Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

After being ridiculed by his surrounding, a man who makes the wooden sculptures leaves the village with his best man to live high up in the mountain and devote to his hobby.

A celebration of The Beach Boys' musical career.

Various videos of the Manhattan skyline, shot by Brian Eno in 1980-81. Music from his albums Ambient 1 and 4 accompany the footage. Presented in vertical format (the television or monitor needs to be turned on its side for proper viewing).

Thomas Bernhard rarely engaged in on-camera interviews and conversations. However, he was extremely taken with the television films created by Krista Fleischmann and recognized – both confidently and with foresight – their lasting value for posterity: “I feel this portrait is an entirely successful document whose usefulness will grow.”

Dr. Wilson is a humanitarian, and likes to believe that the worse part of a human can be separated and eliminated altogether, to this extent he experiments in various ways in his laboratory. One day he tries out a chemical solution on himself and lets his evil self, Blackstone, lose in bars, dark alleys, and with prostitutes. He is always able to control Blackstone, and comes home late at night to turn himself back to Dr. Wilson. Then things start to get out of control when Blackstone starts getting violent and killing people he dislikes, including Dr. Wilson; and Dr. Wilson finds Blackstone getting stronger, and out of his control, with a motive of taking over Dr. Wilson's life completely.

The Goosehill Gang goes camping and must discover who or what is causing a howling noise in the woods. Did we mention there's also an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous?

James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fresh insights to this beloved score. Ileana Cotrubas is poignant and touching as Violetta, the consumptive courtesan who finds true love with Alfredo, sung with style and passion by the great Plácido Domingo. Cornell MacNeil is Germont, Alfredo’s father, who forces the two apart, setting in motion events that lead to a shattering and tragic conclusion. Colin Graham’s production features design by Tanya Moiseiwitsch and choreography by Zachary Solov.

The continuation of the adventures of Amy and Raul.

A movie novel about the life of the village. Having devoted his life to his native village, Mikhail Petrovich Zubov has become somewhat coarse and even embittered by the end of his chairmanship. About this honestly and openly tells him the young party leader of the collective farm. But no matter how difficult it is for the chairman to understand the fairness of criticism, his love for the land helps Zubov to change his relations with people.

In St. Petersburg, behind the Narva outpost, there is great excitement - the revolutionary Nechaev has appeared, who will incite the workers to fight. Neither the policeman, nor the policeman, nor the owner of the tavern - no one knows what he looks like. But everyone is determined to catch him.

As William Jones digs in the garden of his council house he finds a strange looking stone head. During the night his wife has horrible dreams, forcing William to move the head out of the house. In turn, he takes the head to an archaeologist at Bangor University who is an expert on Celtic artefacts and trying to dig up the remains of the Celts elsewhere. In order to try and understand the head, he goes home with her but things start to go wrong at night there as well, bringing the horrors of a half-human half-animal creature to the housewives. One by one the archaeologist's family is horrified leading to death and another sacrifice to the ancient gods of the Celts.

Murad, the favorite of the entire court, has just returned from prison, where he ultimately took the blame for his friend's crime. All this time, his fiancée Gul waited for him, and now they are getting married. Meanwhile, behind one of the doors overlooking Murad's garden, a woman's scream can be heard from time to time, but the neighbors do nothing. Will Murad be able to rise above the general indifference to his neighbor's affairs and help the unfortunate woman?

Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the Mau-Mau uprising, it is set in an unnamed country and thus offers the vision of a pan-African struggle for freedom and against colonial oppression. The central figures in the straightforwardly and powerfully told story are the guerrilla leader Haraka and his adversary, the English colonial official Kingsley. In the end, the film becomes a homage to the freedom fighters from all over Africa: the final images show Patrice Lumumba, Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela and Amílcar Cabral, among others.

When the boy genius, Zebulon, decides to run away from home in his hand-made spaceship he fails to discover his sister, Marsyas, who has hidden herself on board. With her extra, uncalculated weight on board he finds that the ship has veered far from its course.

Thirteen-year-old Vendula dozes off at school and dreams about her parents riding in a carriage dressed in their wedding clothes. The young teacher is angry with the girl who has already failed a year, and has no idea that she is looking after three younger half-brothers. They all have a different father and their mother comes home noisy and drunk every day, often accompanied by a man...

Orhan, an Arabesque singer, owns a large piece of land in a coastal town. Orhan wants to build a retirement home there. Oğuz, a wealthy businessman who owns a newspaper and a bank, Through the businesses he has established, he launders the mafia's dirty money. Oğuz wants to seize Orhan's land to build a tourist facility. He tries to negotiate with Orhan. However, unable to convince the young man, Oğuz decides to kill him. For this purpose, he hires a hitman. Orhan, who survives the hitman's attack, sets out to track down those who wanted to kill him.

