Iguana
Monte Hellman’s reputation for making artful B-movies was made in the mid-sixties with a pair of westerns; The Shooting (1966) and Ride In The Whirlwind (1966). It is for these… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
La pelle
Liliana Cavani’s film La pelle (1981) is based on a novel of the same name by author Curzio Malaparte which was subsequently banned by the Catholic Church. The film, like… Read more »
Variety
Bette Gordon’s film Variety (1983) follows Christine’s (Sandy McLeod) sexual awakening as she investigates the mysterious Louie (Richard M. Davidson). Christine begins the film as an out of work twenty-something… Read more »
My 20th Century
Just as the Berlin Wall was coming down, Ildikó Enyedi’s film My 20th Century (1989) imagines a late nineteenth century where technology brought the stuff of dreams and fairytales into… Read more »
Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper’s science-fiction/horror masterpiece Lifeforce (1985) was the first of a three picture deal the filmmaker had with Canon films following the success of Poltergeist (1982). Known for his visually… Read more »
Silverado
It’s not all that surprising that in the mid-eighties brothers Lawrence and Mark Kasdan would write a western about family values. Silverado (1985) is one of the better known westerns… Read more »
Les Sièges de l’Alcazar
Luc Moullet’s Les Sièges de l’Alcazar (1989) is a semi-autobiographical love letter to cinephilia. Les Sièges de l’Alcazar is bittersweet in tone and playful in its execution. Like so many of Moullet’s… Read more »
Tiger On The Beat
Lau Kar-leung made a career out of directing action movies. He bagan his career working for the Shaw Brothers and ended up helming some of their most famous martial arts… Read more »
Virus-l’inferno dei morti viventi
In Papua, New Guinea a series of secret chemical research facilities are covertly experimenting on ways of solving the problem of over population. When there’s an accident at one of… Read more »
Alison’s Birthday
As Alison’s (Joanne Samuel) nineteenth birthday draws near she begins to suspect that there is more to her beloved aunt and uncle (Bunney Brooke and John Bluthal) than she originally… Read more »
