Forthcoming Films

Rip It Up, Issue 85, 1 August 1984, Page 31

Forthcoming Films

Four New Zealand feature films are due for release within the next couple of months. They are: Death Warmed Up ... David Blyth, the director of Angel Mine (our first real cult movie) returns with a horror story that promises some quality amongst the blood and gore. Starts August 31.

Vigil ... Vincent Ward’s story of a young girl who sees a stranger who moves into the valley where her family lives after her father dies as an intruder and decides she must watch him, disarm him and expel him from the valley. Starts October. Trial Run ... Annie Whittle’s first major role as a woman who finds herself threatened by a series of menacing events while away on a remote photographic expedition. But can the source of the terror be her own family? Starts October. Among the Cinders ... based on the book by Maurice Shadbolt. The story of a teenager who runs away from home after his only friend is killed. He is taken in by his grandfather who takes him to the countryside he remembers from his youth. The teenager discovers love and sex and must finally come to terms with his own identity. Starts November. The Wild Duck ...an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, starring Jeremy Irons and Liv Ullman. Starts Sept. The Honorary Consul ... stars Richard Gere and Michael Caine. A tale of political intrigue and drama set in South America and based on the novel by Graham Greene. Theme music composed by Paul McCartney and performed by McCartney and John Williams. Starts Sept. The Draughtsman’s Contract film festival favourite. A celebrated landscape artist becomes tied up in a contract with an English gentlewoman in return for drawing sketches of the family house one sexual favour for each drawing. But it’s after the sixth drawing that things begin to complicate themselves. Starts Sept-Oct.

The Ploughman’s Lunch another from the festival. A social comedy that studies personal, political and historical deceit in contemporary Britain. Judged Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director in the 'Standard' British Film Awards. Starts SeptOct. All the Right Moves .. an old film dug out to capitalise on Tom Cruise’s success in Risky Business. Cruise plays a high school athlete determined to get out of a dying Pennsylvania steel town. Starts Sept.