1985

Stunning AIDS drama looks beyond the disease and into grief

"...What makes 1985 such a heartbreaking film is its refusal to contextualize..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Now Streaming in Austin: 1985

Yen Tan's AIDS drama is about people drama, not a disease

"...vast number of people. Yen Tan's incredible queer drama 1985 took its power away by taking away its name...."

June 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Class of 1985

The 69th Legislature, 1985, marked a turning point in the future of Texas politics

"...a composite photograph of everyone who served in the 1985 group of state representatives, the Honorable Members of the..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Visual History: Martha Grenon's AMA Images 1985-2000

"...days, so it required a lot more than downloading. 1985 was the first year I got an assignment to..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Martha Grenon

Davis Gets 36 Years for 1985 Murder

Conviction in death of Natalie Antonetti

"...Barton Hills apartment on the morning of Oct. 13, 1985, clutching her head; she had been beaten with what..."

April 22, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Two star-crossed lovers

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Andy Campbell

Astérix Et La Surprise De César (1985) & "The Little Prince"

May 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Yen Tan Sets a Timeless Drama Against the AIDS Crisis at SXSW Film

A different spirit of Christmas in Dallas filmmaker's 1985

"...Like all good stories about death, 1985 is full of life. Dallas-based director Yen Tan's latest..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

Explorers

"...legacy of 1982's E.T. Released during the summer of 1985, Explorers belongs to 1985's school-break abundance of wacky science-project..."

April 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sorry to Bother You

Sly sci-fi satire puts class, race, and selling out under the microscope

"...film, Terry Gilliam’s classic Brazil. And much like that 1985 gem, Sorry to Bother You’s cup spilleth over with..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Wonder

Treacly feel-good drama nevertheless has helpful life lessons

"...Comparisons to 1985’s Mask are all but inevitable given that Wonder’s beleaguered..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sing Street

The director of Once and Begin Again helms another joyful music film

"...action returns to Dublin and backward in time to 1985 in Carney’s new film Sing Street, it’s still a..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B

Be the most knowledgeable voter at your Oscar party

"...the definitive film about Hitler's Final Solution, Claude Lanzmann's 1985 documentary Shoah, a sprawling 10-hour doc interviewing survivors and..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Programs A & B

"...of the definitive film about Hitler's Final Solution: Lanzmann's 1985 film Shoah, a sprawling 10-hour doc interviewing survivors and..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Page Two: Lights, Camera, Print Media

October 1985 was the strangest month

"...October of 1985 was a game changer. The first weekend of the..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Film What You Know

'Ping Pong Summer' draws on filmmaker Michael Tully's own experience

"...breakdancing, and some other stuff that hadn't yet registered. 1985 was Tully's canvas – his own adolescence was what..."

June 20, 2014 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Dallas Buyers Club

Matthew McConaughey gives a searing performance in this true-life story set in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

"...electrician and rodeo rat, who is first glimpsed in 1985 screwing two women while watching the bull-riding through the..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card's supposedly unfilmable militaristic sci-fi novel makes the leap to screen.

"...Almost upon its publication in 1985, author Orson Scott Card's militaristic sci-fi novel Ender's Game..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Les Misérables

This extravagant adaptation of the monster-hit musical is a little pitchy, but it's still a potent piece of cinema.

"...novel) might as well be “Successfully Wringing Tears Since 1985!” – and I’ll be damned if it hasn’t wrung..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Simon and the Oaks

This Swedish import is a family saga that's shaped by the looming Nazi invasion, forbidden love, and unsound decisions.

"...sweep and careful, decorous performances. Adapting from the bestselling 1985 novel by Marianne Fredriksson, director Lisa Ohlin and screenwriter..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ted

Mark Wahlberg and the teddy bear he willed to life as a child stay BFFs into adulthood in Seth McFarlane's zany first foray onto the big screen.

"...that that implies. The film opens in Boston in 1985, with a plummy narration by Patrick Stewart, explaining how..."

June 29, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fright Night

The new Fright Night isn't a prick on the neck of the 1985 original, but what it does it does well.

"...that damned chastity. But, as in Tom Holland's original 1985 film, virtue and purity are lousy guarantees against the..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Starter for 10

This British coming-of-age drama and romantic comedy is fairly predictable, although the charming actors manage to keep the story’s characters just this side of stereotype and mediocrity.

"...U. along with Nicholls during the mid-Eighties – the 1985-86 time period during which Starter for 10 takes place...."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

See No Evil

Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.

"...Penny McNamee. Unlike former porn auteur Gregory Dark's seminal 1985 cumshot opus New Wave Hookers, this rote exercise in..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Touching the Void

Two glacier climbers face the worst and live to tell about it in this harrowingly intimate documentary report.

"...in Simpson’s book of the same title) when in 1985 they decided to climb the near-vertical west face of..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dagon

This H.P. Lovecraft-inspired fish story is so extreme that it borders on camp.

"...the filmmakers whose very first feature film Re-Animator in 1985 attained instant cult status and remains to this day..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Animated Japanese sequel about the legendary bounty hunter.

"...brought to the fore in this recent sequel to 1985's Vampire Hunter D. Both films are drawn from the..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enlightenment Guaranteed

"...but one that will probably please fans of Dörrie (1985's Men and 1994's Nobody Loves Me) and her low-key..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Just Visiting

"...like an old TV movie of the week, circa 1985. The story is spelled out way in advance and..."

April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ran

Kurosawa uses Shakespeare's King Lear as a template, but in Ran Lear's three scheming daughters are sons, and the action is transposed to a mythic, dreamlike, feudal Japan. Like an adrenalized fever dream of ultimate power gone awry, Ran reveals Kurosawa's grasp of visual splendor at its most powerful.

"...Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Masayuki Yui and Hitoshi Ueki. Akira Kurosawa's1985 film Ran is one of the 10 best films..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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