1.) Nostalghia
2.) The King of Comedy
3.) Videodrome
4.) A Christmas Story
5.) The Right Stuff
6.) Sans Soleil
7.) Return of the Jedi
8.) Trading Places
9.) The Dead Zone
10.) Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Others: The Outsiders, Tender Mercies, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Silkwood, Star 80, Zelig, Baby It’s You, Valley Girl, Scarface, The Fourth Man, Sleepaway Camp, and Cujo.
1. A Nos Amors
Danton
Sans Soleil
Zelig
The Right Stuff
The King of Comedy
First Name: Carmen
Ballad of Nakayama
Three Crowns of the Sailor
Meantime
Wow what a year! The 80s rule!
1. Kutya éji dala “The Dog’s Night Song” (Gábor Bódy / Hungary)
À nos amours “To Our Loves” (Maurice Pialat / France)
Conquest (Lucio Fulci / Italy, Spain, Mexico)
Darossu “Dallos” (Mamoru Oshii / Japan)
Das Nürnberger Bett (Alexander Titus Benda / West Germany)
Delitto carnale “Killing of the Flesh” (Cesare Canevari / Italy)
Der Aufenthalt “Turning Point” (Frank Beyer / East Germany)
Die Erben “The Inheritors” (Walter Bannert / Austria)
Kako sam sistematski unisten od idiota “How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot”
(Slobodan Sijan / Yugoslavia)
La lune dans le caniveau “The Moon in the Gutter” (Jean-Jacques Beineix / France, Italy)
Mortelle randonnée “Deadly Circuit” (Claude Miller / France)
Moznosti dialogu “Dimensions of Dialogue” (Jan Svankmajer / Czechoslovakia)
Nati con la camicia “Go for It” (Enzo Barboni / Italy)
Sans soleil “Sunless” (Chris Marker / France)
Scarface (Brian De Palma / USA)
So Is This (Michael Snow / Canada)
Storia di Piera “The Story of Piera” (Marco Ferreri / Italy, France, West Germany)
System ohne Schatten “System Without Shadow” (Rudolf Thome / West Germany)
The Hunger (Tony Scott / UK)
Thriller (John Landis / USA)
I beginning to think Yentl might just have a place on the MOST DIVISIVE FILMS thread! :-)
For what it’s worth I did like Risky Business when I saw it back in ’83 but repeat viewings have made me think I must have been VERY high at the time. Props to Curtis Armstrong and Bronson Pinchot however who steal every scene their in.
Let me add that when I said “Carroll Ballard can do no wrong” I must have been suppressing all memory of the fiasco Wind (1992),a movie where he can do no right. The only blight on his otherwise faultless career.
1. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
2. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
3. Local Hero (Bill Forsythe)
4. King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
5. “It’s a Good Life” (Joe Dante)
6. Confidentially Yours (Francois Truffaut)
7. Zelig (Woody Allen)
8. L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
9. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
10. Christine (John Carpenter)
11. “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (George Miller)
12. Strange Invaders (Michael Laughlin)
13. Rock & Rule (Clive Smith)
14. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
15. Trading Places (John Landis)
16. Wild Style (Charlie Ahern)
17. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
18. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufmann)
19. The Deadly Spawn (Douglas McKeown)
20. Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge)
Given how awful the first two segments of Twilight Zone: The Movie are, I can’t see my way to including the whole movie on the list, but I love the second two segments, thus their inclusion as separate short film entries.
I can’t believe that I’m the only one to vote for Jackie Chan’s Project A.
@ Paul Johnson
Agreed. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Twilght Zone: The Movie either (John Landis has a special place in hell waiting for him for his role in the multiple on-set killings) but the Joe Dante and George Miller episodes are superb.
@Erik
I also can’t believe tht I’m the only one voting for Gabor Body or Fulci. :-(
Scarface
Barefoot Gen
A Christmas Story
The Dead Zone
Gorky Park
The Hunger
The King of Comedy
Local Hero
The Meaning of Life
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Never Cry Wolf
The Outsiders
Project A
Return of the Jedi [ Original Version ]
The Right Stuff
Rumble Fish
Sans soleil
Shaolin & Wu Tang
Trading Places
Videodrome
Seems there’s many acclaimed ‘83 films I haven’t seen. IMDb has moved Style Wars to ’84???
