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Welcome to our weekly (or whenever the hell I feel like doing it) series called
"Siri Says When" -- last week when I asked Siri to pick a number between 1 and 100 she gave me 80 - today she gave me 82. And truth be told I'm kind of glad that Siri has stuck me in the early 1980s just now because this stuff is comfort food - I was a little kid and blissfully unaware that we had a horrible president, and I would like to pretend now, even if only for a few moments, that I am blissfully unaware of what a horrible president we're about to have.
Of course now that I've gone and made my choices from
the movies of 1982 they're mostly all dark adult films (save one) that would've terrified me as a kid
(I mean, two Fassbinders!) so even I can't stick to my escapist principles for very long. Oh well. The heart wants what it wants and apparently what my heart wants is to churn and ache and bleed. Happy thoughts!
My 5 Favorite Movies of 1982
(dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
-- released on August 31st 1982 --
(dir. John Carpenter)
-- released on June 25th 1982 --
(dir. Werner Herzog)
-- released on October 10th 1982 --
(dir. Tobe Hooper)
-- released on June 4th 1982 --
(dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
-- released on May 13th 1982 --
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Runners-up:
One From the Heart (dir. Francis Ford Coppola),
Tenebre (dir. Dario Argento),
The Year of Living Dangerously (dir. Peter Weir),
Q: The Winged Serpent (dir. Larry Cohen),
Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott),
Tootsie (dir. Sidney Pollack),
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (dir. Tommy Lee Wallace)...
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Creepshow (dir. George Romero),
Basket Case (dir. Frank Henenlotter),
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (dir. Robert Altman),
Fanny & Alexander (dir. Ingmar Bergman),
Slumber Party Massacre (dir. Amy Holden Jones),
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial(dir. Steven Spielberg)
Never Seen:
Burden of Dreams (dir. Les Blank),
Diner (dir. Barry Levinson),
Liquid Sky (dir. Slava Tsukerman),
Frances (dir. Graeme Clifford),
Koyaanisqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio)
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What are your favorite movies of 1982?.
