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[Mitchell]

OK here goes. In this thread feel free to suggest and discuss the best films released between 1980 and 1989. The limit 100 films. anything with (TV) after it on IMDB is a no-go. Only TV films that recut for theatrical distribution (presumably in a different country) are good here. If it got a theatrical release in the 80's in the country(-ies) of origin then there's no debate, it is in. Anything else may need you personally to explain the situation if you feel it's debateable.

1. 1000
2. 750
3. 500
4. 400
5. 350
6. 320
7. 300
8. 280
9. 260
10. 250
11. 245
12. 240
13. 235
14. 230
15. 225
16. 220
17. 215
18. 210
19. 205
20. 200

25. 175
30. 150
31. 148
32. 146
33. 144
34. 142
35. 140

40. 130
45. 120
50. 110
55. 100
60. 90
65. 80
70. 70
75. 60
80. 50
85. 40
90. 30

95. 20
96. 18
97. 16
98. 14
99. 12
100. 10


Yet again I hope this will put an emphasis on ordering the higher end of the list and won't penalise those who submit smaller lists or give a bias to either the films we've all seen or high ranking films on a few lists. I think this has worked well so far.

The deadline for votes is 6th November and the list will be counted down during that month, leaving December and January free for the EOY's on both sides of the board before we start on the 90's

Best places to start...

http://uk.imdb.com/chart/1980s
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/

Those lists posted in the 70's result thread will be carried over and I will repost them once the thread has got going.

[elcorazon]

question:

Alternate Versions for
The Executioner's Song (1982) (TV)
A 97-minutes version was released theatrically in Europe, featuring additional footage with some nudity not shown in original television version.

is this good enough?

[Mitchell]

Yeah, why not.

[elcorazon]

in that case, I'll stick with my original vote: 1. Diner 2. The King of Comedy 3. My Favorite Year 4. Baby It’s You 5. Airplane 6. Stranger Than Paradise 7. Risky Business 8. Night Shift 9. The Executioner’s Song 10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 11. This is Spinal Tap 12. My Dinner With Andre 13. E.T. 14. Blood Simple 15. Body Heat 16. Raging Bull 17. Do The Right Thing 18. The Fabulous Baker Boys 19. Stand by Me 20. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure 21. Back to the Future 22. Tootsie 23. Moscow on the Hudson 24. The World According to Garp 25. Hannah and Her Sisters 26. Heathers 27. Desperately Seeking Susan 28. The Meaning of Life 29. Coal Miner’s Daughter 30. A Small Circle of Friends 31. Ordinary People 32. Time Bandits 33. Sex, Lies and Videotape 34. Stop Making Sense 35. Something Wild 36. Roger and Me 37. Hoosiers 38. Melvin and Howard 39. The Stunt Man 40. The Shining 41. The Natural 42. Mask 43. Moonstruck 44. Witness 45. The Pope of Greenwich Village 46. 9 ½ Weeks 47. About Last Night 48. Tender Mercies 49. Lost in America 50. Say Anything 51. Lucas 52. The Princess Bride 53. Thin Blue Line 54. The Purple Rose of Cairo 55. Mr. Mom 56. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 57. Revenge of the Nerds 58. The Karate Kid 59. No Way Out 60. Platoon 61. After Hours 62. Down By Law 63. Broadcast News 64. Bull Durham 65. Honey I Shrunk the Kids 66. Field of Dreams 67. The Accused 68. My Bodyguard 69. Midnight Run 70. Dressed to Kill 71. Dead Calm 72. Eating Raoul 73. The Big Picture 74. Heart Like a Wheel 75. Choose Me 76. Fame 77. Full Metal Jacket 78. Prince of the City 79. Repo Man 80. War Games 81. Black Widow 82. Children of a Lesser God 83. Carny 84. The Flamingo Kid 85. Zelig 86. Someone to Watch Over Me 87. The Last American Virgin 88. Pretty in Pink 89. The Breakfast Club 90. Rain Man 91. Big 92. Star 80 93. Dirty Dancing 94. Bull Durham 95. Ragtime 96. Gandhi 97. Reds 98. The Natural 99. Brother From Another Planet 100. Sixteen Candles 101. Running on Empty 102. The Big Chill 103. Trading Places 104. Adventures in Babysitting 105. Splash 106. Married to the Mob 107. My Beautiful Laundrette 108. My Life as a Dog 109. Coming to America 110. Gremlins 111. Amazon Women on the Moon I'm sure I could alter the order a bit and be happier with it, but better to be done than to be 100% accurate (as if it's possible)

