1981-1990

  • Evgeniy Sivokon – Derevo I Koshka AKA The Tree and the Cat (1983)

    1981-1990AnimationEvgeniy SivokonShort FilmUSSR

    Once upon a time there was the tree – very tall, proud and strong. It was doing neither good nor harm. This tree was kept aloof from everyone and everything. Once the tree encounters the cat. His presence changes everything.Read More »

  • Denys Arcand – Le confort et l’indifférence (1982)

    1981-1990CanadaDenys ArcandDocumentaryPolitics

    Quote:
    If you ever wanted to understand the debate about the independence of Québec, this is likely the best documentary made on the subject. Sadly, it comes without subtitle. A few may find it somewhat demagogical… it mostly is once it enter the popular opinion, the average man take on it. But the politicians are also abhorrent and you hear it loud and clear. Those against it are very vocal, screaming anger and anguish, always yelling. Using the same scare tactics that always are used to defeat the opposition. Showing it to be dangerous, irrealistic, etc. Even, as a testament to how little have changed, taking the oil price as a measure of achievement, saying Canada have it the cheapest and that the independence of Québec would double it’s price.Read More »

  • Jaime Humberto Hermosillo – El verano de la señora Forbes AKA The Summer of Miss Forbes (1988)

    Drama1981-1990Jaime Humberto HermosilloMexico

    Synopsis
    Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes’ secret.Read More »

  • Elfi Mikesch & Monika Treut – Verführung: Die grausame Frau AKA Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1985)

    Drama1981-1990Elfi MikeschEroticaGermanyMonika TreutQueer Cinema(s)

    Quote:
    Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereo¬types and social taboos with icy self-possession and an enigmatic smile. As an artist, she specializes in the staging of elaborate S&M fantasies, while her affairs transgress the usual boundaries of personal and professional life. Along the way she leaves her German lesbian lover, a shoe fetishist, for an American “trainee,” and does more than step on the toes of the male performer who has broken the rules of the master-slave relationship by falling in love with her.Read More »

  • Masashi Yamamoto – Yami no Kanibaru aka Carnival in the Night (1982)

    1981-1990AsianExperimentalJapanMasashi Yamamoto

    Synopsis:
    The newly divorced singer Kumi is not too enthusiastic about life as a single mother. She drops her son to her ex-husband, leaving her band and embarks on a crazy tour of Tokyo’s shadowy side.Read More »

  • Jonathan Miller – King Lear (1982)

    1981-1990DramaJonathan MillerTVUnited Kingdom

    Making its debut with Romeo and Juliet on 3 December 1978, and concluding nearly seven years later with Titus Andronicus on 27 April 1985, the BBC Television Shakespeare project was the single most ambitious attempt at bringing the Bard of Avon to the small screen, both at the time and to date.Read More »

  • John Florea – Hot Child in the City (1987)

    1981-1990DramaExploitationJohn FloreaUSA

    Rachel (Leah Ayres Hendrix) is a country girl who comes to Los Angeles to visit her sister Abby (Shari Shattuck) in this murder mystery. When Abby is discovered murdered, Rachel goes pub crawling through the seedy watering holes and strip clubs to find the killer. The title is taken from a song by Nick Gilder, who provides music for the film along with Fun Boy Three, Lou Reed, and Billy Idol.Read More »

  • Sergio Corbucci – Questo e quello (1983)

    1981-1990ComedyItalyRomanceSergio Corbucci

    Two episodes. The 1st is ‘Amore impossibile’ (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is ‘Quello dal basco rosso’ (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn’t have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.Read More »

  • Chûsei Sone – Akuma no heya AKA Demon’s Room (1982)

    1981-1990Chûsei SoneJapanThriller

    Young woman Yoshiko (Reiko Nakamura) gets a call from a man, Fuji (Johnny Okura) claiming to be from her husband’s company. He tells her that he will come to pick her up on behalf of her husband, Hiroyuki (Masami Horiuchi) who is the scion of a hotel magnate. The kidnapper is Hiroyuki’s father’s secret love-child. He takes her to a hotel, and proceeds to rape her. He calls her husband but doesn’t request a ransom. He’s just bent on humiliating her to submission to be his sex slave, but she begins to fall in love with him even as Hiroyuki is finally deciding to pay the ransom to free her.Read More »

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