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Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in October 1982. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
The
highlight of the month at the Detroit Film Theatre was Chan
is Missing, "a highly original comedy girded with profound
and melancholy perceptions about the cultural confusion of Chinese-Americans,"
wrote Susan Stark in The Detroit News (October 7, 1982). Stark noted
that Chan was made for $20,000 and had grossed more than $700,000.
Chan later was shown at the Maple 1-2-3.
Other
films at the DFT included the documentary The
Weavers: Wasn't That a Time, the Italian Three
Brothers, and the Spanish Blood
Wedding. Fans of Russion film enjoyed An
Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (1977, October 15) and Crime
and Punishment (1969, October 16). The Sunday night Alfred Hitchcock
series resumed with To
Catch a Thief (1955), The
Wrong Man (1956), and North
by Northwest (1959). And October 30 brought a Halloween showing of
The Fearless
Vampire Killers (1967).
At
the Redford Theatre on October 8-9, there was plenty of singing, dancing
and comedy as Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland starred in Ziegfield
Follies (1946). Fans of later Charlie Chaplin movies enjoyed him
with Claire Bloom in Limelight
(1952), which had evening showings on October 22-23, and a Sunday afternoon
screening on October 24. Famous theater organist Gaylord
Carter used his silent film musical talents to help Buster Keaton
recover his train The
General (1927).
Halloween
was celebrated in a big way at the Michigan Theatre on Sunday, October 31.
A 4-9 p.m. show included The
Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), Beneath
the Planet of the Apes (1970), and The
Phantom of the Opera (1925, with live organ accompaniment by Don
Thompson). From 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., fright fans were thrilled by House
of Wax (1953), Wait
Until Dark (1967), and The
Raven (1963).
On
Friday, October 29, "Michigan Theatre Remembers 1957," with live
tributes to the music and television of that era, along with the cartoon
The Juggler
of Our Lady (1958, narrated by Boris Karloff) and the feature
film The
Three Faces of Eve (1957). Other movie highlights of the month
included a Jean Renoir double feature of The
Grand Illusion (1937) and The
Rules of the Game (1939); and a James Bond quadruple bill of Dr.
No (1962), From
Russia with Love (1963), You
Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds
are Forever (1971).
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