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Celebrating both the biggest hits and the most obscure releases of 1980s cinema, focused primarily around exploring the narratives of under‑seen distributors, niche genres, and overlooked classics.
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Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
This episode is the second part of a three-part, occasionally personal, journey through one of the better summers for films during the 1980s: the summer of 1986.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
This episode is the first part of a three-part, occasionally personal, journey through one of the better summers for films during the 1980s: the summer of 1986.
This episode covers the following movies released in May and June of 1986, except otherwise noted:
American Anthem (Albert Magnoli)
Back to School (Alan Metter)
Belizaire the Cajun (Glen Pitre)
Big Trouble (John Cassavetes)
Cobra (George P. Cosmatos)
The Cosmic Eye (Faith Hubley)
Crawlspace (David Schmoeller)
Dangerously Close (Albert Pyun)
Death of a Soldier (Phillipe Mora)
Demons (Lamberto Bava)
The Eyes of the Bird (Gabriel Auer)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
Fire with Fire (Duncan Gibbons)
Floodstage (David Dawkins)
French Quarter Undercover (Joe Catalanotto and Patrick C. Poole)
Funny Dirty Little War (Hector Olivera)
Gone in 60 Seconds (July 1974, H.B. Halicki)
A Great Wall (Peter Wang)
Hard Choices (Rick King)
Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson)
In Nome Del Papa Re (Luigi Magni)
In the Shadows of Kilimanjaro (Raju Patel)
Invaders from Mars (Tobe Hooper)
Jake Speed (Andrew Lane)
The Karate Kid Part 2 (John G. Avildsen)
Killer Party (William Freut)
Labyrinth (Jim Henson)
Legal Eagles (Ivan Reitman)
The Manhattan Project (Marshall Brickman)
Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
My Little Pony: The Movie (Michael Joens)
Never Too Young to Die (Gil Bettman)
Not Quite Paradise (Lewis Gilbert)
On the Edge (Rob Nilsson)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Brian Gibson)
Raw Deal (John Irvin)
Ronja Robbersdaughter (Tage Danielsson)
Running Scared (Peter Hyams)
Ruthless People (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker)
Say Yes (Larry Yust)
Sex Appeal (Chuck Vincent)
Short Circuit (John Badham)
Signal 7 (Rob Nilsson)
Space Camp (Harry Winer)
Spring Symphony (Peter Schamoni)
Sweet Liberty (Alan Alda)
Tea in the Harem (Mehdi Charef)
Top Gun (Tony Scott)
Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
Vamp (Richard Wenk)
Whatever Happened to Kerouac? (Richard Lerner and Lewis McAdams)
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
This episode completes a mini-series of episodes on Orion Pictures, perhaps the best independent distributor not just of the 1980s but of all time.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
Today's episode takes a look at the films playing in theatres on May 23rd, 1980, a very special weekend for movies, with not one but two inarguable classics being released the same week. The movies discussed this episode:
All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
American Gigolo (1980, Paul Schrader)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Being There (1979, Hal Ashby)
Best Boy (1979, Ira Wohl)
The Black Stallion (1979, Carroll Ballard)
Blood Feud (1978, Lina Wertmüller)
Charles et Lucie (1980, Nelly Kaplan)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980, Michael Apted)
Die Laughing (1980, Jeff Werner)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kirshner)
The Europeans (1979, James Ivory)
Fame (1980, Alan Parker)
Fantasia (1941, multiple directors)
Friday the 13th (1980, Sean S. Cunningham)
The Gong Show Movie (1980, Chuck Barris)
The Hollywood Knights (1980, Floyd Mutrux)
Home Movies (1980, Brian De Palma)
Kill or Be Killed (1976, Ivan Hall)
Knife in the Head (1978, Reinhard Hauff)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, Robert Benton)
La Cage Aux Folles (1978, Edouard Molinaro)
Lady and the Tramp (1955, multiple directors)
Little Darlings (1980, Ronald F. Maxwell)
The Long Riders (1980, Walter Hill)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979, Peter Brook)
My Brilliant Career (1979, Gillian Armstrong)
Norma Rae (1979, Martin Ritt)
The Nude Bomb (1980, Clive Donner)
On the Nickel (1980, Ralph Waite)
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
Soupçon (1979, Jean-Charles Tacchella)
'Til Marriage Do Us Part (1974, Luigi Comencini)
The Tin Drum (1979, Volker Schlöndorff)
Tom Horn (1980, William Wiard)
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980, Art Linson)
Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977, Sylvio Narizzano)
Winds of Change [aka Metamorphoses] (1978, Takashi Masunaga)
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
This episode continues a mini-series of episodes on Orion Pictures, perhaps the best independent distributor not just of the 1980s but of all time. This episode covers the following Orion movies released during 1987 and 1988:
