1983's Oscar Nominees

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of these, Right Stuff

the 3 best US releases of the year were

The King of Comedy
Local Hero
Zelig

The Right Stuff. The Dresser isn't a bad Prestige Oscar movie about two aged has.

hams too

I don't think I've seen any of these all the way through, though I certainly remember catching bits of Terms and Big Chill when my parents watched them (I seem to remember all of these except The Dresser being cable staples for a while).

have not checked out Big Chill again in 30 years, probly time to

Other movies nominated in the " Big 8" categories that year: Fanny and Alexander, Silkwood, Educating Rita, Reuben, Reuben, Testament, To Be or Not to Be, Cross Creek, The Year of Living Dangerously, Yentl, WarGames and Betrayal.

I've only seen a handful of those, but there is no way that there were five better films that year (or most years) than Fanny and Alexander.

I thought Fanny and Alexander was from 1982

I see that it wasn't released most places until 1983

I've been meaning to watch Nostalgia

only in Sweden and Norway xp

Was that also back when the Academy had that incredibly stupid rule that foreign films weren’t eligible for any Oscar categories outside of foreign film until the following year’s ceremony?

Bergman got his third Best Director nomination for F&A, not one of his best (where's Fanny for most of the film?) but superior to the nominees.

My top ten that year:

The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Rumblefish (Francis Ford Coppola)
Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
Local Hero (Bill Forsythe)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
Under Fire (Roger Spottiswoode)
The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)

Mine:

Sans soleil (Chris Marker, France)
L’Argent (Robert Bresson, France)
À Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat, France)
Christine (John Carpenter, USA)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, Canada)
Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, USA)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima, UK/Japan/New Zealand)
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones, UK)
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, USA)
Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis, USA)

No real fondness for any of these nominees in particular, but most want to revisit Big Chill. Mark Harris gave Terms of Endearment a pretty glowing assessment on some Film Comment podcast in the last year or so, and can't say I disagreed with any of this comments.

The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)

Still extremely high on my to-see list.

those lists must be incorrect, i don't see Rupert Pupkin For the Win

(an '83 film no matter what iMdB says)

i've seen Narayama and like a number of Imamura's more, including the later ones.

If IMDB ever gets around to correcting the year, KoC goes between Christine and Videodrome on my list.

The Big Chill looked like TV in 1983 and like Lubitsch a couple years ago; that's how far the mainstream white straight Hollywood comedy has devolved even from the colorless-in-every-sense eighties.

The Right Stuff is one I’ve been meaning to watch for a long time, but the running time puts me off (says the guy who loves Fanny and Alexander, I know). My fave American films of the year are probably The Dead Zone and Risky Business.

I might not have been the right age to watch Right Stuff when I first saw it. It seemed like so much corny machismo when I saw it as a teen.

the one scene from The Right Stuff I still remember is the flower dance performed to Clair de Lune

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The Right Stuff is great, obv (imo) -- manages a balance of American Epic and absurd satirical bits played slightly more broadly than you'd think if you hadn't seen it. The spaceflight and test pilot scenes remain pretty thrilling, albeit probably lapped in terms of terror and realism by similar depictions in First Man. The performances are all genuinely fantastic; as an eight-year old kid who didn't know who the hell he was, Sam Shepard seemed like the most iconic movie star in the world in the Chuck Yeager role. Dennis Quaid's Gordo Cooper was proto-"Top Gun" Maverick (better, obv). Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Fred Ward -- all legit great. It bombed, but it feels like a movie that should have been huge since it's vv entertaining despite the 193 min runtime.

but what about The Dresser

Big Chill was photographed by John Bailey, who's done pretty well... American Gigolo, Ordinary People, Groundhog Day, Nobody's Fool is a pretty good range.