The Films
| Transmission date | Title | Year | Country of origin | Language(s) | Director | Writer | Notes |
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| 19 September 1986 | Themroc | 1973 | France | No dialogue | Claude Faraldo | A surreal tale of a disgruntled labourer who degenerates into an urban caveman. The film's cannibalism scene earned the film its 18 certificate (although the corpse of the policeman who is eaten is quite clearly that of a pig, an obvious joke on the director's part). | |
| 3 October 1986 | Pastoral Hide and Seek | 1974 | Japan | Japanese | Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司) | Also known as Death in the Country, original title: 田園に死す (Den-en ni shisu) | |
| 10 October 1986 | Throw Away Your Books; Go out into the Streets! | 1971 | Japan | Japanese | Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司) | Original title: 書を捨てよ町へ出よう (Sho o Suteyo, Machi e Deyo) | |
| 17 October 1986 | Identification of a Woman | 1982 | Italy France |
Italian, English, French |
Michelangelo Antonioni | Michelangelo Antonioni, Gérard Brach |
Original title: Identificazione di una donna
The film centers on a Roman film director who falls in love with a strange noble woman during his research for a new film. She disappears, and he has an affair with an actress. |
| 24 October 1986 | Pixote | 1981 | Brazil | Braz. Port. | Hector Babenco | Hector Babenco, Jorge Durán |
A chilling account of the lives of street children in São Paulo, including harrowing scenes of torture and sexual assault. Original title: Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco |
| 31 October 1986 | The Clinic | 1982 | Australia | English | David Stevens | Greg Millin | |
| 14 November 1986 | Montenegro, or: Pigs and Pearls | 1981 | Sweden UK |
English Swedish |
Dušan Makavejev | Dušan Makavejev, Branko Vučićević |
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| 28 November 1986 | No Mercy, No Future | 1981 | West Germany | German | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Rita G, Helma Sanders-Brahms |
Original title: Die Berührte Based on a letter received from a schizophrenic woman as she writes about her life, giving herself to the castoffs of Berlin |
| 10 January 1987 | Out of the Blue | 1980 | Canada | English | Dennis Hopper | Leonard Yakir, Brenda Nielson |
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| 17 January 1987 | The Wall | 1983 | Turkey France |
Turkish French |
Yılmaz Güney | Original title: Duvar | |
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—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
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