Sneak Previews-"Best of 1981"-WTTW-TV11 Chicago (12-31-81)
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- A complete edition of the first movie review program featuring the Chicago Tribune's Gene Siskel and the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert. Here, they name the top 10 films of the year 1981.
Scenes excerpted are from the films RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, BODY HEAT, REDS, PRINCE OF THE CITY, CHARIOTS OF FIRE, GATES OF HEAVEN, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE and RAGTIME.
Roger Ebert's Top 10, from bottom to top:
10. REDS
9. TESS
8. BODY HEAT
7. THIEF
6. ATLANTIC CITY
5. HEARTLAND
4. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
3. GATES OF HEAVEN
2. CHARIOTS OF FIRE
1. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
Gene Siskel's Top 10, from bottom to top:
10. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
9. BODY HEAT
8. MELVIN AND HOWARD
7. PRINCE OF THE CITY
6. BYE BYE BRAZIL
5. GATES OF HEAVEN
4. MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE
3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
2. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
1. RAGTIME
Special Event of the Year: NAPOLEON
(Gene's other favorites of 1981 were ATLANTIC CITY, THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, SOUTHERN COMFORT, STEVIE, TESS, LOULOU, SUPERMAN II, CUTTER'S WAY, MAN OF IRON, S.O.B. and BLOW OUT-source: Chicago Tribune, January 3, 1982.)
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I'm just happy to see Raiders of the Lost Ark in both of their top fives.
Body Heat was a great, sexy modern film noir movie. What a year for Lawrence Kasdan ...
My favorite 10 films from 1981, plus 5 runners up:
1-Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
2-An American Werewolf in London (1981)
3-The Road Warrior (1981)
4-Body Heat (1981)
5-Clash of the Titans (1981)
6-Gallipoli (1981)
7-Das Boot (1981)
8-Excalibur (1981)
9-Diva (1981)
10-Thief (1981)
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11-Blow Out (1981)
12-Dragonslayer (1981)
13-The Aviator's Wife (1981)
14-The Evil Dead (1981)
15-Mephisto (1981)
My Top Ten Movies of 1981 are,
10. The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
9. The Devil and Max Devlin.
8. Amy.
7. DRAGONSLAYER.
6. The Great Muppet Caper.
5. The Fox and the Hound. Animated.
4. CONDORMAN.
3. Mommie Dearest.
2. The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie. Animated.
1. Sharky's Machine.
Always a pleasure to listen to these two men discuss movies together.
I used to Love watching this show. I watched it from the earliest to their last. It was such a unique and wonderful series. Back then it was the only way for movie lovers to get movie reviews on television. Love watching this old show, it brings back so many great memories. In fact I stream this on my CRT television and it’s like a Time Machine. Thanks for the great video.
Only seen it on the internet myself! Good stuff!
Everybody wants to be an André and might believe they're an André, when they may very well be a Wally.
My favourite films of 1981 are
-Raiders Of The Lost Ark
-My Dinner With Andre
-The Howling
-Escape From New York
-Gates of Heaven
-On Golden Pond
-An American Werewolf In London
-Outland
-Arthur
-Heavy Metal
-Dragonslayer
-Blow Out
-Chariots Of Fire 🔥
My Top Ten Favorite Movies of 1981 is,
10. The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
9. The Great Muppet Caper.
8. The Fox and The Hound. Animated Movie.
7. Condorman.
6. Mommie Dearest.
5. The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie. Animated Movie.
4. Sharkey's Machine.
3. Neighbors.
2. Ghost Story.
1. Four Friends.
I remember there was a point in 'My Dinner With Andre' where the discussion goes from a bit boring to suddenly really interesting and profound. I need to watch it again to see if it holds up, because when it ended I was thinking about the world in a way I hadn't before.
I've watched these guys since 1975 and I've found that I have agreed with them at least 85% of the time. Plus, I like that they enjoyed (and put them on their top 10 lists of both year and decade) my two all time favorite films: Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark. R.I.P. Siskel and Ebert. IMO, you're both national treasures.
Thank you, Jesse Coffey.
My biggest pet peeve was how badly siskel panned silence or the lambs and ebert panned aliens. Two big misses. But yes rip both. Love these guys.
Just as Ebert later came around to Raging Bull being the best movie of 1980 (and, indeed, of the entire 1980s), originally placing it at #2 for that year, Siskel came around to My Dinner with Andre being the best movie of 1981 (listing it at #4 of the 1980s - one place higher than Ebert had it).
I really need to see Prince of The City. I am a huge fan of the late, great City Sidney Lumet.
catch it on prime; it is Lumet's masterpiece and I would say the best film ever that nobody has seen or even heard of.
It's coming to Blu-ray via Warner Archive this month!
I always describe it as the inferior Serpico. See Prince of the City first then Serpico.