[Agrimorfee]

Well, They Shoot Pictures Don't They (thanks Mitchell) compiled the 1000 Greatest Films of All Time based on critic's lists, and here are the 80s...save you all the trip... 1980 Dir Age of the Earth, The (Rocha, Glauber; Brazil) ▪875 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1980 Dir Airplane!/Flying High (Abrahams, Jim/David Zucker/Jerry Zucker; US) ▪786 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1980 Dir Atlantic City (Malle, Louis; Canada-France) ▪946 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros Hall NYT 1980 Dir Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, R.W.; Germany) ▪209 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1980 Dir Elephant Man, The (Lynch, David; US) ▪533 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1980 Dir Empire Strikes Back, The (Kershner, Irvin; US) ▪336 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1980 Dir Every Man for Himself/Slow Motion/Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Godard, Jean-Luc; France-Switzerland) ▪580 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1980 Dir Heaven's Gate (Cimino, Michael; US) ▪511 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1980 Dir Inferno [1980] (Argento, Dario; Italy) ▪755 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1980 Dir Kagemusha (Kurosawa, Akira; Japan) ▪451 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- Hall NYT 1980 Dir Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Resnais, Alain; France) ▪499 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros Hall NYT 1980 Ordinary People (Redford, Robert; US) ▪952 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1980 Dir Raging Bull (Scorsese, Martin; US) ▪16 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1980 Dir Shining, The (Kubrick, Stanley; US) ▪204 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- NYT 1981 Dir Blow Out (De Palma, Brian; US) ▪700 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1981 Dir Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Kusturica, Emir; Yugoslavia) ▪926 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1981 Dir French Lieutenant's Woman, The (Reisz, Karel; UK) ▪971 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1981 Dir Gregory's Girl (Forsyth, Bill; UK) ▪783 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- Hall NYT 1981 Dir Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior (Miller, George; Australia) ▪455 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1981 Dir Mephisto (Szabo, Istvan; Hungary) ▪951 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- Hall --- 1981 Dir Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, Steven; US) ▪225 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1981 Dir Reds (Beatty, Warren; US) ▪379 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1981 Dir Too Early, Too Late (Straub, Jean-Marie & Daniele Huillet; Germany) ▪911 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- --- 1981 Dir Woman Next Door, The/La Femme d'à côté (Truffaut, Francois; France) ▪630 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1982 Dir Blade Runner (Scott, Ridley; US) ▪68 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros Hall --- 1982 Dir Blind Chance/Przypadek (Kieslowski, Krszystof; Poland) ▪829 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1982 Dir Diner (Levinson, Barry; US) ▪551 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1982 Dir E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, Steven; US) ▪163 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1982 Dir Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, Ingmar; Sweden) ▪62 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1982 Dir Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, Werner; West Germany) ▪516 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1982 Dir Gandhi (Attenborough, Richard; India-UK) ▪608 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1982 Dir Missing (Costa-Gavras, Constantin; US) ▪788 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1982 Dir Night of the Shooting Stars, The (Taviani, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani; Italy) ▪609 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1982 Dir Passion/La Passion (Godard, Jean-Luc; France-Switzerland) ▪360 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1982 Reassemblage (Trinh, T. Minhy-ha; US) ▪805 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1982 Dir Thing, The (Carpenter, John; US) ▪812 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1982 Dir Three Crowns of the Sailor (Ruiz, Raul; France-Chile) ▪716 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1982 Dir Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, R.W.; Germany) ▪982 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- Hall --- 1982 Yol (Goren, Serif; Switzerland-Turkey) ▪889 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1983 Dir King of Comedy, The (Scorsese, Martin; US) ▪411 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros Hall NYT 1983 Dir L'Argent/Money (Bresson, Robert; France-Switzerland) ▪210 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros Hall NYT 1983 Dir Local Hero (Forsyth, Bill; UK) ▪528 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1983 Dir Meantime [TV] (Leigh, Mike; UK) ▪696 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1983 Dir Nostalghia/Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, Andrei; Italy) ▪406 