La femme publique
La femme publique (1984) is a film about a woman drawn into two self-destructive relationships with men who are corrupted from within by their vanity and their own hunger for… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Chocolat
Claire Denis’ has given us some of the best films about French colonialism in Africa. Chocolat (1988), her directorial debut, inaugurates her career long investigation into what imperialism meant and… Read more »
Give My Regards To Broadstreet
One often hears rock musicals criticized for being nothing more but a loose thread of a plot stringing together a series of disparate music videos. Of course this isn’t always… Read more »
The Barbarians
I went into The Barbarians (1987) expecting something like The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983) but with a little more gore and sleaze (which one expects from Canon Films) but The… Read more »
The Heist
Like so many of Pierce Brosnan’s pre-Bond films, The Heist (1989) is a lot of unpretentious fun. The Heist isn’t as good as Taffin (1988), as sleazy as Victim Of… Read more »
Raw Deal
If you’re the best there is they never would have invented the wheel. The best Schwarzenegger films always have a bit more to them than just the muscle of action… Read more »
No Mercy, No Future
Critics often talk about films as being “harrowing” or “transcendent” as if these traits were something that serious cinema should aspire to. All the while these same “harrowing” and “transcendent”… Read more »
The Rosary Murders
I’m really glad that Kino-Lorber have continued to release quality home video editions of overlooked and largely forgotten titles like Fred Walton’s The Rosary Murders (1987). Films like The Rosary… Read more »
Ms. 45
Ms .45 (1981) tells the familiar exploitation narrative about a woman who is raped several times in the course of a day and as a result begins killing would-be assailants… Read more »
Labyrinth
By 1983 David Bowie had already achieved international stardom. Between 1976 and 1983 Bowie had released his most critically acclaimed and influential albums: Station To Station (1976), Low (1977), “Heroes”… Read more »
