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Tag Archives: 1980s
Harry’s Game (1982) Lawrence Gordon Clark

A British agent infiltrates the IRA to find an assassin. His wife is unhappy with his work. Read More »
A Woman in Flames (1983) Robert van Ackeren

Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratingly leaves her arrogant husband Read More »
American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984) James Benning

American Dreams is chock full of concrete, discrete elements that comprise an American iconography of the past three decades. Read More »
UFOria (1985) John Binder

Sheldon Bart is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud Read More »
Fort Saganne (1984) Alain Corneau

French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. Read More »
Success Is the Best Revenge (1984) Jerzy Skolimowski

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England Read More »
Banana Paradise / Xiang jiao tian tang (1989) Tung Wang

“Door Latch” and his friend followed the KMT army and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Read More »
Strawman (1987) Tung Wang

During the last years of Japanese occupation in Taiwan, as tenants from the preceding generation Read More »
King Lear (1983) Michael Elliott

Aging King Lear invites disaster when he abdicates to his two disloyal Read More »