The 1983 Mini-List

[swo17]

ELIGIBLE TITLES FOR 1983

VOTE THROUGH MAY 31

Please post in this thread if you think anything needs to change about the list of eligible titles.

[therewillbeblus]

Swo, can you please add Holy Flame of the Martial World (Chun-Ku Lu)?

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[domino harvey]

Swo, can you please add L'Ami de Vincent?

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[yoshimori]

Double-feature (performance deathmatch?) for everyone:

Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley in Tender Mercies / Theresa Russell in Eureka

But my favorite '83 is undoubtedly Family Game.

[domino harvey]

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Merci! L'ami de Vincent is a film that's really stayed with me since I saw it. Philippe Noiret is called upon by his longtime friend Jean Rochefort to investigate which of Rochefort's exes is out to kill him. Along the way, a more universal theme emerges of how unknowable the people in our lives, even those closest to us, truly are, as Noiret discovers in his journey that contrary to his assumptions, he knows nearly nothing about his best friend. A great exploration of how so many friendships we have as adults are shallow and surface-level by design

[Solaris]

Missing Australian classic BMX Bandits - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085204/

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[Solaris]

thanks
also missing Ermanno Olmi's Camminacammina https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083713/

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[knives]

Got the cheat sheet in relatively early. Have my own recs of additions in waiting though.

[knives]

There’s a pair of completely unrelated Japanese films I’d love to see added to the list.

Gosha doesn’t change his style for Geisha, but the story is a far cry from the world of machismo he usually traffics in. It shows a straightforward looking brutalism that never feels punishing. In a way the film reminds me a bit of how Imamura changed the way that women are depicted in Japanese film during the ‘60s though replacing his anarchic spirit with ice.

The other film is deceptively minor in appearance, yet stunning all around. Unico in the Island of Magic takes Tezuka’s character so cute and full of pluck and essentially says what if every delightful thing about the Shoju genre’s success was born out of deep loneliness.

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