Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Voyage in Time (1983) Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky
Like the Russian poet of ‘Nostalghia’, who, accompanied by his Italian guide and translator Read More »
The Howling (1981) Joe Dante, Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
In a red light district, newswoman Karen White is bugged by the police, investigating serial killer Eddie Quist, who has been molesting her through phone calls. Read More »
Red Dawn (1989) Jorge Fons, Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán
Mexico City, October 2, 1968. Ten days before the Olympic Games a small student revolt turns into major political turmoil. Read More »
Scanners (1981) David Cronenberg, Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Read More »
Deadly Circuit (1983) Claude Miller, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Read More »
Too Good to Be True (1988) Christian I. Nyby II, Loni Anderson, Patrick Duffy, Glynnis O’Connor
Writer Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet, fall in love, and soon marry. Read More »
Docs Kingdom (1988) Robert Kramer, Paul McIsaac, Vincent Gallo, Ruy Furtado
Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. Read More »
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981) Walerian Borowczyk, Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee
The film takes place before, during and immediately after the engagement party of Dr.Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osborne Read More »
L.A. Takedown (1989) Michael Mann, Scott Plank, Alex McArthur, Michael Rooker
Tough Los Angeles cop Vincent Hanna takes on a gang of professional bank robbers led by the precise, enigmatic Patrick McLaren. Read More »