Film Festivals 1986
A fine program here including the quirky "Can She Bake A Cherry Pie", the controversial "Hail Mary", Albert Brooks' extistential road movie "Lost in America", a rush of fresh air in the form of "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure", the instant cult classic "Repo Man" and Luc Besson's strange hybrid "Subway" (right).
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
7/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton
You want some fresh air? Here it is! Pee-wee Herman goes on an adventure to recover his most important possession - a bicycle stolen by some nasties.... Read more
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
6.9/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Gordon Warnecke, Shirley Anne Fiel...
A small, brilliant film from Britain's alternative network, Channel 4, about a young Pakistani named Omar (Gordon Warnecke), who convinces his wealthy... Read more
After Hours (1985)
7.7/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Thomas Chong, Griffin Dunne, Linda Fiorentino, Te...
A bored, buttoned-up, buttoned-down word processor (Griffin Dunne) sets out on a late night date and finds that different rules apply when it's after... Read more
The Man With Two Brains (1983)
6.4/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner
Steve Martin stars in this very amusing takeoff of the 1950s horror sci-fi Bs as a scientist involved with two women - a nasty wife and a sweet patien... Read more
Repo Man (1984)
6.9/10
Director: Alex Cox
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Vonetta McGee, Sy Richardson, Tracey Walter
Young L.A. punk Emilio Estevez gets an indoctrination into the sleazy world of car repossession by "repo man" Harry Dean Stanton in director Alex Cox'... Read more
Desert Hearts (1985)
7/10
Director: Donna Deitch
Starring: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley
Wonderful love story between a repressed English professor who is waiting for a divorce at a dude ranch for women, and a beautiful casino worker in Re... Read more
Sweet Dreams (1985)
7.1/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth
The true story of Patsy Cline, the gifted, fun-loving queen of Nashville sound, charting the most dramatic years of her efforts to become a top countr... Read more
Catholic Boys (1985)
Director: Michael Dinner
Starring: Kevin Dillon, Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy
Aka "Heaven Help Us". A sharply observed rites-of-passage comedy set in a Catholic boys' school in 1965 Brooklyn, with a group of schoolboys (played b... Read more
The Fourth Man (1984)
7.3/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Jeroen Krabbe, Renee Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman
Paul Verhoeven's surprise hit is a roller-coaster ride through forbidden sensual pleasure in the context of a kinky thriller. The three men in Christi... Read more
The Shooting Party (1984)
7/10
Director: Alan Bridges
Starring: James Mason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud
An all-star British cast is featured in this complex film about the personalities, intrigues and conflicts that happen in the course of a weekend shoo... Read more