All Films

Medea

1982 • 46 min • Netherlands

Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

1982 • 17 min • Germany, United States of America, France

Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on HAMMET(1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences between the film-making process in Europe and the States.

Midnight Sun

1982 • 20 min • Yugoslavia

A story about a poor man who finds a way out of his situation by escaping into dreams and desires. The screenplay is based on the short story "A Little Sun" by the contemporary Syrian writer Zekerija Tamir.

Johnny Goes Home

1982 • 48 min • United States of America

Johnny Carson makes a nostalgic visit back to his hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska in the fall of 1981, revisiting the places of his youth and talking with some of the people he grew up with.

Shine So Hard

1982 • 33 min

'Shine So Hard' is a rare Echo and the Bunnymen promotional concert film, taking place during their 1981 'Camo Tour'.

Come Into The Garden Maud

1982 • 57 min • United Kingdom

A rich cornhusker and his social climbing wife find themselves in the company of royalty. While the wife is entertaining a high and mighty prince downstairs, the husband is entertaining a threadbare princess upstairs. It doesn't take long for the husband to realize he has more in common with royalty than his wife does.

Ted Baryluk's Grocery

1982 • 11 min • Canada

Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk's grocery store has been a fixture in Winnipeg's North End for over 20 years. In this photo study, Ted talks about his store, the customers who have come and gone and the social changes his multicultural neighbourhood has seen. But most of all he wonders what will become of his store after he retires. He hopes his daughter will take over, but she wants to move away. The film is a wistful rendering of a shopkeeper's relationship with his daughter and a fascinating portrait of a neighbourhood and its inhabitants.

The Clash: Live in Tokyo

1982 • 55 min • Japan

Pop Goes Christmas

1982 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A musical special from Granada with David Essex, Mari Wilson, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Shakin' Stevens, The Nolans, Toto Coelo, The Mighty Wah!, Musical Youth and Toyah performing festive classics.

The Fat Albert Easter Special

1982 • 23 min • United States of America

Easter is fast approaching, and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids find their efforts to do something nice for Mudfoot thwarted by a practical joke gone horribly awry.

The Vanished World of Gloves

1982 • 16 min • Czechoslovakia

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

Ounce of Prevention

1982 • 12 min • United States of America

Bugs Bunny and his friends teach children about safety regarding fires and other burn-causing injuries in the home.

Aoi sangoshō kagirinaku waisetsu ni ikedori

1982 • 54 min

The murderous intent hidden in the white, ripe, soft skin that burns strangely. A love suspense story.

Seepage

1982 • 9 min • United States of America

"Marlborough" and "The Arab", lounging on the pool terrace, are alienated characters in some future time, living in a world where art work comes to life, phones continuously ring, televisions hum all night, and smog seeps into their brains. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Mizuho Nakagawa's Semi-Documentary Live Wiretapping Video

1982 • 30 min • Japan

While her husband was away, Mizuho was invited to make love with another man...Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Unfinished Diary

1982 • 48 min • Canada, Chile

In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.

Five Minutes For Fighting

1982 • 6 min

Two hockey players end up in the penalty box for fighting with each other, they've been there many a time before.

Saturday and Sunday

1982 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Tsuya mugen intō

1982 • 30 min • Japan

By chance, a beautiful woman was standing under the eaves of a rain-drenched house with a spectacular view. Experience the pleasure and torture of her union with a man.

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

1982 • 52 min

Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.

Grand huit

1982 • 35 min • France

Laurent meets Sylvia on a spring night, under the neon lights of the fun fair. A ray of sunlight shines in the life of a kid who rises up against the nasty influence of their educator Serge, who has an eye on him and his pals. But SyIvia gives him one night as a gift, and nothing more.

Stranger in Town

1982 • 26 min

An eccentrically-dressed stranger gets off a train and within a few days has endeared himself to the citizens of the town with his jovial behaviour and magical tricks. He is known as Sir Columbus. However, when he calls upon prominent citizen Mr. Latham, he is neither jovial or eccentric, he is out for revenge.

Old Chums

1982 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A man on crutches bumps into an old acquaintance who relentlessly bombards him with small talk.

The Fall of the House of Usher

1982 • 15 min • Czechoslovakia

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse. The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic.