, is a comedy with a high sense of humour and thoroughly sophisticated dialogue.

Short film by Jayne Parker.

As the new government takes over South Vietnam following the Fall of Saigon, civil engineer Dương Tấn is fearful of imminent repression. He and his colleagues are dispatched to fix a hydroelectric plant where they meet Đỗ Long, a bubbly engineer from the North.

It describes the story of PLA commanders and scientific workers successfully developing ground-to-air rockets to defend the airspace of the Chinese motherland at the diretcion of Premier Zhou.

Everything is ready for Ferdi and Necla to get married. However, Ferdi has to leave town for a short time due to a last-minute business trip. Necla's mother, who wants to marry her off to a wealthy man, does everything she can to end the relationship. She pressures Necla to be with Murat. When Ferdi returns to Istanbul, he has lost Necla. The only thing left for him to do is to confront Murat.

Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.

1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach.

A lighthouse keeper finds a girl at sea and takes her home. The lighthouse keeper, his sister, and the girl live together until a rough man, whom the women have been subconsciously waiting for, enters their lives.

A portrait of a speaker, engrossed in his own speech, finds the hall empty.

When Sipho and John go visit Uncle Joshua for the holidays, they accidentally get involved in rescuing Thandi, the local mayor’s daughter, who has been taken hostage by an escaped criminal known as Benson. With John’s bravery and Sipho’s genius, the boys work together to defeat the convict at his own game, ultimately saving the day and making a new friend in Thandi in the process.

Sultanmurat is a 14 year old boy who lives in a small Kyrgyz village. All the men have gone off to war so he is left alone to tend to the horses who are weak with hunger.

Chantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah, and listens to their family stories. Between interviews, Akerman's mother Natalia speaks of her own family. Made for a French miniseries on grandmothers.

Report on the museum of the Holy Inquisition where the torture tools used on those accused of witchcraft and dealings with the devil during the viceroyalty are kept and displayed.

An insight into various fashion shows in Germany, for example in Düsseldorf or Bonn.

Mazuy's first film, made while nannying in L.A. A lovers on the lam story. No longer in circulation, partly because of music rights issues with The Doors' "The End", which features prominently - although Ray Manzarek does get a special thanks, as does Agnès Varda.

The film deals with issues of life and work in self-governing socialist enterprises, i.e. the problems caused by the application of the Law on Associated Labor which passed several years before. The protagonists are the metal company workers who are launching a strike due to the reduction of salaries.

Jathara is a Telugu film starring Chiranjeevi.

Feature film produced by Shanghai Film Studio in 1980 about the growth of young football players in China, showing the game, training, and their lives. Adapted from a play called "3 to 0." At the beginning, the football team loses their game 0 to 3. In order to restore their dignity, the team makes quick adjustments -- strengthening team management, replacing the head coach, and rethinking their training method. This is the first football-themed film in Chinese film history.

A story about a police officer whose sister and mother got killed in a robbery, and seeks revenge on the killers.

Realized in 1980 for Rai 2, it recalls the main phases in the life of Giorgio Colli.

Fictional reconstruction of the famous “Huayanay Case” that highlighted the age-old opposition between the official country and the real country.

Documentary film that follows politicians during various events.

A team of divers to the Arctic Ocean places a Canadian flag at the North Pole.

Debate on the launch of Basque television (ETB, Euskal Telebista).

This short film is an autobiographical portrait of a young Argentine lesbian growing up in a homophobic environment.

Alexandru Lapusneanu is one of important Moldavian rulers. A Macbeth figure, who obtains his throne in fight, who reeves any possible danger out of his way, a good "hospodar", husband and father. His reign is result of relation with the Great Powers of the XVIth century. The strain relation with the boyars (noblemen), the economic and spiritual contribution in the country's development, tensions of his own family, the loss of reign and the revenge, the second reign are elements for define the man and the prince like touching character

Mariko Miyagi is back documenting the activities of disabled children from her own school, Nemunoki. This time, the whole documentary focuses itself on the powers of creativity and drawing.

Documentary on Turin ten years after "Trevico-Torino", with the guidance of Diego Novelli, mayor of the city.

In this follow-up to No Strings Attached, a female blow-up doll rampages through the toy store.

Short documentary on the Belgian painter Max Selen.

During his stay in Italy, Harlan accepted a commission from Rai and created a ruthless portrait of society through an archetypal setting. This film, set in a Roman school and filmed inside a classroom during a lesson, is a ruthless portrait of students and Italian society after the end of the protest movements of previous years.

Red Boxing Gloves / Orange Kitchen Gloves was shot in 1980 in Polavision, an instant movie format that the videocassette made obsolete. The work is in the form of a pendant pair, a convention that arose in seventeenth-century Holland. The pendant pair consists of two paintings with subjects that are complements of each other. In the classic case one painting shows a husband and the other his wife. Together the two figures make a larger whole. The two pairs of gloves express this same relation in figurative if conventional terms. A few years ago I transferred the films to DVDs; far simpler to show them in that form than as films.

This documentary follows Martha Clarke's creative process for a year as she finds her own voice as a choreographer following her departure from Pilobolus Dance Theater.

A 57 years old woman discovers herself after her husband's death.

Costumed Capers...Fetish and Fantasy...Punk Pleasure...a must for those who enjoy erotic humor.