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January 2, 1984
THE BEST OF 1983
Berlin Alexanderplatz. The harsh twilight of an amiable brute (Gunter
Lamprecht) presages the arrival of Nazism's long night. Rainer Werner
Fassbinder's mesmerizing 15 1/2-hour film is a masterpiece of social
and sexual misanthropy.
The Big Chill. Seven survivors of the '60s meet for a weekend to find
a little warmth in the not so simple '80s. Aided by a resourceful
case, Write-Director Lawrence Kasdan revives some old-fashioned movie
virtues; grace, wit, subtlety, style.
Heart Like a Wheel. This B-movie biography of Shirley Muldowney,
first woman to become a national hot-rod champion, boasts crisp,
compassionate direction by Jonathan Kaplan and an Oscar-worthy
performance from Bonnie Bedelia.
The Night of the Shooting Stars. In 1944, a score of Tuscan villagers
flee from the Nazis into a landscape of nightmare poetry. Italian
Film Makers Paolo and Vittoria Taviani find aspects of nobility in
every eccentric peasant.
La Nuit de Varennes. Louis XVI's flight from the French Revolution is
acutely observed by Director Ettore Scola, who concludes that history
is an accident, ideology an irony, humanity's greatest blessing its
distractibility.
Star 80. Coolly, precisely but with hypnotic power, Bob Fosse
converts Playmate Dorothy Stratten's murder into a harrowing tragedy
of manners and a tale about the killing power of sleazy dreams.
Tender Mercies. A country singer touches bottom and finds that it
consists of good Texas earth in which he can reroot his humanity.
Actor Robert Duvall warms and graces Screenwriter Horton Foote's tale
with his lived-in face and a performance as raw as a Hank Williams
ballad.
Terms of Endearment. Morals, mortality, even a mid-life crisis or two
are all subjects for James L. Brooks' rich, sweet, sad comedy.
Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger strike sparks and smiles as the
middle-American mother and daughter.
Yentl. Gotta sing! Gotta dance! Gotta study that Talmud!! Filling
every function but set decorator on this lavish musical, Barbra
Streisand transforms a tale of the shtetl into a moving metaphor for
her own determination and talent.
Zelig. Technically bedazzling, Woody Allen's parody of square-cut
documentary is also a hard-edged examination of the way modern
celebrity rituals, magnified by the media, bend people's minds and
perhaps deaden their hearts.