M.I.A. for 2008: Part 3, It's the 80s, Do a Lot of Coke and Vote for Ronald Reagan

Here we are, the 1980s. We're past the 1990s, where a bunch of minor works have missed the DVD cut. Here, we have a bizarre mixture of classics and failures. Though we were missing Rosetta (due to the death of its US distributor, USA Films) and The Best Intentions as far as Palme d'Or winners go for the 90s, a number of favorites from the festival in the 80s still have yet to appear on DVD in the US: Palme d'Or winners Under the Sun of Satan, The Ballad of Narayama, and Yol; Best Director winners Time of the Gypsies and Sur; actor winners Dark Eyes [Marcello Mastroianni], Shy People [Barbara Hershey], Ménage [Michel Blanc], Rosa Luxemburg [Barbara Sukowa], Love Me Forever or Never [Fernanda Torres], Kiss of the Spider Woman [William Hurt], Cal [Helen Mirren], The Holy Innocents [Fernando Rabal, Alfredo Landa], Story of Piera [Hanna Schygulla], The Death of Mario Ricci [Gian Maria Volontè], Another Way [Jadwiga Jankowska], Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man [Ugo Tognazzi], Leap into the Void [Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée], and Interrogation [the lovely Krystyna Janda, who won in 1990 due to the film's ban in Poland]. And most of those actors are pretty damn famous. So, as always, let me know what I forgot... and, yes, the title of this blog does come from Mystery Science Theater 3000's commentary of the gem Hobgoblins.

1989

City of Sadness, A - dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien - with Tony Leung - Taiwan/Hong Kong - UNK
Dark Obsession [aka Diamond Skulls] * - dir. Nick Broomfield - with Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe - UK - Kino
Fear, Anxiety, & Depression * - dir. Todd Solondz - with Solondz, Stanley Tucci - USA - Sony
Icicle Thief, The [Ladri di saponette] * - dir. Maurizio Nichetti - Italy - UNK
Last Exit to Brooklyn - dir. Uli Edel - with Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Baldwin, Jerry Orbach, Sam Rockwell - USA/West Germany/UK - UNK

Love Without Pity [Un monde sans pitié] - dir. Eric Rochant - with Hippolyte Girardot, Mireille Perrier, Yvan Attal - France - MGM
Marquis - dir. Henri Xhonneux - France/Belgium - UNK
Rainbow, The - dir. Ken Russell - with Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Glenda Jackson, David Hemmings - UK - UNK
Roselyne and the Lions [Roselyne et les lions] * - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix - France - UNK
Salut Victor! - dir. Anne Claire Poirier - Canada - Strand

Santa sangre - dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky - with Axel Jodorowsky, Adan Jodorowsky - Mexico/Italy - Lionsgate
Story of Boys & Girls, The [Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze] - dir. Pupi Avati - Italy - Wellspring
Todesking, Der - dir. Jörg Buttgereit - West Germany - Barrel Entertainment/Ryko Distribution
War Requiem - dir. Derek Jarman - with Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Sean Bean, Laurence Olivier - UK - UNK
When the Whales Came - dir. Clive Rees - with Helen Mirren, Paul Scofield - UK - 20th Century Fox
Women on the Roof, The [Kvinnorna på taket] - dir. Carl-Gustav Nykvist - with Stellan Skarsgård - Sweden - Hen’s Tooth

1988

Bâton Rouge * - dir. Rafael Moleón - with Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas - Spain - UNK
Distant Voices, Still Lives - dir. Terence Davies - UK - Lionsgate
Drowning by Numbers - dir. Peter Greenaway - with Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson - UK/Netherlands - Lionsgate?
Hôtel Terminus * - dir. Max Ophüls - France/West Germany/USA - Sony?
Lectrice, La - dir. Michel Deville - with Miou-Miou - France - MGM
Patty Hearst - dir. Paul Schrader - with Natasha Richardson, Ving Rhames - USA/UK - Sony/MGM?

Petite voleuse, La [Little Thief, The] - dir. Claude Miller - with Charlotte Gainsbourg - France - Miramax
Straight for the Heart [À corps perdu] * - dir. Léa Pool - Canada - Water Bearer Films
Time of the Gypsies [Dom za vesanje] - dir. Emir Kustarica - Yugoslavia/UK/Italy - Sony
Times to Come [Lo que vendrá] * - dir. Gustavo Mosquera R. - Argentina - Cinevista
To Kill a Priest * - dir. Agnieszka Holland - with Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joss Ackland, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall, Pete Postlethwaite, Joanne Whalley - France/USA - Sony
Track 29 - dir. Nicolas Roeg - with Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp, Sandra Bernhard, Seymour Cassel - UK/USA - MGM
Urinal [Pissoir] * - dir. John Greyson - Canada - Water Bearer Films

