Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

Documentary about director Don Siegel including interviews with Siegel and clips from his movies.

Ramzi, a straight young man, works as a corporate account manager with his fiancée (Madiha). He discovers the embezzlement of the company and informs his fiancée of his intention to inform the authorities. Madiha informs the president of the company, and Ramzi is charged, arrested and imprisoned.

The everyday life of an anonymous prisoner on death row. His torments, memories and suicide attempts slowly lead him towards a silent madness that the ruthless prison system will not prevent before the final act.

Bra Joe, the leader of the Fast Guns Gang, is preparing to go to war against the Butterfly Gang, his long-time arch-rivals, when he is violently stabbed and hospitalized trying to protect his sister.

When two dim-witted thieves escape from prison and ransack Mandla’s house, the young boy’s parents believe he and his friend are to blame. Determined to prove their innocence, Mandla and his pal set off in search of the true culprits.

The Metropolitan Opera live production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra on February 16, 1980

An unmarried couple try to raise money for an abortion, set against the bustling backdrop of Colombo.

The dispassionate calm of a solitary man is captured with disturbing clarity. The sound and images of Argentina mirror the stoic calm of this lone man.

American horror movie from 1980.

This documentary presents the past and present of Istanbul’s famed Grand Bazaar, whose history spans nearly five centuries. The film offers an intimate portrait of the bazaar through the perspective of a sherbet seller who has walked its streets for forty years, capturing the rhythms of daily life and the continuity of tradition within one of the city’s most enduring cultural spaces.

This is the most absolute. – S.B.

1980 DCI World Championships held in Birmingham, AL on August 16, 1980 1. Blue Devils (1st Place 90.60) 2. 27th Lancers (2nd Place 90.25) 3. Bridgemen (3rd Place 90.05) 4. Spirit of Atlanta (4th Place 89.80) 5. Phantom Regiment (5th Place 88.45) 6. Madison Scouts (6th Place 87.05) 7. Santa Clara Vanguard (7th Place 85.60) 8. Crossmen (8th Place 81.90) 9. Cavaliers (9th Place 77.40) 10. Garfield Cadets (10th Place 76.45) 11. North Star (11th Place 74.05) 12. Guardsmen (12th Place 72.90)

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

In every one of them, I’m on a date with the same boy. The places we go are always different, but the ending is always the same. He looks at me and says, “Shall we kiss?”

1980 Urdu film from Pakistan

A kung fu oriented film, that centres around a revenge of the protagonist against the person who murdered his mother. Mixes some Shaolin elements, but it's set in contemporary times (in the 80s).

Based on a fairy tale by K.Kuliyeva's "Bread and Khan".

An ironic pastiche of the typical instructional-education film.

Calligrapher Donald Jackson presents an historical overview of the alphabet from the cave paintings of primitive man more than 35,000 years ago to the stylus and wax tablets of the Romans and the Egyptians' hieroglyphics.

Black and white pen and paper animated short film, comprising of a psychedelic vision of people undergoing metamorphosis.

A report on the Élan School by Robert Rogers for NBC.

Footage of video game machines and rides from a Disney park in 1980.

The myths of deviancy are explored and the realities of survival are experienced in the city of Sydney between 1979 and 1980 from the point of view of a broke and homeless gay male cartoonist and the many fellow travellers he meets on the streets.

Another burst of laughter from the great comedy master Nejat Uygur. Two very old friends meet years later. One of them belongs to a wealthy and noble family with a lineage dating back to the old Ottoman palace. The other is an ordinary man of the people. The events that started with the sale of the mansion belonging to the family of the noble friend, develop in a funny way with Nejat Uygur's usual sense of humor.

This is a short film by Mirza Idrizović.

An episodic film featuring the musical, choreographic and comedic skills of a variety of actors and actresses.

John improvises a performance for the camera, spinning a bright, pinpoint light on a long cord, around himself in a variety of patterns, against a black background. A one-shot film, shot in one hour, at one frame per second. And with one-second time-exposures, the light streaks are multiplied and more complex by refracting in the lens. A Camera Dance, inspired by John's earlier film Amusement Park (1978/79).

An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music.

It is a documentary joining 3 periods of filming in the Mouchouanipi, which is a faraway land in the North of eastern Canada.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.

