MOVIES OF THE ‘80s : THE BEST OF THE ‘80s

AMERICAN FILMS

(in alphabetical order)

Atlantic City (Louis Malle)

Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)

Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman)

Diner (Barry Levinson)

Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)

The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe)

Once Upon a Time in America (uncut version) (Sergio Leone)

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)

Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)

Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)

HONORABLE MENTION

The Cotton Club (Francis Coppola)

The Emerald Forest (John Boorman)

Prizzi’s Honor (John Huston)

The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)

FOREIGN FILMS

L’Argent (French: Robert Bresson)

A Sunday in the Country (French: Bertrand Tavernier)

The Ballad of Narayama (Japanese: Shohei Imamura)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (W. German: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Fanny & Alexander (Swedish: Ingmar Bergman)

Heimat (W. German: Edgar Reitz)

The Home and the World (Indian: Satyajit Ray)

The Makioka Sisters (Japanese: Kon Ichikawa)

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Italian: The Tavianis)

Nostalghia (Russian-Italian: Andrei Tarkovsky)

Ran (Japanese: Akira Kurosawa)

Vagabonde (French: Agnes Varda)

HONORABLE MENTION

Local Hero (Scottish: Bill Forsyth)

Man of Flowers (Australian: Paul Cox)

My Beautiful Laundrette (British: Stephen Frears)