All Films

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

1982 • 57 min • France

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Live in Dortmund

1982 • 30 min • Germany

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts support I Love Rock 'n Roll with a 30-minute concert filmed in Dortmund, Germany in 1982 and aired on ZDF RockPop in Concert. Setlist: 01. Intro by Fritz Egner 02. (I'm Gonna) Run Away 03. Wooly Bully 04. Victim of Circumstance 05. I Love Rock 'N Roll 06. Nag 07. Crimson and Clover 08. Do You Wanna Touch Me 09. Shout

Butterfly

1982 • 12 min • Venezuela

Super-8 film by Marieta Pérez.

The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America

1982 • 30 min

An overview of hate group Ku Klux Klan and their activities up until early 1980's, attacking minorities in American states.

The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final

1982 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

Porridge Made from an Axe

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A soldier was returning from the war. On the way, he stopped by a certain old woman Melanya and her little old man. The old woman turned out to be greedy and, citing a complete lack of food, refused to feed the soldier. Then the experienced soldier offered to cook porridge from an axe.

Rubber and Pencil

1982 • 3 min • Soviet Union

An animated cartoon about how opposites can find common ground.

Body by Garret

1982 • 27 min

This short documentary tells the story of Garret Walsh, a twelve-year-old Canadian body-builder.

The Button

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An unhappy artist finally decides to paint a self-portrait but with the appearance of a wealthy person, with a car and a country house. What he does not imagine is that his portrait will compete with him for the same woman ...

1+1+1

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Heik Ernitsa's directorial debut "Encounter" is a humorous story about dreams and reality. "Street" by Valter Uusberg paints a nervous and gloomy picture of the artificial environment of the city. Mati Küti's satirical "Monument" dissects egocentrism in a grotesque tone.

The Private Life of the Ford Cortina

1982 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A ski run in Italy, a supermarket manager in Luton, a sandwich bar in London EC2, Arena opens the bonnet of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen, and most misunderstood car. 'Dagenham dustbin'? 'Poor man's Rolls-Royce'? In the year that may well see the end of a legend, some of the motoring public, including Sir John Betjeman, Tom Robinson, Alexei Sayle, Sir Terence Beckett and Magnus Magnusson take apart the Ford Cortina: Life and Works 1962-1982.

Chas & Dave’s Christmas Knees-Up

1982 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The Cockney entertainers host a lively Christmas party complete with flowing alcohol, a jubilant crowd of Eastenders and guests including Eric Clapton.

金鹿

1982 • 44 min • China

1982 short film

The Shady Hill Kidnapping

1982 • 59 min • United States of America

John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.

Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up

1982 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the animator, Richard Williams,

This Woman Is Not a Car

1982 • 23 min • Australia

A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.

Supermann

1982 • 7 min • Hungary

SUPERMAN is an early performance experimentation with video as mirror.

Ballet Robotique

1982 • 8 min

In Ballet Robotique, the graceful movements of giant assembly line robots are perfectly synchronized to classical music recorded by London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Morris's Disappearing Bag

1982 • 7 min • United States of America

Morris impresses his older siblings when he opens the last box under the Christmas tree... and disappears.

Taxi!

1982 • 57 min • Canada

This feature documentary studies one of the city’s most visible yet most anonymous character: the taxi driver. Filmed by day and night, the film offers an entertaining and sometimes comical look at the drivers, fleet operators and dispatchers who are expected to deliver passengers, parcels… and even babies.

The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein

1982 • 9 min • Switzerland

The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride.

Debby Boone... One Step Closer

1982 • 60 min

A musical comedy special hosted by Debby Boone, about a company of singers and dancers preparing to open in a Broadway show. Taped at a theater in Detroit where Debby Boone and the rest of the cast were actually preparing a Broadway-bound adaptation of "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers."

Eugene Atget: Photographer

1982 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form, and as an inspiration to surrealists. This meditative Arts Council documentary introduces Eugène Atget, a former actor who began to document the streets of old Paris from the 1890s. Little is known about his early life and the three decades he spent capturing, in eerie tableaux, urban spaces since lost to progress. The film includes dramatised scenes from his life, including his belated ‘discovery’ by American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, who published many of Atget’s works after his death in 1927.

A Shocking Accident

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A Shocking Accident is a 1982 British short comedy film directed by James Scott, based on Graham Greene's short story by the same name. About a boy whose father is killed in Naples, when a pig falls on him as a balcony collapses. The incident haunts the boy through his later life until he meets a girl who understands his side of the story. The film won an Oscar at the 55th Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short and was nominated for BAFTA in 1983.