4th Göteborg Film Festival (1982)
Göteborg Film Festival 27 Jan - 31 Jan 1982, complete list
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- DirectorSaul BassStarsNigel DavenportMichael MurphyLynne FrederickSuddenly, desert ants form a group intelligence and wage war on the humans. It's up to a couple of scientists and a girl to stop them
- DirectorDavid CarradineStarsDavid CarradineBarbara HersheyMichael GreeneIn a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.
- DirectorMarv NewlandStarsMark RobmanMaxwell BecraftAn 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 dog sitting with a drink while the camera goes back and forth.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsIsabelle AdjaniSam NeillMargit CarstensenA woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
- DirectorRalph L. ThomasStarsNick MancusoSaul RubinekMeg FosterDavid is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
- DirectorInger MarklundAnders RibbsjöStarsLori AndersonTom BakkenJim BourgeoisDepicts some white working-class families in a sprawling suburb of Seattle, Washington, in the northwest United States.
- DirectorNelly KaplanStarsDaniel CeccaldiGinette GarcinJean-Marie ProslierCharles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.
- DirectorSlav BakalovThe people in the village are being ridiculous. The woman pulls water out of the well, but the handle hits her several times. While the barber is sharpening his razor, the client's beard reaches his waist. The farmer stepped on the hoe and it hit him. A blacksmith can't strike iron while it's hot. The dog does not chase the wolf, but bites its owner. A mouse eats a cat. In the finale, it turns out that the only thing the villagers can do normally is to play a folk dance. In their hands, the dancers hold sickles and hammers.
- DirectorMichal Bat-AdamStarsGila AlmagorAlexander PelegLiat PanskyExplores the relationship between an eleven-year-old girl and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment of insensitivity and cruelty.
- DirectorKôhei OguriStarsTakahiro TamuraMariko KagaNobutaka AsaharaIn post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty.
- DirectorHelke SanderStarsAngelika RommelNikolaus DutschDominik BenderAt the end of the 1960s a young woman lays the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a detailed picture is drawn of society, which establishes the women's motivation.
- DirectorMyriam AlauxVictor SchonfeldStarsJulie ChristieRichard CourseSandy DennisThe film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.
- DirectorChristian Braad ThomsenStarsJon Bang CarlsenIrm HermannKai HolmA young politician returns home with his German wife to the village community of his childhood.
- DirectorElaine BassSaul BassStarsJohn H. MayerRobert MillarProduced by actor Robert Redford, The Solar Film is a part serious live action, part satirical animated educational documentary made to show the history of fossil fuels and why the use of clean solar energy should be the way of the future.
- DirectorAllen FongStarsLei ShihHong ZhuWai-Man YungA young man dreamed of a career in comics and movies. But his father would rather gave up all he had in order to let him receive formal education.
- DirectorYaky YoshaStarsShraga HarpazShimon FinkelHanna MaronBoaz, a reserve soldier returns from the battlefield and becomes involved in editing a memorial album dedicated to a friend who was killed before his eyes. He becomes increasingly involved in the lucrative business of producing memorabilia of this kind and does not hesitate exploiting the grief feelings of the survivors and symbolically becomes a "vulture," even in his romance with the dead hero's girlfriend.
- DirectorRobert DornhelmStarsKyra NijinskyBud CortPatrick DupondA drama documentary about the daughter of the Russian dancer Nijinsky. Along the way it sheds light on the woman, then 60 years old, who had tried to pursue her own career as a dancer, with the problems and profits of such illustrious forbears.
- DirectorElaine BassSaul BassStarsBeans MoroccoThis series of light-hearted episodes by Saul Bass illuminates the fantasy lives of those who daily watch, listen and dream in the worlds of television, movies, popular music and print. By turns lyrical and funny, it shows how the popular arts serve as vehicles for self-projection, experience, expansion and fantasy fulfillment. The video utilizes a variety of techniques -- live action, animation and special effects -- to communicate some trenchant ideas on our American involvement with popular culture.
- DirectorBonnie Sherr KleinStarsLinda Lee TraceyBonnie Sherr KleinSuze RandallDocumentary about the pornography industry and the apparent violent anti-woman slant much of it takes.
- DirectorRivka HartmanStarsRivka HartmanJohn StoneMark Daly
- DirectorHark TsuiStarsLieh LoChen-Chi LinAlbert AuThree lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.
- DirectorSaul BassThis film shows an aeroplane trip from Los Angeles to New York. Points out the excitement and the poignancy of partings and greetings and the unique visual experience of flying. It was on display at the New York World's Fair 1964-1965.
- DirectorRick HarperStarsStan GreiweHennen ChambersDebby DanzaraIn this slapstick comedy takeoff on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a mild-mannered sewage worker meets up with some cuddly extra-terrestrials traveling to earth in a giant pie. As he copes with his obsession, singing mailboxes, truck radios that spout bubbles, and one pie in the face after another, lead our hero to the Sara Loo pie factory and his close encounter of the nerd kind. With special effects reminiscent of Fractured Flickers, Closet Cases recreates and parodies all the memorable scenes of the high budget original.
- DirectorDave RobinsonStarsSuggsMark BedfordLee ThompsonAutobiographical account of the cult 80's British pop group Madness, with members of the group playing themselves, charting their rise from humble beginnings as pub band The Invaders to chart success and their first overseas tour. The film follows the ups and downs of individual members of the group, and features all of their early hits including "The Prince", "One Step Beyond", "Baggy Trousers" and "Night Boat to Cairo".