Altered States (USA: Ken Russell, 1980: 102 mins)
Balaban, Bob, et al. "Altered States (1980)." The Projection Booth #216 (April 28, 2015) ["Based on the book by and adapted for the screen by Paddy Chayefsky, Ken Russell's Altered States tells the tale of Edward Jessup (William Hurt), a scientist who’s looking for answers to some of the big questions of life, memory, spirituality, and more. He meets, marries, divorces, and reconciles with Emily (Blair Brown) over the course of a decade of study where he ingests some questionable substances while subjecting himself to sensory deprivation. Here Eddie finds a way to travel back in time through his own body’s chemistry to the days of primeval man."]
American Gigolo (USA: Paul Schrader, 1980: 117 mins)
Hamilton, John R. "Paul Schrader." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)
Bad Timing (USA: Nicolas Roeg, 1980: 123 mins)
Roeg, Nicolas, et al. "Bad Timing." The Projection Booth #264 (March 29, 2016)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980: 894 mins)
Hoberman, J. "The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends." Moving Image Source (June 28, 2012)
Breaker Morant (Australia: Bruce Beresford, 1980: 107 mins)
Daseler, Graham. "Kangaroo Court: On Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant. Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)
Caddyshack (USA: Harold Ramis, 1980: 98 mins)
"Caddyshack with Peter Berkrot." I Was There Too (December 24, 2014)
Cannibal Holocaust (Italy: Ruggero Deodato, 1980: 95 mins)
Bradley, S.A and Derrick Carey. "All The Sins of the World: Extreme Horror." Hellbent for Horror #53 (September 14, 2017) ["Extreme Horror Films: they are the "Elephant in the Room" for horror fans. These films push the limits of the viewer to such the extent that they even divide the horror community on whether they go too far. A large majority of these films have little, or no, socially redeeming value. And yet... There are a few extreme films that use the violence, and obscenity, and nihilism to create something that defies expectations and becomes something horrible/beautiful. For those who dare to watch. ... Movies Discussed: Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Irreversible (2002) Scrapbook (2000) Martyrs (2008) Found (2012)"]
El Goro. "The Changeling (1980) and Session 9 (2001)." Talk without Rhythm #390 (October 15, 2017)
Coal Miner's Daughter (USA: Michael Apted, 1980: 125 mins)
"Negotiating Authenticity: Coal Miner's Daughter, the Biopic, and Country Music." Americana (Fall 2008)
The Constant Factor (Poland: Krzysztof Zanussi, 1980: 98 mins)
Nicholson, Ben. "Examined Lives: The Films of Krzysztof Zanussi." Notebook (January 19, 2018)
Murray, Noel. "William Friedkin and the Art of Immediacy." The Dissolve (May 1, 2014)
The Elephant Man (USA/UK: David Lynch, 1980: 124 mins)
Greene, Liz. "David Lynch's Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man." Must See Films (June 2015)
---. "(Not) Teaching The Elephant Man." The Cine-Files #13 (Fall 2017)
Brody, Richard. "An Exile in Paradise." The New Yorker (November 20, 2000)
McCabe, Colin. "Illuminations: Godard’s Every Man for Himself." The Current (February 19, 2015)
Flash Gordon (UK/USA: Mike Hodges, 1980: 111 mins)
El Goro and Jae. "Barbarella (1968) and Flash Gordon (1980)." Talk without Rhythm #368 (April 30, 2017)
The Fog (USA: John Carpenter, 1980: 89 mins)
El Goro. "Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and The Fog (1980)." Talk Without Rhythm #374 (June 18, 2017)
Fichera, Blake and James Hancock. "John Carpenter, Horror Master." Wrong Reel #272 (May 29, 2017)
Kuersten, Erich. "CinemArchetype #5: The Human Sacrifice." Acidemic (February 28, 2012)
Friday the 13th (USA: Sean S. Cunningham, 1980: 95 mins)
Bradley, S.A., et al. "Friday the 13th." Wrong Reel #326 (October 2017)
Muncer, Mike and Rob Watts. "SLASHERS Pt 7: Friday the 13th (1980)." The Evolution of Horror (October 27, 2017)
Palmer, Landon. "6 Filmmaking Tips From John Cassavettes." Film School Rejects (August 13, 2014)
Golem (Poland: Piotr Szulkin, 1980: 92 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Home Movies (USA: Brian De Palma, 1980: 90 mins)
McNeil, Jeremiah, et al. "The Radical Comedies of Brian De Palma (1968-1980)." Illusion Travels By Streetcar #98 (April 7, 2016)
The Long Riders (USA: Walter Hill, 1980: 100 mins)
Cribbs, John and James Hancock. "The Cinema of Walter Hill." Wrong Reel #302 (July 2017)
Maniac (USA: William Lustig, 1980: 87 mins)
Bradley, S.A. and J. Blake Fichera. "Sympathetic Monsters." Hellbent for Horror #43 (June 6, 2017)
["Can you sympathize with a monster? In some cases I think you can. It depends on the story and how well the story is told and acted. ... George Romero, Fritz Lang, Martin Scorsese, Joe Spinell, Michael Powell, and Patty Jenkins all presented monsters who were more than simply killers. While we don’t condone the actions of the characters in these films, these killers display complex psyches that are worth discussing. We tackle some old and newer films to talk about, among other things, how people empathized with Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, and how Peeping Tom possibly destroyed Michael Powell’s career because the critics and audiences related to the main character... a little too much."]
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "Interview with Alain Resnais on MON ONCLE D’AMÉRIQUE (1980)." (Personal Website: February 26, 2014)
The Ninth Configuration (USA: William Peter Blatty, 1980: 118 mins)
Deighan, Samm, et al. "The Ninth Configuration (1980)." The Projection Booth #323 (May 16, 2017) ["Written and directed by William Peter Blatty, The Ninth Configuration (1980) ... and was based on his novel Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane. The film stars Stacy Keach as Col. Hudson Kane, a new psychiatrist at an unusual retreat for men who have cracked up during the Vietnam War. Also at this fog shrouded castle is Captain Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who freaked out before his mission to the moon. The two men are at odds about the world, especially around the question of faith."]
Out of the Blue (USA: Dennis Hopper, 1980: 94 mins)
Bengal, Rebecca. "Subvert Normality: The Streetwise Voice of Linda Manz." The Current (August 28, 2020)
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (Spain: Pedro Almodovar, 1980: 82 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (September 29, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jim Jarmusch." Cinemaxis (December 10, 2013)
Soldani, Maria Teresa. "Within the Ruins of New York City: No Wave as a Paradigm of American Independent Cinema." Cinergie (July 12, 2018)
Popeye (USA: Robert Altman, 1980: 114 mins)
Buckler, Dana. "Robin Williams Retrospective." How Is This Movie? (May 30, 2017)
Prom Night (Canada: Paul Lynch, 1980: 92 mins)
Hancock, James and Martin Kessler. "Canuxploitation." Flixwise (May 30, 2017)
Shogun Assassin (Japan/USA: Robert Huston and Kenji Misumi, 1980: 85 mins)
Kohagen, Axel, Geoff Todd and Mike White. "The Lone Wolf and Cub Saga." The Projection Booth #303 (December 31, 2016) ["The Lone Wolf & Cub Films (also known as the Babycart Films, the Kozure Okami Films, the Shogun Assassin series and more) are six movies released from 1972-1974 starring Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's decapitator. After he's framed by the villainous Yagyu clan, he travels the countryside with his young son in a tricked-out baby cart as an assassin and son for hire. Adapted from the manga by author Kazuo Koike, the films are both gorgeously contemplative and gory bloodbaths. Geoff Todd and Axel Kohagen join Mike to discuss the original manga, the television adaptations, the 1989 follow-up film, the 1992 reboot, and a handful of influences that the films have had on American popular culture."]
Brockmann, Stephen. "Solo Sunny (1973) or Even Socialism Can't Stave Off Loneliness." A Critical History of German Film Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010: 274-282. [Professor has copy of the book]
Terror Train (USA: Roger Spottiswoode, 1980: 97 mins)
Loudermilk, A. "Last to Leave the Theater: Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls" Who Survive Them." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
1981
The Beyond (Italy: Lucio Fulci, 1981: 87 mins)
Totaro, Donato. "The Beyond: Lucio Fulci's Zombie Masterpiece." Offscreen 1.2 (July 1997)
Blind Chance (Poland: Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1981: 114 mins)
Cummings, Doug. "Great Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski." Senses of Cinema #27 (2003)
Blow Out (USA: Brian de Palma, 1981: 107 mins)
Barton-Fumo, Margaret. "Location, Location, Location." Film Comment Podcast (July 18, 2017) ["Plenty of films open with an establishing shot of a city’s iconic skyline, or of a few iconic barns, only to go on and use the location as an anonymous backdrop. But few and far between are films that actually use the specificity that comes from location shooting to express something about the city’s history, the characters, and the story itself. The cover story of our July/August issue is the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time—a New York film through and through—and in the same issue’s Art and Craft column, we asked veteran location manager Ken Lavet to reflect on the art of scouting for Steven Soderbergh and other filmmakers. “It always starts with the story—whether it’s in a beat sheet form or a script or a treatment of some kind,” Lavet writes. “Hopefully I get some description from the screenwriter—of, say, a house, or an apartment building, or an office. And I start looking with that in mind.”"]
"Escape From New York: John Carpemter's Thrilling, Pumped-Up Ride Through the Streets of a Dystopian New York City." Cinephilia and Beyond (August 2016)
Head, Stephen Slaughter and Brett Michel. "Escape From New York (1981)." Diabolique #36 (July 28, 2015)
The Evil Dead (USA: Sam Raimi, 1981: 85 mins)
"Sam Raimi's Low Budget Camera Rigs for Evil Dead." Curly Horns and Iron Teeth (May 25, 2016)
Freak Orlando (West Germany: Ulrike Ottinger, 1981: 126 mins)
Koresky, Michael. "Queer Now and Then: 1981." Film Comment (March 11, 2020) [On Freak Orlando (Ulrike Ottinger, 1981)."]
The Games of Countess Dolingen (France: Catherine Binet, 1981: 114 mins)
Heslin, David. "Vampire Country: Sex and Psychoanalysis in the Films of Catherine Binet." Senses of Cinema #88 (October 2018)
Brown, Julia Prewitt. "Box office failure: Honky Tonk Freeway and the risks of embarrassing the United States." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Knightriders (USA: George A. Romero, 1981: 146 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "My Ride's Here: Remembering George A. Romero." Hellbent for Horror #48 (July 27, 2017)
Conrad, Marjorie, Heather Drain and Michael White. "Looker." The Projection Booth #256 (February 2, 2016) ["In Looker, writer/director Michael Crichton examined the allure of advertising. Plastic surgeon Dr. Larry Roberts (Albert Finney) has been performing millimeter-specific procedures on models including Cindy Fairmont (Susan Dey). When his patients start dying under suspicious circumstances, the trail leads to mogul John Reston (James Coburn)."]
Maxwell Street Blues (USA: Linda Williams and Raul Zaritsky, 1981: 56 mins)
Houkal, Chris. "Chicago's 12 Bar Swan Song." Facets Features (December 5, 2014)
Modern Romance (USA: Albert Brooks, 1981: 93 mins)
D'Anna, Becky, James Hancock and Kevin Maher. "Albert Brooks and the Genius of an Open-Faced Sandwich." Wrong Reel #308 (August 2017)
Laczkowski, Jim, et al. "Albert Brooks." Director's Club #129 (June 5, 2017)
Laczkowski, Jim, et al. "Albert Brooks." Director's Club #129 (June 5, 2017)
Alda, Rutanya, et al. "Mommie Dearest (1981)." The Projection Booth #322 (May 10, 2017) ["Based on the scandalous memoir by Christina Crawford, Frank Perry's Mommie Dearest (1981) gave the world a powerhouse performance by Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford. On this episode of The Projection Booth, Joshua Grannell and Terry Frost join Mike to discuss the movie and its reception. Guests this episode include actress Rutanya Alda who gives a behind-the-scenes account of the shooting of the film and Justin Bozung who is currently writing a book about director Frank Perry."]
My Dinner with Andre (USA: Louis Malle, 1981: 110 mins)
Nayman, Adam. "Beyond Words: Old Joy and My Dinner With Andre." Reverse Shot #29 (2011)
Nighthawks (USA: Bruce Malmuth and Gary Nelson, 1981: 99 mins)
Kuersten, Erich. "CinemArchetype #7: The Shadow." Acidemic (March 8, 2012)
Pennies From Heaven (USA: Herbert Ross, 1981: 108 mins)
Rappoport, Mark. "The Empty Screen." Talkhouse (Posted on Youtube: February 7, 2017) ["The screen is a neutral element in the film-going experience. Or is it? It projects dreams but is also the receptacle of our dreams. It’s the vehicle for delivering the image to an audience — but does it also watch the audience at the same time? Is it a complicitous membrane which audience members can penetrate and which interacts with the spectators, despite its seeming passivity? Maybe — to all of the above …"]
Buckler, Dana. "Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)." How Is This Movie? (October 3, 2017)
Reds (USA: Warren Beatty, 1981: 195 mins)
Hancock, James and Bill Teck. "Warren Beatty and the New Hollywood." Wrong Reel #265 (May 2017)
Mad Max Saga." Balder and Dash (May 11, 2015)
Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)
Scanners (Canada: David Cronenberg, 1981: 103 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "Scanners." Junk Food Cinema (March 2017)
Ferrara, Greg. "Scanners: Cronenberg, Existence, and Body Horror." Streamline (November 6, 2016)
Southern Comfort (USA/Switzerland/UK: Walter Hill, 1981: 106 mins)
Cribbs, John and James Hancock. "The Cinema of Walter Hill." Wrong Reel #302 (July 2017)
Longworth, Karina. "Dorothy Stratten (Dead Blondes Episode 13)." You Must Remember This (April 25, 2017) ["Our Dead Blondes season concludes with the story of Dorothy Stratten. Coaxed into nude modeling by Paul Snider, her sleazy boyfriend-turned-husband, 18 year-old Stratten was seized on by Playboy as the heir apparent to Marilyn Monroe. She ascended to the top of the Playboy firmament quickly, and just after Hugh Hefner decided to make her Playmate of the Year, she met filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, who fell in love with her and rewrote his upcoming film, They All Laughed, to give Dorothy a star-making role. After filming They All Laughed Dorothy planned to leave Snider and Playboy for life with Bogdanovich -- but her husband had other ideas."]
