All Films

Giger's Alien

1979 • 34 min • Switzerland

Documentary about Giger's work for the movie Alien (1979).

Liberace: A Valentine Special

1979 • 60 min • United States of America

Join Liberace in his hot air balloon as he touches down at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada and jumps on stage for a Valentine's Day concert like no other! There's also a tour of the Liberace Museum, his private home and the Queen Mary where Sandy Duncan and Lola Falana join him in song, dance and laughter.

Farbrorn som inte vill va' stor

1979 • 55 min • Sweden

Ragnar works in an office. He turns 33 in May, and he has 45 in shoes. Ragnar has a vivid imagination. The more he thinks, the younger he wants to be. He thinks it would be good if he were ten years or maybe only seven. Then he would be out playing now. Usually Ragnar think when he sits in his office. He is actually the man who does not want to grow up, or become a grown-up.

Henry Intervening

1979 • 30 min

Today, Henry's usually dull journey to work is eventful enough to catapult him into the headlines.

Daughter Rite

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

A feminist documentary about female relationships, especially between mother and daughter.

John Denver at Wembley Arena

1979 • 40 min

Country singer-songwriter John Denver performs in concert at Wembley Arena in 1979, featuring hits including Rocky Mountain High and Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Storytime

1979 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The first story-time segment is about a cheerful cockroach named Don, who scurries throughout his mansion home, walks beneath the floorboards and does unspeakable things in the darkness of the cupboard, before being splatted by somebody's foot. The second segment is about an ordinary man named Albert Einstein ("the only Albert Einstein not to have discovered the Theory of Relativity") whose hands have a life of their own, staying out late at night, misbehaving and committing adultery with feet. The third segment – hasn't much story to it at all, and instead concerns the inhabitants of the moving pictures on an over-sized Christmas card, who interact with each other in all sorts of bizarre ways.

For Twenty Cents A Day

1979 • 24 min • Canada

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19.

Costa Rica Banana Republic

1979 • 16 min • Costa Rica

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an example the production and marketing of bananas and the prevailing conditions in the world market - dominated by the virtual monopoly of three multinational companies -, it is shown how as a result of this monopolistic domination, the Costa Rican State has stopped receiving equitable taxes for what that, in the end, the housing and public services offered by the country are characterized as those of an underdeveloped society. The attempt made since 1974 by a group of banana-producing countries, aimed at improving sales prices to multinationals and raising taxes; The resulting “banana war” are examples of the enormous efforts that small banana countries have to make to achieve greater justice in the prevailing market conditions.

Birth of a Salesman

1979 • 50 min • Sweden

Films the process of making Bo Widerberg's film "Death of a Salesman'.

Psycho Shampoo

1979 • 1 min • United States of America

A short parody of the iconic shower murder scene from Hitchcock's "Psycho" framed as a shampoo commercial. This short was produced for the LA-based comedy theater group Our Lady of Laughter and used as part of their show "Rabies!" in 1979.

The Cockerel

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Two Kids playing a Chicken Balloon.

Singur și nesilit de nimeni

1979 • 9 min • Romania

Aurel Ghilezan, a young man recently released from prison, where he served time for vandalism after hitting his stepfather. He lives with friends from prison, and in private we see how his relationship with his girlfriend brings back unpleasant memories.

Kieselchen

1979 • 15 min • East Germany

A pretty mouse, gray as a pebble, comes into money, builds herself a cabbage house and looks around for a man. As she likes to sing herself, she wants him to have a nice voice. She doesn't like sheep, frog and rooster, so she gives her favor to a tomcat. One day, when he gets to lick her blood, his appetite overcomes him. She manages to escape - and they have lived in enmity ever since.

Interview

1979 • 13 min • Canada

A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective animation techniques. Images and words are paired in startling associations. Each does a visual portrait of the other, based on characteristic gestures and impressions. A combination of techniques and materials produces a film of rich visual texture shaped by the hands and heads of two very different people.

La Cotorra II

1979 • 10 min • Venezuela

A conversation between Rolando Peña and Iván Loscher during the construction of the Caracas subway. "La Cotorra No. 2" is a very personal, humorous rehearsal of the current communications of our societies as well as ours.

Grandomaniya

1979 • 10 min • Bulgaria

The hero watches as people honor the monuments of great people. He is obsessed with becoming great. He takes out one eye, like Admiral Nelson. He cut off his ear to look like a Van Gogh. He knocks out the other eye to be blind like Homer. In the end, he sets himself on fire, like Giordano Bruno. But people don't notice him. . .

The Broken Rule

1979 • 27 min

“THE BROKEN RULE is my reaction to the American education system, where learning blocks must be acquired by the group before any individual can progress to the next level. My film pictures learning blocks as relay races conducted by male players, where the girls are scores, and the goal is to enter the working world by the end of the game. Mike Kelley, the lead player in my film, makes a ritual out of his mistakes to escape the consequences of his mistakes. In this film, one person’s work is another person’s play, and play creates competition, a component of work.” — E.B. 1979

Freeze Frame

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner across a frozen desert.

Angel Death

1979 • 33 min

A documentary depicting the dangers of PCP use. Shows how both animals' and humans' behavior is affected by the drug and describes its physical, psychological, and emotional aftereffects.

Melody Of Dvorzhak

1979 • 36 min • Soviet Union

A TV movie about a wounded Azerbaijani soldier who was captured during the WWII.

Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful

1979 • 6 min

Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful was a serialised mini-episode broadcast in four parts in 1979 to raise awareness of the growing litter problem in Australia, to aid the Western Australian Litter Act of 1979, also known as Keep Australia Beautiful. It featured the Fourth Doctor, or rather, Dr. Who, if one takes into account the title of the story.

Seven Husbands

1979 • 59 min • Turkey

'Yedi Kocalı', one of the films shot in the 1970s, which took Yeşilçam by storm, tells the story of a woman who marries seven different men due to financial difficulties and spends time with someone else every day of the week. Things get complicated when husbands realize they're not the only one over time. Ülkü Erakalın, who was known for his erotic films shot at that time, is in the director's seat of the film, and Zerrin Egeliler, who we also know with this genre, is in the leading role.

Beginning Responsibility: The Broken Bookshop

1979 • 13 min

Rueben is a used book store owner who believes he can communicate with the items he sells. Through these discussions, he learns the ways to keep books from being destroyed by careless and malicious children. Part of the Coronet "Beginning Responsibilities" series.