Scientist creates a machine that is able to clone human beings. Soon the Government wants to take hold of it for military purposes.Read More »
1981-1990
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Valeri Rubinchik – Otstupnik AKA The Apostate (1987)
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Hanns Christian Müller – Man spricht deutsh (1988)
1981-1990ComedyGermanyHanns Christian MüllerPlot:
Bavarian comedian Gerhard Polt caricatures a German family on their vacation in Italy. The beer-bellied father and his wife, their spoilt son and the old couple in the adjoining deck-chairs; they spend each day on the same spot on the same beach, day-dreaming, leaving their junk in the sand and making racist comments about Italians. After all Italy would be a perfect place without the Italians… Written by Lutz van HasseltRead More » -
Juliusz Machulski – Seksmisja AKA Sexmission (1984)
1981-1990ComedyJuliusz MachulskiPolandSci-FiTwo scientists are placed in hibernation and should be awaken after three years. But when they wake up, it turns out that it has been fifty years, and they are the only two males in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.Read More »
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István Szabó – Mephisto[4K Restoration] (1981)
István Szabó1981-1990DramaHungaryA German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.Read More »
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Claudine Eizykman – Lapse (1981)
Claudine Eizykman1981-1990ExperimentalFranceLapse is a research of a porous state of the cinematographic material which by “intra-photogrammic fragmentation” (Claudine Eizykman) and encrustation of grains unfolds in its crackling like a film in mesh.Read More »
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George Cukor – Rich and Famous (1981)
George Cukor1981-1990DramaUSALiz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected “serious” novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: “trash” fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature.Read More »
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Philippe Grandrieux – Le Labyrinthe – le temps, la memoire, les images (1989)
Philippe Grandrieux1981-1990ExperimentalFrancePhilosophyPhilosophy on ScreenThird part of an experimental television program led by Grandrieux questionning TV flux aesthetic, this film focuses on a single interview with Jean-Louis Schefer who delivers his hypothesis on man-made images of itself.Read More »
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Federico Fellini – Intervista (1987)
Federico Fellini1981-1990ArthouseComedyItalyFederico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.Read More »
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Enzo G. Castellari – I nuovi barbari AKA The New Barbarians AKA Warriors of the Wasteland (1983)
Enzo G. Castellari1981-1990ActionItalySci-FiTwo mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.Read More »