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).
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
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
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
Ran (4K Ultra HD) (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
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
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
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
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
Plenty (1985)
6.1/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting , Ian McKellen,...
Meryl Streep stars in this David Hare screenplay filmed by Australian director Fred Schepisi ('The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith'). Streep is intelligent... Read more
Subway (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Jean Reno, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Michel Gal...
Fred (Christopher Lambert) is a successful safecracker who needs to find a hideout after robbing the wealthy and well-connected Helena (Isabelle Adjan... Read more