1981-1990

  • Zdenek Tyc – Vojtech, receny sirotek (1990)

    1981-1990ArthouseCzech RepublicDramaZdenek Tyc

    There were a lot of movies shot after 1989, the year when communist empire fell down. I am studying film university in Prague and I am working in TV so I focus on all new Czech movies very carefully. Of course everybody remembers Jan Sverak´s recent movies like “Kolya” or “Elementary school” but forgets this hidden masterpiece. This movie tells the story of old conflict between individuality and strong group of people. Extraordinary cinematography is making very tender and natural atmosphere (shot in black and white material)by taking place in the south of Bohemia, where the landscape is full of trees and lakes. Very sensitive direction of non-actors (except main character played by Peter Forman-the son of director Milos Forman)with impressive faces and characters are representatives of collective who hates everything different from their kind of lifestyle. Peter Forman as a strong character tells what he thinks and do what he wants and he is destroyed by them step by step. Do you want to encounter the Czech beauty…look closer. (IMDB review /// Radim Kratochvil)Read More »

  • Joe Gibbons – Living in the World (1985)

    1981-1990DocumentaryExperimentalJoe GibbonsUSA

    An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.Read More »

  • Pierre Granier-Deferre – L’ami de Vincent AKA A Friend of Vincent (1983)

    Drama1981-1990FrancePierre Granier-Deferre

    Synopsis:
    The Bear and the Fox, or What Friends Are for:

    ‘The bear, played by Philippe Noiret, is the conductor of a music hall orchestra, a kind hearted soul, always ready to help the next person if need arises. The fox, played by Jean Rochefort, is a trumpeter in the bear’s orchestra and his friend since childhood. After an evening’s performance a young woman enters their common dressing room, draws a revolver and starts shooting at the fox. She cries out that he has ruined her sister but is far too nervous to aim straight and causes no real harm. After she has run away, the fox gets into hiding, asking the bear to find the woman he swears he has never seen before. He makes a list of all his lovers, and it is a very long list indeed.
    The (strictly monogamous) bear travels through all of France in the quest of the woman whose life the fox has ruined, in the hope that the murderous sister can be captured and the fox can go on with his life. He meets all kind of womenfolk and learns a lot about his friend who is a far more dubious and amoral person than he had thought previously. Read More »

  • Carl Schultz – Goodbye Paradise (1982)

    1981-1990AustraliaCarl SchultzCrimeCult

    Quote:
    On Queensland’s Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.Read More »

  • Alain Guiraudie – Les héros sont immortels AKA Heroes Never Die (1990)

    1981-1990Alain GuiraudieFranceShort Film

    Quote:
    Guiraudie’s first film concerns two young men engaged in a favorite pastime: hanging out and talking. Specifically, they wait in the square of a small town for a third: the potential funder of their proposed magazine.Read More »

  • Gilles Delannoy & Isabelle Pierson & Michel Campioli – Carré blanc (1986)

    1981-1990DocumentaryExploitationFranceGilles DelannoyIsabelle Pierson

    Quote:
    so, what we have here is a bunch of journalists gathering up at night in some kind of secret meeting where they share their best stories, for the purpose of selling them to the first issue of a new magazine….so, somehow the action takes places all during one night…and the magazine is going to be a paper, but the stories come in video footage…go figureRead More »

  • Shuji Terayama – Les Fruits de la passion AKA Fruits of Passion (1981)

    1981-1990DramaEroticaFranceShuji Terayama

    Shuji Terayama adapted his 1981 film, The Fruits of Passion, from the eponymous Pauline Reage’s sequel to her well regarded book, The Story of O. However, ‘adapted’ is used very loosely in this instance, as Terayama uses the opportunity to completely reshape the structure of the novel, and use only it’s themes and characters to create a story that is uniquely his. According to the credits, the text of the narration and O’s dialogue itself was taken directly from the short novel, but everything else is pure Terayama.Read More »

  • Léa Pool – À corps perdu (1988)

    1981-1990CanadaDramaLéa PoolRomance

    Quote:
    A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.Read More »

  • Various – Nosferatu a Venezia AKA Vampire in Venice (1988)

    1981-1990HorrorItalyVarious

    Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.Read More »

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