What constitutes a deadly sin today? Seven of the world’s best-known women directors produce their own version of celluloid sin in this omnibus film. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
La Paresse (1986) Portrait of a Lazy Woman
A director trying to overcome her own laziness, to shot a film about laziness. Read More »
To Trap a Kidnapper (1982) Yûkai hôdô
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school. Read More »
The Woman Who Lives at Night (1980) Gece Yasayan Kadin
Necla is a crippled woman who cannot walk, but at night she puts on her red wig and becomes Selma, a dangerous woman who can walk. Read More »
Day One (1989) Joseph Sargent, Brian Dennehy
The complicated relationship between physicist Leo Szilard, scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. Read More »
Daydream (1981) Hakujitsumu – Tetsuji Takechi
A structureless succession of bizarre and erotic set-pieces revolving around a series of fantasies in a dentist’s waiting room. Read More »
Class (1983) Lewis John Carlino
A naive high school senior meets a beautiful older woman, only to make a shocking discovery later on. Read More »
The Fugitives (1986) Les fugitifs
Jean is taken hostage at a bank by a foolish bank robber. As Jean left prison an hour earlier, the police assume he’s the robber. Read More »
Tag der Idioten (1981) Day of the Idiots
In this non-story of the mentally and emotionally impaired inhabitants of a clinic for the insane Read More »
Atalia (1984) Tzvika Kertzner, Akiva Tevet
Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Read More »