In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

In the 1985 film „ Out of Africa ” Karen “ Tanja “ Blixen, the character played by Meryl Streep, cites poems by A. E.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

His best known films are La jetée ( 1962 ), A Grin Without a Cat ( 1977 ), Sans Soleil ( 1983 ) and AK ( 1985 ), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, before Ran itself had been released.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

* The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album ' Fire in Harmony ' was ' Blood and Roses ' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.

After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress.

These were followed by another mainstream success as the vampire-next-door in the teen horror film Fright Night ( 1985 ).

* The Dungeonmaster, a 1985 fantasy film ( IMDb )

Do the Right Thing ( 1989 ), Spike Lee's debut film, and The Color Purple ( 1985 ) were full character studies of African American culture and history.

In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

Bowie had a cameo in Yellowbeard, a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film Into the Night.

He declined to play the villain Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill ( 1985 ).

David Huffman ( 10 May 1945 – 27 February 1985 ) was a character actor with many television, film and stage credits.

* King David ( film ), 1985 biographical film starring Richard Gere

The 1985 film adaptation echoed the form by incorporating into the script some of the novel's letters, which the actors spoke as monologues.

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

New directors who appeared in the 80s include actor Jūzō Itami, who directed his first film, The Funeral, in 1984, and achieved critical and box office success with Tampopo in 1985.

Nonetheless, decades later, in Cinéma I and Cinema II ( 1983 – 1985 ), the philosopher Gilles Deleuze took Matter and Memory as the basis of his philosophy of film and revisited Bergson's concepts, combining them with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.

* Martin Scorsese's 1985 film After Hours is a re-imagining of The Trial.

Producer Alberto Grimaldi, prepared to buy film rights to all of Castaneda ’ s work, then paid for pre-production research taking Fellini and his entourage from Rome to Los Angeles and the jungles of Mexico in October 1985.

Joel Barlow: a Connecticut Yankee in an age of revolution ( 1985 )

On August 4, 1985 Fisk caught all nine innings of Tom Seaver's complete game 300th career victory, which was played in Yankee Stadium.

Also that year he starred in the film Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Geoff Murphy's end of the world tale, The Quiet Earth ( 1985 ), Utu ( 1983 ), about the land wars of the 1860s, a cameo role in Murphy's Goodbye Pork Pie ( 1981 ), and Heart of the Stag ( 1984 ).

He was an assistant Yankee general manager in 1985, and individually worked with Rickey Henderson's rehab efforts when Henderson was brought to the Yankees.

* Captain Yankee ( 1985 )

Richland was trained by The Mighty Yankee and debuted in 1985 as " Jimmy Del Ray ".

* Doodle Soup, 1985.

This comedy series debuted in 1985 and took the former Till Death Us Do Part characters Alf Garnett ( Warren Mitchell ) and his wife Else ( Dandy Nichols ) from their Wapping house to a lower-class one-level flat in West Ham.

Nutty was a British comic that ran for 292 issues from 16 February 1980 to 14 September 1985, when it merged with The Dandy.

In September 1985, the ailing Nutty was merged with The Dandy, bringing with it the Bananaman strip, currently the third-longest-running strip still in the comic.

After Desperate Dan took over the front page in 1985, the annual cover reflected this by featuring both Korky and Dan until the 1991 book-the first ever Dandy Annual not to feature Korky on the front in any way.

Hoot was a British comic that ran from ( issues dates ) 26 October 1985 to 25 October 1986, when it merged with The Dandy.

When Nutty merged with The Dandy in 1985, Cuddles did not follow, instead becoming the cover character of Hoot.

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities.

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

On March 3, 1923, in Havana, Cuba, Nin married her first husband, Hugh Parker Guiler ( 1898 – 1985 ), a banker and artist, later known as " Ian Hugo " when he became a maker of experimental films in the late 1940s.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

After the economic crisis of 1982, Hernan Buchi became Minister of Finance from 1985 to 1989.

Between 1985 an 1987 the relationship of the PG with the local Comorians became worse.

In 1985, Cessna became a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamic Corporation.

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

It was announced in the summer of 1985, at the same time as the C128, and became available in quantity later that year.

" Bum " Bright purchased the Dallas Cowboys from Clint Murchison, Jr. As the Cowboys suffered through progressively poorer seasons ( from 10 – 6 in 1985 to 7 – 9 in 1986, 7 – 8 in 1987, and 3 – 13 in 1988 ), Bright became disenchanted with the team.

( In 1985, she became part-owner with her son of the Cypress Inn in Carmel, California.

In 1985, the Winter Music Conference started in Fort Lauderdale Florida and became the premier electronic music conference for dance music disc jockeys.

After the Nicaraguan Revolution resulted in the overthrow and exile of the Somoza's government in 1979, Ortega became a member of the ruling multipartisan Junta of National Reconstruction and was later elected president, serving from 1985 to 1990.

In 1985, Morris became interested in Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist in Dallas.

In 1985, he became chairman of the Minister's Council in the House of Assembly.

Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate 1983, a position he held until 1985, when he became the President of Italy.

Tiny Honduras soon became the tenth largest recipient of United States assistance aid ; total economic and military aid rose to more than US $ 200 million in 1985 and remained at more than US $ 100 million for the rest of the 1980s.

Even greater injections of foreign assistance between 1985 and 1988 kept the economy afloat, but it soon became clear that the successive governments had been borrowing time as well as money.

After the collapse of the Axis powers, Albania became a communist state, the Socialist People's Republic of Albania, which for the most part of its duration was dominated by Enver Hoxha ( died 1985 ).

It was awarded the Camera d ' Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1985 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film, and became a landmark work in modern independent film.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

John Edward Boulting ( 21 November 1913 – 17 June 1985 ) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting ( 21 November 1913 – 5 November 2001 ), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles ; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions ' Cup, the ( now-defunct ) Cup Winners ' Cup and the UEFA Cup ( the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament ).