Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

A white woman explores Japanese BDSM...

With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc. – had prepared audiences for this new type of structure. — Charles Ruas

A 1981 Filipino Western film starring George Javier, Pia Moran, and Redford White.

A little love story can actually be huge even if you are only twelve years old...

A new principal is appointed at a boarding school. He will have to solve many problems before he can earn the children's trust.

In 1943 Herbert and Lotte Strauss made the courageous decision to escape from Germany and almost certain extermination in a Nazi concentration camp. This is a personal account of their dramatic flight, building a new life in the United States, and coming to terms with the Holocaust. "We Were German Jews" grapples with the torment of living with the legacy of the Holocaust. The film chronicles Herbert and Lotte Strauss' return visit to Germany. They were not trying to assuage any sense of guilt over having survived; they wanted to confront the past by going back to where they had lived before the onslaught that claimed most of their relatives. This understated, very personal story adds significantly to the body of evidence that explores human behavior in the face of genocide and insists that we remember the past and learn from it.

On a mountain climbing trip, a man falls into a mysterious forest. In a trance, he beholds a woman in white approaching. Tempted to stay but yearns to escape, he repeats this cycle day and night. Failing to locate the exit, he gradually wanes and ages, finding himself lost both in the forest and in time.

taiwan films

One day, returning from hunting to the palace, King Shakhriyar witnessed an unbridled orgy of courtiers, in the center of which was his beloved wife Nurida, who accepted the caresses of an insignificant slave. The deceived husband, the humiliated ruler, in front of the court, numb with horror, deals with his wife and comes to a terrible decision – to execute one young woman in the country every morning. Soon it is the turn of the vizier's daughter, the wise Scheherazade... Staged by the Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Azerbaijan in 1981.

Bugs Bunny explains about the history of America to his nephew Clyde.

The film depicts interconnected lives of various characters in South Vietnam in and after the war: a young girl (Mai) who lost her father (Hau)- a Viet Cong cadre; a woman (Nam) whose deceased husband is a South Vietnamese soldier has feelings for Hau and is trying to protect his daughter; a depressive man (Luong) who used to fight with Nam's husband has strong resentment towards his old army.

Compilation film by Jim Terry based on Daikyu Maru Gaiking "The most spectacular tale of space adventure ever told. Travel the cosmos and witness the startling powers of GAIKING, the mighty flying warrior as he comes to the aid of a defenseless planet Earth overcome by the evil king Davius and the dark horacore. Together with the mystical space dragon, GAIKING soars to the rescue battling all barriers of evil. Watch all the in-terstellar excitement of futurism at its best." - Back of the VHS cover description. Not to be confused with any of the 3 compilation films from William Winckler.

TV documentary about architect Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, who was also a downhill skiing and boxing champion of Georgia, directed by his widow.

Mexican feature film

Black Uhuru in a brief performance at the Rainbow Theatre in London, England. The Reggae group at its height, starring original members Michael Rose, Puma Jones and Duckie Simpson.

A communist pyrotechnist lieutenant plans to blow up a Ploiești refinery that fuels the german army in WWII

Chase's frenzied line manipulation creates dazzling patterns. With music by Gwen Watson.

A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.

A pessimistic drama about a family struggling to survive after the death of their father. Left behind are the simple-minded mother, the strong-willed daughter Josefine, another sister and a mentally retarded brother. Josefine takes over the reins and looks after the family. She turns her sister into a maid and forces her brother to live in the cellar.

Katherine Ann Porter's story of a young woman's dreams of death. The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

Images of Stockholm and the people who live there set to music.

Clyde Griffiths dreams of climbing the corporate ladder and making his way into the highest circles of society. In order to fulfill his most cherished dream, Clyde is ready for absolutely anything, he will not even stop before committing a terrible and ridiculous crime...

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, 1981.

The flames in the fireplace create whimsical reflections, creating a New Year's mood in the house.

A musician from the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Focus" unexpectedly becomes the "fiancé" of the country's champion in sports ice dancing. However, a humorous prank becomes a reason and a serious reason for true love.

Tahei becomes an invisible man the moment he drinks a mysterious potion. In the first part of the film, it depicts daring sexual encounters and lesbian affairs involving women who proudly maintain respectable images—namely a female police officer and a nun. In the second part, Tahei, now working as a traveling salesman in rural areas, finds himself embroiled in a series of outrageous molestation escapades when he encounters two intriguingly nicknamed women: one called “A Thousand Earthworms” and another known as “Three-Tiered Drawstring Choke” (both epithets referring to their notably alluring attributes). Born from the outlandish idea of using invisibility to freely indulge in molestation and tryst, this work is an unconventional and idiosyncratic pornographic film designed to fulfill the secret desires of men.