Time Bandits (UK: Terry Gilliam, 1981: 110 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Terry Gilliam." Cinema Axis (November 8, 2014)
Lee, Kevin B. "Bruce Lee, Before and After the Dragon." Keyframe (July 18, 2013) ["From orphan child star to kung fu clones: on the 40th anniversary of Bruce Lee’s death, a look at the bizarre bookends of his legendary career."]
The Wings of the Dove (France: Benoît Jacquot, 1981: 95 mins)
Melville, David. "A Ferocious Modesty: Benoît Jacquot’s The Wings of the Dove." Senses of Cinema #88 (October 2018)
Sage, Tyler. "Wolfen: They Might Be Gods." Jump Cut #56 (2014)
Smith, Gavin. "Wolfen: Territorial Imperatives." Reverse Shot (July 15, 2022) ["Loosely adapted from the 1978 novel by Whitley Streiber, Wolfen transcends the framework of its solid genre format to deliver an overarching and absolutely singular vision (both literally and metaphorically) of human civilization on the skids, one that brings together ecological, social, folkloric, and postcolonial perspectives. Former medical student Wadleigh’s reaching ambition comes as no surprise. His only previous directing credit, the massively successful rock documentary Woodstock (1970), and his background as DP on half a dozen independent films, including David Holzman's Diary (1967) and No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger (1968), attest to his politicized counterculture background. As well as being an extraordinary depiction of New York at the dawn of the 1980s, Wolfen lives up to those ambitions—despite the extensive tampering of its producer, Orion Pictures, Wadleigh’s film should be considered one of the most remarkable and visually innovative Hollywood films to be released in 1981."]
1982
48 Hrs (USA: Walter Hill, 1982: 96 mins)
Cribbs, John and James Hancock. "The Cinema of Walter Hill." Wrong Reel #302 (July 2017)
Gerima, Haile. "Ashes and Embers." The Treatment (March 28, 2016) ["Filmmaker Haile Gerima left Ethopia for the US where he studied acting and ultimately found a voice in film, becoming a leading member of the "LA Rebellion" film movement. With an African American perspective on social commentary at the forefront of his work, his 1982 film Ashes and Embers is now being re-released through Array, the LA-based film collective founded by filmmaker Ava DuVernay. Today, Germina joins Elvis Mitchell in a discussion about cultural usurpation and historical discrimination in Hollywood."]
Burden of Dreams (USA: Les Blank, 1982: 95 mins)
Koski, Genevieve, et al. "The Lost City of Z / Burden of Dreams, Part 1." The Next Picture Show #74 (May 2, 2017) ["James Gray’s new jungle adventure THE LOST CITY OF Z inspired us to take another trip to the Amazon via Les Blank’s BURDEN OF DREAMS, the 1982 documentary chronicling the notoriously difficult filming of Werner Herzog’s Amazonian epic FITZCARRALDO. In this half, we talk about Herzog — both the director and the pop-culture character we’ve come to know — and the borderline-mania that seems to drive his unique process. We also wrestle with what BURDEN reveals about how the indigenous people who worked on Herzog’s film were treated. "]
---. "The Lost City of Z / Burden of Dreams, Part 2." The Next Picture Show #75 (May 4, 2017) ["There’s a lot more connecting Les Blank's BURDEN OF DREAMS with James Gray’s new THE LOST CITY OF Z than the jungle setting, though that of course factors into our discussion of the two films. In this half, we share our reactions to Gray’s stately new film before delving into how the two films engage with obsession and hubris, the clash between European and South American cultures, and the handling of early-19th-century stories."]
Smith, Justine. "Of Love and Other Demons: Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982)." Vague Visages (September 15, 2016)
Conan the Barbarian (USA: John Milius, 1982: 129 mins)
Leotta, Alfio. "'I love the smell of napalm in the morning': Violence and nostalgia in the cinema of John Milius." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Creepshow (USA: George Romero, 1982: 120 mins)
Subissati, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Compendium of Fear: Creepshow (1982) and Trick R' Treat (2007)." Faculty of Horror #43 (October 20, 2016) ["The possibilities are endless when it comes to a good scare. The horror anthology is a rarity in the genre but when executed successfully they are beloved. Andrea and Alex do a deep dive into two infamous cult classics which deal in a variety of stories taking place around everyone’s favourite holiday."]
The Dark Crystal (USA/UK: Jim Henson and Frank Oz, 1982: 93 mins)
"Revisiting The Dark Crystal." Breaking the Glass Slipper (August 23, 2018) ["If you haven’t seen this cult Henson classic, The Dark Crystal tells the story of Jen, the last – or so he believes – Gelfling, who is prophesied to bring about the fall of the evil Skesis and heal a powerful relic, the titular Dark Crystal. His story is modelled on the classic chosen one trope, where a young and inexperienced boy holds the fate of the world in his hands. This film was made in 1982, so how does it hold up? The advantage of fantasy is that it has the potential to avoid looking as dated as films like The Terminator or The Lost Boys. At the time it was made, TDC was hailed as the only live action film in which a human character makes no appearance. So is it the use of puppetry that keeps the years at bay? And can we forgive the film its stereotypes that – after 30 years of commercial fantasy – now make us cringe?"]
Liz, Luiza. "Peter Greenaway and the Language of Film." (Posted on Youtube: July 25, 2016)
Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)
"E.T. and Alienation." Pop Culture Case Study (June 30, 2016)
Lembcke, Jerry. "The Myth of the Spitting Antiwar Protester." The New York Times (October 13, 2017)
Fitzcarraldo (West Germany/Peru: Werner Herzog, 1982: 158 mins)
Herzog, Werner. "Werner Herzog Talks About Madmen And Caves In Interviews From 'Fresh Air' Archives." Fresh Air (August 22, 2014)
Prager, Brad. "Fitzcarraldo: Uphill Battles." Keyframe (April 15, 2014)
Labyrinth of Passion (Spain: Pedro Almodovar, 1982: 100 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (September 29, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (USA: Lou Adler, 1982: 87 mins)
Stickwell, Bernard, et al. "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains." See Hear #2 (February 17, 2014) ["... the 1982 film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains directed by Lou Adler. The film is prophetic in seeing a less-than-talented band gain a loyal following using the help of the media. No publicity is bad publicity. Moral compasses from nearly every character in the film are pointing south."]
Deighan, Samm and Kat Ellinger. "Lust for a Female Vampire: The Evolution of Lesbian Vampires in Cinema, Part 2." Daughters of Darkness #2 (March 28, 2017) ["Kat and Samm continue their three-part discussion of lesbian vampire films, this time with a focus on European cult directors like Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, and Walerian Borowczyk. They begin their discussion with the career of the prolific Jess Franco, who produced a number of films with lesbian vampire themes, namely Vampyros Lesbos (1971). This starred his first muse, Soledad Miranda, as the mysterious Countess Carody, who sunbathes by day but thirsts for blood at night. Franco also adapted Bram Stoker’s novel with the relatively traditional Count Dracula (1970), but continued to explore his own perverse variations on vampire mythology in Dracula’s Daughter (1972) and the explicit Female Vampire (1975), with his longtime partner Lina Romay. Also explored is the work of French director Jean Rollin, known for his dreamlike, often surreal vampire films such as The Rape of the Vampire (1968), The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), and Requiem for a Vampire (1973). While these films infrequently use overt depictions of lesbianism, they are generally concerned with pairs or groups of female vampires banded together against the world. In films like Fascination (1979), about blood-drinking socialites, and The Living Dead Girl (1982), the tragic tale of a love that survives beyond death, Rollin expanded on his early themes. The episode concludes with a discussion of a few films that touch upon the legend of historical murderer and alleged blood-drinker Elizabeth Bathory. Most importantly is Belgian film Daughters of Darkness (1971), the podcast’s namesake, which follows a newly married couple who encounter an elegant and possibly ageless woman at a seaside hotel."]
Sorlin, Pierre. "The Night of the Shooting Stars: Fascism, Resistance, and the Liberation of Italy." Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past. ed. Robert A. Rosenstone. Princeton University Press, 1995: 77-88. [Your professor has a copy]
Pink Floyd The Wall (UK: Alan Parker, 1982: 95 mins)
Barker, Jennifer Lynne. The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection. Routledge, 2013. [Get through interlibrary loan]
Querelle (West Germany/France: Rainer Wender Fassbinder, 1982: 108 mins)
Power, Nina, Helen Rollins, and Benjamin Studebaker. "Querelle." The Lack (April 25, 2023) ["This episode is on the 1982 film Querelle, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and based on the novel by Jean Genet."]
Tron (USA: Steven Lisberger, 1982: 96 mins)
Koski, Genevieve, et al. "Ready Player One / Tron (Part 1)." The Next Picture Show #122 (April 3, 2018) ["Steven Spielberg’s new READY PLAYER ONE turns videogaming into both a fantasy adventure and a meta-narrative about adventure fantasies, a premise that feels directly inspired — and given Ernest Cline’s source novel, almost certainly is — by Steven Lisberger’s 1982 Disney oddity TRON. Before digging into what connects the two films, we dive into TRON’s glow-y, rudimentarily CGI-ed mainframe to consider the bits and bytes that drive this fascinatingly flawed film, from its confusing religious undertones (overtones?) to its strange real world/virtual world disconnect."]
---. "Ready Player One / Tron (Part 2)." The Next Picture Show #123 (April 5, 2018) ["Steven Lisberger’s groundbreaking live-action Disney film TRON is one of the few 1980s properties that doesn’t get explicitly referenced in Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel READY PLAYER ONE, but the earlier film makes up a significant portion of RP1’s source code. After discussing our reactions to READY PLAYER ONE, and hashing out what made Cline’s novel become so strangely controversial, we look at what connects and distinguishes these two films about life inside a video game, from their attitudes about human/computer relationships to how they approach the idea of corporate control."]
Vigilante (USA: William Lustig, 1982: 90 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Unloved, Pt. 74: Vigilante." Roger Ebert (February 3, 2020) ["Video essay introduction: "When Robert Forster passed, the tragedy was compounded by the fact that he never quite got to shine the way other actors do. His career revival, when Quentin Tarantino cast him in "Jackie Brown" in a rare leading man role (an even rarer leading man role for a guy over 50 playing a guy over 50), happened two decades ago, and led only to him playing more character parts in frequently lamentable movies. Not that he ever gave less than his best. To hear Forster talk about his work, you'd think he was the best rated contractor in town—just a guy who showed up with his toolkit and left you with a full, functioning, beautiful, sturdy house. As big a fan as I am of his poignant later work, my favorite period of Forster's is his '80s period, when he played downcast, slightly sleazy dudes on missions of mercy. I love his depressive hero shtick in "Alligator," the way he never once lets on that he's doing more than the job of city cop requires, even as he's trying to blow up a 30-foot reptile terrorizing his city. But his work in William Lustig's "Vigilante" catapulted it into the upper echelon of late grindhouse. Even though "Maniac Cop 2" is Lustig's masterpiece, "Vigilante" is Lustig's most soulful work—a "Death Wish" remake with an actual moral underpinning, asking questions of its violent world and characters every step of the way. If not for an everyman type like Forster in the role, the film would slip off balance. With him in the role, it became a classic."]
The World According to Garp (USA: George Roy Hill, 1982: 136 mins)
Buckler, Dana. "Robin Williams Retrospective." How Is This Movie? (May 30, 2017)
1983
The Ballad of Narayama (Japan: Shohei Imamura, 1983: 130 mins)
Christine (USA: John Carpenter, 1983: 110 mins)
Fichera, Blake and James Hancock. "John Carpenter, Horror Master." Wrong Reel #272 (May 29, 2017)
Dallos (Japan: Mamoru Oshii, 1983: 83 mins)
El Goro. "Dallos (1983) and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)." Talk Without Rhythm (May 7, 2017)
Tron (USA: Steven Lisberger, 1982: 96 mins)
Koski, Genevieve, et al. "Ready Player One / Tron (Part 1)." The Next Picture Show #122 (April 3, 2018) ["Steven Spielberg’s new READY PLAYER ONE turns videogaming into both a fantasy adventure and a meta-narrative about adventure fantasies, a premise that feels directly inspired — and given Ernest Cline’s source novel, almost certainly is — by Steven Lisberger’s 1982 Disney oddity TRON. Before digging into what connects the two films, we dive into TRON’s glow-y, rudimentarily CGI-ed mainframe to consider the bits and bytes that drive this fascinatingly flawed film, from its confusing religious undertones (overtones?) to its strange real world/virtual world disconnect."]