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1983 Dir Sans Soleil/Sunless (Marker, Chris; France) ▪313 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- --- 1983 Dir Scarface [1983] (De Palma, Brian; US) ▪741 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1983 Sugar Cane Alley/La Rue Cases-Nègres (Palcy, Euzhan; France) ▪735 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1983 Dir Tender Mercies (Beresford, Bruce; US) ▪578 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1983 Dir Videodrome (Cronenberg, David; Canada) ▪558 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- NYT 1984 Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, The (Richter, W.D.; US) ▪931 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1984 Dir Amadeus (Forman, Milos; US) ▪320 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1984 Dir And the Ship Sails On (Fellini, Federico; Italy-France) ▪849 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1984 Dir Blood Simple (Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen; US) ▪627 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1984 Dir Broadway Danny Rose (Allen, Woody; US) ▪894 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- --- 1984 Dir Ghostbusters (Reitman, Ivan; US) ▪821 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1984 Heimat (Reitz, Edgar; Germany) ▪861 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- Hall NYT 1984 Dir Love Streams (Cassavetes, John; US) ▪347 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- --- 1984 Dir Nightmare on Elm Street, A (Craven, Wes; US) ▪958 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1984 Dir Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, Sergio; US) ▪147 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1984 Dir Paris, Texas (Wenders, Wim; US) ▪386 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1984 Dir Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, Jim; US) ▪531 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- NYT 1984 Dir Sunday in the Country, A (Tavernier, Bertrand; France) ▪906 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1984 Dir Taipei Story (Yang, Edward; Taiwan-Japan) ▪653 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- --- 1984 Dir Terminator, The (Cameron, James; US) ▪308 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1984 Dir This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, Rob; US) ▪362 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1984 Dir Yellow Earth/Huang Tudi (Chen Kaige; China) ▪519 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1985 Dir Back to the Future (Zemeckis, Robert; US) ▪456 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1985 Dir Brazil (Gilliam, Terry; UK) ▪175 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1985 Come and See (Klimov, Elem; Russia) ▪398 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1985 Dir Day of the Dead (Romero, George A.; US) ▪833 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- --- 1985 Dir Hail Mary/Je Vous salue, Marie (Godard, Jean-Luc; France-Switzerland) ▪838 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1985 Hour of the Star, The/A Hora da Estrela (Amaral, Suzana; Brazil) ▪777 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1985 Dir Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader, Paul; US) ▪942 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1985 Dir My Life as a Dog (Hallstrom, Lasse; Sweden) ▪497 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- Hall NYT 1985 Dir No End/Bez konca (Kieslowski, Krszystof; Poland) ▪927 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1985 Official Story, The (Puenzo, Luis; Argentina) ▪724 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1985 Dir Purple Rose of Cairo, The (Allen, Woody; US) ▪512 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1985 Dir Ran (Kurosawa, Akira; France-Japan) ▪116 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1985 Shoah (Lanzmann, Claude; France) ▪121 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros Hall NYT 1985 Dir Time to Live and the Time to Die, The (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; Taiwan) ▪237 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- --- 1985 Dir Vagabond/Sans Tolt ni Loi (Varda, Agnes; France) ▪651 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros Hall --- 1986 Dir Aliens (Cameron, James; US) ▪315 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1986 Dir Blue Velvet (Lynch, David; US) ▪89 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1986 Dir Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes, John; US) ▪722 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1986 Dir Green Ray, The/Summer/Le Rayon Vert (Rohmer, Eric; France) ▪778 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1986 Mauvais Sang/Bad Blood (Carax, Leos; France) ▪986 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- --- 1986 Dir Platoon (Stone, Oliver; US) ▪851 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1986 Dir Sacrifice, The (Tarkovsky, Andrei; France-Sweden) ▪373 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1986 Sherman's March (McElwee, Ross; US) ▪922 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- NYT 1987 Akira (Otomo, Katsuhiro; Japan) ▪817 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1987 Dir Dead, The [1987] (Huston, John; US) ▪585 