Two hustlers are united on the run after an innocent robbery. They travel the country seeking to subsist at the cost of the ingenuity of people.

In 1974, a Basque expedition had to withdraw 300 meters from the summit of Everest due to the monsoon. In 1980, another expedition reached the summit to the 'summit of the world.' This film includes images from both expeditions. The first was shot in 35mm by Fernando Larrukert and Angel Lerma, and the second in Super 16mm by Lorente, Martin Zabaleta and other members of the expedition.

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

A short animated film by the award-winning artist Bretislav Pojar on the question of the economic consequences of the arms race. The film poses the question: What would happen if, and that is THE BIG IF, we turned our tanks into tractors, our grenades into chickens and our uniforms into dresses and shoes.

The German couple Anna and Robert Zodinger have fled from Germany from the Nazis and have found refuge in Switzerland. For Robert Zodinger, a former editor, an extradition to Germany would be like a certain death sentence or admission to a concentration camp. The two find protection from the old Webherrn Stutz, who supports them despite the open hostility of his son-in-law Hilber. To make ends meet, Anna works as a waitress while she and her husband have to stay on guard constantly.

Widower Nawab Yusuf Khan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Sultanpur, British India, along with his school-going son, Shahnawaz, and a college-going brother, Aslam, When he finds out that Aslam has fallen into wrong company and is frequenting a courtesan by the name of Pheroza, he gets him to return home and arranges his marriage with Shama, who is the only daughter of Maulvi Karrimudin. On the day of the marriage, Aslam runs away, elopes and gets married to Pheroza. A devastated Karrimudin passes away, leaving his wife and Shama destitute and dependent on Mehrunisa.

About one day of a lonely young woman, for whom life is a dream, and sleep is life.

Cinderella has to stay home while her evil stepsisters go to the ball. You know the rest except everyone here is a penguin (even the mice that become the "horses") and the lost slipper is more like a swimming flipper.

This 1981 Bolshoi production performed in the concert hall of The Kremlin is by far the best available, despite the more ‘historical’ picture and mono sound. The production itself is a very classic period production, with utterly authentic costumes and aptly dramatic sets. There are even horses on stage. The depiction of the Don Cossacks’ Khan Konchak and his tribe is colourful and historically informed in one. Needless to say, the scene of the Polovtsian Dances is spectacularly presented with great choregraphy and terrific dancing, in the league of the Spartacus of Bolshoi, no less.

The events take place in the train. Some passengers show great respect for Mr. Dadashov, but who is Mr. Dadashov?

Sophie is a little girl, naiver than nasty; sometimes abetted by her cousin Paul, she always gets into mischief, although the boy is much wiser than she is. Her best friends , Camille and Madeleine are so virtuous that Sophie's behavior doesn't compare favorably with theirs. In the castle where she lives with a rather severe mother (and a father very often gone to Paris), not a day goes by without she getting up to mischief.

A documentary on a sean-nós singing seminar that took place in An Spidéal in Conamara. Filmed in 1981 by Bob Quinn for RTÉ's Aisling Gheal series.

A boy from the country arrives in Seoul to look for his former girlfriend and accepts a job working in the same bar as she does in order to keep an eye on her.

Glenn Ford appears in and narrates in this mondo style documentary about the search for the Great White Shark.

This 1981 live show at Washington DC's famous Blues Alley features drummer Max Roach and his band.

The much-loved February 1981 concert at North London’s legendary Rainbow Theatre.

Mexican feature film

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding chronicle. The Golzow people in the present, from which retrospective views of the previous life and the life conflicts of the individual are given.

Registration of the second Kinderen voor Kinderen-concertshow. In this annual event, the Dutch children's choir 'Kinderen Voor Kinderen' performs 12 songs based on ideas sent in by children. The songs make up an album from which the proceeds go to a good cause, namely collecting toys for children in Third World Countries.

The star of TV's Kojak takes a look at the history and attractions of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Surendra (Om Puri), having been exiled from his village in youth and established himself in the city, comes back to the news of his father's demise, reportedly at the hands of a phantom. He announces a prize for anyone who succeeds in showing him a ghost, which attracts the greed of the poor hungry peasants, resulting in the accusations of innocent people as haunted and even murders with the hope of producing a ghost.

An off-beat story where a pair of adulterers stir up some action including murder and mayhem.

A Pakistani Urdu-language film directed by Luqman, starring Babra Sharif, Asif Raza Mir, Aslam Parvez and Talish.

A jar of Cheez Whiz careens wildly through a Treasure Island Foods at 3460 N. Broadway, Chicago, Illinois. Cheez Whiz was Norm Bruns' first film. It aired on public television station WTTW's program, Image Union, in 1981.