---. "Ready Player One / Tron (Part 2)." The Next Picture Show #123 (April 5, 2018) ["Steven Lisberger’s groundbreaking live-action Disney film TRON is one of the few 1980s properties that doesn’t get explicitly referenced in Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel READY PLAYER ONE, but the earlier film makes up a significant portion of RP1’s source code. After discussing our reactions to READY PLAYER ONE, and hashing out what made Cline’s novel become so strangely controversial, we look at what connects and distinguishes these two films about life inside a video game, from their attitudes about human/computer relationships to how they approach the idea of corporate control."]
Vigilante (USA: William Lustig, 1982: 90 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Unloved, Pt. 74: Vigilante." Roger Ebert (February 3, 2020) ["Video essay introduction: "When Robert Forster passed, the tragedy was compounded by the fact that he never quite got to shine the way other actors do. His career revival, when Quentin Tarantino cast him in "Jackie Brown" in a rare leading man role (an even rarer leading man role for a guy over 50 playing a guy over 50), happened two decades ago, and led only to him playing more character parts in frequently lamentable movies. Not that he ever gave less than his best. To hear Forster talk about his work, you'd think he was the best rated contractor in town—just a guy who showed up with his toolkit and left you with a full, functioning, beautiful, sturdy house. As big a fan as I am of his poignant later work, my favorite period of Forster's is his '80s period, when he played downcast, slightly sleazy dudes on missions of mercy. I love his depressive hero shtick in "Alligator," the way he never once lets on that he's doing more than the job of city cop requires, even as he's trying to blow up a 30-foot reptile terrorizing his city. But his work in William Lustig's "Vigilante" catapulted it into the upper echelon of late grindhouse. Even though "Maniac Cop 2" is Lustig's masterpiece, "Vigilante" is Lustig's most soulful work—a "Death Wish" remake with an actual moral underpinning, asking questions of its violent world and characters every step of the way. If not for an everyman type like Forster in the role, the film would slip off balance. With him in the role, it became a classic."]
Buckler, Dana. "Robin Williams Retrospective." How Is This Movie? (May 30, 2017)
1983
The Ballad of Narayama (Japan: Shohei Imamura, 1983: 130 mins)
Cribbs, John, Chris Funderberg and Martin Kessler. "Shohei Imamura." Flixwise (September 19, 2017) ["Martin Kessler is joined by Chris Funderberg and John Cribbs of thepinksmoke.com to discuss the films of two-time Palme d’Or award-wining director Shohei Imamura. They talk about his dark subject matter, his bleak point of view, the phases of his career, and his wild sense of humour. They discuss how Imamura has been handled by critics, compare him to New German Cinema, Luis Buñuel, and discuss why comparing him to other Japanese filmmakers may be misleading."]
Christine (USA: John Carpenter, 1983: 110 mins)
Fichera, Blake and James Hancock. "John Carpenter, Horror Master." Wrong Reel #272 (May 29, 2017)
Dallos (Japan: Mamoru Oshii, 1983: 83 mins)
El Goro. "Dallos (1983) and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)." Talk Without Rhythm (May 7, 2017)
Dark Habits (Spain: Pedro Almodovar, 1983: 114 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (September 29, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
López, Cristina Álvarez and Adrian Martin. "Export/Import | Pedro Almodóvar’s Dark Habits & What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (Posted on Youtube: September 6, 2019)
Gordon, Marsha. "Is It Time for a 21st Century Version of The Day After." The Conversation (January 24, 2018)
The Dead Zone (USA: David Cronenberg, 1983: 103 mins)
Bobiy, Mikaela. "Sensory Overload: Unconscious Communication and Inter-Personal Psychosis in David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone." Monstrum 5.1 (June 2022)
Entre Nous (France: Diane Kurys, 1983: 110 mins)
Nagy, Phyllis. "Carol Screenwriter talks Cate Blanchett, Todd Haynes, and Isabelle Huppert’s Pact with The Devil." Flixwise (February 14, 2017) ["The funny and brilliant Phyllis Nagy is here to talk about adapting Carol’s screenplay from Patricia Highsmith’s original source material and the lengthy, and at times frustrating, process of getting the film into production. They chat about Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s rendering of the two lead characters, as well as the standout performance from supporting players, Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler. Plus, Phyllis offers a scoop on what happened to a few scenes from the book that didn’t make the final cut of the film. ... In addition to filling us in on details from behind-the-scenes of Carol, Phyllis is also here to discuss a pair of standout performances by the incomparable French actress, Isabelle Huppert. This year Huppert was, at long last, nominated for her first Academy Award. However, Huppert has been giving Oscar-worthy performances well before she ever worked with Verhoeven. If you are unfamiliar with her work up to this point, you might not know where to begin, as her filmography is quite extensive. Fortunately, Phyllis is here to offer up two of her favorite Huppert films as suggestions for your watch list: Claude Chabrol’s 1988 film: Story of Women, and Diane Kurys 1983 film: Entre Nous. Both Story of Women and Entre Nous are period dramas which find Huppert playing malcontented married women, both of whom form deep attachments to their closest female friends. In Story of Women she plays Marie Latour, a woman who, despite her husband’s objections, traffics in abortions and other illegal various dealings in German occupied France. In Entre Nous, Huppert plays Lena Weber, a woman who falls into an expedient marriage in order to escape Nazi control, but after the war is over falls in the love with another woman."]
Eyes of Fire (USA: Avery Crounse, 1983: 90 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "If You Aren’t Afraid in The Woods, You Haven’t Gone Deep Enough." Hell Bent for Horror #2 (March 18, 2016) [Discussion of the films The Hallow (2015), Eyes of Fire (1983), and Witchfinder General (1968). Also Algernon Blackwood's 1910 short story "The Wendigo."]
First Name: Carmen (France: Jean-Luc Godard, 1983: 85 mins)
Brody, Richard. "An Exile in Paradise." The New Yorker (November 20, 2000)
The Gold Diggers (UK: Sally Potter, 1983: 89 mins)
Mayer, Sophie. "Where We Are Is Here: On the Influence of Female Filmmakers." Another Gaze (March 14, 2016)
The Hunger (UK/USA: Tony Scott, 1983: 97 mins)
Pasternack, Jesse. "Sex, Music, and Death: Why The Hunger is the Definitive David Bowie Film." A Place for Film (October 24, 2016)
L'argent (France/Switzerland: Robert Bresson, 1983: 85 mins)
Tupitsyn, Masha. "On Robert Bresson." Necessary Fiction (January 8, 2014)
Le Bal (France/Italy/Algeria: Ettore Scola, 1983: 109 mins)
Mr. Mom (USA: Stan Dragoti, 1983: 91 mins)
Cosbey, Janet. "Reel Families: The Delicate Balance of Family and Work in Film." Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2013: 194-207. [In BCTC Library PN1995.9 S6 C543 2013]
Never Cry Wolf (USA: Carroll Ballard, 1983: 105 mins)
Cone, Stephen. "Films for Children at the End of the World: An Appreciation of Carroll Ballard." Talkhouse (April 6, 2018)
Nostalgia (Italy/Soviet Union: Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983: 125 mins)
Bond, Lewis. "Andrei Tarkovsky - Poetic Harmony." (Posted on Youtube: April 29, 2016)
Return of the Jedi (USA: Richard Marquand, 1983: 131 mins)
Kuersten, Erich. "The Primal Father (CinemArchetypes #8)." Acidemic (March 19, 2012)
Sans Soleil (France: Chris Marker, 1983: 100 mins)
Marshall, Colin. "Our Curious Man in Japan: Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, and films that stand for us." Quarterly Conversation (December 3, 2012)
Stone, Rob. "Between Sunrise and Sunless." Film Studies for Free (February 10, 2014)
Sleepaway Camp (USA: Robert Hiltzik, 1983: 88 mins)
Loudermilk, A. "Last to Leave the Theater: Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls" Who Survive Them." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
Star 80 (USA: Bob Fosse, 1983: 103 mins)
Longworth, Karina. "Dorothy Stratten (Dead Blondes Episode 13)." You Must Remember This (April 25, 2017) ["Our Dead Blondes season concludes with the story of Dorothy Stratten. Coaxed into nude modeling by Paul Snider, her sleazy boyfriend-turned-husband, 18 year-old Stratten was seized on by Playboy as the heir apparent to Marilyn Monroe. She ascended to the top of the Playboy firmament quickly, and just after Hugh Hefner decided to make her Playmate of the Year, she met filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, who fell in love with her and rewrote his upcoming film, They All Laughed, to give Dorothy a star-making role. After filming They All Laughed Dorothy planned to leave Snider and Playboy for life with Bogdanovich -- but her husband had other ideas."]
Suburbia (USA: Penelope Spheeris, 1983: 94 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice, et al. "Suburbia." See Hear #11 (November 18, 2014) ["This month, it’s Bernie’s pick for a film to discuss, and he’s gone for 1984 film, Suburbia directed by Penelope Spheeris and produced by Roger Corman. It’s a disaffected teenagers story, but rather than just being another tale of misunderstood youth versus adults who “just don’t understand us”, there are other layers to this. There’s even a case to state that PT Anderson may have been influenced by this for Boogie Nights. How so? Tune in and find out. What’s the music connection? The music and energy of punk."]
Three Crowns of the Sailor (France: Raoul Ruiz, 1983: 117 mins)
Doran, Sabine. "The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Cinema in Raul Ruiz's Three Crowns of the Sailor." Postcolonial Cinema Studies. ed. Sandra Ponzanesi & Marguerite Waller. NY: Routledge, 2012: 143-156. [Available in BCTC Library PN1995.9 P6 P68 2012]
Trading Places (USA: John Landis, 1983: 116 mins)
Under Fire (USA: Roger Spottiswoode, 1983: 128 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
Zelig (USA: Woody Allen, 1983: 79 mins)
Robinson, Tasha. "Keynote: Zelig." The Dissolve (July 22, 2013)
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension (USA: W.D. Richter, 1984: 103 mins)
Smalley, G. "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)." 366 Weird Movies (May 2, 2012)
Beverly Hills Cop (USA: Martin Brest, 1984: 105 mins)
Ashton, John, et al. "Beverly Hills Cop (1984)." The Projection Booth #315 (March 21, 2017) ["In Martin Brest's Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Eddie Murphy stars as Detroit police officer Axel Foley. He pursues the killers of his childhood friend to Beverly Hills where the local constabulary find his methods questionable. We talk to screenwriter Daniel Petrie Jr, actors John Ashton, Ronny Cox, and Steven Berkoff along with composer Harold Faltermeyer. As an added bonus, we talk to the original writer of Beverly Hills Cop III, Steven E. de Sousa."]
Body Double (USA: Brian De Palma, 1984: 114 mins)
Kempenaar, Adam and Josh Larsen. "Blindspotting - Body Double / You, The Living." Filmspotting #590 (June 17, 2016)
Takal, Sophia and April Wolfe. "Body Double." Switchblade Sisters #6 (December 14, 2017) ["Things get steamy as April talks to actress and director Sophia Takal about the somewhat problematic Brian De Palma erotic thriller, Body Double. The two discuss how the film influenced Sophia's own work and her debut film, Always Shine. Sophia recalls her time as an actress, and the objectification that came with the audition process. They also analyze the violence against women's bodies in the film and the sexuality of Melanie Griffith's character, Holly Body. Despite its issues, April and Sophia also marvel at the craftsmanship of Brian De Palma, and how this film can be used as a template for how NOT to treat female characters."]
Boy Meets Girl (France: Leos Carax, 1984: 100 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Leos Carax." Cinema Axis (August 19, 2014)
Scurry, Bill. "In Praise of Indie Icon John Sayles." Wrong Reel (September 2017)
Hancock, James and Martin Kessler. "The King of Horror." The Wrong Reel #135 (May 16, 2016)
Nagy, Phyllis. "Carol Screenwriter talks Cate Blanchett, Todd Haynes, and Isabelle Huppert’s Pact with The Devil." Flixwise (February 14, 2017) ["The funny and brilliant Phyllis Nagy is here to talk about adapting Carol’s screenplay from Patricia Highsmith’s original source material and the lengthy, and at times frustrating, process of getting the film into production. They chat about Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s rendering of the two lead characters, as well as the standout performance from supporting players, Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler. Plus, Phyllis offers a scoop on what happened to a few scenes from the book that didn’t make the final cut of the film. ... In addition to filling us in on details from behind-the-scenes of Carol, Phyllis is also here to discuss a pair of standout performances by the incomparable French actress, Isabelle Huppert. This year Huppert was, at long last, nominated for her first Academy Award. However, Huppert has been giving Oscar-worthy performances well before she ever worked with Verhoeven. If you are unfamiliar with her work up to this point, you might not know where to begin, as her filmography is quite extensive. Fortunately, Phyllis is here to offer up two of her favorite Huppert films as suggestions for your watch list: Claude Chabrol’s 1988 film: Story of Women, and Diane Kurys 1983 film: Entre Nous. Both Story of Women and Entre Nous are period dramas which find Huppert playing malcontented married women, both of whom form deep attachments to their closest female friends. In Story of Women she plays Marie Latour, a woman who, despite her husband’s objections, traffics in abortions and other illegal various dealings in German occupied France. In Entre Nous, Huppert plays Lena Weber, a woman who falls into an expedient marriage in order to escape Nazi control, but after the war is over falls in the love with another woman."]
