1981-1990

Which Side Are You On? was commissioned for transmission as part of the South Bank Show (ITV, 1978-2009), but was not shown because of its “highly partial view on a controversial subject”, the miners’ strike of 1984. London Weekend Television, the commissioning company, felt that it was more of a political film than an arts film.

Loach’s brief was to make a programme that showed what the striking miners were writing and singing. He felt that this was what he delivered and was angered that the programme was banned on the basis that it overstepped official guidelines on political impartiality.Read More »

Gold-digging Alicia goes to great lengths to get a smooth and handsome Count.Read More »

Quote:
“Sure, you’ll have difficulties finding this one – but try to get it, because it’s THE Katja Bienert film you always wanted to watch; the one you HAVE to watch if you’re into mid-80s-sleaze and a beautiful young girl displaying her wonderful body and her absolute incapability of acting.”…
Customer review at IMDBRead More »

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

Ranks No. 82 in Kinema Jumpo’s Top 100 Japanese Films of All Time Poll in 1999.Read More »

Because of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As the match is about to finish, he misses the penalty which would have let his team draw the match and keep the leadership.Read More »

Synopsis:
Directed by Academy Award Winner Lee Grant, “What Sex Am I?” follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, “What Sex Am I?” The acclaimed HBO Documentary returns from Grant’s archives for its 30th anniversary to a world at once much evolved, and still very much the same as the United States of its first run.Read More »

Three couples meet in an elegant Costa del Sol hotel. They are from various social classes and are gathered here for totally different reasons. One couple has met through a matrimonial agency. Another is composed of a fashion designer and his wife who are on the verge of seperation because of the husband’s homosexuality and are here because the wife hopes to recover her husband’s desire. The third couple is a German VIP, Ilsa, and her Gypsy gigolo who sells his charms for a few dollars. They are all going to be strongly attracted by Eva Bombon, a cabaret dancer, who came there to seek calm and solitude to prepare her next show. Her exuberant beauty is going to set their senses on fire and end their conflicts… very cordially!Read More »

PLOT: HANDS UP! is a Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It is the fourth of a series of semi-autobiographical films in which Skolimowski himself plays his alter ego, Andrzej Leszczyc. The film was originally made in 1967 in monochrome. In a twenty minute section (filmed in colour) added by Skolimowski in 1981 he explains how the original was withheld by Polish censors of the time, and that this was a principal cause of his leaving his country; however following liberalisation in Poland, he was invited to resuscitate it. The introduction includes, apart from some fictional apocalyptic passages, shots of Beirut ruined by the civil wars of the 1970s, where Skolimowski is working as an actor on Volker Schloendorff’s German film CIRCLE OF DECEIT, and also shots of London featuring demonstrations in favour of Solidarnosc, Speaker’s Corner, and an exhibition of Skolimowski’s own paintings. These sections include cameo roles by Bruno Ganz, David Essex, Mike Sarne and others. Some of the music in this introduction is from the 1970 choral work « Kosmogonia » by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.Read More »

Reunited: Vilma Santos, Christopher DeLeon, and Eddie Garcia, together again for another dramatic performance. This time, Marilou Diaz-Abaya directs, and this time Eddie Garcia displays his superb acting talent.Read More »