BEST OF THE 80s: FILM

The decade I was born into.






                   THE LAST
30.  TEMPTATION OF CHRIST

29.   

GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES

28.                  RAN

27.               THE 

KING & THE MOCKINGBIRD

26.  

STRANGER THAN PARADISE

25.        THE LONG RIDERS

24.      THE ROAD WARRIOR

23.          DEAD RINGERS

-tie-23.     THE FLY (1986)

22.  

PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE

21.                BRAZIL

20.    

POSSESSION [Director's cut]

19.      THE RIGHT STUFF

18.       WINGS OF DESIRE

17.                SHOAH

16.      THE LAST EMPEROR

15.        RAISING ARIZONA

14.         COME AND SEE

13.   

BLADE RUNNER [Director's cut]

12.           NOSTALGHIA

11.    THE EVIL DEAD (1981)

10.         BLOOD SIMPLE

9.               BLOW OUT

8.             BLUE VELVET

7.                  ALIENS

6.          ROBOCOP (1987)

5.              GREMLINS

4.               DEKALOG

[theatrical Roadshow cut]

3.             THE SHINING

2.     DO THE RIGHT THING

                          
1.               E.T.

THE EXTRA -TERRESTRIAL

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recap

1980-1989

1. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Spielberg)
2. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee)
3. THE SHINING (Kubrick)
4. DEKALOG (Kieslowski)
5. GREMLINS (Dante)
6. ROBOCOP (Verhoeven)
7. ALIENS (Cameron)
8. BLUE VELVET (Lynch)
9. BLOW OUT (De Palma)
10. BLOOD SIMPLE (Coen bros)
11. THE EVIL DEAD (Raimi)
12. NOSTALGHIA (Tarkovsky)
13. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
14. COME AND SEE (Klimov)
15. RAISING ARIZONA (Coen bros)
16. LAST EMPEROR (Bertolucci)
17. SHOAH (Claude Lanzmann)
18. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wenders)
19. THE RIGHT STUFF (Philip Kaufman)
20. POSSESSION (Zulawski)
21. BRAZIL (Gilliam)
22. PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Burton)
23. DEAD RINGERS (Cronenberg)                                                                  -tie- THE FLY (Cronenberg)
24. ROAD WARRIOR (George Miller)
25. THE LONG RIDERS (Hill)
26. STRANGER THAN PARADISE (Jarmusch)
27. THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD (Grimault)
28. RAN (Kurosawa)
29. GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Isao Takahata)
30. LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (Scorsese)

I encourage all of you to post your favorite pics of the 80s (or films you think I've shafted) in the comments section below.