Eyes of Fire (USA: Avery Crounse, 1983: 90 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "If You Aren’t Afraid in The Woods, You Haven’t Gone Deep Enough." Hell Bent for Horror #2 (March 18, 2016) [Discussion of the films The Hallow (2015), Eyes of Fire (1983), and Witchfinder General (1968). Also Algernon Blackwood's 1910 short story "The Wendigo."]
Brody, Richard. "An Exile in Paradise." The New Yorker (November 20, 2000)
The Gold Diggers (UK: Sally Potter, 1983: 89 mins)
Mayer, Sophie. "Where We Are Is Here: On the Influence of Female Filmmakers." Another Gaze (March 14, 2016)
The Hunger (UK/USA: Tony Scott, 1983: 97 mins)
Pasternack, Jesse. "Sex, Music, and Death: Why The Hunger is the Definitive David Bowie Film." A Place for Film (October 24, 2016)
Tupitsyn, Masha. "On Robert Bresson." Necessary Fiction (January 8, 2014)
Le Bal (France/Italy/Algeria: Ettore Scola, 1983: 109 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
Cosbey, Janet. "Reel Families: The Delicate Balance of Family and Work in Film." Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2013: 194-207. [In BCTC Library PN1995.9 S6 C543 2013]
Never Cry Wolf (USA: Carroll Ballard, 1983: 105 mins)
Cone, Stephen. "Films for Children at the End of the World: An Appreciation of Carroll Ballard." Talkhouse (April 6, 2018)
Bond, Lewis. "Andrei Tarkovsky - Poetic Harmony." (Posted on Youtube: April 29, 2016)
Return of the Jedi (USA: Richard Marquand, 1983: 131 mins)
Kuersten, Erich. "The Primal Father (CinemArchetypes #8)." Acidemic (March 19, 2012)
Marshall, Colin. "Our Curious Man in Japan: Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, and films that stand for us." Quarterly Conversation (December 3, 2012)
Stone, Rob. "Between Sunrise and Sunless." Film Studies for Free (February 10, 2014)
Sleepaway Camp (USA: Robert Hiltzik, 1983: 88 mins)
Loudermilk, A. "Last to Leave the Theater: Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls" Who Survive Them." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
Star 80 (USA: Bob Fosse, 1983: 103 mins)
Longworth, Karina. "Dorothy Stratten (Dead Blondes Episode 13)." You Must Remember This (April 25, 2017) ["Our Dead Blondes season concludes with the story of Dorothy Stratten. Coaxed into nude modeling by Paul Snider, her sleazy boyfriend-turned-husband, 18 year-old Stratten was seized on by Playboy as the heir apparent to Marilyn Monroe. She ascended to the top of the Playboy firmament quickly, and just after Hugh Hefner decided to make her Playmate of the Year, she met filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, who fell in love with her and rewrote his upcoming film, They All Laughed, to give Dorothy a star-making role. After filming They All Laughed Dorothy planned to leave Snider and Playboy for life with Bogdanovich -- but her husband had other ideas."]
Suburbia (USA: Penelope Spheeris, 1983: 94 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice, et al. "Suburbia." See Hear #11 (November 18, 2014) ["This month, it’s Bernie’s pick for a film to discuss, and he’s gone for 1984 film, Suburbia directed by Penelope Spheeris and produced by Roger Corman. It’s a disaffected teenagers story, but rather than just being another tale of misunderstood youth versus adults who “just don’t understand us”, there are other layers to this. There’s even a case to state that PT Anderson may have been influenced by this for Boogie Nights. How so? Tune in and find out. What’s the music connection? The music and energy of punk."]
Doran, Sabine. "The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Cinema in Raul Ruiz's Three Crowns of the Sailor." Postcolonial Cinema Studies. ed. Sandra Ponzanesi & Marguerite Waller. NY: Routledge, 2012: 143-156. [Available in BCTC Library PN1995.9 P6 P68 2012]
Trading Places (USA: John Landis, 1983: 116 mins)
Morton, Drew. "The American Dream in Film: As the man said, ‘America’s not a country. It’s just a business.’" Keyframe (May 30, 2016)
Under Fire (USA: Roger Spottiswoode, 1983: 128 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
Robinson, Tasha. "Keynote: Zelig." The Dissolve (July 22, 2013)
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension (USA: W.D. Richter, 1984: 103 mins)
Smalley, G. "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)." 366 Weird Movies (May 2, 2012)
Beverly Hills Cop (USA: Martin Brest, 1984: 105 mins)
Ashton, John, et al. "Beverly Hills Cop (1984)." The Projection Booth #315 (March 21, 2017) ["In Martin Brest's Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Eddie Murphy stars as Detroit police officer Axel Foley. He pursues the killers of his childhood friend to Beverly Hills where the local constabulary find his methods questionable. We talk to screenwriter Daniel Petrie Jr, actors John Ashton, Ronny Cox, and Steven Berkoff along with composer Harold Faltermeyer. As an added bonus, we talk to the original writer of Beverly Hills Cop III, Steven E. de Sousa."]
Kempenaar, Adam and Josh Larsen. "Blindspotting - Body Double / You, The Living." Filmspotting #590 (June 17, 2016)
Takal, Sophia and April Wolfe. "Body Double." Switchblade Sisters #6 (December 14, 2017) ["Things get steamy as April talks to actress and director Sophia Takal about the somewhat problematic Brian De Palma erotic thriller, Body Double. The two discuss how the film influenced Sophia's own work and her debut film, Always Shine. Sophia recalls her time as an actress, and the objectification that came with the audition process. They also analyze the violence against women's bodies in the film and the sexuality of Melanie Griffith's character, Holly Body. Despite its issues, April and Sophia also marvel at the craftsmanship of Brian De Palma, and how this film can be used as a template for how NOT to treat female characters."]
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Leos Carax." Cinema Axis (August 19, 2014)
The Brother From Another Planet (USA: John Sayles, 1984: 108 mins)
Clark, Ashley. "Alien abductions: 12 Years a Slave and the past as science fiction." Sight and Sound (April 14, 2015)
Scurry, Bill. "In Praise of Indie Icon John Sayles." Wrong Reel (September 2017)
Crimes of Passion (USA: Ken Russell, 1984: 107 mins)
Cleaver, Sarah Kathryn and Mary Wild. "Fashion Films Episode 5: Fashion & Fetish." Projections #5 (April 3, 2019) ["Sarah and Mary discuss fetishism, fashion and wigs in Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion (1984) and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986)."]
Cribbs, John, et al. "The Sleeper Must Awaken." Wrong Reel #325 (October 2017) [On David Lynch's 1984 film Dune]
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Kiang, Jessica. "50th Anniversary: 8 JFK Assassination Films That Revisit History." The Playlist (November 20, 2013)
Full Moon In Paris (France: Eric Rohmer, 1984: 100 mins)
Klevan, Andrew. "Expressing the In-Between." LOLA (2011)
Ghostbusters (USA: Ivan Reitman, 1984: 105 mins)
Koski, Genevieve, et al. "Ghostbusters (2016) / Ghostbusters (1984), Pt. 1" The Next Picture Show #37 (July 26, 2016) ["The strange controversy over Paul Feig's gender-reversed GHOSTBUSTERS has us looking back at the original 1984 GHOSTBUSTERS to see what about it has inspired such strong feeling. In this half of the conversation, we focus on the then-and-now of Ivan Reitman's original, while trying (unsuccessfully) to dodge the dreaded "N" word: "nostalgia.""]
---. "Ghostbusters (2016) / Ghostbusters (1984), Part 2." The Next Picture Show #38 (July 28, 2016) ["Our GHOSTBUSTERS discussion turns its attention to Paul Feig's new remake, which was made with obvious affection for (and cameos from) the 1984 version, and replicates certain character types and plot points. But it also breaks from it in significant ways we'll discuss, as well as thoughts on the effects, the villains, New York City, blockbuster culture, and more."]
Gremlins (USA: Joe Dante, 1984: 106 mins)
Dante, Joe, et al. "Gremlins." The Projection Booth #127 (106 mins)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1984: 118 mins)
Faraci, Devin and Amy Nicholson. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." The Canon (November 10, 2014)
La Femme Publique (France: Andzej Zulawski, 1984: 113 mins)
Kwiatkowski, Al and Brad Strauss. "Andrzej Zulawski." Director's Club #126 (March 14, 2017)
Palmer, Landon. "6 Filmmaking Tips From John Cassavettes." Film School Rejects (August 13, 2014)
Moscow on the Hudson (USA: Paul Mazursky, 1984: 115 mins)
Buckler, Dana. "Robin Williams Retrospective." How Is This Movie? (May 30, 2017)
Anders, Alison. "A Moment with Harry." Current (September 28, 2017)
Purple Rain (USA: Albert Magnoli, 1984: 111 mins)
Martin, Adrian. "Six Grabs at Purple Rain." Film Critic (September 1984 / April 2016)
Leotta, Alfio. "'I love the smell of napalm in the morning': Violence and nostalgia in the cinema of John Milius." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Kellner, Douglas. "The horrors of slavery and modes of representation in Amistad and 12 Years a Slave." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Starman (USA: John Carpenter, 1984: 115 mins)
Fichera, Blake and James Hancock. "John Carpenter, Horror Master." Wrong Reel #272 (May 29, 2017)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jim Jarmusch." Cinemaxis (December 10, 2013)
Hoberman, J. "Paradise Regained." The Current (September 4, 2007)
Cargill, Robert C., Greg MacLennan and Brian Salisbury. "Streets of Fire." Junk Food Cinema (December 16, 2016)
Cribbs, John and James Hancock. "The Cinema of Walter Hill." Wrong Reel #302 (July 2017)
The Terminator (UK/USA: James Cameron, 1984: 107 mins)
McKenna, Juliet, et al. "Fight Scenes and Women Warriors." Breaking the Glass Slipper 2.8 (April 13, 2017) ["As Kameron Hurley discusses in her Hugo Award-winning article, ‘We Have Always Fought‘, women have always fought. So why don’t we see more women warriors in science fiction and fantasy novels? History is full of women on battlefields and in brawls, even if the history books might gloss over it. Remember: much of the history we hold as the gold standard was written by men who were reinforcing the social structures they created. When it comes to fight scenes, there’s already enough to think about without worrying about gender representation (and no, that’s not an excuse…). A well-written fight scene is a rare gem. We talk to writer and martial artist Juliet McKenna about the common mistakes writers make when writing fight scenes, from grand military battles to a pub fight, we talk weapons, fight styles, point of view, and more. What makes a fight scene interesting? How much detail is too much? And it wouldn’t be an episode of Breaking the Glass Slipper without us championing some of our favourite examples of great women warriors in SFFH."]
TerrorVision (USA: Ted Nicolau, 1986: 83 mins)
Hadley, Josh, Moe Porne and Mike White. "Terrorvision (1986)." The Projection Booth #345 (October 19, 2017) ["... offbeat horror comedy TerrorVision (1986). Written and directed by Ted Nicolaou, the film centers on the Putterman Family who, while father Stan (Gerrit Graham) is installing a new satellite dish and accidentally receive a distant transmission of a horrific hungry monster which proceeds to feast on the family including wife Rachel (Mary Woronov), son Sherman (Chad Allen), grandpa (Bert Remsen), daughter Suzy (Diane Franklin), and her metal head boyfriend O.D. (Jon Gries)."]
This Is Spinal Tap (USA: Rob Reiner, 1984: 82 mins)
Koskie, Genevieve, et al. "(Pt. 1) This Is Spinal Tap / Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping." The Next Picture Show #31 (June 14, 2016)
Threads (UK/Australia/USA: Mick Jackson, 1984: 112 mins)
Goro, El. "The Day After (1983) and Threads (1984)." Talk Without Rhythm #383 (August 27, 2017)
Kuersten, Erich. "CinemArchetype #4: The Hanged Man." Acidemic (February 12, 2012)
Voyage to Cythera (Greece/Italy/UK/West Germany: Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1984: 120 mins)
Horton, Andrew. "The Greek and Balkan Spirit of Comedy During the Journeys with the Films of Theo Angelopoulos." Greek Cinema and Films About Greece (2012)
After Hours (USA: Martin Scorsese, 1985: 97 mins)
Carvajal, Nelson and Max Winter. "Video Essay: Women in the Works of Martin Scorsese." Press Play (February 7, 2014)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (USA: Jack Sholder, 1985: 87 mins)
Hancock, James and Mike Vanderbilt. "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You." Wrong Reel #329 (October 2017)
Liz, Luiza. "Peter Greenaway and the Language of Film." (Posted on Youtube: July 25, 2016)
The Breakfast Club (USA: John Hughes, 1985: 97 mins)
Ringwald, Molly. "What About The Breakfast Club?" The New Yorker (April 6, 2018) ["Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo."]
