Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, managing crowds at the 6th Seattle International Film Festival
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Relive the sixth Seattle International Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the full Festival catalog, see photos and other media, and find a full list of feature-length films presented at the 1981 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 1–31, 1981
Number of Days: 31
Venue: Cinerama Theatre, Egyptian Theatre, Moore Theatre
Opening Night: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears at Egyptian Theatre
Closing Night: City of Women at Egyptian Theatre & Man of Marble at Moore Theatre
Tribute: Ken Russell
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Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, managing crowds at the 6th Seattle International Film Festival
Pat Tennant, a union projectionist, posing in his natural habitat
Agee - dir. Ross Spears, 1980, USA
All Quiet on the Western Front - dir. Lewis Milestone, 1930, USA
Always on Sunday - dir. Ken Russell, 1965, Great Britain
Anastasia Passed By - dir. Alexandru Tatos, 1979, Romania
Anticlock - dir. Jack Bond, Jane Arden, 1979, Great Britain
Assault on Precinct 13 - dir. John Carpenter, 1976, USA
Atlantic City - dir. Louis Malle, 1980, USA
Backroads - dir. Phillip Noyce, 1977, Australia
The Beats - dir. Philomene Long, 1980, USA
Bellissima (The Most Beautiful) - dir. Luchino Visconti, 1951, Italy
Billion Dollar Brain - dir. Ken Russell, 1967, Great Britain
Black and Blue - dir. Jay Dubin, 1980, USA
Black and White Like Day and Night - dir. Wolfgang Peterson, 1978, Germany
Bloodbrothers - dir. Robert Mulligan, 1978, USA
Blue Suede Shoes - dir. Curtis Clark, 1980, Great Britain
The Boy Friend - dir. Ken Russell, 1972, Great Britain
Breaking Glass - dir. Brian Gibson, 1980, Great Britain
The Camera Buff - dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979, Poland
The Chance - dir. Feliks Falk, 1979, Poland
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - dir. Fred Schepisi, 1978, Australia
Charlotte - dir. Franz Weisz, 1981, Germany/Netherlands
The Children of Number 67 - dir. Usch Barthelmess-Weller, Werner Meyer, 1980, Germany
City of Women - dir. Federico Fellini, 1980, Italy/France
The Club - dir. Bruce Beresford, 1980, Australia
The Constant Factor - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, 1980, Poland
Cutter’s Way - dir. Ivan Passer, 1981, USA
Dance of the Seven Veils - dir. Ken Russell, 1970, Great Britain
Dante’s Inferno - dir. Ken Russell, 1971, Great Britain
The Dark End of the Street - dir. Jan Eagleson, 1981, USA
Dead End - dir. Parviz Sayyad, 1977, Iran
The Decline of Western Civilization - dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1981, USA
The Devils - dir. Ken Russell, 1971, Great Britain
The Dream Never Dies - dir. William Johnston, 1980, Canada
The Early Spring - dir. Tieli Xie, 1963, China
Eight Minutes to Midnight - dir. Mary Benjamin, 1981, USA
Elgar - dir. Ken Russell, 1962, Great Britain
El Salvador: El Pueblo Vencera (The People Will Win) - dir. Diego de la Texera, 1980, Costa Rica
Fabian - dir. Wolf Gremm, 1980, Germany
Fade to Black - dir. Vernon Zimmerman, 1980, USA
Family Life - dir. Ken Loach, 1971, Great Britain
Faro Document 1979 - dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1979, Sweden
Fighting Back - dir. John Kastner, 1980, Canada
Flight of the Rainbirds - dir. Ate de Jong, 1981, Netherlands
The Four Seasons - dir. Alan Alda, 1981, USA
Fried Shoes, Cooked Diamonds - dir. Constanzo Allione, 1979, USA
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China - dir. Murray Lerner, 1981, USA
Frontline - dir. David Bradbury, 1981, Australia
The Funhouse - dir. Tobe Hooper, 1981, USA
Gaijin–Roads to Freedom - dir. Tizuka Yamasaki, 1980, Brazil
Gal Young Un - dir. Victor Nunez, 1979, USA
German Spring - dir. Dieter Berner, 1981, Austria/W. Germany/Switzerland
Good Riddance (Les Bons Debarras) - dir. Francis Mankiewicz, 1980, Canada
The Haunting of M - dir. Anna Thomas, 1979, Scotland
Hazal - dir. Ali Ozgenturk, 1979, Turkey
Health - dir. Robert Altman, 1980, USA
Hell’s Angels on Wheels - dir. Richard Rush, 1967 , USA
Himiko - dir. Masahiro Shinoda, 1974, Japan
Homesdale - dir. Peter Weir, 1971, Australia
The Howling - dir. Joe Dante, 1981, USA
The Idiot - dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1951, Japan
Image Before my Eyes - dir. Josh Waletzky, 1981, USA
Imitation of Life - dir. Douglas Sirk, 1959, USA
Immacolata and Concetta - dir. Salvatore Piscicelli, 1979, Italy
Imposters - dir. Mark Rappaport, 1979, USA
Intolerance - dir. D.W. Griffith, 1916, USA
Isadora Duncan, The biggest dancer in the world - dir. Ken Russell, 1967, Great Britain An Italian Woman - dir. Giuseppe Bertolucci, 1980, Italy
