1980s &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:1980s @settima@mograph.social Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:36:26 +0200 Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (David Loeb Weiss, 1980) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-644y <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (David Loeb Weiss, 1980)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" 1978/div div class="img" Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (1980)/div div class="caption" All set for the July 2, 1978 edition of The New York Times, hot off the press./div div class="txt" Production of the last hot type copy of The New York Times on the night of July 1, 1978. The ETAOIN SHRDLU in the title refers to the accidental string of letters that sometimes would pop up using hot metal typesetting. &nbsp; That Linotype setting, and narration, was provided by Carl Schlesinger. That same old, but now digitally set New York Times, provided a lovely farewell when the man passed. Read it here/div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #DavidLoebWeiss #CarlSchlesinger #documentary #ShortFilm #newspapers #press #USA #1970s #1980s/div /section ]]>

Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (David Loeb Weiss, 1980)

Jul

1

1978

Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (1980)

All set for the July 2, 1978 edition of The New York Times, hot off the press.

Production of the last hot type copy of The New York Times on the night of July 1, 1978. The ETAOIN SHRDLU in the title refers to the accidental string of letters that sometimes would pop up using hot metal typesetting.

 

That Linotype setting, and narration, was provided by Carl Schlesinger. That same old, but now digitally set New York Times, provided a lovely farewell when the man passed. Read it here

#FilmDuJour #July #DavidLoebWeiss #CarlSchlesinger #documentary #ShortFilm #newspapers #press #USA #1970s #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-644y Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200 蠱​ [Gu / Bewitched] (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1zly <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 蠱​ [Gu / Bewitched] (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1981)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 蠱 (1981)/div div class="caption" Exorcising demons. DP: Hsin-Yeh Li./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #ChihHungKuei #JenHouSu #EddieWang #HsinYehLi #ShawBrothers #horror #HongKong #Thailand #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

蠱​ [Gu / Bewitched] (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1981)

Jun

30

蠱 (1981)

Exorcising demons. DP: Hsin-Yeh Li.

#FilmDuJour #June #ChihHungKuei #JenHouSu #EddieWang #HsinYehLi #ShawBrothers #horror #HongKong #Thailand #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1zly Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Le démon dans l'île [Demon Is on the Island / Demon of the Island] (Francis... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-76kc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le démon dans l'île [Demon Is on the Island / Demon of the Island] (Francis Leroi, 1983)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 1947/div div class="img" Le démon dans l'île (1983)/div div class="caption" Dr. Gabrielle Martin (Anny Duperey) reads her digital patient file. It mentions her day of birth, June 28, 1947. DP: Jacques Assuérus./div div class="txt" "Don't think too much, it could affect your health, Gabrielle." ### – Dr. Marshall /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #FrancisLeroi #AnnyDuperey #JeanClaudeBrialy #ChristianGaubert #JacquesAssuérus #horror #mystery #France #1980s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Le démon dans l'île [Demon Is on the Island / Demon of the Island] (Francis Leroi, 1983)

Jun

28

1947

Le démon dans l'île (1983)

Dr. Gabrielle Martin (Anny Duperey) reads her digital patient file. It mentions her day of birth, June 28, 1947. DP: Jacques Assuérus.

“Don't think too much, it could affect your health, Gabrielle.”

– Dr. Marshall

#FilmDuJour #June #FrancisLeroi #AnnyDuperey #JeanClaudeBrialy #ChristianGaubert #JacquesAssuérus #horror #mystery #France #1980s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-76kc Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-99qk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Red & Rosy (1989)/div div class="caption" Big Red (Rico Martinez) in his hotrod. DPs: Frank Grow, Ralph Hawkins & Rico Martinez./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #FrankGrow #RicoMartinez #RalphHawkins #drugs #addiction #DragRacing #HotRods #cars #CarCrash #ShortFilm #LowBudget #comedy #horror #puppetry #USA #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989)

Jun

3

Red & Rosy (1989)

Big Red (Rico Martinez) in his hotrod. DPs: Frank Grow, Ralph Hawkins & Rico Martinez.

#FilmDuJour #June #FrankGrow #RicoMartinez #RalphHawkins #drugs #addiction #DragRacing #HotRods #cars #CarCrash #ShortFilm #LowBudget #comedy #horror #puppetry #USA #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-99qk Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1982) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0cdn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1982)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" The Appointment (1982)/div div class="caption" A schoolgirl with long brown hair seen from the back. She's taking the popular shortcut through the fields. DP: Brian West./div div class="txt" "Subject, Sandy Fremont. The last positive sighting of the child was on her way home from a school orchestra rehearsal. This was on Tuesday May 14th at approximately 6:30 in the evening." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #LindseyCVickers #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd #AlanStuart #TrevorJones #BrianWest #thriller #drama #animals #revenge #horror #mystery #UK #1980s ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1982)

May

14

Tue

The Appointment (1982)

“Subject, Sandy Fremont. The last positive sighting of the child was on her way home from a school orchestra rehearsal. This was on Tuesday May 14th at approximately 6:30 in the evening.”

#FilmDuJour #May #LindseyCVickers #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd #AlanStuart #TrevorJones #BrianWest #thriller #drama #animals #revenge #horror #mystery #UK #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0cdn Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hcsz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir Khotinenko, 1987)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" 1949/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Зеркало для героя (1987)/div div class="caption" Sergey Pshenichnyy (Sergey Koltakov) speaking to one of the 1940s farmers. DP: Evgeniy Grebnev./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #VladimirKhotinenko #SvyatoslavRybas #BorisPetrov #EvgeniyGrebnev #BookAdaptation #SciFi #SovietUnion #1980s/div /section ]]>

Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir Khotinenko, 1987)

May

8

1949

Зеркало для героя (1987)

Sergey Pshenichnyy (Sergey Koltakov) speaking to one of the 1940s farmers. DP: Evgeniy Grebnev.