@@linkbiff1054 I have now seen both and between the two, I'd say Prince of The City is more interesting because it creates an atmosphere of intense pressure. Unlike Serpico, Ciello was torn between two worlds even though he was doing the right thing.
My dinner with Andre still holds up.
I can't believe neither of them had "Blow Out" on their Top Ten.
That is quite the oversight.
DePalma is so underrated by most critics. You should read Pauline Kael on DePalma . She really loved his work and was crazy about "Blow Out."
Blow Out is far superior to every film on their lists-with the possible exceptions of My Dinner w/ Andre & Gates of Heaven.
It’s funny cause while I’m a huge De Palma fan, especially of his work in the 80’s, I find Blow Out to be overrated. Dont get me wrong I like the movie but I just dont see what the big deal is, it’s somewhat routine given its ratings and status. Personally I feel the silly ending kinda drags it down a bit.
@@sonnyblack0870 The one thing about the ending I never really understood was why he had to wire her in the first place. He should have just gone with her.
Even before they was the syndicated show, Gene Siskel and Rober Ebert was on WTTW in Chicago of the PBS Member Stations.
Such a good year for movies - I saw or have seen nearly all of these, and some several times. I agree that of all these, "Gates of Heaven" is probably the most unusual and the one that left me the most unsettled. There is a scene where the young man plays his electric guitar outside, into an empty valley below. No better visualization of loneliness exists on film.
Bravo to Siskel for electing 'Ragtime' to first place - whether or not one personally agrees with that high rating Siskel justifies the 'indignity' of this film falling into relative obscurity - many of their other top ratings have sustained their reputation over the last forty years but Forman's film of Doctorow's novel (which is as much about 1975 [its publishing date] as 1905) has become virtually unknown.
Hey there JC! +hanx for this generously collection of classic tv. I really miss great cinema reviews by these belated greats (RIP Siskel & Ebert). A lot to luv here two thumbs waaay up to you...subbed up to your fine channel, and thanks again for your efforts and presentational care☆☆☆☆☆
Chariots of fire was excellent, so was Raiders of the Lost Ark. The French Lieutenant's Woman is an interesting film and Cutters Way I like alot.
Fast Forward to the future and out of all these movies it's more likely everyone watching this has only seen Raiders and possible my Dinner with Andre, both which still hold up today.
Neutered!
And I kind of waited for Wallace Shawn to say "Inconcievable!" during the My Dinner with André clip 😁
Great to see "Gates of Heaven" on this list--such a great film. And the point about it being about what people love reminds me of another Errol Morris piece, "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control".
1982 is the yr i finally began to Love films
1:38 this made me that there may have been a slasher hiding in the film vault somewhere in there. And My Dinner with Andre was practically a Bottle Episode of a movie. One sitcom that made allusion to this fine movie was Married With Children which had named an episode My Dinner With Anthrax.
It is sweet to see the moment when Raiders first came out, it being so roundly beloved by all now as a classic.
- I'd love to see Gates of Heaven, that seems fascinating!
Only seen Raiders… seems I need to educate myself about the movies of 1981!
Prince Of The City was tooo long and drawn out. And Lumet has made this movie before (AND after!). I’m surprised that Blow Out (With John Travolta .) didn’t make the list . That was actually really good .
I've seen seven out of ten...
Among the rare moments I agree with Gene (about Warren Beatty in Reds), and I'll add that Beatty is thoroughly disingenous and almost never believable.
I love the 80s!
My Top 10
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Bustin Loose
3. Stripes
4. Zoot Suit
5. Blow Out
6. An American Werewolf In London
7. Superman II
8. Time Bandits
9. Modern Problems
10. The Great Muppet Caper
modern problems???
I Love that movie!
need to punch up the audio
1. The Howling
Volume is too weak
8:40
December 31, 1981 (New Year's Eve 1981)
"Rooting for underdogs," is destroying the Oscars
The Oscars are a waste of time and should have been destroyed after the first ceremony
@@winstonsmiththx1138 Exactly.
@@winstonsmiththx1138 Gee. Misanthropic much?
@@Madbandit77 no not much at all. As misanthropic means avoiding Human Society and as I am on the comment section in TH-cam I think it's pretty obvious I don't have problem with society. I do however find it completely useless and a waste of time to judge art head-to-head.
@@winstonsmiththx1138 But you do have fun being voluntarily mean...
The snake wasn't poisonous, Roger
siskel and Ebert are reviewing films in Heaven l
Napoleon is a masterful silent
About Gene's newspaper article about 1981 in film, did he mention the rise of big budget blockbusters and their glutting of the market in that article?
Yes, he did. He opened the same article by noting about a theater owner who called the Tribune to complain about Gene's running a story on the low holiday season box office returns in the paper's entertainment section, which on weekdays was dubbed Tempo.
@@jessecoffey4737 Can you quote that? If not, that's okay.
