The Thirteenth Wellington Film Festival 1984
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1. A Woman in Flames (1983)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratingly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out ... See full summary »
Director: Robert van Ackeren | Stars: Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, Hanns Zischler, Gabriele Lafari
Votes: 639
2. A Girl's Own Story (1984)
27 min | Short, Drama
The awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Gabrielle Shornegg, Geraldine Haywood, Marian Knight, John Godden
Votes: 876
3. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,504 | Gross: $2.40M
4. Report from Hollywood (1984)
59 min | Documentary
Director: Edward Lachman | Stars: Henri Alekan, Patrick Bauchau, Samuel Fuller, Allen Garfield
5. Sans Soleil (1983)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Drama
A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Amilcar Cabral, Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Riyoko Ikeda
Votes: 12,137 | Gross: $0.03M
6. Vietnam: The Secret Agent (1983)
56 min | Documentary
Using striking archive and war footage in support of interviews with veterans, scientists, attorneys, the U.S. Air Force, the Veterans Administration, Dow Chemical and more; this film ... See full synopsis »
Director: Jacki Ochs | Stars: Max Gail, Ron Kovic
7. Dark Circle (1982)
82 min | Documentary
Documentary about the nuclear industry.
Directors: Chris Beaver, Judy Irving | Star: Judy Irving
Votes: 74
8. Alsino and the Condor (1982)
R | 89 min | Drama, War
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi
Votes: 359
9. Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (1983)
29 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary is related to an art show directors Wollen and Mulvey organized for London's Whitechapel Gallery, attempting to pair the rather different work of two female creators, painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti.
Directors: Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen | Stars: Miriam Margolyes, Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Diego Rivera
Votes: 54
10. Confidentially Yours (1983)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 7,502
11. The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones (1983)
8 min | Animation, Short
A minister who can't say goodbye goes on a vacation.
Director: Gerald Potterton | Star: Mavor Moore
Votes: 25
12. Parsifal (1982)
PG | 255 min | Drama, Music
Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Edith Clever, Martin Sperr, Robert Lloyd, Michael Kutter
Votes: 334
13. Oro, Plata, Mata (1982)
TV-MA | 194 min | Drama, War
Two affluent families struggle and learn to survive during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines.
Director: Peque Gallaga | Stars: Cherie Gil, Sandy Andolong, Liza Lorena, Fides Cuyugan-Asensio
Votes: 658
14. Identification of a Woman (1982)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance
A director's wife leaves him. He pursues another woman who also departs. This inspires a movie idea about women's relationships. He searches for an actress to star in the film and his life.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel
Votes: 3,235
15. Danton (1983)
PG | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
Votes: 7,779
16. Sundae in New York (1983)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A character closely resembling then-mayor Ed Koch sings a variation on the "Theme from 'New York, New York'" in an entirely clay-animated film depicting a variety of locations and celebrities associated with New York City.
Director: Jimmy Picker | Star: Scott Record
Votes: 594
17. Another Way (1982)
102 min | Biography, Drama, History
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia ... See full summary »
Director: Károly Makk | Stars: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jozef Kroner, Péter Andorai
Votes: 914
18. Veronika Voss (1982)
R | 104 min | Drama
Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer
Votes: 7,790
19. Camilla Horn sieht sich als Gretchen in Murnaus Stummfilm Faust (1982)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Hedda Rinneberg, Hans Sachs | Star: Camilla Horn
Votes: 8
20. A Good Marriage (1982)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Féodor Atkine, Arielle Dombasle
Votes: 3,778
21. Demonios en el jardín (1982)
R | 97 min | Drama
In a small Spanish village, Gloria, the imperious head of a troubled family, is devoted to her two sons. The brothers, Óscar and Juan, have frequent violent disputes. Óscar, the oldest, and... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Stars: Ángela Molina, Ana Belén, Encarna Paso, Imanol Arias
Votes: 295
Demons in the Garden
22. Flamenco at 5:15 (1983)
29 min | Documentary, Short
For a few weeks each year, in the depths of winter, senior students at the National Ballet School of Canada are treated to a style of dance that is unlike any other - flamenco.
Director: Cynthia Scott | Stars: Susana Robledo, Antonio Robledo, Rita Bozi, Catherine Hader
Votes: 213
23. Sheer Madness (1983)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly ... See full summary »
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen
Votes: 297
A Labour of Love
24. Narcissus (1983)
Not Rated | 22 min | Musical, Short
A balletic interpretation of the Greek myth in which dancers enact the tragedy of the beautiful youth who condemns himself to a trapped existence through excessive self-love.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Jean-Louis Morin, Sylvie Kinal, Sylvain Lafortune
Votes: 193
25. Little Queen (1984)
18 min | Short
A boy's awakening recognition of his (homo)sexuality and the 1954 royal visit coincide in this complex memoir of national under-development and solitary personal growth.
