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Subgenre Sampler
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett - Dir. Herzog’s usually compelling obsessions – myths, nature, primitive experience – come a cropper in this uneven depiction of a land rights…
Baby, It's You (1983)- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano - High–school sweethearts Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano undergo the trials of the late 60s counter–culture America. Characters and…
Lianna (1983)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries - A mother–of–two breaks out of her cold marriage by way of an affair with a senior lecturer in this defining lesbian film of the 1980s,…
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…
Variety (1983)- Dir. Bette Gordon
Feat. Sandy McLeod, Will Patton - A woman takes a job at a porn theatre and finds herself fascinated by the clientele. Raw, downbeat drama provides an unusual perspective on the…
Brimstone and Treacle (1982)- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Sting, Joan Plowright, Denholm Elliott… - Scripted by Dennis Potter, this cult psychodrama is set in the unstable household of Joan Plowright and Denholm Elliot, which is invaded by an…
Smithereens (1982)- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Richard Hell - Hanging out on the lower rung of the gritty New York music scene in the early 80s, a flaky adolescent girl struggles to make her mark or find…
Dead and Buried (1981)- Dir. Gary A Sherman
Feat. James Farentino, Melody Anderson - Low key horror set around a series of murders in Smalltown, USA, in which the victims refuse to stay in the ground. The makers of ALIEN (Dan…
Loveless, The (1981)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter - A brooding, fetishised love–letter to the motorcycle movies of the 1950s (THE WILD ONE et al), with a bike gang having a troubled interlude in…
Madame Wang's (1981)- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Virginia Bruce - Latterday Morrissey/Warhol production set around the politico–erotic misadventures of a German lad who stows away to New York City. Features…
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