Another Woman (1988, Woody Allen)
Au Revior, Les Enfants (1987, Louis Malle)
Babette's Feast (1988, Gabriel Axel)
The Believers (1987, John Schlesinger)
Best Seller (1987, John Flynn)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1988, Eric Rohmer)
Bull Durham (1988, Ron Shelton)
Cherry 2000 (1987, Steve De Jarnatt)
Colors (1988, Dennis Hopper)
The Couch Trip (1988, Michael Ritchie)
Devil in the Flesh (1987, Marco Bellochio)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988, Frank Oz)
Dominick and Eugene (1988, Robert M. Young)
Eight Men Out (1988, John Sayles)
End of the Line (1987, Jay Russell)
Hey Babu Riba (1987, Jovan Acin)
Hotel Colonial (1987, Cinzia Torrini)
House of Cards (1987, David Mamet)
The House on Carroll Street (1988, Peter Yates)
The In Crowd (1988, Mark Rosenthal)
Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (1987, Claude Berri)
Johnny Be Good (1988, Bud Smith)
Lionheart (1987, Franklin J. Shaffner)
Loose Connections (1988, Richard Eyre)
Mac and Me (1988, Stewart Raffill)
Making Mr. Right (1987, Susan Seidelman)
Malone (1987, Harvey Cokliss)
Married to the Mob (1988, Jonathan Demme)
Mississippi Burning (1988, Alan Parker)
Monkey Shines (1988, George A. Romero)
A Month in the Country (1987, Pat O'Connor)
No Man's Land (1987, Peter Werner)
No Way Out (1987, Roger Donaldson)
One Woman or Two (1987, Daniel Vigne)
Radio Days (1987, Woody Allen)
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987, Alan Clarke)
Robocop (1987, Paul Verhoeven)
September (1987, Woody Allen)
Throw Momma From the Train (1987, Danny DeVito)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988, Philip Kaufman)
Wings of Desire (1988, Wim Wenders)
Without a Clue (1988, Thom Eberhardt)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988, Pedro Almodovar)
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
This episode continues a mini-series of episodes on Orion Pictures, perhaps the best independent distributor not just of the 1980s but of all time.
Read the rest of this entry »Saturday Apr 25, 2020
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
This episode continues a mini-series of episodes on Orion Pictures, perhaps the best independent distributor not just of the 1980s but of all time. This episode covers the following Orion movies released during 1983 and 1984:
Amadeus (1984, Miloš Forman)
Amityville 3-D (1983, Richard Fleischer)
Another Country (1984, Marek Kanievska)
Beat Street (1984, Stan Lathan)
The Bounty (1984, Roger Donaldson)
Breathless (1983, Jim McBride)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984, Woody Allen)
Carmen (1984, Carlos Saura)
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984, Tommy Chong)
Class (1983, Lewis John Carlino)
The Cotton Club (1984, Francis Ford Coppola)
Easy Money (1983, James Signorelli)
Full Moon in Paris (1984, Eric Rohmer)
Gorky Park (1983, Michael Apted)
Harry and Son (1984, Paul Newman)
Heartbreakers (1984, Bobby Roth)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984, Tony Richardson)
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983, Steve Carver)
Old Enough (1984, Marisa Silver)
Pauline at the Beach (1983, Eric Rohmer)
Privates on Parade (1984, Michael Blakemore)
Scandalous (1984, Rob Cohen)
Scrubbers (1984, Mai Zetterling)
Strange Invaders (1983, Michael Laughlin)
Strangers Kiss (1984, Matthew Chapman)
Sugar Cane Alley (1984, Euzhan Palcy)
Swann in Love (1984, Volker Schlöndorff)
The Terminator (1984, James Cameron)
Under Fire (1983, Roger Spottiswoode)
Up the Creek (1984, Robert Butler)
The Woman in Red (1984, Gene Wilder)
Yellowbeard (1983, Mel Damski)
Zelig (1983, Woody Allen)
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
This episode starts a mini-series of episodes on Orion Pictures, perhaps the best independent distributor not just of the 1980s but of all time. This episode will cover the first five years of their history (1978-1982), as well as some backstory going all the way back to 1951 in order to set their success story up.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
This episode takes a look at Hemdale Films, an outfit that started in 1967 and is better known as the production company behind The Terminator, Platoon and The Last Emperor, whose turn to theatrical exhibition was mired by a plethora of lawsuits and yielded one true masterpiece and one classic weird movie.
Read the rest of this entry »Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Sunday Mar 29, 2020
This episode, we're doing something a little different, taking a look at the history of the record company International Record Syndicate, or IRS Records, one of the best record labels of the 80s. Yes, we still talk about movies, one from 1982 that features live performances by some of the best punk and new wave bands from England and the US.
The original 1982 theatrical one-sheet for Urgh! A Music War
The LP cover for the movie's soundtrack
Klaus Nomi in a scene from the movie
The Go-Go's pose after performing for the cameras