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1984: Cinema
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1984 Highlights
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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January 7, 1985
CINEMA
BEST OF '84
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<p>AFTER THE REHEARSAL. A stage director rehearses Strindberg with
his star pupil and falls a little in love. In this lovely
"chamber movie" Ingmar Bergman describes his passion for the
theater with Olympian irony and demon force.
</p>
<p>L'ARGENT. In his most serene and terrifying parable in a
50-year career, French Film Master Robert Bresson cauterizes
modern France as a society built and run on counterfeit values.
The moral of this metaphysical slasher movie: greed kills.
</p>
<p>CAL. With a despairing love affair, a troubled youth and an
anguished widow kindle a circle of warmth against the
encircling chill of Northern Ireland's mad terrors. Director
Pat O'Connor turns their tragedy into a strangled cry from the
heart.
</p>
<p>COMFORT AND JOY. Sitcom becomes surrealism in this tale of a
Scottish disk jockey's miserable Merry Christmas. The best film
yet from cockeyed visionary Bill Forsyth.
</p>
<p>ENTRE NOUS. Two young wives (Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou)
feel marooned in the stay-at-home '50s and ignite a
protofeminist friendship. In this bittersweet comedy,
Writer-Director Diane Kurys alchemizes anger into understanding.
</p>
<p>GREMLINS. What kind of monster movie is this? One that dares
to turn on its own young. Joe Dante's impish summertime satire
is also a fable that cautions its audience against consuming the
detritus of pop culture like so much junk food.
</p>
<p>A PASSAGE TO INDIA. The subcontinent is not merely the setting
for David Lean's masterly adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel;
it is its heroically scaled hypnotic central character.
</p>
<p>PLACES IN THE HEART. A plucky widow saves farm and family in
Depression America. And Writer-Director Robert Benton
transcends bathos with his soft-spoken camera poetry.
</p>
<p>A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY. A gentle old painter (Louis Ducreux)
tries one summer Sunday to reconcile family responsibilities
with a renewed passion for his art. In this hugely affecting
miniature, Director Bertrand Tavernier illuminates the twilight
of a man's life with the colors of compassion.
</p>
<p>THE TERMINATOR. Audiences were lured by the giddy premise:
Arnold Schwarzenegger as a killer cyborg from the 21st century.
They stayed to cheer James Cameron's thriller machine as it
swanked toward its heavy-metal apocalypse.</p>
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