Wednesday, January 30, 2008

1980's

1980:
1. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
2. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
3. The Shining (Kubrick)
4. Stardust Memories (Allen)
5. The Elephant Man (Lynch)
6. Airplane! (Abrahams/Zucker/Zucker)
7t. The Big Red One (Fuller)
7t. The Blues Brothers (Landis)
9. Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
10. Dressed to Kill (De Palma)

Near misses:
The Ninth Configuration (Blatty)
The Falls (Greenaway)
Caddyshack (Ramis)
Breaker Morant (Beresford)
Ordinary People (Redford)


1981:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
2. Das Boot (Petersen)
3. Blow Out (De Palma)
4. The Road Warrior (Miller)
5. Escape from New York (Carpenter)
6. Time Bandits (Gilliam)
7t. An American Werewolf in London (Landis)
7t. Gallipoli (Weir)
9. The Evil Dead (Raimi)
10. Diva (Beineix)

Near misses:
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Reisz)
Reds (Beatty)
Modern Romance (A. Brooks)


1982:
1. Blade Runner (R. Scott)
2. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
3. The Thing (Carpenter)
4. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
5. E.T. (Spielberg)
6. Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio)
7. The Atomic Café (Loader/Rafferty/Rafferty)
8t. Poltergeist (Hooper)
8t. The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
10. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)

Not quite:
Gandhi (Attenborough)
The Secret of NIMH (Bluth)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Heckerling)
Tron (Lisberger)
White Dog (Fuller)


1983:
1. Return of the Jedi (Marquand)
2. Videodrome (Cronenberg)
3. Sans soleil (Marker)
4. A Christmas Story (Clark)
5. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
6. Zelig (Allen)
7. The Meaning of Life (Jones/Gilliam)
8. L’Argent (Bresson)
9. The Right Stuff (Kaufman)
10. Risky Business (Brickman)

Close, not quite:
WarGames (Badham)
El Sur (Erice)
Rumble Fish (Coppola)
Ballad of Narayama (Imamura)


1984:
1. Amadeus (Forman)
2. Paris, Texas (Wenders)
3. Blood Simple (Coen)
4. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
5. Ghostbusters (Reitman)
6. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds (Miyazaki)
7. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
8. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Spielberg)
9. Repo Man (Cox)
10t. The NeverEnding Story (Petersen)
10t. Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch)

Not quite:
The Terminator (Cameron)
Stop Making Sense (Demme)
A Nightmare on Elm St. (Craven)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (German)


1985:
1. Ran (Kurosawa)
2. Brazil (Gilliam)
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen)
4. Come and See (Klimov)
5. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway)
6. Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
7. After Hours (Scorsese)
8. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Burton)
9. Tampopo (Itami)
10. Vagabond (Varda)


1986:
1. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
2. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
3. Aliens (Cameron)
4. The Fly (Cronenberg)
5. Down by Law (Jarmusch)
6. Platoon (Stone)
T7. Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki)
T7. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
9. Sherman's March (McElwee)
10. Mona Lisa (Jordan)

Not quite:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes)
Jean de Florette (Berri)
Street of Crocodiles (Quays)

1987:
1. Raising Arizona (Coen)
2. The Man Who Planted Trees (Back)
3. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
4. Au revoir les enfants (Malle)
5. Wings of Desire (Wenders)
6. Withnail & I (Robinson)
7. Evil Dead II (Raimi)
8. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Haynes)
9t. Empire of the Sun (Spielberg)
9t. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Hughes)

Near misses:
The Princess Bride (Reiner)
Matewan (Sayles)


1. The Vanishing (Sluizer)
2. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
3. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
4. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
5. Akira (Ôtomo)
6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis)
7. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
8. Die Hard (McTiernan)
9. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
10t. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton)
10t. The Thin Blue Line (Morris)

Runners-Up:
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
Dangerous Liaisons (Frears)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
A Short Film about Killing (Kieslowski)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman)


1989:
1. Do the Right Thing (Lee)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
3. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenaway)
4. Dekalog (Kieslowski)
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg)
6t. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky)
6t. Roger & Me (Moore)
8. Field of Dreams (Robinson)
9. Glory (Zwick)
10. The Seventh Continent (Haneke)

Nearly missed:
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki)
Violent Cop (Kitano)
Speaking Parts (Egoyan)
Say Anything... (Crowe)

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