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Tag Archives: 1980s
Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid / Zeisters (1986) John Golden, Mark Alfred, Joan Allen, Ted Bardi

Two brothers befriend an escaped mental patient “the fat guy”) and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city. Read More »
Haunted Summer (1988) Ivan Passer, Philip Anglim, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz

Based on the infamous Summer of 1816 when Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein” Read More »
They Don’t Wear Black Tie / Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (1981) Leon Hirszman, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli

A large factory in Brazil is having problems with its workers and their union Read More »
Vanities (1981) Gary Halvorson, Meredith Baxter, Shelley Hack, Leslie Hoffman

A wonderful ensemble piece about three women that takes them from High School to College and then to a later reunion. Read More »
Bazaar (1982) Sagar Sarhadi, Farooq Shaikh, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah

Najma and Salim are in love, but theirs is a platonic relationship, as Salim is a deep thinker Read More »
The First Chapter / Pehla Adhyay (1981) Vishnu Mathur, Madan Jain, Dinesh Shakul

The most obscure of the films to come out of the Indian New Wave, Pahla Adhyay is Vishnu Mathur’s only film. Read More »
‘Blow the Night!’ Yoru o buttobase (1983) Chûsei Sone, Yuka Komatsu, Shûichirô Moriyama, Moeko Ezawa

“BLOW THE NIGHT!” Let’s Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm Read More »
Angel Enforcers / Huang jia fei feng (1989) Godfrey Ho, Pan Pan Yeung, Dick Wei, Phillip Ko

An elite undercover police squad led by “Zhou” (Sharon Yeung) crosses paths Read More »
Going Back (1984) Ron Teachworth, Bruce Campbell, Christopher Howe, Perry Mallette

In 1964 two high school friends, Brice and Cleveland leave their suburban neighborhood Read More »