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Looking Back
February 1982
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in February 1982. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
The
Detroit Film Theatre presented the 1981 Brazilian film Pixote,
which DFT curator Elliot Wilhelm has described (in his 1999 book VideoHound's
World Cinema) as "one of the most grueling, powerful, and disturbing
films of the last quarter-century." Another highlight of the month
was The Boat
is Full (1981, Switzerland/West Germany/Austria), a drama about
limits on Jewish immigration from Germany to Switzerland during World
War II.
Also
at the DFT was Soldier
Girls, a 1981 documentary about women in basic training in the
United States Army, and Ticket
to Heaven, a 1981 Canadian film about religious cults. Older films
at the DFT included Camille
(1936), with Greta Garbo. Also on screen was the French Elevator
to the Gallows (1958), which returned to the DFT in Sept. 2005
as part of a tribute to director Louis Malle. The Afternoon Film Theatre
at the Detroit Institute of Arts presented a rich selection of Ernst Lubitsch
films, including Ninotchka
(1939), The
Shop Around the Corner (1940), To
Be or Not to Be (1942), and Heaven
Can Wait (1943).
On
Feb. 5 and 6 at the Redford, Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy starred in Bombshell
(1933), "a hilarious satire about a poor little rich movie star longing
to live a 'normal' life." (David Shipman, The Great Movie Stars:
The Golden Years). Two weeks later, audiences enjoyed Don Haller's
organ music and laughed at the 1963 musical comedy Bye
Bye Birdie (Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, and Ann-Margret). Lively
Caribbean music warmed up winter-chilled patrons on Feb. 27, courtesy
of the 21st Century Steel Band.
"Radio
City at the Michigan" on Feb. 19 included an organ overture by Rupert
Otto; a stage show by the Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre; and the 1956 film
The King and
I. Double features at the Michigan included Humphrey Bogart in
To Have and
Have Not (1944) and The
Big Sleep (1946); the comedy dramas King
of Hearts (1966) and A
Thousand Clowns (1965); and the humorous Take
the Money and Run (1969) and And
Now for Something Completely Different (1971).
On
Feb. 3-6 at the Michigan, The Comic Opera Guild presented La Vie Parisienne,
by Jacques Offenbach. On Feb. 21, the Travel and Adventure Series of the
Ann Arbor Western Kiwanis presented Welcome, New Zealand, with
Robert O'Reilly.
