{"id":316778,"date":"2025-11-27T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316778\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:24:09","slug":"blast-from-the-past-15-movie-gems-of-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316778\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past: 15 movie gems of 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Company of Wolves<\/p>\n<p>                        <img width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gems7-640x427.jpg\" class=\"none medium\" alt=\"beautiful young dark-haired girl in a red hooded cape talking to a darkly handsome young man with a rakish look about him\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          ITC Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Director Neil Jordan\u2019s sumptuous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Company_of_Wolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gothic fantasy horror<\/a> is a haunting twist on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Red_Riding_Hood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Red Riding Hood<\/a>\u201d adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bloody_Chamber#The_Company_of_Wolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a short story<\/a> by Angela Carter in her anthology of fairy-tale reinventions, The Bloody Chamber. The central narrative concerns a young girl named Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) who sports a knitted red cape and encounters a rakish huntsman\/werewolf (Micha Bergese) in the woods en route to her grandmother\u2019s (Angela Lansbury) house. There are also several embedded wolf-centric fairy tales, two told by Rosaleen and two told by the grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan has described this structure as \u201ca story with very different movements,\u201d all variations on the central theme and \u201cbuilding to the fairy tale that everybody knows.\u201d The production design and gorgeously sensual cinematography\u2014all achieved on a limited $2 million budget\u2014further enhance the dreamlike atmosphere.\u00a0 The Company of Wolves, like the fairy tale that inspired it, is an unapologetically Freudian metaphor for Rosaleen\u2019s romantic and sexual awakening, in which she discovers her own power, which both frightens and fascinates her. It\u2019s rare to find such a richly layered film rife with symbolism and brooding imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Desperately Seeking Susan<\/p>\n<p>                        <img width=\"640\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gems15-640x435.jpg\" class=\"none medium\" alt=\"two young women, similar in appearance, dressed in 1980s New Wave outfits and striking a sultry pose for the camera\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In this quintessential 1980s screwball comedy about mistaken identity, Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) is a dissatisfied upper-class New Jersey housewife fascinated by the local tabloid personal ads, especially messages between two free-spirited bohemian lovers, Susan (Madonna) and Jim (Robert Joy). She follows Susan one day and is conked on the head when a mob enforcer mistakes her for Susan, who had stolen a pair of valuable earrings from another paramour, who had stolen them from a mobster in turn. Roberta comes to with amnesia and, believing herself to be Susan, is befriended by Jim\u2019s best friend, Dez (Aidan Quinn).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desperately_Seeking_Susan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Desperately Seeking Susan<\/a> is director Susan Seidelman\u2019s love letter to the (admittedly sanitized) 1980s counterculture of Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side, peppered with cameo appearances by performance artists, musicians, comedians, actors, painters, and so forth of that time period. The script is rife with witty one-liners and a stellar supporting cast, including John Turturro as the owner of a seedy Magic Club, Laurie Metcalf as Roberta\u2019s sister-in-law Leslie, and a deadpan Steven Wright as Leslie\u2019s dentist love interest. It\u2019s breezy, infectious, frothy fun, and easily Madonna\u2019s best acting role, perhaps because she is largely playing herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Company of Wolves Credit: ITC Entertainment Director Neil Jordan\u2019s sumptuous Gothic fantasy horror is a haunting twist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-316778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}