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Tag Archives: 1980s
Hands Up! AKA Rece do góry (1981) Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Censored by the Polish authorities, this film was reedited and new footage added. Read More »
The Orchard End Murder (1981) Christian Marnham, Bill Wallis, Tracy Hyde, Clive Mantle
Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. Read More »
Not Quite Paradise (1985) Lewis Gilbert, Joanna Pacula, Sam Robards, Todd Graff
While working in a kibbutz (an Israeli voluntary farming collective community), a tourist and a female worker fall in love. Read More »
Frances (1982) Graeme Clifford, Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley
Frances Farmer, a precocious Seattle teenager, takes unpopular social and political positions, to the mixed reactions of her parents. Read More »
The Erotic Adventures of Lolita (1982) Leonard Kirtman, Tammy, John Boland, Copper Penny
Two best friends, young Lolita and slightly older Tigr decide to explore their pubescent sexuality Read More »
Sugar Cane Alley AKA Rue Cases Nègres (1983) Euzhan Palcy, Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck
Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Read More »
Victims (1982) Tony Vorno, Lois Adams, Laura Borenstein, Ron Borenstein
Paulie is falling to pieces. His every encounter with the opposite sex ends in violence Read More »
Illegally Yours (1988) Peter Bogdanovich, Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, Kenneth Mars
Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Read More »
The Iceman Cometh AKA Ji dong qi xia (1989) Clarence Yiu-leung Fok, Maggie Cheung, Biao Yuen, Wah Yuen
A frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he’s tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong. Read More »
Vultures (1984) Paul Leder, Stuart Whitman, Yvonne De Carlo, Aldo Ray
A dying wealthy patriarch, Ramon summons his relatives to his bedside Read More »
Turkish Star Wars AKA Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (1982) Çetin Inanç, Cüneyt Arkin, Aytekin Akkaya, Füsun Uçar
Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Read More »
War Requiem (1989) Derek Jarman, Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier
A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten’s Read More »
The Personals (1982) Peter Markle, Bill Schoppert, Karen Landry, Paul Eiding
A magazine publisher in Minneapolis, recently separated, puts a personals ad in The Twin Cities Reader, a free university newspaper. Read More »
‘night, Mother (1986) Tom Moore, Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke
What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night Read More »