All Films

Motörhead Live in Toronto

1984 • 50 min

Filmed at Maple Leaf Gardens during the Iron Fist Tour on May 12, 1982. Songs include: Overkill / Heart of Stone / Shoot You in the Back / The Hammer / Jailbait / America / (Don't Need) Religion / Capricorn / (Don't Let 'em) Grind Ya Down / (We Are) The Road Crew / No Class / Bite the Bullet / The Chase is Better Than the Catch / Bomber

Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture

1984 • 59 min

In 1982, at the height of the postmodernist adventure in architecture we visit 4 practices: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman – all protégés of Philip Johnson. These innovators rejected the European modernism of Mies and Corbusier in search of alternative directions. Since then their work has made architectural history and has influenced many young architects. Philip Johnson comments throughout the film. The architects show us and discuss their buildings of the time on location and in their offices.

Assaltaram a Gramática

1984 • 12 min

Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts criticizing the then current generation and its lack of admiration for the poetic works that were being created.

Lion and Bull

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Award winning animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk.

How the Puppy Was Taught to Swim

1984 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A puppy is taught to swim by a swan, a crayfish and a pike, but nothing comes of it. Puppet cartoon about the benefits of personal experience.

How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding

1984 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Tur regrets being single until he meets a charming maiden to whom he promises a new pair of boots. He gets trapped at a witch’s sabbath hosted by the devil, who promises him a pair of boots in exchange for his soul.

Kaiketsu Nōtenki 2: Pure Love in Minato City

1984 • 23 min • Japan

Noutenki faces off against Mecha Noutenki

There is a Demon in the Man's House

1984 • 60 min • Japan

A wealthy old man who has a dull complexion and has to hug a young man every night. The men continue to donate their bodies to the old man's legacy. This abnormally frenzied party eventually heads in an unexpected direction...

Circle Square - It's a Steal!

1984 • 22 min • Canada

The Circle Square Gang learn important lessons about taking something that isn't theirs, and why it's wrong.

Lights

1984 • 24 min • Israel

Lights reminds us to stand up for what we believe! This Chanukah story is told through animation & gripping narration by Judd Hirsch Also features the voices of Leonard Nimoy & Paul Michael Glaser.

The Cousteau Collection N°19-1 | Amazon: Snowstorm in the Jungle

1984 • 48 min • France

Charlie's Christmas Secret

1984 • 23 min

Short film about a newspaper boy who tries to help some folks during Christmas.

Elephant Went to Study

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An unusual student appears in the mouse school. The beginning of the trilogy about the shy elephant based on the fairy tales of David Samoylov.

Persistence of Vision

1984 • 14 min • United States of America

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are interviewed, and films preserved by Anthology are spotlighted.

Lynda Carter: Body and Soul

1984 • 50 min

Lynda Carter's fifth musical TV special, with guest stars Eddie Rabbitt and Ben Vereen.

Hello

1984 • 9 min

Extraterrestrials contact earth in this delightful fable. Their message is "HELLO" in many languages, and there is a celebration.

È pericoloso sporgersi

1984 • 12 min

È pericoloso sporgersi tells the story of a child who has been thrust into a position where he must make an impossible decision.

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1984 • 37 min • United Kingdom

Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.

La Dame des Yvelines

1984 • 56 min • France

Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.

Work and Words

1984 • 52 min • France

In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée, Les Mains négatives, Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne), Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver). She touches briefly on the various subjects dealt with: the return to Césarée of Berenice, repudiated for reasons of state, Jewish wandering, the scandal of the camps in the two Aurelia Steiner. Negative Hands as the colonial data of humanity, a film offered to the blacks and Portuguese who clean up Paris before leaving the place. Marguerite Duras also comments, with excerpts, on the various traveling shots that make up the main plot of each of the short films. And the documentary ends with a few words of epilogue: a real pamphlet by Marguerite Duras against dreams, significantly entitled Work and Words.

Poochie

1984 • 23 min

Poochie, a little pink dog who runs a newspaper advice column for her owner, receives a letter from a little boy who has literally lost his father in Cairo, Egypt. Poochie and her robotic servant, Hermes, travel there to help him and end up finding a lost city that would prefer to keep its secrets.

The Tale of Tsar Saltan

1984 • 53 min • Soviet Union

Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the magical world created by Alexander Pushkin. Adventures brave Tsarevich Guidon, beautiful Swan-Tsar Saltan reminded of that love, loyalty and the spirit always wins!

Lulu in Berlin

1984 • 48 min • United States of America

Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks. It took place in her apartment in Rochester, New York, in 1971.

Doctor De Soto

1984 • 7 min

A kind-hearted mouse dentist and his wife find a clever way to treat a crafty fox who comes to them with a sore tooth in this Oscar nominated short, adapted from William Steig's children's book.