Movie Trailers - January 1979

Implications of a Totality Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

“One of my best, an early study about life, love, sex & death. This film has explicit images and may be problematic for children and some adults.

New Pubs for Old Trailer (1979)

02 January 1979

There are essentially two versions of the same film, both of which look at pub makers who create olde world pubs inside new ones using fibreglass mouldings of ancient wooden beams and the like.

Cinema Verite Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A man's face appears on the screen with his eyes covered by a black strip. After a while, the strip covers his mouth, and when it covers his eyes again the man begins to say something.

Industry and Photography Trailer (1979)

03 January 1979

Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a question of having power over the image or a consistent subject-position towards the image, which would allow the filmmaker access to complete knowledge.

Shadow Master Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Shadow Master is a dramatic documentary about a family of performers in Bali. The film is an inside view of Balinese life which reveals the cultural context of theater, music, and dance on the island.

La frisée aux lardons Trailer (1979)

17 January 1979

It’s summer in a small port town in Brittany. Isabelle (Pascale Rocard), who has just graduated from high school, comes to join her mother Micheline (Bernadette Lafont).

Notes Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight.

Rika Trailer (1979)

20 January 1979

Buchhaus Leipzig: Mail-Order Bookseller Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Accompanied by fast-paced editing and pop music, a young GDR citizen explains that even in rural areas the latest in literature can be enjoyed without a problem.

The Adventures of Humpty Dumpty Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Humpty Dumpty lives in a faraway kingdom surrounded by a great wall, but trouble happens when an evil dragon persuades him that he's better than everyone else and tries to get him to cross the wall.

Jerry Lewis At The Palladium Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A film by Paul Brenner

Προσκλητήριο στη μάνα Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The Inflatable Alphabet Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Animated film made using the 'pen on paper' technique, with blown-up shapes forming the letters of the alphabet.

Total Control Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A teenage girl is obsessed with the lead singer of a rock band, but is often mistaken for her idol by fellow fans.

Mon Délire, le Saint-Michel Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

With a keen awareness of his mentally ill condition, René Paquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric hospitals, which he compares to those used in slaughterhouses: submission through medication, straitjackets, and extermination by electroshock.

They Are Killing the Horse Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Noori spends her time doing "chilla-kashi" (meditation) in front of a candle, and fantasizing about a dream lover who comes to her on horseback.

Cathode Trailer (1979)

02 January 1979

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

Havakeen Lunch Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

After eighteen years of operating the favourite lunch counter in Manitoba's Interlake region, Ellen and Martin Kihn have retired.

8mm Portrait Series - Reel #3: Lynn Shelton Prepares a Show at Project Artaud, San Francisco Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

La Scarpa Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A fascist cowboy protects a tourist from Italian people.

Heaven Only Knows Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

An angel named Simon comes to Earth and finds that he enjoys, among other things, hot dogs, beer and meddling in the lives of people.

Champions Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Documentary look at the curious world of record breakers.

O Canada #1: National Anthem: "With Glowing Hearts" Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

This short film celebrates Canada from coast to coast with the national anthem. This version of the anthem was arranged on the occasion of the 1976 Olympics.

Luna Tune Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If.

Cómo se hacen dibujos animados Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Short film.

Apple Dolls Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A short documentary about a folk artist who carves apples to make heads for dolls.

The Olympics Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

These striking observations of a skiing competition for children in Zakopane make, at the same time, a little treaty about growing up.

Trompe l’oeil Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

In Fellini's film Amarcord, an ocean liner emerges from the night and the mists of the water, appears like a mysterious monster, passes like a dream.

Mason's Life Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A Kingsley Amis story with a gay twist. Honorable Mention: American Photographic Society.

Before Need Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

“We started with some dream images, a few actors, friends, and relatives. Slowly the film evolved into sequences or images that expressed the emotional discoveries of an aging woman… Standards of Perfection applied to all the selves, the relationships, the layers of memory.

