All Films

Lights

1984 • 24 min • Israel

Lights reminds us to stand up for what we believe! This Chanukah story is told through animation & gripping narration by Judd Hirsch Also features the voices of Leonard Nimoy & Paul Michael Glaser.

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1984 • 48 min • France

Charlie's Christmas Secret

1984 • 23 min

Short film about a newspaper boy who tries to help some folks during Christmas.

Elephant Went to Study

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An unusual student appears in the mouse school. The beginning of the trilogy about the shy elephant based on the fairy tales of David Samoylov.

Persistence of Vision

1984 • 14 min • United States of America

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are interviewed, and films preserved by Anthology are spotlighted.

Lynda Carter: Body and Soul

1984 • 50 min

Lynda Carter's fifth musical TV special, with guest stars Eddie Rabbitt and Ben Vereen.

Hello

1984 • 9 min

Extraterrestrials contact earth in this delightful fable. Their message is "HELLO" in many languages, and there is a celebration.

È pericoloso sporgersi

1984 • 12 min

È pericoloso sporgersi tells the story of a child who has been thrust into a position where he must make an impossible decision.

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1984 • 37 min • United Kingdom

Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.

La Dame des Yvelines

1984 • 56 min • France

Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.

Work and Words

1984 • 52 min • France

In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée, Les Mains négatives, Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne), Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver). She touches briefly on the various subjects dealt with: the return to Césarée of Berenice, repudiated for reasons of state, Jewish wandering, the scandal of the camps in the two Aurelia Steiner. Negative Hands as the colonial data of humanity, a film offered to the blacks and Portuguese who clean up Paris before leaving the place. Marguerite Duras also comments, with excerpts, on the various traveling shots that make up the main plot of each of the short films. And the documentary ends with a few words of epilogue: a real pamphlet by Marguerite Duras against dreams, significantly entitled Work and Words.

Poochie

1984 • 23 min

Poochie, a little pink dog who runs a newspaper advice column for her owner, receives a letter from a little boy who has literally lost his father in Cairo, Egypt. Poochie and her robotic servant, Hermes, travel there to help him and end up finding a lost city that would prefer to keep its secrets.

The Tale of Tsar Saltan

1984 • 53 min • Soviet Union

Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the magical world created by Alexander Pushkin. Adventures brave Tsarevich Guidon, beautiful Swan-Tsar Saltan reminded of that love, loyalty and the spirit always wins!

Lulu in Berlin

1984 • 48 min • United States of America

Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks. It took place in her apartment in Rochester, New York, in 1971.

Doctor De Soto

1984 • 7 min

A kind-hearted mouse dentist and his wife find a clever way to treat a crafty fox who comes to them with a sore tooth in this Oscar nominated short, adapted from William Steig's children's book.

The Painted Door

1984 • 24 min • Canada

The Painted Door is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Bruce Pittman and released in 1984. Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, the film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Atlantis Films of Toronto. It follows a housewife who struggles with loneliness after her husband ventures into a blizzard. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film.

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

1984 • 3 min

Orson Welles sits in his chair behind his typewriter where he sends a message out to his dying friend Bill Cronshaw: a passage from the journal of Charles Lindbergh.

The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke

1984 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Jeff Keen's daughter gave him some music and sound effects recorded at the cinema and invited him to use it as the basis for a film. He added a plastic Hitler mask from Brighton pier and created this red and blue-dominated film that runs at a distinctly different pace to the rest of his work. Its reflective tone matches the mood of its title and features such imagery as a blindfolded artist painting.

Sad Gadolf

1984 • 20 min • Japan

Contre un Ex-Créateur Devenu Porc

1984 • 27 min • France

This film is composed of images collected then scratched, colored, scratched, etc. which have no direct or indirect relation with the sound column. As in almost all Lettrist films, sound comes first over image. 16mm / color / sound

The Great Smoke

1984 • 6 min • Philippines

Animated film with several bizarre scenes.

A Marriage

1984 • 6 min • Bulgaria

A groom-to-be wakes up in the morning of his wedding to strange visions triggered by his impatience... Though the nuptial feast is in full flow, the groom is still daydreaming. On the wedding night, the bride ups and melts away before his eyes exhaling air as a deflated balloon...

Winston Tong In Studio

1984 • 10 min

Winston Tong and collaborators are interviewed during a busy day at the recording studio.

Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas

1984 • 44 min • United States of America

Scrooge is visited by a girl with a snow globe—which shows him people like Mike Love and Three Dog Night singing Christmas carols—to teach the crotchety old skinflint the True Spirit of Christmas.