This episode takes a look at the films that make an impact on a certain teenager during an important year of personal change.
1982 was the year that shaped me more than any other year, as a 14 year old bouncing from one parent’s house to the other, as a teen celebrating a 15th birthday on my first day of a new school where I literally knew no one, and as the adult I would become. The movies of 1982 would change my perception of the world, most often for the better. I can’t wait for you to take this journey with me.
The movies spoken about during this episode, all released in the United States in 1982 unless otherwise noted, are:
48 Hours (Walter Hill)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Brimstone and Treacle (Richard Loncraine)
Brittania Hospital (Lindsey Anderson)
Class of 1984 (Mark L. Lester)
Creepshow (George A. Romero)
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner)
Diner (Barry Levinson)
Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
Fitzcarraldo (Wener Herzog)
Frances (Graeme Clifford)
Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
Gregory’s Girl (Bill Forsyth)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace)
Missing (Costa-Gavras)
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Terry Hughes)
Moonlighting (Jersy Skolimowski)
My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin)
Night Shift (Ron Howard)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
Q: The Winged Serpent (Larry Cohen)
Quest for Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Richard Pryor: Live at the Sunset Strip (Joe Layton)
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