Tag: 1982

Director: Dan Pita
Stars: Claudiu Bleont, Theodor Danetti, Gheorghe Dinica
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants’ self and conscience.

Director: Ishmael Bernal
Stars: Nora Aunor, Veronica Palileo, Spanky Manikan
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

Elsa saw the blessed Virgin Mary who had changed her life and caused a hysteria in a poor isolated village.

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Stars: Edith Clever, Martin Sperr, Robert Lloyd
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany | France

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 of the medieval epic romances of King Arthur and the search for the holy grail (the chalice touched by the lips of Christ at the last supper), it recounts over three long acts how a “wild child” unwittingly invades the sacred precincts of the grail, fulfilling a prophecy that only such a one can save the grail’s protectors from a curse fallen upon them.

Director: Tim Burton, Jerry Rees
Stars: Mike Gabriel, Terrey Hamada, Susan Frankenberger
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A horrifying and touching movie about a tramps dream of fame.

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp’s killers don’t look too kindly on this new ‘business’, nor does the morgue’s owner.

Director: Tatyana Lioznova
Stars: Irina Muravyova, Yuriy Yakovlev, Klara Luchko
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union

A coming-of-age story about a small town girl’s struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan

The story follow a court case of a woman accused of having killed her husband.

Director: Patrick Bokanowski
Stars: Maurice Baquet, Jean-Marie Bon, Martine Couture
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: France

The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs. Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be prisoners of their deeds and of their own folly. Attacks, explosions, maniacal and despairing searching, objects which independently move, walls, floors and ceilings which form and disperse. The steep staircase leads little by little towards the zones of great light where human beings and nonhuman beings meet.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands | Italy

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo’s father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned that Violetta’s bad reputation will affect the marriage prospects of Alfredo’s sister. Violetta reluctantly leaves Alfredo, but his love is so strong that it leads him to actions that have tragic consequences.

Director: Basu Chatterjee
Stars: Ashok Kumar, A.K. Hangal, Utpal Dutt
Genre: Comedy
Country: India

Three friends, in their 60s, try to do everything that they couldn’t do in their younger days – before death arrives.

Director: Robert Towne
Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.

Director: Slava Tsukerman
Stars: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters’ brains.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress’ mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.

Director: Mica Milosevic
Stars: Nikola Simic, Milan ‘Lane’ Gutovic, Rahela Ferari
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia

In this light, fluffy comedy, a low-level clerk cannot make ends meet because his brood is in no way economically cooperative: his daughter is a lawyer looking for work, unsuccessfully; his son is a would-be astronomer who wants to spend his life studying without working; and his other son wants his own wheels. It is enough to send a father to the lottery, or to the soccer pool.

Director: Péter Gothár
Stars: Anikó Iván, István Znamenák, Péter Gálfy
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A teenager boy has to grow up in the shifting political and moral landscape of post-1956 Hungary.

Director: Witold Leszczynski
Stars: Krzysztof Majchrzak, Anna Seniuk, Joanna Sienkiewicz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree – a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.

Director: Károly Makk
Stars: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Ildikó Bánsági, Grazyna Szapolowska
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary

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 is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy.

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: UK | USA

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Director: Béla Tarr
Stars: Judit Pogány, Róbert Koltai, Kyri Ambrus
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Director: Franco Piavoli
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

The passage of time in different dimensions illustrated by biological evolution, the changing seasons and the everyday moments of human life.

Director: Lucian Pintilie
Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihut, Petrica Gheorghiu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon’s lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza’s lover, while she is Cracanel’s lover. One letter starts the ball rolling and ugly characters start revealing themselves in a burlesque-like fashion.

Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman’s baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Director: Jin Xie, Shuqin Huang
Stars: Shimao Zhu, Shan Cong, Qiong Liu
Genre: Drama
Country: China

This movie is adapted from the novel Heroes in Tongbai. Xiao Hua, a sister of Zhao Yongsheng, is deserted by her poor family. He Xiangdong, a woodworker, adopts her and rename her He Cuigu. To steer clear of arrest by the enemy, Dong Hongguo, offspring of a revolutionary family, is renamed Xiao Hua so as to be adopted by her adopter. Later, Zhao Yongsheng’s parents are killed by the enemy.

Director: Alan Greenberg
Stars: Micalon Stevenson, Jammy Galloway, Louie Lepkie
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

In May 1981, Alan Greenberg went to Jamaica to cover Bob Marley’s funeral. He ended up making a documentary showcasing the island’s culture. His “Land of Look Behind” features interviews with various Rastafari who talk about their philosophies.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Yoosef Moghaddam
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Iran

A deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can’t hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.

Director: Arnold Schwartzman
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Simon Wiesenthal
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: USA

Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.

Director: Frank Henenlotter
Stars: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.

Director: Alan Gibson
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Franklin Cover
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel’s prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.

Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A brave unicorn (Mia Farrow) and a magician (Alan Arkin) fight an evil King (Sir Christopher Lee), who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world’s unicorns.

