1986 Movies

A review of film books old and new.

In this short piece, fledgling editors, reporters, and illustrators describe their work on Point Virgule, a newspaper by and for young people, includi...

Shots inside and outside a house.

The film Les temps des Assassins is not only an extraordinary work, but it is also an extraordinary exegesis of Rimbaud's clairvoyance. It begins with...

A KABC After School Special from Chiodo Bros. Productions about a young boy with the power to turn his overactive imagination into real-life adventure...

Two portraits, of Lowe and McKenna, respectively. According to Levine, he was “desperately in love” with both of them.

"Sounds of images" come to me from the windows overlooking rue Saint-Maur (the former pilgrims' path to Saint-Denis) and suddenly make me want to take...

Raphael Montañez Ortíz distorts scenes from assorted World War II-era newsreels using digital editing technology to create a destructionist film.

The film follows Jean Claude Diallo, who spent 16 years in exile in Germany, on his journey back to his homeland of Guinea. But his long-awaited retur...

A young man spends the weekend with an eccentric folk artist.

The Pride intercepts a message to Saw Boss declaring the Planet Kyros deadly to Monster Minds. A weapon there turns everything to crystal. Jayce leads...

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Documentary about an unlikely youth chess team from Indianapolis who went on surprise the chess world with their success. The team, made up of young A...

Does the devil wear white? In a small province, a certain Miss B leaves corpses in her wake and fuels a lot of superstitious gossip. Despite warnings...

In 1986, twelve years after his film Kihnu Naine (The women of Kishnou),Mark Soosaar made this complementary documentary at the centre of which are t...

A cross-cut of nearly 100 years of American movies. We see the most precious film sequences that we all remember: From Citizen Kane to Star Wars, from...

An overview of the international performance art and music scene that stumbled through Los Angeles between 1982 and 1985.

Dr Anand practices medicine at a village where he meets and falls in love with deaf and mute Suma. The entry of his college friend Chandru, who is now...