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1987 Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, The (Hara, Kazuo; Japan) ▪339 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1987 Dir Evil Dead II (Raimi, Sam; US) ▪871 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1987 Dir Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, Stanley; US) ▪494 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- NYT 1987 Dir Hope and Glory (Boorman, John; UK) ▪628 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1987 Dir Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Ophuls, Marcel; US) ▪395 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1987 Dir House of Games (Mamet, David; US) ▪882 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros Hall NYT 1987 Dir Last Emperor, The (Bertolucci, Bernardo; China-Italy-UK) ▪932 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- NYT 1987 Dir Matewan (Sayles, John; US) ▪981 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1987 Dir Princess Bride, The (Reiner, Rob; US) ▪654 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1987 Dir Raising Arizona (Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen; US) ▪841 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1987 Dir Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou; China) ▪671 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1987 Dir Short Film About Killing, A (Kieslowski, Krszystof; Poland) ▪485 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- Hall --- 1987 Dir Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Haynes, Todd; US) ▪954 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1987 Dir Where is the Friend's Home? (Kiarostami, Abbas; Iran) ▪646 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- --- 1987 Dir Wings of Desire (Wenders, Wim; France-West Germany) ▪215 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT 1987 Withnail & I (Robinson, Bruce; UK) ▪649 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1987 Yeelen/Brightness (Cisse, Souleymane; Mali) ▪844 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- --- 1988 Dir Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, Giuseppe; Italy-France) ▪473 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1988 Dir Days of Eclipse, The/Dni zatmeniya (Sokurov, Aleksandr; USSR) ▪967 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1988 Dir Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, David; Canada) ▪333 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1988 Dir Dekalog/Decalogue (Kieslowski, Krszystof; Poland) ▪92 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- NYT 1988 Dir Die Hard (McTiernan, John; US) ▪536 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1988 Dir Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies, Terence; UK) ▪477 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- --- 1988 Dir Fish Called Wanda, A (Crichton, Charles; UK) ▪638 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1988 Dir Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos, Theo; Greece-France-Italy) ▪607 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1988 Dir Last Temptation of Christ, The (Scorsese, Martin; US) ▪874 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- NYT 1988 Dir My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, Hayao; Japan) ▪458 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1988 Dir Rain Man (Levinson, Barry; US) ▪823 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1988 Dir Short Film About Love, A (Kieslowski, Krszystof; Poland) ▪899 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1988 Dir Tale of the Wind, A/Une histoire de vent (Ivens, Joris; France) ▪742 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- --- 1988 Dir Thin Blue Line, The (Morris, Errol; US) ▪723 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- NYT 1988 Vanishing, The/Spoorloos (Sluizer, George; Netherlands-France) ▪870 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1988 Dir Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis, Robert; US) ▪915 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros Hall NYT 1989 Dir City of Sadness, A (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; Taiwan) ▪265 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- --- 1989 Dir Close-Up/Namayeh Nazdik (Kiarostami, Abbas; Iran) ▪153 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros --- NYT 1989 Dir Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The (Greenaway, Peter; France-Netherlands) ▪662 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1989 Dir Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, Woody; US) ▪188 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall --- 1989 Dir Do the Right Thing (Lee, Spike; US) ▪222 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 Ros Hall NYT 1989 For All Mankind (Reinert, Al; US) ▪948 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1989 Dir Homework/Mashgh-e Shab (Kiarostami, Abbas; Iran) ▪682 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- Ros --- --- 1989 Dir Killer, The (Woo, John; Hong Kong) ▪749 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- --- --- 1989 Dir Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica, Emir; Yugoslavia) ▪793 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE --- --- --- --- 1989 Dir When Harry Met Sally... (Reiner, Rob; US) ▪803 Amaz Goog IMDB MRQE 1001 --- Hall NYT

