All Films

Susanne tanzt

1979 • 17 min • Germany

Short by Edgar Reitz and his daughter Susanne Reitz.

The Muppets Go Hollywood

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movie. Hosts Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets who attend the event. Gary Owens serves as off-camera announcer, and appears on-screen to introduce Miss Piggy.

Public Television

1979 • 23 min

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Multi Camera view of a “theater of the absurd” play (including an above-head surveillance camera). Inside a fast food restaurant, a white British man joins the table of a Black American couple, asking for a cigarette and french fries. He brings conflict to the couple, who begin to fight over existential questions about perception, sanity, and television..“I watch television more than it watches me”

Cinderella

1979 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Cosgrove Hall's stop-motion animation of the classic fairy tale Cinderella

America 2100

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

Two everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a robot named MAX. Pilot episode for unproduced series.

Casper's Halloween Special

1979 • 25 min • United States of America

On Halloween night, Hairy Scarey, Winifred Witch and Screech Ghost are plotting their mean-spirited spookings. Casper refuses to join them and decides to go trick-or-treating dressed as a real boy, but neighborhood kids see through his disguise and run away in fear. Casper is heartbroken until he meets a special group of orphans who accept him for who he is, a ghost. But their fun is soon spoiled as Hairy Scary and his ghostly crew interfere. Now it is up to Casper and his new friends to stop their ghastly games and save Halloween before it is too late. --Wikipedia

The Blue of the Origins

1979 • 52 min • France

A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel's intimate family album featuring the two women who counted in his cinematographic life: Nico and Zouzou.

The Fang in the Hole

1979 • 46 min • Japan

A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.

Nails

1979 • 13 min • Canada

This Oscar-nominated documentary short tracks the shift in the relationship of an individual to his work between the 19th century and today. Focusing on how nails are made, we first see a blacksmith laboring at his forge, shaping nails from single strands of steel rods. The scene then shifts from this peaceful setting to the roar of a 20th century nail mill, where banks of machines draw, cut, and pound the steel rods faster than the eye can follow.

The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone

1979 • 48 min • United States of America

The Flintstones and the Rubbles win a trip on "Make a Deal or Don't" to Count Rockula's castle in Rocksylvania, where they have an unpleasant meeting with the Count and his servant, Frankenstone.

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

1979 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Botan Dōrō

1979 • 45 min • Japan

Otsuyu, the daughter of a samurai, takes her life after being forced into an unwanted marriage, and her maid Omi follows her in death. Together as spirits, they visit Otsuyu’s lover, Shinzaemon. Believing Otsuyu is alive, Shinzaemon rekindles their relationship, but he soon begins to waste away. A concerned neighbor consults a doctor, who reveals that Shinzaemon is being haunted and his death is near.

The Little Rascals' Christmas Special

1979 • 24 min • United States of America

Spanky and Porky try to figure out a way to get their mother a winter coat for Christmas after she buys them a Blue Comet electric train.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Yotsuya Kaidan

1979 • 45 min • Japan

Iemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face. He descends into alcoholism and starts an affair with O-hana, a maid carrying another man’s child. Together, they conspire to poison Oiwa, killing her and disposing of her body in a moat. But Oiwa’s vengeful spirit rises from the depths, seeking revenge.

The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane

1979 • 30 min • Canada

Sleepy Hollow, a town plagued by the Headless Horseman, hires the most educated person they can find to fight him - Ichabod Crane. He, talking horse and dog, and Rip van Winkle go on the quest. But the Horseman has a secret.

Moonblood

1979 • 13 min

Viola describes Moonblood as "an expression of the feminine principle, a work in three parts relating to a personal concept of woman and mother. Day and night converge within the silhouette of a woman at a window — a rushing waterfall in winter, and the serene interplay of changing dawn light unfolds within a glass of water at dawn in the desert."

Kačička Modropierko

1979 • 26 min • Czechoslovakia

A poetically themed animated story by Ruda Mórica, with commentary by Gustáv Valach, about a duck named Modropierko who, despite many obstacles and several attempts at nesting, manages to hatch her long-awaited baby ducklings

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Kasane-ga-Fuchi

1979 • 45 min • Japan

On a snowy winter night, Soetsu, a blind masseur, and his daughter Shiga visit the nobleman Shinzaemon Fukami. Drunk, he assaults Shiga, and when Soetsu tries to protect her, he’s brutally killed. Later, Soetsu's body is thrown into a swamp, but his spirit returns to haunt Shinzaemon, driving him inevitably toward death.

Disco Beaver from Outer Space

1979 • 51 min • United States of America

National Lampoons mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV.

He Joe

1979 • 21 min • Germany

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.

Romie-0 and Julie-8

1979 • 30 min • Canada

Two rival robotics companies in the future release their latest creations at a robotics convention, claiming each to be the latest and greatest in technological advances. Mega Stellar Company's release is a robot boy named Romie-O, while Super Solar Cybernetics has released a girl robot named Julie-8. Unforeseen to each of the company's creators, is how each of the advanced robots soon falls in love with the other.

Bondage Affair

1979 • 60 min • Japan

A woman falls in love with the owner of a liquor store in a downtown area. When a woman whom the owner broke up with ten years ago starts showing up at the store, the woman's heart becomes complicated and twisted. When the owner reunites with the woman, he becomes immersed in a world of abnormal love, and soon they break up violently...

Whip and Bondage

1979 • 60 min • Japan

A perverted cohabitation life of a student aiming to enter medical school and a prostitute at a pink salon. Every day he is tied up and tortured with an enema in the ass. And so, a strange life of two women and one man begins, involving a young girl, Kazue. Tired of love and perversion, the woman abandons the man and disappears... The man who lost her then...

John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together

1979 • 50 min • United States of America

In this beloved holiday classic, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the Muppets join the singer for a heart-warming Christmas celebration, with traditional carols as well as lesser-known holiday songs.