Director: Richard Benjamin
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza Niro discovers that Sadec and his colleagues are after him, he disguises himself as a punk rocker, and falls in love with the stunning Sexilia, his first straight relationship. Meanwhile Queti, Sexilia’s “biggest fan”, helps Sexilia come to terms with her new life-style.

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden | West Germany | Norway

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Olivier Straub, Nadette Thinus, Bernard Thinus
Genre: Short
Country: France

The child Ernesto doesn’t want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn’t know.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | UK | West Germany | France | Spain | Portugal | USA

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman’s Day the World Ended (1955). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Friedrich Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Director: George Schaefer
Stars: Bette Davis, Penny Fuller, Christopher Guest
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Family
Country: USA

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.

Director: Don Bluth
Stars: Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Frank Birney, David Worden, Ken Shapiro
Genre: Comedy, Short
Country: USA

Gus Van Sant’s early short film about “The Discipline of D.E.,” which is an extremely efficient way of doing things.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Nonna Mordyukova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuriy Bogatyryov
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.

Director: Vince Collins
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA

A jet-propelled white rabbit flies through the vulva of a supine woman into a wonderland where people and objects turn inside out, changing shapes and identities at warp speed. Events roughly follow Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” The caterpillar and the queen make appearances, as does Alice. Images and symbols are often sexual. At the end, Alice asks, “Who has had such a curious dream?”

Director: Denys Arcand
Stars: Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Raymond Barre, Pierre Brodeur
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec’s independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians’ promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women’s relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie – but also in his own life.

Director: Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly
Stars: Richard Oxenburgh, Daniel Leahy, Mick Leahy
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia | Canada | USA

This documentary presents footage of the first contact between the highland tribes of Papua New Guinea, and European explorers. In the 1930s three Australian’s, Michael, Daniel and James Leahy were the first white people to venture into the vast New Guinean interior. They searched for gold and found 1 million highland tribespeople who had previously had no contact with the outside world. Amazingly, they took a film camera with them.

Director: Yorgos Apostolidis, Yannis Smaragdis, Yiannis Typaldos
Stars: Harry Klynn, Dimitris Piatas, Joly Garbi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece

Peppered with unblushing advertisements against the backdrop of a new era in early-1980s Greece, Harry Klynn’s enthusiastic triptych unfolds, depicting an entire nation’s aspirations, desires, and fears before a brave new world.

Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Stars: Jerzy Binczycki, Anna Dymna, Tomasz Stockinger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

Abandoned by his wife and daughter, a famous surgeon starts drinking, hurts his head and loses his memory. His medical knowledge gradually resurfaces and he becomes a village healer, not remembering who he is.

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK

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: Michael Apted
Stars: John Albasiny, Alison Steadman, Abigail Cruttenden
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Alan Duckworth (known as ‘Quack Quack’ to his friends) is a socially awkward fourteen-year-old who is obsessed with cricket and Ann Lawton, a girl in his class. Alan daydreams throughout his day, showing up late for school and making little academic progress. He becomes friends with the groundsman Tommy, whom he sees as some sort of war hero. Alan often follows Tommy around, telling him how Tommy helped to win the war, while making predictions about what the post-war world will be like.

Director: Srdjan Karanovic
Stars: Caris Corfman, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Dragan Nikolic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Mel Ferrer, Michel Auclair
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France

A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician – the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist’s objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing – and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.

Director: Daniel Vigne
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France

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: Lou Adler
Stars: Peter Donat, Diane Lane, Marin Kanter
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy

In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.

Director: Hans Alfredson
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Johansson, Hans Alfredson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in.

Director: Efrem Pruzhanskiy
Stars: Marina Neyolova, Liya Akhedzhakova, Nikolay Karachentsov
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Soviet Union

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its “New Economic Zones.”

Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A young woman’s sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

Director: René Laloux
Stars: Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France | Switzerland | West Germany | UK | Hungary

Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel’s father’s friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.

Director: Goran Markovic
Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Erland Josephson, Dusica Zegarac
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia

This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.

Director: Alan Clarke
Stars: Tim Roth, Terry Richards, Bill Stewart
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

After being sent to a detention center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo..

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to attack black people.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, Angelo Abazoglou
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Netherlands | Canada

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance.

Director: Susan Seidelman
Stars: Susan Berman, Brad Rijn, Richard Hell
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York’s waning punk scene.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Freddy Buache, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Godard has been hired to make a film celebrating the 500th anniversary of Lausanne. This film is his videotaped refusal.

Director: Michael Verhoeven
Stars: Lena Stolze, Martin Benrath, Wulf Kessler
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany’s Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the “White Rose” after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.

Director: Jirí Barta
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema – from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitler’s (Sir Derek Jacobi’s) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. This movie is based on Speer’s autobiography of the same name.

Director: Wayne Wang
Stars: Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Two cab drivers search San Francisco’s Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo.

Director: Terry Hughes, Ian MacNaughton
Stars: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK

The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.