Movies 1982 Page 50

Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

Animated story about the adventures of boatswain and his parrot.

Chekist Olga Anisimova, who infiltrated the White Guard center in Harbin, and border guard Aleksei Mogilov prevent a number of provocations on the...

Drama-thriller from Taiwan.

A middle-aged jeweler is falling in love with a glorious woman. She, raising a son alone, is in no hurry to reciprocate a fan.

Robi is a young Israeli who lives his grandparents and works at their store. He dreams of finding true love and becoming a movie director, both of...

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...

A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's...

Elton Chong stars as a martial arts whiz-kid named Chuck, who, after being taught by master Leon Chan, becomes an expert in the Shaolin "13 styles"...

About the tragic defeat of the popular uprising led by the young dzhigit Akhtam and the young beauty Mayimkhan. Events are developing at the...

Two little figures are born from the wool clippings, who compete for the wool doll's favor and try to impress her with their bizarre antics.

An experimental short on light, color and anxiety.

After a heavy rain storm, several vehicles get stuck on a muddy road. Soon hunger and fatigue change people's manners, making them behave in a very...

The story of Indonesia's fight for independence from the Dutch.

Glass Gardens is an animated allegory of the role creativity plays in the survival of the human spirit. The protagonist wanders the dystopian ruins...

Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the...

A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in...

Kiss live ABC Friday's 1982

In the Americanbom, educational films, newsreel footage and old television shows are appropriated for a sardonic exploration of nuclear age values....

Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and...

A record of McKellen's one-man Broadway show about the Bard.

A man returns home from a business trip to find his wife is gone. He assumes she's left him after years of rowing and affairs but everyone else seems...

Tessa Hughes-Freeland’s “Baby Doll” is a tiny slice of cinéma vérité from 1982 about the girls working the now defunct Baby Doll Lounge on...

In 1919 the carnage of the First World War has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her crippled father,...

A slice of blue-collar life in two uranium-mining boom towns in Wyoming.

Short 'newsfilm' looking back at the events of 1981, beginning with the killing of 13 young blacks in New Cross, London. The film goes on to show the...

Private Detective Mike Hayes is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation...

Produced by Ireland's National Television with the assistance of Richard Ellmann, the program was shot in Joyce’s tracks in Dublin, Trieste,...

Seamlessly blending elements of movement and music, Twyla Tharp choreographs a rock 'n' roll dance spectacular, set to a score by former Talking...

Shot from between 48 and 250 fps, Tides reverses Maya Deren's At Land, with the first shot instead of spewing Deren up onto the beach, instead sweeps...

A series of six opening logos and one closing logo produced as part of the NFB's contribution to the Ottawa '82 International Animation Film Festival.

"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern...

A spoof of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." Guests arrive at an island mansion. A storm strands the guests. Their host is found dead....

Sketchy producers hire an ailing movie star, hoping to cash in on the insurance when he dies.

Bow Wow Wow - the English new wave band performs TV Savage, Cowboy, Orang Outang, Sexy Eiffel Towers, Jungle Boy, Mile High Club, Uoma Sex El Apache,...

Reel One of Jon Coley's Jonamation Trilogy; Jonamation referring to the filmmaker's mix of stop-motion animation and live-action. Coley uses the...

A music executive stops in for a 15 minute haircut.