1984
Paul Seto
#33
After considerable reflection I find I can only write this foreword from a personal point of view rather than as the "Director".
I came to the Melbourne International Film Festival in January, refreshed from a holiday in America, full of zest and over-flowing with the joys of human kindness. As it has turned out, I have needed every bit of this energy and then some.
Anyone who could do this for 26 years has my sincere admiration.
I found an uneasiness about the future of the festival that puzzled me, to me the potential seemed limitless. A distinguished history of 32 years, countless critical successes, guiding hands that were sure and experienced.
Over the first month I examined the artistic and financial records of the festival and managed to meet most of the people involved in the various sub-committees and working parties, the "Friends", and other special interest groups.
What emerged was a series of strongly-held opinions of what the festival was and should be. Clearly, it was impossible to completely satisfy everyone, if indeed everyone was correct. The goal then became to select and blend various desirable elements into a strong, vital, viable international festival.
This I hope I have achieved. And, if I have been successful it has not been accomplished on my own. The festival office staff — Kerrie, Lee, Marion, John and many others who gave freely their time, have been a source of unfailing support and good humour. Two special people, John McArthur and Scheffe, were always ready with clear-headed advice and encouragement. Two of nature's true gentlemen.
The wonderful people at the Arts Centre, especially George Fairfax, Sue Nattress and Renee Leon have been marvellous in finding solutions to the mountain of requests we have made to ensure the best possible Festival for you, and in very difficult circumstances too.
Please accept my heartfelt thanks if you have helped the festival this year and I hope I have thanked you personally. If not, I have meant to, believe me.
1984 — A festival that brings to you a selection of films from around the world in a variety of styles and in a range of languages. Hopefully we are all a little more tolerant and a little wiser for the experience.
Paul Seto
Executive Director
Introduction taken from the 1984 official guide
Films
Feature
EUREKA
Director Nicholas Roeg
UK/USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
LA BALANCE
Director Bob Swaim
France
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE DEATH OF MARIO RICCI
Director Claude Goretta
France/Switzerland/Germany
MIFF 1984
Feature
DANIEL
Director Sidney Lumet
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
WHITE DOG
Director Samuel Fuller
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
MAN WITHOUT MEMORY
Director Kurt Gloor
Switzerland
MIFF 1984
Short
Headshots
Director Ilan Duran
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
The Idiot
Director Mark Warren
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Give Us A Smile
Director Leeds Animation Workshop
UK
MIFF 1984
Feature
FRIEND OR FOE
Director John Krish
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Flamenco at 5.15
Director Cynthia Scott
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Every Day, Every Night
Director Kathy Mueller
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE HALF METRE INCIDENT
Director Samir Zikra
Syria
MIFF 1984
Feature
REAR WINDOW
Director Alfred Hitchcock
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
ROPE
Director Alfred Hitchcock
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Director Alfred Hitchcock
UK
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
Director Alfred Hitchcock
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
VERTIGO
Director Alfred Hitchcock
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Curios in Landscape
Director Klaus Jaritz
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Boxer
Director Laurie McInnes
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Animus
Director Gary Schwartz
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Getting Wet
Director Paul John Hogan
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
A Girl's Own Story
Director Jane Campion
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Cocaine Blues - The Myth and Reality of Cocaine
Director Malcolm Barbour, John Langley
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
Director Gerald Potterton
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Anatomy of a Businessman
Director Bruce Currie
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Awayday
Director Diana Patrick
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Any Special Peculiarities
Director Graham Dean
UK
MIFF 1984
feature
. . . And I Don't Have To Do The Dishes
Director Victor Schonfeld
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Art Pepper: From A Jazz Survivor
Director Don McGlynn
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
ANTARCTIC MAN: THIS IS NOT A PLACE FOR HUMANS
Director David Parer
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS
Director Kon Ichikawa
Japan
MIFF 1984
Feature
BYKER
Director Sirka-Liisa Konttinen
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Aloud Bagatelle
Director Donald McWilliams
