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Testament (1983) – When the Worst Happens
The secret to Littman’s film is that there is no proselytizing. We don’t see the bomb explode; we don’t know the political circumstances or which megalomaniac (elected or dictator) started the deluge. We only see things from the point of view of the innocent who pay for the folly with their lives.
Take My Breath Away: In Defence of 1983's Breathless
Breathless looks music-video slick and drips with style, creating the sense of a heightened reality set on the streets of L.A. This is the nouvelle vague for the MTV generation. The story and characters in both films may seem similar, but to call the 1983 Breathless a remake is a naive assumption.
Battle of the Carmens – Godard’s Prénom Carmen & Saura’s Carmen (1983)
In a time laden with remakes and sequels, today’s filmmakers should take a tip from what happened in 1983, when two cinematic giants showed us how to re-imagine classic tales, and how to forge new and creative pathways into the core of our mythical parables.
Heat and Dust (1983) – Gender Imbalance Spans Time & Space
Heat and Dust was Merchant/Ivory’s biggest hit to date internationally. Britain was in the throes of nostalgia for the period of Raj India – Lean’s A Passage to India was about to break on the big screen and, on TV, The Jewel in the Crown would dominate.
The Year of Living Dangerously (1983)
Hot off the success of his now-classic anti-war epic, Peter Weir took on the adaptation of Christopher Koch’s potboiler about a collision between romance, journalistic obligation and revolution, The Year of Living Dangerously, which would become his last purely Australian effort.
Mind Games: Revisting David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone
You are either in possession of a very new human ability… or a very old one. Dr. Sam Weizak (Herbert Lom) 1983 saw four film…
Local Hero: A Romantic Postcard from Scotland to the Rest of the World
I am proud of my Scottish roots, although I am sorry to say that I have only been there as a child. I will make…
Robert Altman’s Streamers (1983) – Deployment into Oblivion
Streamers was a far cry from ’83 box office hits like Jennifer Beals, lady welder/dancer, seeking respect by getting buckets of water dumped on her in Flashdance or the Star Wars version of Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Return of the Jedi, but I’m certain that was precisely the way Robert Altman wanted it.
Rewind 1983: The Right Stuff
It’s all there, from the big moments on the launch pad that played-out on the international stage to the small moments like chasing your love on horseback through the desert. Intimacy and grandeur, the key elements in the classic epic filmmaking, share the screen equally as if to remind us that all heroes do not necessarily make it to the TV screen.
