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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…
Lensman (1984)
Little Drummer GirlLittle Drummer Girl (1984)
Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Diane Keaton, Klaus Kinski
Diane Keaton excels in this politically even handed labyrinthine terrorist thriller. The screenplay was adapted with the assistance of John Le Carre…
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…
Man of FlowersMan of Flowers (1984) Recommended
Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood
A wealthy middle–aged bachelor pays a young woman to disrobe for him on call. A sombre, handsomely shot study of an odd character, with touches…
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…

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