Decoder
Jürgen Muschalek’s (known as Muscha) directed the William S. Burroughs inspired cyberpunk film Decoder (1984) as a sort of reaction to the anti-Reagan protests that had broken out across West… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Devil Fetus
Lau Hung-chuen’s Devil Fetus (1983) is a spectacularly gross and bonkers little film. The budget constraints show but the analogue special effects still pack a punch. Lau Hung-chuen is pretty… Read more »
Popeye
American vaudeville meets Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) in Robert Altman’s Popeye (1980). Every character that touches on the central narrative of the film is played with a life that extends… Read more »
Midnight Run
I grew up with Midnight Run (1988) on VHS. I didn’t like Midnight Run as much as Clifford (1994) or The Lonely Guy (1984) and it wasn’t as comforting as… Read more »
Sheena
The concept of the Jungle Queen predates Tarzan of the Apes by roughly eight years with William Henry Hudson’s Green Mansions‘ publication in 1904. In 1938 Fiction House immortalized the… Read more »
Black Rainbow
I think the fact that Mike Hodges is British is essential to Black Rainbow (1989). When one looks at a foreign culture one sees little about it that is common… Read more »
Evil Cat
Every fifty years an evil cat spirit returns to find a host to exact revenge against the Cheung family, the chosen guardians of humanity against this diabolical feline phantom. The… Read more »
Star 80
There are two things that really define Bob Fosse as a filmmaker to me. The first is his sense of montage whose rhythms and rhymes are as effective as they… Read more »
Danton
Andrzej Wajda’s Danton (1983) treats the political theater of the French Reign Of Terror as the Theater of Cruelty, condemning the oppression of the Polish Solidarity movement by the Soviet… Read more »
Baby It’s You
Bruce Springsteen’s songs from his albums Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ through Born To Run tell the stories of teenagers, New Jersey youth, caught between the sixties and seventies. Springsteen… Read more »
