![]() For the next two weeks, the Brattle Theatre’s “ Let’s Hear it for 1984!” retrospective takes us back to the year Ronald Reagan got re-elected, offering a dozen unexpected blockbusters (or semi-blockbusters, and some curiosities) including “Beverly Hills Cop,” “Gremlins,” “ Purple Rain,” David Lynch’s attempt at “Dune,” “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” and the original “A Nightmare on Elm Street” - a far more elegant scare picture than you might remember, before Freddy Krueger became a Catskills comedian who skewers teens and quips like Don Rickles with finger-knives. There’s an intensity to such nostalgia, a yearning for an age when you were just starting to explore music and movies, and the world made way more sense. ![]() Left to right, stills from the films "Old Enough," "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Paris, Texas." (Courtesy Brattle Theatre)Įvery generation is always complaining about how popular culture has been going steadily downhill since they were 13 years old.
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