They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for August, 1982
Class of 1984 (1982)
I have a colleague who has a deep, passionate love for Class of 1984 that I am afraid that I can’t quite share. He has seen this movie countless times, has been over every scene, every line of dialogue and can draw out a weird amount of pseudo-analysis both satirical and cultural. The dance in […]
Tempest (1982)
Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” wasn’t one of the bard’s plays that I studied in either high school or college. My class curriculum stuck with the more familiar “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Therefore, I came into Paul Mazursky’s film Tempest without a template. Clearly he intended that his film would do a […]
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Pink Floyd The Wall is a long-form rock opera that, for 95 minutes, wallows in nightmarish images of decay and degradation through striking images, animation and music video-style set pieces that are so engaging in their post-apocalyptic vision that at one point I became concerned for the future of mankind. Needless to say, this is […]
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
I am not really sure how to say this without sounding like I’m praising this drivel but, Friday the 13th Part III is actually better than its two predecessors. Technically, it is done with more skill, better production values and, due to the inclusion of 3D, sort of fun in a morbid way. “Fun” is […]
Silent Rage (1982)
Silent Rage is a movie that employs a Frankenstein-inspired villain, a sweaty serial killer who is murdered and then becomes the experiment of a group of scientists who give him a serum (there’s always a serum) that allows his body to instantaneously heal itself. That’s fitting because the plot itself it sort of Frankenstein-inspired, a […]
