Top 10 Films of 1982

1. ''Blade Runner'' (Ridley Scott, USA)

2. "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (Steven Spielberg, USA)

3. "Tootsie" (Sydney Pollack, USA)

4. "Passion" (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

5. "Das Boot" (Wolfgang Petersen, Germany)

6. "Pink Floyd: The Wall" (Alan Parker, UK)

7. ''Personal Best'' (Robert Towne, USA)

8. "Hey Good Lookin'" (Ralph Bakshi, USA)

9. "Lola" (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany)

10. "First Blood" (Ted Kotcheff, USA)

Other great films:

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Annie

Another Way (Hungary)

Basket Case

Le Beau mariage (France)

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas

Cafe Flesh

Une Chambre en ville (France)

Le Confort et l'Indifference (Canada)

Danton (France)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

The Draughtman's Contract (UK)

Eating Raoul

Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Fitzcarraldo (Germany)

The Flight Of The Eagle (Sweden)

Frances
Gandhi (UK)
Grease 2
The Grey Fox (Canada)

The Inconfessable Orgies Of Emmanuelle
Kalamita (Czechoslovakia)

Labyrinth Of Passion (Spain)

Luz del Fuego (Brazil)

Matka Krolow (Poland)
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Missing

Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl (UK)

Moonlighting (UK)

The New York Ripper

The Night Of The Shooting Stars (Italy)

Ninja In The Dragon's Den (Hong Kong)

La Nuit de Varennes

An Officer And A Gentleman

One From The Heart

The Pirate Movie (Australia)
Poltergeist
Private Life (Soviet Union)

Przesluchanie (Poland)

Przypadek (Poland)

Samanka, l'ile de passions

The Secret Of NIMH

The Slumber Party Massacre

Space Adventure Cobra (Japan)

Starstruck (Australia)

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

The State Of Things (Germany)

The Sword And The Sorcerer
The Thing

La Traviata (Italy)
Tron

Vabank (Poland)

Victor Victoria

Wanda Whips Wall Street

The World According To Garp

Short Top 3:

1. "Split Cherry Tree" (Andrei Konchalovsky, USA)

2. "Peel" (Jane Campion, Australia)

3. "Travelling Hopefully" (John G. Avildsen, USA)

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Hungry Like The Wolf" (Russell Mulcahy, Duran Duran)

2. "The Chauffeur" (Ian Emes, Duran Duran)

3. "Rio" (Russell Mulcahy, Duran Duran)

Top Commercial:

"Trygg-Hansa-Brollope" (Roy Andersson, Sweden)

Other great commercials:

Nancy's First Day

TV Top 3:

1. "Yes Minister: Skeleton In The Cupboard" (Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, BBC, UK)

2. "Cheers: Truce Or Consequences" (James Burrows, NBC)

3. "Cheers: Sam At Eleven" (James Burrows, NBC)

Other great TV shows:

Yes Minister: Bed Of Nails (UK)
Yes Minister: Moral Dimension (UK)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Vincent" (Tim Burton, Disney)

2. "Tango" (Zbigniew Rybczynski, Poland)

3. "The Snowman" (Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami, UK)

Other great cartoons:

The Great Cognito
Once We Were Birds (Soviet Union)
Souvenirs de guerre (Canada)
The Strange Case Of Mr Donnybrook's Boredom

Weak films of 1982:

La Boum 2 (France)
La Dame en couleurs (Canada)
The Prodigal Son (Hong Kong)
The Shaolin Temple (China)
Sophie's Choice
Tout feu tout flamme (France)
Trail Of The Pink Panther
The Verdict
Yol (Turkey)

Weak shorts:

If You Love This Planet
Lettre à Freddy Buache (Switzerland)

Weak cartoons:

Chicken (Bulgaria)
Fun With Mr Future
Skywhales (UK)
The Sound Collector (Canada)

Top Musical of 1982

"Pink Floyd: The Wall" (Alan Parker, UK)

Blade Runner (1982) *****

E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) *****

Classic science-fiction fable from Steven Spielberg.

First Blood (1982) ****

Lola (1982) ****

Hey Good Lookin' (1982) ****

Personal Best (1982) ****

Passion (1982) ****

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) ****

Brilliant experimental musical film by Alan Parker, adapted from Pink Floyd's legendary 1979 album. Fabulous imagery, marvellous music and powerful, semi-autobiographical story by Roger Waters.

