Christmas 1981 at the Movies

On this episode, film critic and historian Edward A. Havens III takes his Wayback Machine back forty years, to look back at the movies you could have seen after Christmas dinner in 1981.

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The movies covered during this episode include (released in 1981, unless otherwise noted):

Absence of Malice (Sydney Pollack)
Arthur (Steve Gordon)
Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
Buddy Buddy (Billy Wilder)
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Cinderella (1950, Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson)
Four Friends (Arthur Penn)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
Ghost Story (John Irvin)
Heartbeeps (Allan Arkush)
Modern Problems (Ken Shapiro)
Montenegro (Dušan Makavejev)
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
Napoleon (1927, Abel Gance)
Neighbors (John G. Avildsen)
On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell)
Only When I Laugh (Glenn Jordan)
Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross)
Ragtime (Miloš Forman)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Reds (Warren Beatty)
Rollover (Alan J. Pakula)
Sharkey's Machine (Burt Reynolds)
Taps (Harold Becker)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (John Badham)