Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts
Friday, March 21, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
On this day in movie history -The King of Comedy (1983):
The King of Comedy
directed by Martin Scorsese,
written by Paul D.
Zimmerman,
was released in the United States on February 18, 1983.
Music by Robbie Robertson.
Music by Robbie Robertson.
Robert De Niro, Jerry
Lewis, Sandra Bernhard, Diahnne Abbott, Shelley Hack, Margo Winkler, Kim Chan,
Frederick De Cordova, Edgar Scherick, Ed Herlihy, Tony Randall, Victor Borge,
Joyce Brothers, Catherine Scorsese, Cathy Scorsese, Martin Scorsese, Charles Scorsese,
Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, Kosmo Vinyl, Ellen Foley, Don Letts, Mary
Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
On this day in movie history - Videodrome (1983):
aka Zonekiller,
directed and written by David Cronenberg,
was released in
the United States on February 4, 1983.
Music by Howard Shore.
Cast:
James Woods, Debbie
Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie
Khaner, David Bolt, Reiner Schwarz, Lally Cadeau, King Cosmos, Kay Hawtrey, David
Tsubouchi.
Monday, January 20, 2025
Recommended reading: Stick by Elmore Leonard (1983):
Stick
By Elmore Leonard.
Published by Arbor House.
First published 1983.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0877954364
ISBN-13: 978-0877954361
Description:
After
serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on
the outside and trying to stay legit. But it's tough staying straight in a
crooked town -- and Miami is a pirate's paradise, where investment fat cats and
lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance. And when a crazed player chooses
Stick at random to die for another man's sins, the struggling ex-con is left
with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a
good thing when he sees it -- and a golden opportunity to run a very profitable
sweet revenge scam seems much too tasty to pass up.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Recommended reading - The Exorcist (1971) and Legion (1983):
The Exorcist
By William Peter Blatty.
Published by Harper
Paperbacks.
First published in 1971.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 006209436X
ISBN-13: 978-0062094360
Description:
Four decades after it
first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty’s thrilling
masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful
form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable
of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.
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Legion
By William Peter Blatty.
Published by Tor Books.
First published in 1983.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0765327139
ISBN-13: 978-0765327130
Description:
“Jesus asked the man his
name, and he answered, ‘Legion, for we are many.’” – Mark 5:9.
A young boy is found
horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who
witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life
inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a
guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation?
Lieutenant Kinderman
follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting new enigmas
at every turn, even as more murders occur. Why does each victim suffer the same
dreadful mutilations? Why are two priests among the dead? Is there a connection
between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years
ago – one that supposedly ended with the death of the killer?
Legion is a novel of
breathtaking energy and suspense. But more than this, it is an extraordinary
journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing
questions of the human condition.
The answers are revealed
in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of The
Exorcist – William Peter Blatty.
Monday, December 9, 2024
On this day in movie history - Christine (1983):
Christine
directed by John Carpenter,
written by Bill Phillips,
based on the novel by Stephen King,
was released in the United States on December 9, 1983.
Music by John Carpenter
and Alan Howarth.
Cast:
Keith Gordon, John
Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford,
Robert Darnell, Roberts Blossom, Kelly Preston, William Ostrander, Steven Tash,
Stuart Charno, Malcolm Danare, David Spielberg.
Recommended reading - Christine (1983):
Christine
By Stephen King.
Published by Viking
Press.
First published 1983.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0670220264
ISBN-13: 978-0670220267
Description:
It was love at first
sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he
knew he would do anything to possess her.
Arnie’s best friend,
Dennis, distrusts her – immediately.
Arnie’s teen-queen
girlfriend, Leigh, fears her the moment she senses her power.
Arnie’s parents,
teachers, and enemies soon learn what happens when you cross her.
Because Christine is no
lady. She is Stephen King’s ultimate, blackly evil vehicle of terror…
Christine,
blood-red, fat and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy
and big, she was Arnie’s obsession, a ’58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not
finished. There was still power in her – a frightening power that leaked like
sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corroded the mind and
turned ownership into Possession.
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