All Films

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Ōshū Adachigahara

1979 • 45 min • Japan

Fleeing the Ōnin War, Tomone and her daughter Shiori are saved by Ukyō Fujiki. While taking shelter in a house, they are attacked by a greedy servant, Shichibee, but Shiori defends her mother, injuring him. A year later, Tomone and Ukyō reunite and fall in love, but Shichibee, now a bandit leader, returns and brutally murders Tomone and Shiori in Ukyō’s absence.

The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1979

1979 • 50 min

For the 1979 broadcast, Cash's annual CBS Christmas special returns to Nashville after taping the previous year's program in Los Angeles. This time he features his father, Ray Cash, and older brother Roy Cash in a visit to the small home in Dyess, Arkansas, where Johnny and his siblings were raised. Guests include Canadian pop and country star Anne Murray ("You Needed Me"), who was enjoying the most successful period of her career, and country music's Tom T. Hall, whom Cash introduces as "my very favorite songwriter" before Cash and Hall launch into a medley of Hall's hits "Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine," "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died," "I Love" and "Country Is." The show's comic foil is the late Andy Kaufman, who appears as his character Latka Gravas from the hit network show Taxi.

The Grudge and the Cat

1979 • 54 min • Japan

A wife murdered by her husband borrows the forms of her supposedly dead sister and a cat and takes revenge.

Sweet Dreams

1979 • 14 min • United States of America

Often called “the pioneer of lesbian gaze,” iconic San Francisco photographer Honey Lee Cottrell was a student at San Francisco State University when she made this lustful, elliptical exploration of female fantasy and self-love.

Stanley

1979 • 3 min • Israel, United Kingdom

A male cat, with prominent testicles, approaches a sleeping woman and begins pawing and licking at her. The woman awakes and, smiling, allows the cat to dive between her breasts as though her cleavage was a body of water.

Starstruck

1979 • 26 min • United States of America

The story, set in the twenty-second century, follows the adventures of the McCallister family, owners of McCallister's Midway Inn, a hotel-restaurant-saloon on an orbiting way station somewhere between Earth and Pluto.

Steppin' Out

1979 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary film on the fashionable nightclubs and the trendy pop culture scenes that were famous in London on the late 70's. Released as a support feature to the first Alien (1979) movie.

Goodbye, Ophelia

1979 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

An animated lecture that gives young girls life advice when it comes to male conquerors and the like. Czech animated film for adults.

Scooby Goes Hollywood

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom.

Susanne tanzt

1979 • 17 min • Germany

Short by Edgar Reitz and his daughter Susanne Reitz.

The Muppets Go Hollywood

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movie. Hosts Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets who attend the event. Gary Owens serves as off-camera announcer, and appears on-screen to introduce Miss Piggy.

Public Television

1979 • 23 min

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Multi Camera view of a “theater of the absurd” play (including an above-head surveillance camera). Inside a fast food restaurant, a white British man joins the table of a Black American couple, asking for a cigarette and french fries. He brings conflict to the couple, who begin to fight over existential questions about perception, sanity, and television..“I watch television more than it watches me”

Cinderella

1979 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Cosgrove Hall's stop-motion animation of the classic fairy tale Cinderella

America 2100

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

Two everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a robot named MAX. Pilot episode for unproduced series.

Casper's Halloween Special

1979 • 25 min • United States of America

On Halloween night, Hairy Scarey, Winifred Witch and Screech Ghost are plotting their mean-spirited spookings. Casper refuses to join them and decides to go trick-or-treating dressed as a real boy, but neighborhood kids see through his disguise and run away in fear. Casper is heartbroken until he meets a special group of orphans who accept him for who he is, a ghost. But their fun is soon spoiled as Hairy Scary and his ghostly crew interfere. Now it is up to Casper and his new friends to stop their ghastly games and save Halloween before it is too late. --Wikipedia

The Blue of the Origins

1979 • 52 min • France

A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel's intimate family album featuring the two women who counted in his cinematographic life: Nico and Zouzou.

The Fang in the Hole

1979 • 46 min • Japan

A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.

Nails

1979 • 13 min • Canada

This Oscar-nominated documentary short tracks the shift in the relationship of an individual to his work between the 19th century and today. Focusing on how nails are made, we first see a blacksmith laboring at his forge, shaping nails from single strands of steel rods. The scene then shifts from this peaceful setting to the roar of a 20th century nail mill, where banks of machines draw, cut, and pound the steel rods faster than the eye can follow.

The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone

1979 • 48 min • United States of America

The Flintstones and the Rubbles win a trip on "Make a Deal or Don't" to Count Rockula's castle in Rocksylvania, where they have an unpleasant meeting with the Count and his servant, Frankenstone.

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

1979 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Botan Dōrō

1979 • 45 min • Japan

Otsuyu, the daughter of a samurai, takes her life after being forced into an unwanted marriage, and her maid Omi follows her in death. Together as spirits, they visit Otsuyu’s lover, Shinzaemon. Believing Otsuyu is alive, Shinzaemon rekindles their relationship, but he soon begins to waste away. A concerned neighbor consults a doctor, who reveals that Shinzaemon is being haunted and his death is near.

The Little Rascals' Christmas Special

1979 • 24 min • United States of America

Spanky and Porky try to figure out a way to get their mother a winter coat for Christmas after she buys them a Blue Comet electric train.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Yotsuya Kaidan

1979 • 45 min • Japan

Iemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face. He descends into alcoholism and starts an affair with O-hana, a maid carrying another man’s child. Together, they conspire to poison Oiwa, killing her and disposing of her body in a moat. But Oiwa’s vengeful spirit rises from the depths, seeking revenge.

The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane

1979 • 30 min • Canada

Sleepy Hollow, a town plagued by the Headless Horseman, hires the most educated person they can find to fight him - Ichabod Crane. He, talking horse and dog, and Rip van Winkle go on the quest. But the Horseman has a secret.