Forbidden love, fraying loyalties and flagrant hypocrisy emerge Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Sand Storm / Trishagni (1988) Nabendu Ghosh, Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Alok Nath
The film is set in a Central Asian desert in the 1st Century B.C. A sandstorm strikes Read More »
Magdalena Viraga (1986) Nina Menkes, Claire Aguilar, Nora Bendich, Dave Gist
Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA Read More »
Potlatch / Arhangelos tou pathous (1987) Nikos Vergitsis, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Isabel Otero, Patrick Bauchau
A young Greek composer is trying to escape the era’s disease, apathy. Read More »
The Year of Awakening / El año de las luces (1986) Fernando Trueba, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú, Verónica Forqué
Political and religious prejudices are destroying the relationship between two teenagers in wartime Spain. Read More »
Divine Madness (1980) Michael Ritchie, Bette Midler, Jocelyn Brown, Ula Hedwig
In 1980, the head usher at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium gives his crew a pep talk Read More »
Z for Zachariah (1984) Anthony Garner, Anthony Andrews, Pippa Hinchley, David Daker
Based on a book of the same name, depicting events in a Welsh valley after a nuclear holocaust Read More »
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) Jack Clayton, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. Read More »
The Champions (1983) Boh ngau – Brandy Yuen
Ah Biao stars as an acrobatic country hick who must flee out of town after injuring Read More »
Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool (1989) Carl Reiner, Robert Lindsay, Robbie Coltrane, Cathryn Bradshaw
Bert Rigby lives in the small dying town Langmore, where most people depend on badly doing mining corporation. Read More »