Gebroken spiegels
Dutch auteur Marleen Gorris’ film Gebroken spiegels (1984) is a film of dual narratives. The majority of the film follows the lives of a group of sex workers employed at… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
1990: I guerrieri del Bronx
1990: I guerrieri del Bronx (1982) is a campy fusion of the aesthetics and narratives of The Warriors (1979) with Escape From New York (1981). 1990: I guerrieri del Bronx… Read more »
Fire & Ice
Ralph Bakshi’s film Fire & Ice (1983) came out at the height of popularity for the fantasy film genre. Bakshi, realizing the limitations of special effects of the day, seized… Read more »
Madman
Of the films produced in the early eighties inspired by the “Cropsey” legend, Madman (1981) is the most unique and, in many ways, the most effective. The film opens on… Read more »
The Presidio
Peter Hyams’ film The Presidio (1988) opens with a murder on an army base in San Francisco and then proceeds into a full blown car chase. Hyams directs the chase… Read more »
The Burning
The Burning (1981) is one of the sleazier summer camp horror films. This infamous entry into that horror sub genre was conceived by the despised Harvey Weinstein as a means… Read more »
Continental Divide
Continental Divide (1981) has become an overlooked chapter in the career of its screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan. Kasdan wrote the film while his previous script, The Bodyguard (1992), was caught in… Read more »
The Return Of Captain Invincible
The Return Of Captain Invincible (1982) combines the wit and counterculture savvy of Richard O’Brien with Philippe Mora’s distinctly Australian view of American imperialism all within the aesthetic milieu of… Read more »
Dr. Caligari
Dr. Caligari (1989) picks up narratively and aesthetically where Robert Wiene’s masterpiece of silent cinema, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), left off. The expressionistic stylization of Wiene’s film that… Read more »
O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji
O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji (1985) remains the most popular and critically acclaimed film of Piotr Szulkin’s cycle of post-apocalyptic science-fiction films. Szulkin paints his Kafka-esque portrait of a nuclear holocaust… Read more »
