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.

BEST OF THE 90s: FILM

The list-making addict strikes again! Over the next few days I'm going to be compiling BEST OF DECADE lists here, so if you missed my BEST OF THE AUGHTS (2000-2009) make sure you check it out before I burry you in the past. As always, the year by year Top 10s can be seen at The Final Cinema project. I find compulsively compiling these helps me relax at night for some reason. I'm mental. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately) I have an encyclopedic memory of most of the films I've seen, so it comes easy. I like to save these posts so I can look back on them over the years and see how my attitudes towards cinema change as I get older. Anyway, the following movies were my favorites released during 1990 to 1999. If you have a genuine interest in film, I think you should try to see all of the titles mentioned in the next few posts. So get to it.

Here's the countdown:

30.           TOY STORY

29.       MOTHER AND SON

28.           THE MISSION

27.           POINT BREAK

26.     

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

25.     

LESSONS OF DARKNESS

24.            THE 

LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE

23.        BOOGIE NIGHTS

22.     

 BABE: PIG IN THE CITY

21. 

THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES

-tie- 21.      CLOSE-UP

               GREMLINS 2: 

20.      THE NEW BATCH

19.  PRINCESS MONONOKE

18.    THREE COLORS: RED

17.        THE IRON GIANT

16.        BEFORE SUNRISE

15.            SÁTÁNTANGÓ

14.          FALLEN ANGELS

13.              HEAT (1995)

12.   CHUNGKING EXPRESS

11.              ED WOOD

10.          HARD BOILED

9.  

UNDERGROUND [Director's cut]

8.              UNFORGIVEN

7.                   SAFE

6.   

A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY

5.           GOODFELLAS

4.         EYES WIDE SHUT

3.     

THE LONG DAY CLOSES

2.               THE PIANO

1.       THE THIN RED LINE

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recap
1990-1999

1. THE THIN RED LINE (Malick)
2. THE PIANO (Campion)
3. LONG DAY CLOSES (Davies)
4. EYES WIDE SHUT (Kubrick)
5. GOODFELLAS (Scorsese)
6. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Yang)
7. SAFE (Haynes)
8. UNFORGIVEN (Eastwood)
9. UNDERGROUND (Kusturica)
10. HARD BOILED (Woo)
11. ED WOOD (Burton)
12. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar Wai)
13. HEAT (Michael Mann)
14. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar Wai)
15. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr)
16. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
17. THE IRON GIANT (Bird)
18. RED (Kieslowski)
19. PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki)
20. GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Dante)
21. CLOSE-UP (Kiarostami)                                                                             -tie- THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES (Kiarostami)
22. BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (George Miller)
23. BOOGIE NIGHTS (P.T. Anderson)
24. LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE (Carax)
25. LESSONS OF DARKNESS (Herzog)
26. MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (Van Sant)
27. POINT BREAK (Bigelow)
28. THE MISSION (To)
29. MOTHER & SON (Sokurov)
30. TOY STORY (Lasseter)

I encourage all of you to post your favorite pics of the 90s (or films you think I've shafted) in the comments section below.