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Tag Archives: 1980s

CHRIS: This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, US, 1984)

04/07/2012by Dirk 4 Comments

Rob Reiner is the multiplex auteur par excellence. His career is marked by fruitful collaborations with the best screenwriters in Hollywood, creating some of the most memorable scenes in the […]

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CHRIS: An American Werewolf in London (Landis, UK, US, 1981)

30/05/2011by Dirk Leave a comment

There are several good reasons to stay with the closing credits of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF …:. There’s the dreamy, doo wap version of BLUE MOON by The Marcels, a couple […]

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CHRIS: The Thing (Carpenter, US, 1982)

25/04/2011by Dirk 5 Comments

“…satiation rather than horror…” – Derek Malcolm “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding.” – Palmer If we are not going to have AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, then we will have […]

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CHRIS: Excalibur (Boorman, UK, 1981)

31/03/2011by Dirk 8 Comments

Sigh. If you would have asked me 30 years ago, “name your favourite film, go on, what is it?”. I would have snapped back the prompt response: “Excalibur. Its brilliant.” […]

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CHRIS: Mad Max 2: Road Warrior (Miller, Australia, 1981)

21/03/2011by Dirk 6 Comments

  This is a film that existed in my imagination long before I actually saw it on VHS. As a teenager in the nineteen eighties, there were a few posters […]

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DOM: Christmas Story (Clark, US, 1983)

28/12/2010by Dirk Leave a comment

When Bob Clark died a couple of years ago, it seemed all press concentrated on his previous film to this, Porkys, or his other Christmas movie, Black Christmas, but I […]

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CHRIS: Scanners (Cronenberg, Canada, 1981)

16/12/2010by Dirk 1 Comment

SCANNERS was written and directed by Cronenberg and concerns a group of people who have intense telepathic and telekinetic powers who are caught in the middle of an industrial espionage […]

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CHRIS: Blade Runner (Scott, US, 1982)

27/07/2010by Dirk 5 Comments

“I’ve seen things, you people wouldn’t believe.” Could the final scene of BLADE RUNNER be the greatest ever show down in cinema history? Forget the rest of the film for […]

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DOM: Desperately Seeking Susan (Seidelman, US, 1985).

18/07/2010by Dirk 4 Comments

The one thing that the Derek Malcolm list threw up, or rather didn’t was his own personal favourites, we can all rave about Touch Of Evil, Tokyo Story or Shoah, […]

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CHRIS: Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway, UK, 1988)

16/07/2010by Dirk 1 Comment

Alan Parker famously said of Peter Greenaway, that he would move his children to America if he was allowed to make another film. It was a typically frank, working class, […]

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