All Films

Sleepwalker

1984 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.

Phantom Ladies

1984 • 45 min

Three "phantom ladies" on the pleasures and pains of transvestitism. Originally aired on the BBC1 program Real Lives.

Notes from Under the Volcano

1984 • 58 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

Yoko Ono: Then and Now

1984 • 56 min • United States of America

An in-depth look at one of the world's most controversial artists. This personal narrative features numerous songs by both Yoko and her late husband, John Lennon. These include "Imagine," "Give Peace a Chance," and "Walking on Thin Ice."

Women of Iron

1984 • 60 min • United States of America, United Kingdom

The past and present of ladies bodybuilding. Report on the feminine side of the sport of bodybuilding, with both historical and personal approaches, illustrated with images from several women contestants. The last part of the report focuses on the public disagreement over the judging views in some promotions, and the split between those for and against emphasis on muscular development.

Strong Kids, Safe Kids

1984 • 42 min • United States of America

Strong Kids, Safe Kids was put together because so many of us are concerned about the horrible potential dangers our kids face every day. Sexual molestation and abduction are an unfortunate part of our times. And as loving parents, it's up to us to teach our kids to stay safe. It's like teaching them to look both ways before crossing the street... only it's a whole lot trickier. That's where Strong Kids, Safe Kids comes in. This film brings all of the problems - and questions - out in the open. It talks to you and your kids one-on-one. The material is frank and to the point. But presented so entertainingly with music and humor that it's a delight for the whole family to watch together. Again and again.

A Good Tree

1984 • 24 min • Canada

A trio of children steal a fir tree for a Christmas tree from a grouchy neighbor and later resolve to make amends.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

1984 • 48 min • United States of America

A spirited young girl disobeys her parents and runs off to the wood for the afternoon where she rudely invades the home of a family of bears, taking advantage of all its comforts and thoughtlessly wrecking things. When caught, she learns important lessons about truthfulness and respecting others' rights to privacy.

Dulce Patria

1984 • 60 min • Chile

Filmed during hard and decisive years of the democratic struggle against the regime of Augusto Pinochet, it is the first film in which a group of Chilean filmmakers, without anonymity try to give a global account of the Chilean situation of those days. The film reflects the vision and personal testimony of its director about his country at that moment.

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

1984 • 52 min • United States of America

An intelligent, fearless boy living in a superstitious Transylvanian village goes out into the world to figure out what everyone else is afraid of, "the shivers." A king hires him to rid his castle of ghosts and evil spirits, expecting him to die like all who have tried before him, but the boy is more fearless than he could have known.

Margaret Atwood: Once in August

1984 • 57 min • Canada

In Margaret Atwood: Once in August, filmmaker Michael Rubbo attempts to discover what shapes the celebrated writer's fiction and what motivates her characters. As one of Canada's most distinguished poets and novelists, Atwood is also one of this country's most elusive literary figures.

Minako Toriumi Love Hotel Love Graffiti Book - Afternoon Edition -

1984 • 45 min • Japan

In the afternoon, Minako in a sailor suit gets entangled in a passionate embrace...Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

1984 • 9 min

This promotional short for 2010 (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were created. This includes makeup for Keir Dullea's character, how the astronauts float in space, and the construction of the spaceship in which the astronauts carry out their mission. The vehicle is so large, the two largest sound stages on the MGM lot were used to construct it.

On Guard

1984 • 50 min • Australia

Set against the backdrop of modern-day Sydney, this heist-style thriller involves four politicised women from varying backgrounds, who conspire to sabotage the research programme of a multi-national firm, Utero, which is engaged in reproductive engineering. One of the women loses her diary which contains information and diagrams about the raid only a few days to count down. Will the diary fall into the wrong hands leading to the detection of the women before they have a chance to complete their mission? As the tension mounts, so the wider context of the women's lives as mothers, lovers and providers is also shown under strain indicating the many other considerations women have to take into account when embarking on any form of public activity.

My Little Pony

1984 • 22 min • United States of America

The story begins as the peaceful ponies of Dream Valley are attacked by monsters, led by Scorpan, who kidnap several ponies and take them away to Midnight Castle. Enraged, Firefly, a Pegasus pony, takes to the skies to try to find someone who can help them defeat Tirek, a centaur-like demon whose plan is to use these ponies to pull his chariot of darkness. On her way, she crashes into 12-year-old Megan's well and asks her for her help. Megan is at first reluctant to go but after being confronted by the monsters, she sets out with the ponies to rescue them.

Junko's Diary of a Dirty Little Complex

1984 • 45 min • Japan

Kotomi's overly sensitive H diary. Today I went on a date with Hiroshi. No matter how long she waited, Hiroshi never showed up. I was attacked by a strange old man in the bathroom. When she went to aerobics, the instructor Yamagishi-san looked at her strangely...

A Far-Out Fourth

1984 • 28 min

When aliens kidnap Carl and whisk him away to the planet Klepter, he incites a prisoner revolt to get back to Earth in time for the Fourth of July.

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

1984 • 58 min • United States of America

A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

The Amazing Bunjee Venture

1984 • 30 min

Two 20th century youngsters, Andy and Karen, are accidentally transported back to the year 100,000,000 B.C. by their father's time machine. While dodging dinosaurs, the kids find a loyal friend in the form of Bunjee, a lovable, purple-haired creature who resembles an elephant with suction cups for feet. After escaping danger, Andy and Karen bring Bunjee with them when they return to the present. Alas, Bunjee is hardly ready for modern civilization, and vice versa.

Anticipation

1984 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

Macedonian TV drama.

Cinématon XXXVII

1984 • 30 min • France

Reel 37 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Egyptian Series

1984 • 17 min

A series of meditations on Egyptian hieroglyphs – designations (as I finally saw them) of nurturing godheads.

Haunters of the Deep

1984 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Josh Holman encounters the ghost of a child mine worker with a special warning on the headlands of his Cornish home town, as an old tin mine is about to be re-opened after the discovery of valuable deposits of ore.

Wonderful New Year's Night

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A family who, at the beginning of the story gives up the plan to buy toys, forms the frame for the film. Finally the same toys, the doll and the goose, find their way to them through the Christmas night. The toys’ journey ends with an extraordinary miracle that fits for a Christmas night.