I made this list a while back, still pretty much stands:
FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Bergman)
ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Gilliam)
LOCAL HERO (Forsyth)
RAGING BULL (duh)
BLUE VELVET (Lynch)
RAN (Kurosawa)
THE SHINING (Kubrick)
TOOTSIE (Pollack)
HOUSEKEEPING (Forsyth)
TENDER MERCIES (Beresford)
I won’t boil down to a top 10, but some of the great films, imo, are Raging Bull, Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas, Blow Out, Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, Fanny and Alexander, Down by Law, Amadeus, Cinema Paradiso, Elephant Man, Brazil, Full Metal Jacket, Do the Right Thing, Ran, Das Boot, Terminator, Raising Arizona, This is Spinal Tap . . . . Man, I can go on and on. So many great 80s.
Local Hero is a great film, should be talked about more.
Alphabetized by director. Only 9.
L’Argent – Robert Bresson
Videodrome – David Cronenberg
Local Hero – Bill Forsythe
Passion – Jean-Luc Godard
Prénom: Carmen – Jean-Luc Godard
Blue Velvet – David Lynch
Au revoir, les enfants – Louis Malle
The King of Comedy – Martin Scorsese
L’Amour braque – Andrzej Zulawski
REDS
then….
RAGING BULL
THE KING OF COMEDY
BLUE VELVET
RAISING ARIZONA
DINER
DIVA
ATLANTIC CITY
TIME STANDS STILL
MISSING
in addition to the my Top 10 posted, these are my other essential ’80’s
Atlantic City (1980)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Excalibur (1981)
Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Shoot the Moon (1981)
This Is Elvis (1981)
Barbarosa (1982)
Personal Best (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Yentl (1983)
Mrs. Soffel (1984)
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Something Wild (1986)
Roxanne (1987)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Tequila Sunrise (1988)
A World Apart (1988)
Enemies; A Love Story (1989)
Say Anything (1989)
Sans Soleil Marker
Drowning by Numbers Greenaway
A Time to Live and a Time to Die Hou
Videodrome Cronenberg
The Green Ray Rohmer
L’Argent Bresson
Stranger than Paradise Jarmusch
Elephant Clarke
Kalyug Benegal
The Sacrifice Tarkovsky
Karkalou – Stavros Tornes
the photograph – Nikos Papatakis
the Decalogue – Krzysztof Kieślowski
the King of comedy – Martin Scorsese
Sans soleil – Chris Marker
Stranger than paradise – Jim Jarmusch
Blade runner -Ridley Scott
Ran – Akira Kurosawa
Once upon a time in America – Sergio Leone
Blue Velvet – David Lynch
1. Ran
2. Conan the Barbarian
3. Fanny & Alexander
4. Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters
5. Berlin Alexanderplatz
6. The Thin Blue Line
7. Sherman’s March
8. Day of the Dead
9. River’s Edge
10. Blow Out
Ah! Add River’s Edge to complete my 10.
Just a rough, off-the-cuff list.
- L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
- The Dead (John Huston, 1987)
- Le Dernier Métro (François Truffaut, 1980)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
- My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981)
- Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987)
- Le Rayon Vert (Éric Rohmer, 1986)
- Der Siebente Kontinent (Michael Haneke, 1989)
(Ugh,) sometimes I’d rather submit lists of what I want to see rather than what I already have.
Want to see:
Le Rayon Vert – Éric Rohmer
Pauline à la plage – Éric Rohmer
Sans soleil – Chris Marker
Soigne ta droite – Jean-Luc Godard
Sauve qui peut (La vie) – Jean-Luc Godard
Nostalghia – Andrei Tarkovsky
The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky
Possession – Andrzej Zulawski
Sous le soleil de Satan – Maurice Pialat (Should arrive in the mail soon)
Le Pont du Nord – Jacques Rivette
Almost all Frenchmen.
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No real order:
Raging Bull
Blue Velvet
Possession
Hannah and Her Sisters
Blade Runner
Paris, Texas
The Shining
Fanny and Alexander
Sans soleil
The Empire Strikes Back