All Films

Robert Lapoujade, peintre

1984 • 5 min

Portrait of the French painter-etcher, lithographer and director.

Book of Joe

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

J.C. is arrested for the assassination of Senator Baxter. J.C. insists that he's innocent and requests that cynical lawyer Joseph Able defend him in court. Pandemonium ensues after J.C. claims that he's the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

Or D'Ur

1984 • 33 min • Canada

Male prostitution in a Montreal brothel run by a hard-nosed procuress.

Goodie-Two-Shoes

1984 • 35 min

Goodie-Two-Shoes is a 1984 British short film written and directed by Ian Emes. A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Eisenstein en México

1984 • 28 min • Mexico

Inspired by the social changes that the Revolution brought to our country and the admiration he felt for Mexican art, the Russian filmmaker Sergei M. Eisenstein traveled to Mexico with the intention of filming a film mosaic that culminated in the most beautiful non-existent film. The details of this odyssey are exposed in this episode of the classic television series Those Who Made Our Cinema.

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

1984 • 40 min • Spain, United Kingdom

Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a cafe in a remote town they meet two Australian girls who have picked up a scruffy hitch-hiker and a would-be rapist dressed as a matador.

Oda kaoru sen'nyū taiken repōto shibuyadōgenzaka rabuhoteru 24-ji

1984 • 45 min • Japan

Kaoru Oda goes undercover to cover the Shibuya Dogenzaka Love Hotel District. A camera enters her room. Interview after the vivid play of the hotel lady. The staff leaves and Kaoru Oda is left alone with the man. The video records the interaction between just the two of them. A man approaches Kaoru Oda. A vivid live play begins...

Masquerade

1984 • 28 min • Canada

The magical fingers of master animator Co Hoedeman, whose film The Sand Castle won an Oscar in 1979, has created yet another world of piquant creatures. Papier mâché puppets ride machines and manipulate robots strange to the human eye. A great masquerade is in the planning, and the air crackles with excitement. Plunged into the joys and frustrations of creating costumes, the zealous puppets produce a bumper crop, each one more elaborate than the last. The film illustrates the creative process, with its inevitable pitfalls and rewards. It says that to create is to be alive.

Last Day of Summer

1984 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.

The First Navigation

1984 • 45 min • Albania

In the crew of the ship "Eagle" the debate about the zones of fish hunting continues. Petrit, a new marine officer, supports captain Borak, who insists on introducing new fishing methods.

Linda Ronstadt | in Concert: What's New

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

Musical performance by Linda Ronstadt.

The Smurfic Games

1984 • 30 min

The Smurfs engage in athletic competition to settle a dispute between both ends of the village over misquoted compound words, which turns deadly when the medal Clumsy is awarded actually causes an earthquake.

Red Star Over Khyber

1984 • 58 min

Correspondent Richard Reeves reports on the ongoing struggle of the Afghan Muslim resistance against the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan. Examines Pakistan's role as a haven for Afghan guerrillas and refugees and as a conduit for arms supplied to the guerrillas by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.

1984 • 27 min • United States of America

Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.

Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch

1984 • 42 min • Germany

Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 and 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘝𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

Shepherd’s Delight

1984 • 35 min

Many of my films involve humour, but unlike the earlier work Shepherd’s Delight attempts to confront the problem of humour head-on, referring directly (since a large part of the film is composed of jokes and their analysis) to the viewer’s perception of the film itself. The film is largely concerned with how context determines the reading of information. Since the film’s statements oscillate between the deadly serious (concentrating particularly on an examination of the more sinister aspects of humour) and the totally bogus, with no clearly defined points of changeover, the context is often ambiguous. Hopefully, this strategy undermines both the authority of the ‘serious’ statements and any predictable effect of the ‘jokes’. John Smith, 1984

Pressure

1984 • 53 min • Israel

A love story between an arab man and a jewish woman.

The Boy Who Loved Trolls

1984 • 55 min • United States of America

Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.

The Attack

1984 • 9 min • Germany

In Hamburg, a slap out of the blue is received by the victim with appreciation. The man, who is hit by a woman, interprets it as an act of anarchy and finds meaning in it. Then they both go out into the street and declare slapping to be an art form.

Beauty and the Beast

1984 • 52 min • United States of America

The beautiful daughter of a merchant sacrifices her freedom to save her father from the punishment of a cursed beast.

The Bengal Lancers!

1984 • 30 min • United Kingdom

30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.

Mishaps of Seduction and Conquest

1984 • 15 min • Australia

Early short film by Jane Campion.

UFO Kidnapped

1984 • 51 min • Canada

Two teenage boys, Alasdair and Kevin, out camping in the Ontario woods are abducted by a spaceship and are held with two other captives, a cat burglar and a teenage intellectual, by two aliens who take them on a trip through space and time while Alasdair and Kevin and their two other captives try to figure out the aliens agenda for them.

Billy Crystal: A Comic's Line

1984 • 59 min

In this concert, a take-off on the play "A Chorus Line," comic Billy Crystal uses the premise of auditions for a Broadway musical to play various characters trying out for the parts.