Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1981

<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <body> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Top Five of 1981</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Click here for <a href=persac81.html>Favorites in Major Categories</a></b></Font><br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 1. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Atlantic City</Font></b></Font> Dir. Louis Malle. With Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 2. &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2005/11/picked-flick-73-pennies-from-heaven.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Pennies from Heaven</Font></b></a> Dir. Herbert Ross. With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 3. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Reds</Font></b></Font> Dir. Warren Beatty. With Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 4. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Mephisto</Font></b></Font> Dir. Istv&#225n Szab&#243. With Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildik&#243 B&#225ns&#225gi, Krystyna Janda <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=+1> 5. &nbsp<b><Font Color="#003399">Pixote</Font></b></Font> Dir. Hector Babenco. With Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Juliao, Gilberto Moura <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1981</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=charfire.html style="text-decoration:none">Chariots of Fire</a></b></Font> Dir. Hugh Hudson. With Ian Charleson, Ben Cross, Nigel Havers <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href="http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/2005/11/picked-flick-73-pennies-from-heaven.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Pennies from Heaven</Font></b></a> Dir. Herbert Ross. With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1981</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Arthur</b></Font> Dir. Steve Gordon. With Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Jill Eikenberry <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Body Heat</b></Font> Dir. Lawrence Kasdan. With William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The French Lieutenant's Woman</b></Font> Dir. Karel Reisz. With Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>On Golden Pond</b></Font> Dir. Mark Rydell. With Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Doug McKeon <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Also from 1981</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Mommie Dearest</b></Font> Dir. Frank Perry. With Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Only When I Laugh</b></Font> Dir. Glenn Jordan. With Marsha Mason, Kristy MacNichol, James Coco<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Raiders of the Lost Ark</b></Font> Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fair</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Diva</b></Font> Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix. With Fr&#233d&#233ric Andrei, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Fox and the Hound</b></Font> Dir. Art Stevens. Animated. Voices of Kurt Russell, Mickey Rooney<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Macbeth</b></Font> Dir. Arthur Allan Seidelman. With Jeremy Brett, Piper Laurie, Simon McCorkindale<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Raggedy Man</b></Font> Dir. Jack Fisk. With Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Henry Thomas, William Sanderson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Scanners</b></Font> Dir. David Cronenberg. With Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Ironside<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Feh</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0000FF">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Absence of Malice</b></Font> Dir. Sydney Pollack. 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