Re-working material from his first novel, “Hide and Seek” (1973), and folding this into a prismatic blend Read More »
Tag Archives: 1986
Ga, Ga – Glory To The Heroes AKA Ga, Ga – Chwala bohaterom (1986) Piotr Szulkin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura
Our main character lands on a supposedly uninhabited strange new world Read More »
Shadow of Victory AKA In de schaduw van de overwinning (1986) Ate de Jong, Jeroen Krabbé, Edwin de Vries, Linda van Dyck
During WWII, two members of the Dutch resistance share the same goal Read More »
The Serpent’s Way AKA Ormens väg på hälleberget (1986) Bo Widerberg, Stina Ekblad, Stellan Skarsgård, Reine Brynolfsson
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Read More »
The Sea and Poison AKA Umi to dokuyaku (1986) Kei Kumai, Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura
Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments. Read More »
Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon AKA Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée (1986) Gérard Frot-Coutaz, Micheline Presle, Claude Piéplu, Xavier Deluc
Jacques and Jacqueline do not have much more pleasant to say to each other Read More »
The human promise AKA Ningen no yakusoku (1986) Yoshishige Yoshida, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Orie Satô
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. Read More »
Signal Seven (1986) Rob Nilsson, Bill Ackridge, Dan Leegant, John Tidwell
Filmed without sets and in available light, the plotless story follows a few cabbies Read More »
State of Grace AKA L’état de grâce (1986) Jacques Rouffio, Nicole Garcia, Sami Frey, Pierre Arditi
The story of an affair between a bachelor junior minister in the French Read More »
The Moro Affair AKA Il caso Moro (1986) Giuseppe Ferrara, Gian Maria Volontè, Mattia Sbragia, Bruno Zanin
On March 16th 1978, the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, the former Italian Prime Minister Read More »
Three Amigos! (1986) John Landis, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short
Three out of work silent movie actors are accidentally drawn to a Mexican village Read More »
Treasure Island (1986) Raúl Ruiz, Vic Tayback, Martin Landau, Anna Karina
Raúl Ruiz’s fabulist modern-day riff on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel. Read More »
Jean de Florette (1986) Claude Berri, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source Read More »
April Fish AKA Shigatsu no sakana (1986) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Miyoko Akaza, Nao Asuka, Wakaba Irie
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited Read More »
Belizaire the Cajun (1986) Glen Pitre, Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, Michael Schoeffling
This inexpensive but effusively energetic film is set in Louisiana’s Cajun country of the 19th century. Read More »