1979 Movies

Essay on animation's contradictory legacy: comedy and formalism.

Echoes of the October Revolution finally reach remote Central Asian mountain hamlets.

The procedure of separating and extracting certain aspects of a scene by adjusting the focus of a series of frames in succession according to various...

Foreign, Foreign Sci-Fi & Fantasy, India, Gujarati Language, Foreign Languages, Foreign Regions - This mythological tale of arrogance and downfall...

Influential Jamaican reggae artist Dennis Brown takes the stage at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival in 1979 to perform some grooving tracks, inclu...

A fairy tale for children about the need for an attentive attitude towards elders. It tells a story about how domestic animals - a cat, a dog and a pa...

Foreign - Jai, a peasant whose swashbuckling heroics include deposing a tyrannical prince and his vicious sister Aan. Aided by his girlfriend Mangala,...

Documentary - Jacques Costeau tried. Pioneer dolphin researcher John Lilly said it couldn't be done. But in 1978, a ship of fools set out to swim in t...

Shaw Brothers superstar Chi Kuan Chun (Drunk Monkey, Men from the Monastery) wrote, directed and stars in the remake of the Shaw epic Disciple Of Shao...

Merging the subjective and the objective, the autobiographical and the anthropological, The Laughing Alligator is a highly personal observation of an...

Based on the novel by E Nesbit.

Jean-Louis le Tacon’s Cochon qui s’en dedit is a nightmarish documentary on the life of a factory farmer, Maxime. Shot on Super 8 over 3 years, the fi...

Adaptation of the Mallen series of novels by Catherine Cookson.

A play by James Cameron.

In these five "modern narratives" of desire in contemporary consumer culture, Almy constructs an ironic social critique. Each segment focuses on a sin...

"The mise-en-scene, the whole story, takes place in one location, the artist's studio. A delicate psychological allegory on 'a day in the life of' anc...

Bonus disc from Kissology II. Kiss live at Capital Center, Landover, MI, July 8, 1979

Videotaped live at the Starwood Club in Hollywood, shortly before Randy Rhoads left Quiet Riot to join Ozzy Osbourne's band. Kevin DuBrow - Vocals /...