December 12, 1982

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:

Annie
Another Way (Hungary)
Eating Raoul
Fitzcarraldo (Germany)
Kalamita (Czechoslovakia)
Starstruck (Australia)
La Traviata (Italy)
Tron
Vabank (Poland)


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1982:

1. "Identification Of A Woman" (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

2. Une Chambre en ville (Jacques Demy, France)

3. The Entity (Sidney J. Furie, 20th Century-Fox)

4. "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" (Amy Heckerling, Universal)

5. "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" (Colin Higgins, Universal)

6. "Cafe Flesh" (Stephen Sayadian, Mark S. Esposito, USA)

7. Wanda Whips Wall Street (Larry Revene, USA)

8. "The Slumber Party Massacre" (Amy Holden Jones, USA)

10. "Samanka, l'ile de passions" (Jacques Orth, Hubert Frank, France)


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)

Top Musical of 1982

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

November 11, 1982

Blade Runner (1982) *****

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

Classic science-fiction fable from Steven Spielberg.

October 10, 1982

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) ****

September 9, 1982

One From The Heart (1982) ***