Director: Peter Wells
26. Ascendancy (1983)
92 min | Drama
Connie is a member of the British landowning "Ascendancy" in Ireland after WWI. Through a chance friendship with a British soldier, she learns how sheltered she has been, and chooses to ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Julie Covington, Ian Charleson, John Phillips, Susan Engel
Votes: 75
27. L'Argent (1983)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Vincent Risterucci
Votes: 11,849
28. Portrait of the Artist... as an Old Lady (1982)
30 min | Short
Paraskeva Clark, artist, socialist, feminist, is her own woman at her own cost. This film is a cameo of an irascible and oftentimes touching artist whose work has won her a place in ... See full summary »
Director: Gail Singer | Stars: Paraskeva Clark, Germaine Greer
29. Android (1982)
PG | 80 min | Sci-Fi
A strange doctor secretly experiments with androids on his space station. His assistant is Max, a curious android who wants to see the world and meet a girl. Criminals hide on their station and soon violence erupts.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Don Keith Opper, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser
Votes: 2,571
30. Sing Beast Sing (1980)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An animated music video of I'm Mad by blues singer Willie Mabon by Marv Newland (of Bambi Meets Godzilla fame) featuring a man pulling a cactus on a red wagon, a piano playing beast and a ... See full summary »
Director: Marv Newland | Stars: Mark Robman, Maxwell Becraft
Votes: 43
31. The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser
Votes: 11,095
32. Delivery Man (1982)
6 min | Short, Animation
This animated psychedelic short portrays the stream-of-consciousness adventures of a young woman, including an encounter with her dead father, her mother's struggle with cancer, and ... See full summary »
Director: Emily Hubley
Votes: 13
33. In Heaven There Is No Beer? (1984)
Not Rated | 51 min | Documentary, Music
A portrait of the life, culture and food surrounding the lovers of Polka music. The title is taken from an old Polka standard. Stars of the Polka world are highlighted.
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Dick Pillar, Walter Szczypula, Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra, The Marion Lush Orchestra
Votes: 362
34. The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time (1981)
PG | 78 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group, "The Weavers," and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
Director: Jim Brown | Stars: Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Arlo Guthrie
Votes: 221
35. On Guard (1984)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Four women team up to sabotage a supercomputer belonging to a disreputable biotechnology firm.
Director: Susan Lambert | Stars: Alice Ansara, Martha Ansara, Mystery Carnage, Liddy Clark
Votes: 6
36. Born in Flames (1983)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are dealt with by the government.
Director: Lizzie Borden | Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy
Votes: 2,061
37. Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt (1982)
Documentary, Music
Documentary that covers John Cooper-Clarke's tour with reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Director: Nick May
Votes: 8
38. Going Down (1982)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Four Australian girls decide to give their best friend a night she'll never forget before she heads to New York and their group breaks up.
Director: Haydn Keenan | Stars: Tracy Mann, Vera Plevnik, Julie Barry, Moira MacLaine-Cross
Votes: 56
39. Pauline at the Beach (1983)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine
Votes: 10,535
40. The Adventures of Algy (1925)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Beaumont Smith | Stars: Claude Dampier, Bathie Stuart, Eric Harrison, Billie Carlyle
Votes: 6
41. Das Gespenst (1982)
88 min | Drama
The life-size figure of Christ at 42 travels with the cross on a mission through Bavaria.
Director: Herbert Achternbusch | Stars: Herbert Achternbusch, Annamirl Bierbichler, Werner Schroeter, Kurt Raab
Votes: 191
42. Strikebound (1984)
101 min | Drama
The dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.
Director: Richard Lowenstein | Stars: Chris Haywood, Carol Burns, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rob Steele
Votes: 71
43. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Music
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Edward Asner, Pat Benatar, Jerry Brown, Johnny Carson
Votes: 41,513 | Gross: $1.72M
44. A Star Is Born (1954)
Passed | 154 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford
Votes: 19,686 | Gross: $14.93M
45. Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Young unhinged female ex-con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-François Stévenin
Votes: 1,337 | Gross: $0.01M
46. Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli (1981)
100 min | Biography, Drama
From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.
