The Summer of 1986 - Part Three

This episode is the third and final part of an occasionally personal journey through one of the better summers for films during the 1980s: the summer of 1986.

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This episode covers the following movies first released in August of 1986 (unless otherwise noted):
Armed and Dangerous (Mark L. Lester)
Black Joy (Anthony Simmons)
Born American (Renny Harlin)
The Boy Who Could Fly (Nick Castle)
Bullies (Paul Lynch)
Caravaggio (Derek Jarmin)
Choke Canyon (Chuck Ball)
The Dirt Bike Kid (Hoite C. Caston, November 1985)
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Emir Kusturica)
Extremities (Robert M. Young)
50/50 (Uwe Brandner)
A Fine Mess (Blake Edwards)
The Fly (David Cronenberg)
Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (Tom McLoughlin)
Good to Go (Blaine Novak)
Hard Travelling (Dan Bessie)
Howard the Duck (Willard Huyck)
L’Amour En Douce (Edouard Molinaro, never officially released in the United States)
The Liberation of Auschwitz (Irmgard von zur Muhlen)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (Claude Lelouch)
Manhunter (Michael Mann)
My American Cousin (Sandy Wilson)
Night of the Creeps (Fred Dekker)
Next Summer (Nadine Trintignant)
No Surrender (Peter Smith)
One Crazy Summer (Savage Steve Holland)
Reform School Girls (Tom DeSimone)
A Room With a View (James Ivory, April 1986)
Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard)
She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)
Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
Steaming (Joseph Losey)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Tobe Hooper)
Thrashin' (David Winters)
Touch and Go (Robert Mandel)
The Transformers: The Movie (Nelson Shin)
Twist and Shout (Bille August)
Weekend (Eric Rohmer)