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November 1982
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters
were presenting in November 1982. Film titles are linked to the Internet
Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters,
see Cinema
Treasures or Water
Winter Wonderland.
At the Detroit Film Theatre, The
Girl with the Red Hair (Netherlands) was "a unique, deeply
affecting, nonfiction drama about a young Dutch woman's response
to the Nazi occupation." (Susan Stark, Detroit News, November
4, 1982). Viewers also traveled along the Japanese Muddy
River, "a marvelous, sad fairy tale, filled with rich and
appealing characters." (Diane Haithman, Detroit Free Press,
November 19, 1982).
Other
DFT films included Without
Amnesia (1978), by Polish director Andrzej Wajda (Man
of Marble), and the controversial German film Taxi
zum Klo. The Alfred Hitchcock series moved into the 1960s with
Psycho
(1960), The
Birds (1963), Marnie
(1964), and Torn
Curtain (1966). The Afternoon Film Theatre showed the science
fiction movies The
Mysterians (1957), Queen
of Outer Space (1958), and On
the Beach (1959).
In
"one of the most exciting double features around," (Rich Quackenbush,
Ann Arbor News, November 21, 1982), Liza Minnelli starred at the
Michigan in her Oscar-winning role in Cabaret
(1972), and with Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's New
York, New York (1977). Other twin bills put the spotlight on Spanish
director Luis Buñuel (The
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Viridiana
(1961) ) and award-winning foreign language films (Cousin,
cousine (1975) and Bread
and Chocolate (1973) ). Historical epics included Dr.
Zhivago (1965), 1900
(1976) and Lawrence
of Arabia (1962).
Live
events at the Michigan included a November 4 debate between Timothy Leary
and G. Gordon Liddy. A panel of three area communications instructors
said that Liddy won the debate. On November 13, the 24-hour Jazzmatazz
benefit included all-night jazz, and aerobic dancing at 6:30 a.m.
It was a very melodic month at the Redford. On November
5-6, the 1936 version of Jerome Kern's musical Showboat
featured Irene Dunne, Paul Robeson, and Helen
Morgan. Organist Lou Behm also entertained the audience. On November 19-20,
organist Tony O'Brien
warmed up the crowd for Brigadoon,
the 1954 Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical
that starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse. On November 27, "world
famous" organist George
Wright performed a Thanksgiving weekend concert.
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