Director: Ágúst Guðmundsson | Stars: Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Arnar Jónsson, Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, Þráinn Karlsson
Votes: 351
47. Quest (1984)
30 min | Short, Adventure, Mystery
A child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract ... See full summary »
Directors: Elaine Bass, Saul Bass | Stars: John Abbott, Noah Hathaway, David Comfort, Michael Mancini
Votes: 453
48. Rasputin (1981)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line, Alisa Freyndlikh
Votes: 1,686
Agonia
49. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
Not Rated | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Director: Daniel Vigne | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Votes: 4,826 | Gross: $0.02M
51. You Gotta Serve Somebody (1983)
6 min | Animation, Short
Animation inspired by and set to the Bob Dylan song.
Director: John Wilson
52. Lianna (1983)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries, Jo Henderson
Votes: 1,824 | Gross: $1.50M
53. The State of Things (1982)
121 min | Drama
The crew is running out of money to finish their film.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly
Votes: 3,612 | Gross: $6.00M
54. Reverse Angle: Ein Brief aus New York (1982)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on Hammett (1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences between the film-making process in Europe and the States.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Francis Ford Coppola, Isabelle Weingarten, Wim Wenders
Votes: 101
55. My Memories of Old Beijing (1983)
96 min | Drama
Yingzi is a young, impressionable girl living on the southern side of Beijing in the late 1920s. Encountering people in the city, she tries to understand how people are really like inside through her own eyes.
Director: Yigong Wu | Stars: Jie Shen, Min Zhang, Fengyi Zhang, Zhenyao Zheng
Votes: 516
56. Three Brothers (1981)
PG | 113 min | Drama
Three men face their mother's death.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 1,795
57. Sprout Wings and Fly (1983)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A documentary about Tommy Jarrell, a fiddler from North Carolina. This films shows a bit of his current life and those around him and includes a lot of his Appalachian Old-Time music.
Directors: Les Blank, Cece Conway, Alice Gerrard | Stars: Tommy Jarrell, Julie Jarrell Lyons, Togie McGee, Edith Hicks
Votes: 267
58. Szerencsés Dániel (1983)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet army. People leave the country in large numbers for fear of revenge. A young soldier (... See full summary »
Director: Pál Sándor | Stars: Péter Rudolf, Sándor Zsótér, Katalin Szerb, Mari Törőcsik
Votes: 260
59. No Place to Hide (1983)
30 min | Short
Part of PBS series Matters of Life and Death, this being about the bomb-shelter craze of the 1950's.
Directors: Lance Bird, Tom Johnson | Star: Martin Sheen
Votes: 25
60. That Night in Varennes (1982)
R | 150 min | Drama, History
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 2,533
61. Bez svideteley (1983)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Irina Kupchenko, Mikhail Ulyanov, Eduard Artemyev
Votes: 625
62. The Lion and the Bull (1984)
10 min | Animation, Short
A film-parable about how an envious and treacherous jackal quarreled between two friends - the Lion and the Bull.
Director: Fyodor Khitruk
Votes: 185
63. The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
R | 107 min | Drama
James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the time of the Falklands War.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, William Maxwell, Paul Jesson, Andy Rashleigh
Votes: 497
64. Man of Flowers (1983)
91 min | Drama
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.
Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood, Sarah L. Walker
Votes: 656
65. Cinq et la peau (1982)
95 min | Drama
Ivan is a writer who can not tear himself away from the city of Manila. He likes to hang out melancholy and flirt with pretty women. One day, he meets Mari.
Director: Pierre Rissient | Stars: Féodor Atkine, Eiko Matsuda, Gloria Diaz, Bembol Roco
Votes: 89
66. Benvenuta (1983)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking down the author of a once-scandalous ... See full summary »
Director: André Delvaux | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 222
67. The Eighties (1983)
82 min | Documentary, Musical
This is a making of a musical, with Chantal Ackerman behind and in front of the camera. It is mostly a collection of clips, talks, directions, and lectures, with the camera capturing the whole adventure.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Aischa Bentebouche, Katherine Best, François Beukelaers, Daniela Bisconti
Votes: 168
The Golden Eighties
68. Der Bockerer (1981)
104 min | Drama, History
A politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.
Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Karl Merkatz, Alfred Böhm, Hans Holt, Marte Harell
Votes: 1,027
The Stubborn Mule
70. On Probation (1983)
5 min | Animation, Short
A probationer wants to miss a meeting to go and see his brother, but must negotiate with his officer
Directors: Peter Lord, David Sproxton
Votes: 87
71. Rockers (1978)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Horsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Bafaloukos | Stars: Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace, Richard 'Dirty Harry' Hall, Monica Craig, Marjorie Norman
Votes: 2,176
73. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,847
74. Waiting 'Round Wynyard (1984)
14 min | Short, Drama
A young man attempts to pick up another man in a Sydney railway station.
Director: Franco di Chiera | Stars: Peter East, James Porter
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