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Hellfire
Director John David Coles
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Jazzman
Director Clive Heaven
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Jockeys Without Horses
Director Michael Nicholson
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
The Lean Machine
Director Bob Rogers
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Little Bits
Director Mandy Walker
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Memories of War
Director Pierre Hebert
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Muscle
Director Barry Lank
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Narcissus
Director Norman McLaren
Canada
MIFF 1984
Feature
TAKING A LINE FOR A WALK
Director Lesley Keen
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
In Search of Viewable Objects
Director Jane Nicholls
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Iwana Station
Director Peter Jordan
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Boys and Girls
Director Don McBrearty
Canada
MIFF 1984
Feature
OK, LET'S WATCH
Director Mort Schreiber
New Zealand
MIFF 1984
Short
Quest
Director Saul Bass, Elaine Bass
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Passionless Moments
Director Jane Campion
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Portrait of the Artist as an Old Lady
Director Gail Singer
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Etching
Director Serge Viallet
France
MIFF 1984
Short
Hmong
Director Jean Noel Delamarre
France
MIFF 1984
Short
You Are Free
Director Dea Brockman, Ilene Landis
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
The Wire
Director David Glynn Jones
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Waltz Mambo
Director Andrew Quinn
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Tony's Ground
Director Nicholas Clark
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
The Tower
Director James Bogle
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
VOICES IN THE FOREST
Director David Parer
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
STEPS OF LIGHT
Director Christopher Lynch
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Songs of a Distant Jungle
Director Robert Charlton
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Night Club
Director Jonathan Hodgson
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
September, 1951
Director Ray Quint
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Theorem - A Dream of Change
Director David Morgan
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Private and Confidential
Director Joseph Bogdanov
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
SHADOWS FROM LIGHT
Director Stephen Dwoskin
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Early Bird
Director Peter Lord
UK
MIFF 1984
Feature
LAST DAY OF SUMMER
Director Derek Banham
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Let Them Not Alone
Director Knut W. Jorfald
Norway
MIFF 1984
Short
The Wharfie
Director Barbara Boyd-Anderson
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Skipping Class
Director Chris Warner
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
An Observer in Finland
Director Antti Peippo
Finland
MIFF 1984
Feature
NO MORE HIBAKUSHA!
Director Martin Duckworth
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Relic
Director Christopher Bryant
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Mind Comp
Director Mike Patterson
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
On Probation
Director David Sproxton
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
The Revenge of the Waving Girl
Director Gunter Rometsch
West Germany
MIFF 1984
Short
Visit Prague
Director Pavel Koutský
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1984
Short
The Wooden Forest
Director Penne West
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
A Counterfeit Dream
Director Arno Ziebell
West Germany
MIFF 1984
Short
Etienne and Sara
Director Pierre Hébert
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Some Of Our Airmen Are No Longer Missing
Director Douglas Stanley
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
ULIISSES
Director Werner Nekes
West Germany
MIFF 1984
Feature
ACCEPTABLE LEVELS
Director John Davies
UK
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE STORE
Director Frederick Wiseman
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Who Wants Unions?
Director Laszlo Barna, Laura Alper
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Marathon - The Ultimate Challenge
Director Alan Jacques
Canada
MIFF 1984
Feature
MEANTIME
Director Mike Leigh
UK
MIFF 1984
Feature
SUNSET STREET
Director Wang Haowei
People's Republic of China
MIFF 1984
Short
Miss Savidge
Director Witold Stok
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
The One Kid
Director Agur Schiff
UK/Israel
MIFF 1984
Short
Borderline Cases
Director Jane Abercrombie, Steve Macdonald
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Discs
Director Dirk de Bruyn
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
HIGH SCHOOLS
Director Charles Guggenheim
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
A Coal Mine in South Wales
Director Joachim Kreck
Federal Republic of Germany/UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Hey Marcel . . .
