1980s
We spoke with directing team RKSS (François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell) of Summer Of 84 about their favorite 80’s films, and the process of casting and creating the film.
Daughter of the Nile is a prime example of the underseen gems that we are privileged to finally have access to thanks to distributors like the Cohen Film Collection. You might have to dig a little deeper to find them, but when you do, you are rewarded with something special.
A classic horror film of Haitian voodoo and zombies, The Serpent and the Rainbow continues to scare and delight viewers with its historical relevance and impressive details.
Shawn Glinis provides his personal retrospective of James L. Brooks’ classic comedy Broadcast News on its 30th anniversary, showing us how the film’s understanding of the world colors his own.
In our latest entry of The Nominated Film You May Have Missed series, we discuss the 1989 Robin Williams drama Dead Poets Society.
Gremlins, an ’80s holiday classic, comes mainly from two influences: old-fashioned sci-fi/horror and the Looney Tunes.
Now streaming on Sundance Now is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film, Kamikaze 1989. While mostly nonsensical, it’s a joy to watch.
Evil Dead 2 succeeds in finding the twisted humor within the horror genre and makes the film a memorable exercise of cartoonish entertainment.
Nostalgia is fine when it comes to the entertainment we love, but it can also have unseen dangers, especially in our current digital age.
Premiering back in 1984, Buckaroo Banzai has long been a prized cult classic, though perhaps one that is lesser-known in the wider world.
Sure, it’s a terrible film, yet Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 has elements to make it an entertaining cult classic in the making.
Albert Brooks’s cult classic Lost in America is not just one of the funniest films of the 1980s, but a subtle examination of perspective, too.
Old Enough is an affectionately accurate depiction of how it feels to grow into an age when the opinions of friends are all that matters.
Thirty years on, Alan Clarke’s fitfully funny film, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, still holds up as a first-rate character study and resonant critique of the Thatcher era.
Willow has a special place in many film lovers’ hearts. Many of those who love the 1988 fantasy epic saw it as children, and at that young age, the film was possibly the greatest cinematic achievement they had ever seen. There were unlikely heroes, wondrous creatures and imaginative magic filling nearly every frame.