Cargill, C. Robert, Meghan McCain and Brian Salisbury. "Clue." Junk Food Cinema (April 19, 2016)
The Color Purple (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1985: 154 mins)
Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)
Sutherland, Jean-Anne. "Constructing Empowered Women: Cinematic Images of Power and Powerful Women." Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2013: 149-161. [In BCTC Library PN1995.9 S6 C543 2013]
Bradley, S.A. "My Ride's Here: Remembering George A. Romero." Hellbent for Horror #48 (July 27, 2017)
Subissati, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Undead Walking: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985)." Faculty of Horror #54 (October 31, 2017)
Goro, El and Stephanie Wiley. "Fright Night (1985) and Re-Animator (1985)." Talk Without Rhythm (October 22, 2017)
God's Country (USA: Louis Malle, 1985: 90 mins)
Harris, Mark, et al. "Before and After, Live." The Film Comment Podcast (February 21, 2017) ["In his 1985 film God’s Country, Louis Malle visits a small town in Minnesota both before and after Reagan’s election, documenting the stark economic despair that the agricultural community was forced to face. Following a screening of God’s Country in the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s screening series Film Comment Selects, we conducted a live the Film Comment Podcast about how we differently perceive certain films before and after the election. To discuss this fraught political moment, we invited Mark Harris, author of Pictures at a Revolution and FC‘s Cinema ’67 Revisited column; Genevieve Yue, critic and assistant professor at the New School’s Eugene Lang College; and Farihah Zaman, filmmaker, critic, and Production Manager for Field of Vision to join FC Editor Nicolas Rapold and FC Digital Producer and podcast host Violet Lucca. Films discussed include those by Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Jason Osder, Alexander Payne, and more."]
Brody, Richard. "An Exile in Paradise." The New Yorker (November 20, 2000)
L'amour Braque (France: Andzej Zulawski, 1985: 101 mins)
Kwiatkowski, Al and Brad Strauss. "Andrzej Zulawski." Director's Club #126 (March 14, 2017)
Bradley, S.A. "Mr. Bad Example: The Legend of Tobe Hooper." Hell Bent for Horror #52 (September 5, 2017)
Lost in America (USA: Albert Brooks, 1985: 91 mins)
D'Anna, Becky, James Hancock and Kevin Maher. "Albert Brooks and the Genius of an Open-Faced Sandwich." Wrong Reel #308 (August 2017)
Laczkowski, Jim, et al. "Albert Brooks." Director's Club #129 (June 5, 2017)
"Max Max Special 2: Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road." Sordid Cinema #98 (May 24, 2015)
Sobczynski, Peter. "'I'm Just Here for the Gasoline': An Overview of the Mad Max Saga." Balder and Dash (May 11, 2015)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (USA/Japan: Paul Schrader, 1985: 121 mins)
Hamilton, John R. "Paul Schrader." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)
My Life as a Dog (Sweden: Lasse Hallström, 1985: 101 mins)
Kessler, Martin and Aaron West. "My Life as a Dog & Lasse Hallström’s Career." Criterion Close-Up #2 (August 16, 2015)
No End (Poland: Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1985: 109 mins)
Cummings, Doug. "Great Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski." Senses of Cinema #27 (2003)
O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization (Poland: Piotr Szulkin, 1985: 88 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Poppe, Nicholas. Teaching La Historia Oficial. The Cine-Files #9 (2016)
Ornette: Made in America (USA: Shirley Clarke, 1985: 85 mins)
Doros, Dennis. "The Films of Shirley Clarke." On Film (March 28, 2015)
Mudede, Charles. "Goodnight, Ornette Coleman." Keyframe (June 12, 2015)
Pale Rider (USA: Clint Eastwood, 1985: 115 mins)
McGee, Patrick. From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.[Professor has copy]
Police Story (Hong Kong: Jackie Chan, 1985: 101 mins)
Bordwell, David. "Bond vs. Chan: Jackie shows how it’s done." Observations on Film Art." (September 15, 2010)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (USA: Woody Allen, 1985: 82 mins)
Rappoport, Mark. "The Empty Screen." Talkhouse (Posted on Youtube: February 7, 2017) ["The screen is a neutral element in the film-going experience. Or is it? It projects dreams but is also the receptacle of our dreams. It’s the vehicle for delivering the image to an audience — but does it also watch the audience at the same time? Is it a complicitous membrane which audience members can penetrate and which interacts with the spectators, despite its seeming passivity? Maybe — to all of the above …"]
Rambo: First Blood Pt. II (USA: George P. Comsatos, 1985: 96 mins)
Shafizadeh, Nafis. "Reagan at the Movies: Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, by J. Hoberman." Senses of Cinema #95 (July 2020)
Re-Animator (USA: Stuart Gordon, 1985: 105 mins)
When the new housemate (Jeffrey Combs) of Miskatonic Medical School student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) turns out to be an arrogant genius experimenting with a green-glowing, brain-reviving reagent, he will soon be embroiled in morgue-set mayhem and face life-or-death dilemmas with a randy rival professor (David Gale) and his own girlfriend Megan (Barbara Crampton). Updating one of H.P. Lovecraft’s weaker short stories (‘Herbert West – Reanimator’, 1922), Stuart Gordon crafts a schlockily psychosexual take on the Frankenstein myth that is pure 80s in its exaggerated excess – funny, outrageous, gory and wrong in every way. – Anton BitelGoro, El and Stephanie Wiley. "Fright Night (1985) and Re-Animator (1985)." Talk Without Rhythm (October 22, 2017)
Daseler, Graham. "La Bete Humaine: Runaway Train." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)
Sherman's March (USA: Ross McElwee, 1985: 157 mins)
Avila, Robert. "Ross McElwee and the Man Behind the Man Behind the Camera." Keyframe (May 5, 2014)
López, Cristina Álvarez and Adrian Martin. "All Tomorrow's Parties." Notebook (January 20, 2014)
Shoah (France: Claude Lanzmann, 1985: 544 mins)
Goddard, Stephen. "'So, Did You See Me?': Testimony, Memory and Re-Making Film History." LOLA #1 (2011)
Presner, Todd. German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature (2010 UCLA course posted on Youtube: February 10, 2010)
Tampopo (Japan: Jûzô Itami, 1985: 114 mins)
Kingra, Ravinder. "The Greatest of All Food Films: That Would be Tampopo." Keyframe (October 20, 2016)
To Live and Die In L.A. (USA: William Friedkin, 1985: 116 mins)
Murray, Noel. "William Friedkin and the Art of Immediacy." The Dissolve (May 1, 2014)
Vagabond (France: Agnès Varda, 1985: 105 mins)
Hamilton-Smith, David. "Life's Incidental Character: The Films Of Agnès Varda." The Quietus (June 6, 2014)
Hassania, Tina. "Female Homelessness in Agnès Varda’s Vagabond and Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy." Cleo 1.2 (July 25, 2013)
Year of the Dragon (USA: Michael Cimino, 1985: 134 mins)
Brody, Richard. "Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939-2016." The New Yorker (July 12, 2016)
Flores, Julian. "The Auteurs: Michael Cimino." Cinema Axis (July 24, 2014)
1986:
A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong: John Woo, 1986: 95 mins)
Accomando, Beth, et al. "A Better Tomorrow (1986)." The Projection Booth #350 (December 26, 2017) ["John Woo's A Better Tomorrow(1986). The film, a hallmark of the “heroic bloodshed” subgenre of action films, did for gunplay what a generation of Hong Kong films had done with swords. The film tells the tale of Ho (Ti Lung), a criminal whose younger brother, Kit (Leslie Cheung), is a police officer. He's betrayed by a fellow gangster (Waise Lee) and sent up the river. When he returns to Hong Kong he wants to stay on the right side of the law which is more difficult than it should be. The film speaks to loyalty, brotherhood, and put Chow Yun-Fat on the map as a bankable action star. Cinema Junkie's Beth Accomando and Mike wax fondly about the glory days of HK Cinema, twin brothers, strange sequels, and the true colors of a hero."]
"One Junky Summer: Band of the Hand." Junk Food Cinema (July 21, 2016)
Big Trouble in Little China (USA: John Carpenter, 1986: 99 mins)
Fichera, Blake and James Hancock. "John Carpenter, Horror Master." Wrong Reel #272 (May 29, 2017)
Charlesworth, Michael. "Caravaggio." Senses of Cinema #111 (November 2024)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Castle in the Sky (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 1986: 125 mins)
Brooks, Jordan. "Studio Ghibli Forever: An Initiation – ‘Laputa: Castle in the Sky." Vague Visages (May 25, 2016)
Down by Law (USA/West Germany: Jim Jarmusch, 1986: 107 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jim Jarmusch." Cinemaxis (December 10, 2013)
Fatherland (Singing the Blues in Red) (UK/West Germany/France: Ken Loach, 1986: 110 mins)
Barker, Jennifer Lynne. The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection. Routledge, 2013. [Get through interlibrary loan]
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (USA: John Hughes, 1986: 103 mins)
Carhill, C. Robert and Brian Salisbury. "Rebel Without a Care: Spending a Day Off with Ferris Bueller." Junk Food Cinema (June 30, 2016)
Hannah and Her Sisters (USA: Woody Allen, 1986: 103 mins)
D'anna, Becky, James Hancock and Jacob Rivera. "Woody." Wrong Reel #205 (November 2016) ["Wide ranging discussion of his comedies prefaced by some clear analysis of his personal controversies"]
Hynes, Eric, et al. "New York, New York." Reverse Shot (June 15, 2011) ["Check out Reverse Shot's inaugural foray into video film criticism and the failure of video film criticism. We look at Taxi Driver, Hannah and Her Sisters, and their varying visions of New York."]
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Brooks, Jordan. "Studio Ghibli Forever: An Initiation – ‘Laputa: Castle in the Sky." Vague Visages (May 25, 2016)
Down by Law (USA/West Germany: Jim Jarmusch, 1986: 107 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jim Jarmusch." Cinemaxis (December 10, 2013)
Barker, Jennifer Lynne. The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection. Routledge, 2013. [Get through interlibrary loan]
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (USA: John Hughes, 1986: 103 mins)
Carhill, C. Robert and Brian Salisbury. "Rebel Without a Care: Spending a Day Off with Ferris Bueller." Junk Food Cinema (June 30, 2016)
Hannah and Her Sisters (USA: Woody Allen, 1986: 103 mins)
D'anna, Becky, James Hancock and Jacob Rivera. "Woody." Wrong Reel #205 (November 2016) ["Wide ranging discussion of his comedies prefaced by some clear analysis of his personal controversies"]
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer (USA: John Naughton, 1986: 83 mins)
Subisatti, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Crime Spree: Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) and Zodiac (2007)." Faculty of Horror #75 (July 31, 2019) ["This month, Andrea and Alex pull back the veil on narrative cinema and the true-crime phenomena. From John McNaughton’s nightmarish debut to David Fincher’s gumshoe epic, the answers to our response and responsibility to real-life events is almost always more complex than they appear on the surface."]
The Hitcher (USA: Robert Harmon, 1986: 97 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "One Junky Summer: The Hitcher." Junk Food Cinema (September 1, 2016)
Labyrinth (UK/USA: Jim Henson, 1986: 101 mins)
Kuersten, Erich. "CinemArchetype #3: The Animus." Acidemic (February 1, 2012)
Manhunter (USA: Michael Mann, 1986: 119 mins)
Cargill, C. Robert and Brian Salisbury. "One Junky Summer: Manhunter." Junk Food Cinema (August 4, 2016)
"‘Horror Implied, as Opposed to Explained… That’s Michael Mann’s Strength (Will)’—Manhunter." Cinephilia & Beyond (2018) [“Will Graham, the detective in Manhunter, finds himself trapped, stuck to some degree in madness and nightmare. It bores me to present the events of the story in a realist style. My approach instead is to conceptualize the elements of the plot, taking into consideration the various torments of the human spirit. My aim is to exteriorize the spiritual in the Expressionist manner, and this always leads me to reject realism. What drew me to the story was its connection to the essence of evil, which emerges in the process of dehumanization that leads a simple human being with no exceptional past to become a killer capable of the most terrible atrocities. And when the victims cease being human beings, they become morsels… bits of matter. I want to understand just what this is all about, and also something about dangerous psychopaths, as well as the influence of social context on the behavior of individuals, such as fascism, genocide. This was the theme I explored in The Keep, whose action is set during the Second World War."]
Matador (Spain: Pedro Almodovar, 1986: 110 mins)
Mauvais Sang (France/Switzerland: Leos Carax, 1986: 105 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Leos Carax." Cinema Axis (August 19, 2014)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
The Name of the Rose (West Germany/Italy/France: Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986: 130 mins)
Falzon, Christopher. "Philosophy Through Film." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (August 12, 2013)
Never Too Young to Die (USA: Gil Bettman, 1986: 92 mins)
Bettman, Gil, et al. "Never Too Young to Die. (1986)" The Projection Booth (February 28, 2017) [""I kinda wanted it to be Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Rambo" - Director Gil Bettman. An outstanding example of '80s Action Cinema, Never Too Young to Die (1986) stars John Stamos as Lance Stargrove, the "son of Bond", who teams up with Peter Kwong and Vanity to take down the evil intersex rock-n-roll cult leader Velvet Von Ragnar (Gene Simmons). The brainchild of Steven Paul (Baby Geniuses, Slapstick of Another Kind, The Double 0 Kid)"]
One Crazy Summer (USA: Savage Steve Holland, 1986: 93 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "One Crazy Summer." Junk Food Cinema (August 11, 2016)
The Hitcher (USA: Robert Harmon, 1986: 97 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "One Junky Summer: The Hitcher." Junk Food Cinema (September 1, 2016)
Kuersten, Erich. "CinemArchetype #3: The Animus." Acidemic (February 1, 2012)
Manhunter (USA: Michael Mann, 1986: 119 mins)
Cargill, C. Robert and Brian Salisbury. "One Junky Summer: Manhunter." Junk Food Cinema (August 4, 2016)
"‘Horror Implied, as Opposed to Explained… That’s Michael Mann’s Strength (Will)’—Manhunter." Cinephilia & Beyond (2018) [“Will Graham, the detective in Manhunter, finds himself trapped, stuck to some degree in madness and nightmare. It bores me to present the events of the story in a realist style. My approach instead is to conceptualize the elements of the plot, taking into consideration the various torments of the human spirit. My aim is to exteriorize the spiritual in the Expressionist manner, and this always leads me to reject realism. What drew me to the story was its connection to the essence of evil, which emerges in the process of dehumanization that leads a simple human being with no exceptional past to become a killer capable of the most terrible atrocities. And when the victims cease being human beings, they become morsels… bits of matter. I want to understand just what this is all about, and also something about dangerous psychopaths, as well as the influence of social context on the behavior of individuals, such as fascism, genocide. This was the theme I explored in The Keep, whose action is set during the Second World War."]
