All Articles Tagged '1980s' (7)

In the mid-1980s producer Giorgio Moroder released a highly controversial version of the silent movie era classic: Metropolis. According to Wikipedia:

In 1984, a new restoration and edit of the film was made by Giorgio Moroder, a music producer who specialized in pop-rock soundtracks for motion pictures. Moroder's version of the film introduced a new contemporary pop music soundtrack for the film. Although it restored a number of previously missing scenes and plot details…

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Today, an opus magnum of Michael W. Kaluta:

He illustrated Thea von Harbou's Metropolis for the Donning edition of 1988. It's an absolutely fascinating work of art, very sophisticated, with strong echoes of Art Nouveau, Expressionism and Hugh Ferriss drawings. The images are different from Fritz Lang movie, but there's no contradiction - the novel itself is more complex and deep than the movie script written by von Harbou and Lang. This dark world is…

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Robot Carnival (ロボット・カーニバル,) is a Japanese anime anthology film released in 1987. It consists of nine shorts by different directors, one of which was the steampunk robot tale A Tale of Two Robots.



A Tale of Two Robots, directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo, is set in the… Continue

Robot Carnival (ロボット・カーニバル,) is a Japanese anime anthology film released in 1987. It consists of nine shorts by different directors, one of which was the steampunk robot tale Presence.



Presence, directed by Yasuomi Umetsu, tells the story of a man who has an obsession… Continue

Dieselpunk was born long before anyone bothered to invent a name for it. Born in the most inappropriate year: 1963.

First manned space flights; Caribbean crisis; JFK killed in Dallas; nuclear warheads threaten to eliminate our civilization... And Brooks Stevens presents a retro-car design, heavily based on the famous Mercedes-Benz SSK. The body was fitted on a Studebaker Lark Daytona chassis and used a supercharged 289 cu in. (4,750 cc) 290 hp… Continue

The Untouchables (1987)

1920's prohibition Chicago is corrupt from the judges downward. So in going up against Al Capone, Treasury agent Eliot Ness picks just two cops to help him and his accountant colleague. One is a sharp-shooting rookie, the other a seen-it-all beat man. The four of them are ready to battle Capone and his empire, but it could just be that guns are not the best way to get him.


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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Complex tale of the life of New York gangsters from the period of the early 1900's through prohibition, and climaxing in their subsequent reunion in the 1960's. Loyal childhood friends enter a life of crime together that inevitably leads to tragedy.


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