Festival Founders, Darryl Macdonald and Dan Ireland, pose outside the theater to celebrate the 9th Seattle International Film Festival
Relive the ninth 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 1984 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 9–June 7, 1984
Number of Days: 30
Venues: Bel-Kirk Drive-In, Cinerama Theatre, Egyptian Theatre
Opening Night: The Natural at The Egyptian Theatre
Closing Night: Beat Street at The Egyptian Theatre
Tribute: Robert Altman, Zbigniew Rybczynski
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
Photos
Festival Founders, Darryl Macdonald and Dan Ireland, pose outside the theater to celebrate the 9th Seattle International Film Festival
Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, poses with actor, Keith Carradine, in town for the screening of his 1975 film, Nashville, during festival
Skeleton, program in hand, and mummies grace the front seat at the 9th Seattle International Festival
Ah Ying - dir. Allen Fong Yuk-Ping, 1983, Hong Kong
All the King’s Men - dir. King Hu, 1983, Taiwan
Alsino and the Condor - dir. Miguel Littin, 1982, Nicaragua/Cuba/Costa Rica/Mexico
Altered States - dir. Ken Russell, 1980, USA
Another Country - dir. Marek Kanievska, 1984, Great Britain
Ardiente Paciencia/With Burning Patience - dir. Antonio Skarmeta, 1983, Portugal/Germany
Beat Street - dir. Stan Lathan, 1984, USA
Big Meat Eater - dir. Chris Windsor, 1982, Canada
Bitter Cane - dir. Jacques Arcelin, 1983, Haiti
Bladerunner - dir. Ridley Scott, 1982, USA
Blanche - dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 1971, France
Blood Simple - dir. Joel Coen, 1983, USA
Brainstorm - dir. Douglas Trumbull, 1983, USA
Brewster McCloud - dir. Robert Altman, 1970, USA
The Brother From Another Planet - dir. John Sayles, 1984, USA
Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) - dir. Bertrand Blier, 1979, France
Burning Love - dir. Ate De Jong, 1983, Netherlands
Careful, He Might Hear You - dir. Carl Schultz, 1983, Australia
The Cars That Ate Paris - dir. Peter Weir, 1974, Australia
Choose Me - dir. Alan Rudolph, 1984, USA
The City Girl - dir. Martha Coolidge, 1982, USA
City Limits - dir. Aaron Lipstadt, 1984, USA
City of Lost Souls - dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1983, Germany
Class Enemy - dir. Peter Stein, 1983, Germany
The Clinic - dir. David Stevens, 1982, Australia
Comedienne - dir. Katherine Matheson, 1983, USA
Les Comperes - dir. Francis Veber, 1983, France
Corrupt - dir. Roberto Faenza, 1984, USA/Italy
Le Crabe Tambour (The Crab Drum) - dir. Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1977, France
The Crowd - dir. King Vidor, 1928, USA
Danny Boy - dir. Neil Jordan, 1982, Ireland
The Deputy - dir. Ejoy de la Iglesia, 1979, Spain
Le Dernier Combat - dir. Luc Besson, 1983, France
Drive-In/Debuts (Private Parts) - Paul Bartel, 1972, USA, (Targets) - dir. Peter Bogdanovich, 1968, USA, (Mad Max) - dir. George Miller, 1979, Australia, (The Road Warrior) - dir. George Miller, 1981, Australia
Elisa, Vida Mia (Elisa, My Love) - dir. Carlos Saura, 1977, Spain
Erendira - dir. Ruy Guerra, 1983, Mexico
Ernesto - dir. Salvatore Samperi, 1979, Italy
The Eyes, The Mouth - dir. Marco Bellocchio, 1982, Italy/France
Far East - dir. John Duigan, 1983, Australia
Forbidden Relations - dir. Zsolt Kesdi-Kovacs, 1982, Hungary
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground - dir. David Hallinger, Gustavo Vasquez, 1982, USA
The Gods Must Be Crazy - dir. Jamie Uys, 1980, South Africa
The Go Masters - dir. Junya Sato, Duan Jishun, 1982, China/Japan
The Good Fight - dir. Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills, 1984, USA
Grenada: The Future Coming Toward Us - dir. John Douglas, Carmen Ashhurst, Samori Marksman, 1984, USA
Handgun - dir. Tony Garnett, 1983, USA
He Who Tells the Truth Must Die - dir. Philo Bregstein, 1981, Netherlands
The Illusionist - dir. Jos Stelling, 1983, Netherlands
Images - dir. Robert Altman, 1972, USA
