In Las Vegas young Barty Nicholls inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
News Items AKA Faits divers (1983) Raymond Depardon
This documentary follows the daily life of a section of the police station of the fifth “arrondissement” (district) of Paris. Read More »
The Day After (1983) Nicholas Meyer, Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg
The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. Read More »
Year of The Dragon (1985) Michael Cimino, Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane
Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven’s Gate Read More »
Death of a Soldier (1986) Philippe Mora, James Coburn, Bill Hunter, Reb Brown
Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Read More »
A Better Tomorrow III AKA Ying hung boon sik III: Zik yeung ji gor (1989) Hark Tsui, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Anita Mui
At the end of the Vietnam war, Cheung goes to Saigon, intent on bringing his uncle and cousin back to Hong Kong. Read More »
A Taxing Woman’s Return / Marusa no onna 2 (1988) Jûzô Itami, Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentarô Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa
Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. Read More »
The Mystery of Oberwald AKA Il mistero di Oberwald (1980) Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Branciaroli
One long and painful decade after the brutal assassination of her husband Read More »
Chain Letters (1985) Mark Rappaport, Mark Arnott, Reed Birney, David Brisbin
A wicked picture of the New York yuppie scene in which nine upwardly mobile Manhattanites all receive a chain letter. Read More »
Daniel (1983) Sidney Lumet, Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson Read More »