All Films

The Oshima Gang

1983 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1983 film MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE.

My Breakfast with Blassie

1983 • 57 min • United States of America

My Breakfast with Blassie is a movie starring Andy Kaufman and professional wrestler "Classy" Freddie Blassie. It is a mostly improvised parody of the popular art film My Dinner with Andre and is set in a restaurant where Kaufman and Blassie have a discussion over breakfast. Also featured is Kaufman's partner Bob Zmuda, who plays a nosy fan. Lynne Margulies, who would later become Kaufman's girlfriend, also plays a role; in fact, she and Kaufman met for the first time on camera.

Fireworks for Elspeth

1983 • 51 min

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.

Likely Stories, Vol. 4

1983 • 60 min • United States of America

"Likely Stories" was one Pay-TV's first original comedy programs. The one-hour shows were a mixed-bag of short films, videos, and animation that helped define the cutting-edge of today's no-holds- barred cable comedy programming. Each episode was chock-full of notable comedy stars eager to dabble in pay-cable's new found freedoms.

The Camps of Death

1983 • 60 min • United States of America

Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pagse of history are chronicled in the piercing documentary Camps of Death. Following Hitler's murderous career, the film traces his rise to power, his ultimate demise, and the subsequent nuremberg trials that publicized the horrors of Hitler's regime. Concentration camp footage combines with chilling POW interviews to graphically create the nazi nightmare that few could hope to survive. A powerful look at the third reich adn the horrifying fate of its enemies.

Okori-jizō

1983 • 27 min • Japan

Hiro-chan, a girl celebrating her sixth birthday, visits her neighborhood Laughing Jizo statue. At that moment, on August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb detonates over the city of Hiroshima

Package Tour

1983 • 40 min

A documentary following a group of holiday-makers from Manchester on holiday in Benidorm.

Allison Sydney Harrison

1983 • 60 min • United States of America

The story, set in San Francisco, depicts the adventures of Allison Sydney Harrison, a high-school student who teams with her wealthy private-detective father David Harrison to solve crimes. In the pilot, Allison and David team to solve the murder of a beautiful woman. The prime suspect is their chauffeur, Pat Rosetti.

James Bond: The First 21 Years

1983 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series.

George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground

1983 • 60 min

A documentary portrait of filmmaker George Kuchar conducting a tour of his apartment where he displays memorabilia and his toys which were used for props.

When the Music's Over

1983 • 60 min • United States of America

Rare clips of performance and interviews by a multiple of stars, all prematurely lost.

One Day in China

1983 • 3 min

Animated short.

The Great Performance

1983 • 5 min • United States of America

A short film by Alexander Cassini where the ordinary and mundane actions of a performer are interpreted as flamboyant and bizarre to an audience of clowns.

It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown

1983 • 47 min • United States of America

This hour-long anthology presents six animated shorts. "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz appears on camera to introduce these adaptations of some of his favorite strips, which include Charlie Brown spending two unexpectedly pleasant weeks at summer camp; Peppermint Patty and Marcie taking jobs as golf caddies, with disastrous results; and Lucy trying to cure Linus' dependence on his security blanket.

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut

1983 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Pink Floyd released a 19-minute "video EP" in 1983 for The Final Cut, essentially four music videos in a continuous sequence, directed by Willie Christie, who was Roger Waters' brother-in-law. Scottish actor Alex McAvoy, who played the teacher in the film version of The Wall, had a prominent role in the video EP. Waters appears (though all but his mouth is silhouetted) as a patient singing the lyrics to a psychologist on the grounds of the Fletcher Memorial Home.

Mom

1983 • 15 min

A film by George Kuchar.

Toshi in Takarazuka: Love Forever

1983 • 43 min • Japan

Japanese dance and musical film presenting Toshihiko Tahara, a singer then noted for his abilities as a dancer, with a large supporting cast of singers and dancers – mainly drawn from the roster of the Johnny & Associates talent agency of Johnny Kitagawa. The film was shot in the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre Tokyo and Yurakucho on January 29–30.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

1983 • 48 min • Canada, United States of America

The Herdmans – Gladys, Claude, Imogene, Leroy, Ollie and Ralph – are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they’re taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might unwittingly teach a shocked little town the true meaning of Christmas.

The Making of Rock & Rule

1983 • 25 min • Canada

Documentary on the making of the cult classic Nelvana animated film, "Rock & Rule." Featuring interviews with Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Iggy Pop, Maurice White, and Director Clive Smith.

Mizuho Nakagawa: High School Girl SEX Play

1983 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four

1983 • 47 min • Australia

Third Sherlock Holmes animated film starring Peter O'Toole.

Rain Forest

1983 • 54 min

The tropical rain forests of the world are home to nearly half the animal species on earth - an estimated five million different life forms. More than 100 inches of rainfall each year sustain this lush environment, where some of the most fascinating examples of natural adaptation can be found. Journey to the dense rain forests of Costa Rica and watch as leaf-cutting ants carry sections of leaves many times their weight to underground fungus gardens, a basilisk lizard walks on water, and howler monkeys bask in the sun. Fascinating and thought-provoking, this film is an eloquent warning of the natural wonders we stand to lose on a world scale if human encroachment of the world's rain forests continues.

Summer School

1983 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a modern university campus which somewhat detracts from its air of authenticity.

The Woman in the Room

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

The main character, an attorney by profession, spends endless hours with his terminally ill mother. Death is her only way out and he's the only one that can help.