1980s

  • Zoltán Fábri – Fábián Bálint találkozása Istennel AKA Balint Fabian Meets God (1980)

    Zoltán Fábri1971-1980DramaHungary

    Fábri linked two József Balázs novels. The Bálint Fábián story depicts the bitter peasant existence of the father of the protagonist of Hungarians with a profundity and power similar to sociographic literature of the 1930s.

    Bálint Fábián is killing people on the Italian front in 1918. At home, his sons strangle the priest who is the lover of their mother. On returning from the front, instead of discovering a robust wife Bálint finds a deranged woman. He is to be the carriage driver for the baron but during the ‘white terror’ he showed solidarity with his fellow labourers, and he returns to his sons as a shepherd. His wife dies, his sons abandon him…Read More »

  • Trinh T. Minh-ha – Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)

    Trinh T. Minh-ha1981-1990DocumentaryEthnographic CinemaExperimentalUSA
    Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)
    Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)

    Vietnamese-born Trinh T. Minh-ha’s profoundly personal documentary explores the role of Vietnamese women historically and in contemporary society. Using dance, printed texts, folk poetry and the words and experiences of Vietnamese women in Vietnam—from both North and South—and the United States, Trinh’s film challenges official culture with the voices of women. A theoretically and formally complex work, Surname Viet Given Name Nam explores the difficulty of translation, and themes of dislocation and exile, critiquing both traditional society and life since the war.Read More »

  • Francis Savel – Équation à un inconnu AKA Equation to an Unknown (1980)

    1971-1980ArthouseEroticaFranceFrancis SavelQueer Cinema(s)
    Équation à un inconnu (1980)
    Équation à un inconnu (1980)

    Quote:
    This long-lost masterpiece of gay erotic cinema centers on a handsome young stud who rides his motorcycle through myriad of sexual encounters, from a soccer game’s locker room to a dreamy and unsettling orgy where the film reaches its melancholic peak. Newly scanned in 2K from the original camera negative and directed with absolute grace by the mysterious Dietrich de Velsa (aka Francis Savel / Frantz Salieri): this former painter was also the owner and artistic director of one of the first transvestites’ cabaret of Paris, La Grande Eugène. Years later, he collaborated with Joseph Losey on Mr. Klein and Don Giovanni. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN is his only film and stands without a doubt as a masterpiece and the best French gay adult film ever made.Read More »

  • Bruno Mattei & Claudio Fragasso – Virus AKA Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

    Bruno Mattei1971-1980Claudio FragassoHorrorItalyThriller
    Virus (1980)
    Virus (1980)

    Quote:
    Hell Of The Living Dead is the story of four commandos who are sent in to Papua New Guinea to investigate the cause of a chemical leak at the research facility “Hope.” The four commandos stumble upon reporter Lia and her cameraman. After discovering that the dead are walking and devouring the living due to the chemical leak, the group attempt to flee the country. (wikipedia)Read More »

  • Francis Ford Coppola – The Cotton Club (1984)

    Francis Ford Coppola1981-1990CrimeMusicalUSA
    The Cotton Club (1984)
    The Cotton Club (1984)

    Synopsis:
    The Cotton Club was a famous Harlem nightclub. This is the story of the people who visited this club as well as the people who ran it, and the film is generously peppered with the jazz music that made the Cotton Club so renowned in the 1920s and 1930s.Read More »

  • Géza Böszörményi & Lívia Gyarmathy – Recsk 1950-1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története AKA Recsk 1950-1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary (1989)

    Lívia Gyarmathy1981-1990DocumentaryGéza BöszörményiHungaryPolitics
    Recsk 1950 1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története (1989)

    This European Film Award winner documentary tells the story of Recsk, Hungary’s most notorious political prison camp, which operated between 1950 and 1953. During the early 1950’s the very existence of this camp for political prisoners at Recsk was one of the Hungarian communist regime’s deepest secrets. Hundreds of people were taken there without ever actually being sentenced by any court, and had to suffer through the brutal treatment handed down by their sadistic captors. This documentary tells the story of Recsk from both the captors’ and the prisoners’ point of view, capturing the atmosphere of paranoia, humiliation and degradation that prevailed throughout the Stalinist gulag system.Read More »

  • Éric Rohmer – L’ami de mon amie AKA My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (1987)

    Eric Rohmer1981-1990ArthouseFranceRomance
    L'ami de mon amie (1987)
    L’ami de mon amie (1987)

    Quote:
    In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is however loved by Blanche. Somehow a way has to be found to get out of this emotional chaos!Read More »

  • Alexandre Arcady – Hold-up (1985)

    1981-1990ActionAlexandre ArcadyCrimeFrance
    Hold Up (1985)
    Hold Up (1985)

    Synopsis
    Criminal genius Grimm devises a seemingly foolproof plan to rob the Montreal Central Bank. By disguising himself as a clown and passing off his accomplices Georges and Lise as two of the hostages, he manages to smuggle two million dollars out of the bank without anyone noticing. The get-away proves to be somewhat more difficult though…

    Déguisé en clown, Grimm dévalise la banque de Montréal. Il prend 32 otages, dont parmi eux 2 sont des complices. Le casse réussit, mais intervient Larsky, un rival, ainsi que la police, qui vont nuire au braquage parfait effectué par Grimm…Read More »

  • Ken Loach – The Gamekeeper (1980)

    Ken Loach1971-1980DramaUnited Kingdom
    The Gamekeeper (1980)
    The Gamekeeper (1980)

    Quote:
    A simple tale of a year in the life of a Gamekeeper. From the troubles involved in rearing the pheasants and dealing with predators (poachers and foxes). The gamekeeper shows us all the good things about living so close to nature. The end of his year comes with the organised shoot. He has the sudden pressure of dealing with a lot of people, (beaters, the guns and “the master”) and ensuring that everyone has a good day and stays safe.Read More »

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