Cinematic Era: 1983 Vintage

A masked assailant in an organized crime ring mutilates his victims with a straight razor.

A confirmed bachelor, a council employee from a small village, is fascinated by a refined schoolteacher.

Set in a rural town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, this comedy centers on a young couple determined to pursue their love against all opposition, while also chronicling the comical behaviors and interactions of a cast of lovable characters.

Experimental short narrating the love story of the bullfighter Bombita and his tragic final.

A film of the Pacific Northwest, the native people, poetry, history and the forces of change. This was an homage to the Indian heritage of the Pacific Northwest and a study in the contrast of how native people used the land, as opposed to European settlers who gradually took it over. It is experimental in style, combining time-lapse photography, archive footage, classic photographs by documentarist Edward Curtis, museum artifacts and other image sources.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Various customs prevail at royal courts. For us mere mortals, it would certainly be incomprehensible and ridiculous to see how important the prince's long nose was for the entire kingdom. That long nose, which was, incidentally, very unattractive, represented the height of nobility, and anyone who did not have one could be ashamed. When Prince Longnose wanted to get married, he took great care in choosing his bride and, above all, made sure that she also had a sufficiently long nose. But then something unpleasant happened to him. What was it, you ask?

A bird-shaped nave flies over various places with different beliefs and religions.

In a far forgotten village there are great expectations for the arrival of some important government authorities.

An improvisatory 40-minute foray into a fervent, formative period in the lives of poets such as Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, Amy Gerstler, and Bob Flanagan, who took part in Cooper’s famed Wednesday Night Poetry readings. Drawing on archival footage from those gatherings, including interviews and readings, Fear of Poetry presents a snapshot of Venice in the 1980s: a chorus of punks, poets, artists, and performers co-existing in a place where, according to Flanagan, “love is still possible.”

Hockey requires great commitment and even sacrifice from an early age. The thirteen-year-old players of a school hockey team, led by an experienced and perceptive coach, struggle with various problems of their age, from first loves to low self-confidence and disciplinary problems, but in the end they are all consumed by a sense of responsibility. The film touches on the dark side of the demanding sport, but it often acts childishly and simplifies the complex motivations of teenage boys.

On Christmas Eve in Busan, Jae-ha and his friends kidnap Seon-hie and are about to rape her when Jae-ha has a change of heart and lets her go. The two continue to meet by chance and genuine feelings of love begin to develop.

In the whimsical Dreamworks (1983), a narrator recites a parody of Freud that analyzes the dreams of cats against abstract images that seem to represent those dreams and shots from a cat’s point of view, moving about a room close to the floor.

One day, Louis - who seems obsessed by weapons and all things related – visits his old school friend Ada. She is quickly won over and not long after they marry. After the wedding their honeymoon takes them to Verdun in northern France, where over 500,000 soldiers died during the First World War. Louis runs from one monument and cemetery to the next, like someone possessed, salivating because of how hard the fighting was there. Ada feels increasingly uneasy with her new husband. One day, he purposely has himself and Ada locked in at Fort Douamont where terrible events took place during the war. There he turns out to be a stark raving maniac.

The story follows a young trio of musicians, played by Rachel Sweet, Matthew Penn (son of Arthur) and Judd Nelson, called The Third Dimension. They enter a battle of the bands in an old hotel called the Rock N' Roll Hotel. However, rival band The Weevils are intent on stopping the young band from winning the contest and taking the title for themselves... Essentially one of the first feature-length music videos, the film was produced in Richmond, VA, shot in 3D, filled with musical numbers, written by Russ Dvonch (Rock 'n' Roll High School), co-directed by Paul Justman (Standing In The Shadows of Motown) and featured 80s cable icon Colin Quinn as a local DJ. (Synopsis from Spectacle Theater)

Mercedes Sosa's recital upon her return from exile, in which she was accompanied by renowned artists, and an interview with the artist in which she recounts her life story from her childhood to the years when she suffered censorship, persecution, and exile.

All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest movements broke out in the late ’60s and the ’70s. They kicked against the powers that be through wild parties, jazz music, unconventional clothing, long hair, smoking marihuana, uninhibited dancing and free love.

An entire summer, van der Elsken walked through Amsterdam an filmed in the same manner as he used to shoot his photos, strolling through the city centre and making contact with people that fascinated him. It became hís portrait of the city and its inhabitants.

