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).
Re-Animator (1985)
7.2/10
Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson
This stylishly grotesque and gory filming of H.P. Lovecraft's 'Herbert West, Re-Animator' hits the mark, as we follow a brilliant young medical studen... Read more
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
7.9/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Ken Ogata
Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collage-like portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates... Read more
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
7.9/10
Director: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Moreno D'e Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic
Celebrated Balkan filmmaker Emir Kusturica won his first Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's highest honour, for this exuberant portrait of 1950s Y... Read more
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1984)
7.7/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest
Mia Farrow stars as a waifish Depression-era waitress who is swept off her feet by Jeff Daniels, the star of her favorite movie. The catch, of course,... Read more
Lost in America (1985)
7.1/10
Director: Albert Brooks
Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Garry Marshall
Albert Brooks' masterpiece, an existential road film about an obsessive Yuppie couple (Brooks and Julie Hagerty) who drop out when Brooks' character i... Read more
Female Trouble (1974)
7.3/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
Divine is Dawn Davenport, teenage delinquent, unwed mother, working girl and murderer. Follow her outrageous life of violence and learn why crime is b... Read more
Hail Mary (1985)
6.7/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste
A reverent modern retelling of the Incarnation and Birth of Christ. The setting is 1980s France where Mary works at her father's gas station. Her sele... Read more
Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? (1983)
5.6/10
Director: Henry Jaglom
Starring: Karen Black, Michael Emil, Frances Fisher
Karen Black and Michael Emil star in this comic story of a love affair between a pedantic, middle-aged divorcee and a neurotic would-be singer who are... Read more
The Funeral (1996)
6.6/10
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Annabella Sciorra
Fashioned around organised crime in the 30's, where the families of two surviving brothers (Christopher Walken and Chris Penn) come together at the un... Read more
Ran (1985)
8.2/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
A Kurosawa masterpiece, a decade-in-the-making version of 'King Lear' that brilliantly blends Japanese history with Shakespeare's themes. A triumphant... Read more