When his precious cache of opals is stolen, 14-year-old Ernie, who lives with his alcoholic father Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Read More »
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine
Hannah, Holly, and Lee are adult sisters from a show business family, their boozy actress mother Read More »
A Bad Son / Un mauvais fils (1980) Claude Sautet, Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dufilho
Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. Read More »
Fair Game (1986) Mario Andreacchio, Cassandra Delaney, Peter Ford, David Sandford
A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble Read More »
Let’s Spend the Night Together (1982) Hal Ashby, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts
The Rolling Stones’ shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour. Read More »
Water and Power (1989) Pat O’Neill, Joel Lorimen, Beth Block, George Lockwood
By using a series of visually and aurally dense tableaux created with advanced motion control Read More »
Men From the Gutter / An qu (1983) Ngai Choi Lam, Jason Pai Piao, Yung Wang, Meng Lo
From its evocative title to its gritty filming to its gutsy plot, this sizzling crime thriller struck a chord with international audiences. Read More »
Yumechiyo’s Diary / Yumechiyo nikki (1985) Kirirô Urayama, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kirin Kiki
Yumechiyo Nikki is the story of a woman who is suffering from leukemia, the result of exposure to the atomic blast when she was still unborn. Read More »
Issa Valley / Dolina Issy (1982) Tadeusz Konwicki, Anna Dymna, Maria Pakulnis, Danuta Szaflarska
The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. Read More »