All Films

The Magic Lake

1979 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Baba Yaga steals a young maiden, and her groom-to-be goes off to rescue her.

Kha Uebertragung - Les embaumées

1979 • 60 min • France

The film revolves around three notions: Kha = the etheric double according to ancient Egyptians. Perpetual specter in all respects resembling the physical body of a dead person. Uebertragung = transfer. Phenomenon by which an emotional state experienced for one object is extended to another by an association. Identification. Projection. Moving from one order of things to another. Embalming = filling a corpse with balsamic, desiccating and antiseptic substances to preserve them. Fill with a sweet smell. Perfume.

The Last Window

1979 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

If one does not approach every problem carefully and patiently, the failure is inevitable. The view through the window that offers nothing, if one does not wait, is another story about a man who does not have the patience to study the problem in detail and calmly for which there was a real solution. Because after a hasty step, of course wrong, that same window offers a different view. The blank wall is no longer there, of course only the one who knows how to approach things studiously and who knows how to be patient and calm can see that.

To Good To Be True?

1979 • 45 min

Film profile of gay rock star/political activist Tom Robinson, intercut with the Tom Robinson Band in concert

Stalk of the Celery Monster

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

The only fragments remaining of the film today depict a dentist named Dr. Maxwell Payne making bloody experiments with his patients. He tries a woman, and after that the monster of the title shows up, roaring. In the following clip, the woman leaves, as Dr. Maxwell Payne searches for another victim.

The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic

1979 • 40 min

The Police's performance on BBC's 'Rock Goes To College' programme, recorded at Hatfield College in February 1979. Tracklist : 01. Can't Stand Losing You 02. So Lonely 03. Fall Out 04. Hole In My Life 05. Truth Hits Everybody 06. Message in a Bottle 07. Peanuts 08. Roxanne 09. Next To You

Thriller

1979 • 34 min • United Kingdom

What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boheme. In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.

The Five Forty-Eight

1979 • 58 min • United States of America

An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him and forces him to confront the squalor of his life.

Two Breaths To...

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

This animated film dramatizes the danger of working in oxygen-deficient conditions. It was intended for viewing by mine and construction workers in order to promote safety and prevent accidents.

The Mother

1979 • 26 min • Portugal

The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot revolves around a traditional tale about theft, greed, an ubiquitous mother, and the links between the worlds of the living and the dead.

En magisk värld

1979 • 35 min • Sweden

"A Magic World" - For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

Rona Barrett looks back at 1978 and reflects on the news and entertainment highlights of the year. Includes interviews with John Travolta, Robin Williams, Pricilla Presley, Donna Summers, Steve Martin, and Barbra Streisand.

Our Friend Read'n'Write 2

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Kolya and the book gnome go looking for the letters that make up the boy's name. Continuation of the fairy tale about the alphabet.

B.o.o.o.m.

1979 • 11 min • Canada, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union

A view of man's perpetual struggle for self-destruction, in which we glimpse a world where rockets are part of everyone's lives.

Masha and the Magic Jam

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Baryshnikov at the White House

1979 • 60 min

Mikhail Baryshnikov and the New York City Ballet perform at the White House's East Room.

Puff the Magic Dragon: The Land of the Living Lies

1979 • 23 min • United States of America

Sandy is a little girl with a penchant for whoppers. However, when her lies start go so far as to implicate the innocent for her own misdeeds, Puff decides to step in. Using his magic, Puff takes Sandy to the Land of Living Lies where everyone tells the most ridiculous lies and honesty is persecuted. Only when Sandy realizes the need for honesty can she help Puff escape this insane world. Written by Kenneth Chisholm

Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures

1979 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights into the way in which "film language" developed during the silent era, with emphasis on the process by which spectators came to be increasingly "contained" with the space time of narrative.

Flying

1979 • 1 min • United States of America

The Hanna-Barbera Hall of Fame: Yabba Dabba Doo II

1979 • 45 min • United States of America

In this retrospective on creators Hanna and Barbera, Bill Bixby hosts a behind-the-scenes look at technical and sound artistry. Segments spotlight families and famous women in cartoons as well as romance.

O Youth and Beauty!

1979 • 58 min • United States of America

Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasingly unsettled in his life, yearning for the glories of his athletic youth and watching them fade further in the distance with accumulating age. Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.

The Fern Flower

1979 • 17 min • Soviet Union

There lived a Ukrainian lad. He was nice and not stupid, but poverty prevented him from choosing a wife that he loved. To achieve his goal, he went on a very dangerous and serious step, having sold his soul to evil powers. Since then, his life has changed dramatically, becoming prosperous and even luxurious, but the hour of reckoning will come, which inevitably puts pressure on the protagonist...

Le Petomane

1979 • 33 min • United Kingdom

The incredibly true story of the legendary French entertainer Joseph Pujol, who performed impersonations with his self-described 'elastic anus' and a surfeit of wind.

Maria Yi: My Recollection

1979 • 11 min • China

Documentary about Maria Yi recalling her film work in the 1970s, particularly with Bruce Lee.