1981-1990

  • Don Askarian – Komitas (1989)

    1981-1990ArmeniaArthouseDon AskarianDrama

    The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. The final 20 years of Komitas life were spent in various mental hospitals. The destiny of Komitas? This is the magic beauty of Armenian culture and the abhorrent brutality of Armenian history. A cultural and artistic world that was slaughtered with a curved knife. A humanity that doggedly advances towards an apocalyptic catastrophe, that does not recognize its own original purpose, eradicates its own memory, its final roots.Read More »

  • Bob Chinn – Baby Cakes (1983)

    1981-1990Bob ChinnEroticaUSA

    Now you can have your cake and eat it, too! Vivacious Rhonda Jo Petty joins two of her gorgeous and oversexed girlfriends on a fun-filled and very erotic bicycle trip. But it’s more than just a vacation. It’s a pleasure hunt that takes their bodies into orgy after orgy as they travel. From the mountains to the sea, every curve leads to another intensely satisfying sexual encounter, as they give their magnificent bodies over and over again to a pleasantly surprised audience of eager studs and wildly passionate girls. This is one trip you’ll enjoy over and over again…if those bicycle seats could only talk!Read More »

  • Bob Chinn – Goddess of Love (1986)

    1981-1990Bob ChinnEroticaUSA

    Athena becomes bored with life in the heavenly realm and decides to have a little fun playing tricks on a mortal couple. When she accidentally breaks the couple up, she enlists the aid of another immortal in setting things right again.Read More »

  • Konstantin Lopushanskiy – Pisma myortvogo cheloveka AKA Dead Man’s Letters (1986)

    1981-1990ArthouseKonstantin LopushanskiySci-FiUSSR

    Wikipedia wrote:
    Dead Man’s Letters (Russian: Письма мёртвого человека, romanized: Pis’ma myortvogo cheloveka), also known as Letters from a Dead Man, is a 1986 Soviet post-apocalyptic drama film directed and written by Konstantin Lopushansky. He wrote it along with Vyacheslav Rybakov and Boris Strugatsky. It marks his directorial debut.

    The film was screened at the International Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 and received the FIPRESCI prize at the 35th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.Read More »

  • Franco Zeffirelli – Otello AKA Othello (1986)

    1981-1990Franco ZeffirelliItalyMysteryRomance

    Based on Shakesphere’s play, Verdi’s opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, “…the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon”. Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, “Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?”Read More »

  • Geraldo Vietri – Sexo, Sua Única Arma AKA Sex, Your Only Weapon (1981)

    1981-1990BrazilDramaEroticaGeraldo Vietri

    In the interior of São Paulo, an apparently normal family hides unexpected secrets. One of the members makes sex her only weapon to get what she wants in this plot full of revenge, prejudice and contestation of values.Read More »

  • Bob Chinn – Let’s Get Physical (1985)

    1981-1990Bob ChinnEroticaUSA

    Woodyanders:
    Once promising ballerina Maria Schmidt (a sturdy and moving portrayal by the stunning Hyapatia Lee) runs a prestigious dance school with her crippled and impotent husband Carl (a fine performance by Paul Thomas). Since Carl isn’t capable of satisfying Maria’s sexual needs, Maria has no choice but to seek carnal fulfillment from her students.Read More »

  • Barbara Sass – Rajska jablon AKA Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)

    Drama1981-1990Barbara SassPoland

    Quote:
    The novels “Dziewczęta z Nowolipek” and “Rajska jabłoń” by Pola Gojawiczyńska were published in the middle of the 1930s. The author, using her own experience and memories, described the childhood and youth of several friends, residents of the Warsaw district of Nowolipki. The novel “Dziewczęta z Nowolipek” was first filmed in 1937 by Józef Lejtes. This film adaptation was highly acclaimed. There were even voices that the film was artistically superior to Gojawiczyńska’s prose. The novel was adapted for the film for the second time at the beginning of the 1970s. This television adaptation also included “Rajska jabłoń” (“Paradise Apple”). The director Stanisław Wohl cast Emilia Krakowska, Elżbieta Kępińska, Zofia Kucówna and Ewa Wisniewska in the leading roles. Barbara Sass’ film is the third adaptation of Gojawiczyńska’s novel.Read More »

  • Agnès Varda – Mur murs AKA Mural Murals (1981)

    1981-1990Agnès VardaDocumentaryFrance

    Quote:
    After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art.Read More »

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