Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

A journalist investigates links between speedway racing and local criminals.

A Woman is watching her chicken while enjoying breakfast. This peaceful scene makes way for that of a poultry slaughterhouse. The images pursue her on TV that evening, she drinks her glass of wine and pushes away her plate of chicken.

After the war ends, Luy returns home and is now assigned as Commune Secretary of his coastal village. However, his wife is now wedded to Son, a soldier of the formerRepublic of Vietnam regime.

A look at the career of the celebrated actress, covering the years 1932-1981. Several of her costars and colleagues discuss their experiences working with her; there is a special look at her forthcoming film, On Golden Pond.

Today, the only inhabitants of this environmentally inhospitable Pacific island are birds and crabs. Yet over 80 years ago, Clipperton hosted other visitors: a demented rapist and a terrified group of women and children. Cousteau returns to the island to recreate the deadly series of events - from the death of the brave French captain to the courage of the widow who killed her torturer - through the eyes of one of the survivors, then a child.

An animated film by Cine Calligraphie.

A documentary shown on Greek television in 1981, that describes the plight of Greek villages abandoned by their inhabitants. Some scenes from this film were rewritten into Voyage to Cythera.

A teleplay based on the play of the same name by E. Volodarsky.

With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely shot in Japan - stands as a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death.

Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

"The Beauty of Ritual" (《祭典之美》) by Chang Chao-tang (張照堂) surveys Taiwanese folk festivals across regions and seasons, framing them through the perspectives of archaeologist Chen Chi-lu (陳奇祿), choreographer Lin Hwai-min (林懷民), psychologist Yu Te-hui (余德慧), and painter Shiy De-jinn (席德進). The script and voiceover by Chiang Hsun (蔣勳) articulate the symbolic and affective dimensions of traditional belief.With music by Ma Shui-long (馬水龍), Chou Wen-chung (周文中), Kitaro (喜多郎), and Mike Oldfield, the film juxtaposes Eastern and Western sonic forms, re-mediating ritual as a dynamic contemporary cultural field.

Pink film by Kinya Ogawa.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the ghost of Li Huiniang returns to the world of the living to seek revenge against her murderer.

Aging film star Eddie Constantine travels through Germany.

This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The Romany Trail Part Two is a penetrating, provocative tour of a fabled people’s existence. It reveals the prejudice they still face daily and which they combat with the lyrics and music they have carried and adapted on their long migrations. Featuring: The music of Django Reinhardt, the ballads of the Holocaust, Hungarian folk musicians and professional restaurant bands, pipers and the greatest names in Gypsy entertainment.

A record of the unveiling of the monument to the victims of December '70 that took place in front of gate 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard. Witnesses to the December events describe their experiences.

Communist activists have to let out steam due to increased pressure in their professional life.

A surreal look at humanity, from the first life on Earth, through to the extinction of dinosaurs and the inventions of mankind.

Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José Marinho). Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios (Luiza Maranhão) and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta (Lenicio Queirogo) to face the greed of Elói.

A unique sliver of the era of backyard films shot on eight-millimeter film — a true space western with family and friends, featuring shootouts, an atomic explosion, and a space jump.

An Anzac Day stunt intended as a political statement is viewed as an act of terrorism, forcing Ray Unit further underground, fleeing to his childhood home on the other side of Australia.

Ateng has felt how difficult it is to live with his stepmother. He is often being shouted at and even gets slapped. His father never stands by him. The village people are impressed to see the appearance of Iskak, Ateng’s old friend, who has just returned from Jakarta. This causes Ateng to yearn to leave for the capital city. And so Ateng joins Iskak. Once they arrive in Jakarta, their bags are stolen. Apparently Iskak has been talking big, as it is difficult for him to find a job. Ateng feels miserable in the capital city. He has been beaten up, starved and tricked. Ateng feels the capital city is crueler than his stepmother.

After WWII life in Soviet Russia through the eyes of a fatherless boy.

Nina's first collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes, the film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka, and also expresses how art is a transformative response to life.

Televised stage performance based on Charles Dickens' novella.

This wild and campy comedy is about the five food groups, but with a big difference! To make its point, the producers use stop motion to make the gags come alive. Fruit, thermos and jars, meat, fish and cereal all swirl and spin on the table as Mom, son and assorted neighbors watch in disbelief.

