 Chariots of Fire 1981  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, Patrick Magee, Alice Krige, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson, Peter Egan, Nicholas Farrell, Cheryl Campbell, Dennis Christopher, Struan Rodger, David Yelland
This is an inspiring story based on the 1924 Olympic games. Two British runners Harold Abrahams and Sam Mussabini (Ben Cross and Ian Holm) practice their sport while working out personal concerns with anti-Semitism and Christian missionary work, respectively. The film won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Writing, Costume Design, and Musical Score. Nominations were received for Best Supporting Actor (Holm) and Director.
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 Gandhi 1982 PG, 188 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Ian Charleson, Saeed Jaffrey, Nigel Hawthorne, Gunther Maria Halmer, Geraldine James, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Ian Bannen
This film was a highlight of the Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, Director, and Actor (Ben Kingsley). The power and passion of Gandhi (Kingsley), who preached nonviolent resistance to British rule, is the focus as the story follows Gandhi's life from a young South African lawyer to leader of an independent India. In all, the film collected nine Oscars and was nominated for three others.
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Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984  PG, 130 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, James Fox, Glenn Close, Cheryl Campbell, Ian Charleson, Nigel Davenport
The seventh Earl of Greystroke has been raised by apes in West Africa and is now attempting to claim his inheritance of the family mansion in Scotland. (That's Glenn Close's voice rather than Andie MacDowell's.)
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Opera 1987  R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Terror at the Opera
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, Antonella Vitale, William McNamara, Barbara Cupisti, Francesca Cassola, Maurizio Garrone
Director Argento comes through with lots of gore again, this time with loud rock music in the background. In fact, the gore may be more than his usual, if that is possible–some is downright revolting. A young opera singer, Betty (Cristina Marsillach) takes over the lead in a Verdi opera after the previous lead was run over by a car, and now a psychopath pursues her.
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The Sun Also Rises 1984  TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Robert Carradine, Zeljko Ivanek, Ian Charleson, Leonard Nimoy, Stephane Audran, Andrea Occhipinti, Elisabeth Bourgine, Hutton Cobb
This remake of Henry King's 1957 "The Sun Also Rises" pales by comparison to the first rendition of Hemingway's classic tale about the "Lost Generation" of expatriates who roamed Europe between the two World Wars. Nicely photographed.
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| 1. Chariots of Fire (1981)
2. Gandhi (1982)
3. Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
4. Opera (1987)
aka: Terror at the Opera
5. The Sun Also Rises (1984)
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