1987

Dark Eyes [Oci ciornie] - dir. Nikita Mikhalkov - with Marcello Mastroianni - Italy - UNK
Family, The [Famiglia, La] - dir. Ettore Scola - with Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant - Italy/France - UNK
Good Morning, Babylon - dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani - with Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Gretta Scacchi, Charles Dance - Italy/USA/France - UNK
Ishtar - dir. Elaine May - with Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Isabelle Adjani - USA - Sony
King Lear * - dir. Jean-Luc Godard - with Godard, Woody Allen, Julie Delpy, Molly Ringwald, Norman Mailer, Leos Carax, Peter Sellars, Burgess Meredith - USA - UNK
Light of Day - dir. Paul Schrader - with Michael J. Fox, Joan Jett, Gena Rowlands, Michael McKean - USA - Sony

Man in Love, A [Un homme amoureux] * - dir. Diane Kurys - with Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Peter Riegert, Vincent Lindon - France/Italy - UNK
Night Zoo [Un zoo la nuit] * - dir. Jean-Claude Laurzon - Canada - UNK
Petit amour, Le [Kung-Fu master] * - dir. Agnès Varda - with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy - France - UNK
Sand and Blood [De sable et de sang] * - dir. Jeanne Labrune - with André Dussollier - France - New Yorker
Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein * - dir. Gian Carlo Bertelli - Switzerland - Mystic Fire Video
Shy People * - dir. Andrei Konchalovsky - with Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, Martha Plimpton - USA - Warner

Sorceress [Moine et la sorcière, Le] - dir. Suzanne Schiffman - with Tchéky Karyo, Maria de Medeiros - France - Mystic Fire Video
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story * - dir. Todd Haynes - USA - NULL [Rights issue with Carpenters’ music]
Three Bewildered People in the Night * - dir. Gregg Araki - USA - UNK
Under the Sun of Satan [Sous le soleil de Satan] - dir. Maurice Pialat - with Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Pialat - France - UNK
Westler - dir. Wieland Speck - East Germany - Strand

1986

8 Million Ways to Die * - dir. Hal Ashby - with Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Andy Garcia - USA - Sony
Bandits [Attention bandits!] * - dir. Claude Lelouch - with Jean Yanne, Patrick Bruel - France - UNK
Caravaggio - dir. Derek Jarman - with Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean - UK - Zeitgeist
Charlotte for Ever - dir. Serge Gainsbourg - with Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg - France - NULL
Désordre - dir. Olivier Assayas - with Wadeck Stanczak, Lucas Belvaux, Rémi Martin, Étienne Daho - France - NULL

Howard the Duck - dir. Willard Huyck - with Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins - USA - Universal
Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later, A [Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà] * - dir. Claude Lelouch - with Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant - France - Warner
Ménage [Tenue de soirée] * - dir. Bertrand Blier - with Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Jean-François Stévenin - France - UNK
Noir et blanc * - dir. Claire Devers - France - UNK
Pirates - dir. Roman Polanski - with Walter Matthau - France/Tunisia - UNK
Rosa Luxemburg - dir. Margarethe von Trotta - with Barbara Sukowa - West Germany/Czechoslovakia - New Yorker
She’s Gotta Have It - dir. Spike Lee - with Lee - USA - Criterion?

1985

Alamo Bay - dir. Louis Malle - with Amy Madigan, Ed Harris - USA - Sony
Amour braque, L’ - dir. Andrzej Żuławski - with Sophie Marceau, Tchéky Karyo - France - UNK
Angelic Conversation, The - dir. Derek Jarman - with Judi Dench - UK - UNK
Berlin Affair, The * - dir. Liliana Cavani - Italy/West Germany - MGM
Détective - dir. Jean-Luc Godard - with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday - France - Lionsgate?
Été meurtrier, L’ - dir. Jean Becker - with Isabelle Adjani - France - Universal

Harem * - dir. Arthur Joffé - with Nastassja Kinski, Ben Kingsley - France - UNK
Kiss of the Spider Woman * - dir. Hector Babenco - with Raul Julia, William Hurt, Sonia Braga - USA/Brazil - Universal/Strand?
Legend of Billie Jean, The * - dir. Matthew Robbins - with Helen Slater, Christian Slater, Yeardley Smith - USA - Sony
Péril en la demeure [aka Death in a French Garden] - dir. Michel Deville - with Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Michel Piccoli - France - Triumph Films
Police - dir. Maurice Pialat - with Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Morceau, Sandrine Bonnaire - France - New Yorker
Red Kiss [Rouge baiser] - dir. Véra Belmont - with Lambert Wilson - France/West Germany - Wellspring
Steaming - dir. Joseph Losey - with Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles - UK - UNK

1984

After the Rehearsal [Efter reptitionen] - dir. Ingmar Bergman - with Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin - Sweden - Triumph Films]
Cal * - dir. Pat O’Connor - with Helen Mirren, John Lynch - UK - Warner
Crackers * - dir. Louis Malle - with Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Christine Baranski - USA - Universal
Holy Innocents, The [Santos inocentes, Los] - dir. Mario Camus - with Francisco Rabal, Alfredo Landa, Juan Diego - Spain - Sony

Love on the Ground [Amour par terre, L’] - dir. Jacques Rivette - with Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Kalfon - France - UNK
Love Songs [Paroles et musique] * - dir. Elie Chouraqui - with Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert, Jacques Perrin, Charlotte Gainsbourg - Canada/France - Koch
Love Streams - dir. John Cassavetes - with Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel - USA - UNK
Sotto… Sotto [Sotto… Sotto… strapazzato da anomala passione] - dir. Lina Wertmüller - Italy - Triumph
Stilts, The [Zancos, Los] * - dir. Carlos Saura - with Laura del Sol, Francisco Rabal, Antonio Banderas - Spain - UNK

