Best/Favorite Films of 1977

1. The Lacemaker

1. Star Wars

3. 3 Women

4. Sorcerer

5. The American Friend

6. Annie Hall

6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

8. The Man Who Loved Women

9. Valentino

10. Looking for Mr. Goodbar

11. The Late Show

12. Equus

13. Eraserhead

14. Citizens’ Band (Handle with Care)

15. That Obscure Object of Desire

16. New York, New York

17. Rollercoaster

18. Black Sunday

19. Islands in the Stream

20. Padre Padrone

The Devil, Probably

The Goodbye Girl

The White Buffalo

Between the Lines

Bobby Deerfield

Dinner for Adele

Fire Sale

Fraternity Row

The Haunting of Julia

The Heretic

Heroes

Iphigenia

Jabberwocky

The Report

The Serpent’s Egg

Smokey and the Bandit

Soldier of Orange

The Spy Who Loved Me

The World’s Greatest Lover

Audrey Rose

Candleshoe

The Car

The Chess Players

The Chicken Chronicles

The Choirboys

The Chosen

Cross of Iron

Damnation Alley

The Deep

Demon Seed

The Duellists

Greased Lightning

High Anxiety

Julia

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

March or Die

Nasty Habits

Orca

Peppermint Soda

Pete’s Dragon

Providence

Rolling Thunder

Roseland

Semi-Tough

The Sentinel

Slap Shot

Stroszek

Stunts

Suspiria

Telefon

The Turning Point

———– still need to see:

Another Man, Another Chance

The Ascent

The Children of Theatre Street

The Confessions of Amans

Cracking Up

The Crazy American Girl

Dear Inspector

The Domino Principle

First Love

The Gauntlet

The Getting of Wisdom

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Joyride

Looking Up

One on One

Outlaw Blues

The Perfumed Nightmare

The Picture Show Man

A Piece of the Action

Rabid

September 30, 1955

Short Eyes

Summer Paradise

Thieves

Tracks

The Truck

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Why Shoot the Teacher?

Best/Favorite Films of 1978

1. The Deer Hunter

2. Days of Heaven

3. Clouds of Glory

4. The Tree of Wooden Clogs

5. An Unmarried Woman

6. Who’ll Stop the Rain

7. Big Wednesday

8. The Green Room

9. Perceval

10. A Wedding

11. Superman

12. The Fury

13. I Wanna Hold Your Hand

14. Watership Down

15. Magic

16. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

17. Renaldo and Clara

The Boys from Brazil

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Comes a Horseman

Eyes of Laura Mars

Foul Play

Heaven Can Wait

High Rise

Jaws 2

Midnight Express

Revenge of the Pink Panther

A Simple Story

Absolution

American Hot Wax

Autumn Sonata

The Brink’s Job

Capricorn One

Coming Home

Convoy

Damien Omen II

The Driver

The End

Girlfriends

Goin’ South

Gray Lady Down

Grease

Halloween

Hooper

Interiors

Movie Movie

Newsfront

Once in Paris

Paradise Alley

Remember My Name

Straight Time

Violette

Animal House

The Betsy

The Big Fix

Bloodbrothers

The Buddy Holly Story

California Suite

The Cat from Outer Space

The Cheap Detective

Coma

Death on the Nile

Despair

Empire of Passion

The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain

The Evil

F.I.S.T.

Fedora

Force 10 from Navarone

Go Tell the Spartans

The Greek Tycoon

House Calls

Ice Castles

International Velvet

The Lord of the Rings

The Manitou

The Medusa Touch

Oliver’s Story

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Slow Dancing in the Big City

Somebody Killed Her Husband

Thank God It’s Friday

The 39 Steps

Towing

Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

The Wiz

————— still need to see:

Almost Summer

Angi Vera

Bahia

Blue Collar

Caravans

Dossier 51

Doubles

King of the Gypsies

Knife in the Head

Martin

Moliere

Mountain Pass

Our Winning Season

Pretty Baby

Robert et Robert

Les Routes Du Sud

The Shout

Silver Bears

Spirala (Zanussi)

Stevie

Tarzana

Viva Italia!

The Whole Shootin’ Match

Best/Favorite Films of 1979

1. All That Jazz

2. Apocalypse Now

3. Breaking Away

4. Stalker

5. Saint Jack

6. Manhattan

6. The Onion Field

8. Luna

9. A Little Romance

10. Tess

11. Wise Blood

12. Kramer vs. Kramer

13. A Perfect Couple

13. Quintet

15. The Black Stallion

16. Moonraker

17. 1941

18. Dracula

19. Buffet froid

19. Time After Time

21. “10”

