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Subgenre Sampler
Passion (1982)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli - 'Film within a film' from France's thorniest director, sowing narrative confusion in his story of director Michel Piccoli trying to make a arthouse…
Personal Best (1982)
- Dir. Robert Towne
Feat. Mariel Hemingway, Glenn Close - Excellent directorial debut for scriptwriter Towne (of CHINATOWN fame), that uses slow–motion photography to dynamise its story of two lesbian…
Portrait Of A Showgirl (1982)- Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern
Feat. Lesley Ann Warren, Tony Curtis, Rita Moreno… - Chintz melodrama concerning three Las Vegas showgirls involved in a Caesar's Palace revue. Possibly the drabbest portrait of Sin City imaginable…
Querelle (1982)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau - Fassbinder's parting shot is a fittingly bleak, ultra–stylised adaptation of Jean Genet's writings about the (bi)sexual escapades of a…
Return of Martin Guerre (1982)- Dir. Daniel Vigne
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye - A legendary French tale with Gerard Depardieu as the 16th century peasant who returns to his family after an eight year absense but is suspected of…
Return of the Solider, The (1982)- Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Ann-Margret… - Alan Bates stars as a returning WWI soldier rendered catatonic by the horrors of the battlefield, with no memory of his wife. Somewhat overwrought…
Romeo and Juliet (1982)- Dir. William Woodman
Feat. Alex Hyde-White, Blanche Baker, Esther Rolle - An American television version of Shakespeare's familiar play, filmed in a pseudo–theatrical style. Features a cast of sturdy American an stage…
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (TV Mini-Series) (1982)- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen - Top–notch mini–series version of the classic tale of The Scarlet Pimpernel – an English nobleman who lived a double–life…
Scrubbers (1982)- Dir. Mai Zetterling
Feat. Imogen Bain, Honey Bane, Debby Bishop - A women–behind–bars movie that sidesteps exploitative trappings to deliver a grimly realistic reminder of tragic and frustrated lives.…
Smiley's People (1982)- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Alec Guinness, Bernard Hepton, Barry Foster… - Alec Guinness is John Le Carre's Smiley, a retired agent called back to investigate a collegue's assasination which leads him on a treacherous…
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