1980s

The documentary film “Tales from the Hunsrück Villages” was produced in the autumn of 1980, at a time when Edgar Reitz and Peter Steinbach were working on the preparations for HEIMAT. The film represents a preparatory work, which at the same time is, in a sense, the polar opposite of HEIMAT. In HEIMAT the leading characters Paul and Hermann, following the example of Reitz himself, leave their Heimat and seek their fortunes elsewhere as many Hunsrückers have always done.

“Tales from the Hunsrück Villages” on the other hand deals with those who have stayed rooted in their Heimat. Here these people speak for themselves, they can tell us in their own words about their life experiences, without being directed by an interviewer’s questions. In this way Reitz succeeds in drawing an undistorted and very authentic picture of the Hunsrückers and their way of life.Read More »

Autotranslated from Japanese:
It depicts the mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in the warehouse and a younger brother who longs for her. A film adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo’s novel of the same name, written by Chiho Katsura of “The Beast of Evil”, directed by Yoichi Takabayashi of “The Woman”, and shot by Yoichi Takabayashi and Muneyuki Tsuda.Read More »

Road, Christine, Contact, and the documentary on Clarke “Alan Clarke directs.” I have these on a single dvd compilation disc, and so am upping them here as a single dvd -r rather than as separate avis. I’m told the versions of these upped already on this site are not great and hopefully these will be better. They deserve to be seen in the best form possible — criminally, they’re not in distribution.Read More »

Spider’s Web is a 1989 West German film directed by Bernhard Wicki. It is based on the eponymous 1923 novel by Joseph Roth. It was chosen as West Germany’s official submission to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film was the last ever submission by West Germany, due to German reunification in 1990, Germany competed at the 63rd Academy Awards as a single country.

The film was also entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.Read More »

A beautiful secretary has her heart broken by two men, so she decides to get vengeance.Read More »

A science-fiction writer creates a sexy robot-girl.

Letterboxd reviews
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★★★½ Watched by Marcy Webb 26 Dec 2020

If you ever wanted to see R2-D2 control sex scenes, and you like an early 80s score, then this is exactly the film for you.

No doubt, despite the amount of penis screentime and lesbian sex, this is a film explicitly made for the straight male gaze. It would be hard to argue against a misogynistic reading, and this film carries an unhealthy dose of of rape/sexual assault and predatory stalking into its sexual scenarios, that should require an upfront trigger warning. While it can carry an inherent eroticism for many, for me the eroticism goes away considering the narrative context. That said, hypnosis, servitude, fuck dolls, remote control ARE many people’s kinks. While the films are miles apart, a story about a man constructing a woman after he can no longer see the woman he loves (to fuck) not only explicitly references Frankenstein, but is part of a lineage that goes back to Metropolis, and continues into modern films too.Read More »

Yes, Madam! was the first starring role for Malaysian-born actress and action superstar Michelle Yeoh, and the feature film debut of American martial arts expert Cynthia Rothrock. It was also the 2nd movie as director and action coordinator Corey Yuen, most well known internationally for The Transporter and DOA: Dead or Alive. But if you’re a Hong Kong action fan you may have seen his work in any number of films such as Jackie Chan’s Drunken MasterRead More »

The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he’s really cut out to be a doctor.Read More »

Katharina, a German journalist of Yugoslavian origin, comes to Podgorica to prepare a material for her TV-show. There she meets Peter, a young German, who came to Yugoslavia to make his own investigation about his father’s Nazi past.

Days to Remember (German: Die Verliebten) is a 1987 West German drama film directed by Jeanine Meerapfel. It was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.Read More »