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Tag / 1980

April 9, 2023April 9, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Will Your Heart Beat Faster? (1980)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1980, Mike De Leon, Philippines
  • 1 Comment

De Leon’s madcap comedy is a delirious genre-bending piece that sees Japanese yakuza and Chinese gangsters cross paths with a group of Filipino youth caught up in a drug syndicate.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 6, 2021March 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Heiresses, The (1980)

  • Meszaros, Marta
  • 1980, France, Hungary, Marta Meszaros
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Isabelle Huppert plays a Jewish working-class woman who agrees to be secretly impregnated by her rich friend’s husband in order to help the couple conceive in this morally complex tale set in the backdrop of rising Nazism in the 1930s. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 30, 2021April 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Dressed to Kill (1980)

  • Criterion Collection, De Palma, Brian
  • 1980, Brian De Palma, USA
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De Palma’s command of the erotic thriller is indisputable in this suspenseful murder mystery that pays full homage to Hitchcock.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 17, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Elephant Man, The (1980)

  • Criterion Collection, Lynch, David
  • 1980, David Lynch, USA
  • 2 Comments

This could be Lynch’s most enduring film – an emotionally-resonating and psychologically-rich work about discrimination and compassion based on the true story of a horribly disfigured man.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 16, 2020August 29, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Raging Bull (1980)

  • Criterion Collection, Scorsese, Martin
  • 1980, Martin Scorsese, USA
  • 9 Comments

One of Scorsese’s greatest accomplishments—an astonishing character study of the rise and fall of a world champion middleweight boxer that is also an acting and editing masterclass.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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May 25, 2020March 6, 2021 by Eternality Tan

My American Uncle (1980)

  • Resnais, Alain
  • 1980, Alain Resnais, France
  • 1 Comment

An unexpected critical success, Resnais’ sly, mosaic-like film about behavioural psychology as explored through the personal stories of a trio of interconnecting characters is a masterclass in associative editing, and one of his finest pictures.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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October 30, 2019July 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Shining, The (1980)

  • Kubrick, Stanley
  • 1980, Stanley Kubrick, UK, USA
  • 9 Comments

A masterpiece of baroque horror cinema that continues to haunt through tone, technique and characterisation.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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March 29, 2019June 14, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Permanent Vacation (1980)

  • Criterion Collection, Jarmusch, Jim
  • 1980, Jim Jarmusch, USA
  • 2 Comments

Jarmusch’s first feature is at best a time capsule of New York City in the late ‘70s, and at worst, an aimless and meandering borefest.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.
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