The Year of Living Dangerously

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Year Of Living Dangerously, 1982.

Introduction and comments following The Year Of Living Dangerously, 1982, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Anderson Cooper.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Year Of Living Dangerously, 1982.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Year Of Living Dangerously, 1982.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Year Of Living Dangerously, 1982.

Savvy cameraman Billy (Linda Hunt) brings new pal Australian reporter Hamilton (Mel Gibson) to a club in 1965 Jakarta, introducing Brit officer Henderson (Bill Kerr) and diplomat Jill (Sigourney Weaver), just hints of political tension, in Peter Weir's The Year Of Living Dangerously, 1982.

Joining director Peter Weir's opening, Linda Hunt in her Academy Award-winning role, playing a guy and narrating as "Billy Kwan," covers the arrival of Australian newsman Hamilton (Mel Gibson), met by native Kumar (Bembol Roco), in 1965 Jakarta, in The Year Of Living Dangerously, 1982.

New man in 1965 Jakarta, Australian journalist Hamilton (Mel Gibson), with American colleague Curtis (Michael Murphy) and others (Noel Ferrier, Paul Sonkkila), at the palace of President Sukarno, failing to impress his bosses in Sydney, in Peter Weir's The Year Of Living Dangerously, 1982.

Mel Gibson stars as an Australian journalist caught up in the 1965 Indonesian coup in The Year Of Living Dangerously (1982).