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Looking Back
August 1982
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in August 1982. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
"
'Passion d'Amore'
is the first picture in the new fall season of the Detroit Film Theatre,
that once-precocious series which all of a sudden is in its ninth year,"
wrote Lawrence DeVine of the Detroit Free Press on Aug. 5, 1982.
This dark Italian romance opened the DFT season on Aug. 6 and was followed
the next weekend by the French crime drama Garde
à vue, with Michel Serrault and Lino Ventura. (Garde à vue
video courtesy of YouTube)
"
'Diva'
is a luminous, daring, enchanting experience in filmmaking," wrote
Diane Haithman in the Aug. 19 Detroit Free Press about this French
DFT film. The month ended at the DFT with the documentary The
Atomic Cafe. The Afternoon Film Theatre continued its science
fiction series, with Invaders
from Mars (1953), The
Thing (1951), 20
Million Miles to Earth (1957), The
Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and Tarantula
(1955).
On
Aug. 13 and 14, Redford audiences said Hello
Dolly! to Barbara Streisand. Walter Matthau also starred in this
1969 musical that was directed by Gene Kelly. Laughter echoed through
the Redford on Aug. 27 and 28 when Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony
Curtis starred in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy, Some
Like It Hot.
It
was an epic month at the Michigan Theatre, which showed Gone
with the Wind (1939), Lawrence
of Arabia (1962), and Dr.
Zhivago (1965). Rock fans enjoyed double features starring Mick
Jagger (Gimme
Shelter, 1970; Performance,
1970) and John Lennon (How
I Won the War, 1967; Let
It Be, 1970). The Howard Hawks tribute continued, with twin bills
of westerns (Red
River, 1948; Rio
Bravo, 1959) and comedies (I
Was a Male War Bride, 1949; Monkey
Business, 1952). Foreign Language films included Werner Herzog's
Even Dwarfs
Started Small (1970) and Roman Polanski's Knife
in the Water (1962).
