Sunday, March 14, 2010

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 AND 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.           COME AND SEE










18.        THE RIGHT STUFF











17.         WINGS OF DESIRE











16.                  SHOAH







15.         RAISING ARIZONA











14.   BLADE RUNNER [Director's cut]












13.             NOSTALGHIA












12.      THE LAST EMPEROR







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












                           E.T.
1.    THE EXTRA -TERRESTRIAL

*****





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. LAST EMPEROR (Bertolucci)
  13. NOSTALGHIA (Tarkovsky)
  14. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
  15. RAISING ARIZONA (Coen bros)
  16. SHOAH (Claude Lanzmann)
  17. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wenders)
  18. THE RIGHT STUFF (Philip Kaufman)
  19. COME AND SEE (Klimov)
  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.

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