Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

Rare proshot from 1986

Television concert documentary from the San Remo Festival (Club Tenco), Teatro Ariston. San Remo/ Italy. November 22, 1986. With Greg Cohen on upright bass. Aired on Italian television by RAI DUE. Rebroadcast in 1988.

After the death of the director of the Polish company "Gont", the competition for his position begins. It is attended by the chief accountant Joachim Mackiewicz. However, the fight for the director's chair is skilfully manipulated by a certain Szczurowski. Mackiewicz, who wants to remain honest at all costs, quickly becomes his victim. At the same time, serious problems arise in Joachim's life.

Mysterious cinematographic events unfold in a very neat little space, like a theatre. A ball gets bigger and bigger and then suddenly disappears: there’s a dog a good head or two taller than a child; a young woman miniscule one second is huge the next… We don’t get it, but just enjoy taking part in a phantasmagorical experience like an audience in the early days of cinema, with filmmakers that have made an illusion out of this art.

This documentary includes performances of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker joined by Michel Graillier and Red Mitchell on piano and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse on bass. Also, an interview with Baker is included.

The cook wrote: "Of his own free will" and he was fired from the canteen. The cook took his bag, diploma: "For the best chef", and together with his favorite - a ginger cat - went to look for a new job.

Emigrating vampires roam the streets of America (starring Mary Seller)

When Natasha arrives in Tallinn with her professor father, she falls in love with Enna Lajda, the leader of a rock ensemble, and spends three days with him. Having left for Leningrad to continue working on the lead role in the ballet 'Romeo and Juliet', Natasha begins to pine for her lover and calls him to her. He arrives, she disrupts one rehearsal after another, and they part.

Based on the novel "My Sweet Orange Tree" by José Mauro de Vasconcelos. Majid lives with his mother in his bad-tempered stepfather's house. He gets on Javad's lorry secretly but the trucker scolds and beats him. Hating Javad, Majid promises to kill him. He goes to a trainer to get ready and confides in a tree. Javad realises Majid's emotional needs and they form a deep friendship after a while.

Winter 1870, in an isolated farm in the Vosges. Two brothers, Jean - says the Mexican - and Philippe, discover a young injured girl in the snow. Learning that she is wanted for murder, Jean takes her in, cares for her and protects her.

A woman working as a scout for a production company making underground videos wants to quit, but...

A guide on how to watch football, designed for women.

A sad snowman from the mountains befriends a girl down in the countryside. The title describes the third act.

A comedy known and loved by all, under the interpretation of the most famous actors of the Albanian National Theatre.

How brave little Ashirka met a jackal calf.

A family movie directed by Jinjing Chen.

Films with a work theme, which still proclaimed that work should be the first need of man, underwent only a gradual development. The clash of stagnant, fearful thinking with innovative methods, albeit in a significantly modified form, is nevertheless preserved. In this case, we find ourselves in a machine tool factory, where manual labor is to be replaced by robotic equipment. This provides a rare chance to see this forgotten film, which the audience completely ignored - at the time of its creation, it was seen by about a thousand people.

An avenging son is murdered while serving time inside prison.

The Christian Cowboy became suspicious when Professor Sinbad brought his colorful wagon onto Main Street and began selling his Canyon Root Elixir. Tom and Jenny help the Christian Cowboy solve the mystery of puppets who talked when they were supposed to be silent, plus the theft of jewels, watches, and wallets. It's high adventure, full of intrigue, but also clearly presents the wonderful Good News of the Gospel.

Nurhayati’s husband dies in an accident and she is left with four small children. Nur herself knows that she will not live long, as her doctor reveals that she must undergo a heart and lung transplant, with a little chance of survival. After telling the real situation to her father and to her eldest child, Asih, the children are brought to the families she considers as able to raise them. How lucky she is that the three families are eager to accept her children. On a birthday party of her youngest child, she feels at ease and dies.

Mela is a 1986 Pakistani Punjabi-language action film, directed by Hassan Askari and produced by Anwar Kamal Pasha, starring Sultan Rahi and Anjuman and in the lead roles

IBF Champion Michael Spinks meets former champion Larry Holmes.

Giant killer crocodile terrorizes a village.

Journey to Paris, the City of Light. Marvel at the panorama from the top of the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. Walk down the Champs-Élysées from l'Etoile to Place de la Concorde. Go inside Maxim's and Tour d'Argent to experience an elegant French meal, then pause at Dux magots for a cafe au lait. Stroll along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore and window shop at Dior and Lanvin. Enter the Louvre to view Winged VIctory, Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa. Glide down the Seine on a bateau mouche, past Notre Dame and the Ile St. Louis. Zoom through traffic in a Parisian taxi and ride the Metro. Climb to Montmartre, Sacre Coeur and Place du Tertre. Take a side trip to Versailles and be dazzled by the Hall of Mirrors.

The joint high mess of 80s German underground: An exercise in exquisite corps (and in some cases probably also automatic writing) for which artists from both nations shot episodes from the Good Book - not necessarily following the text too closely.

A young girl tries to protect her pet bear from a circus owner who wants to kidnap the animal and put it on exhibition at his circus.

Early short film by Zlatko Kasumovic

A former literature professor, who lost his career when he had a child with one of his students, is beginning his first serious novel in years...a dark story of revenge and murder. While at the park one day with his daughter, he meets a strange man who helps the professor come to terms with his dark side and realize that his violent fantasies might not all be in his head.

