Arthur Clennam returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Couch Trip (1988) Michael Ritchie, Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin
The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show Read More »
Modori River AKA Modori-gawa (1983) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Mariko Fuji, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mieko Harada
Gakuyo is a poet of tanka (Japanese verses comprising 31 syllables) and spends his days in the company of prostitutes. Read More »
Blackout (1986) Erik Gustavson, Henrik Scheele, Juni Dahr, Elisabeth Sand
The hard-boiled private eye, Werner, has to deal with a beautiful and deadly femme fatale, a brutal chief of police Read More »
84 Charing Cross Road (1987) David Hugh Jones, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
When a humorous script-reader in her New York City apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature Read More »
Babylon (1981) Franco Rosso, David N. Haynes, Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans
Babylon follows the story of David, a working class musician and black man in South East London. Read More »
By Hook or by Crook AKA Xian yu fan sheng (1980) Karl Maka, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Dean Shek, Ka-Sang Cheng
The portly but agile Hung nimbly evades the Hong Kong police as a benevolent burglar Read More »
Biquefarre (1983) Georges Rouquier, Henri Rouquier, Maria Rouquier, Roger Malet
Biquefarre is a small farm in Aveyron. The changing economics of farming lead Raoul Read More »
Blade on the Feather (1980) Richard Loncraine, Kika Markham, Phoebe Nicholls, Donald Pleasence
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer…but both men are more than they claim to be. Read More »
In a Glass Cage AKA Tras el cristal (1986) Agustí Villaronga, Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes
A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. Read More »
Drifting AKA Nagu’a (1982) Amos Guttman, Jonathan Sagall, Ami Traub, Ben Levin
A young gay Israeli man works in his grandmother’s store while dreaming of becoming a film-maker. Read More »
Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll Style (1983) Terence Dixon, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Chuck Berry
A rock n roll fashion documentary. A fascinating story of rock n roll told through the clothes Read More »
The Hawk and the Dove AKA Il falco e la colomba (1981) Fabrizio Lori, Lara Wendel, Fabio Testi, Simonetta Stefanelli
Fabio Testi is a politician who finds himself descending Read More »
Tell Me AKA Dis-moi (1980) Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman interviews her mother, and other elderly women who survived the Holocaust. Read More »
Panchavadi Palam (1984) K.G. George, Bharat Gopy, Nedumudi Venu, Srividya
A henpecked politician wants his name attached to a new bridge Read More »