All Films

Linda in Wonderland

1980 • 60 min

“Linda In Wonderland” is Linda Lavin’s variety television special that aired on Thanksgiving Day, 1980. Special guests include; Lynn Redgrave, Anthony Newley and Ron Leibman. Her characters of “Alice Hyatt” and “Sam Butler” from her television show “Alice” also make appearances as Ms. Lavin plays dual roles for both. Ms. Lavin and her guests perform Broadway and other musical numbers in various settings and medleys, mixed in with solo performances and Linda giving us a little background about herself growing up, along with some humor and pizzazz.

Groping

1980 • 8 min • Australia

This short student film by Alex Proyas and Salik Silverstein re-envisions the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder, offering a different explanation for the problem of witness nonintervention.

The Mark of Satan

1980 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Edwyn sees the number nine everywhere and is convinced that forces of evil are at work.

Denshi Sentai Denziman: The Movie

1980 • 45 min • Japan

When a mother with an unexpected origin is held hostage by the Vader Clan, the Denziman must come to her rescue.

Porklips Now

1980 • 22 min • United States of America

This spoof of 'Apocalypse Now' has health inspector Will Dullard travelling by car "uptown" with two friends to have a meeting with a certain Mertz, the owner of a meat processing shop, to "investigate with extreme prejudice."

The Cell

1980 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.

Exchange and Divide

1980 • 49 min • United Kingdom

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.

The Incredible Book Escape

1980 • 60 min • United States of America

Young girl is locked at the library after it closes. Soon after, four storybook characters come to life in front of her.

Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

1980 • 30 min • United States of America

A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narrator searching for a way out of the story.

Braces High

1980 • 30 min

A parcel left on a bus causes concern when the bomb squad are called. Instead it contains a pair of trousers with braces and £370 in one pound notes. Scotland Yard decide to bring Inspector Hammond out of retirement to solve the mystery.

Black Angel

1980 • 25 min • Canada, United Kingdom

A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.

Steppin'

1980 • 45 min

At the end of the 70s there was a vigorous fight for socialism in Jamaica. In this film Landau follows Michael Manley on his tour in Jamaica, during his election.

The Secret of Lost Valley

1980 • 56 min • United States of America

While on a family outing, a boy, Adam, gets lost in the forest and discovers a wild boy there. Communicating by sign language, they become friends. When the wild boy is captured by scientists, Adam helps him escape.

Color Balance

1980 • 3 min

A 1980 video art piece by American artist Morgan Fisher, a multi-projection work featuring floating spheres of different colors (green, red, blue) projected simultaneously.

Just Play The Clash

1980 • 50 min

A bonus feature of Rudeboy, featuring only the concert scenes with the band.

Sincerity V

1980 • 39 min • United States of America

This, then, finishes eleven years of editing drawing on 30-some years of photography. I will surely work autobiographically again, but the modes of SINCERITY and DUPLICITY seem completed with this film which on the one hand is as simple in its integrity-of-light as those follow-the-ball "sing-along" early silent movies and on the other as complicated as teen-age metamorphosis. Childhood dissolves in flame, struck from the hearth.

Erte

1980 • 28 min • United States of America

A biography of Erte, the early 20th century Russian artist and designer known for his glamorous opera sets, jewelry, costumes, and graphic arts. Narrated by Diana Vreeland.

Talking Heads

1980 • 15 min • Poland

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

The Unborn

1980 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A physicist has apocalyptic visions of his unborn baby.

Here is the Woman

1980 • 54 min • Turkey

A perverted young man attacks a woman named Gül, whom he has had his eye on for a long time. Gül fights back like a man, eventually tying up the perverted young man and handing him over to the police, taking her revenge.

Lifelike

1980 • 60 min

The producer and director are delighted with their television play about a comprehensive school. It seems truthful, authentic, really lifelike. But as rehearsals progress, a tense difference of opinion emerges between the author and the young schoolboy actor.

"If Only..."

1980 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Micky is dead. Brian was his mate. Brian won't go to school, won't go out and he won't talk - except to Micky.

O Último Desejo

1980 • 2 min

Cascão happened to be passing by when he noticed Cebolinha sitting on a rock, and Monica mentioned that she was going to fetch something for him. The sight confused Cebolinha as he realized that Monica was actually obeying his commands. Astonishingly, Monica even went to the extent of uprooting a tree to provide shade for Cebolinha, who complained about being exposed to excessive sunlight. However, despite these acts of kindness, Monica eventually ended up beating him. Later, Cebolinha explained to Cascão that he had convinced Monica that every convict is entitled to one last wish.

Pinocchio's Christmas

1980 • 49 min • United States of America, Japan

As Geppetto prepares for Christmas, Pinocchio joins a puppet show to earn money for a present. There he meets and elopes with the beautiful girl puppet, Julietta, leaving Geppetto alone and worried.