CINEMATIC HOLY MOMENTS: 1983

by Toby

[re-upload from the now defunct thewanderingimage.tumblr.com]

my personal favorite moments from films to receive a 1983 U.S. release. Not all of which made my actual “Best Films of 1983” list, but at least had incredible segments that stayed with me since first viewing. Scenes that I’m sure I’ll want to re-visit again and again.

+ = was actually featured on Toby's 1983 "Best of"

"Joshua" WOPR computer runs thousands of strike/counter-strike scenarios

  - WARGAMES (Badham)

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The slow-mo ice skating murder

     - CURTAINS (Ciupka)

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Suicide by impalement on a pair of scissors

- THE DEAD ZONE (Cronenberg)

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the bombing of Hiroshima

- BAREFOOT GEN (Mori Masaki)

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Exiting a fallout shelter prematurely.. "I can’t see anything!" (Dead livestock, etc.)

   - THE DAY AFTER (Meyer)

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Closing shootout at the mansion.. Tony’s coked-out demise

 - SCARFACE (De Palma)

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Dreamlike sequence where a nude Mowat, now one w/ the wolf pack, chases caribou @ dawn

- NEVER CRY WOLF (Ballard)

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Darkwolf jumps from a pterodactyl & begins massacring subhumans with his axe

  - FIRE AND ICE (Bakshi)

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Both “The Grid” #1 and #2 sequences

- KOYAANISQATSI (Reggio)

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The Jacko "Were-cat" Movie within a Movie

- MICHAEL JACKSON'S 

               THRILLER (Landis)

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crushed title vehicle, a red 1958 Plymouth Fury, regenerates back to mint condition

   - CHRISTINE (Carpenter)

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Luke's lightsaber escape above the Sarlacc pit.. A swashbuckling scenario worthy of Errol Flynn

- STAR WARS: EPISODE VI 

   - RETURN OF THE JEDI 

                          (Marquand)

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Cowboy Ralphie rescues his family from Black Bart & bandits

- A CHRISTMAS STORY 

                                       (Clark)

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John Glenn witnesses a flurry of lights during his first Earth orbit

- THE RIGHT STUFF 

                                (Kaufman)

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First fight with Biff in the abandoned garage.. (Pigeons, alley cats, Hissing of a nearby train, etc.) The whole sequence is as technically & aesthetically marvelous as any fight in RAGING BULL (1980)

    - RUMBLE FISH (Coppola)

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Max's TV set is behaving very orgasmically. "Come to Nicky"

  - VIDEODROME (Cronenberg)

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Gorchakov lights a candle for his departed mother at the hall ruins.. All that snowfall with the sepia flashbacks.. 

**Entire closing sequence**

    - NOSTALGHIA (Tarkovsky)

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also;

Lou Reed does "My Name is Mok" in ROCK & RULE

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Toby’s Favorite Movie Moments

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