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Where the Green Ants DreamWhere 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 YouBaby, 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…
LiannaLianna (1983) Aro Favourite
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 WeddingMy 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 TreacleBrimstone 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…
SmithereensSmithereens (1982) Aro Favourite
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 BuriedDead 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, TheLoveless, The (1981) Recommended
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'sMadame 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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