Subgenre Sampler
Snowman, The (1982)
- Delicately animated version of Raymond Brigg's beautiful, wordless storybook about a snowman that comes to life. One to melt the heart, this won a…
Sophie's Choice (1982)- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline - Master of many accents Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her role as a European refugee of the Nazi death–camps whose uneasy relationship with…
Space Adventure Cobra (1982)- Dir. Osamu Dezaki
- Space opera at its soapiest – a rouge intergalactic criminal thwarts alien pirates, saves the universe, and gets the ladies in this retro anime…
Square Pegs (TV Series) (1982-1983)
- Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Linker, Jami Gertz…
- Sassy high school comedy from the early 1980's centred around Sarah Jessica Parker and Amy Linker as two awkward teenage girls desperate to be…
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982)- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley… - The Enterprise crew are back to do battle with Kirk's old enemy Khan, as he takes control of a Federation Starship. Nice touches of humour and…
Starstruck (1982)- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Jo Kennedy - A fabulous, overlooked Aussie musical in which an ambitious barmaid lives out her dreams to be a singing star in the new wave–inflected early…
State of Things, The (1982)- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Patrick Bauchau, Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman - Reliving the personal turmoil of his first American production (HAMMETT), Wenders fashions a scathing yet oddly comedic…
Still of the Night (1982)- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Meryl Streep, Roy Scheider - Hitchcock–style thriller about a psychiatrist who falls in love with a woman who may have brutally murdered one of his patients.
Stories on Film (1982-1986)- Dir. Larry Parr, Costa Botes, Lynton Butler
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Annie Whittle - Three short films from New Zealand. The Makutu On Mrs. Jones (1986) 25 mins Based on a story by Witi Ihimaera, this short film is about a boys'…
Strata (1982)- Dir. Geoff Steven
Feat. Nigel Davenport - Bold but failed attempt to emulate the arthouse cinema of European directors like Bergman, Tarkovsky and Antonioni in a New Zealand setting. Staged…
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