1) Zelig
- Vivement Dimanche! (aka Confidentially Yours)
- Star wars – episode IV – Return of the Jedi
- A nos Amours
- Sans Soleil
- Scarface
- Nostalghia
- Rumble Fish
- A Christmas Story
- Vacation (national lampoon)
- Trading places
- Prénom: Carmen (aka First name: Carmen)
- Christine
- Videodrome
- The dead zone
- Risky Buisiness
- The man with two brains
- The dresser
- Proshchanie (aka Farewell)
- Tu mi turbi (aka You upset me)
- Entre tinieblas (aka Dark Habits)
1) L’argent
A nos amours
The Right Stuff
Carmen
Prenom: Carmen
A Christmas Story
Feng gui lai de ren
The King of Comedy
Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
+
Diary (David Perlov)
The South (Víctor Erice)
L’argent (Robert Bresson)
Utopia (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
Heaven and Earth (Michael Pilz)
À nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
The Wind (Souleymane Cissé)
Keep Walking (Ermanno Olmi)
Adressee Unknown (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian)
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz)
Reassamblage (Trinh T. Minh-ha)
The Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita)
The Ghost (Herbert Achernbusch)
The Great Sadness of Zohara (Nina Menkes)
The Store (Frederick Wiseman)
Maruja in Hell (Francisco Lombardi)
Island of Swans (Herrmann Zschoche)
argh i want to see those saless and achternbusch films! must learn german.
Schedule (tentative):
1983: Open until 04/28
1945: 04/29
2003: 05/20
n/m
sans soleil is so far above the others it should be in a separate post. but for clarity.
1. sans soleil
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l’argent
prenom carmen
the power of emotion (kluge)
a nos amours
pauline at the beach
el sur (erice)
nostalghia
in the white city (tanner)
crime and punishment (kaurismaki)
norwood (keiller)
ghost dance (mcmullen)
the gold diggers (potter)
the coastline/the sea is in their blood (greenaway)
sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc (iosseliani)
the right way (fischli & weiss)
the boys from fengkuei (HHH)
a few notes about the film hail mary (JLG)
letter from a filmmaker or the return of a library lover (ruiz)
city of pirates (ruiz)
ran out of room for: three crowns of a sailor, slow moves (jost) fear (kargl) a brutal game (brisseau) robbe-grillet
need to see: dhrupad, perlov’s diary, austeria, cracking up, the moon in the gutter, so is this, our century, the wind, my brother’s wedding, she kept asking for the moon (uher) the story of piera (ferreri) twice upon a time (korty) king for a day (volev).
can’t see: dialogue in rome (duras) liberte, la nuit (garrel) among grey stones (muratova) addressee unknown & utopia (saless) the olympic winning lady (achternbusch) the dog’s night song (body) the very late afternoon of a faun (chytilova) the legend of princess olga (ilyenko) up to a certain point (alea) the magpie in the wisp (herz) my memories of old beijing (wu yigong) the netherlands (haanstra) haiti express (leth) sand cliffs (pita) that day on the beach (yang) pnuema (dorsky)
Top 10
The King of Comedy
The Right Stuff
Star 80
Baby, it’s You
The 4th Man
And the Ship Sails On
Streamers
Zelig
Tender Mercies
The Year of Living Dangerously
Runners Up
The Hunger
Daniel
Silkwood
The Dead Zone
Terms of Endearment
Local Hero
Most Over Rated
The Dresser
Risky Business
The Big Chill
Most Under Rated
Cujo
Videodrome
Eureka
El Norte
Balkan Express
Entre Nous
Funny Dirty Little War
Gorky Park
Local Hero
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Never Cry Wolf
Pauline at the Beach
Psycho II
Rembetiko
Risky Business
Sugar Cane Alley
The 4th Man
The Boys from Fengkui
The Right Stuff
The South
Total
Trading Places
Under Fire
Deliberately excluded (TSPDT top 250, IMDb top 250)
L’argent
Return of the Jedi
Sans soleil
Scarface
Wanted
Ah Ying
Careful, He Might Hear You
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Mortelle randonnée
That Day, on the Beach
The Makioka Sisters
Utu
1. City of Pirates
Le bal
Breathless
Burning Patience
Dark Habits
In the White City
Letter from a Library Lover
One Deadly Summer
Three Crowns of the Sailor
Voyage in Time
El sur
In the White City
L’argent
Un jeu brutal
Pauline at the Beach
Three Crowns of the Sailor
And the Ship Sails On
Local Hero
The Boys from Fengkui
That Day, on the Beach
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Blue Thunder
El Norte
Scarface
Silkwood
Smorgasbord
The Right Stuff
Uncommon Valor
Zelig
Videodrome
A weak year, hard to find 20 really good films among the 139 seen. 1945 looks more promising.
