Film Festivals 1988
Another vintage year highlighted by Philip Kaufman's "Unbearable Lightness of Being", Peter Jackson's debut film "Bad Taste", a grand embrace of things past in "Withnail and I", the wonderfully eclectic mix of music and imagery in "Aria", a grand Gallic feast was to be had in "Babette's Feast", the enchanting "Jean de Florette" followed by "Manon des Sources", and stretching the medium was Wim Wenders with "Wings of Desire" (pictured).
Bad Taste (1987)
6.7/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mike Minett, Pete O'Herne, Peter Jackson, Craig Smith, Terry Potter
This notorious debut feature film from Peter Jackson is packed with all the outrageous action, senseless violence and sick humour that has made it one... Read more
Aria (1987)
5.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, Robert Altman, Bill Bryden
Starring: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita Morris, Bridget...
Ten different directors select a different aria and have free rein to do anything that they want. The world of opera meets the medium of film with a w... Read more
Cherry 2000 (1987)
5.4/10
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr
In the future, romance is just a memory and love has been replaced by robotic sex toys.Of all these man-made playmates, none can compare to the Cherry... Read more
The Dead (1987)
7.4/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Helena Carroll, Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal Donnelly
The last film of great American director, John Huston, is a faithful and artful adaptation of a James Joyce story from 'The Dubliners'. The screenplay... Read more
Ground Zero (1987)
6.6/10
Director: Michael Pattinson
Starring: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence
Colin Friels stars as a cinematographer who unwittingly becomes involved in political intrigue when he searches for the truth about the death of his f... Read more
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
6.9/10
Director: Patricia Rozema
Starring: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, John Evans
A wonderfully whimsical little comedy about imagination and the rude intrusion of reality in the life of an awkward temp worker with a penchant for ph... Read more
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh (1987)
8.4/10
Director: Paul Cox
Starring: John Hurt
This film reinforces director Paul Cox's status as a great, driven artist, as he explores the life of another great artist. He visualises the trees, f... Read more
Warm Nights On A Slow Moving Train (1987)
6/10
Director: Bob Ellis
Starring: Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye, Grant Tilly
A train ride you should take if you enjoy a good suspenseful drama. The story follows the antics of a part time teacher/working girl and her undoing p... Read more
Wings of Desire (1987)
8.1/10
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Curt Bois
'The first time I saw the film I thought it was a knockout; on second viewing it already seemed a classic,' wrote J. Hoberman of Wim Wenders' re-exami... Read more
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh (Copy) (1987)
7.7/10
Director: Paul Cox
Starring: John Hurt
This film reinforces director Paul Cox's status as a great, driven artist, as he explores the life of another great artist. He visualises the trees, f... Read more