A cartoonist who had an affair with a girl who is murdered gets himself embroiled Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Octopus / La piovra (1984) Damiano Damiani, Remo Girone, Patricia Millardet, Michele Placido
Commissioner Corrado Cattani has been transferred from Rome and appointed Read More »
A Brutal Game / Un jeu brutal (1983) Jean-Claude Brisseau, Bruno Cremer, Emmanuelle Debever, María Luisa García
A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret, tortured life. Read More »
Pauline at the Beach / Pauline à la plage (1983) Eric Rohmer, Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emptying Atlantic Read More »
Too Beautiful for You / Trop belle pour toi (1989) Bertrand Blier, Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted Read More »
Tightrope (1984) Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya
Wes Block (Clint Eastwood) is a detective who’s put on the case of a serial killer Read More »
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes (1988) Fernando Birri, Daisy Granados, Asdrúbal Meléndez, Luis Alberto Ramírez
An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. Read More »
Came a Hot Friday (1985) Ian Mune, Peter Bland, Phillip Gordon, Michael Lawrence
Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men Read More »
Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith / Georg K. Glaser – Schriftsteller und Schmied (1988) Harun Farocki
Documentary on the German anti Fascist worker-writer. Read More »
Fangs / Anyab (1981) Mohammed Shebl
“Anyab” makes the most of the “horror-as-social-commentary” ideology Read More »