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Tag / 1981

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Kisapmata (1981)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1981, Mike De Leon, Philippines
  • 3 Comments

A young woman gets married but her authoritarian father refuses to let her out of his sight in this grim and unnerving domestic drama with elements of horror, directed with vehemence by the great Mike De Leon. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Clean Slate (1981)

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  • 1981, Bertrand Tavernier, France
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This acidic, darkly comic French neo-western adapted from Jim Thompson’s Texas-set novel, but brilliantly transposed to West Africa, is one of Tavernier’s greatest accomplishments.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Cheerful Wind (1981)

  • Hou, Hsiao-Hsien
  • 1981, Hou, Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan
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A light-hearted Taiwanese romance starring Feng Fei Fei that sees Hou dabbling in commercial genre cinema early on in his career—there’s little in the way of depth but it is still moderately entertaining.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Kaleidoscope, The (1981)

  • Sen, Mrinal
  • 1981, India, Mrinal Sen
  • 1 Comment

Smoke from coal ovens is a recurrent visual motif of class struggle in Sen’s excellent take on the material poverty of Calcutta’s poor, sprinkled with bouts of indelible dreamlike scenes. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 31, 2021November 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

In Search of Famine (1981)

  • Sen, Mrinal
  • 1981, India, Mrinal Sen
  • 1 Comment

Sen at his thought-provoking best, this highly-layered meta-filmic behind-the-scenes drama sees a film crew enter a poor village to make a movie about the 1943 Bengal famine, only to find it increasingly difficult to engage with the people, traditions, history and filmmaking itself.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 4, 2021July 31, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Le Pont du Nord (1981)

  • Rivette, Jacques
  • 1981, France, Jacques Rivette
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Rivette’s quaint adventure featuring two women—one an ex-con, the other a vagabond—navigating the streets of Paris is a freewheeling if also meandering look at how crime is a game of chance and consequence.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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April 3, 2021October 9, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Blow Out (1981)

  • Criterion Collection, De Palma, Brian
  • 1981, Brian De Palma, USA
  • 1 Comment

You gotta love De Palma – Blow Out is a twisted and suspenseful mystery, and also a clever if devilish testament to the art of moviemaking.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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October 15, 2020August 12, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Aviator’s Wife, The (1981)

  • Rohmer, Eric
  • 1981, Eric Rohmer, France
  • 4 Comments

The film’s unconventional narrative structure and free-flowing dialogue stand out as Rohmer effortlessly delivers a relationship-spying story in the guise of a romantic comedy.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 18, 2020September 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Lola (1981)

  • Criterion Collection, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
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This less celebrated entry in Fassbinder’s BRD trilogy is a biting take on capitalism and the commodification of the body as postwar Germany rebuilds.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 28, 2020January 1, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

  • Popular, Spielberg, Steven
  • 1981, Steven Spielberg, USA
  • 7 Comments

Arguably the most iconic and memorable action-adventure film ever made and a textbook example of how Hollywood filmmaking can go so right.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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