Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

A documentary about the poet / singer / actor Cornelis Vreeswijk. Made about a year before he died.

A boyish dispute over drums full of scared pigeons.

A man has his tongue cut out by bad guys, later tracks them all down, and kills them one by one.

Young boxer tries to imitate Rocky Balboa as played by Sylvester Stallone.

A bold film starring one of the softdrink beauties, Sarsi Emmanuelle.

A study of the legendary Polish cinemagician, whose exquisite model animations include the featurette The Tale of the Fox (1931), in which a typical 3-minute sequence required up to a quarter of a million different puppet scenes. Providing a window on his working methods, this documentary includes extracts from Starewicz's films and interviews with his collaborators.

In this gripping, harrowing and insightful documentary, director Gray interviews factory worker women in Mexico and the Philippines and the U.S. industrialists they work for.

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.

A short film about the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, commissioned by the IDHEC.

Three roommates transform into undead after one of them was attacked in the basement.

In a Renaissance castle, masks and costumes are moving animated by moonlight. In this magical atmosphere, the painting of a girl comes to life, while two young men behind bars and listen to music and singing in a large room a prince wanders in the throes of loneliness

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

“Master Wonhyo” is an 8-part special drama commemorating the 1986 Seoul Asian Games that aired on KBS 1TV from September 23 to October 3, 1986. This is a drama depicting Wonhyo, a monk from the Silla period, from the perspective of a monk, a scholar, and a thinker.

The story takes place in Xinzhuang Village in western Henan Province. Due to poverty, Heidun (played by Li Wangxiong) has not yet married and started a family at the age of 27. Ding Yunhe (played by Yu Shaokang) is a retired railway worker who has a unique skill in growing melons.The village party secretary Zhang Migui (played by Yang Zichun) was initially opposed to everyone abandoning the farm to plant melons. Now after the melon farmers harvested a good harvest, he refused to pay Ding Yunhe a large amount of remuneration according to the contract. He began to fabricate baseless charges against Ding Yunhe and took advantage of everyone's small-scale farmer consciousness to defraud Ding Yunhe. Ding Yunhe received the reward he deserved, and organized a farce to catch the rapist, falsely accusing him of having an affair with the landlady. Ding Yunhe angrily left this dishonest village.

A personal film essay on some Swedish outsider artists. Staffan Lamm retells how he encountered their work, which happened over a period of more than forty years, and what it meant to him.

The film takes place in late 1941 in Transcarpathia. Soviet paratroopers landed on the territory occupied by the Hortists. Of the six, only Olexa Borkanyuk manages to bypass the ambush. However, the Nazis, taking local people hostage, threaten to punish them if he doesn't voluntarily surrender. For the sake of saving the lives of people, Olexa goes to the camp of the enemy. The film is based on real facts from the life of the writer and journalist, Hero of the Soviet Union Olexa Borkanyuk.

Documentary that refers us to one of the most important characters in Peruvian culture: José Carlos Mariátegui. The figure of the Peruvian intellectual and politician is remembered and reconstructed by those who were part of his most intimate circle of friends and collaborators.

Kazuo, an aspiring writer, has brought his works to magazines many times, but they have all been rejected. His wife Yoshiko works as a hostess to help with the family finances, but to get material for his works, she experiences SM and has lesbian sex with her friend Yoko. One day, he brings Kyoko, whom he picked up in the city, to be his SM model, and the work Kazuo writes based on this experience is recognized by the magazine for the first time, but Kyoko has a surprising true nature...

Blind Eye Sees All is a concert video by Butthole Surfers, which was released on VHS tape in 1985 through Touch and Go Video. The bulk of the video features performances from two concerts at Traxx in Detroit, MI in February and March, 1985, woven between rambling interviews with the band relaxing in bed. Also included is footage from an early concert of the band with a fully nude Gibby Haynes.

Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s film points the way toward a more polyvocal understanding of the role of France’s National Library worldwide.

The dreary everyday life of a German who has retreated to Greece to write, his isolation and his encounters with an 11-year-old girl.

Holly Woodlawn stars along with underground personalities of downtown New York in this adaptation of “the sound of music” by the renowned composer Scott Wittman, presented at limelight April 21, 1986.

The film is based on the novel of the same name by Nikos Kasdaglis and deals with the experiences of a group of soldiers during their military service in 1953, four years after the civil war.

Hosa Neeru is a 1986 Kannada-language film, directed by K. V. Jayaram and written by K. V. Raju. The film stars Anant Nag and Suhasini. It is considered one of the best movies by the Anant Nag and K. V. Jayaram duo. It is also the first movie for Suhasini with Anant Nag. After marriage, a woman who is an engineering graduate decides to take up a job. However, she faces strong opposition from her father-in-law who does not want her to work.

