All Films

Between Sky and Earth

1978 • 60 min • Soviet Union

The famous musician is selfish and proud towards ex-wife, son, partner, colleagues and relatives. One day, the plane on which he was supposed to fly on vacation crashes. He's late for that and alive, but for his loved ones he isn't...

Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy

1978 • 48 min • United States of America

Steve Martin's first network special for NBC offers part concert footage (shot at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles) and part sketch comedy.

Canada Vignettes: Logger

1978 • 1 min • Canada

The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.

School Days

1978 • 30 min • Japan

Ilya Muromets and Highwayman Nightingale

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This is the second story from a series of adventures of the brave warrior Ilya of Murom. This time he is moving towards the city of Kiev and on the way accomplishes his great and small feats. Arriving at the gates of Chernigov city, Illya discovers that black vorogs are circling around the city. Having settled with them, Ilya Muromets meets the locals, who offer him the honorary position of governor. But the hero refuses the offer, because he needs to move towards Kiev and fight with evil spirits.

Assassins

1978 • 16 min

Two men plan an assassination.

Fields of Endless Day

1978 • 58 min • Canada

The history of Canada's black population.

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

1978 • 58 min • United States of America

Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who have worked with him are featured.

Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring

1978 • 50 min • United States of America

Count to Four

1978 • 30 min • Japan

Canada Vignettes: Toronto

1978 • 1 min • Canada

An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.

Rip Van Winkle

1978 • 27 min

Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Horacio corazón de chileno

1978 • 45 min • Chile

A middle-class public employee becomes obsessed with the investment alternatives offered by the neo-liberal economic model that Chile has implemented in the late 1970s. Years later he shall face the consequences.of his past decisions.

Ancestors

1978 • 5 min • United States of America

Ancestors is a film about spiritual forefathers and mothers in a purely fanciful sense. These are classical figures, anatomical figures, fairy tale figures and romantic figures all thrown in together - all my creative root-sources, in a kind of playful tribute. Like part 2 of Duo Concertantes, it's a moving single picture, now doubled.

The Central Character

1978 • 16 min

"A woman's attempt to keep chaos at bay by naming, classifying, and ordering her domestic environment. This ultimately results in a total loss of ego and verbal capacity. Through the innovative juxtaposition of printed text, graphics, step printing, and disintegrating soundtrack, Gruben constructs a narrative breakdown that parallels the unconscious patterning of her character's mind." - Richard Stanford, National Gallery of Canada

Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland

1978 • 1 min • Canada

An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.

Lady and the Tramp: A Lesson in Sharing Attention

1978 • 8 min

The film stresses the importance of sharing attention when a new baby joins a family.

End of term trip

1978 • 52 min

A group of school kids on a ski trip start hearing startling news from the radio.

James Brown Soul Brother No. 1

1978 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The James Brown Story

New Year's Eve

1978 • 17 min • Germany

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New Year’s Eve, when the family meal is finished, Hanna is in a window while a young man entertains her and talks of the one he loves but can’t join at that time.

"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist

1978 • 25 min • United Kingdom

George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities.

Le Voyageur du silence

1978 • 26 min • France

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is moving forward, everything becomes worrying around it. Unable to get out of its cabin, the train runs at full speed. What if he didn't lead anywhere?

Césarée

1978 • 11 min • France

On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.

The Living Sands of Namib

1978 • 60 min

Documentary on the extreme conditions of the Namib Desert in the southwest of Africa, and on the extraordinary creatures who thrive there. With temperatures at nearly double that of the warmest temperate climes, it seems nothing could survive. Yet life flourishes, miraculously.