Seattle International Film Festival 1984 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 1984

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


FESTIVAL CATALOG

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 Founders, Darryl Macdonald and Dan Ireland, pose outside the theater to celebrate the 9th Seattle International Film Festival

Festival Founders, Darryl Macdonald and Dan Ireland, pose outside the theater to celebrate the 9th Seattle International Film Festival

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

Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, poses with actor, Keith Carradine, in town for the screening of his 1975 film, Nashville, during festival

Festival Founder, Darryl Macdonald, poses with actor, Keith Carradine, in town for the screening of his 1975 film, Nashville, during 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

Skeleton, program in hand, and mummies grace the front seat at the 9th Seattle International Festival

Skeleton, program in hand, and mummies grace the front seat at the 9th Seattle International Festival

Skeleton, program in hand, and mummies grace the front seat at the 9th Seattle International Festival

Beat Street
Beat Street
The Natural
The Natural
Blood Simple
Blood Simple
The Brother From Another Planet
The Brother From Another Planet
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Style Wars
Style Wars

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

List of Feature-Length Films

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

Special Programs & Events

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