Film Festivals 1985
This year's festival line-up was spiced with a number of absolute gems including the powerful "El Norte", Shohei Imamara's masterpiece "The Ballad of Narayama", the Coen Brothers' acclaimed "Blood Simple", Jim Jarmusch's engaging look at the American dream, "Stranger Than Paradise" and the hilarious "This is Spinal Tap".
Morons From Outer Space (1985)
4.5/10
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Jimmy Nail, Paul Bown
Hilarious misadventures of four ordinary aliens who crash on Earth. The aliens are quite uninterested in Earth, but curious humans find them to be so... Read more
Mr Wrong (1985)
3.8/10
Director: Gaylene Preston
Starring: Heather Bolton, David Letch, Gary Stalker
Aka "Dark of the Night". What would you do if the car you had just bought made noises like somebody's dying breaths. This made in New Zealand psycho... Read more
Rock and Rule (1983)
Director: Clive A Smith
Starring: Don Francks, Paul Le Mat, Susan Roman
Animated fantasy about a rock and roll star who has plans to bring forth a demon from another dimension. The one vital element that he keeps searching... Read more
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
7.6/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
Offbeat and engaging look at the American dream through "foreign" eyes from Jim Jarmusch. The stagnant lives of two New York misfits are changed when... Read more
Sunrise (1927)
8.2/10
Director: F W Murnau
Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Aka "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans". This exquisite silent film is just as powerful today as when it was made, telling the simple story of a farmer wh... Read more
The Bostonians (1984)
6.3/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy
Set in 19th century New England, the story concerns a love triangle in which Vanessa Redgrave, an early feminist heroine, and Christopher Reeve, a rea... Read more
The Hit (1984)
7.1/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey, John Hurt, Laura Del Sol, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth
Terence Stamp is Willie, a gangster's henchman turned supergrass (informer) trying to live in peaceful hiding in a remote Spanish village. Sun-dappl... Read more
The Razor's Edge (1984)
6.6/10
Director: John Byrum
Starring: Bill Murray, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Theresa Russell, James Keach
Bill Murray gives a finely balanced comic and dramatic portrayal as Larry Darrell, a man searching for meaning after World War I in this adaptation of... Read more
This is Spinal Tap (1983)
8/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Tony Hendra, June...
This hilarious, pseudo-rockumentary follows the U.S. comeback tour of Spinal Tap, a raucous British heavy metal band that has seen better days. The fi... Read more
This is Spinal Tap (Blu-ray) (1983)
7.9/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Tony Hendra, June...
This hilarious, pseudo-rockumentary follows the U.S. comeback tour of Spinal Tap, a raucous British heavy metal band that has seen better days. The fi... Read more