1981-1990

  • Anja Breien – Forfølgelsen AKA The Witch Hunt (1981)

    1981-1990Anja BreienDramaNorway

    Synopsis:
    Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli (Lil Terselius) returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter (Anita Bjork), eventually tending a plot that once belonged to her family. But Eli has been gone a long time, and the opaque villagers see her as an outsider — she is suspicious from the start. The year is 1625, and stories of witches conjuring up evil are a part of the daily culture. Eli unwittingly makes matters worse for herself when she is able to cure the sick with herbs, and when she begins an affair with Aslak (Bjoern Skagestad) a farmhand — clearly she must have cast a spell on him. This all adds up to a witch hunt with a ready-made “witch.” Eli, in the end, is officially accused of witchcraft by a devious bailiff, while Ingeborg makes every attempt to save her, and Aslak himself does not survive the stress — hardly a good omen for the outcome of the trial.Read More »

  • Luc Moullet – La valse des médias (1987)

    1981-1990DocumentaryFranceLuc Moullet

    Study on the evolution and modernization of public libraries and media libraries.Read More »

  • Uli M. Schüppel – Nihil oder Alle Zeit der Welt (1987)

    1981-1990CultGermanySci-FiUli M. Schüppel

    Shot on location in West Beriln, Nordstrand and Heiligensee, Sept/Oct 1986 and March 1987

    Quote:
    Cult movie ‘Nihil oder Alle Zeit der Welt’ from 1987, featuring the members of Einstürzende Neubauten as actors. It’s a film about a group of young ‘Terrorists’ (Neubauten), fighting desperately against an obscure ‘professor’, that represent a personification of all things bad and ugly in today’s civilization.
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  • Ingmar Bergman – Fanny och Alexander [Theatrical Version] (1982) (HD)

    1981-1990DramaIngmar BergmanSweden

    Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, it is the warmest and most autobiographical film combining the director’s melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.Read More »

  • Danièle Dubroux & Stavros Kaplanidis – Les amants terribles AKA The Terrible Lovers (1985)

    1981-1990DramaFranceNina CompanéezStavros Kaplanidis

    A la fin de l’été 84, Adrien, Alice, Hans et Laure vivent à Rome des histoires d’amour qui les poussent hors d’eux mèmes. Chacun va suivre obstinément son rève, sa quète, sa passion. Alice se perd dans l’alcool, Adrien dénonce sa maitresse à la police. Laure et Hans vont aller jusqu’aux limites d’une passion destructrice dans le huis-clos de leur chambre d’hôtel.Read More »

  • Fernando Birri – Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes AKA A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988)

    1981-1990CubaDramaFantasyFernando Birri

    Quote:
    An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man (Fernando Birri) lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a hen-coop. Father Gonzaga (Luis Alberto Ramirez) is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the creature. Soon the Old Man becomes the subject of curiosity seekers as Elisinda (Daisy Granados) and Pelayo (Asdrubal Melendez) start charging admission. A traveling carnival of human oddities camps near the Old Man as people flock to see the show. The Old Man is reduced to being an unwanted pet, and after six years, he mends his wings and flies away.Read More »

  • Edward Yang – Eleven Women: Floating Weeds (1981)

    1981-1990DramaEdward YangTaiwanTV

    It’s a two-episode run of the Taiwanese TV anthology series Eleven Women, produced by actress Sylvia Chang. The idea—to have several younger directors make episodes about contemporary Taiwanese life, centering on female protagonists—was modeled after the Hong Kong TV productions (such as Below the Lion Rock) that kickstarted the HK new wave. And indeed, it started the careers of not only Yang but several other important figures who would go on to pioneer the Taiwanese New Wave.

    Yang’s episodes were adapted from a short story by Di Yi. The title is “Floating Weeds” (literally, “Duckweed”).Read More »

  • Juan Carlos Olaria – El diario rojo AKA The Red Diary (1982)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaJuan Carlos OlariaSpain

    Summary on IMDb:
    Juan (Joan Estrada) and Ana (Anna Sales) suffer a marriage crisis. Ana’s pregnancy should harmonize her future, but John’s sterility will cause a whirlwind of unexpected emotions.Read More »

  • Peter Cohen – Undergångens arkitektur AKA The Architecture of Doom (1989)

    1981-1990ArchitectureDocumentaryPeter CohenSwedenWar

    Synopsis from IMDb: An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: Hitler’s epiphany while viewing Wagner’s opera ‘Rienzi’, the rise of the homo-erotic Grecian/Nordic ideal, the parallels drawn between the ‘degenerate’ art of the cubists and dadaists and the mentally ill/physically deformed, the Nazi obsession with purity and cleanliness, and, finally, the descent of the Jewish people to the level of a virus/vermin.
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