They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for October, 1983
Richard Pryor . . . Here and Now (1983)
Someone once told me that comedy is born from tragedy. It helps us understand our misery in a way that is relatable and comforting. Show me a comedian whose material does not come from some form of misery. Certainly, Richard Pryor knows this, and he uses all of the dark moments of his past as […]
Educating Rita (1983)
I always say that the best stories are those in which you can feel that history of the characters. You can feel their experience, their education, their life-building just in the way that they carry themselves and in the way that they relate to other people. And then, when the movie is over, you can […]
Heat and Dust (1983)
I have a general passion for stories that take me to countries that are unfamiliar to me. It’s part of the reason that I spend so much time watching National Geographic. I love the look, the texture, the intricate day-to-day feel of places on this Earth that are unfamiliar to my experience. Call it armchair […]
The Right Stuff (1983)
It is perhaps impossible to consider now, looking back through the lens of our success with the moon landing, what a terribly dangerous exercise space travel was, and still is. The Right Stuff illustrates this right from his beginning as we meet the test pilots at California’s Muroc Army Air Field but also a strange […]
The Dead Zone (1983)
What would you do if you could see the future? Imagine what a joy it would be to be able to prevent bad things from happening, but also consider what a terrible thing it would be to have such fore-knowledge. The Dead Zone is a consideration of what such power could do to an intelligent, […]
