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Subgenre Sampler
Blaze (1989)- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Richard Jenkins - Paul Newman plays flamboyant Southern governor Earl Long, who was scandalized over a love affair with an exotic dancer (Lolita Davidovich, in a…
Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Bernard Hill - Alan Bleasdale's series of plays vividly encapsulates the bleaker side of life in Thatcher's Liverpool. Beginning with the feature–length…
Christabel (1989)- Dir. Adrian Shergold
Feat. Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillane, Geoffrey Palmer - Set during the rise of Nazism, a German lawyer and his English wife plot against Hitler. Written by Dennis Potter.
Circus Boys (1989)- Dir. Kaizo Hayashi
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Moe Kamura, Shu Ken - Sumptuous film blends illusion and reality in contrasting the paths of two brothers from a circus family, one an idealist who attempts to rejuvenate…
City of Sadness, A (Beiging Chengsi) (1989)- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Hsin Shu-fen, Chen Sown-yung… - The first of the director’s trilogy of films about the modern history of Taiwan, here depicting the unstable post–WW2 period through the eyes…
Come In Spinner (TV Mini-series) (1989)- Dir. Robert Marchand
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Rebecca Gibney, Gary Day - Something of an Australian TV classic, this revolves around three women working in a Sydney beauty salon during the closing years of WW2 and the…
Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tim Roth, Michael Gambon - Greenaway combines the best elements of his previous work into one illustrious concoction of charcoal humour, explicit violence, awe–inspiring…
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow… - Premium Woody Allen combines the best of his comedic and dramatic worlds. Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow and Woody himself do justice to…
Dad (1989)- Dir. Gary David Goldberg
Feat. Ted Danson, Jack Lemmon, Ethan Hawke… - Ted Danson returns home to find his father (Jack Lemmon) has physically and emotionally deteriorated.
Dead Poet's Society (1989)- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke… - Robin Williams is perfect as an a maverick English teacher at a private high–school for boys, where his passion for poetry profoundly…
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