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Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1983
Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1983.
In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.
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1983
- Zelig
- Tender Mercies
- Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
- Koyaanisqatsi – Life Out of Balance
- Fanny and Alexander
- The King of Comedy
- Never Cry Wolf
- A Christmas Story
- The Right Stuff
- The Big Chill
- Local Hero
- Scarface
- The Hunger
- Vacation
As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1983
A Love in Germany A nos amours (Maurice Pialat) A Season in Hakkari (Erden Kiral) Beauty and the Beast (Nils Malmros) Betrayal (David Jones) Breathless (Jim McBride) Careful, He Might Hear You (Carl Schultz) Carmen Christine (John Carpenter) City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz) Confidentially Yours (Francois Truffaut) Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis) Danton (Andrzej Wajda) Dark Habits (Pedro Almodovar) Educating Rita El Norte El Sur (Victor Erice) Entre Nous (Diane Kurys) Eureka (Nicolas Roeg) Exposed (James Toback) Farewell to Matyora (Elem Klimov) First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard) Heat and Dust In the White City (Alain Tanner) Khandhar (The Ruins) (Mrinal Sen) Krull L’Argent (Robert Bresson) Life is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais) Lovesick (Marshall Brickman) Loving Walter (Stephen Frears) Meantime (Mike Leigh) My Brother’s Wedding (Charles Burnett) Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky) Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer) Reuben, Reuben Risky Business (Paul Brickman) Rumble Fish Sans Soleil Sheer Madness (Margarethe von Trotta) Silkwood Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood) Sugar Cane Alley Tchao Pantin (Claude Berri) Terms of Endearment Testament The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura) The Black Stallion Returns The Dresser The Fourth Man The Geisha (Hideo Gosha) The Keep (Michael Mann) The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa) The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah) The Ploughman’s Lunch The Wall (Yilmaz Guney) Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raul Ruiz) Twilight Zone: The Movie (Joe Dante) Under Fire utu Videodrome (David Cronenberg) Vigilante (William Lustig) Yentl Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)
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