And though our primary focus here is the years since Jaws made the summer a time for “event movies,” it’s worth noting that the season offered plenty of great pictures in the years previous to that - such as 1964, which gave us the best Beatles movie, the best Elvis movie, a Rat Pack, a Jerry Lewis, and a Hitchcock.
…who hadn’t been seen on screen since clear back in ’64, in A Shot in the Dark (one of the funniest slapstick movies of all time). That summer, however, there were still some great films of that period to be seen, like Altman’s Nashville and Penn’s Night Moves, along with some first-rate blaxpoitation pictures and the long-awaited return of Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau…ġ964 HIGHLIGHTS: A Shot in the Dark, A Hard Day’s Night, Viva Las Vegas, The Killers, Robin and the Seven Hoods, Marnie, The Patsy.
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Then again, it was also the summer when Annie came out, and good luck getting that song out of your head now.ġ975 HIGHLIGHTS: Jaws, Nashville, Night Moves, Return of the Pink Panther, Rollerball, Love and Death, Bucktown, Cooley High, Cornbread Earl and Me, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, The Apple Dumpling Gangġ975 was really the year that began the whole “summer movie” thing, with the saturation release and giant box office of Jaws - a movie that signaled the beginning of the end of the auteur-friendly New Hollywood period, sure, but also a magnificent entertainment that still holds up. That’s a bumper crop of fun, iconic movies, and it’s a little astonishing to see them all lined up like that: two quintessential Spielberg movies, the best of the Star Trek flicks, the movie that made Arnie a star, and the Phoebe Cates bikini scene. Okay, we kinda see what the Drafthouse guys were getting at here. After the jump, we’ve assembled ten possible contenders for that crown, along with the highlights of that particular season of movie-going cast your ballots (or add your own alternates) in the comments.ġ982 HIGHLIGHTS: E.T., Poltergeist, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Thing, TRON, The Road Warrior, Conan the Barbarian, Rocky III, The Secret of NIMH, Fast Times at Ridgemont High That, friends, is a tall claim, and one that we felt required further investigation.
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This summer, however, they’ve outdone themselves: they’re paying a 30th anniversary tribute to the summer of 1982 with a series of 35mm screenings, timed to the original opening weekends of the movies that made up, in their words, “the greatest summer of movies… ever.” We’ve made clear, on several occasions, our deep affection for Austin’s (and soon to be New York’s) Alamo Drafthouse, a venue that has, year after year, taken cinema obsession and programming ingenuity to new heights.
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