[boobs]

1. TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA 2. EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY

[TJENZ]

1. TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA

2. EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY

You forgot Goonies

[Pray4Mojo]

1. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
2. Nema-ye Nadzik [Close-Up] (Kiarostami)
3. Stop Making Sense (Demme)
4. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
5. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch)
6. Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant)
7. Dekalog (Kieslowski)
8. Brazil (Gilliam)
9. This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Heckerling)
11. Wings of Desire (Wenders)
12. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
13. The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
14. Caddyshack (Ramis)
15. Videodrome (Cronenberg)
16. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki)
17. Lost in America (Brooks)
18. Blade Runner (Scott)
19. Round Midnight (Tavernier)
20. Withnail and I (Robinson)
21. Khane-ye doust kodjast? [Where Is My Friend’s House?] (Kiarostami)
22. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Haynes)
23. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
24. sex, lies and videotape (Soderbergh)
25. Sans Tolt ni Loi [Vagabond] (Varda)
26. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Burton)
27. Strange Brew (Moranis/Thomas)
28. Pixote (Babenco)
29. Down by Law (Jarmusch)
30. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
31. Do the Right Thing (Lee)
32. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
33. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
34. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
35. Love Streams (Cassavetes)
36. Repo Man (Cox)
37. Modern Romance (Brooks)
38. Mashgh-e Shab [Homework] (Kiarostami)
39. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
40. Sid & Nancy (Cox)
41. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
42. Matewan (Sayles)
43. Sweetie (Campion)
44. Yeelen [Brightness] (Cisse)
45. Toute une nuit [All Night Long] (Akerman)
46. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen)
47. The Big Red One (Fuller)
48. Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun [Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East? A Zen Fable] (Yong-Kyun)
49. Ran (Kurosawa)
50. Dao ma dan [Peking Opera Blues] (Tsui)

[CoolerbytheLake]

Please remember to vote for Cinema Paradiso. If you haven't seen it, rent it and then please remember to vote for Cinema Paradiso.

[birdistheword]

80's 1. Raging Bull (dir. Martin Scorsese) 2. Shoah (dir. Claude Lanzmann) 3. Do The Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee) 4. Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch) 5. Dead Ringers (dir. David Cronenberg) 6. Berlin Alexanderplatz (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 7. Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott) 8. Brazil (dir. Terry Gilliam) 9. Dekalog (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowsky) 10. Fanny and Alexander (dir. Ingmar Bergman) 11. The Right Stuff (dir. Philip Kaufman) 12. My Dinner With André (dir. Louis Malle) 13. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (dir. Steven Spielberg) 14. Tootsie (dir. Sydney Pollack) 15. Hannah & Her Sisters (dir. Woody Allen) 16. Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa) 17. Fitzcarraldo (dir. Werner Herzog) 18. Raising Arizona (dir. Joel & Ethan [uncredited] Coen) 19. The Thin Blue Line (dir. Errol Morris) 20. Stop Making Sense (dir. Jonathan Demme) 21. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (dir. Steven Spielberg) 22. Once Upon A Time In America (Long Version) (dir. Sergio Leone) 23. Atlantic City (dir. Louis Malle) 24. Manhunter (dir. Michael Mann) 25. The Empire Strikes Back (dir. Irvin Kershner) 26. Gates Of Heaven (dir. Errol Morris) 27. Drugstore Cowboy (dir. Gus Van Sant) 28. Sid & Nancy (dir. Alex Cox) 29. Crimes and Misdemeanors (dir. Woody Allen) 30. The Last Temptation Of Christ (dir. Martin Scorsese) 31. Blood Simple (dir. Joel & Ethan [uncredited] Coen) 32. After Hours (dir. Martin Scorsese) 33. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (dir. Robert Zemeckis) 34. A Fish Called Wanda (dir. Charles Crichton) 35. Full Metal Jacket (dir. Stanley Kubrick) 36. Local Hero (dir. Bill Forsyth) 37. Platoon (dir. Oliver Stone) 38. Stranger Than Paradise (dir. Jim Jarmusch) 39. Moonlighting (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski) 40. The Horse Thief (dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang) 41. Red Sorghum (dir. Zhang Yimou) 42. The Decline of Western Civilization (dir. Penelope Spheeris) 43. Bull Durham (dir. Ron Shelton) 44. The Purple Rose Of Cairo (dir. Woody Allen) 45. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (dir. Philip Kaufman) 46. King Of Comedy (dir. Martin Scorsese) 47. Withnail & I (dir. Bruce Robinson) 48. Breaker Morant (dir. Bruce Beresford) 49. This Is Spinal Tap (dir. Rob Reiner) 50. Au Revoir Les Enfants (dir. Louis Malle) 51. Batman (dir. Tim Burton) 52. River's Edge (dir. Tim Hunter) 53. The Color Of Money (dir. Martin Scorsese) 54. The Vanishing (dir. George Sluizer) 55. Woman On The Verge Of A Nervouse Breakdown (dir. Pedro Almodóvar) 56. Escape From New York (dir. John Carpenter) 57. Aliens (dir. James Cameron) 58. Beetlejuice (dir. Tim Burton) 59. Amadeus (dir. Milos Forman) 60. Kagemusha (dir. Akira Kurosawa) 61. Terminator (dir. James Cameron) 62. Choose Me (dir. Alan Rudolph) 63. Eight Men Out (dir. John Sayles) 64. Roger & Me (dir. Michael Moore) 65. Life Lessons (from "New York Stories") (dir. Martin Scorsese) 66. Das Boot (dir. Wolfgang Peterson) 67. Diner (dir. Barry Levinson) 68. sex, lies, and videotape (dir. Steven Soderbergh) 69. Bad Boys (dir. Rick Rosenthal) 70. The Last Emperor (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) 71. The Dead Zone (dir. David Cronenberg) 72. Evil Dead II (dir. Sam Raimi) 73. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (dir. Tim Burton) 74. Reds (dir. Warren Beatty) 75. The Thing (dir. John Carpenter)