It all began with "Black Friday" - a massacre on Sept 8, 1978, by the Shah's police. Official pronouncements put the death toll at 200, but the next day the people of Teheran witnessed how thousands of bodies were brought to Behast Zahra cemetery. Yet even this wasn't the whole extent of the tragedy. As the families continued looking for their relatives they began to realize just how many had disappeared. Over the next few months the massacres continued, with many thousands more disappearing, until February 11th, 1979, victory day for the Revolution. Naderi's film follows this search for the missing, through which the terrible truth is gradually revealed. The film is not only a documentary but also a document of a horrible crime.

The interior of a house. Outside, the sun parches the landscape. A woman’s voice tells a story. Filmed from 35mm slide projection on 16mm reversal Fuji film with in camera fades and pans.

Arena looks behind the Gioconda smile. The Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre behind plate glass - an unsigned, undated portrait of a smiling woman. She is the most idolised and abused woman in the history of art.

Documentary directed by Hans Rolf Strobel

The film grew out of the home movies made by my father and then by me. Led to one of the first optical printer films produced at The Florida Optical House, Miami, and shot by Albie Krieger. Combines Reg 8mm, 16mm and 35mm with most derived from 16mm. the sources and content are obvious, with the overall experience somewhat unresolved. tho the ending is explicit and direct. hence "the quickie version" title for a film that has been reworked in differing versions and number of projectors and screens. (Bruce Posner)

Jo Yong-pil establishes a band and receives a lot of local support. His girlfriend helps him produce an album and distributes it to dj's across the nation to help Yong-pil achieve stardom.

A middle-aged couple is under impression of a young couple who moved in the apartment next to theirs. Noises coming through the wall make them question their activities and remind about their own lives. Each line of the dialogue is spoken in rhymes.

Thirupati, an orphan, makes a living by selling movie tickets in black. He is a kind-hearted man who eventually turns violent against evil

GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM is constructed from fourteen dreams taken from eight years' worth of my journals. The text is scratched directly on to the film so that you hear your own voice as you read. The accompanying images of women, water, animals and saints were chosen for their indirect but potent correspondence to the text.

The End of Milton Levy is a 1981 Israeli crime film, written and directed by Nissim Dayan, with Oshik Levy and Dov Glickman in the lead roles.

Compilation film by Jim Terry "Eons in the future Dr. Copernicus, a man of ingenious intelligence, works in his laboratory perfecting what will become the ultimate in advanced technology, a mechanism of extreme proportions, with all the capabilities of excellent combat amid interstellar battlefields. It has been named STARVENGER, a robot superior in defense as well as an unbeatable force in conquering the enemy. The craft with its three robot components Star Dragon, Star Arrow and Star Poseidon, will be put to test in the invasion of the militaristic Pandemonium Empire, led by the crafty and wicked General Ramzorch. STARVENGER and the conventional armies of Earth join forces to save the universe from the evil domination of Pandemonium. STARVENGERS™ will jet you into thriling excitement like no other animated science-fiction feature." - Back of the VHS cover description

American horror movie from 1981.

An edited film composed of excerpts from television recordings that, for various reasons, did not make it on the air.

The found-footage collage was overlaid with a psychologist expounding on sex offenders, analog video effects, edgy graphics, and a new wave score by the band Human Sexual Response.

Telly Savalas tours the coastal city of Portsmouth, with a look at the intriguing history and magnificent attractions.

Young Sizwe is stuck in an unhappy home where his abusive father, together with a mean-spirited friend, neglect the poor young boy, often refusing to give him any food or water. Things start to look up for Sizwe when he befriends Mandla, another young boy who lives in the area, but one day, while Sizwe and Mandla are out playing together, Sizwe’s father and his buddy kidnap Mandla, taking him hostage. Mandla, however, is a resourceful boy, and when Sizwe brings Mandla’s father to help out, the trio manage to get the upper hand. In the end, the mean-spirited father and friend are beaten, and Sizwe is given a happy new home with Mandla and his caring dad.

Made in 1981

The dwarf Ogar lived alone and abandoned. He lived in a small, cramped cave and fed on garbage. One day, a prince rode by and wanted to free Ogar from his fate.

Records the run up to Christmas 1980 in Dallas, Texas, from the point of view of the city's largest department store, Neiman-Marcus.

Iron Maiden at Rolling Stone, Milan, Italy 1. Another Life 2. Killers 3. Innocent Exile 4. Running Free 5. Transylvania 6. Guitar Solos 7. Drifter