1. Paris, Texas
2. The Dead
3. Once Upon a Time in America
4. Ran
5. Rumble Fish
6. The King of Comedy
7. Blue Velvet
8. Cutter’s Way
9. The Shining
10. Raging Bull.
1. Fanny and Alexander
2. Raging Bull
3. Hannah and Her Sisters
4. Ran
5. The Shining
6. The Last Emperor
7. The King of Comedy
8. Blue Velvet
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. Dead Ringers/ Blade Runner/ Rumble Fish (tie)
That’s off the top of my head so I am sure I missed something.
EDIT: Anonymity, my thoughts exactly. I have given up on double posts.
It has been covered before
Twice at least
But fuck it:
Damnation
Stranger than Paradise
Landscape in the Mist
Stardust Memories
The Sacrifice
Fanny and Alexander
Raging Bull
Sans Soleil
A Time to Live a Time to Die
Au Revoir Les Enfants
1. The Decalogue (Kieslowski, 1988)
2. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
3. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
4. Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)
5. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
6. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
7. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
8. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1982)
9. Das Boot (Petersen, 1981)
10. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
Honorable Mentions:
11. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989)
12. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
13. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)
14. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
15. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
16. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
My favorite decade for films. :-)
1. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski / France, West Germany)
2. Sans soleil “Sunless” (Chris Marker / France)
3. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino / USA)
4. Tenshi no tamago “Angel’s Egg” (Mamoru Oshii / Japan)
5. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski / UK)
6. Moznosti dialogu “Dimensions of Dialogue” (Jan Svankmajer / Czechoslovakia)
7. Klassenverhältnisse “Class Relations“ (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub / West Germany, France)
8. La pirate “The Pirate” (Jacques Doillon / France)
9. Loulou (Maurice Pialat / France)
10. Zina (Ken McMullen / UK)
EDIT: Oh damn, I’ve already had to kick out so many favorites, and now I forgot an essential one. :-(
I’ll simply add it here:
“As Tears Go By” by Wong Kar Wai.
Damn thats tough, instead I made a list of 30 ( 3 sets of 10), all amazing films..
Fanny and Alexander, Ran, Sans Soleil, The Sacrifice, Stranger than Paradise, Dekalog, Paris Texas, Gates of Heaven, The Shining, Vagabond, My Dinner with Andre, Blue Velvet, Do the Right Thing, Wings of Desire, Hannah and her Sisters, A Time to Live a Time to Die, Landscape in the Mist, Hail Mary, Blade Runner, Amadeus, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Raging Bull, The Three Crowns of the Sailor, Veronika Voss, Cinema Paradiso, The Green Ray, Crimes and Misdemeanours, Reds, Sex, Lies And Videotape
by the way, Sans Soleil rules the 80’s!!
Yeah, I forgot about Sans Soleil.
@Vincent
Maria Braun is from the late 70s. ;-)
hmmm, m to x
1. Mon Oncle d’Amerique (1980)
2. A Short Film About Killing (1988)
3. Blue Velvet (1986)
4. Time of the Gypsies (1988)
5. Brazil (1985)
6. Down By Law (1986)
7. Ran (1985)
8. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
9. Do The Right Thing (1989)
10. Kagemusha (1980)
10. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
9. Brazil (1985)
8. Mon oncle d’Amerique (1980)
7. Nostalghia (1983)
6. The Big Red One (1980)
5. Parsifal (1982)
4. King Lear (1987)
3. Passion (1982)
2. Sans soleil (1983)
1. A Idade da Terra (1980)
Rocha at No.1 – Intersting choice. Where did you see the film?
hey Anonymity,since there are some members amongst here who are quite new to this site (like me :P ),i feel it’s a good opportunity for re-caps,yes? ;)
may i also add Megalexandros on those lists (why is everyone only mentioning Landscapes in the Mist???) as well as the highly underrated Barfly and the distinct Rendez-vous,oh…and a much beloved,Three Crowns of the Sailor…
1- Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
2- The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
3- Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant)
4- Blue Velvet (Lynch)
5- Videodrome (Cronenberg)
6- Prenom Carmen (Godard)
7- Zelig (Allen)
8- Stop Making Sense (Demme)
9- Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch)
10- Local Hero (Forsyth)
1. The Shinning (1980),
2. Raging Bull (1980),
3. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982),
4. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1983,)
5. Back To The Future I (1985),
6. Breakfast Club (1985),
7. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986),
8. The Untouchables (1987),
9. BeetleJuice (1988),
10. License To Drive (1988).
In no particular order.
