All Films

Utlänningar: Del II - Le Rom

1978 • 44 min • Sweden

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

The Lady Irene

1978 • 30 min

A fisherman is about to launch his new trawler and wants to make it an occasion for his girlfriend to remember.

Rescue Party

1978 • 25 min

Presents a story about a spaceship from the Galactic Federation which is given a mission to rescue the inhabitants of Earth before the Sun explodes.

Kay

1978 • 25 min

Domestic drama by Alma Cullen

Trompete, Glocke, letzte Briefe

1978 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

Red Berlin from the 1910s to the resistance against National Socialism comes to life as a proletarian family history. The siblings of Ernst Knaack, a communist who was executed in 1944, talk about their childhood and youth, which they spent with their grandparents. Their grandfather, a former sailor who took part in the November Revolution and was a member of the Workers' and Soldiers' Council, ran the Zum Kuli pub in Prenzlauer Berg—a workers' pub that was also frequented by the unemployed and homeless, where party meetings were held and leading KPD members such as August Bebel and Hermann Duncker were regulars.

Mother, Father, Child

1978 • 30 min • Sweden

During an afternoon and evening, we follow a family's everyday life. From the child's perspective, we see how the bizarre the world can seem sometimes.

Pretend You're Wearing a Barrel

1978 • 10 min • Canada

Lynn Ryan, 35, is a tough-minded single mother of five. After help from employment counsellors and a course in welding, she got off welfare for a good job as an apprentice engineer in a Vancouver shipyard.

Haircut

1978 • 5 min • United States of America

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

The Sea Can Kill

1978 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Royal Navy short about surviving a disaster at sea.

Canada Vignettes: Acadian Quadrille

1978 • 4 min • Canada

A short history of one of the traditional dances of Acadia--the quadrille.

The Bucks Party

1978 • 38 min

The Australian Bucks Party. The last bastion of primeval male society. A brutal, savage, yet humourous study of a dying male ritual.

Ersatz

1978 • 14 min • United Kingdom

An animated Plasticine man enacts favourite scenes from Hollywood classics.

Little Airplane

1978 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The Cramps: Human Fly

1978 • 3 min • United States of America

The cult film promotional for Human Fly song, that was lost but resurface in 2015.

Manif Gay

1978 • 8 min

Recovered Zulueta short.

Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers

1978 • 58 min

The first chapter in our Masters of Modern Sculpture series looks at groundbreaking work from the brilliant minds that reshaped sculptural art and inspired generations to come. Narrated by George Segal, The Pioneers explores famed pieces from sculptors such as Rodin, Maillol and Picasso.

Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years

1978 • 58 min • United States of America

The Christmas after Bing Crosby's passing, his family gets together to recall all the good times they had. They talk about the people he worked with, how he liked to perform, and ultimately why he had to sing White Christmas at the end of each special.

Horror Palace Hotel

1978 • 41 min • Brazil

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.

Run, Jimmy, Run

1978 • 30 min • United States of America

Jimmy is a high school track champ whose father pushes him too hard to succeed.

Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World

1978 • 58 min

The Masters of Modern Sculpture series concludes with a look at post- World War II America, where sculpture became a deeply innovative art form. Using the objects at their disposal and the inspiration surrounding them, artists such as George Rickey, Claes Oldenburg, and Louise Nevelson cast sculptor in a new light. The New World observes the sculptors creatively utilizing wood, metals, and junkyard finds, bringing forth lively and shocking work. America's remote spaces, discarded objects and abundant materials enabled them to add to the concepts of European modernism in daringly unique ways.

Everest Unmasked

1978 • 52 min • United States of America

Record of the first ascent of Everest made without the use of oxygen equipment, made in May 1978 by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. Could it be done? Would their blood vessels burst? Would they suffer brain damage leading to madness? Nobody was sure. Messner: 'I would never come here for trying Everest with oxygen. That is not a challenge for me.' A fascinating piece of history, well filmed by Leo Dickinson and Eric Jones (above the South Col Messner used a cine camera to continue the filming), featuring Messner and Habeler's thoughts. The film follows the usual sequence from Namche to Base Camp, through the Icefall, to Camps I, II and III. It also shows historical footage of the pioneering Mallory and Shipton expeditions.

The Magic Flute

1978 • 46 min • Italy

Emanuele Luzzati was a talented artist, director and animator. One of his best known short films was 1978’s The Magic Flute set to the music from Mozart’s two-act opera. As a stage director, Luzzati had mounted a lavish 1963 full-scale production of the opera and fell in love with the music and the story. His animated The Magic Flute, made fifteen years later, was met with glowing reviews and multiple awards. He followed the completion of the film with a children’s picture book that succinctly retells the story. (by Joseph Crisalli)

Father Frost and the Grey Wolf

1978 • 18 min • Soviet Union

It is a New Year's fairy tale about Ded Moroz who hastened with the gifts for children's holiday, and about the Wolf who tried to prevent him to do it.

Eddie Kidd

1978 • 5 min

At the age of 18, stunt cyclist Eddie Kidd had already broken world records, been a stunt double for Harrison Ford and released a couple of singles. Yet this profile piece for the COI cinemagazine series “This Week in Britain” offers glimpses that his high life had both its ups and downs. A record-breaking jump of 24 cars was to be the big attraction of a May bank holiday at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu but torrential rain scuppered plans. Kidd returned on the 4th June for a second attempt but with a shoulder injury that you see aggravated here, which prevented a planned second jump and again disappointed audiences. The person tasked with turning all these travails into a light-hearted snippet for overseas audiences was Peter Greenaway, who edited hundreds of stories like this before making arthouse feature hits such as The Draughtman’s Contract (1982).