This bold "graffiti" essay on the Pope, Michael Jackson, the Olympic stadium, and the manipulation of the masses, provided a fresh glimmer of hope in a decade of institutional complacency. In Passiflora (named after the anaesthetic tropical flower), the animation, "new music", street theater and dramatization deployed builds on Belanger's observations of the two media stars' simultaneous visits to Montreal to meet with their followers. The film celebrates the resistance shown by a coalition of the unsubmissive: gays, transgendered people, youth, battered women, psychiatric patients, abortion activists and women who have had abortions.

A waltz played with an accordion starts a short story about the running time.

“There is a World in one of those far off stars and things do not happen there as they happen here”. A love story with a twist, set on a distant planet.

A young boy goes to live with his great-grandmother. While she tells him stories of his ancestors, he begins to see the spirits of children who lived in the house during the reign of Charles II.

Zedd plays D.B. Shane, a dead star who visits a fan in her dreams, kisses her then kills her.

Short horror comedy.

A boy who has been thoroughly educated in communism and a boy who uses balloons to send letters to South Korea. They wear a gaksital mask and send their brother to a concentration camp after accusing him of harassing the Communist Party members at night. However, he finds out later that he is being used, so he writes a gaksital himself.

Menelaus is a womanizer with a weakness for young women, whom he usually promises to promote. Mrs. Helen, a faithful wife, tolerates her husband's games until she meets the handsome Paris. Then she decides to return the favor. But fate plays a strange game with them. The two couples end up at the same hotel to enjoy their love, and of course, the tables are turned.

The most representative heroes and characters from the traditional tales and legends of the Basque Country, guided by the word. A one-eyed 'tartalo' who's been up all night is swindled by a man because he's got the miracle ring he talks about. A naughty little Kukubiltxo makes the cows and burros talk when he hides in the ear of a donkey. A lying demonic Galtzagorri is unashamed. In short, universal myths from the stages of today and yesterday in the Basque Country.

A poor and "arbitrary" young man creates a radio station to send messages of love to his girlfriend. Suddenly, however, an unexpected will grants him a respectable name and a huge fortune, which creates endless problems for him. Even his life is in danger...

A middle-aged man makes every effort to provide for more or less decent life for his family. He is a driver who carries vegetables and fruits. He spends reasonable to save for his family and especially for his kid. Everything is all right until the day when the boy finds out that the part of the money have been made in indecent way. This revelation provokes a serious conflict in the family and the boy deserts his home. The man makes an attempt to put an end to his shady deals, but it turns out to be impossible. His 'employers' display exorbitant aggressiveness.

Colour, form, area – this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and Bauhaus paved the way for modern art. In 1913, he created one of the first abstract pictures, the theoretical basis of which was inspired by his essay Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art). Accompanied by Mussorgsky’s Pictures From An Exhibition Labarthe goes on a sensual journey which makes the soul resound with colours and forms. "A picture has to resound and must be bathed in an inner glow." Kandinsky

Elayne Boosler's first Showtime stand-up comedy special.

Clark and Jim resurrect their superhero identities of Super Christian and The Lone Christian to help teach people at their church not to hide their problems from each other.

The daughters of a big shipowner, bored by the boredom of wealth, enter a convent as novices. Spontaneous, cheerful and irrepressible as they are, they almost turn it into a disco.

Originally titled, "Espirito de Cabo Verde"

This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing countries. After examining cost and available technology, as well as the different needs of the industrialized middle class and the urban poor, the film proposes some surprising solutions.

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.

Construction safety film hosted by a hangman executioner in a black mask.

A short film commissioned by the Société Lyonnaise de Banque to present its business plan to the staff.

A 1986 Filipino comedy film starring Lito Lapid, Redford White, Janice Jurado, and Debbie Miller.

An early film by Chinese documentary director Kang Jianning. Whether it is a feature or a short is unknown.

Otto Kimmel had a long career as a confectioner. Now he is a pensioner and primarily a grandpa. In his house, where three generations live under one roof, Otto is the restless soul; this sometimes causes problems, but also brings a lot of joy. For his grandchildren, Grandpa Otto is a "fragrant buddy" because he is up for a lot of fun and initiates the craziest things. To Martha's chagrin, however, he sometimes oversteps his grandfatherly "sphere of competence". Amusing events and entanglements unfold over 75 minutes, and the "Gesellenstück" (journeyman's play) finally results in something that even Grandpa Kimmel is more than surprised by.

This is the 1983 edition of Jamaica’s annual Reggae Sunsplash in Montego Bay, a week-long showcase for some of the greatest names in reggae, ska, funk and dub poetry.

Follows the writer Günter Kunert on his return to West Berlin after his emigration from the GDR.