This was the first hometown gig where the Smiths were headliners. As the band came on stage Morrissey greeted the fans "Hello you little charmers... we're the Smiths, how d'you do?" then launched into "You've Got Everything Now". Throughout the show, in one song out of two (faster numbers), Morrissey - who still looked ill at ease on stage at the time - had something to shake in his right hand while with the left one he held the microphone.

A short educational documentary on early electronic composition and synthesizers.

In this TV special, Sherman the elf bungles his way from one job to the next at the North Pole, trying to find where he fits in. Finally, Santa Claus gives him the assignment of guarding his magic toy bag on Christmas Eve.

Based on Lithuanian folk tales.

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.

Hsu Tu Shan is a cruel and merciless White Haired Fox with a great passion for powerful spells. 20 years ago, he poisoned his Master and stole a book of magic scriptures which allowed himself to become the supreme 'Spell Master'!. The same amount of years later, Hsu's old lover - Miao Ching - has become a devout follower of Taoism. One day, she relays the story of Hsu Tu Shan to her student Shao Ying (Shih Szu) and sends her off on a mission to track down the evil Fox.

An experimental color film that uses imaginative video image overlays to present fictional actors from public spheres in a playful experiential context. They come from advertising billboards, theater and performance, and television. The extreme colors are created solely by the peculiarity and materiality of the video material used.

Based on the eponymous play by I.S. Turgenev.

The wharf in Landskrona launches its final boat as the workers get ready for unemployment.

The film comprises a total of six episodes: in each, the authors seek to highlight the personal problems and feelings of three French and three German female filmmakers.

A homeless New York man (looking very much like Charlie Chaplin) dreams about getting himself a warm room and food, and tries various things to fulfill his dream - yet something always goes wrong.

Artist Martha Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture under certain circumstances, as it appears in the editorial pages of Newsweek magazine.

Macedonian TV drama.

Extract from the program "Juste une image" produced by Thierry Garrel and directed by Philippe Grandrieux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau has just finished his last film, shot in unworthy conditions. He is preparing to show it to the movie critics of a local newspaper. The filmmaker launches the first images but these reveal all the problems that a non-professional filmmaker may encounter.

A high-rise building in the center of Berlin in the GDR on July 11, 1982. The final match of the soccer World Cup is being broadcast on television. Five episodes revolve around this event: Soccer fanatic Kneutzsch is torn between the exciting match and the rather irritated woman by the unexpected visit of a lady to whom he has written a marriage announcement ... Dr. Kobermann - on painkillers - has mistaken the bathroom door for the corridor door and locked herself out. Her husband is sitting in front of the TV with headphones on and doesn't hear her ringing, so she seeks refuge in her nightgown with a neighbor, a flautist. After his ex-love Carmen leaves him and wants to return home, the exiled Andrés follows the game - in the knowledge that his father, thousands of kilometers away, is also watching...

In the most that neither is in the middle of America, on a flat, flat as a pillar, stretching for hundreds of miles, Prairie Valley known as the "Great Plain", where the Kansas River flows into its more famous sister, the deep Missouri, is the city of Kansas City, that part of it that is attached to the right bank - is listed in the state of Kansas, the one that stretches on the left - in the state of Missouri. But the city is one...

A lengthy sit-down video interview with Jess Franco and Lina Romay (the cutest couple in showbiz) that rambles over Franco's entire career (pre-1991) as well as following many conversational tangents. Lengthy discussions of the film business, and Franco's directorial approach and craft. Franco reveals himself to be a man of real taste, vastly preferring Beatty's Dick Tracy to Burton's Batman, and offers some intriguing opinions – for instance, he wishes that his early B&W films would be colorized, because he only made them in B&W to save money.

1983 Chinese FIlm

Twenty years after his death, the evil master of martial arts, Mu-sang, is resurrected by the sorceress Hwang-nyeo. He and the witch begin a murderous campaign of revenge as they try to steal a mystic book from the monks of Mudang.

Supernana, David Grossexe, Simone Cuisse d'Acier, Jean-Yves Lafesse occupy during three nights of summer 82, with their guests, Radio Carbone locals, one of those numerous « free radio » created in France at this period.