1981-1990

  • Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Die Nacht (1985)

    1981-1990ExperimentalGermanyHans-Jürgen Syberberg

    Quote:
    Die Nacht – a gigantic dramatic monologue in four parts like Wagner’s Ring – was produced as a film after first performances at the Theâtre des Amandiers in Paris in autumn 1984. Throughout six hours, Edith Clever plays poems, prose texts, letters, speeches, and dramatic roles invoking grief and farewell, doom and the nearness of death. The montage of poetic subject matter spans from Goethe and Kleist, Platon and Hölderlin, Novalis and Jean Paul to the Indian chief Seattle’s speech and texts by Hans Jürgen Syberberg.Read More »

  • Makoto Satô – YMO Propaganda (1984)

    Arthouse1981-1990JapanMakoto SatôMusical

    Starring Yellow Magic Orchestra and David Brooks Palmer, YMO Propaganda is a 1984 musical film directed by Shin Saito. The film originally premiered theatrically throughout Japan in 1984 and is considered by some to be the best visual work from ‘Y.M.O.’Read More »

  • Steve De Jarnatt – Miracle Mile (1988)

    Drama1981-1990Steve De JarnattThrillerUSA

    Quote:
    When Harry (Anthony Edwards, Zodiac, ER) meets Julie (Mare Winningham, Turner & Hooch) at the La Brea Tar Pits, it’s love at first sight. But when Harry’s alarm clock fails to go off, he misses their scheduled date by several hours. Alone on a street corner at four in the morning, he answers a ringing pay phone and picks up a garbled message that all-out nuclear war is set to begin in an hour’s time. With the clock ticking and the city spiralling into chaos, can Harry somehow track down Julie and get them both to safety before Armageddon?Read More »

  • Alan Clarke – Screenplay: Christine (1987)

    1981-1990Alan ClarkeDramaTVUnited Kingdom

    Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.

    Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one peer-aged client to another during the deserted daytime of the suburbs.Read More »

  • Guy Maddin – Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988)

    1981-1990CanadaExperimentalFantasyGuy Maddin

    Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL (1988) is a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room “in a Gimli we no longer know.” Zeitgeist Films and Films We Like in Canada present a brand new 4K remastering of TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL REDUX by Guy Maddin, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The new 4K digital remaster was supervised by Guy Maddin using original printing elements provided by the TIFF Cinematheque Library and includes the replacement of a long-lost scene. Maddin’s highly acclaimed first feature, released in 1988, is now regarded as one of the true cult hits on the midnight movie circuit.Read More »

  • Roy Stuart – Glimpse 1 (1990)

    1981-1990ArthouseEroticaFranceRoy Stuart

    Quote:
    The new Glimpse Video is unlike anything Roy’s done before, unlike any porn video ever, in fact. After viewing its unprecedented two hours and 20 minutes I called Roy and told him he should be entering this in film festivals because he’s done what so many have attempted and failed to do.
    The New Glimpse Video is an exquisitely photographed experimental film with an eclectic sound track. It has been filmed and mastered using digital video equipment for superior image and sound quality. There are more than 30 women in over 40 separate scenes. The women are very real, right down to their abundant bushes, wet red pussies and lovely natural breasts, without being the tired housewives we’ve come to associate with American all-natural sex tapes. The women on this tape are truly beautiful, many European fashion models, often quite young, and yet they’re engaging in acts usually reserved for the coarsest old pros.Read More »

  • Claude Bernard-Aubert – L’Initiation d’une femme mariée (1983)

    1981-1990Claude Bernard-AubertEroticaFrance

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    Simon and Babeth are seemingly happy couple, but she is not very interested in sex, while he is the opposite. He has sex with his secretary, his older downstairs neighbor, and friend Victoria, as well as other mistresses. But Babette becomes suspicious and follows him to a hotel where he books a room to make love to one of his mistresses. She books the adjoining room and manages to spy on them. This turns her on and Simon persuades her to get involved in the swinging scene with the help of his friend Victoria, but first he takes her to watch the goings on in the Bois de Boulogne and persuades her to give him a public blow job. They attend a club échangiste run by France Lomay, and several orgies, finally holding one themselves.Read More »

  • Marek Kanievska – Another Country (1984)

    1981-1990DramaMarek KanievskaQueer Cinema(s)RomanceUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell, the film explores the effect of Public School life in the 1930’s on Guy Bennett as his homosexuality and unwillingness to “play the game” turns him eastwards towards communist Russia.Read More »

  • Marek Kanievska – Less Than Zero (1987)

    1981-1990CrimeDramaMarek KanievskaUSA

    Quote:
    A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend’s request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.Read More »

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