Cinematic Era: 1982 Vintage

Biopic of tragic Schlager singer Drafi Deutscher.

Based on the children's book series Poppen-sensei, which follows a biology assistant professor at Udo University who gets wrapped up in his fantasies in nature.

The Great Black Swamp was a wetland in northwest Ohio and extreme northeast Indiana that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation period until the late 19th century. The Story of the Great Black Swamp is a folklife documentary that investigates the Black Swamp area from its creation during the glacial ages to its transformation into farmland.

Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth perform jazz live on stage, chat about married life together, and recall lengthy musical careers.

Ron Harris assembled a series of dancers, athletes, models/actors and certified instructors to do some very seductive aerobic exercises.

A young owner of a tea plantation falls in love with a gypsie woman and they face many obstacles in their way.

Glass Gardens is an animated allegory of the role creativity plays in the survival of the human spirit. The protagonist wanders the dystopian ruins of a consumer culture, gathering relics, and creating new works.

On photographs taken by Cuchi White of trompe l'oeil painted on the walls of Paris and elsewhere, the comments of Georges Perec and Michel Butor are a reflection on the technique of artificial decor and the art of architectural illusion.

A former inmate, right after his release, seeks his former partner-in-crime to settle an old issue.

The film depicts a platonic love story. Müslüm is a popular singer, who shares his wealthy income with poor people. An old friend of Müslüm commits suicide because he got in trouble with his gambling habits. The beautiful daughter of this man is entrustet to Müslüm by him as his legacy.

On December 13th, 1981, Stevie Nicks's "Live In Concert" Video was filmed at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, California. This video was also presented on television as an HBO special. Only a portion of the tracks filmed live appeared on the 60 minute video. They are: 1. Gold Dust Woman 2. Gold And Braid 3. I Need to Know 4. Dreams 5. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around 6. Sara 7. Edge of Seventeen 8. Outside the Rain 9. Rhiannon

Carmelo Bene reads poems by Dino Campana

What happened to a certain American school bus full of not-so-decent American children when an act of vandalism and a stolen cigarette lighter wreak havoc and mechanical failure results in a….school bus fire.

A 19th-century New Englander becomes a mountain man friendly with an Indian and a bear.

A film about the consumption of crab in Paraíba.

Sttreet vendors get caught up in the beef between their wholesale supplier and one of his competitors.

The story of a poverty-stricken family, one of the countless fringe dwellers in India's slums. A man tries to earn some money by selling aborted fetuses to medical institutes.

A married man gets involved with a local dancer. Later, things get complicated for him after he decides to secretly marry the dancer and live with his two wives under the same roof.

Palmira looks after her drunkard father and survives by running errands for her neighbours. Her dream is to have a bicycle and one day she takes one that has been abandoned by its owner, starting trouble. Based on the book "Bibiana y su mundo" by José Luis Olaizola Sarriá.

Squat Theatre described this piece, which was presented both as a film and as a live show, as "an open journey through situations, styles and moods; an 'Arabian Nights' with heroes and legends written on the New York wind whistling the melody of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'" The 83-minute video combines drama with documentary, blurring the distinctions between theater and the everyday. In an indelible sequence that typifies the Squat Theatre's idiosyncratic cultural references, the underground pop icon Nico performs a marvelously jaded rendition of New York, New York.

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.

The Vergèse family is very fortunate : all their descendants have married some well-off people ! But oddly, they leave many bodies in their trail. Flore is their only penniless daughter-in-law, and the young woman feels in danger… Is it possible that the wealth of the Vergèse might be drenched in blood ?

A 1982 Indian Bengali Drama Film directed by Bijoy Bose.

Thirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of second sight. Unsure whether or not she even believes in ghosts, Cassie heads to the cemetery to test her ability to communicate with the Other World. She starts with the departed spirit of a harmless child: CHARLOTTE EMMA ELIZABETH WEBB, BORN 1840 DIED 1847. But when a mysterious man appears, Cassie finds a new companion. Is he a gravedigger? A bum? Or did Cassie's inexperience cause her to bring back Charlotte's frightening neighbor: DEVERILL 1720 - 1762?

Directed by : Galal El Sharkawy

8mm film made in 1982 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

The pupil of the orphanage is entering adulthood.

A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?

Middle-aged NFB producer Daisy Bellefeuille is about to get a facelift. Rubbo follows the process through her discussions with her friends, consultations with physicians, observation of other facelift patients, and finally the operation and its aftermath. There's also an amateur-intellectual sidebar on the history of physical appearance and its cultural importance- Altogether, a gripping, hour-long documentary about a woman and her facelift.

Dotsenko family, the father and son, works in the same workshop. The prosperity of the native plant is important for both father and son. But despite this, there are often disagreements between them, because the father considers his son to be a frivolous person.

A spy is given an important mission: to shed light on the mysterious Bactron 317.

This satirical comedy depicts the fate of two con artists who constantly encounter sharper and more experienced rivals. In their quest for easy profits, they often change several jobs and come up with a variety of original tricks and thievery. Each time, however, someone else profits from their ideas. And when they seek revenge on their crooked rivals, they end up back where they started - behind bars...

Based on Carlo Goldoni's play.

An investigation & analysis of UFO contactee Billy Meier's sightings, photographs & films.

François de Menil and Monique Alexandre's short portrait of artist Niki de Saint Phalle, shot in 16mm, 1982.

About fleeting mood swings.

A dramatic adaptation of a literary classic by Joseph Conrad, exploring universal themes dealing with individual morality and the responsibility of civilization.

hong kong film

Van Morrison and his band perform live in Essen, Germany, in April 1982. Highlights include "Into the Mystic", "Full Force Gale", "Bright Side of the Road" and "Cleaning Windows".

In his darkened apartment the poet, translator, and lyricist discusses his work and his "art of being alone". In the words of Tanikawa: "If there is love, there is nothing more to say...".

Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life, love and death.

Police Lieutenant Iskandar (Kelly Kalyubi) joins a doctor’s mission to a village but he's really there to investigate the mysterious deaths of several men who were found with snake bites on their necks. The early victims were all men who'd recently had sex with the village "black widow" Wulan (Giselawaty), but then people not even associated with her start turning up dead.

Renegade cops strike back when a crime wave hits their city.

In a barren, snowy Lapland landscape a man in a reindeer sled escorts a shaman's corpse to its final resting place. In the pale moonlight the fear is starting to take over, since something has awakened the shaman.

Natural minerals are found all over the world. They represent the wealth of the country they come from. This film conveys the beauty of minerals.

A portrait of the Scottish island of Iona.