
A high school nerd, Jerry Mitchell (Siemaszko) is assigned to write a piece for the school paper about new boy Buddy Revell (Tyson), who is rumored to be a psychopathic nutcase. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Did You See the Barefoot God? (1986) Soo-Kil Kim, Tamotsu Ishibashi, Gen Kodama, Yoriko Dôguchi, Drama

In a small backwater in Northern Japan, self-assured Shigeru and shy Shinji are best friends since childhood. Read More »
Time Stands Still (1982) Péter Gothár, Anikó Iván, István Znamenák, Péter Gálfy, Drama

A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. Read More »
Daughter Rite (1980) Michelle Citron, Victor Penelope, Anne Wilford, Documentary

A documentary of a daughter’s problematic relationship with her mother. Read More »
Firehouse (1987) J. Christian Ingvordsen, Gianna Palminteri, Martha Peterson, Renee Raiford, Comedy

An evil businessman is secretly setting fires to the old buildings of a rundown neighborhood Read More »
American Drive-In (1985) Krishna Shah, Emily Longstreth, Patrick Kirton, Rhonda Selesnow, Comedy

The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night. Read More »
Love on the Ground (1984) Jacques Rivette, Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

One of Jacques Rivette’s most accessible films – a reflection on theatre and life, mixed with playful references to haunted-house thrillers and mysterious-mansion whodunnits. Read More »
Wuthering Heights (1985) Jacques Rivette, Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu, Drama, Romance, Mystery

Acclaimed French director Jacques Rivette’s version of Emily Bronte’s classic novel. Read More »
Burst City (1982) Gakuryû Ishii, Michirô Endô, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Action, Music, Sci-Fi

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living. Read More »
Straight to Hell (1987) Alex Cox, Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude, Action, Comedy, Western

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. Read More »