Orion Pictures: Part 3

This episode continues a mini-series of episodes on Orion Pictures, perhaps the best independent distributor not just of the 1980s but of all time.

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This episode covers the following Orion movies released during 1985 and 1986:

Absolute Beginners (1986, Julien Temple)
A.K. (1986, Chris Marker)
At Close Range (1986, James Foley)
Back to School (1986, Alan Metter)
The Bay Boy (1985, Daniel Petrie)
Beer (1985, Patrick Kelly)
Came a Hot Friday (1985, Ian Mune)
Code of Silence (1985, Andrew Davis)
Colonel Redl (1985, István Szabó)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985, Susan Seidelman)
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985, Wayne Wang)
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985, John Schlesinger)
Flesh and Blood (1985, Paul Verhoeven)
Foreign Body (1986, Ronald Neame)
F/X (1986, Robert Mandel)
A Great Wall (1986, Peter Wang)
The Green Ray [aka Summer] (1986, Eric Rohmer)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen)
Haunted Honeymoon (1986, Gene Wilder)
The Heavenly Kid (1985, Cary Medoway)
Henry IV (1985, Marco Bellochio)
Hoosiers (1986, David Anspaugh)
Just Between Friends (1986, Allan Burns)
The Longshot (1986, Paul Bartel)
MacArthur's Children (1985, Masahiro Shinoda)
Maxie (1985, Paul Aaron)
The Mean Season (1985, Phillip Borsos)
Miracles (1986, Jim Kouf)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1986, Stephen Frears)
My New Partner (1985, Claude Zidi)
Opposing Force [aka Hellcamp] (1986, Eric Karson)
The Piece Maker (1986, Brian De Palma [never made])
Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985, Woody Allen)
Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985, Guy Hamilton)
Restless Natives (1986, Michael Hoffman)
Return of the Living Dead (1985, Dan O'Bannon)
The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Secret Admirer (1985, David Greenwalt)
Something Wild (1986, Jonathan Demme)
¡Three Amigos! (1986, John Landis)
Where the Green Ants Dream (1985, Werner Herzog)