Director Peter Tammer
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Olympic Flame/Olympijsky Ohen
Director Vladimir Jiranek, Josef Hekrdla
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1984
Short
Industrial Park
Director Paul Elliott
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Cathedral Forms
Director Anne Pollak
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
City of 100 Gates
Director John Jacobs
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE GOLD DIGGERS
Director Sally Potter
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Holzwege: Wood Roads/Wrong Ways
Director Georgia Wallace-Crabbe
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
SEVENTEEN
Director Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
One or the Other
Director Nicholas Hondrogen
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Joe's Encyclopaedia
Director Ric Lappas
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Squatters: The Other Philadelphia Story
Director Charles Koppelman
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Went With The Wind
Director Isay Weinfeld, Marcio Kogan
Brazil
MIFF 1984
Feature
STREET ANGEL
Director Frank Borzage
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Iron Boots
Director Ludvík Kadleček
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE IRON HORSE
Director John Ford
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
A GIRL IN EVERY PORT
Director Howard Hawks
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Return of the Useless
Director Michael Nicholson
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
PAUL CADMUS: ENFANT TERRIBLE AT 80
Director David Sutherland
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Thanks for the Ride
Director John Kent Harrison
Canada
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE LEOPARD
Director Luchino Visconti
Italy
MIFF 1984
Feature
PHATIK AND THE JUGGLER
Director Sandip Ray
India
MIFF 1984
Short
Dream Flight
Director Phillippe Bergeron, Danielle Thalmann
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Ossian: An American Boy in Nepal
Director Thomas Anderson
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
It's A Living
Director Laurie Kirkwood
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
FLIGHT TO BERLIN
Director Christopher Petit
UK
MIFF 1984
Feature
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Director Aki Kaurismäki
Finland
MIFF 1984
Feature
A WIFE AMONG WIVES
Director David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall
USA/Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
NICARAGUA - A SPECIAL REPORT
Director Alan Lowery
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
The Impossible Dream
Director Dagmar Doubkova
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1984
Short
Warming Up
Director Annie Duncan
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
One Word of Truth
Director Peter J. Sisam
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
The Shadow and the Substance
Director Paul de Nooijer
Netherlands
MIFF 1984
Short
Precious Metal Variations
Director David Ehrlich
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
The Perfect Cup
Director Sue Sarah Gilbert
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Peace March 1982
Director Laila Rakvaag, Erika Nissens
Norway
MIFF 1984
Short
Gotta Serve Somebody
Director John Wilson
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Fiesta
Director David Marconi
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Galapagos - My Special Island
Director Simone DiBagno
United Nations
MIFF 1984
Short
Raygun's Nightmare
Director Peter Wallach
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE FOURTH MAN
Director Paul Verhoeven
Netherlands
MIFF 1984
Feature
BURROUGHS
Director Howard Brookner
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
SACRED VANDALS
Director Solrun Hoaas
Australia/Japan
MIFF 1984
Short
She-Whore
Director Dana Perrson
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
AT THE CINEMA PALACE - LIAM O'LEARY
Director Donald Taylor Black
Ireland
MIFF 1984
Short
Sandwich
Director Bruno Bozzetto
Italy
MIFF 1984
Short
Fear of Life
Director Sally Bongers
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
First Sight
Director Richard Keith Wolff
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
The Bodyguard
Director Leo Berkeley
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Tightrope Water
Director Annie Duncan, Anna Kannava
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
The Missing One
Director Razmik Grigorian
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Memorial Day
Director Michael Ackerman Ulick
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain
Director Caroline M. Heywood
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Highland Winter
Director Roger Scholes
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Devrim
Director Migrant Women's Film Group
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
TO A CERTAIN POINT
Director Tomás Gutiérrez-Alea
Cuba
MIFF 1984
Feature
EMPIRE CITY
Director Michael Blackwood
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE PROFESSION OF ARMS
Director Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
The Great Sadness of Zohara
Director Nina Menkes
Israel/Morocco/USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
ANYBODY'S SON WILL DO
Director Paul Cowan
Canada
MIFF 1984
Feature
LAOS AND CAMBODIA
Director
USA/UK/France
MIFF 1984
Feature
UP FOR GRABS
Director Curtis Levy
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
7.56 AM
Director Robert Alcock
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
Miraj - Through The Hudson Hotel
Director Molly Burgess
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
LIFE IS A NOVEL
Director Alain Resnais
France
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE EIGHTIES
Director Chantal Akerman
Belgium
MIFF 1984
Feature
BEYOND UTOPIA - CHANGING ATTITUDES IN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
Director Michael Blackwood
USA/German Federal Republic/UK
MIFF 1984
Short
The Good Life
Director Gary Levy, Dan Lewk
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Little Queen
Director Peter Wells
New Zealand
MIFF 1984
Short
Pendulum, The Pit and Hope
Director Jan Svankmajer
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1984
Short
Gaby's Ass
Director Killian Dellers, Gaby
Switzerland
MIFF 1984
Short
California Show Time
Director Jeremiah Comey
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
EXPOSED
Director James Toback
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
FUNNY, DIRTY LITTLE WAR
Director Héctor Olivera
Argentina
MIFF 1984
Short
Danny's Egg
Director David Haythornthwaite
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
The Snipe and the Clam
Director Hu Jinqing
People’s Republic of China
MIFF 1984
Feature
EUSKADI - ZONA ESPECIAL DEL NORTE
Director René Roelofs
Holland, Euskadi (North Spain & France)
MIFF 1984
Short
The Women of El Planeta
Director Maria Barea
Peru
MIFF 1984
Selve, One of Many
Director Safi Faye
Senegal
MIFF 1984
Sudesha
Director Deepa Dhanraj
India
MIFF 1984
Dreams Within Reach
Director Atiat El-Abnoudi
Egypt
MIFF 1984
When The Forest Dies, The Soul Dies Along With It
Director Heide Breitel, Eval Hammel
West Germany
MIFF 1984
Two Women
Director Annabella Miscuglio
Italy
MIFF 1984
Breed and Dignity - An Open Letter From Nicaragua
Director Maria José Alvarez
Nicaragua
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE LIFT
Director Dick Maas
Netherlands
MIFF 1984
Feature
HOTEL NEW YORK
Director Jackie Raynal
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
RICKSHAW BOY
Director Ling Zifeng
People's Republic of China
MIFF 1984
Short
Letter From A Film Maker
Director Ioselaita
France
MIFF 1984
Feature
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Director Nils Malmros
Denmark
MIFF 1984
Short
Ah! Ernesto
Director Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
West Germany
MIFF 1984
Short
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
Director Stephen Mack, Barbara Moss
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Here You Will Find It
Director Lee Sokol
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
The Priestess/The Storekeeper
Director Solrun Hoaas
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD
Director John Schlesinger
UK
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE LAST DIVA
Director Gian-Franco Mingozzi
Italy
MIFF 1984
Feature
PANKOW ‘55
Director Gabor Altorjay
West Germany
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE MAN IN THE SILK HAT
Director Maud Linder
France
MIFF 1984
Short
Camilla Horn Watching Herself Play Gretchen In Murnau's Silent Movie ‘Faust'
Director Hans Sachs, Hedde Rinneberg
Federal Republic of Germany
MIFF 1984
Short
Debris
Director Alexander Proyas
Australia
MIFF 1984
Short
The Taking of Samiland
Director Kare Tannvik, Skule Eriksen
Lappland
MIFF 1984
Short
Quo Vadis
Director Vl. Balco
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1984
Short
Bewitched
Director José Luis Lozano
Spain
MIFF 1984
Short
The Letter
Director Steven Harris
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
The Same Old Story
Director Leo Sullivan
UK/Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE OUTCAST
Director Gray Hofmeyr
South Africa
MIFF 1984
Feature
SUMMERTIME
Director Massimo Mazzucco
Italy
MIFF 1984
Feature
RUMBLEFISH
Director Francis Ford Coppola
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
LIGHT PHYSICAL INJURIES
Director György Szomjas
Hungary
MIFF 1984
Feature
VIDEODROME
Director David Cronenberg
Canada
MIFF 1984
Feature
VARIETY
Director Bette Gordon
USA
MIFF 1984
Feature
PINA BAUSCH
Director Chantal Akerman
Belgium
MIFF 1984
Short
Time
Director Johan van der Keuken
Netherlands
MIFF 1984
Feature
THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING
Director Raul Ruiz
France
MIFF 1984
Feature
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE
Director Woody Allen
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Frida and Tina
Director Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
UK
MIFF 1984
Short
Half A Life
Director Noll Brinkman
West Germany
MIFF 1984
Short
X-Streams
Director Myron Emery
USA
MIFF 1984
Short
Ned Wethered
Director Lee Whitmore
Australia
MIFF 1984
Feature
TURNING POINT
Director Frank Beyer
German Democratic Republic
MIFF 1984
Short
Games, Toys and Players
Director Enrique Gracian
Spain
MIFF 1984
Short
Trapeze
Director Mino Bonon
Canada
MIFF 1984
Short
Fury is a Feeling Too
Director Cynthia Beatt
Federal Republic of Germany
MIFF 1984