@@patrickshields5251
Gene Siskel, January 3, 1982:
"A top executive of Chicago's largest theater chain [Plitt Theaters] recently called this newspaper to complain about a story we had run on the poor box-office performance of virtually all of this year's holiday movies. The executive didn't dispute any of our facts; he said he simply didn't think the story belonged in our entertainment section.
And, yet the declining box-office results for American movies this year may be the most important film story of 1981. Indeed, there is a not-so-quiet panic going on in Hollywood, a panic that has production executives and theater owners nationwide asking themselves some hard questions: Has the video revolution been completed and have the movies lost? Are video games taking away so much of a child's allowance that he/she can't go to the movies as often as in the past? Are adults, fed up with noise, filth, and high refreshment prices at movie theaters, preferring to stay at home and watch alternative sources for movies-pay TV and video cassettes?
Almost everyone knows that the answers to the preceding questions are all 'yes.' The movies, as a group entertainment experience, are under attack. And so, as I sit here compiling my 12th annual '10 Best' list, I secretly wonder if I am speaking to an endangered species: the American moviegoer, that rare person still willing to see movies in the dark along with a group of strangers.
What's wrong with American movies: the marketing mentality that tries to create a 'hit,' by appealing to what the audience says it wants. The bald fact is that the audience doesn't know what it wants until It sees it. Case in point: the year's biggest smash, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' which opened without fanfare in the summer and is still playing in more than a dozen theaters this week.
What's right with American movies: writers and directors who want to risk everything and tell a story they believe must be told. Case in point: the year's most unconventional movie, Louis Malle's American-made 'My Dinner With Andre,' which consists of only two people talking over dinner for nearly two hours."
Added Gene: "The movies made national headlines in 1981 with the tragic deaths, involving alcohol, of William Holden and Natalie Wood. Melvyn Douglas also will be missed. And it was alleged that John W. Hinckley's attack on President Reagan was motivated, in part, by Hinckley's imitative behavior of 'Taxi Driver,' a film that deserves a better epitaph than that."
@@jessecoffey4737 Earlier, he wrote an article about how the summer blockbusters are threatening serious filmmaking. I like to see that archived on Newspapers.com,
did he review sharkeys machine burt reynolds and bernie casey movie?
Gene reviewed the film in print on Winter Solstice in 1981. He gave it two-and-a-half stars and found it quite confused. He and Roger also reviewed it on TV, but the episode in which it was reviewed is currently missing from IMDb. www.newspapers.com/clip/80196363/gene-siskel-movie-reviewsharkys/
@@jessecoffey4737 thanks i read it i knew where hes coming, from but i liked aspects of it, i guess not as a whole, and doesnt hold up well, lets say there is some woman abuse that I wish i couldnt see. but this review is not in video form right? just to be sure?
@@alcabane3125 I checked and IMDb still doesn't have a video of the review; when I try to play it, it gives me the episode that features reviews of "Making Love", "The Boat is Full", "Soldier Girl", and "Cannery Row". This would indicate that the episode is posted twice on that website (once at www.imdb.com/video/vi1954462489/?ref_=tt_vi_i_2, and again in a different print at www.imdb.com/video/vi3179199257 ).
@@jessecoffey4737 okay thanks just wanted to know thanks for the info, much appreciated.
@@jessecoffey4737 Wow, you found Gene's written review of Sharky's Machine. Why are his written reviews so hard to find???
Frankly, I don't believe either of them in their discussion of "My Dinner With André" when they claim to be more like André than Wally. Gene was a lifelong urbanite and materialist, street smart and tremendously business savvy. But he never lived close to nature, lacked handyman or survivalist skills, and wouldn't have lasted long in the forests of Poland or the Sahara living under the stars. Roger was more of a Romantic (albeit less spiritual) but wouldn't have abandoned his materialistic lifestyle if given the chance. Perhaps André represents the man each of them would like to have been, but I very much doubt he resembled who they really were.
Indeed, Gene seems to have had a much greater spirit animal in Tony Manero from _Saturday Night Fever,_ a film he was obsessed with more than most for the remaining twenty-two years of his life.
Notice that they were smiling when they said Andre. Neither man was being serious.
@@ricardocantoral7672They were smiling because they knew the other person would agree and knew exactly why, without explanation. They were "like tuning forks" as Roger put it in his memoirs.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Yeah, because they knew they were both full of it and laughed about it. It's rather easy to tell.
Haha ... even going back this far, Roger slips out the words "New World Order, which had represented the far left as much as the far right with one common fact ... the rich will always get richer ...
Not what he said at all.
@@natureandphysics403 people hear what they want to hear unfortunately
At around 11:30, "Roger slips out the words 'New World Order'"
. . . but not in the context your comment seems to think of.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE vs Raiders of the Lost Ark? I love the boys, but what disagreement- awful.
It was not a good year in film. I could not name a top five. I do think Raiders of the Lost Ark was the best film.
Body Heat: sexiest r rated film Ever. 21st century versions wouldn't even show a woman's boobs