1982: Movies Sorted By Tier
Submitted by stooky on Thu, 06/17/2004 - 12:01
Tags:
- Great
- Blade Runner
- Burden Of Dreams
- Diva
- The Draughtman's Contract
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Gandhi
- My Favorite Year
- Night Of The Shooting Stars
- **I have always had my misgivings about post 1970 Italian cinema, the key contributor to this feeling being Lina Wertmuller director of Swept Away & Seven Beauties. I love her films but each time I feel I’ve seen something I shouldn’t have, something seedy and reprehensible. Night Of The Shooting Stars will be remembered as the movie that, to quote a film, made me stop worrying and love Italian cinema…again. It’s a glorious intoxicating story bursting with enthusiasm for cinema and life in general; punctuated by the tiniest piece of arpeggio that does wonders for the pace. Mussolini has fallen and the Nazi’s are retreating in a wake of violence and destruction. The Nazi army has enlisted squadrons of loyal fascists to help them perpetrate their hateful crimes, which have set their gaze upon San Martino, a small Tuscan village. The town is divided whether to stay together in a single church on the advice of the Germans or leave during the night, facing death, and search for the Americans. The events move with assured speed that only comes with great filmmaking, characters are lost; danger and tension mount and scenes that communicate the idyllic pleasures of life sweep your mind away. I was reminded of my youth, nothing in general, just the deepest feeling of nostalgia. When I was four I remember being in a large field of tall grass and just spying my family intermittently through the veil of amber. I felt invigorated and frightened at the same time as in no other time in my life. Night seemed to stimulate these feelings through the entire screening, I felt almost light-headed. The final scene ends the film as it began with a mother’s soothing voice talking to her child, relating a story of her youth. The single shot is a window opened onto a vista of houses below stars wrapped in blue and I must admit I felt completely contented. It’s rare to find any art that’s as comfortable as an old treasured friend, and even more so in movies. Night Of The Shooting Stars is wonderful in that exact way and I can only hope other people will want to see it as well.
- Tootsie
- Victor/Victoria
- The World According To Garp
- Very Good
- 48 Hours
- Eating Raoul
- The Elephant Man
- Fast Times At Ridgemont High
- Fitzcarraldo
- Marianne & Julianne
- Missing
- Poltergeist
- Q
- The Secret Of Nimh
- Sophie's Choice
- Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
- The Verdict
- Good
- Barbarosa
- Conan The Barbarian
- Creepshow
- The Dark Crystal
- Diner
- The Executioner's Song
- Koyaanisquatsi
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
- An Officer And A Gentleman
- Quo Vadis?
- The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
- The Sender
- Tenebre
- The Thing
- Guilty Pleasures
- Cat People
- First Blood
- Average
- Basket Case
- Double Exposure
- Evil Under The Sun
- Firefox
- Night Shift
- Pink Floyd: The Wall
- Tron
- Dissapointing
- The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
- Enter The Ninja
- The Missionary
- National Lampoon's Class Reunion
- Young Doctors in Love
- Cellar Dwellers
- Airplane 2: The Sequel
- Android
- Beastmaster
- The Beast Within
- The Challenge
- Class Of 1984
- Death Wish 2
- Friday The 13th Part 3
- Grease 2
- Halloween 3
- Hear No Evil
- The Last American Virgin
- The Prey
- Rocky III
- The Slayer
- Slumber Party Massacre
- Swamp Thing
- Trail Of The Pink Panther
- Warlords Of The 21st Century
- The Big Stink
- Blood Tide
- Britannia Hospital
- Frankenstein Island
- The Incubus
- Parasite
- Unfortunately Haven’t Seen
- The Atomic Cafe
- Brideshead Revisited (TV)
- Chan Is Missing
- Danton
- Experience Preffered...But Not Essential
- Frances
- Interrogation
- La Balance
- La Nuit De Varennes
- La Traviata
- Moonlighting
- The Return Of Martin Guerre
- Say Amen, Somebody
- Sweeny Todd
- Yol
Cloned From:
A great year for science fiction and cross-dressing.
Sophie's Choice was memorable for the recitation of a great American poem, Emily Dickinson's 'Ample make this bed'.
Interesting, I didn't even notice the Em Dick whilst I was watching, must have been transfixed by Kevin Kline's bizarre perf.
:?) <---Tee hee, whoopsy.
I agree, it was a great year for both. But under that surface was Cat People, the sleezy remake of a great film that's so sleezy it's almost embarrasing to admit I like it. Almost. I saw it when I was 14 and let me tell you Natasha's bare bum was getting quite a work-out if you catch my drift. For about 6 months and then I saw Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany's. Then Jane Fonda in Barbarella. And then Kathleen Turner in Body Heat. Ah, the joy of puberty. That was a busy year.
Tallyho
:?)
Some hotties there. Could you handle a poll on the most stimulating of them? Looks like plenty of material for a mass debate. Ahem.
Ha! I could handle such a pole, it might come in handy! (snicker snicker)
Have you ever done such a list?
Tallyho
:?)
Now you're tempting me. To do such a list, I mean. I'm not promising one, but one might appear. Jenny Agutter would be on it; I used to have a thing for her.
Jenny Agutter? <---I did research and discovered she's the lady from American Werewolf In London. Kinda pixieish. J's gonna have a field day.
Tallyho
:?)
For me, her hottest role was in The Eagle Has Landed, closely followed by Walkabout.
nay: The Eagle Has Landed.
yay!: Walkabout
:?* <---whistling stook
Tallyho
:?)