In this adaptation of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town’s hot springs are dangerously contaminated. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Roar (1981) Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, Adventure, Thriller
Ravening jungle beasts assemble in flocks to invade an otherwise quiet home where they terrorize the visiting family of their keeper. Read More »
Yan zhi kou / Rouge (1987) Stanley Kwan, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Alex Man, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong’s “flower houses” – bordellos and night clubs of the 1930’s. Read More »
Sleepwalker (1984) Saxon Logan, Joanna David, Nickolas Grace, Heather Page, Horror
Rich couple Angela & Richard travel to the home of brother and sister Alex and Marion for dinner but end up clashing with their hosts over their different views. Read More »
A Time of Destiny (1988) Gregory Nava, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo, Drama, War
Josie elopes with Jack against her father’s wishes. Her father follows her to the hotel where they are staying and forces Josie to go with him. Read More »
Summer Heat (1987) Michie Gleason, Lori Singer, Anthony Edwards, Bruce Abbott, Drama
Feeling lonely and neglected by her overworked husband, Roxy, a Depression-era farm wife, is drawn into an ill-advised affair with Jack, their hired hand. Read More »
Return to Oz (1985) Walter Murch, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. Read More »
The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) Dusan Makavejev, Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Comedy, Drama
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. Read More »
Tchao pantin / So Long, Stooge (1983) Claude Berri, Coluche, Richard Anconina, Agnès Soral, Drama
Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Read More »
Le Déclin de l’empire américain / The Decline of the American Empire (1986) Denys Arcand, Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Comedy, Drama
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Read More »