1980s

  • Merata Mita – Mauri (1988)

    Drama1981-1990Merata MitaNew Zealand

    Official Selection, 2019 Venice Film Festival

    RESTORED IN 2019 BY THE NEW ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION

    There’s a lot of watching in Merata Mita’s landmark MAURI. It’s the 1950s and there’s a storm coming to a once-thriving Maori settlement. Rewi, holding on to an unsettled past, watches the woman he loves (and who loves him back) slip into the arms of a white man. Kara, the town’s elder matriarch, is stirred by the change in the air, of birthrights trembling and a land falling captive. And then there’s Awatea, a young girl standing watch from the circumference of this simmering circle, staring not out of tragedy but of awe, at a Maori life-force re-shuffling off the rippling coasts of the North Island.Read More »

  • Fina Torres – Oriana (1985)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaFina TorresThe Female GazeVenezuela

    Quote:
    In Paris, a young woman, Louise Haines Pearson, visits her disturbed friend Nena who tells her that she has just written a book on the history of a little girl troubled by her senses, perhaps because of the tyranny of his mother and the absence of her father. Louise recognizes the difficulties of this little girl, being herself deeply affected by the indifference of her husband.Read More »

  • Catherine Binet – Les jeux de la comtesse Dolingen de Gratz (1981)

    1981-1990ArthouseCatherine BinetDramaFrance

    Quote:
    In Paris, a young woman, Louise Haines Pearson, visits her disturbed friend Nena who tells her that she has just written a book on the history of a little girl troubled by her senses, perhaps because of the tyranny of his mother and the absence of her father. Louise recognizes the difficulties of this little girl, being herself deeply affected by the indifference of her husband.Read More »

  • Antonio Giménez Rico – Vestida de azul AKA Dressed in Blue (1983)

    Antonio Giménez RicoDocumentaryQueer Cinema(s)Spain

    Quote:
    This is a documentary about drag queens and transsexuals in Madrid.
    This is the story of real people: Lorenzo, Rene, Jose Antonio, Paco, Juan and Jose, told by themselves. Sometimes funny, other dramatic, often pathetic, and how and why they became Lorena, Renee, Mayte, Eve, Tamara and Jhosette.Read More »

  • Chia-Liang Liu – Chang men jen aka The Lady is the Boss (1983)

    Chia-Liang Liu1981-1990AsianHong KongMartial Arts

    Liu Chia-Liang plays Wang Hsieh Yun, a teacher of a martial arts school teacher who has just reopened the school after having to move due to the government building a road where the school once stood. The school’s original master was to come and help open the school, but sends his Americanized daughter Mei Ling (Kara Hui) in his place, hence making her the senior and boss. Mei Ling feels Master Wang’s techniques are old fashioned and take to long to learn, boasting that her father has changed the way he teaches and that she is the authority on how it should be done. Read More »

  • Jacques Doillon – Comédie! (1987)

    1981-1990ComedyDramaFranceJacques Doillon

    In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow’s summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because she knows that many women have been at this house with him. She herself is not as experienced as he and secretly dreams of having many different lovers. Time passes and things become increasingly tense between them and they begin verbally attacking each other. Finally they make peace and love.Read More »

  • Tony Markes & Adam Rifkin – Welcome to Hollywood (1998)

    1991-2000Adam RifkinComedyDocumentaryTony MarkesUSA

    A mockumentary about a young man trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor.Read More »

  • Zelimir Zilnik – Stara Masina AKA Old Timer (1989)

    1981-1990DramaTVYugoslaviaZelimir Zilnik

    The aged rocker Igor works as a journalist and DJ at the “Radio Student” in Ljubljana. He notices that the janitor Miha works for the police, tapping the walls and observing the journalists who are critical of the regime.

    After a clash with his editor, Igor decides to leave for Greece by his old bike DKW from 1938, via Bosnia and Serbia. Rahela, the girl who left Igor’s son because of his snobbery, joins him on the trip. Traveling through Yugoslavia, Igor becomes involved in unexpected turmoil: in the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa there is the scandal about Fikret Abdic. At the same time, Milosevic’s “antibureaucratic revolution” starts in Serbia and Vojvodina.Read More »

  • Christel Buschmann – Comeback (1982)

    1981-1990Christel BuschmannDramaUSA

    A once-famous blues singer whose career has taken a downturn tries to get back on top.Read More »

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