We're heading back 40 years in time on this episode as we cover 1984 - a year when we first met Denzel Washington, John Malkovich and The Terminator!
On this episode we'll be looking at the relationships that form between British colonials and Indian locals in A Passage to India, Sally Field trying to make a living in rural Texas in Places of the Heart, a murder mystery set in a Black only army regiment in A Soldier's Story, the story of a friendship formed amidst the Cambodian genocide in The Killing Fields and rival composers in 1700s Vienna in Amadeus.
All this and our usual features, banter, trivia and insights!
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1984 Best Picture Nominees
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
A Soldier's Story
The Killing Fields
Amadeus
*This podcast will contain some spoilers for these movies although we do try our best to signpost them!
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