March 1982
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters
were presenting in March 1982. Film titles are linked to the Internet
Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters,
see Cinema
Treasures or Water
Winter Wonderland.
In
the Detroit Film Theatre's I
Sent a Letter to My Love (1980, France), "Simone Signoret
plays Louise [a 50-year-old single woman] with a subdued sense of humorjust
watching her wonderful face makes this movie worthwhile," wrote Diane
Haithman in the March 12, 1982 Detroit Free Press. Haithman also
praised Hanna Schygulla's performance as a World War II-era German nightclub
singer in director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili
Marleen (1981).
Foreign imports at the DFT also included Heart
to Heart (1979, France), The
Contract (1980, Poland) and the uncut Christ
Stopped at Eboli (1979, Italy). On Sunday evenings, Alfred Hitchcock
directed Foreign
Correspondent (1940), Mr.
& Mrs. Smith (1941), Suspicion
(1941), and Saboteur
(1942). The Ernst Lubitsch series at the Afternoon Film Theatre of the
Detroit Institute of Arts finished with Cluny
Brown (1946), followed by the Japanese films The
Man Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945), Utamaro
and His Five Women (1946) and Gate
of Hell (1953).
At
the Michigan, the 20th Ann Arbor Film Festival ran March 9-14. Mediatrics
sponsored a James Bond Film Festival on March 5-7. The Classic Film Theatre
continued its wide variety of films with Seven
Samurai (1954), Women
in Love (1970), Monty
Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Red
River (1948), and a science fiction double feature of Close
Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and THX
1138 (1971). Live entertainment included musical comedian Anna
Russell and classical pianist Michael
Ponti.
Marilyn
Monroe showed why Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes at the Redford on March 5-6. Jane Russell also
starred in this 1953 comedy that was directed by Howard Hawks. On March
19-20, moviegoers joined the Marx Brothers for A
Day at the Races (1937) and A
Night at the Opera (1935). Music lovers enjoyed the March 27 concert
by organist Hector
Olivera, who returned to the Redford on October 13, 2007.
In
a March 28, 1982 Detroit Free Press article about repertory film
theaters, Jack Mathews wrote about the growing influence of home video:
"You can talk about cable and pay TV, VHS, Beta and laser discs all
you want, but you'll never convince me seeing movies telescoped onto a
screen the size of a frying pan in a living room within earshot of a refrigerator
door or an occupied bassinet is anything like seeing them in their natural
habitat."
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