The Keen family go on holiday in the jungles of the English countryside while the mysterious Silver Head - Jeff Keen wearing an inside-out, silver-lined photographic paper bag - haunts Brighton and the snowy fields of winter. Part diary, part fantasy.

At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a single mother tells the story of how alcoholism destroyed her personal and professional life.

The memory of a nearly perfect evening.

On Christmas Eve, a lonely young boy, shut out from the shiny world of presents and holiday parties, peers into a candlelit window, where a gray-haired lady sits sadly at a bare table. Taking the last bit of bread and cheese from his pocket and adding wine, they share this meager Christmas dinner together. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The old Choi visits Byeong-Shik, or the second son and president of a trading company, but stays at an inn by his daughter-in-law's plot. The first son named Byeong-Ku borrows money with mortgage of his ancestral burial ground to expand gardening farm greatly, but is destined to give up the ancestral burial ground. So, the first son begs help from the second son, but is rejected. The old Choi feels much angry to hear such a thing from the first son so that he tells the second son to sever relation of father and son. The second son regrets his wrong doings and gives money to let the first son return the ground. But, the second son's wife does not regret her wrong doings, which makes her children not to respect her. Being troubled with children's rude attitude, she regrets her wrong doings and begs pardon from her father-in-law and husband.

Taiwanese horror movie from 1980.

The traditional patterns of ancient Kyrgyz carpets tell an old legend about the insidious sorcerer Kara-Khan, about a girl imprisoned by him in a dungeon, and about a brave young man hurrying to her aid.

Format: 16 mm standard; Color; Sound; 30 min 10 sec Sponsor: Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association

Explores the tension between a Japanese theatrical mask-maker and the mask itself.

Recorded live in Paris for Chrous TV. Malcolm Owen would be dead six months after the filming of this concert, but the legacy of The Ruts live on through the works of the artists they'd influenced over the years. Songs include: "Jah War" "Babylon's Burning" and "In a Rut".

Real time is an oxymoron. The film presents one firing of Vancouver's famous gun; an event that attracts an audience visible on screen unlike the audience watching the film; ourselves. Our experience of time in our innermost self is unlike our experience of space or mass yet nothing in physics corresponds to the passage of time. How can something we experience as so real be based on an illusion. Norfolk, Virginia also has a Nine O'clock Gun.

A Hilarious and insightful look at LDS Children by T.C. Christensen, whose credits include The Work and the Glory and Praise to the Man Digitally Remastered The new DVD, Mouths of Babes, is hilarious, charming, and honest! This classic LDS comedy is back and better than ever! When young children are asked thought-provoking questions, their spontaneous answers are unpredictable and often surprisingly wise! Digitally remastered, the DVD Mouths of Babes will surely be a family favorite!

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

In a provincial town, a band practices in an apartment on the same floor as Jean-Pierre, who works night shifts every three weeks. Thierry, the band’s singer, quits his job due to morning fatigue and turns to drugs, while Jean-Pierre contemplates leaving his factory job and the city, questioning the point of moving to another factory.

Recorded May 3 1980 at Théâtre Marigny. The unforgettable show by the man who remains the benchmark for a whole generation of comedians. A bevy of songs, parodies and imitations. With his timeless imitations and sketches, his impertinent and innovative tone...

On September 13, 1980, world featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez defended his title against Patrick Ford in San Antonio, Texas.

In Mexico, young orphan Ricky's life will be turned upside down when the most famous clown in the country comes to his village.

A hard-working police sergeant is tasked with an under-cover assignment where he must pose as a mysterious assassin known as "Jakalasi". His mission is to execute a hit on the local police captain. But it's a dangerous game the young cop is playing, and with the mob boss' right-hand man suspicious of the new arrival, it's only a matter of time before his cover is blown.

Film No. 19 US, 1980, 35mm, 12.5 min.

Kazu is a timid, kind, slightly clumsy fourth-year university student. Yukko is a gentle yet mysterious girl who seems to have come from nowhere. The two, who somehow resemble each other, meet by chance and eventually start living together without much thought.

Pink film by Jōji Ichimura.

Film made in collaboration with a union of domestic workers in Cusco, migrants from the countryside to the city.