Raging Bull
The Right Stuff
Fanny & Alexander
The King of Comedy
Das Boot
Do The Right Thing
Once Upon a Time in America – Director’s Cut
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Field of Dreams
and…
Zelig
Shoot the Moon
Tootsie
A Room with a View
Round Midnight
Parting Glances
Brazil
Local Hero
Maurice
Housekeeping
The Big Blue
Diva
Betty Blue
The King of Comedy
Bull Durham
The Breakfast Club
Something Wild
River’s Edge
Ran
Wings of Honneamise
Uh.
RoboCop
Aliens
Repo Man (not liking any of my other favorites, I can understand, but anyone who does not say Repo Man, shame on you)
Do the Right Thing
Withnail and I
Videodrome
Cobra Verde
Police Story
Conan the Barbarian
The Road Warrior
Repo Man is ulta-cool but what do I knock out – could maybe switch it for Bull Durham but that has the awesome ‘I love the clit…’ monolgue
Repo Man has maybe my favorite romantic exchange in any movie ever:
“What about our relationship?!”
“…huh?”
“What about our relationship?!”
“…fuck that.”
1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1983)
2. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988)
3. Berlin Alexanderplatz (R.W. Fassbinder, 1980)
4. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
5. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1989)
6. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
7. L´Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
8. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
9. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
10. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
In random order:
L’Argent (Bresson)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Come and See (Klimov)
The Time to Live and The Time to Die (Hou)
Save and Protect (Sokurov)
My Life as a Dog (Hallstrom)
Wings of Desire (Wenders)
Sunday in the Country (Tavernier)
Vagabond (Varda)
Story of Women (Chabrol)
Not one mention of Terms of Endearment …
… or Tender Mercies
… or The Official Story
… or Atlantic City
… or so many of the other titles of 1980, ’81, ’82, (especially) ’83 …
Since I consider and value all of your opinions as valid and important, I can only assume you haven’t seen a lot of these. Please do — find some time between the E.T. s and John Hughes stuff and see some extraordinarily good films that shouldn’t be forgotten.
1. A Idade da Terra
2. Too Early Too Late
3. Hail Mary
4. Passion
5. Sans Soleil
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz
7. White Dog
8. The Sacrifice
9. Dekalog
10. King Lear
Raiders of the Lost Ark
After Hours
True Stories
Blue Velvet
Heathers
Do the Right Thing
Something Wild
Roger and Me
Hannah and Her Sisters
To Live and Die in L.A.
1. Sans Soleil (1982, Chris Marker)
2. Midnight Run (1988, Martin Brest)
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
4. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
5. Der Himmel über Berlin (1987, Wim Wenders)
6. Sur (1988, Fernando Solanas)
7. Fanny and Alexander (1983, Ingmar Bergman)
8. Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)
9. Down by Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)
10. Broadway Danny Rose (1984, Woody Allen)
MUST BE MENTIONED:
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)
Paris Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
Farewell (1983, Elem Klimov)
I forgot “Class of 1984,” which I think is from like 1982. But still, oh my god, I love that movie, and I don’t care how lowbrow it is.
The Elephant Man (1980)
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Blow Out (1981)
Shoot the Moon (1982)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Ran (1985)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Unbearable Lighness of Being (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Casualties of War (1989)
Veronika Voss
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Dead Ringers
Blow Out
Insignificance
Fanny and Alexander
The King of Comedy
Out of the Blue
Intervista
Sweetie
Vincent Caramela
I’m not sure if this topic was previously covered in the forum but it’s here now:
Raging Bull
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Blue Velvet
Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Thing
Heaven’s Gate
Robocop
Roger and Me
The King of Comedy
Once Upon a Time in America
I found this list incredibly easy to compile and since it’s my own personal list – I wouldn’t dare say it’s one to be carved in stone. I am a little disturbed that I couldn’t think of any foreign films but I’m sure someone will include a few here.