Wanda Whips Wall Street (1982) ****

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) ****

A sequel to "Space Seed", an old TV episode of "Star Trek", again starring Richardo Montalban as the evil Khan.

Das Boot (1982) ****

Superb war drama from Germany, set aboard a U-boat.

Tootsie (1982) ****

Dustin Hoffman is superb in this hilarious comedy about an unemployed actor.

Nuit de Varennes (1982) ****

The Night Of The Shooting Stars (1982) ****

One From The Heart (1982) ***

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) ***

Kalamita (1982) ***

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) ***

The World According To Garp (1982) ***

The Sword And The Sorcerer (1982) ***

Fitzcarraldo (1982) ***

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, a dreamer who wants to build an opera house in the middle of the Amazonian forest.

Victor Victoria (1982) ***

Julie Andrews is terrific in this remake of a classic German comedy from 1933.

Tron (1982) ***

Disney action film set inside a computer.

Starstruck (1982) ***

Sad to say, director Gillian Armstrong would never again make such a cheerful and exuberant film as this quirky musical about a vivacious redhead singer and her 14-year-old manager cousin. This is Australian kitch at its best. Songs:

"Starstruck"
"Gimme Love"
"Temper Temper"
"Surfside Tango"
"Body And Soul"
"I Want To Live In A House"
"My Belief In You"
"Tough"
"It's Not Enough"
"Turnaround"
"Monkey In Me"
"Easy As Can Be"
"Humming This Tune"

The Secret Of NIMH (1982) ***

Excellent, very underrated animated film, probably Don Bluth's greatest work (and also his first feature film).

Moonlighting (1982) ***

Very ironic black comedy about Polish workers illegally repairing a flat in London.

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) ***

A pleasant curiosity from Woody Allen, just as good, but very different from his previous, unpleasant curiosity ("Stardust Memories").

Matka Krolow (1982) ***

Wbrew pozorom, nie jest to historyczny dramat o Elzbiecie Rakuszance, ale o niejakiej Lucji Krol.

La Traviata (1982) ***

Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera, starring Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas.

Le Beau mariage (1982) ***

Very ironic, almost bitter comedy about a delusional girl who imagines that she is going to get married and tells that to everybody except to her prospective groom.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) ***

Post-modernist comedy starring Steve Martin as a private eye meeting (among others) Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney in cleverly edited scenes that use footages from their classic movies. A one-joke idea, but competently executed.

The Grey Fox (1982) ***

A stagecoach robber from the 1860's becomes a train robber in the 1900's after spending thirty-three years in prison.

Annie (1982) ***

Albert Finney's performance and half a dozen truly memorable songs are the main assets of this adaptation of the Broadway hit. Aileen Quinn (who plays Annie) got a well deserved Golden Raspberry Award. The best musical numbers include:

"Maybe" **
"It's A Hard-Knock Life" **
"I Think I'M Gonna Like It Here" *
"Little Girls"
"You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile" **
"Tomorrow" **
"Easy Street"
"I Don't Need Anything But You" **

Gandhi (1982) ***

Ben Kingsley gives a great performance as the famous Indian mystic and political leader.

Grease 2 (1982) ***

Michelle Pfeiffer made her film debut in this energetic sequel to the 1978 hit. Musical numbers:

"Back To School Again" *
"Score Tonight" **
"Brad"
"Cool Rider" **
"Reproduction" **
"Who's That Guy ?" *
"Do It For Our Country" *
"Prowlin'" *
"Charades"
"Girl For All Seasons" **
"(Love Will) Turn Back The Hands Of Time" *
"Rock-A-Hula Luau (Summer Is Coming)" *
"We'll Be Together" **

The Pirate Movie (1982) ***

A wonderfully campy parody of Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates Of Penzance", starring Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins. Atrociously bad, but always great fun. Many ridiculous, self-reflexive, brechtian and post-modernist jokes. It won 3 Golden Raspberry Awards (for worst director, worst song and worst score) - all well deserved. Songs:

"Pirates Are We" **
"I'M A Pirate King" *
"Climbing Over Rocky Mountains" **
"My First Love" **
"Major General" **
"Pumpin' And Blowin'" **
"How Can I Live Without Her ?" **
"Ta-ran-ta-ra" **
"We Are The Pirates"
"Piracy" **
"Happy Ending" ***

Poltergeist (1982) ***

Scary horror movie about ghosts.

Private Life (1982) ***

A factory manager re-examines his life after loosing his job. Interesting film about life in the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev.

Le Confort et l'Indifference (1982) ***