Imperativ - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, 1982, Germany
In Our Hands - dir. Robert Richter, Stanley Warnow, 1983, USA
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - dir. Steven Spielberg, 1984, USA
A Joke of Destiny Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Robber - dir. Lina Wertmuller, 1983, Italy
Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains - dir. Lou Adler, 1980, USA
Last Days of the Victim - dir. Adolfo Aristarain, 1983, Argentina
Last Night at the Alamo - dir. Eagle Pennell, 1983, USA
Last Winter - dir. Riki Shelakh, 1984, Israel
Life Is A Bed Of Roses - dir. Alain Resnais, 1983, France
The Lift - dir. Dick Maas, 1983, Netherlands
The Loveless - dir. Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery, 1983, USA
Love Letters - dir. Amy Jones, 1983, USA
A Love Like Any Other - dir. Hans Stempel, Martin Ripkens, 1983, Germany
The Makioka Sisters/Sasame Yuki - dir. Kon Ichikawa, 1982, Japan
Mama Turns 100 - dir. Carlos Saura, 1979, Spain
Marathon Family - dir. Slobodan Sijan, 1983, Yugoslavia
McCabe and Mrs. Miller - dir. Robert Altman, 1971, USA
Monkey Grip - dir. Ken Cameron, 1982, Australia
Mortelle Randonnée (Deadly Circuit) - dir. Claude Miller, 1983, France
Musical Passage - dir. Jim Brown, 1984, USA
My Best Friend’s Girl - dir. Bertrand Blier, 1983, France
My Memories of Old Beijing - dir. Wu Yigong, 1983, China
Nashville - dir. Robert Altman, 1975, USA
The Natural - dir. Barry Levinson, 1983, USA
Old Enough - dir. Marisa Silver, 1984, USA
One From the Heart - dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1982, USA
One Man’s War - dir. Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1982, France
Once Upon a Time in America - dir. Sergio Leone, 1984, USA
Orienteering - dir. Dan Pita, 1983, Romania
Passion - dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1982, France/Switzerland
Prince Jack - dir. Bert Lovitt, 1984, USA
The Princess - dir. Pal Erdoss, 1983, Hungary
Return of the Soldier - dir. Alan Bridges, 1982, Great Britain
The Revolt of Job - dir. Imre Gyongyossy, Barna Kabay, 1983, Hungary/West Germany
The Road Warrior - dir. George Miller, 1981, Australia
The Secret Agent - dir. Jacki Ochs, 1983, USA
Sans Soleil/Sunless - dir. Chris Marker, 1983, France
Seventeen - dir. Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines, 1983, USA
The South - dir. Victor Erice, 1983, Spain/France
Sparkle’s Tavern - dir. Curt McDowell, 1984, USA
Streamers - dir. Robert Altman, 1983, USA
Style Wars - dir. Tony Silver, 1984, USA
Suburbia - dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1983, USA
That Sinking Feeling - dir. Bill Forsyth, 1980, Great Britain (Scotland)
Thieves Like Us - dir. Robert Altman, 1974, USA
The Three Crowns Of The Sailor - dir. Raul Ruiz, 1982, France
Toute Une Nuit - dir. Chantal Akerman, 1982, Belgium/France
Unknown Chaplin - dir. Kevin Brownlow, David Gill, 1916-1930’s compiled 1983, Great Britain
Up to a Certain Point - dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1984, Cuba
A Village in Baltimore - dir. Diane Moses, 1982, USA
Vortex - dir. Beth & Scott B, 1982, USA
White Shadows of the South Seas - dir. W.S. Van Dyke (and Robert Flaherty), 1928, USA
Wild Flowers (Les Fleurs Sauvages) - dir. Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, 1982, Canada
Wild Horses - dir. Derek Morton, 1983, New Zealand
Wildrose - dir. John Hanson, 1984, USA
Wild Style - dir. Charlie Ahearn, 1983, USA
Without Witnesses - dir. Nikita Mikhalkov, 1983, U.S.S.R.
Wuthering Heights (Abismos de pasión) - dir. Luis Bunuel, 1953, Mexico
The Cinerama Sci-Fi 70-Millimeter Marathon - included Brainstorm, Altered States, Bladerunner, and The Road Warrior
Drive-In/Debuts at the Bel Kirk Drive-In - included Private Parts (dir. Paul Bartel), Targets (dir. Peter Bogdanovich), and Mad Max (dir. George Miller)
An Evening with Robert Altman
Film Poster Exhibition and Auction
New Slants on Animation: An Evening with Zbigniew Rybczynski
Secret Festival