1980 Movies

July 5, 1980. Summertime, San Francisco's Chinatown. A gang of Chinese firework dealers dispose of their unsold goods to the glory of emulsified film....

Cult Explosion looks at religions groups considered by some to be cults include Hare Krishna, the Manson Family, the People's Temple, Scientology, Chr...

A film about being a detective

Looking outside and looking back in the same moment; the collision of memory and reluctance. In Returning Susan Stein achieves a simultaneous sense of...

Misrecognitions and simulacra. An anti-montage film: a series of discrete shots that nevertheless gel at one or two points to produce simple meanings....

A tie or lace? After trying on numerous treasures from New York’s second-hand stores, and extravagant fashion accessories, Karola Gramann decides on a...

"Am I the story I sell myself?" Fragmented memories of a chance meeting are dissected and rehashed.

La Zona Intertidal was made at a time when terrorist acts from both state and paramilitary were the order of the day in El Salvador and shaped the glo...

GHOST DANCE LOTS OF FLARES THE BODY OF A WOMAN identified as lies under a blanket on fogs of san fran. small bits – J. K.

Real time is an oxymoron. The film presents one firing of Vancouver's famous gun; an event that attracts an audience visible on screen unlike the audi...

This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent of George Kuc...

This film aims to describe the agony of a biology teacher who finds himself in a place of limits, at the edge of life and death. Set in the years just...

Via New Day Films: "A series of first person portraits of seven quilt makers, including a Mennonite, a Bulgarian immigrant, an African American, and t...

Like many mountain villages, Ano Ravenia, has been progressively deserted by it most active population. The film shows the painful transformation from...

A South Vietnamese refugee family learns to live in the USA

A 'parapsychocomical' mockumentary look at the production of Australia's newest prestige feature, Weekend of Summer Last, a film that deals realistica...