Matador (Spain: Pedro Almodovar, 1986: 110 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (September 29, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Leos Carax." Cinema Axis (August 19, 2014)
Falzon, Christopher. "Philosophy Through Film." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (August 12, 2013)
Never Too Young to Die (USA: Gil Bettman, 1986: 92 mins)
Bettman, Gil, et al. "Never Too Young to Die. (1986)" The Projection Booth (February 28, 2017) [""I kinda wanted it to be Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Rambo" - Director Gil Bettman. An outstanding example of '80s Action Cinema, Never Too Young to Die (1986) stars John Stamos as Lance Stargrove, the "son of Bond", who teams up with Peter Kwong and Vanity to take down the evil intersex rock-n-roll cult leader Velvet Von Ragnar (Gene Simmons). The brainchild of Steven Paul (Baby Geniuses, Slapstick of Another Kind, The Double 0 Kid)"]
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "One Crazy Summer." Junk Food Cinema (August 11, 2016)
Platoon (USA/UK: Oliver Stone, 1986: 120 mins)
Lee, Kevin B. "Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox." (Posted on Vimeo: "The most mentioned video essay in the Best Video Essays of 2020 Survey conducted by Sight & Sound Magazine" - it is a reflection of his experiences watching Oliver Stone's 1986 movie Platoon in the theater with his family."]
Bond, Lewis. "Andrei Tarkovsky - Poetic Harmony." (Posted on Youtube: April 29, 2016)
She's Gotta Have It (USA: Spike Lee, 1986: 84 mins)
Allen, Nick. "Spike Lee Triumphantly Updates She's Gotta Have It for Netflix." Demanders (November 22, 2017)
Sudhakaran, Sareesh. "Cinematography of Roger Deakins." Wolfcrow (February 16, 2016)
Loudermilk, A. "Last to Leave the Theater: Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls" Who Survive Them." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (USA: Tobe Hooper, 1986: 101 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Mr. Bad Example: The Legend of Tobe Hooper." Hell Bent for Horror #52 (September 5, 2017)
Carhill, C. Robert and Brian Salisbury. "How 1986's Vamp Reminds Us of Martin Scorsese." Junkfood Cinema (July 7, 2016)
1987
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (USA: Chuck Russell, 1987: 96 mins)
Hancock, James and Mike Vanderbilt. "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You." Wrong Reel #329 (October 2017)
Greydanus, Steven D. "#10: Babette's Feast." Arts and Faith Top 100 Films (2011)
Kimmel, Michael. "Sitting in the Dark with Max: Classical Sociological Theory Through Film." Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2013: 27-41. [In BCTC Library PN1995.9 S6 C543 2013]
The Belly of an Architect (UK/Italy: Peter Greenaway, 1987: 119 mins)
Liz, Luiza. "Peter Greenaway and the Language of Film." (Posted on Youtube: July 25, 2016)
Blind Chance (Poland: Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1987: 123 mins)
Koski, Genevieve, et al. "Multiple Choice, Pt. 1 — Blind Chance." The Next Picture Show (April 12, 2022) ["In addition to being an examination of how much chance determines the person we become, as well as something of a Rosetta Stone for the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski, BLIND CHANCE also plays like the 1980s version of a multiverse story, making it a clear precursor to Daniels Kwan and Scheinert’s new EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. But Kieslowski’s film has different ideas about fate, determination, and the invisible forces that shape our lives as much as the choices we make, all of which we attempt to unpack in our conversation, along with what connects BLIND CHANCE's three timelines, what about the politically minded film invited resistance upon its release, and the significance of that opening scream."]
---. "Multiple Choice, Pt. 2 — Everything Everywhere All At Once." The Next Picture Show (April 19, 2022) ["Despite its clear thematic and philosophical connections to the other film in this pairing, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s BLIND CHANCE, Daniel Schienert and Daniel Kwan’s new EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is a unique experience, a bold, humanistic film full of big messages and also butt jokes. It’s a film that’s built to surprise and delight on first viewing, but what does it offer in terms of rewatch value? That’s one of the things we debate in our discussion of the Daniels’ film, before bringing Kieślowski’s back into the picture to talk through some of those thematic and philosophical connections."]
Broadcast News (USA: James L. Brooks, 1987: 133 mins)
D'Anna, Becky, James Hancock and Kevin Maher. "Albert Brooks and the Genius of an Open-Faced Sandwich." Wrong Reel #308 (August 2017)
Empire of the Sun (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1987: 152 mins)
Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)
Extreme Prejudice (USA: Walter Hill, 1987: 104 mins)
Cargil, C. Robert and Brian Salisbury. "Extreme Prejudice." Junk Food Cinema #140 (May 30, 2017)
Cribbs, John and James Hancock. "The Cinema of Walter Hill." Wrong Reel #302 (July 2017)
Hancock, James and Martin Kessler. "Canuxploitation." Flixwise (May 30, 2017)
Good Morning Vietnam (USA: Barry Levinson, 1987: 121 mins)
Buckler, Dana. "Robin Williams Retrospective." How Is This Movie? (May 30, 2017)
Ishtar (USA: Mike Nichols, 1987: 107 mins)
May, Elaine and Mike Nichols. "Mike Nichols, Part 1." Close Up #6a (December 2014) ["In this special two-part episode of The Close-Up, we pay tribute to the late Mike Nichols. For Part 1, we present a conversation between Mike Nichols and Elaine May after a screening of May's "Ishtar" here at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2006."]
Stevens, Brad. "Ishtar, Elaine May, and the Road Not Taken." Sight and Sound (April 24, 2017) ["Elaine May’s misunderstood 1980s comedy critiqued 1980s American foreign policy and parodied male narcissism, which is probably why it also destroyed its director’s career."]
The Journey (also known as Resan) (Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/Italy/Japan/New Zealand/Soviet Union/Sweden/Norway: Peter Watkins, 1987: 873 mins)
Sicinski, Michael. "Nuclear Nightmares, Mapped: Peter Watkins’ The Journey." Keyframe (October 25, 2014) ["Watkins’ 873-minute global documentary focuses on nuclear proliferation and unmasks why we can’t envision a better, safer world."
King Lear (USA: Jean-Luc Godard, 1987: 90 mins)
Brody, Richard. "An Exile in Paradise." The New Yorker (November 20, 2000)
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "The Importance of Being Perverse (Godard’s KING LEAR)." (Originally published in the Chicago Reader: April 8, 1988)
The Last Emperor (China/Italy/UK/France: Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987: 163 mins)
Feinberg, Scott. "Bernardo Bertolucci, Through Trials and Travails, Maintains That Cinema 'Is Life'" The Hollywood Reporter (November 30, 2013)
May, Elaine and Mike Nichols. "Mike Nichols, Part 1." Close Up #6a (December 2014) ["In this special two-part episode of The Close-Up, we pay tribute to the late Mike Nichols. For Part 1, we present a conversation between Mike Nichols and Elaine May after a screening of May's "Ishtar" here at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2006."]
Stevens, Brad. "Ishtar, Elaine May, and the Road Not Taken." Sight and Sound (April 24, 2017) ["Elaine May’s misunderstood 1980s comedy critiqued 1980s American foreign policy and parodied male narcissism, which is probably why it also destroyed its director’s career."]
The Journey (also known as Resan) (Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/Italy/Japan/New Zealand/Soviet Union/Sweden/Norway: Peter Watkins, 1987: 873 mins)
Sicinski, Michael. "Nuclear Nightmares, Mapped: Peter Watkins’ The Journey." Keyframe (October 25, 2014) ["Watkins’ 873-minute global documentary focuses on nuclear proliferation and unmasks why we can’t envision a better, safer world."
King Lear (USA: Jean-Luc Godard, 1987: 90 mins)
Brody, Richard. "An Exile in Paradise." The New Yorker (November 20, 2000)
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "The Importance of Being Perverse (Godard’s KING LEAR)." (Originally published in the Chicago Reader: April 8, 1988)
The Last Emperor (China/Italy/UK/France: Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987: 163 mins)
Feinberg, Scott. "Bernardo Bertolucci, Through Trials and Travails, Maintains That Cinema 'Is Life'" The Hollywood Reporter (November 30, 2013)
Lethal Weapon (USA: Richard Donner, 1987: 110 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "Lethal Weapon." Junk Food Cinema (April 13, 2017) ["... the flick that redefined buddy cop cinema: Lethal Weapon. Sure, it's a spectacular, hilarious, and quotable action comedy...but it's also an intensely dark foray into the scarred psyche of Vietnam vets?! Brian and Cargill delve into the darkness, the extended director's cut of the movie, and the cavalcade of actors who were offered the role of Riggs before Mel."]
The Lost Boys (USA: Joel Schumacher, 1987: 97 mins)
Cargill, Robert and Brian Salisbury. "The Lost Boys: To Sexy Sax and Back." Junk Food Cinema #148 (July 2017)
Subisatti, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Revamp: Fright Night (1985) and The Lost Boys (1987)." The Faculty of Horror #40 (July 27, 2016) ["In the 1980s, vampires left their castles and European hideaways for American suburbs and small towns. In this episode, Andrea and Alex examine what happens when the monster you fear is part of your community and discuss what is to be done when they want to borrow more than just sugar…."]
Lee, Kevin B. "When Porn Goes Deep: Love Rites." Keyframe (September 14, 2015) ["A fearless Walerian Borowczyk offers up the cruel base instincts of male desire, as well as the inner resolve of a woman to overcome them."]
Near Dark (USA: Kathryn Bigelow, 1987: 94 mins)
Henriksen, Lance, Mike Mayo and Edward G. Pettit. "Near Dark." The Projection Booth #122 (July 9, 2013) ["Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark is a hybrid vampire film in which "The V Word" is never uttered. We discuss this film, penned by screenwriter Eric Red, and other vampire flicks this episode."]
Kusama, Karyn and April Wolfe. "Near Dark." Switchblade Sisters #2 (November 16, 2017)
Carhill, C. Robert, Greg MacLennan and Brian Salisbury. "Over the Top." Junk Food Cinema (April 21, 2017)
Predator (USA: John McTiernan, 1987: 107 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "Predator." Junk Food Cinema (June 8, 2017)
Kempenaar, Adam and Josh Larsen. "The Predator / Burt Reynolds Tribute (Deliverance)." Filmspotting #697 (September 13, 2018) ["As long as there are people to remember Burt Reynolds, they’re most likely to recall the goofy, charismatic, hard-driving star of movies like "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run" and as the benevolent despot of the late-70s porn scene in his Oscar-nominated role in PTA's "Boogie Nights." But it's possible that none of those Reynolds performances would have existed without his star-making turn in 1972's DELIVERANCE. Reynolds's death gives Adam and Josh a chance to catch up with John Boorman's Best Picture-nominated film and give it a 'Blindspotting' review. "]
Fichera, Blake and James Hancock. "John Carpenter, Horror Master." Wrong Reel #272 (May 29, 2017)
"John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy: The Thing - Prince of Darkness - Mouth of Madness." Horror Vanguard (October 4, 2022)
Beyl, Cameron. "The Coen Brothers [4.1]: Murder and Mayhem." The Directors Series (May 24, 2016)
The Running Man (USA: Paul Michael Glaser, 1987: 101 mins)
Cohen, Rob, et al. "The Running Man (1987)." The Projection Booth (September 10, 2017) ["Set in the distant year of 2017, The Running Man(1987) is set in a dystopian world where reality television rules the airwaves and the most popular show pits criminals against muscle-bound, spandex-clad "stalkers". Based loosely on a novella by "Richard Bachman" (AKA Stephen King), the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards, a man framed as "The Butcher of Bakersfield" and thrown Running Man game, hosted by Killian (Richard Dawson), and featuring a cadre of killers including Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, Professor Toru Tanaka, and more. Andrew Nette and Aaron Peterson join Mike to discuss the film, its odd production history, and the resonance to today's world. We also discuss the work of Robert Sheckley and his influence on "people hunting people" films including The Million Game, The Price of Peril, The Tenth Victim and Freejack."]
Brody, Richard. "Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939-2016." The New Yorker (July 12, 2016)
Spaceballs (USA: Mel Brooks, 1987: 96 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "Spaceballs." Junkfood Cinema (June 22, 2017)
D'Anna, Becky, James Hancock and Adam Rackoff. "30 Years of Star Trek: The Next Generation." Wrong Reel #287 (June 2017)
Surf NAZIs Must Die (USA: Peter George, 1987: 83 mins)
George, Peter, et al. "Surf NAZIs Must Die." The Projection Booth #128 (August 20, 2013) ["The Fourth Reich hangs ten in Peter George's Surf Nazis Must Die, the post-apocalyptic tale of Nazi surfers trying to take over the beaches and create a new world from the ashes of the old; a world where Adolf and his crew rule the beaches."]
