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Subgenre Sampler
Strata (1982)- Dir. Geoff Steven
Feat. Nigel Davenport - Bold but failed attempt to emulate the arthouse cinema of European directors like Bergman, Tarkovsky and Antonioni in a New Zealand setting. Staged…
Tempest (1982)- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon - Paradise is found and then lost for John Cassavetes who escapes mid–life crisis and flees to the Greek Isles with his daughter. Loosely based…
Tender Mercies (1982)- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Robert Duvall - Robert Duvall gives an Oscar winning performance as a down–out–his–luck country singer who paves the slow road back to sobriety.…
Tess (1982)- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Nastassja Kinski - Though beautifully shot, Thomas Hardy's classic novel gets a surprisingly mild treatment from dir. Roman Polanski. Wessex farmgirl Nastassja Kinski…
Tex (1982)
- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly… - Arguably the best adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s teen fictions (THE OUTSIDERS etc.), with Matt Dillon giving an early, heartbreaking performance as a…
That Night in Varennes (1982)- Dir. Etore Scolla
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Louis Barrault, Harvey Keitel - An enthralling, vivid historical drama set during the last days of Louis XVI's reign during the 1791 revolution, but focusing largely on a band of…
Verdict, The (1982)- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason… - Sombre dramatic death–march, with Paul Newman playing a convincingly booze–soaked lawyer, whose last chance in the courtroom sees him…
Veronika Voss (1982)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess - Fictionalised biography of a once famous actress whose career surrendered to drug–addiction, neurosis and the dubious motives of a medical…
Walter / Walter & June (Loving Walter) (1982-1983)- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Keith Allen… - A pair of grim television movies based on the novels by David Cook, starring Ian McKellen as a man with a learning disability who is condemned by…
White Dog (1982)- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives… - A little–seen but widely heralded drama from cult director Samuel Fuller about the struggle of an African–American dog trainer to retrain…
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