1983

Abuse * - dir. Arthur J. Bressan Jr. - USA - Cinevista
Another Time, Another Place * - dir. Michael Radford - UK - Sony
Baby, It’s You - dir. John Sayles - with Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Matthew Modine, Robert Downey Jr. - USA - Paramount
Ballad of Narayama, The - dir. Shohei Imamura - Japan - Kino
Danton - dir. Andrzej Wajda - with Gérard Depardieu, Patrice Chéreau - France/Poland/West Germany - Triumph
Death of Mario Ricci, The [Mort de Mario Ricci, La] - dir. Claude Goretta - with Gian Maria Volontè - France/West Germany/Switzerland - New Line Cinema
Eréndira * - dir. Roy Guerra - with Irene Papas - Mexico/France/West Germany - Miramax

Exposed * - dir. James Toback - with Nastassja Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Rudolf Nureyev, Ian McShane, Pierre Clémenti, Bibi Andersson - USA - MGM
Hanna K. * - dir. Costa-Gavras - with Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne - Israel/France - Universal
In the White City [Dans la ville blanche] * - dir. Alain Tanner - with Bruno Ganz - Switzerland/Portugal/UK - New Yorker
Moon in the Gutter, The [Lune dans le caniveau, La] - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix - with Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Vittorio Mezzogiorno - France/Italy - Triumph
Story of Piera, The [Storia di Piera] - dir. Marco Ferreri - with Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Marcello Mastroianni - Italy/France/West Germany - UNK
Terence Davies Trilogy, The - dir. Terence Davies - UK - Strand
Yentl * - dir. Barbara Streisand - with Streisand - USA - MGM

1982

Angel - dir. Neil Jordan - with Stephen Rea - Ireland/UK - Triumph
Another Way [Egymásra nézve] - dir. Károly Makk, János Xantus - with Jadwiga Jankowska - Hungary - UNK
Colegas * - dir. Eloy de la Iglesia - Spain - UNK
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean * - dir. Robert Altman - with Karen Black, Cher, Kathy Bates - USA - Paramount
Eyes, the Mouth, The [Occhi, la bocca, Gli] * - dir. Marco Bellocchio - with Lou Castel, Angela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Piccoli - Italy/France - Triumph
Identification of a Woman [Identificazione di una donna] - dir. Michelangelo Antonioni - Italy/France - Facets
Interrogation - dir. Ryszard Bugajski - with Krystyna Janda - Poland - Kino

Invitation au voyage - dir. Peter Del Monte - with Aurore Clément - France/Italy/West Germany - Triumph Films
Kamikaze 1989 - dir. Wolf Gremm - with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Brigitte Mira, Frank Ripploh - West Germany - MGM
Labyrinth of Passion [Laberinto de pasiones] - dir. Pedro Almodóvar - with Cecilia Roth, Almodóvar, Antonio Banderas - Spain - Cinevista
Passion - dir. Jean-Luc Godard - with Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Jean-François Stévenin, László Szabó - France - MGM/Lionsgate?
Toute une nuit - dir. Chantal Akerman - with Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo - France - UNK
White Dog - dir. Samuel Fuller - with Kristy McNichol - USA - Criterion
Yol * - dir. Yilmaz Güney, Serif Gören - Turkey/Switzerland/France - UNK

1981

Choice of Arms [Choix des armes, Le] - dir. Alain Corneau - with Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve - France - UNK
Deprisa, deprisa * - dir. Carlos Saura - Spain/France - Home Vision
Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains * - dir. Lou Adler - with Diane Lane, Laura Dern, Ray Winstone - Canada - Paramount
Light Years Away [Années lumières, Les] * - dir. Alain Tanner - Switzerland/France - New Yorker
Mystery of Oberwald, The [Mistero di Oberwald, Il] * - dir. Michelangelo Antonioni - with Monica Vitti - Italy/West Germany - UNK
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man [Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo, La] * - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci - with Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante - Italy - Warner

1980

Cocktail Molotov - dir. Diane Kurys - France - Criterion?
From the Life of the Marionettes [Aus dem Leben der Marionetten] - dir. Ingmar Bergman - West Germany/Sweden - UNK
Horse of Pride, The [Cheval d’orgueil, Le] - dir. Claude Chabrol - with François Cluzet - France - Kino
In the Shadow of the Sun - dir. Derek Jarman - UK - UNK

Leap into the Void [Salto nel vuoto] - dir. Marco Bellocchio - with Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée - Italy - UNK
Nijinsky - dir. Herbert Ross - with Alan Bates - UK/USA - Paramount
Pepi, Luci, Bom - dir. Pedro Almodóvar - with Carmen Maura, Cecilia Roth, Assumpta Serna - Spain - Cinevista
Sauve qui peut (la vie) - dir. Jean-Luc Godard - with Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye - France - New Yorker