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JONATHAN
ROSENBAUM'S 1000 ESSENTIAL FILMS- 1980s
Originally published
in Essential
Cinema, copyright 2004 Jonathan Rosenbaum
Below are Rosenbaum's
130 favorite films from the 1980s:
1980
Atlantic City (Malle)
The Big Red One
(Fuller)
Gloria (Cassavetes)
Grown-ups (Mike
Leigh)
The Little Richard
Story (William Klein)
Melvin and Howard
(Demme)
La memoire courte
(Eduardo de Gregorio)
Metaphor (King
Vidor)
Mon oncle d'Amerique
(Rensais)
Out of the Blue
(Dennis Hopper)
The Shining (Kubrick)
1981
Charmed Particles
(Andrew Noren)
Cutter's Way (Ivan
Passer)
Hardly Working
(Jerry Lewis)
History of the
World, Part I (Mel Brooks)
Modern Romance
(Albert Brooks)
Orderly or Disorderly
(Abbas Kiarostami)
Pennies from Heaven
(Herbert Ross)
La toit de la
baleine (Ruiz)
Too Early, Too
Late (Straub / Huillet)
Two Portraits (Peter
Thompson)
The Vulture (Yaki
Yosha)
White Dog (Fuller)
1982
Blade Runner (Ridley
Scott)
Une chambre en
ville (Demy)
En rachachant (Straub/
Huillet)
Field Diary (Amos
Gitai)
One Man's War (Edgardo
Cozarinsky)
Scenario du film
"Passion" (Godard)
You Are Not I (Sara
Driver)
1983
Adynata (Leslie
Thornton)
Ananas (Gitai)
Les anees 80 (Akerman)
L'argent (Bresson)
Cracking Up (Jerry
Lewis)
Fellow Citizen
(Kiarostami)
The Gold Diggers
(Sally Potter)
Hammett (Wenders)
It's a Good Life
(Joe Dante)
The King of Comedy
(Martin Scorsese)
My Brother's Wedding
(Burnett)
Sans soleil (Marker)
Sylvia: Un portrait
de Parvameh Navar (Maria Konaris)
Son's Big Doll
(Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
The State of Things
(Wenders)
The Unknown Chaplin
(Kevin Brownlow / David Gill)
Videodrome (David
Cronenberg)
1984
Almanac of the
Fall (Bela Tarr)
Barres (Moullet)
Broadway Danny
Rose (Allen)
Choose Me (Alan
Rudolph)
The Day the Sun
Turned Cold (Yim Ho)
The Funeral (Juzo
Itami)
Love Streams (Cassavetes)
Mutable Fire (Erotic
Psyche)
1984 (Michael Radford)
Stranger Than Paradise
(Jim Jarmusch)
Swing Shift (original
cut, Demme)
1985
Day of the Dead
(Romero)
The Horse Thief
(Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Manuel on the Island
of Wonders (Ruiz)
The Man Who Envied
Women (Yvonne Rainer)
Mix-Up (Francoise
Romand)
Next of Kin (Atom
Egoyan)
Passionless Moments
(Jane Campion)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
Taipei Story (Edward
Yang)
The Time to Live
and the Time to Die (Hou)
Vagabond (Varda)
1986
Bad Blood (Leos
Carax)
Down By Law (Jarmusch)
Joan Does Dynasty
(Joan Braderman)
Melo (Rensais)
Memoire des apparences
(Ruiz)
The Mexican Tapes
(Louis Hock)
The Peddler (Mohsen
Makhmalbaf)
Routine Pleasures
(Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Sherman's March
(Ross McElwee)
Sleepwalk (Driver)
Tampopo (Itami)
1987
Candy Mountain
(Rudy Wurlitzer / Robert Frank)
la chouette aveugle
(Ruiz)
Damnation (Tarr)
From the Pole
to the Equator (Yervant Gianikian / Angela Ricci Lucchi)
Full Metal Jacket
(Kubrick)
Housekeeping (Bill
Forsyth)
House of Games
(David Mamet)
Ishtar (May)
Landscape Suicide
(Benning)
The Last Emperor
(Bertolucci)
Mammame (Ruiz)
The Silent Majority
(Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa)
Tough Guys Don't
Dance (Norman Mailer)
Universal Hotel
/ Universal Citizen (Thompson)
Walker (Alex Cox)
A Western (Laurie
Dunphy)
Where Is the Friend's
House? (Kiarostami)
Yeelen (Brightness)
(Souleymane Cisse)
1988
Bird (Clint Eastwood)
Black Sun (Straub
/ Huillet)
Camp Thiaroye (Sembene
/ Thiemo Faty Sow)
Decalogue (Krzysztof
Kieslowski)
Distant Voices,
Still Lives (Terrence Davies)
Essai d'ouverture
(Moullet)
Golub (Jerry Blumenthal
/ Gordon Quinn)
Hairspray (John
Waters)
High Hopes (Leigh)
King Lear (Godard)
Puissance de la
parole (Godard)
A Tale of the Wind
(Ivens / Loridan)
Talking to Strangers
(Rob Tregenza)
Trois places pour
le 26 (Demy)
Who Framed Roger
Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
1989
The Adventures
of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
The Asthenic Syndrome
(Kira Muratova)
Cezanne (Straub
/ Huillet)
Chameleon Street
(Wendell B. Harris Jr.)
City of Sadness
(Hou)
The Deadman (Peggy
Ahwesh / Keith Sanborn)
Do the Right Thing
(Spike Lee)
Enemies, A Love
Story (Paul Mazursky)
Forevermore: Biography
of a Leach Lord (Eric Saks)
The Iceman Cometh
(Clarence Fok Yiu-leung)
Images of the
World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki)
Marriage of the
Blessed (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Mr. Hoover and
I (De Antonio)
Rembrandt Laughing
(Jost)
A Spy in the House
That Ruth Built (Vanalyne Green)
Sweetie (Campion)
So who ruled the
'80s?Rosenbaum's
auteur scorecard: Ruiz - 5 Straub
/ Huillet - 4 Godard - 3 Hou - 3 Kiarostami - 3 Campion -
2 Demme - 2 Demy - 2 Driver - 2 Fuller - 2 Itami - 2 Jarmusch
- 2 Kubrick - 2 Leigh - 2 Lewis - 2 Moullet - 2 Tarr - 2 Thompson
- 2 Wenders - 2
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