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Subgenre Sampler
Violent Cop (1989)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano - Popular entertainer 'Beat' Takeshi's directing debut is a stylish, witty yet cynical and disturbing elegy to violence executed with alarming…
Wallace and Gromit Collection (Grand Day Out, The Wrong Tousers, A Close Shave, A Matter of Loaf and Death) (1989-1995)- Dir. Nick Park
Feat. Peter Sallis - Four classic "Wallace and Gromit" short films on two discs disc. Cracking.
Alice (1988)
- Dir. Jan Svankmajer
- The Czech animator's style naturally lends itself to the curiously menacing spirit of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, an absurd world populated…
Dead Ringers (1988)- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold - You'll share in Jeremy Irons' nightmares as twin gynaecologists, both brilliant and respected in their trade, who succumb to perverse mid–life…
Down by Law (1988)- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, John Lurie - Three disparate misfits become friends after sharing an escape from a crummy Southern jail. Art and humour rarely mix better than in this eccentric…
Dreaming, The (1988)- Dir. Mario Andreacchio
Feat. Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, Gary Sweet - A supernatural oddity in which a doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds…
Elvira (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) (1988)- Dir. James Signorelli
Feat. Cassandra Peterson, Jeff Conaway, Edie McClurg… - High camp fun with real–life cult horror movie host Elvira, in her first acting role. Canny blend of tongue–in–cheek innuendo and…
Gandahar (Light Years) (1988)- Dir. Rene Laloux
- Typically vibrant animation from Laloux has an evil force from a 1000 years in the future threatening an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in…
Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Nick Cave - Despite the uncompromising, raw depiction of brutal prison life, this film is a non–exploitative essay that ultimately indicts the future of…
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) (1988)- Dir. Isao Takahata
- Modest 'classic' of Japanese anime that tells the story of two children caught up in the devastating fire–bombing of Kobe in WW2. Amid the…
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