All Films

Segovia at Los Olivos

1976 • 57 min • United Kingdom

From his home in Granada, pioneering guitarist Andres Segovia looks back on his 60-year music career and his contribution to Western music.

I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)

1976 • 24 min

Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent of a di Chirico painting. The soundtrack includes both music and spoken excerpts from a journal Jonas kept while travelling in Nova Scotia. I Want to Live in the Country ultimately deals with observation and fantasy, living in the country, and the stifling aspects of the city and one's art.

Il Festival del Proletariato Giovanile al Parco Lambro

1976 • 58 min

Between June 26 and 29, 1976, the sixth edition of the Festival of the Juvenile Proletariat took place at Parco Lambro in Milan, an event conceived by the countercultural magazine Re Nudo. The organizers invited Alberto Grifi to film those days filled with meetings, debates, and concerts, but not everything went as planned. This is the 58-minute version (from 27 hours of footage) edited by Grifi himself after the event.

Syntax

1976 • 11 min • Germany

A Wily Couple

1976 • 30 min

An elderly couple try to decide if a young woman who has come to visit would make a suitable wife for their son.

The Lady of the Camellias

1976 • 50 min

The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young gentleman Armand Duval who's new in town.

Lanesville UFO Incident

1976 • 8 min • United States of America

"A segment produced for radical early video collective Videofreex’s unlicensed broadcast television station Lanesville TV, a weekly broadcast that was one of the first American pirate stations of its type. Using a DIY luma keyer by Videofreex member Chuck Kennedy to approximate a flying saucer, the group conscripted neighbors to participate in a mock news report about the “sighting”, capturing the feel of Catskills local color in the process. The segment was produced by Videofreex with collaborators including Ruth Rotko and John Keeler, who worked on a spate of subsequent UFO-related video pieces, before wandering off into their own, wildly divergent careers: Rotko as a producer of independent films like GRACE OF MY HEART, and Keeler as a prolific pornographic cinematographer pseudonymed “Jane Waters”." - Screen Slate

Cantos de Trabalho - Cana de Açúcar

1976 • 8 min • Brazil

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education on the chores of the men who worked in the sugar cane fields in the town of Feira de Santana, in the cocoa fields of Itabuna, and in the efforts of building households in Chã Preta.

The Italian Machine

1976 • 30 min • Canada

This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike fanatics determine to get their hands on a Ducati 900 Desmo SuperSport owned by a rich guy, by any means necessary.

Dear Phone

1976 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.

The Hare, the Squeak and the Violin

1976 • 16 min • Soviet Union

How the bunny learned to play the violin.

Morning Song

1976 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The caveman stole the grasshopper's violin, and if the grasshopper does not play the morning song on time, the flowers will not wake up, and then the sun will not look into the forest clearing. Everything will remain dark and boring, the forest will die, there will be no songs. Three friends - Creak, Hare and Frog - go in search of the grasshopper's violin.

Pigeon's Milk

1976 • 45 min • Soviet Union

The protagonist is a kind and brave boy who helps people fight evil. One day, a horseman arrived at the doorstep of an orphan’s house, asking for wine and oats for his horse. The house owner, unable to provide more than a dry flatbread, offered the horse hay instead of oats, which he used as bedding. The horseman was touched by the boy’s kindness and promised to reward him generously if he followed in his footsteps and helped others along the way.

Steve Martin: On Location with Steve Martin

1976 • 56 min • United States of America

Steve Martin's HBO special was recorded as one of the network's On Location series of stand-up comedy specials. Taped on October 31, 1976, this previously unreleased show provides a rare and uncensored look at Martin's early act.

17. kesä

1976 • 44 min • Finland

A fictional tale of a mother and a 17-year-old boy moving from countryside to city and the start of a new life in the middle of a concrete jungle.

Find Us in the Mountains

1976 • 34 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about the life of geologists searching for alunites in the Dashkesan mountains.

Stefan Themerson en de taal

1976 • 46 min • Netherlands

Stefan Themerson plays himself in the role of a poet who accuses political and religious leaders of stealing the tools of his trade. His goal is to expose the demagogues as thieves. A researcher launches an investigation and discovers that the poet is unwilling to take back hidden contaminated tools. He (the poet) has devised a method to reveal the reality behind the poem. He wants to strip the words of their associations, sever their ties to the past, scrub them clean of their dictionary definitions. He calls his method Semantic Poetry.

Slash of the Knife

1976 • 30 min • United States of America

Parody focused on the horrors of being uncircumcised.

To Die for Your Country Is to Live Forever

1976 • 32 min • Cuba

With a speech by Fidel Castro as the central theme, the effects of the terrorist attacks against the interests of the Cubana de Aviacion company are revealed, and Mozambique's independence is celebrated.

The Little Drummer Boy: Book II

1976 • 24 min • United States of America, Japan

Aaron, the drummer boy, struggles to protect a bellmaker's great silver bells from seizure by Roman soldiers

The Brave Tin Soldier

1976 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A beautiful and touching story based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". A tin soldier without a leg sees a beautiful paper ballerina and falls in love. While trying to reach her, he falls from the window and has to overcome countless obstacles to see her again.

A Look Into the 23rd Century

1976 • 9 min

The movie Logan's Run (1976) depicts a supposedly Utopian society in the 23rd century, but one where, as producer Saul David puts it, "there is a worm in the apple". The filmmakers use current technology and ideals of pleasure to depict this perfect future. Director Michael Anderson finds meshing these two worlds an exciting challenge, especially in trying to create something that has never been seen before in the movies. The studio's technology department plays a key role in creating Anderson and David's vision. The movie's stars, Michael York and Jenny Agutter, provide their take on the movie, their roles and working with each other and with fellow co-star Richard Jordan. The filmmakers also need to create the antithesis of the modern Utopian world for the scenes taking place outside of the domed world.

You Talk Too Much

1976 • 26 min

An old lady seeks help from her doctor after her sun-in-law tells her that she suffers from logorrhea

An Upside Down Stadium

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An eccentric stunt sports comedy, which makes fun of those guys who know sports only on television, and think that they can do everything they see on the screen, although they themselves do not even try and consider themselves, and moreover, in all sports whether or not champions.