Cinematic Era: 1982 Vintage

A damning documentary exposing the reactionary ideology and practices of Zionism and the State of Israel.

A short film made by Eric Rohmer dealing with the drawings of Raphael.

The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower".

A short directed by Lina Romay as Rosa Maria Almirall.

Three poor Greek youths arrive on holiday in Cyprus with the aim of seducing young girls by pretending to be rich...

Two prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is to bury their prejudice and rely on one another.

The earliest pro-shot footage of R.E.M. in concert: a 50-minute live set filmed on Oct. 10, 1982, for broadcast on TV by a South Carolina station about six months before the release of the band’s debut, Murmur.

An ordinary sheet of paper adventures through a bureaucratic world and finally finds its calling.

Taiwanese comedy.

Demonstrations and examinations of Tae Kwon Do kicking techniques.

Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train."

Accident Report Workplace Safety from 1982.

A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has difficulty adjusting to life in Nazi Germany.

Follows the Arkady Strugatsky's trip to Saratov.

He talked about how to make the public understand the difficult and complicated work of police officers, how to prevent them from committing crimes, and how to strengthen the relationship between the police and the people.

"This hand-drawn animation is based on a short story by Hermann Hesse THE HARD PASSAGE. It was produced at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 1980-81. The voice is my own and the sound score and recording is by Bob Stoloff. It won the award for best sound at the 5th World Festival of Animation in Zagreb, 1982." -D. Pies. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Short documentary.

A very impressive film is Barbara Meter's 'Distance to Nearby.' The film is a dramatic reconstruction of memory. The memory of the alienation and solitude of a (half) Jewish child -the filmmaker- while in hiding, dramatized in restrained but touching imagery. For instance the looking through corridors and rooms, which should have given the feeling of protection. D. Ouwendijk, Trouw, 1982

Segment 1 - THE TIRE (O Pneu)-(20'): Pietro carries a folder full of money with him on his journey. On the road, he meets Luiza who had a flat tire of her car. He spends the night with her in a motel. Segment 2 - THE TELEPHONE (O Telefone)-(20'): Elisa is a dissatisfied woman with her marriage and engages with a stranger on the phone. On the other side of the line, the man tells her erotic things, making her imagine herself living the situations narrated. Segment 3 - THE CURRENT (A Curra)-(40'): A newly married couple from the United States seeks to revive their erotic knowledge in ...

Doug Harris's 1982 avant-garde jazz film Speaking in Tongues was funded by German Public Television channel ZDF and broadcast throughout Europe when it was first released. The now rarely seen work features saxophonist David Murray, percussionist Milford Graves, and poet-playwright and novelist Amiri Baraka, and serves as a tribute to Albert Ayler, a tenor saxophonist who was a leader in the free-style jazz movement before his mysterious death in 1970.

A movie based on the stories by Antanas Vienuolis.

Hasan (İbrahim Tatlıses) decides to go to Saudi Arabia to buy toys for his kids. He asks for help from his boss but his boss wants him to accept the murder that his son did.

A musical TV comedy/drama which deals with life and fashion in Belgrade in the distant and near past.

The story of a maid and a young driver who love each other but cannot marry due to financial difficulties...

A teenager of gypsy race is accused of a crime he has not committed. For that reason, he decides to flee without truce until he reaches the coast. During his journey, he does not stop dancing.

Yasin is a well-educated son of a Pir of a village. Suddenly his father dies in a truck accident. Yasin returns to his village and searches for the truck driver to avenge his father's death. Since he is the son of the Pir, people of the village respect him and find something spiritual in him. He ignores it and starts staying in the home of one of his father's friends. Sometimes he talks with his father through his spiritual ability. Pori Banu is the daughter of his father's friend and in a relationship with truck driver, Lokman. Yasin and Pori Banu become good friends. Meanwhile, he realizes his spiritual ability and starts accomplishing tasks quickly and easily. But when he starts falling love with Pori, the power starts diminishes. Now, he tries to get the power back.

“A lyrical chronicle of a thirty-five day river trip along the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Moss’ inspired photography shapes what becomes a meditation on youth, nature, and an idyllic, fleeting moment in time.” —Harvard Film Archive

The movie is based on Azerbaijani folk tale "Malikmammad and the Three Princes".

