All Films

Blitzkrieg Bop!

1978 • 51 min

Live punk rock and new wave from CBGB’s at 315 Bowery, NYC, a music club that opened Dec 10, 1973

Kiri Giuliale

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Of the deminers combing the landscape, a young man walking without a detector finds himself on a mine. Since his companions cannot help him, the young man wants to dictate his goodbye letter to his wife.

Home

1978 • 25 min • East Germany

Young people living in a children’s home in Mecklenburg talk about their unstable home situations and domestic violence. Many of them have alcoholic parents and some are in danger of going down the same path. They speak openly about the past and their hopes for a better life. The documentary follows the young men and women within the group and in search of personal space. A party to start the summer holidays marks not only the end of the school year – it also means that an entire class will be taking leave of the home forever.

The Punk Kebab Documentary

1978 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Starring The Nipple Erectors and The Maniacs and born in the year of punk, this is a documentary about kebabs with an anarchic approach. Look out for footage of a young Shane MacGowan at the very dawn of his career, in the short-lived punk band The Nipple Erectors (later known as the Nips). Editor Carl Haber has had an established career and founded the Rome International Film School.

One Foot in Eden

1978 • 49 min

Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse and there are quotations from the works of Edwin Muir, Robert Rendell and the ancient Orkneyinga Saga. Extracts from the composer's works include pieces from Ave Maria Stella, O Magnum Mysterium and the final scene from his opera The Martyrdom of Saint Magnus.

Danmarksresan

1978 • 43 min • Sweden

The story of a family's trip to Denmark.

Music

1978 • 54 min • Soviet Union

Based on M.Diuras' play.

Is It an Elephant or Not?

1978 • 11 min • China

Xiao Ming gazes around in the zoo when the teacher explains characteristics of animals to the class. The teacher assigns homework of drawing an elephant, but Xiao Ming draws an elephant with a monkey face.

Anyplace But Here

1978 • 49 min • United States of America

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to treat or accept them is the focus of this documentary narrated by Bill Moyers. The dilemma of being as scared of getting well as of remaining ill and facing a world with no home or job to go to is vividly portrayed as the film follows three patients as they move into rare transition programs.

Labyrinth

1978 • 3 min

Strolling with his master through a constantly shifting landscape of corridors and stairs, a beret capped canine discusses life, philosophy and his master.

Well, Just You Wait! 12

1978 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Zayats goes to a museum where Volk already waits for him, but not to learn history together.

Как утёнок-музыкант стал футболистом

1978 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Landscape From A Dream

1978 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

Teenage Father

1978 • 30 min

About a high school boy who accidentally got his girlfriend pregnant. They both agree that they’ll give up the baby for adoption when the child is born…. turns out things are not so simple.

The Bridge

1978 • 11 min • United States of America

A father is working the controls of a railroad track, allowing approaching passenger trains to cross safely over the bridge. As one approaches, he sees his young son coming toward him on the tracks. It is at this moment the father must decide whom to save - the train full of passengers -- or his son. This powerful film poignantly illustrates the meaning of God allowing His son to die to save us.

Procópio no Cinema

1978 • 26 min • Brazil

Grease Day USA

1978 • 48 min

The star-studded premiere party for "Grease," featuring numerous unrelated musical performances.

Moomintroll and the Others

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Far up north in the Blue Valley lives the Moomin family. Moomin and little Sniff set off on a journey to the sea to find a place for a celebration.

The Writer In America : Toni Morrison

1978 • 28 min • United States of America

An interview with a young Toni Morrison. The video also shows Toni Morrison going shopping, at a party, and at work. Her commentary provides an incisive look behind her written words, and at the vision, technique, and lifestyle of this award-winning author. She reads from The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon.

Ghan to Alice

1978 • 27 min • Australia

A father and son, both rodeo riders, travel by train from Marree in South Australia to the Alice Springs Rodeo, in the Northern Territory. They travel on a unique railway - The Ghan - which runs through the heart of Australia. It's an overnight trip through spectacular country, pausing briefly at towns along the way, as the men look forward to their final destination, a bull-riding contest between the best rough-riders in the region.

Canada Vignettes: Holidays

1978 • 1 min • Canada

A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.

At the Ditch

1978 • 16 min • East Germany

My Lai ten years after the massacre. Reconstruction of the crime at the place where it was committed; tracing the trail of squad leader Calley in the USA; description of what happened by people who were believed to be dead.

Irina Kolpakova

1978 • 20 min • Soviet Union

About the soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the famous ballerina Irina Alexandrovna Kolpakova. The ballerina is shown in completely different situations — she conducts rehearsals, teaches, takes exams at the conservatory, learns English, rehearses numbers from the ballet 'Giselle,' and feels nervous before the start of a performance.

Robinson Kuzya

1978 • 17 min • Soviet Union