
This meditative, sometimes violent pseudodocumentary examines the effect of toxic waste dumping on America’s landscape and its psyche. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Why Not? / Eijanaika (1981) Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America Read More »
Chi-n-pi-ra (1984) Tôru Kawashima, Kyôhei Shibata

Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse races. Read More »
Baby It’s You (1983) John Sayles, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin

In 1966 New Jersey, Jill Rosen, a frustrated high schooler, is intrigued by an enigmatic Read More »
Resurrected (1989) Paul Greengrass, Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, David Thewlis

True story of a British soldier (David Thewlis), who is left behind in the Falklands after the war with Argentina. Read More »
Gunmen / Tin law dei mong (1988) Kirk Wong, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Adam Cheng, Elizabeth Lee

This story follows a cop in Shanghai during the 1930s. Read More »
The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981) Gary Nelson, Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro, Ben Marley

Jesse Hallam, an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky, moves to Cincinnati so that his daughter may receive spinal surgery. Read More »
The Rainbow (1988) Stuart Burge, Imogen Stubbs, Jane Gurnett, Colin Tarrant

D.H. Lawrence’s powerful tale of a girl emerging into womanhood, interwoven with memories Read More »
Body Heat (1981) Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna

Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he’s picked up by married Matty Walker. Read More »
Querelle (1982) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau

The French naval ship, Le Vengeur, based out of Marseille, has just docked in Brest for an extended stay. Read More »