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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 FortressLegend 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 StreamsLove 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 DeathLove 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 CourtesanLust 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 DustLust 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)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…
Mapp and Lucia (TV Mini-series)Mapp and Lucia (TV Mini-series) (1984)
Dir. Donald McWhinnie
Feat. Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne…
Set in a small seaside town in 1920's England, this comedy of manners is an exquisitely stylised adaptation of E.F Benson's novel. Chronicles the…
Maria's LoversMaria's Lovers (1984)
Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum…
An embittered war veteran (Savage) experiences girl trouble upon returning from Vietnam. With a steamy Nastassja Kinski as the film's obscure object…
Miami Vice (TV Series)Miami Vice (TV Series) (1984-1988)
Dir. Thomas Carter
Feat. Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas
One of the premiere TV–fantasies of the 1980s – pastel–suited vice–cops Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Phillip Michael…

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