Seattle International Film Festival 1981 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 1981

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


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, managing crowds at the 6th Seattle International Film Festival

Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, managing crowds at the 6th Seattle International Film Festival

Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, managing crowds at the 6th Seattle International Film Festival

Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, managing crowds at the 6th Seattle International Film Festival

Pat Tennant, a union projectionist, posing in his natural habitat

Pat Tennant, a union projectionist, posing in his natural habitat

Pat Tennant, a union projectionist, posing in his natural habitat

Pat Tennant, a union projectionist, posing in his natural habitat

City of Women
City of Women
Man of Marble
Man of Marble
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
Rude Boy
Rude Boy
The Camera Buff
The Camera Buff

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

List of Feature-Length Films

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

Special Programs & Events

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