[Slackmo]

Please remember to vote for Cinema Paradiso. If you haven't seen it, rent it and then please remember to vote for Cinema Paradiso.

yeah, I kinda can't believe we've got three lists already that don't mention it at all.

[DrJimmy]

2. Shoah (dir. Claude Lanzmann)

great list, bird. but i cannot for the life of me sit through Shoah. i think i watched a couple hours and that was all i could take.

Cinema Paradiso made me cry, i loved it. not sure how it would hold up today. it always bothers me when a movie covers a huge span of time and uses two different actors to play the same role at different ages (Once Upon A Time in America, Cinema Paradiso, Gattaca, etc...)

[birdistheword]

Man, EVERYONE I know says that. Usually 'cause it's too overwhelming for them. I'm not Jewish, but half my neighborhood was (thus misleading me into thinking half the world was probably Jewish...I was 6, whaddya expect?) So even in grade school I was exposed to famous books on the Holocaust, my brother introduced me to Maus, and several classmates had their grandparents come in to talk about their experience in the camps. By the time I saw Schindler's List, and later Shoah, I already had heavy exposure, so I think that kind of helped me when I finally spent a week, sometime in 2000, watching Shoah. Not in the sense it numbed me, but cushioned the shock of hearing what happened.

Then again, I've only asked Jewish individuals whether or not they've seen it, and obviously their familiarity with the Holocaust didn't make it any more bearable.

If anyone wants to watch it, I think the end is extraordinary once it sinks in, at least philosophically. It really helps to see the entire documentary because it really conditions you for that last bit. It encapsulates everything that's brilliant about this film's style, how taken out of context, many of the shots seem so ordinary and nondescript, nothing you'd expect to dominate a Holocaust film. Combined with the testimonial, it really fuses the traumas of the past with the present, and it makes everything so much more powerful. It isn't some distant past you'd normally see in grainy, black & white footage, you really understand that this is something that's left deep scars in the world around us.

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I don't know anything about movies but vote for Stranger Than Paradise.

[velocity]

I don't know anything about movies but vote for Stranger Than Paradise.

Wow, persuasive!

[Ѡ҈҉Ѡ҈҉Ѡ҈҉Ѡ҈҉Ѡ҈҉Ѡ҈҉Ѡ҈҉Ѡ҈҉Ѡ҈҉Ѡ]

watch it go top 20

[Mitchell]

Hey we already have one non-voting Tony allowed to comment on this. I won't stand for two.

[Saskadelphia]

I have absolutely no idea what my #1 is going to be. Oh wait, yes I do. Is the Decalogue eligible?

[Mitchell]

Very much so.

[nic]

01. Once Upon A Time In America 02. Videodrome 03. Blue Velvet 04. Blade Runner 05. Sex, Lies and Videotape 06. Santa Sangre 07. Tetsuo: The Iron Man 08. Terminator 09. Brazil 10. The Last Temptation of Christ 11. The Vanishing 12. The Shining 13. Fitzcarraldo 14. The Fly 15. Raising Arizona 16. Raging Bull 17. The Witches 18. Caddyshack 19. Empire Strikes Back 20. Sixteen Candles