Nostalgia (1983)
Directed By: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Rated: NR
Run Time: 2h 5m
TMM Score: 3 Stars
Strengths: Production Design, Meditative, Acting
Weakness: Pacing
A Russian writer, doing research in Italy, suffers an extreme bout of homesickness for Russia.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Directed by: Nasiga Oshima
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Rated: R
Running Time: 2 h 3 m
TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Themes, Characters, Acting, Soundtrack
WEAKNESSES: Pacing
A British officer tries to bridge a cultural divide in a Japanese POW camp.
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Danton (1983)
Directed By: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Rated: PG
Run Time: 2h 16m
TMM Score: 4 Stars
Strengths: Acting, Production Design
Weakness: Length
In France, under the reign of Terror, one of the most prominent leaders of the revolution, Georges Danton, attempts to lay bare the corruption of the Committee for Public Safety and its chair, Maximillian Robespierre.
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Uncommon Valor (1983)
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze, Robert Stack, Jan Kaczmarek
Rated: R
Running Time: 1 h 45 m
TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Some Action, Gene Hackman
WEAKNESSES: Acting, Formulaic and Predictable Plot, Directing, Editing, Production Design
Ten years after his son went MIA in Vietnam, a retired Colonel assembles a private rescue team to storm a POW camp in Laos, where he believes his son is being kept.
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