A crime drama directed by Cheung Chi-Chiu.

Play adapted from the diary of Eamonn Dunphy, the ex-Milwall and Ireland footballer. With a new season and a promising team, professional footballer Willy Hutchison has a chance of promotion to Division One The dreams and dramas behind an unfashionable football team's struggle for success.

A businessman on vacation comes to file a complaint for murder. He claims to have discovered the body of a young woman who had been stabbed in his hotel. But the police commissioner who receives him has his own unique investigative methods.

Pazhani and Velu, two innocent villagers, move to the city to earn a living. When Velu's employer cheats him, Pazhani helps him take revenge.

The intellectual family Faragó lives a bit busy life, but ensures complete autonomy for its members in a tiny flat in Budapest, while the newly rich Belvizis in the neighbourhood have a luxury apartment and a conventional and purposeful life, sentencing their only daughter for solitude.

Stations of the Elevated exposes viewers to an underground art scene- that is, one found exclusively on the sides of subways and train cars. A moving portrait of late-70's NYC, the film boasts a soundtrack by jazz legends Charles Mingus & Aretha Franklin.

Hartmann, a first-time film director is trying to find an actor for the Role of Casanova. Wenn he meets Alfred Edel, the actor's colourful personality spoils Hartmann's vision of a glorious Casanova epic. In the end, the director realizes that all the time he wanted to make this movie to please his mother, so he decides instead to join Edel's way of having fun.

This film is a sequel to "The Heroic One" and begins with the platform fight scene which ended that film.

A documentary about director Patricia Mazuy's family.

Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.

A live performance from Kate Bush's critically and commercially successful The Tour of Life, recorded on May 13th, 1979.

A group of friends is shaken when the girl falls in love. But the three boys will do anything to stop the romance.

Luís - ex-student in Lisbon and ex-combatant in Africa - finds, after returning, Maria, secretary who has a relationship with António. He lives in a palace with his children, two old aunts and a Dominican friar, a former missionary.

At the Nato di Bagnoli headquarters, Tony, who lives with US Army officer Janet, works awkwardly and uncomfortably with modern equipment, which is also found at home. Strongly frustrated, Tony decides to return to the Naples neighborhood where he has always lived.

The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jerry Lewis, Music by Nelson Riddle.

Raange war between two feuding ranch families in the 1930s.

A witch unleashes an army of killer cats on a village for burying her alive.

It's the Same World is a 1980 American short documentary film produced by Dick Young. Shot on location in various parts of the world, it depicts children in the Philippines who can neither hear nor speak, a brain-damaged child in India, an Ethiopian cripple learning a trade so that he can support his family with dignity, and a Mexican polio victim, whose mother uses therapy to help her daughter walk. Also featured is Terry Fox, the Canadian youth who lost his right leg to cancer and yet set out to run across Canada. The world of the disabled is not a special world, but the same world in which we all live. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Pink film from Toei Central.

During the Second World War, a fascist warden takes over a prison in Romania and plans to kill communist prisoners under the pretext of attempted escape during their forced transfer to another penitentiary.

"Relating a tale told by a girl on a swing, Beneath the Skin explores the contrast between the impersonal horror of a news story heard on television and the involvement of the storyteller in a nightmare, which gradually becomes more familiar and commonplace as the tale unfolds. The straightforward approach of the teller is humorously or frighteningly contrasted by a bombardment of visual images which mock or intensify the macabre flavor of the work."

Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.

Mr. Yamamoto teaches the gymnastics club. What lessons will be learned?

Hong Kong movie

Afraid that man will in time become a threat to the inhabitants of heaven, governor angel Lucifer leads a rebellion against God. Registration of Joost van den Vondel's classic stage play, performed by the Publiekstheater.

A short vacation should let the 17-year-old, deaf-mute Veronika forget the death of her beloved father, so the plan of her mother Christina. The place of recreation, however, is not chosen happily, due to lack of money: Gut Vorwald in the Sauerland region belongs to the mature nobleman Benno von Caldern, to whom Christina once pledged herself in her youth before meeting her future husband and renouncing Benno. Under the golden roof of autumnal oak crowns, the feelings of the past return, not without dramatic consequences.

The process of formation of the person and its identity from an African conception of the world. The orixás (gods), linked to the forces of nature, are equal to people, and are not transcendent. of the person with their orixá, within the family and the culture. Filmed in a Candomblé terreiro of Bantu origin.

He's the king.

A young boy and his dog spend an afternoon trying to capture a playful frog at a nearby pond.

Man against Evil in his village.

Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relationship is complicated by her arranged marriage to the high-ranking Sir Joseph Porter. A secret about the characters' true identities revealed by Little Buttercup, which leads to a farcical resolution. Filmed live from the 1980 Stratford Festival in Ontario.

Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.

1981 Chinese Film