All Films

Junko's Diary of a Dirty Little Complex

1984 • 45 min • Japan

Kotomi's overly sensitive H diary. Today I went on a date with Hiroshi. No matter how long she waited, Hiroshi never showed up. I was attacked by a strange old man in the bathroom. When she went to aerobics, the instructor Yamagishi-san looked at her strangely...

A Far-Out Fourth

1984 • 28 min

When aliens kidnap Carl and whisk him away to the planet Klepter, he incites a prisoner revolt to get back to Earth in time for the Fourth of July.

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

1984 • 58 min • United States of America

A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

The Amazing Bunjee Venture

1984 • 30 min

Two 20th century youngsters, Andy and Karen, are accidentally transported back to the year 100,000,000 B.C. by their father's time machine. While dodging dinosaurs, the kids find a loyal friend in the form of Bunjee, a lovable, purple-haired creature who resembles an elephant with suction cups for feet. After escaping danger, Andy and Karen bring Bunjee with them when they return to the present. Alas, Bunjee is hardly ready for modern civilization, and vice versa.

Anticipation

1984 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

Macedonian TV drama.

Cinématon XXXVII

1984 • 30 min • France

Reel 37 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Egyptian Series

1984 • 17 min

A series of meditations on Egyptian hieroglyphs – designations (as I finally saw them) of nurturing godheads.

Haunters of the Deep

1984 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Josh Holman encounters the ghost of a child mine worker with a special warning on the headlands of his Cornish home town, as an old tin mine is about to be re-opened after the discovery of valuable deposits of ore.

Wonderful New Year's Night

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A family who, at the beginning of the story gives up the plan to buy toys, forms the frame for the film. Finally the same toys, the doll and the goose, find their way to them through the Christmas night. The toys’ journey ends with an extraordinary miracle that fits for a Christmas night.

Gino: Full Story and Pics

1984 • 31 min

A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.

Summer Switch

1984 • 46 min • United States of America

Father and son magically switch personalities with comical results.

The Bear

1984 • 58 min • Germany

One day the landlord Smirnov demands the widow Popova to pay an old debt which her husband left. She has no money at home and begs Smirnov to wait. The polite conversation turns quickly into an argument. Popova fetches the pistols. Smirnov realizes now that he’s in love with Popova. He confesses his love.

Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember

1984 • 44 min • United States of America

A holiday musical special with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers based around their best-selling album "Once Upon a Christmas."

The Joe Piscopo Special

1984 • 60 min

This is an HBO Special in which Joe Piscopo has 60 minutes to try to do many of his famous impressions. He has mostly his Saturday Night Live friends to help do small skits on the Special.

Cabbage Patch Kids: First Christmas

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

The Cabbage Patch Kids have their first Christmas adventure!

Magasinet Special: Chess 1984

1984 • 49 min

A documentary about the recording of the CHESS concept album by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

The Right Side of My Brain

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).

The Princess and the Pea

1984 • 53 min • United States of America

A bored prince realizes he would like a wife. His mother searches through all the kingdoms far and wide for a "suitable" princess. In the meantime, a charming and witty young lady, who claims to be a princess, shows up at the castle doorstep with a sprained ankle and is shown hospitality by the prince and his best friend the Fool.

Merton: A Film Biography

1984 • 57 min

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.

Strawberry Shortcake and the Baby Without a Name

1984 • 25 min

Strawberry Shortcake and the Baby Without a Name chronicles Strawberry Shortcake's annual summer camping trip, where she and her friends encounter a monster in the woods. The Peculiar Purple Pie Man and Sour Grapes attempt to capture it to become rich and famous.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1984 • 54 min • United States of America

Snow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will the wicked queen be able to get rid of her rival?

Pearl Diver

1984 • 5 min

PEARL DIVER is about the frustration of communication between two women who try to tell each other "I love you" underwater making humorous a very wet situation. Filmed in Super 8 in Baja, California and rephotographed in 16mm to emphasize the quality of light underwater and the dual nature of living in both air and water reflective of the female experience of living in a man's world.

Which Witch is Which?

1984 • 30 min • United States of America

The Ranger is throwing a big Halloween party and Buttons and Rusty wanna come, but instead they gotta thwart the evil plans of two criminals camping out in the park.

The Wandering Company

1984 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared in their films.