Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Not the Nine O'Clock News (TV Series) (1982)
- Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones…
- The breakthrough series for comic superstars Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and, er, Pamela Stephenson. The political sketches are as…
Oliver Twist (1982)- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Tim Curry, George C. Scott, Sir Michael Hordern - Tim Curry is creepiness itself in this decent adaptation of Dickens' tale of an orphan boy escaping the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in…
Once, at a Border - Tony Palmer's film about Stravinsky (1982)- Dir. Tony Palmer
- Another exceptional documentary from Tony Palmer, this time about Igor Stravinsky, the "most important and influential composer of the 20th century".…
One Down Two To Go (1982)- Dir. Fred Williamson
Feat. Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly… - Straight–to–video blaxploitation, about a trio of kung fu fighters (Kelly, Brown and Williamson) who go after crooked event promoters.…
One from the Heart (1982)- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia - A lavishly mounted curiosity loosely following the romantic plight of an estranged couple, set against an impressively stylised backdrop of Las…
P'Tang Yang Kipperbang (1982)- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. John Albasiny, Abigail Cruttenden - A cricket–obsessed 14–year–old courts the girl of his dreams, only for painful shyness and the terror of playing opposite her in…
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…
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)
- Dir. Alan Parker
- Based on Roger Waters' personal vision that was the mega–selling Pink Floyd album of 1980, this feature brings the concept of a rock star's…
Pirates of Penzance (1982)- Dir. Wilford Leach
Feat. Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Rondstadt… - Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury star in this hammy screen version of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous operetta.
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