I know this is a list thread, not a discussion thread, but as this is nearly over, I am sad that so few put Nostalghia as their top pick, even though many did include it on their picks for the year. Clearly, Sans Soleil seems the winner here.
For those that haven’t seen Nostalghia, but like Tarkovsky’s other films, I urge you to see and consider Nostalghia. Of his major films, it is perhaps Tarkovky’s least understood and appreciated release. It doesn’t even have a decent region 1 DVD release. I love the film, but can’t make others do the same. I find it fits in perfectly with the mood and tone of Stalker and The Sacrifice.
Nostalghia is also a film concerned with the metaphysics of sacrifice in a corrupt world – if we can greatly over-simplify. Both the candle-in-the-wind episode in the deserted pool and the man who sets himself on fire (notice how Tarkovsky uses fire as a sort of purification motif in film after film?) represent an attempt to achieve some manner of spiritual harmony/cleasing through sacrifice that will help ‘save’ the world.
Give it a try and see if it doesn’t tie-in with Tarkovsky’s other films in terms of symbol and feel. I personally find Sans Soleil a much simpler film to understand than Nostalghia.
Please add The following to my list:
Kon Ichikawa’s The Makioka Sisters
Sally Potter’s The Gold Diggers
Would love to also add
Robert Altman’s Streamers
Ruy Guerra’s Erendira
Last call, 24 hours left.
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
Heat and Dust (James Ivory)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima)
Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge )
Duel to the Death (Ching Siu-Tung)
Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)
Scarface (Brian De Palma)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (Mirra Bank, Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
Strange Invaders (Michael Laughlin)
Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)
The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola)
Cujo (Lewis Teague )
In The White City (Alain Tanner)
Down To The Cellar (Jan Svenkmajer)
Winners And Sinners (Sammo Hung)
1. L’argent (Robert Bresson, France)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, USA)
The Unknown Chaplin (Kevin Brownlow & David Gill, USA/United Kingdom)
A Nos Amours / To All of My Lovers (Maurice Pialat, France)
El Sur (Victor Erice, Spain)
Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, France)
Berta’s Motives (Jose Luis Guerin, Spain)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, France)
City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz, France)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
Dhrupad (Mani Kaul, India)
Adynata (Leslie Thornton, USA)
I Lived, But…(Kazuo Inoue, Japan)
À nos amours / Maurice Pialat
Addressee Unknown / Sohrab Shahid Saless
L’Argent / Robert Bresson
The Boys from Fengkuei / Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Catch / Sômai Shinji
City of Pirates / Raúl Ruiz
Crime and Punishment / Aki Kaurismäki
Dhrupad / Mani Kaul
Forbidden Relations / Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
Keep Walking / Ermanno Olmi
Liberté, la nuit / Philippe Garrel
Mosquito on the Tenth Floor / Sai Yôichi
My Brother’s Wedding / Charles Burnett
My Memories of Old Beijing / Wu Yigong
Pauline at the Beach / Éric Rohmer
The Power Of Emotion / Alexander Kluge
Sans soleil / Chris Marker
The South / Víctor Erice
That Day, on the Beach / Edward Yang
Utopia / Sohrab Shahid Saless
Since Berta’s Motives is 1984, please exclude it from my list. Sorry
04/28/2012 Results: http://mubi.com/lists/1983-poll
Thanks to all who contributed!
RachelLeigh
The Dresser
Monty Python Meaning of Life
Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Zelig
Terms of Endearment
Twilight Zone Movie
The Big Chill
The Osterman Weekend
Trading Places