Festival Founders, Darryl Macdonald and Dan Ireland, pose with the world's favorite movie snack
Relive the eighth Seattle International Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the full Festival catalog, see photos and other media, and find a full list of feature-length films presented at the 1983 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 12–June 12, 1983
Number of Days: 32
Venues: Aurora Drive-In, Cinerama Theatre, Egyptian Theatre, Town Theatre
Opening Night: The Fourth Man at Egyptian Theatre
Closing Night: La Traviata at Egyptian Theatre
Tribute: R.W. Fassbinder, Louis Malle, Sydney Pollack
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
Photos
Festival Founders, Darryl Macdonald and Dan Ireland, pose with the world's favorite movie snack
Festival Committee members, Pamela Sprowl and Michel Meacham, in a popcorn frenzy
Ruth Hayler (Festival Consultant) and Jeff Dowd (Co-Director), lost in a sea of popcorn
Android - dir. Aaron Lipstadt, 1982, USA
Angel - dir. Neil Jordan, 1982, Ireland
Angelo, My Love - dir. Robert Duvall, 1983, USA
The Animals Film - dir. Victor Schonfeld, Myriam Alaux, 1981, Great Britain
Arrowsmith - dir. John Ford, 1931, USA
Atomic Artist - dir. Glenn Silber, 1982, USA
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez - dir. Robert M. Young, 1982, USA
Ball of Fire - dir. Howard Hawks, 1941, USA
Basket Case - dir. Frank Henenlotter, 1982, USA
Battle Of Ego - dir. Gary Bush, 1982, USA
Broken Sky - dir. Ingrid Thulin, 1982, Sweden
Bumble and Company - dir. Rob Houwer, 1983, Netherlands
Camouflage - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, 1981, Poland
Celeste - dir. Percy Adlon, 1981, W. Germany
Chained For Life - dir. Henry L. Fraser, 1951, USA
Choice of Arms - dir. Alain Corneau, 1981, France
City Lovers/Country Lovers - dir. Baney Simon, 1982, South Africa
City Lovers - 1982, South Africa
City News - dir. David Fishelson, Zoe Zinman, 1982, USA
Coup de Torchon - dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1981, France
Daughters of Darkness - dir. Harry Kumel, 1981, USA/France
Dodsworth - dir. William Wyler, 1936, USA
The Draughtsman’s Contract - dir. Peter Greenaway, 1982, Great Britain
Dreamland - dir. Mady Saks, 1983, Netherlands
Dudley Carter - dir. Abby Sher, 1982, USA
Emma la Banquière - dir. Francis Girod, 1980, France
The Escape Artist - dir. Caleb Deschanel, 1982, USA
The Evil Dead - dir. Sam Raimi, 1982, USA
Experience Preferred… But Not Essential - dir. Peter Duffell, 1982, Great Britain
The Farewell - dir. Tuija-Maija Niskanen, 1982, Finland/Sweden
A Farewell To The Land - dir. Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1982, Japan
The Fourth Man - dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1983, Netherlands
Gala - dir. John N. Smith, Michael McKennirey, 1982, Canada
The Girl From Lorraine - dir. Claude Goretta, 1980, Switzerland
Growing Up - dir. Laila Mikkelsen, 1981, Norway/Sweden
Guys and Dolls - dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955, USA
Heart Like A Wheel - dir. Jonathan Kaplan, 1983, USA
Heatwave - dir. Phillip Noyce, 1982, Australia
Independence Day - dir. Robert Mandel, 1983, USA
In-Laws - dir. Zhao Huanzhang, 1981, China
Inter Nos - dir. Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, 1982, Iceland
In the King of Prussia - dir. Emile de Antonio, 1983, USA
Invitation Au Voyage - dir. Peter del Monte, 1982, France/Germany/Italy
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium
Kamikaze ‘89 - dir. Wolf Gremm, 1982, W. Germany
The Killing of Angel Street - dir. Donald Crombie, 1981, Australia
Koyaanisqatsi - dir. Godfrey Reggio, 1982, USA
La Petite Sirène - dir. Roger Andrieux, 1981, France
La Traviata - dir. Franco Zeffirelli, 1982, Italy
La Truite (The Trout) - dir. Joseph Losey, 1982, France
The Leopard - dir. Luchino Visconti, 1963, Italy
L’Etoile du Nord - dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1982, France
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943, Great Britain