Knightriders - dir. George A. Romero, 1981, USA
La Drolesse - dir. Jacques Doillon, 1978, France
The Lady Without Camelias - dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953, Italy
Land and Sons - dir. Agust Gudmundsson, 1980, Iceland
Leap Into the Void - dir. Marco Bellocchio, 1980, Italy
Lena Rais - dir. Christian Rischert, 1979, W. Germany
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter - dir. Connie Field, 1980, USA
Little Archimedes - dir. Gianni Amelio, 1979, Italy
The Little Escapes - dir. Yves Yersin, 1979, Switzerland
Loulou - dir. Maurice Pialat, 1980, France
Love and Faith - dir. Kei Kumai, 1978, Japan
Love Between the Raindrops - dir. Karel Kachyna, 1979, Czechoslovakia
Love Suicide at Sonezaki - dir. Yasuzo Masumura, 1978, Japan
Mahler - dir. Ken Russell, 1974, Great Britain
Manila: In the Claws of Darkness - dir. Lino Brocka, 1975, Philippines
Man of Marble - dir. Andrzej Wajda, 1977, Poland
Melody - dir. Waris Hussein, 1972, Great Britain
Messidor - dir. Alain Tanner, 1979, Switzerland
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears - dir. Vladimir Menshov, 1980, USSR
The Music Lovers - dir. Ken Russell, 1970, Great Britain
The Nest - dir. Jaime de Arminan, 1980, Spain
Night City Angels - dir. Rita Xanthoudakis, USA
The Night The Prowler - dir. Jim Sharman, 1978, Australia
Oblomov - dir. Nikita Mikhalkov, 1980, USSR
Olympics 1940 - dir. Andrzej Kotkowski, 1980, Poland
One Trick Pony - dir. Robert M. Young, 1980, USA
One Wild Moment - dir. Claude Berri, 1977, France
Ossessione - dir. Luchino Visconti, 1942, Italy
Outland - dir. Peter Hyams, 1981, USA
The Parallax View - dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1974, USA
Poto and Cabengo - dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980, USA
Practice Makes Perfect - dir. Philippe De Broca, 1979, France
Prostitute - dir. Tony Garnett, 1980, Great Britain
Provincial Actors - dir. Agnieszka Holland, 1979, Poland
Public Enemy Number One - dir. David Bradbury, 1981, Australia
The Punk Rock Movie - dir. Don Letts, 1978, Great Britain
Queen of the Gypsies - dir. Emil Loteanu, 1975, USSR
Raining in the Mountains - dir. King Hu, 1979, Hong Kong
Reggae Sunsplash - dir. Stefan Paul, 1980, Jamaica
Rude Boy - dir. Jack Hazan, David Mingay, 1980, Great Britain
Savage Messiah - dir. Ken Russell, 1972, Great Britain
The Savage Seven - dir. Richard Rush, 1968, USA
A Second Chance - dir. Claude Lelouch, 1976, France
Second Star to the Right - dir. Paul Annett, 1980, Great Britain
Shellshock Rock - dir. John Davis, 1979, Ireland
The Singer and the Dancer - dir. Gillian Amstrong, 1977, Australia
Soldier Girls - dir. Nicholas Broomfield, Joan Churchill, 1981, USA
Soldier in the Rain - dir. Ralph Nelson, 1963, USA
Song of Summer - dir. Ken Russell, 1968, Great Britain
Soupcon - dir. Jean-Charles Tachella, 1979, France
Splitting Up - dir. Herman van Veen, 1979, Netherlands
Squeeze - dir. Richard Turner, 1980, New Zealand
Stephen - dir. G. Aravindan, 1980, India
Stir - dir. Stephen Wallace, 1980, Australia
The Story of a Small Town - dir. Li Hsing, 1979, Taiwan
Story Without Words - dir. Biagio Proietti, 1981, Italy
Summer Showers - dir. Carlos Diegues, 1978, Brazil
The Thin Line - dir. Michal Bat-Adam, 1980, Israel
Tommy - dir. Ken Russell, 1975, Great Britain
A Touch of Zen - dir. King Hu, 1971, Hong Kong
The Trials of Alger Hiss - dir. John Lowenthal, 1980, USA
Tuck Everlasting - dir. Frederick K. Keller, 1981, USA
Union City - dir. Mark Reichert, 1980, USA
The Wild Child - dir. François Truffaut, 1970, France
The Wild Hunting of King Stakh - dir. Valeri Roubinchik, 1980, USSR
The Willmar 8 - dir. Lee Grant, 1981, USA
Woman Rhymes with Human (Menschenfrauen) - dir. Valie Export, 1980, Austria
Women in Love - dir. Ken Russell, 1969, Great Britain
Yanco - dir. Servando Gonzales, 1961, Mexico
An Evening with Ken Russell - included Dance of the Seven Veils
The Four Seasons
Ken Russell Tribute - included Women in Love, Isadora Duncan, The Biggest Dancer in the World, The Music Lovers, Song of Summer, Elgar, The Devils, Dante’s Inferno, Billion Dollar Brain, Always on Sunday, The Boy Friend, Savage Messiah, Tommy, Mahler
Midnight Movie Madness - included Outland, Anticlock, Black and Blue, Blue Suede Shoes, Breaking Glass, The Decline of Western Civilization, Fade to Black, The Funhouse, One Trick Pony, The Punk Rock Movie, Reggae Sunsplash, Rude Boy, Shellshock Rock
The Movie Lovers: A Free Series - included The Wild Child, The Parallax View, Imitation of Life, Intolerance, Soldier in the Rain, Hells Angels on Wheels, Savage Seven, Bloodbrothers, Assault on Precinct 13, Yanco - played with The Playhouse (dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton)
A Special Event: Outland