#FilmDuJour #May #VladimirKhotinenko #SvyatoslavRybas #BorisPetrov #EvgeniyGrebnev #BookAdaptation #SciFi #SovietUnion #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hcsz Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Normalsatz [Ordinary Sentence] (Heinz Emigholz, 1982) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qltn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Normalsatz [Ordinary Sentence] (Heinz Emigholz, 1982)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1975/div div class="img" Normalsatz (1982)/div div class="caption" A woman, seated on a bed, speaks to a second woman who is pressed against the side of a bookcase. Still via. DP: Heinz Emigholz./div div class="txt" Part of the Trilogie der Siebziger Jahre ("Trilogy of the Seventies"). /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #HeinzEmigholz #PeterBlegvad #MarciaBronstein #SilkeGrossmann #HannesHatje #ExperimentalFilm #WestGermany #1980s/div /section ]]>

Normalsatz [Ordinary Sentence] (Heinz Emigholz, 1982)

Apr

30

1975

Normalsatz (1982)

A woman, seated on a bed, speaks to a second woman who is pressed against the side of a bookcase. Still via. DP: Heinz Emigholz.

Part of the Trilogie der Siebziger Jahre (“Trilogy of the Seventies”).

#FilmDuJour #April #HeinzEmigholz #PeterBlegvad #MarciaBronstein #SilkeGrossmann #HannesHatje #ExperimentalFilm #WestGermany #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qltn Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Bom Povo Português [The Good People of Portugal] (Rui Simões, 1980) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v4kg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bom Povo Português [The Good People of Portugal] (Rui Simões, 1980)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="occasion" 1974/div div class="img" Bom Povo Português (1980)/div div class="caption" A young soldier triumphantly holds up his riffle. DPs: Manuel Barros, Mário Cabrita Gil, José Luís Carvalhosa, Gérard Collet, Acácio de Almeida, Russell Parker & José Reynès./div div class="txt" Takes places between April 25th, 1974 and November 25th, 1975, during the Revolução dos Cravos. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #RuiSimões #JoséMárioBranco #JoséPedroCaiado #EduardoPaisMamede #LuísMartinsSaraiva #ManuelBarros #MárioCabritaGil #JoséLuísCarvalhosa #GérardCollet #AcácioDeAlmeida #RussellParker #JoséReynès #coup #revolution #politics #documentary #Portugal #1980s/div /section ]]>

Bom Povo Português [The Good People of Portugal] (Rui Simões, 1980)

Apr

25

1974

Bom Povo Português (1980)

A young soldier triumphantly holds up his riffle. DPs: Manuel Barros, Mário Cabrita Gil, José Luís Carvalhosa, Gérard Collet, Acácio de Almeida, Russell Parker & José Reynès.

Takes places between April 25th, 1974 and November 25th, 1975, during the Revolução dos Cravos.

#FilmDuJour #April #RuiSimões #JoséMárioBranco #JoséPedroCaiado #EduardoPaisMamede #LuísMartinsSaraiva #ManuelBarros #MárioCabritaGil #JoséLuísCarvalhosa #GérardCollet #AcácioDeAlmeida #RussellParker #JoséReynès #coup #revolution #politics #documentary #Portugal #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v4kg Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Ко то тамо пева? https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fmjc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ко то тамо пева? [Ko to tamo peva / Who's Singin' Over There?] (Slobodan Šijan, 1980)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" 1941/div div class="img" Ко то тамо пева? (1980)/div div class="caption" A singing man plays the accordion, accompanied by a child smoking a cigarette. DP: Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #SlobodanŠijan #PavleVuisić #Vojislav Kostić #BožidarBotaNikolić #drama #comedy #war #WW2 #Yugoslavia #1980s/div /section ]]>

Ко то тамо пева? [Ko to tamo peva / Who's Singin' Over There?] (Slobodan Šijan, 1980)

Apr

5

1941

Ко то тамо пева? (1980)

A singing man plays the accordion, accompanied by a child smoking a cigarette. DP: Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić.

#FilmDuJour #April #SlobodanŠijan #PavleVuisić #Vojislav Kostić #BožidarBotaNikolić #drama #comedy #war #WW2 #Yugoslavia #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fmjc Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g31n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" Sat/div div class="img" Threads (1984).jpg)/div div class="caption" A caption superimosed over the city of Sheffield: SHEFFIELD SATURDAY MARCH 5TH. DPs: Andrew Dunn & Paul Morris./div div class="txt" "In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable." ### – Narrator /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #MickJackson #KarenMeagher #ReeceDinsdale #DavidBrierly #RitaMay #NicholasLane #JaneHazlegrove #AndrewDunn #PaulMorris #TVMovie #drama #war #Sheffield #UK #Australia #1980s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984)

Mar

5

Sat

Threads (1984)

A caption superimosed over the city of Sheffield: SHEFFIELD SATURDAY MARCH 5TH. DPs: Andrew Dunn & Paul Morris.

“In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.”

– Narrator

#FilmDuJour #March #MickJackson #KarenMeagher #ReeceDinsdale #DavidBrierly #RitaMay #NicholasLane #JaneHazlegrove #AndrewDunn #PaulMorris #TVMovie #drama #war #Sheffield #UK #Australia #1980s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g31n Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100