{"id":88752,"date":"2013-02-12T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=88752"},"modified":"2014-06-21T16:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T22:57:30","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1983-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1983-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1983.<\/p>\n

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/p>\n

1983<\/h2>\n

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    \n
  1. Zelig<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Tender Mercies<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Star Wars: Episode VI \u2013 Return of the Jedi<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Koyaanisqatsi \u2013 Life Out of Balance<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Fanny and Alexander<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The King of Comedy<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Never Cry Wolf<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. A Christmas Story<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. The Right Stuff<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. The Big Chill<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Local Hero<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Scarface<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. The Hunger<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Vacation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1983<\/span><\/h6>\n
    A Love in Germany<\/span>
    \n A nos amours (Maurice Pialat)<\/span>
    \n A Season in Hakkari (Erden Kiral)<\/span>
    \n Beauty and the Beast (Nils Malmros)<\/span>
    \n Betrayal (David Jones)<\/span>
    \n Breathless (Jim McBride)<\/span>
    \n Careful, He Might Hear You (Carl Schultz)<\/span>
    \n Carmen<\/span>
    \n Christine (John Carpenter)<\/span>
    \n City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz)<\/span>
    \n Confidentially Yours (Francois Truffaut)<\/span>
    \n Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis)<\/span>
    \n Danton (Andrzej Wajda)<\/span>
    \n Dark Habits (Pedro Almodovar)<\/span>
    \n Educating Rita<\/span>
    \n El Norte<\/span>
    \n El Sur (Victor Erice)<\/span>
    \n Entre Nous (Diane Kurys)<\/span>
    \n Eureka (Nicolas Roeg)<\/span>
    \n Exposed (James Toback)<\/span>
    \n Farewell to Matyora (Elem Klimov)<\/span>
    \n First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)<\/span>
    \n Heat and Dust<\/span>
    \n In the White City (Alain Tanner)<\/span>
    \n Khandhar (The Ruins) (Mrinal Sen)<\/span>
    \n Krull<\/span>
    \n L\u2019Argent (Robert Bresson)<\/span>
    \n Life is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais)<\/span>
    \n Lovesick (Marshall Brickman)<\/span>
    \n Loving Walter (Stephen Frears)<\/span>
    \n Meantime (Mike Leigh)<\/span>
    \n My Brother\u2019s Wedding (Charles Burnett)<\/span>
    \n Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)<\/span>
    \n Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)<\/span>
    \n Reuben, Reuben<\/span>
    \n Risky Business (Paul Brickman)<\/span>
    \n Rumble Fish<\/span>
    \n Sans Soleil<\/span>
    \n Sheer Madness (Margarethe von Trotta)<\/span>
    \n Silkwood<\/span>
    \n Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood)<\/span>
    \n Sugar Cane Alley<\/span>
    \n Tchao Pantin (Claude Berri)<\/span>
    \n Terms of Endearment<\/span>
    \n Testament<\/span>
    \n The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)<\/span>
    \n The Black Stallion Returns<\/span>
    \n The Dresser<\/span>
    \n The Fourth Man<\/span>
    \n The Geisha (Hideo Gosha)<\/span>
    \n The Keep (Michael Mann)<\/span>
    \n The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa)<\/span>
    \n The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah)<\/span>
    \n The Ploughman\u2019s Lunch<\/span>
    \n The Wall (Yilmaz Guney)<\/span>
    \n Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raul Ruiz)<\/span>
    \n Twilight Zone: The Movie (Joe Dante)<\/span>
    \n Under Fire<\/span>
    \n utu<\/span>
    \n Videodrome (David Cronenberg)<\/span>
    \n Vigilante (William Lustig)<\/span>
    \n Yentl<\/span>
    \n Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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