Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Local Hero (1983)
- Dir. Bill Forsyth
Feat. Peter Reigert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson… - Peter Riegert plays an American oil executive assigned to buy out a small Scottish community where, of course, not everyone takes the bait. Burt…
Macbeth (1983)- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Nicol Williamson, Jane Lapotaire - One of the BBC's celebrated series of Shakespeare adaptations, with Nicol Williamson putting in a strong showing as the tortured Scottish usurper.…
Made in Britain (1983)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Tim Roth, Sean Chapman - Probably the finest skinhead movie ever made – Tim Roth giving an electrifying debut performance as a glaring malcontent who takes out his rage…
Makioka Sisters, The (Sasame-yuki) (1983)- Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga - Lyrical Japanese drama set in the 1930's, following the lives of four siblings who have taken on their father's kimono manufacturing business. Based…
Mansfield Park (1983)- Dir. David Giles
Feat. Sylvestra Le Touzel - BBC drama based on Jane Austen's classic about life at an upper class family estate in Eighteenth century rural England.
Meantime (1983)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Pam Ferris… - Mike Leigh's skewed sense of humour takes on the doledrums of Thatcher's London. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are unrecognisably awkward in a…
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano - David Bowie endures the hardships of a Japanese POW camp in WWII. Stylish melodrama, memorably scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Murder In Coweta County (1983)- Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, June Carter-Cash - A gritty fact–based policier about a cold–blooded land baron in 1940s rural Georgia (Griffiths) who murders a black tenant farmer and…
My Brother's Wedding (1983)- Dir. Charles Burnett
Feat. Everett Silas - Crude but affecting follow–up to KILLER OF SHEEP concerns a South Central LA resident torn between attending the funeral of his best friend, or…
Nostalgia (Nostalghia) (1983)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Oleg Jankovsky - A lingering essay on the angst of living in exile, with Oleg Jankovsky as a beleaguered Russian academic subsisting in Italy (like Tarkovsky…
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