1981-1990

  • Kinji Fukasaku – Dôtonborigawa AKA Lovers Lost (1982)

    1981-1990AsianDramaJapanKinji Fukasaku

    A love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.Read More »

  • Francis Ford Coppola – Captain EO (1986)

    1981-1990AdventureFrancis Ford CoppolaSci-FiUSA

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    Captain EO (alternately, Captain Eo) is a 3-D film formerly shown at Disney theme parks.

    The film stars Michael Jackson. It was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, executive-produced by George Lucas, photographed by Vittorio Storaro, produced by Rusty Lemorande, and written by Lemorande, Lucas and Coppola. The score was written by James Horner, and featured two songs (“We Are Here to Change the World” and “Another Part of Me”) by Michael Jackson. The Supreme Leader was played by Anjelica Huston. from wikiRead More »

  • Guy Maddin – Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

    1981-1990CanadaExperimentalGuy Maddin

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    While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.Read More »

  • Hal Ashby – 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)

    1981-1990CrimeHal AshbyThrillerUSA

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    “The screenplay is a mess, with enough plot holes to drive the latest-model SUV through. Still, the film is colorful and chock-full of energy and several standout moments. It ain’t perfect, yet it’s far from boring.
    The bottom line here is whether 8 Million Ways to Die is worth seeing. It is. A guilty pleasure of mine for over sixteen years, it can provide a whopping good time if you’re willing to overlook its many flaws, and just let the innate craziness of it all work on you. Nothing in it is the least bit logical; then again, there’s not a whole lot about it that’s stiff — there’s an aliveness, a pulsating sense of sleaze and profaneness permeating throughout it that can be quite liberating…
    Forget the logical lapses and just revel in its quintessential profaneness.”
    — Jack Sommersby, efilmcritic.comRead More »

  • Quentin Tarantino – My Best Friend’s Birthday (1987)

    1981-1990CultQuentin TarantinoShort FilmUSA

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    It’s Mickey’s Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that’s when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he’ll never forget.

    Co-written by fellow clerk Craig Haman, think of the film as a precursor to TRUE ROMANCE. The hooker with a heart of gold, the dangerous pimp, the Elvis worship, and so on. Handfuls of dialogue are identical along with some of the plot points (too bad Christian Slater didn’t get into a karate battle with Gary Oldman as happens in BIRTHDAY). This early work shows some of Tarantino’s abilities at framing, effective camera movements, and staging.Read More »

  • Raoul Ruiz – La Chouette aveugle AKA The Blind Owl (1987)

    1981-1990DramaFantasyFranceRaoul Ruiz

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    One of Raul Ruiz’s most obscure and enigmatic films, very loosely based on a novella by Sadeq Hedayat, “The Blind Owl”

    In French and other languages. (Roughly halfway through the movie, the spoken language shifts from French (with snatches of German and Italian) to Old Spanish and Arabic—both of which are subtitled in fake Old French, but, not in a manner that corresponds to anything remotely resembling a correct translation. )

    Jonathan Rosenbaum has said that this films “defies synopsis”.

    Recorded almost 20 years ago from a cable broadcast, and obviously poor quality.
    Much of the film is very dark, but what we see is Ruiz at his most visually imaginative. Transferred from a Betamax recording.Read More »

  • Károly Makk – Egymásra nézve AKA Another Way (1982)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaHungaryKároly Makk

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    Based on a popular, partly autobiographical novel, Another Way traces the developing relationship between Eva, a sparrowlike but determinedly uncompromising journalist from the provinces who is overtly lesbian, and Livia, a beautiful, restless fellow journalist unhappily married to an army officer.

    Director Karoly Makk’s considerable achievement here is his interweaving of two controversial themes–lesbianism and political repression–into the historic context of the still-sensitive period following the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Another Way skillfully treats the lesbian affair as a mirror for a wider discussion of public and private freedom.Read More »

  • Jim Buckley – Debbie Does Dallas Part II [+Interviews] (1981)

    Jim Buckley1981-1990EroticaUSA

    The original, one and only Debbie (Bambi Woods) is back and better than ever. This time, Deb and her pals do most of their scoring off the field when they take up employment at the hottest bordello in the West! You’ll cheer their erotic acrobatics as they lead their clients from one wild encounter to another… And you can be sure that the balls flying in this tape aren’t only on the playing field.Read More »

  • Ralph Bakshi – Fire and Ice (1983)

    1981-1990AnimationFantasyRalph BakshiUSA

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    It began as a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of the greatest icons of the fantasy genre: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi (director of FRITZ THE CAT, WIZARDS and the original THE LORD OF THE RINGS) and legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta (creator of the iconic CONAN THE BARBARIAN, VAMPIRELLA and Edgar Rice Burroughs book covers). It became – and remains – one of the most startling animation epics of all time. Now experience a world unlike any ever seen, where savage warriors, horrific monsters and luscious maidens battle for the soul of a civilization in a time of good and evil, pleasure and pain.Read More »

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