The Untouchables (USA: Brian De Palma, 1987: 119 mins)
Bossche, David Vanden. "Brian De Palma's Steadicam and the Definition of Genre." Photogénie (May 23, 2018)
Cook, Adam. "Vincent Van Gogh In Cinema: A multilayered portrait emerges." Keyframe (May 22, 2016)
Wall Street (USA: Oliver Stone, 1987: 126 mins)
Morton, Drew. "The American Dream in Film: As the man said, ‘America’s not a country. It’s just a business.’" Keyframe (May 30, 2016)
The Witches of Eastwick (USA: George Miller, 1987: 118 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "The Witches of Eastwick." Junk Food Cinema (June 16, 2017)
D., Margo and Margo P. "The Witches of Eastwick." Book vs Movie (October 29, 2017)
Withnail and I (UK: Bruce Robinson, 1987: 107 mins)Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "The Witches of Eastwick." Junk Food Cinema (June 16, 2017)
D., Margo and Margo P. "The Witches of Eastwick." Book vs Movie (October 29, 2017)
Arikan, Ali and Peter Labuza. "Withnail and I." The Cinephiliacs #7 (November 5, 2012)
1988
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (UK/Italy: Terry Gilliam, 1988: 126 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Terry Gilliam." Cinema Axis (November 8, 2014)
Alice (Czechoslovakia/Switzerland/UK/West Germany: Jan Svankmajer, 1988: 86 mins)
Smalley, G. "Alice (1988)." 366 Weird Movies (January 19, 2011)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (USA: Renny Harlin, 1988: 93 mins)
Hancock, James and Mike Vanderbilt. "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You." Wrong Reel #329 (October 2017)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Wong Kar-Wai." Cinema Axis (January 5, 2014)
Kuersten, Erich. "Quilty Makes This World: 12 Tricksters (CinemArchetype #1)." Acidemic (January 23, 2012)
Subissati, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Strange and Unusual: Beetlejuice (1988)." Faculty of Horror (November 27, 2017) ["Ghosts, possession, autonomous sculptures and that’s just scratching the surface of Tim Burton’s genre-bending cult classic, Beetlejuice. In this episode, Andrea and Alex manage to avoid saying his name three times while diving into the aesthetics, capitalist virtues and bureaucracy of the afterlife that surrounds everyone’s favourite bio-exorcist."]
Camp de Thiaroye (Senegal/Algeria/Tunisia: Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow, 1988: 157 mins)
Ford, Hamish. "From Otherness 'Over There' to Virtual Presence: Camp de Thiaroye - The Battle of Algiers - Hidden. Postcolonial Cinema Studies. ed. Sandra Ponzanesi & Marguerite Waller. NY: Routledge, 2012: 63-77. [Available in BCTC Library PN1995.9 P6 P68 2012]
Child's Play (USA: Tom Holland, 1988: 87 mins)
El Goro. "Child's Play (1988) and The Exorcist III (1990)." Talk Without Rhythm (October 29, 2017)
Cutler, Aaron. "Multiple Vision Deciphering the isolated gazes in the films of Béla Tarr." Multiple Image Source (February 2012)
Dangerous Liaisons (USA/UK: Stephen Frears, 1988: 119 mins)
Merrick, Amy. "Living In: Dangerous Liaisons." Design Sponge (May 10, 2011)
Dead Ringers (Canada/USA: David Cronenberg, 1988: 116 mins)
Ayers, Drew R. "Vernacular Posthumanism: Visual Culture and Material Imagination." Department of Communication Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2012.
Distant Voices, Still Lives (UK: Terence Davies, 1988: 85 mins)
Wood, Jason. "Directors of the Year: Terence Davies." International Film Guide: 2012 ed. Ian Hadyn Smith.
Drowning by Numbers (UK/Netherlands: Peter Greenaway, 1988: 118 mins)
Liz, Luiza. "Peter Greenaway and the Language of Film." (Posted on Youtube: July 25, 2016)
Eight Men Out (USA: John Sayles, 1988: )
Scurry, Bill. "In Praise of Indie Icon John Sayles." Wrong Reel (September 2017)
Collison, Frank, et al. "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark." The Projection Booth #265 (April 5, 2016)
Frantic (USA/France: Roman Polanski, 1988: 120 mins)
López, Cristina Álvarez and Adrian Martin. "Roman Polanski: Cinema of Invasion." ACMI (October 13, 2016)
Hairspray (USA: John Waters, 1988: 92 mins)
"Divine Trash (John Waters Special)." Naked Lunch #1 (December 7, 2008)
"John Waters." Close Up #5 (November 2014) ["On the occasion of our comprehensive John Waters retrospective in September, Eugene Hernandez sat down with the director at his New York apartment to talk about his career and influences. For this episode, we're happy to present that conversation as well as one between film critic J. Hoberman and the director after a screening of his 1974 film, 'Female Trouble.'"]
Heathers (USA: Michael Lehmann, 1988: 103 mins)
Merrick, Amy. "Living In: Heathers." Design Sponge (April 26, 2011)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (UK/USA: Tony Randel, 1988: 97 mins)
Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser 2." Junk Food Cinema (October 5, 2017)
"Maniac Cop." Junkfood Cinema (May 27, 2016)
Married to the Mob (USA: Jonathan Demme, 1988: 104 mins)
Larke-Walsh, George S. and Stephanie Oliver. "‘This Thing of Ours’: A Woman’s Place in the Gangster Genre." Senses of Cinema #91 (July 2019)
My Neighbor Totoro (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 1988: 86 mins)
Hogg, Trevor. "Drawn to Anime: A Hayao Miyazaki Profile." Flickering Myth (May 26, 2010)
Nayman, Adam. "The Words Don’t Really Matter." The Ringer (April 14, 2023) ["Thirty-five years later, there’s still nothing quite like Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro."]
The Nest (USA: Terence H. Winkless, 1988: 89 mins)
Heumann, Joseph and Robin Murray. "“As beautiful as a butterfly”?: Monstrous cockroach nature and the horror film." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Patty Hearst (UK/USA: Paul Schrader, 1988: 108 mins)
Brody, Richard. "DVD of the Week: Patty Hearst." The Front Row (June 8, 2011)
The Nest (USA: Terence H. Winkless, 1988: 89 mins)
Heumann, Joseph and Robin Murray. "“As beautiful as a butterfly”?: Monstrous cockroach nature and the horror film." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Patty Hearst (UK/USA: Paul Schrader, 1988: 108 mins)
Brody, Richard. "DVD of the Week: Patty Hearst." The Front Row (June 8, 2011)
Shame (Australia: Steve Jodrell, 1988: 94 mins)
Freeman, Mark and Eloise Ross. "The Larrikin Girl: Challenging archetypes in Australian cinema." Senses of Cinema #103 (October 2022)
Story of Women (France: Claude Chabrol, 1988: 108 mins)
Nagy, Phyllis. "Carol Screenwriter talks Cate Blanchett, Todd Haynes, and Isabelle Huppert’s Pact with The Devil." Flixwise (February 14, 2017) ["The funny and brilliant Phyllis Nagy is here to talk about adapting Carol’s screenplay from Patricia Highsmith’s original source material and the lengthy, and at times frustrating, process of getting the film into production. They chat about Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s rendering of the two lead characters, as well as the standout performance from supporting players, Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler. Plus, Phyllis offers a scoop on what happened to a few scenes from the book that didn’t make the final cut of the film. ... In addition to filling us in on details from behind-the-scenes of Carol, Phyllis is also here to discuss a pair of standout performances by the incomparable French actress, Isabelle Huppert. This year Huppert was, at long last, nominated for her first Academy Award. However, Huppert has been giving Oscar-worthy performances well before she ever worked with Verhoeven. If you are unfamiliar with her work up to this point, you might not know where to begin, as her filmography is quite extensive. Fortunately, Phyllis is here to offer up two of her favorite Huppert films as suggestions for your watch list: Claude Chabrol’s 1988 film: Story of Women, and Diane Kurys 1983 film: Entre Nous. Both Story of Women and Entre Nous are period dramas which find Huppert playing malcontented married women, both of whom form deep attachments to their closest female friends. In Story of Women she plays Marie Latour, a woman who, despite her husband’s objections, traffics in abortions and other illegal various dealings in German occupied France. In Entre Nous, Huppert plays Lena Weber, a woman who falls into an expedient marriage in order to escape Nazi control, but after the war is over falls in the love with another woman."]
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (USA: Todd Haynes, 1988: 43 mins)
Benyo, Crystina and Sic Ric. "Naked Lunch Radio #12 – Superstar! The Todd Haynes Story." Sound on Sight (December 8, 2008)
Leyda, Julia. ""Something That Is Dangerous and Arousing and Transgressive": An Interview with Todd Haynes." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
Story of Women (France: Claude Chabrol, 1988: 108 mins)
Nagy, Phyllis. "Carol Screenwriter talks Cate Blanchett, Todd Haynes, and Isabelle Huppert’s Pact with The Devil." Flixwise (February 14, 2017) ["The funny and brilliant Phyllis Nagy is here to talk about adapting Carol’s screenplay from Patricia Highsmith’s original source material and the lengthy, and at times frustrating, process of getting the film into production. They chat about Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s rendering of the two lead characters, as well as the standout performance from supporting players, Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler. Plus, Phyllis offers a scoop on what happened to a few scenes from the book that didn’t make the final cut of the film. ... In addition to filling us in on details from behind-the-scenes of Carol, Phyllis is also here to discuss a pair of standout performances by the incomparable French actress, Isabelle Huppert. This year Huppert was, at long last, nominated for her first Academy Award. However, Huppert has been giving Oscar-worthy performances well before she ever worked with Verhoeven. If you are unfamiliar with her work up to this point, you might not know where to begin, as her filmography is quite extensive. Fortunately, Phyllis is here to offer up two of her favorite Huppert films as suggestions for your watch list: Claude Chabrol’s 1988 film: Story of Women, and Diane Kurys 1983 film: Entre Nous. Both Story of Women and Entre Nous are period dramas which find Huppert playing malcontented married women, both of whom form deep attachments to their closest female friends. In Story of Women she plays Marie Latour, a woman who, despite her husband’s objections, traffics in abortions and other illegal various dealings in German occupied France. In Entre Nous, Huppert plays Lena Weber, a woman who falls into an expedient marriage in order to escape Nazi control, but after the war is over falls in the love with another woman."]
Benyo, Crystina and Sic Ric. "Naked Lunch Radio #12 – Superstar! The Todd Haynes Story." Sound on Sight (December 8, 2008)
Leyda, Julia. ""Something That Is Dangerous and Arousing and Transgressive": An Interview with Todd Haynes." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Canada: Guy Maddin, 1988: 63 mins)
Puhr, Thomas M. "Far from These Shores: Guy Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Redux)(1988)." Film International (October 13, 2022) ["This 64-minute fever dream exudes a confidence and singularity of vision rarely seen in debuts.”]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (USA: Philip Kaufman, 1988: 171 mins)
The Vanishing (Netherlands/France/West Germany: George Sluizer, 1988: 107 mins)
Devens, Arik and Herb van der Poll. "The Vanishing." Cinema Gadfly #21 (June 18, 2016)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (USA: Roger Zemeckis, 1988: 104 mins)
Davis, Adam. "Native images: the otherness and affectivity of the digital body." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
1989
The Abyss (USA: James Cameron, 1989: 145 mins)
Hart, David and Anya Novak. "The Abyss and Sexism in the Workplace." Pop Culture Case Study #235 (May 18, 2017)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (USA: Stephen Hopkins, 1989: 89 mins)
Hancock, James and Mike Vanderbilt. "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You." Wrong Reel #329 (October 2017)
Batman (USA/UK: Tim Burton, 1989: 126 mins)
Koski, Genevieve, Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias. "Batman (1989) / The Lego Batman Movie (Pt. 1)." The Next Picture Show #64 (February 21, 2017) ["This week’s show tells a tale of two Batmen — plus a whole bunch of other Batmen in between. The success of the new family-friendly LEGO BATMAN MOVIE inspired us to go back to a very different earlier iteration of The Caped Crusader: Tim Burton’s 1989 series-starter BATMAN, which took the comic-book hero into darker realms than he’d previously occupied onscreen. In this half, we talk about how Burton and Michael Keaton’s vision for the character functions in the larger context of Batman adaptations over the years, as well as Burton’s subsequent career. "]
---. "Batman (1989) / The Lego Batman Movie (Pt. 2)." The Next Picture Show #65 (February 23, 2017) ["Tim Burton’s BATMAN kick-started the cinematic and pop-culture proliferation of the now-ubiquitous Batman, who today can not only sustain multiple movies at once, but also provides ample fodder for the reference-happy new THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE. In this half of our discussion of all things Batmen, we talk about all the ways LEGO BATMAN draws on — and benefits from — the character’s long history, and consider how the larger Bat Universe has evolved on film since Burton’s day."]
