Category: 1980s
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This awe-inspiring classic from Wim Wenders captures not just the city of Berlin, but the entire world, at a critical time.
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Making your heart pound in more ways than one, The Fly (1986) stands as one of Cronenberg’s crowning achievements. Jesus. One of my favorite films in the last year was The Substance (2024), and I still go back and watch clips of it sometimes. There’s so much to mine from that film, but a lot…
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Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981) latches on and feeds off the soul in this portrait of a marriage tearing itself apart and bleeding from the orifices. Hoo boy. Where do I begin? I’m a huge fan of body horror. It’s such a deeply personal experience. You might think that seeing the body contort and mutate unnaturally…
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As part of Roger Durling’s Vital Cinema series at the SBIFF Riviera Theater, the 4K restoration displays all of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva (1982) in its postpunk glory, even if the cinema du look is in some ways a product of its time. Diva (1982) begins place at an opera house. In the heart of Paris,…
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