The village women of Mambai in Bali, Indonesia collect sand and stone from the river. Each woman sells what she has gathered for construction material. But the river is more than a place to work. It is a place to bathe, wash clothes, laugh and tell stories. "Fossil" is a collaborative performance piece crated by David Bronstein, Debbie Crowell, Ed Mitchell, Lynne Sachs, and Gede Tjok. The dance evolved through discussion and movement exercises as a collective response to the images from Mambai. This project was supported by an artist-in-residence grant from Downtown Community Television (New York, NY).

The adventures of a wildlife photographer and his three children, who work together making natural history films.

Despoina is a tough policewoman who doesn't give anyone any breaks. Pameinos has a car repair shop, he's great at his job but clueless in life. The devil brings him to sit next to Despoina at the cinema and try to put his hand on her, and then all hell breaks loose...

This magnus opus is a domestic symphony from a woman's point of view, the portrait of a grandmother, mother and child and their home. The women and their personal objects are mostly seen alone or relating to one another (except for touching scenes of the grandmother and grandfather together). A key aspect of Red Shift is the reading of selections from Calamity Jane's "Diaries," the most narrative aspect of the film. The Diaries are read against activities seen through a window, life passing by (people walking in winter, a river flowing). They tell how Jane lost her daughter and had to survive by using her talents to act like a tough and physically competitive man...

A film based on an improvised narration by a young boy about war.

Originally shown as part of Channel 4's series of shorts 'Women Call The Shots' on UK TV in 1986. The ingredients of animation are a motorcar, a dressmaker's dummy, and a glass of brandy. Out of the frying pan and into the fire goes sex and politics. What then is cooking?

From the Piney Woods School in the Mississippi Delta to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, this toe-tapping music film tells the story of the swinging, multi-racial all-women jazz band of the 1940s.

A young woman remembers her three previous love relationships just before she gets married.

Vichuda, a young woman who is quintessential, riveting and good at everything. Sorat, a young policeman, a friend of his brother, falls in love with her but do not dare to build a relationship. Sayam, Sorat's younger brother, has to take on the role of a gangster by dragging her to a hut in the middle of the forest and fake a story for his brother to come and rescue her. But a bond between kidnapper and kidnapped girl just happens in the midst of the soothing sounds of nature and the manifestation of true desire.

A film about a twelve-year-old girl who has the opportunity to go back in time with the help of the family's big old clock.

A ridiculous mini-doc about Bill Daughton and his creation of a six-foot penis costume at the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, New York. See Daughton dressed up in the giant penis costume, walking around campus, catching the subway, and chatting with people about the costume on his way to the Halloween Parade. (Oddball Films)

Who Takes the Rap – Immigration covers the history of immigration law in Britain from 1903 to 1986. The film describes how different groups of immigrants arrived for work in the UK, only to find increasingly restrictive laws, which kept them in low-paid, unskilled work and identified them as ‘undesirable.’ Footage of the Garners’ Steak House strike and the Grunwick strike is included to show how these workers fought back against racism. Specific laws are examined, and the film includes interviews with a number of immigrant women. The voices of two female rappers provide commentary throughout.

Others can't manage with one... but Panos manages with three! And each of the three thinks she's the only one. But there are also unpredictable factors. So at some point, the three "chicks" meet and Panos desperately tries, with the help of Beba, to get out of the mess...

This film deals with an atrocious and inhuman truth of various worldwide drug problems, according to the text which scrolls in the opening sequence. Some of the problems include: Drug trafficking, investigations and how drugs are affecting people around the world.

The death toll is very high at the construction site of a villa. The villa's owner and on-site construction manager also meet their deaths. The reason for their deaths is that the refuge and freedom of their spirits are being infringed upon so they start taking their revenge on the people. The house becomes abandoned and haunted. A scientist couple from the U. S. comes to live in the house. The spirits start making trouble for them so the couple asks a powerful Buddhist monk to help them. The Buddhist monk talks with the spirits and finds out their demands. The couple ends up moving elsewhere.

The film revolves around social paradoxes in terms of betrayal, greed and the pursuit of power, which leads to a series of exciting events surrounding Hussein Abdel Moneim Al-Saftawy, who becomes a party to the conflict between the police and one of the smuggling gangs.

Müslim is a poor man who struggles from dawn to dusk to provide for his children. Just as it is difficult to breathe in the struggle for life, it is equally difficult for Müslim to remain standing upright in this hell.

Captain Nagarjuna, a pilot, falls madly in love with Radha, a passenger on one of his flights and gets married to her. Things change when he learns about Radha's past.

The film tells the story of a young ghost Siang, the latter (AR badul), a casanova who previously had been seduced and manipulated the 17 girls. This time, she tried to seduce two girls using a variety of subtle ways. However, the result takes himself when he had to marry the two girls at the same time.

At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain, "Caswallon the Headhunter." I contributed a hand-painted film loop, as part of the special effects, as well as making two films during rehearsals: 1) the first dance film I've made, DANCE SHADOWS BY DANELLE HELANDER and 2) a film which meditates upon the unique process of creativity engendered by Denise Judson and the Sunday Associates in production, THE AERODYNE (Webster: "heavier-than-air aircraft that derives its lift in flight from forces resulting from its motion through air") - the latter two films silent.

In the Upper Room is a dance/theater collaboration between choreographer Twyla Tharp and composer Philip Glass. In the Upper Room from 1986, with music by Phillip Glass, choreography by Twyla Tharp. It's really impossible to convey in words just how brilliant this 40 minute piece is.

"Muslim rebels vs. Christian military": a Filipino action film with a strong religious storyline and a huge cast of Filipino talent. One young fighter must choose what side to join, what cause to fight for and all the years of hostility and hate.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A teenage rat's siblings peek through his keyhole when he entertains his girlfriend.