Black Rain (Japan: Shôhei Imamura, 1989: 123 mins)
Hedges, Inez. "Amnesiac memory: Hiroshima/Nagasaki in Japanese film." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Boris Godounov (Poland: Andrzej Zulawski, 1989: 115 mins)
The Ferroni Brigade. "Beginnings Are Useless: A Conversation with Andrzej Żuławski." Notebook (March 12, 2012)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (UK/France: Peter Greenaway, 1989: 124 mins)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (USA: Woody Allen, 1989: 104 mins)
D'anna, Becky, James Hancock and Jacob Rivera. "Woody." Wrong Reel #205 (November 2016) ["Wide ranging discussion of his comedies prefaced by some clear analysis of his personal controversies"]
Grinberg, Marat. "The Birth of a Hebrew Tragedy: Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream as a Morality Play." The Journal of Religion & Film 14.1 (April 2010)
Drugstore Cowboy (USA: Gus van Sant, 1989: 102 mins)
Atkinson, Michael. "Going Places: On the restless career of Gus Van Sant." Moving Image Source (September 17, 2011)
The Killer (Hong Kong: John Woo, 1989: 111 mins)
"The Killer / A Bittersweet Life." Over/Under Movies #49 (June 3, 2016)
My Nights are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Poland: Andrzej Zulawski, 1989: 110 mins)
The Ferroni Brigade. "Beginnings Are Useless: A Conversation with Andrzej Żuławski." Notebook (March 12, 2012)
Mystery Train (USA/Japan: Jim Jarmusch, 1989: 110 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice, et al. "Mystery Train." See Hear #10 (October 20, 2014) ["This time around, Tim has picked Jim Jarmusch’s ensemble cast anthology film of 1989, Mystery Train including Steve Buscemi, Nicoletta Brasschi, and Screaming Jay Hawkins. Three stories, one hotel in the one and only Memphis. We discuss whether this actually qualifies as a music film, Memphis the iconic town versus the ordinary Memphis displayed in this film, Elvis versus Carl Perkins, and the nineties independent film movement."]
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jim Jarmusch." Cinemaxis (December 10, 2013)
New York Stories (USA: Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, 1989: 124 mins)
Cook, Adam. "Vincent Van Gogh In Cinema: A multilayered portrait emerges." Keyframe (May 22, 2016)
Pet Semetary (USA: Mary Lambert, 1989: 103 mins)
Hancock, James and Martin Kessler. "The King of Horror." The Wrong Reel #135 (May 16, 2016)
Roger and Me (USA: Michael Moore, 1989: 91 mins)
Watson, Garry. "Michael Moore: A Man on a Mission or How Far a Reinvigorated Populism Can Take Us." Cineaction #70 (2006)
Romero (USA: John Duigan, 1989: 102 mins)
Eisenbrandt, Matt. "'Assassination of a Saint': Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero Is Canonized as Murder Remains Unsolved." Democracy Now (October 15, 2018) ["As Pope Francis names Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero a saint, we continue our interview with Matt Eisenbrandt, a human rights lawyer and the author of “Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice.” Romero was a champion for the poor and oppressed who was murdered by a U.S.-backed right-wing death squad in 1980 at the beginning of the brutal U.S.-backed military campaign in El Salvador. Eisenbrandt served on the trial team that brought the only court verdict ever reached for Romero’s murder."]
---. "Vatican Canonizes Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, Who Was Killed by a U.S.-Backed Death Squad." Democracy Now (October 15, 2018) ["Pope Francis has named Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero a saint. Romero was a champion for the poor and oppressed who was murdered by a U.S.-backed right-wing death squad in 1980 at the beginning of the brutal U.S.-backed military campaign in El Salvador. Wearing the blood-stained rope belt that Romero wore when he was assassinated, Pope Francis praised Romero for disregarding his own life “to be close to the poor and to his people.” We speak with Matt Eisenbrandt, a human rights lawyer and the author of “Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice.” Eisenbrandt served on the trial team that brought the only court verdict ever reached for Romero’s murder."]
Seinfeld (NBC: Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, 1989-1998)
"Seinfeld, Pt. 1." How Is This Movie (May 16, 2016)
"Seinfeld, Pt. 2: The Aftermath." How Is This Movie (June 20, 2016)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (USA: Philip Kaufman, 1988: 171 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
Devens, Arik and Herb van der Poll. "The Vanishing." Cinema Gadfly #21 (June 18, 2016)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (USA: Roger Zemeckis, 1988: 104 mins)
Davis, Adam. "Native images: the otherness and affectivity of the digital body." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
1989
The Abyss (USA: James Cameron, 1989: 145 mins)
Hart, David and Anya Novak. "The Abyss and Sexism in the Workplace." Pop Culture Case Study #235 (May 18, 2017)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (USA: Stephen Hopkins, 1989: 89 mins)
Hancock, James and Mike Vanderbilt. "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You." Wrong Reel #329 (October 2017)
Koski, Genevieve, Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias. "Batman (1989) / The Lego Batman Movie (Pt. 1)." The Next Picture Show #64 (February 21, 2017) ["This week’s show tells a tale of two Batmen — plus a whole bunch of other Batmen in between. The success of the new family-friendly LEGO BATMAN MOVIE inspired us to go back to a very different earlier iteration of The Caped Crusader: Tim Burton’s 1989 series-starter BATMAN, which took the comic-book hero into darker realms than he’d previously occupied onscreen. In this half, we talk about how Burton and Michael Keaton’s vision for the character functions in the larger context of Batman adaptations over the years, as well as Burton’s subsequent career. "]
---. "Batman (1989) / The Lego Batman Movie (Pt. 2)." The Next Picture Show #65 (February 23, 2017) ["Tim Burton’s BATMAN kick-started the cinematic and pop-culture proliferation of the now-ubiquitous Batman, who today can not only sustain multiple movies at once, but also provides ample fodder for the reference-happy new THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE. In this half of our discussion of all things Batmen, we talk about all the ways LEGO BATMAN draws on — and benefits from — the character’s long history, and consider how the larger Bat Universe has evolved on film since Burton’s day."]
Black Rain (Japan: Shôhei Imamura, 1989: 123 mins)
Cribbs, John, Chris Funderberg and Martin Kessler. "Shohei Imamura." Flixwise (September 19, 2017) ["Martin Kessler is joined by Chris Funderberg and John Cribbs of thepinksmoke.com to discuss the films of two-time Palme d’Or award-wining director Shohei Imamura. They talk about his dark subject matter, his bleak point of view, the phases of his career, and his wild sense of humour. They discuss how Imamura has been handled by critics, compare him to New German Cinema, Luis Buñuel, and discuss why comparing him to other Japanese filmmakers may be misleading."]
Boris Godounov (Poland: Andrzej Zulawski, 1989: 115 mins)
The Ferroni Brigade. "Beginnings Are Useless: A Conversation with Andrzej Żuławski." Notebook (March 12, 2012)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (UK/France: Peter Greenaway, 1989: 124 mins)
Liz, Luiza. "Peter Greenaway and the Language of Film." (Posted on Youtube: July 25, 2016)
D'anna, Becky, James Hancock and Jacob Rivera. "Woody." Wrong Reel #205 (November 2016) ["Wide ranging discussion of his comedies prefaced by some clear analysis of his personal controversies"]
Drugstore Cowboy (USA: Gus van Sant, 1989: 102 mins)
Atkinson, Michael. "Going Places: On the restless career of Gus Van Sant." Moving Image Source (September 17, 2011)
The Killer (Hong Kong: John Woo, 1989: 111 mins)
"The Killer / A Bittersweet Life." Over/Under Movies #49 (June 3, 2016)
My Nights are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Poland: Andrzej Zulawski, 1989: 110 mins)
The Ferroni Brigade. "Beginnings Are Useless: A Conversation with Andrzej Żuławski." Notebook (March 12, 2012)
Kwiatkowski, Al and Brad Strauss. "Andrzej Zulawski." Director's Club #126 (March 14, 2017)
Mystery Train (USA/Japan: Jim Jarmusch, 1989: 110 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice, et al. "Mystery Train." See Hear #10 (October 20, 2014) ["This time around, Tim has picked Jim Jarmusch’s ensemble cast anthology film of 1989, Mystery Train including Steve Buscemi, Nicoletta Brasschi, and Screaming Jay Hawkins. Three stories, one hotel in the one and only Memphis. We discuss whether this actually qualifies as a music film, Memphis the iconic town versus the ordinary Memphis displayed in this film, Elvis versus Carl Perkins, and the nineties independent film movement."]
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jim Jarmusch." Cinemaxis (December 10, 2013)
Cook, Adam. "Vincent Van Gogh In Cinema: A multilayered portrait emerges." Keyframe (May 22, 2016)
Pet Semetary (USA: Mary Lambert, 1989: 103 mins)
Hancock, James and Martin Kessler. "The King of Horror." The Wrong Reel #135 (May 16, 2016)
Watson, Garry. "Michael Moore: A Man on a Mission or How Far a Reinvigorated Populism Can Take Us." Cineaction #70 (2006)
Romero (USA: John Duigan, 1989: 102 mins)
Eisenbrandt, Matt. "'Assassination of a Saint': Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero Is Canonized as Murder Remains Unsolved." Democracy Now (October 15, 2018) ["As Pope Francis names Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero a saint, we continue our interview with Matt Eisenbrandt, a human rights lawyer and the author of “Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice.” Romero was a champion for the poor and oppressed who was murdered by a U.S.-backed right-wing death squad in 1980 at the beginning of the brutal U.S.-backed military campaign in El Salvador. Eisenbrandt served on the trial team that brought the only court verdict ever reached for Romero’s murder."]
---. "Vatican Canonizes Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, Who Was Killed by a U.S.-Backed Death Squad." Democracy Now (October 15, 2018) ["Pope Francis has named Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero a saint. Romero was a champion for the poor and oppressed who was murdered by a U.S.-backed right-wing death squad in 1980 at the beginning of the brutal U.S.-backed military campaign in El Salvador. Wearing the blood-stained rope belt that Romero wore when he was assassinated, Pope Francis praised Romero for disregarding his own life “to be close to the poor and to his people.” We speak with Matt Eisenbrandt, a human rights lawyer and the author of “Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice.” Eisenbrandt served on the trial team that brought the only court verdict ever reached for Romero’s murder."]
"Seinfeld, Pt. 1." How Is This Movie (May 16, 2016)
"Seinfeld, Pt. 2: The Aftermath." How Is This Movie (June 20, 2016)
The Seventh Continent (Austria: Michael Haneke, 1989: 104 mins)
Dawson, Mike. "Contemporary Obscurity: The Glaciation Trilogy." Left Field Cinema (February 23, 2009)
Frey, Mattias. "Great Directors: Michael Haneke." Senses of Cinema #57 (2010)
Dawson, Mike. "Contemporary Obscurity: The Glaciation Trilogy." Left Field Cinema (February 23, 2009)
Frey, Mattias. "Great Directors: Michael Haneke." Senses of Cinema #57 (2010)
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes (USA: Steven Soderbergh, 1989: 100 mins)
Sweetie (Australia: Jane Campion, 1989: 97 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jane Campion." Cinema Axis (September 30, 2013)
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (Japan: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1989: 67 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Steven Soderbergh (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (December 6, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Steven Soderbergh (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (December 7, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Steven Soderbergh (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (December 7, 2014)
Society (USA: Brian Yuzna, 1989: 100 mins)
Subissati, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Class Act: Society (1989)." The Faculty of Horror #109 (July 30, 2022) ["The elite are literally a different breed in Brian Yuzna’s cult classic film about the perils of popularity and privilege. In this episode, Andrea and Alex dive into the mystique that surrounds the wealthy and explore why they need the rest of us to survive."]
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jane Campion." Cinema Axis (September 30, 2013)
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (Japan: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1989: 67 mins)
Shinya Tsukamoto’s extreme, low-budget cyberpunk classic was self-funded and took 18 months to complete. Shot on 16mm, in black and white and partially in collaborator Kei Fujiwara’s own apartment, Tetsuo follows a sadomasochistic metal-fetishist (played by Tsukamoto) into a bizarre love triangle of sorts with a salaryman and his girlfriend, after they hit him with their car. In a film shot through with indelible imagery of painful penetration – including a terrifying rotating drill penis – Tsukamoto expresses the co-existence of destruction and creation with a furious creativity that recalls the work of Lynch and Cronenberg at their most uncompromising.– Katherine McLaughlinBleasdale, John. "Tetsuo: Metal Machine Music." Electric Sheep (July 3, 2012)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spain: Pedro Almodovar, 1989: 101 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (September 29, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
Cyzyk, Skizz, et al. "UHF." The Projection Booth #273 (June 2, 2016)
The Unbelievable Truth (USA: Hal Hartley, 1989: 90 mins)
Hal Hartley Pinewood Dialogues (January 14, 1995) ["Hal Hartley's films are marked by spare, precise visuals, a stylized approach to dialogue that allows characters to speak their innermost thoughts, and an intuitive gift for playing with the conventions of movie-making and storytelling. Playing off the contrast between cerebral characters and quotidian settings, Hartley creates comedic inquiries into the nature of belonging and the search for personal freedom. In the role of writer, director, editor and composer, Hartley exerts control over films about characters for whom control is a fragile and elusive concept. This dialogue took place at a complete retrospective early in Hartley's career."]
Hancock, James and Marcus Pinn. "The Cinema of Hal Hartley." The Wrong Reel #149 (June 16, 2016)
Visitor of a Museum (Soviet Union/West Germany/Switzerland: Konstantin Lopushanskiy, 1989: 136 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
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