All Films

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

1979 • 21 min • France, Switzerland

Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Miou-Miou, who were previously cast to play in "Sauve qui peut (la vie)," Godard speaks about great image makers: Dreyer and Wim Wenders, the painters Edward Hopper and Pierre Bonnard.

A Woman Like That

1979 • 54 min • Turkey

The story of a woman who takes revenge on those who raped her mother when she was a child by returning to her birthplace after growing up.

The Making of 'Nosferatu'

1979 • 13 min • Germany, United States of America

Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

Well, Just You Wait! Forbidden Technique

1979 • 3 min • Soviet Union

Hare is working at a construction site with a welding machine, from which sparks fly off and hit the Wolf. Wolf notices Hare and starts a chase, but the Hare defends himself with the welding machine. At the end of the issue Wolf crashes into an advertisement for a polytechnic technical school and expresses his desire to learn to operate welding machines there, but it turns out that this technical school accepts only athletes. The episode focuses on the problem that some technical schools and universities at that time, accepted students not based on knowledge, but by athletic merit, so that the institution could show sports results.

La paloma

1979 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A teacher who wanted to become a ballerina came from Skopje to a remote village. She teaches physical education at school and in her free time she gives the girls ballet lessons. Girls created the ballet equipment themselves and are learning the first ballet steps to the sound of the old “La Paloma” record

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

1979 • 52 min

Frank Sinatra, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and many more pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman.

Hérésie pour Magritte VIII

1979 • 4 min • France

Reparaturbrigade Zementwerk

1979 • 18 min • East Germany, Germany

A documentary crew follows the December 1978 “big repair” at the Bernburg (Saale) cement works, normally shut only for maintenance, where management has cut the planned 16-day turnaround to 14, with a 15 000 M bonus (rising to 20 000 M if finished a day early). As cameras roll through cement dust, crew and workers discuss the twice-yearly overhaul, familiar crews, and gritty camaraderie. They learn that chronic spare-parts shortages force constant improvisation, and that bureaucratic red tape weighs heavier than the hardest labor. Amid pride in their long-running plant, workers confess simple hopes for health, peace, and family. By film’s end, the crew realizes the true “core” of the factory lies not in its machinery, but in its people’s hands and minds.

Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol

1979 • 8 min • United States of America

Yosemite Sam is miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in this spoof of Charles Dickens' classic tale. Porky Pig, as Scrooge's clerk, Bob Cratchit, is fired on Christmas eve for the unpardonable act of using coal to keep warm. When Scrooge evicts Cratchit and his family from their modest dwelling, heroic Bugs Bunny decides to dress like a ghost and teach the hot-tempered miser a lesson on the meaning of Christmas.

The Boat-Burning Festival

1979 • 20 min • Taiwan

Shot by Chang Chao-Tang and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, The Boat Burning Festival captures the ceremony worshipping Wangye（王爺）, the local god of plague, held every three years in Sucuo Village（蘇厝） in Tainan（台南）, Taiwan. Chang timed the work to "Ommadawn", a Celtic-inspired progressive rock album by Mike Oldfield. Defying genre conventions and deviating stylistically from television or ethnographic documentary, the film testifies to the tense and complex coexistence of traditional rites, local folklore, and discourses about modernisation and identity in 1970s Taiwan.

Steel Pulse - Live at Rockpalast

1979 • 58 min • Germany

Legendary reggae group Steel Pulse appeared on the German television program Rockpalast on December 12, 1979. The band had formed just four years earlier in Birmingham, England by guitarists David Hinds and Basil Gabbidon after hearing Bob Marley And The Wailers’ 1973 album, Catch a Fire. But the group was often barred from venues in Birmingham because of their Rastafarian beliefs, so they found a home with another group of outcasts-- the punk rockers.

Çıplak Kedi

1979 • 59 min • Turkey

Cheap drama with erotic moments.

Big Secret For A Small Company

1979 • 16 min • Soviet Union

How a dog, a horse and a cat became friends.

My Survival as an Aboriginal

1979 • 51 min • Australia

Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal kids are forgetting about their Aboriginal heritage because they are being taught white culture instead.

Blondie in Concert

1979 • 41 min • United Kingdom

The Apollo Theater, Glasgow, Scotland - December 31, 1979. This concert video was originally broadcast live by the BBC on the OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST program. It was the 2nd night they'd played at The Apollo, with the first serving as a warmup. Only the second half of this show was broadcast, minus a few encores. Set List: Dreaming, Slow Motion, (Commercial Break), Shayla, Union City Blue, (Commercial Break), Atomic, Picture This, Pretty Baby, (Commercial Break), Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone, Sunday Girl, (Commercial Break), Heart of Glass (Promo).

Beara

1979 • 16 min • Ireland

An exploration of the wild desolation of West Cork, Beara is a landscape film featuring the unique flora and fauna of the Beara Peninsula off the coast of Cork. The film begins with a slow zoom in on the Beara Peninsula on a map of Ireland. What follows is a breathtaking depiction of nature. Raging waterfalls, stunning water reflections, turbulent waves, sea cliffs, bathing birds and nesting puffins form some of the striking imagery of this film.

1980

1979 • 25 min

Unseen for decades, 1980 is Ken Finkleman and Rick Moranis’ enormously funny CBC pilot that was way ahead of its time. A send up of a current-affairs show, 1980 pokes fun at subjects ranging from the current state of the Canadian film industry, academics, the student radicals of the 60s to Hollywood depictions of the Holocaust. Steven Kampmann stars along with Finkleman and Moranis. Also featuring Toronto salesman Phil Givner, Andrew Gilles, Caroline Yeager and the late comedy producer, Joe Bodolai. 1980 shown courtesy of CBC.

History on the Run: The Media and the '79 Election

1979 • 57 min • Canada

This documentary examines the media's coverage of the Canadian federal election of May 1979. Filmed over a 3-week period, it takes a fascinating look at journalists in action and the politicians who attempt to manipulate the media.

Ein gemachter Mann oder "Falsche Fuffziger"

1979 • 17 min • East Germany

In a western country, the police are on the lookout for a counterfeit money gang. During the closure of a brothel, the small inspector of the vice squad receives a reliable tip. The chief of police wants to take credit for the success and leads the bust of the counterfeiters. While he celebrates his success, the little detective gets into an almost ruined bank with a piece of counterfeit money he has captured by chance and becomes a rich man in high society.

The Peace Pipe

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Not so long ago, the Indians, the indigenous people of America, subordinated their whole life to the traditions and practices, which they constantly followed. But there were many tribes, and often feud arose between them, which led to terrible consequences: quarrels, misunderstandings and the death of loved ones. This story tells how they can overcome squabbles and make a step towards peace and reconciliation.

Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira

1979 • 10 min • Brazil

The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys.

Death on the Tagus

1979 • 34 min

A curious fictional documentary filmed in London about two actors from the film "Death on the Nile," Peter Ustinov and Jane Birkin, who are interviewed by the author.

Aircrafts Are Singing

1979 • 50 min • Soviet Union

About the creator of famous aircraft - aircraft designer Ilyushin.

A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 3)

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union