They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for August, 1983
Daniel (1983)
I wonder if Daniel might not have come into being if Ragtime hadn’t been so successful. Both are films based on the works of E.L. Doctrow, and both must have been difficult to adapt because Doctrow is an author who is very adept at meshing history and fiction without making it a dry wall of […]
Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1989)
Looking back, I really don’t think that Yor: The Hunter from the Future should have arrived for theatrical release on the exact same weekend as Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn. Not that either film is in danger of making the other look bad, but seeing both in such proximity to one another is likely to […]
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
I have yet to find anyone who can explain to me the advantage of the ArriFlex 3D process, the innovation that brings to life such cinematic ‘masterworks’ as Friday the 13th Part III, Spacehunter and Jaws 3D. From what I understand it is all just as cruddy and dark and badly proportioned as any 3D […]
Easy Money (1983)
Rodney Dangerfield is one of those people whose mere presence makes me laugh. Like Groucho or Keaton, or his director inspiration W.C. Fields, there’s something in his very inhabitance that fills me with anticipation – I know that he is about to say or do something funny and I know I’m going to laugh. That […]
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)
Burt Reynolds does not star in Smokey and the Bandit Part 3; he only appears in a short cameo at the end that I suspect was either by annuity or blackmail. Yet, as much I would love to credit Reynolds for declining this wretched film, it is also notable that he decided to forego Terms […]
The Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
I sort of entered into The Curse of the Pink Panther knowing what I was in for. This is a lucrative series whose star left us too soon but never-the-less whose director, Blake Edwards, makes every single attempt to try and resuscitate somehow, someway, with some hope. You know it’s not going to work but […]
Risky Business (1983)
Risky Business is a sharp rebuke of nearly every horny teen movie that I have endured, movies in which the exploration of sex was a blunt instrument and women were an unexplored territory met with general hostility. This movie is different. It sees the problems of male adolescence for all its faults and fumbling misunderstandings […]
