Subgenre Sampler
Home Sweet Home (1982)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Frances Barber - Postmen, social workers, and desperate housewives converge in this biting Mike Leigh feature, one of the director’s early achievements. Originally…
Losing Ground (1982)- Dir. Kathleen Collins
Feat. Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones - Noted as the first feature–length drama directed by a black American woman since the 1920s – a semi–autobiographical story of a…
Starstruck (1982)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Jo Kennedy - A fabulous, overlooked Aussie musical in which an ambitious barmaid lives out her dreams to be a singing star in the new wave–inflected early…
All's Well That Ends Well (1981)- Dir. Elijah Moshinsky
Feat. Ian Charleson, Angela Down, Sir Michael Hordern… - Adaptation of the Shakespeare play about a low–born daughter of a doctor who falls in love with the son of a countess, and attempts to cure the…
Aviator's Wife, The (La femme de l'aviateur) (1981)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Philippe Marlaud, Marie Riviere - A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and…
Four Seasons, The (1981)- Dir. Alan Alda
Feat. Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou… - Inspired by the theme and format of SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR, Alda wrote and directed this grown–up comedy in which three wealthy,…
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory - An honest exchange of philosophy transpires over dinner between an out–of–work playwright and a theatre director. Remarkably compelling…
Naked Civil Servant, The (1981)- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. John Hurt, Patricia Hodge, Colin Higgins - The life and times of homosexual Quentin Crisp, as drawn from his autobiography. John Hurt is a revelation as this courageous man who endured major…
S.O.B. (1981)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan… - Blake Edwards' satire of the film industry and Hollywood society in which a movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by…
Take a Letter Mr. Jones (TV Series) (1981)- Feat. John Inman, Rula Lenska, Miriam Margolyes
- British sitcom set in the office of a multinational corporation, where an exec juggles her hectic work life (and workplace sexual politics) with…
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