Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Top 10: 1985


1. Ran (Kurosawa)
2. Brazil (Gilliam)
3. After Hours (Scorsese)
4. Fright Night (Holland)
5. Day of the Dead (Romero)
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen)
7. Lost in America (Brooks)
8. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader)
9. Blood Simple (Coen)
10. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Burton)

Ten years ago:

1. Brazil (Gilliam)
2. Ran (Kurosawa)
3. After Hours (Scorsese)
4. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader)
5. Blood Simple (Coen)
6. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Burton)
7. Day of the Dead (Romero)
8. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Miller/Ogilvy)
9. Re-Animator (Gordon)
10. Back to the Future (Zemeckis)

Friday, January 08, 2016

Top 10: 1975



1. Nashville (Altman)
2. Jaws (Spielberg)
3. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
5. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
6. Black Moon (Malle)
7. The Passenger (Antonioni)
8. Jeanne Dielman, 25 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
9. The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
10. Night Moves (Penn)


The list I made ten years ago:

1. Nashville (Altman)
2. Jaws (Spielberg)
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
4. The Passenger (Antonioni)
5. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
6. The Day of the Locust (Schlesinger)
7. Tommy (Russell)
8. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
9. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Sharman)
10. Love and Death (Allen)