1981-1990

  • Étienne Chatiliez – Tatie Danielle (1990)

    1981-1990ComedyDramaÉtienne ChatiliezFrance

    Danielle (Tsilla Chelton) is an embittered elderly widow who literally nags and works her equally elderly companion-cum-housekeeper Odile (Neige Dolsky) to death. Danielle finds new targets for her extremely selfish, hurtful and resolutely anti-social behaviour when arrangements are made for her to move in with her great nephew Jean-Pierre (Eric Prat) and his family. When the family take a well earned holiday abroad, a live-in carer called Sandrine (Isabelle Nanty) is employed to look after Danielle. Sandrine is just as cynical, unsympathetic and uncaring as Danielle and their common world-view results in the pair striking up a happy friendship of sorts. However, the two malcontents soon fall out and a furious Danielle effects an extremely petulant act of revenge.Read More »

  • Hiroyuki Nasu – Bishôjo puroresu: Shisshin 10-byo mae AKA Beautiful Wrestler: Down for the Count (1984)

    1981-1990ComedyEroticaHiroyuki NasuJapan

    Quote:
    Megu (Natsuko Yamamoto) enrolls in an extracurricular girls’ wrestling club, but things aren’t quite what she expected. She soon learns the club’s training program includes humiliating sexual submission to the senior female wrestlers and that the club’s finances are secured with the prostitution of the girls to the members of a nearby all-male wrestling club. Megu’s life is further strained when a rival wrestler Shinobu (Kaoru Ada) shows interest in her new boyfriend. This tension erupts at a no-holds-barred wrestling match. Megu’s strength is pushed to the limit but she has a secret weapon—superhuman strength whenever she removes her tampon.Read More »

  • Teo Hernandez – Sara (1981)

    1981-1990ExperimentalFranceShort FilmTeo Hernandez

    Synopsis
    Portrait of the filmmaker’s mother during her visit to Paris.

    Review:-
    Probably not the first and certainly not the last experimental 8mm-film about an elderly person at the threshold of life and death. But Hernándes’ unique sensibility for the relation between… well… matter and spirit and the way how the one reflects the other with the help of film makes this one special. In a way Sara is already part of the cemetery where the filmmaker meets her, her life is reflected in the place where she will come to rest, but the place also comes alive in her presence. This is why we see marble statues juxtaposed with her wrinkled face. The film maps this entanglement of life and death in a hyper precise and non-sentimental way. Review by MephisdopelesRead More »

  • Ross McElwee – Sherman’s March [+Extras] (1986)

    1981-1990ArthouseDocumentaryRoss McElweeUSA

    Filmmaker Ross McElwee grew up in the South and always marveled at how the folks there were affected by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman’s legacy. Aiming to delve deeper into the region’s interest, McElwee revisits the path of the general’s march that took down the Confederacy. But the tone of his documentary changes when he learns his girlfriend has left him, causing him to second-guess himself with each woman he meets during the shoot.Read More »

  • Claus Peymann – Thomas Bernhard: Ritter, Dene, Voss (1987)

    Drama1981-1990AustriaClaus PeymannPerformance

    Ritter, Dene, Voss is a stage play by Thomas Bernhard from 1986. After the Premiere the same year at the Salzburger Festspiele under the direction of Claus Peymann, the play was taken into the repertoire of the Burgtheater in Vienna.

    It was named after the three actors that were to play the roles in the world-premiere: Ilse Ritter, Kirsten Dene and Gert Voss. Thomas Bernhard started off writing it with a note saying “Ritter, Dene, Voss. intelligent actors”.
    The play was inspired by the family of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his (Wittgensteins) nephew Paul, who was a friend of Bernhard and protagonist of his novel “Wittgensteins Nephew” from 1982.Read More »

  • Alain Corneau – Le choix des armes AKA Choice of Arms (1981)

    1981-1990Alain CorneauCrimeDramaFrance

    Synopsis:
    Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.Read More »

  • Naoto Yamakawa – Birî za kiddo no atarashii yoake AKA The New Morning of Billy the Kid (1986)

    1981-1990ComedyCultJapanNaoto Yamakawa

    Billy the Kid waits tables in the Schlächtenhaus Saloon, last refuge of humanity from marauding, nihilistic gangs; co-workers include a samurai, Marx-Engels, an artist and the Tokyo telephone enquiries number made flesh. This bastion of global history and culture is duly invaded, clearing the decks for our spiritual and cultural rebirth…Read More »

  • Claus Peymann – Thomas Bernhard: Der Theatermacher AKA Histrionics (1990)

    Drama1981-1990AustriaClaus PeymannPerformance

    Der Theatermacher (“The Theatre Maker”) is a play by austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. It was released in 1984 and had its world-premiere the following year at the Salzburger Festspiele under Claus Peymann. Centered around main protagonist Bruscon, it is full with allusions to the famous festival in Salzburg.

    During a break in his latest tour the actor Bruscon tries to stage his play „Das Rad der Geschichte“ (“The wheel of history”) in the small village Utzbach. He involves his whole family in the production as actors – wife, daughter and son.Read More »

  • José María Nunes – En secreto… amor AKA In secret… love (1983)

    Drama1981-1990José María NunesSpain

    Synopsis
    An important executive hires a hostess for 24 hours because he needs to tell someone all the intimate secrets he could never tell anyone.Read More »

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