Tag: 1980s
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Dudes (1987)
Memories of the Dudes (1987) VHS cover in the Comedy aisle of a video store, Jon Cryer and Daniel Roebuck with their hands up next to a cactus, promising fish-out-of-water laughs with two punkers in a western, radiating Bill and Ted comparisons, or even Wayne’s World (not knowing as a kid that they were from the same director, Penelope… Read.
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Thrilling Bloody Sword (1981)
Bless Justin Decloux and Gold Ninja Video as I would never have come across the Taiwanese martial arts adventure Thrilling Bloody Sword (1981) without their blu-ray release. The title gave me a different impression of what this film would be, which I bought sight unseen from Gold Ninja Video, as some violent wuxia swordsman action… Read.
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The Store (1983)
I’ve only seen two Frederick Wiseman documentaries, and I tend to forget the rhythms of them. Moments brought together in montage and then staying with one scene, before moving onto the next. Cataloguing an institution by shifting around, sometimes faces will reoccur and appear again, others will be forgotten and moved on from. The Store… Read.
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Peking Opera Blues (1986)
Peking Opera Blues (1986) is a rollicking action-adventure comedy-drama, critically regarded as one of the best Hong Kong movies from the 1980s. In the first ten to fifteen minutes, the film might feel overwhelming with all of the characters who are introduced and establishing the 1910s socio-political atmosphere in China. As Peking Opera Blues proceeds,… Read.
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Broken Mirrors (1984)
Broken Mirrors (1984) is a bleak and powerful drama with two narrative strands, the inner workings of a brothel called Club Happy House, and a man whose face we don’t see kidnapping and murdering women off the street. Part of the viewing experience is the tension around when these two strands might intersect, but more than… Read.
