Ten Best Films of the 1980's

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1)Mississippi Burning
2)Raiders of the Lost Ark
3)Raging Bull
4)The Verdict
5)Dead Poets Society
6)E.T.
7)Born on the 4th of July
8)Moonstruck
9)Broadcast News
10)Field of Dreams
11)The Color Purple
12)Ordinary People
13)Glory
14)Dangerous Liasons
15)Back to the Future
16)On Golden Pond
17)Parenthood
18)Hannah and Her Sisters
19)Big
20)Batman
21)Amadeus
22)The Natural
23)Purple Rose of Cairo
24)Do the Right Thing
25)Crimes and Misdemeanors
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1. Do the Right Thing (d. Lee)
2. Tender Mercies (d. Beresford)
3. Radio Days (d. Allen)
4. Diva (d. Beineix)
5. Sophie's Choice (d. Pakula)
6. Wetherby (d. Hare)
7. Platoon (d. Stone)
8. Tootsie (d. Pollack)
9. Blood Simple (d. Coen)
10. Au Revoir les Enfants (d. Malle)

Runners-up: Kagemusha/Ran (d. Kurosawa), After Hours (d. Scorsese), Fanny & Alexander (d. Bergman)




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Ten Best Films of the 1980s

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Ten Best Films of 1980

Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
The Great Santini (Lewis John Carlino)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
Resurrection (Daniel Petrie)
Fame (Alan Parker)
Tess (Roman Polanski)

Ten Best Films of 1981

Reds (Warren Beatty)
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell)
Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz)
Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard)
Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet)

Ten Best Films of 1982

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards)
Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
An Officer and a Gentleman (Taylor Hackford)
Missing (Costa-Gavras)
Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
The World According to Garp (George Roy Hill)

Ten Best Films of 1983

Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Testament (Lynne Littman)
The Dresser (Peter Yates)
Heart Like a Wheel (Jonathan Kaplan)
Silkwood (Mike Nichols)
The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir)

Ten Best Films of 1984

A Passage to India (David Lean)
Amadeus (Milos Forman)
Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)
The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
A Soldier's Story (Norman Jewison)
Mass Appeal (Glenn Jordan)
Birdy (Alan Parker)
Mrs. Soffel (Gillian Armstrong)
Cal (Pat O'Connor)

Ten Best Films of 1985

Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
Prizzi's Honor (John Huston)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco)
Witness (Peter Weir)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman)
The Trip to Bountiful (Peter Masterson)
Dreamchild (Gavin Millar)
Mask (Peter Bogdanovich)

Ten Best Films of 1986

Platoon (Oliver Stone)
A Room with a View (James Ivory)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)
Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
Stand by Me (Rob Reiner)
The Mission (Roland Joffé)
The Fly (David Cronenberg)

Ten Best Films of 1987

Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
The Dead (John Huston)
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears)
Maurice (James Ivory)

Ten Best Films of 1988

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan)
Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
Working Girl (Mike Nichols)
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)
Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker)
Gorillas in the Mist (Michel Apted)
A Cry in the Dark (Fred Schepisi)

Ten Best Films of 1989

My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson)
sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Enemies, a Love Story (Paul Mazurksy)
Glory (Edward Zwick)
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1. Blade Runner (Scott)
2. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
3. Brazil (Gilliam)
4. The Right Stuff (Kaufman)
5. The Elephant Man (Lynch)
6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
8. RoboCop (Verhoeven)
9. The Killer (Woo)
10. Atlantic City (Malle)
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1. Eureka (Nicolas Roeg)
2. Missing (Costa-Gavras)
3. Three Brothers (Francesco Rosi)
4. King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
5. Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell)
6. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
7. Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
8. The Rainbow (Ken Russell)
9. Crimes of the Heart (Bruce Beresford)
10. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)

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1. Raging Bull (d: Martin Scorsese)
2. Blue Velvet (d: David Lynch)
3. Amadeus (d: Milos Forman)
4. Drugstore Cowboy (d: Gus van Sant)
5. The Color Purple (d: Steven Spielberg)
6. Ran (d: Akira Kurosawa)
7. Wings of Desire (d: Wim Wenders)
8. Do the Right Thing (d: Spike Lee)
9. Cinema Paradiso (d: Guiseppe Tornatore)
10. Brazil (d: Terry Gilliam)
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I'm a bit ignorant in this decade and am mostly adrift in horror-land. Not sure why my perennial favorites Creepshow and Poltergeist don't figure in here.

1. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 85)
2. Phenomena (Dario Argento, 84)
3. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 80)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 80)
5. Hardly Working (Jerry Lewis, 80)
6. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 89)
7. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 81)
8. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 88)
9. The Church (Michele Soavi, 88)
10. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 87)
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Wretched decade, but not without its glories . . .

1. Skin Deep (Blake)
2. Victor/Victoria (Blake)
3. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
4. S.O.B. (Blake)
5. Crimes And Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
6. The Dead (John Huston)
7. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
8. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer)
9. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
10. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
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Ten Best Films of the 1980's

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01. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
02. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
03. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
04. The Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
05. Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
06. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
07. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
08. Hope & Glory (John Boorman)
09. Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards)
10. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
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