Friction Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

16mm film, optical color. Uses the camera with deliberate technique to record Japan's leading punk band In a style that imbeds the music in a filmic texture.

Sleeping Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The faceless rebel's declaration of war and "a rousing stab into the gunky eye of Finnish amateur ci"

Fetos Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Fetos is an allegory of the process of life. What would happen if a fetus became conscious in its mother's womb? It would interpret its' surroundings as its only reality.

Split/Flow Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The screen is slit into colors. Through this moves a pattern that is constantly warped by waves. Another space opens up; level upon level of form is revealed.

Κραυγή στον άνεμο Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Celacanto Provoca Lerfá Mú! Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Behind the Curtain: Orestis Laskos Trailer (1979)

31 January 1979

In this documentary of the series *Paraskinio*, produced in 1979, we watch an interview with poet, screenwriter, and director Orestis Laskos by journalist Soula Alexandropoulou.

Les Aventures De Sinbad Le Marin Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Pavane For A Missing Play Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Foreman spent the early months of 1979 rehearsing a play called Madness and Tranquility (My Head Was a Sledgehammer), which he abruptly cancelled very shortly before its scheduled opening.

Relation Work Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Relation Work is a 1979 anthology film that compiles 14 seminal performance art pieces created by Marina Abramović and Ulay between 1976 and 1978.

Awakening Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The creation of Sergeij Eisenstein's wooden sculpture by Igor Vasiliers.

I Met You... Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A young man meets a pretty woman on the street. They have a wonderful time together, walking around Kyiv and riding along the Dnipro River, and in the evening they come to the house, where two children rush towards them with a joyful cry.

Drei Versuche über Anton von Weberns Opus 5, 5. Satz Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Webern's “Opus 5” comments through three very different translations: an abstract image sequence of moving lights and shadows, an almost abstract image sequence of a lava landscape and a monochrome film section that forces the viewer to bring in their own associations.

Seventh Day Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Second of two versions of this story by Michael J. Murphy. Both versions are considered lost.

No, No, Pickle Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A claymation adaptation of Arlo Guthrie's classic "The Motorcycle Song."

D’un roig encès: Miró i Mont-roig Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Through D'un roig encès: Miró and Mont-roig Joan Miro Explains the genesis of his work and the inspiration that came from spending long seasons, for 65 years, in Mont-roig (Baix Camp).

Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Rev. Dr. Mel White’s famous documentary on the murderous cult leader, Rev. Jim Jones

Sappho Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Using the sixth century B.C. lyricist's poetry, a group of women unwrap the papyrus gauze of the lesbian goddess and bring her to life.

Every Night I Dream Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A film about a distinguished industrial worker of the Lithuanian SSR, a weaver at the P. Ziberta Silk Factory in Kaunas.

60 Years of the Restored Patriarchate Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The film tells about the celebrations held in Moscow in May 1978 to mark the 60th anniversary of the restoration of the Patriarchate in Russia.

LA, RE, MI, LA Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Carles Santos, at the piano, plays the notes that make up the title 74 times, dressed up and disguised as that many characters.

The Journey of the Worthy Ones Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

From Tashkent to Bukhara go on excursion in the holidays of the pioneers, selected from the best, but for two pioneers Shahir and Vitka this trip is primarily an opportunity to find the treasures of the last Emir of Bukhara, who hid them when the troops of the Red Army approached the city, and the Emir realized that he could not hold Bukhara.

Change. My Problem is a Problem of a Woman Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Ewa Partum’s work entitled Change. My problem is a problem of a woman (1979) is the culmination and the turning point of a process which began with Change in 1974.

Ich will keine Lieder mehr hören, singen will ich Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

A portrait of Turkish artists living and working in Berlin.

The Old World Landowners Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The old couple, Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife Pulcheria Ivanovna, live in seclusion in one of the remote villages known as "starosvitsky" in Little Russia.