All Films

Mrs Capper's Birthday

1985 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

1985 • 50 min

This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Team Salkind as they set out to bring Santa's "true" story to the screen. Dudley Moore (Patch) hosts; David Huddleston intros in character as Santa.

Supergirl: The Making of the Movie

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary filmed during production of the film "Supergirl" showing the world how and who made it. This interesting featurette includes interviews with the cast and crew along with footage from the film and excerpts from the musical score.

The Laundromat

1985 • 59 min • United States of America

Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.

Boulez-Répons

1985 • 43 min

In this vivid transposition of contemporary music for television, Cahen "responds" to the complex musical transitions of Répons, a work by French composer Pierre Boulez. Performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain and conducted by Boulez, the intricate Répons was designed for an ensemble of twenty-four musicians, six soloists and a "real-time" digital processor. In Cahen's re-composed interpretation, he responds with visual and temporal transformations, "opening" the images in space and time and applying electronic techniques to engulf the instrumentalists in ocean, sky, and trees. Mirage-like superimpositions, temporal shifts, mirroring effects and de-synchronization result in a rhythmic confluence of the illusory and the real. Immersing the viewer in image and sound, Cahen mirrors the transformative process of Boulez's music.

Kidsongs: A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm

1985 • 28 min • United States of America

Join the Kidsongs Kids for a musical day on the farm and meet all of their animal friends. Milk the cows, feed the piglets, cuddle the ducklings and meet Mary's famous lamb as you sing the songs we all know and love. Bounce along on an old-fashioned hayride and sing around the campfire in this heartwarming music adventure.

Dereza

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Orson Welles' Magic Show

1985 • 27 min • United States of America

Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In this unfinished television special, filmed between 1976 and 1985, Welles performs various magic tricks for the camera, promising that no trick photography is used.

Now I Can Tell You My Secret

1985 • 15 min • United States of America

Film exploring the sensitive issue of disclosing child sexual and physical abuse through the depiction of peer and trusted adult relationships.

Feast of the Fallen Angels

1985 • 21 min • Japan

Datenshi-tachi no Kyōen is an OAV (1985) where the younger sister of a family (who gets in way over their heads) ends up owing the yakuza money. Because she can't pay, she is taken by the gang members to be used as a sexual toy. Then she vows to take gruesome revenge upon her perpetrators.

Tino

1985 • 28 min • France

A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the celebrated story of Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with his favourite Antinous.

Madonna: The Virgin Tour Live

1985 • 54 min • United States of America

Madonna: The Virgin Tour — Live contains the concert footage from The Virgin Tour, filmed at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1985. Madonna launched her first major concert tour in support of her album Like a Virgin, and this video captures the Material Girl on-stage, baring her famous tummy and dancing up a storm as she belts out a set of hits from her first two albums.

Winners: Just Friends

1985 • 47 min • Australia

Just Friends - A classic Australian children's telemovie about growing up, peer pressure, friendship and family. When Susan Foster moves to a new suburb she has difficulty fitting in. Susan's home life is uncomfortable with an unemployed father, a distant mother and an unexpectedly pregnant big sister. Susan seeks refuge at the local Roller Skate rink where she meets Buzz, the brash young gang leader and the best skater in town. Susan becomes part of Buzz's gang but is soon confronted with his selfish behaviour and cruel treatment of his friends. Susan must decide which is more important to her - fitting in or being fair. Just Friends is part of the Winners series of television programs created by the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

Tango

1985 • 6 min • East Germany

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century, and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.

Dead Kennedys: DMPO's on Broadway

1985 • 58 min • United States of America

This 58 minute DVD video is one of the Dead Kennedy's last ever live concerts, captured on film just months before their breakup in 1984. This 14-song performance at San Francisco's On Broadway catches Jello and company at the height of their punk powers.

The Berenstain Bears and The Truth

1985 • 30 min

Plus The Berenstain Bears Save the Bees, 1980's video.

Three Cloaked Men

1985 • 56 min • Albania

Three cloaked partisans are carrying out their duty in the harsh winter. During the way, they are disovered by the Germans.. The shepherd, Xhemo use a brave trick to save them, thus risking his life.

Chief, Let's Go!

1985 • 60 min • Czechoslovakia

Criminal comedy, a third movie from the "Chief" series.

We Are The Clowns

1985 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Clowns are coming to town. There is a performance of the clowning theater "Litsedei". Their reprises are laughter and jokes bordering on sadness and sadness.

Public Writer

1985 • 3 min

Sarah Maldoror interviews women of different nationalities who serve as “public” writers, linking French administrative bodies with people who cannot speak or write French.

The Portrait of Wendy's Father

1985 • 19 min

An old boyfriend, Tony (Joe Petruzzi) turns up at the home of Wendy (Kim Deacon), catching her by surprise as she tends to the washing on her Hills Hoist.

This Unnameable Little Broom

1985 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

The Making of 'Superman III'

1985 • 48 min • United States of America

This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Superman III, a more comical take on the superhero story in which the Man of Steel takes on a supercomputer and its bumbling programmer. Included are interviews with the cast and crew who share their experiences from making the film, as well as disscuss the efforts that went into it.

Shipbuilder

1985 • 6 min • Canada

This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen spent ten years building and moving overland a huge iron ship that was to carry him back to his native Finland. The ship never reached water.