Liquid Sky - dir. Slava Tsukerman, 1983, USA
Lucio Flavio - dir. Hector Babenco, 1977, Brazil
The Man with Two Brains - dir. Carl Reiner, 1983, USA
Monkey Grip - dir. Ken Cameron, 1982, Australia
Moses Pendleton Presents Moses Pendleton - dir. Robert Elfstrom, 1982, USA
Oklahoma! - dir. Fred Zinnemann, 1955, USA
Onimasa - dir. Hideo Gosha, 1983, Japan
Parsifal - dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, 1982, W. Germany
The Plague Dogs - dir. Martin Rosen, 1982, Great Britain/USA
Privileged - dir. Michael Hoffman, 1982, Great Britain
Psycho II - dir. Richard Franklin, 1983, USA
Purple Haze - dir. David Burton Morris, 1982, USA
Querelle - dir. R.W. Fassbinder, 1982, W. Germany
Return Engagement - dir. Alan Rudolph, 1983, USA
Return of the Jedi - dir. Richard Marquand, 1983, USA
Sally and Freedom - dir. Gunnel Lindblom, 1981, Sweden
A Salute to the Golden Age of Drive-Ins
The Savage Land - dir. Ling Zi, 1981, China
Say Amen, Somebody - dir. George T. Nierenberg, 1982, USA
Scrubbers - dir. Mai Zetterling, 1982, Great Britain
Slow Attack - dir. Reinhard Hauff, W. Germany
Smithereens - dir. Susan Seidelman, 1982, USA
Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone - dir. Lamont Johnson, 1983, USA
Starstruck - dir. Gillian Armstrong, 1982, Australia
The Stationmaster’s Wife - dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977, W. Germany
Stella Dallas - dir. King Vidor, 1937, USA
Stepping Out - dir. Esben Hoilund Carlsen, 1981, Denmark
Success - dir. William Richert, 1979, USA
Sweet Hours - dir. Carlos Saura, 1982, Spain
The Taste of Water - dir. Orlow Seunke, 1982, Netherlands
The Terror of Tiny Town - dir. Sam Newfield, 1938, USA
The Three Ages - dir. Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, 1923, USA
Threshold - dir. Richard Pearce, 1982, Canada
Time For Revenge - dir. Adolfo Aristarain, 1981, Argentina
To Begin Again - dir. J. L. Garci, 1982, Spain
The Tree of Knowledge - dir. Nils Malmros, 1981, Denmark
Une Étrange Affaire - dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1982, France
An Unsuitable Job For A Woman - dir. Chris Petit, 1982, Great Britain
Veronika Voss - dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982, W. Germany
Village in the Jungle - dir. Lester James Peries, 1980, Sri Lanka
War Games - dir. John Badham, 1983, USA
Ways in the Night - dir. Krysztof Zanussi, 1976, W. Germany
Whatever Happened to Susan Jane? - dir. Marc Huestis, 1981, USA
The Wind - dir. Victor Seastrom, 1927, USA
Witch Hunt - dir. Anja Breien, 1981, Norway
The Witness - dir. Peter Basco, 1969, Hungary
The Wizard Of Babylon - dir. Dieter Schidor, 1982, W. Germany
The Worm Eaters - dir. Herb Robins, 1977, USA
An Evening with Louis Malle
An Evening with Sydney Pollack
Exploits in Exploitation - included Basket Case, Chained for Life, Daughters of Darkness, The Evil Dead, The Terror of Tiny Town, The Worm Eaters, It’s Colossal, It’s Terrific, It’s 70 mm Epics at the Cinerama
Film Poster Exhibition and Auction
It’s Colossal, It’s Terrific, It’s 70 mm Epics at the Cinerama - included West Side Story, Ben-Hur, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Wind and the Lion
Parsifal
Return of the Jedi, four showings: Midnight, the 3 a.m. “afterhours” show, the 6 a.m. “wake up/pre-work” show and the 9 a.m. “let’s play hookey” show
A Salute to the Golden Age of Drive-Ins - included Death Race 200, The Little Shop Of Horrors, The Trip, The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Samuel Goodwyn - included The Goldwyn Follies of 1983, Oklahoma!, Arrowsmith, Ball of Fire, Dodsworth, Stella Dallas, Guys and Dolls
Scandinavia Today - included Broken Sky, The Farewell, Growing Up, Sally and Freedom, Inter Nos, The Tree of Knowledge, Stepping Out, Witch Hunt
The Secret Festival
Short Subjects - included 47 short films
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, to be presented in 70 mm and 3-D at the Town Theatre
A Tribute to R.W. Fassbinder