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18th Nov 2020

Sixteen Candles (1984 First Feature)

The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1984 features our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles. Written and directed by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe, Haviland Morris and Paul Dooley, Sixteen Candles launched Hughes’ career as a director after his earlier success as a screenwriter.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sixteen-candles-1984), Gary Arnold in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/05/05/sixteen-candles-makes-a-lovely-sight/25a2d7f7-3a67-44a4-8848-cac001effbbd/), and Pauline Kael in TheNew Yorker.

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1984 installment featuring the year’s biggest flop, Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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David Rosen is a music composer and podcast producer. He has scored feature films, commercials and more, as well as creating albums of instrumental music. He currently produced Piecing It Together which he hosts and Awesome Movie Year.