Adapted from Willy Russell’s play, Educating Rita retains its charm and poignancy in this cosy film version. Rita, (Julie Walters) a working-class hairdresser with a sharp wit,…
Browsing: Movies 1983
Before Reservoir Dogs (1992) star Harvey Keitel became cool he appeared in this tepid thriller as Rivas, a ruthless terrorist who crosses paths with jet-set New…
Although considerably classier than Russ Meyer’s 1964 version and the 1968 Swedish soft-core interpretation, this is still a disappointingly bawdy dramatisation of John Cleland’s 1749…
Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, an 18-year-old welder in a Pittsburgh steel mill who moonlights as an exotic dancer in the dive bar her…
A long-time employee of the legendary music venue Fillmore East in New York, director Allan Arkush was the right man for this rock-flavoured satire about…
Arkady Renko (William Hurt), Chief Investigator of the Moscow Militia, stumbles upon three frozen corpses in Gorky Park one icy winter night. It’s his job…
The horrific true tale of Christine Lewis (Kerry Mack), a naive 16-year-old who meets a handsome German immigrant and carnival worker called Walter Maresch (Ralph…
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet – can he write a classic novel like Wuthering Heights in 24…
After nearly a decade of directing TV adverts for the company he formed with his elder brother Ridley, Tony Scott made his movie debut with…
Called simply Jaws 3 for television and stripped of the one gimmick (3-D) that made it – arguably – acceptable in theatres, this hapless opus…
In one of the weirdest Second World War movies ever made, a bunch of German soldiers bivouac in a remote old Romanian castle in 1941…
Of all Martin Scorsese’s outings with sparring partner Robert DeNiro, this is the strangest. He plays Rupert Pupkin, a desperate wannabe stand-up comic (and seedy…
A notorious Australian flop set in Sydney during the Roaring 20s. Kitty O’Rourke (Liddy Clark, pictured above) becomes a tough gangster after her thug husband…
This ground-breaking film is basically a non-narrative view of America with time-lapse photography (shot from 1975 to 1982) and amazing music. The film is rooted…
From Conan The Barbarian (1982) to the Star Wars sequels, the early 1980s saw an endless array of science-fiction and fantasy films become popular at the box office. Krull was…
A miniature alien spacecraft lands on a Manhattan skyscraper inhabited by a drug dealer and his female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The…
A bunch of hard-nosed Houston oil developers invade a remote fishing village in Scotland with one self-serving purpose in mind – to rip off the…
Sadism, torture, cruelty, racism and Gothic horror surface again in yet another southern military academy in The Lords of Discipline. Under those honey-drippin’ magnolias, there…
From a fact-based screenplay by David Leland (Wish You Were Here) and directed by Alan Clarke (Scum), Made In Britain is a hard-hitting drama that received huge…
Steve Martin is wacky brain surgeon Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr in this brisk comedy – He wants to leave his beautiful but evil and gold-digging wife…