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Subgenre Sampler
Killing Fields, The (1984)
- Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich… - Devastating and award–winning account of Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia.
King Lear (1984)- Dir. Michael Elliot
Feat. Laurence Olivier - Made for Granada television, this magnificent version stars Laurence Olivier who, in the twilight of his career, gives a riveting performance as the…
Last Bastion, The (1984)- Dir. Chris Thomson
Feat. Bill Hunter, Ray Barrett, Robert Vaughn… - Australia's involvement in World War II is explored from behind closed doors in this dramatisation of the decisions made by politicians and generals…
Last Starfighter, The (1984)- Dir. Nick Castle
Feat. Lance Guest, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart - Diverting wish–fulfilment has teenager Lance Guest inducted by aliens into a galaxy–saving space–force because of his ace skills at…
Legend of the Suram Fortress (1984)- Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
- Soviet dir. Sergei Paradjanov resumed his filmmaking career after years of exile with this visually rapturous, obscure folk tale. More opaque in…
Love Streams (1984)- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel - Rarely–seen film by indie iconoclast John Cassavetes, described by some as he at his self–indugent worst, but praised in other quarters…
Love Unto Death (L'amour à Mort) (1984)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi - Alain Resnais (HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR) pursues his themes of love and death with this symbolic tale of lovers Simon (Arditi) and Elizabeth (Azema)…
Lust For Love of a Chinese Courtesan (Ai nu xin zhuan) (1984)- Dir. Yuen Chor
- A middling remake by dir. Chor of his own classic 1972 Shaw Brothers sexploitationer INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A CHINESE COURTESAN. Tending towards a…
Lust in The Dust (1984)- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. Divine, Tab Hunter, Geoffrey Lewis… - Imitating the tone of mid–period John Waters (POLYESTER), dir. Bartel spoofs the Western melodrama with heaving cleavages, abysmal musical…
Magnificent Evans, The (TV Series) (1984)- Feat. Ronnie Barker
- Long–forgotten BBC comedy concerning 'Genius, Photographer And Man Of Letters' Plantagenet Evans (Barker), who lives in a Welsh village and…
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