In scenario du film Passion, Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of His 1982 film Passion. “I did not want to write the script,” he states, “I wanted to see it.” Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a white film screen that evokes for him the “famous blank page of Mallarme” Godard uses video as a sketchbook with Which to reconceive the film. The result is a philosophical, often humorous rumination on the desire and labor that inform the conceptual and image making process of the cinema. directly quoting from and Further elaborating on the process and content of the earlier film – Which is itself about labor and creativity – Godard’s scenario is both rigorously theoretical and intensely personal.Read More »
1981-1990
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Jean-Luc Godard – Scénario du film ‘Passion’ (1982)
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Georges Lautner – La cage aux folles 3 – ‘Elles’ se marient AKA La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1986)
France1981-1990ComedyGeorges LautnerQueer Cinema(s)

SYNOPSIS :
Albin and Renato, the owners of St-Tropez’s most notorious night club, are facing financial ruin. Albin Mougeotte (Michel Serreault) learns that he is to inherit a big sum of money but to have the right to it, the testament demands him to get married and have a child within the next 18 months. Being gay (drag), he gets perplex and doesn’t know what to do. He hides such details to his boyfriend Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) but he’ll finally find out about it and will try to find a way to the situation. Albin will try to date women, dress ‘normal’ almost throughout the film as he needs to hide his homosexuality (but the manners remains of course). Will Albin be capable to fool himself into a marriage and child and get the money or will he choose to stay himself and refuse it?Read More » -
Robert Michael Lewis – City Killer (1984)
1981-1990Robert Michael LewisThrillerTVUSAOriginally made for television, a psychotic blackmails his beloved by demolishing areas of the city until she goes out with him.Read More »
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Lawrence Talbot – Silk Satin Sex (1983)
1981-1990EroticaLawrence TalbotUSAIMDB says:
Wealthy lingerie company owner Valerie invites several hopeful female employee prospects to a special private party. Valerie encourages all the women to share their most intimate stories on how they met their husbands as a means of acquiring a much-coveted new available position in her company.Read More » -
Jean-Pierre Mocky – À mort l’arbitre! AKA Kill the Referee (1984)
1981-1990FranceJean-Pierre MockyThriller

Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.Read More »
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Hisayasu Satô – Kurutta Butokai AKA Muscle (1989)
1981-1990AsianEroticaHisayasu SatôJapanQueer Cinema(s)Hisayasu Sato, known as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Pinku Eiga, has been known from being one of the most complex and versatile filmmakers to come out of pink films and one of the few to shoot both straight and gay films. This one, probably his best known work along with Splatter: Naked Blood, is a sophisticated, dark, brooding erotic film that’s also a big tribute to Pasolini.Read More »
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Bertrand Tavernier – Un dimanche à la campagne AKA A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Drama1981-1990Bertrand TavernierFrance

Synopsis:
“Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his country house, cared for by his housekeeper, Mercedes. Every so often, his son Gonzague comes to visit him with his young family. One late summer Sunday in 1912, the customary visit is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Ladmiral’s unpredictable daughter, Irene…”
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Erwin C. Dietrich – Julchen und Jettchen, die verliebten Apothekerstöchter AKA The Amorous Sisters (1982)
1981-1990EroticaErwin C. DietrichSwitzerlandComedy about some schoolgirls being taught anatomy (of the sexual nature) by the sexually frustrated Barbara Moose. In bed at nighttime the girls practice their daily lessons on each other and on any unsuspecting visitors of the night. When they’re not in class they enjoy frolicking around outside (naked most of the time!) experiencing the joys of nature.Read More »
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Miklós Jancsó – Jézus Krisztus horoszkópja AKA Jesus Christ’s Horoscope (1989)
1981-1990ArthouseHungaryMiklós JancsóPoliticsJézus Krisztus horoszkópja (Jesus Christ Horoscope, 1988) was made as the second film of a tetralogy. This time the theme is directly an agony of Communism. Cserhalmi plays a demonic-looking poet named Josef K (who, contrary to the author of Der Process / The Trial, has his surname spelt “Kaffka”) who in a black hat and a waving coat walks through different flats and hotels in Budapest and has unclear relationships with three women: Márta (Ildikó Bánsági) and ex-policewoman Kata (Dorottya Udvaros) are murdered in mysterious circumstances; Josef K himself then vanishes in the presence of a meteorologist, Juli (Juli Básti).Read More »