1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 - a catastrophe he himself survived as a concentration camp prisoner.

A 1982 animated sci-fi adventure that still resonates today. The world is running out of energy - war looms between the 2 superpowers. A mysterious Black Planet is discovered in the universe. Secret Agents Freddy Fairweather and Marigold Muffet set out on hair-raising adventures that take them under the sea, across the country, and into outer space to find a secret formula which could well decide which side will land on the Black Planet first.

Two girls go to Berlin, one to find a German girl who lived at home in the 50s when her parents divorced, the other to look for a role in German cinema.

Portrait of "cinéaste" Ruiz, seemingly at his typewriter, in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

Buksi, the smuggler meet with Peter, the intellectual, who has been thought about the perfect crime, without any trace for such a long time. The smuggler forced Peter to work together: Peter's going to plan the action and Buksi's buddies implement it. No clues.

Eduard Bornhöhe „Kuulsuse narrid" is a fun story about two unsuccessful, yet aspiring fools. Jaan is an incompetent and uneducated inventor, Saalomon is a talent less poet.

Three strangers, two men and a woman, end up sharing a compartment on a train leaving Beijing for Shanghai -- the lone woman is quiet while one of the young men is gregarious and funny, and the other is more reserved, but compassionate. Eventually, the men cannot help but note the woman's silence -- it turns out she is running away from her employers who felt she was pretty much a derelict, and from some friends who were of questionable ethics, though she is not about to say anything to the two men. When she gets off the train in Nanjing, one of the young men from the train -- somewhat worried about his silent travel partner -- decides to follow her to make sure she will be okay. And it is a good thing he did so because she is menacingly approached by some obvious thugs and the young man gets her out of the potentially hazardous encounter.

A key document of the dictatorship years, and a pinnacle moment in Chilean cinema. Filmed covertly during the dictatorship, No Olvidar chronicles a terrible episode in Chile’s history: the kidnapping and murder of five men whose bodies were only found after five years of searching.

Debbie Harry first solo album with banned art by H.R. Giger is covered.

A picture of the life of residents of a modern apartment block. Thanks to the use of the trick technique, the film shows in cross-section apartments-similar boxes, the interiors of which are inhabited by different tenants. Hundreds of events happen in the big, busy moloch house: mundane and unusual, funny and tragic. However, they are all episodes to which no significance is attached. Life goes on...

Old fisherman Dã Tràng and his wife lives in a coastal village. One day, a snake saved by Dã Tràng gifts him a magical pearl that allows him to hear animals speaking and easily travel into the kingdoms underneath the sea. But his wife has other plans with this pearl..

Owner of an auto repair shop deals with marital problems and neighborhood gangsters running stolen cars and contraband electronics.

Paul Celan’s poem echoes. A drive reveals a long-abandoned Gründerzeit villa in ruin. Inside, a woman in elegant WWI attire dances, then slumps in mourning. After the war she cleans, reappears in 1930s riding clothes amid radio discontent as a maid and housekeeper move through the halls. Mourning returns with WWII’s end. Post-war, she dances to American rhythms, breastfeeds under Soviet-occupation broadcasts. Beatles and Pink Floyd play as a woman in overalls emerges, memories of the century flooding her mind. She climbs into a Trabant Kübel, helmet beside her, determined to give the villa a new life.

Featuring Sharon Moore and the members of the Mid-Hudson Ballet Company. Directed and edited by C. Wilson.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt about New Wave music.

In Éliclipse, postcard images of Parisian landmarks are cut into vertical bands; every other stripe of the image is replaced with a corresponding stripe from another postcard image, resulting in the blend of the figuration of the two images

Originally this was just another Italian drama, but because of the Naples Earthquake, the producers added some stock earthquake footage and changed the title to Terrible Earthquake. Larry Anderson

A boy learning to write imagines letters becoming birds and numbers turning into trees.

8mm work from the 6th Pia Film Festival.

Sorako, who wears a Seiko-chan haircut and is bullied, meets Namao, an orphan, and the two begin a new life together, growing vegetables. However, Namao sets off on a journey to search for his mother, and Sorako follows after him carrying a magical tomato given to her by Nina, the fairy of vegetables...