Being There

Black Jack

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Christ Stopped at Eboli

The Haunting of M

Love on the Run

The Marriage of Maria Braun

My Brilliant Career

Nosferatu, the Vampyr

Real Life

Woyzeck

Agatha

Alien

And Justice for All

Chapter Two

Orchestra Rehearsal

Rich Kids

The Warriors

An Almost Perfect Affair

Ashanti

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

The Black Hole

Don Giovanni

Escape from Alcatraz

Fast Break

The Frisco Kid

Gal Young Un

The Great Santini

Hair

Hardcore

Heartland

The In-Laws

The Jerk

Last Embrace

Life of Brian

Love at First Bite

Meetings With Remarkable Men

More American Graffiti

The Muppet Movie

Murder by Decree

Nightwing

North Dallas Forty

Old Boyfriends

Phantasm

Players

Promises in the Dark

Prophecy

Scavenger Hunt

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Something Short of Paradise

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Starting Over

The Third Generation

The Wanderers

When a Stranger Calls

———- still need to see:

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

California Dreaming

The Champ

Coup de tete

Cuba

Dreamer

Eagle’s Wing

El Super

The Europeans

Fast Company

French Postcards

Going in Style

Goldengirl

Hot Stuff

Hurricane

Lost and Found

The Main Event

A Man, a Woman and a Bank

Meteor

Natural Enemies

The Prize Fighter

Ravagers

The Riddle of the Sands

The Runner Stumbles

Serie noire

Sunburn

The Theme

Voices

Wanda Nevada

Best/Favorite Films of 1980

1. The Stunt Man

2. Altered States

3. Raging Bull

4. Atlantic City

5. Ordinary People

6. The Elephant Man

7. The Plumber (theatrical release)

8. Breaker Morant

9. Twinkle Twinkle “Killer” Kane

10. Cruising

11. Fame

12. Dressed to Kill

13. HealtH

14. Kagemusha

15. The Black Marble

16. Xanadu

17. Home Movies

18. Bye Bye Brazil

19. Seems Like Old Times

Airplane!

Breaking Glass

Carny

The Changeling

City of Women

Melvin and Howard

Midnight Madness

Simon

Stardust Memories

The Blues Brothers

The Competition

The Dogs of War

Esthappan

First Family

Garlic is as Good as 10 Mothers

Heaven’s Gate

Honeysuckle Rose

The Jazz Singer

Just Tell Me What You Want

Leap Into the Void

The Long Good Friday

Night of the Juggler

Popeye

Private Benjamin

Serial

The Shining

A Small Circle of Friends

Used Cars

The Watcher in the Woods

Willie & Phil

American Gigolo

Bad Timing

The Big Red One

Brubaker

Caddyshack

Can’t Stop the Music

A Change of Seasons

The Club

Coal Miner’s Daughter

The Empire Strikes Back

Fade to Black

Fatso

The First Deadly Sin

Flash Gordon

The Fog

The Formula

From Mao to Mozart

From the Life of the Marionettes

Gilda Live

Hardly Working

Harlequin

Hero at Large

The Idolmaker

Inferno

The Island

The Last Metro

The Mirror Crack’d

Nijinsky

One-Trick Pony

Saturn 3

Somewhere in Time

Union City

Urban Cowboy

Windows

——- still need to see:

La Boum

Contract

Cutting It Short

Death Watch

Die Laughing

Gloria

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Heart Beat

Hide in Plain Sight

The Horse of Pride

Inside Moves

It’s My Turn

The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark

The Little Dragons

The Long Riders

Loving Couples

Man of Iron

Un Mauvais Fils

McVicar

Mon oncle d’Amerique

My Bodyguard

Oblomov

The Orchestra Conductor

Resurrection

The Return of the Secaucus Seven

Le roi et l’oiseau

Those Lips, Those Eyes

Times Square

Village in the Jungle

Who’s Singin’ Over There

Wholly Moses!

Witches’ Brew

Best/Favorite Films of 1981

1. Excalibur

2. Gallipoli

2. Prince of the City

4. Cutter’s Way

5. An American Werewolf in London

6. Blow Out

6. Chariots of Fire

8. They All Laughed

9. S.O.B.

10. The French Lieutenant’s Woman

11. Body Heat

12. True Confessions

13. Diva

14. Three Brothers

15. Four Friends

16. Pennies from Heaven

17. My Dinner with Andre

The Aviator’s Wife

For Your Eyes Only

The Four Seasons

Modern Romance

Neighbors

Only When I Laugh

Quartet

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Thief

The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

The Woman Next Door

Absence of Malice

All Night Long

Buddy Buddy

Ghost Story

Gregory’s Girl

Knightriders

Possession

Reds

The Sandglass

Southern Comfort

Time Bandits

…All the Marbles

Arthur

Blind Chance

Blood Wedding

The Cannonball Run

Caveman

Condorman

Continental Divide

Dragonslayer

Endless Love

Escape from New York

The Fan

Father and Son

The Final Conflict

A Flight of Rainbirds

Fort Apache, the Bronx

The Fox and the Hound

Halloween II

The Hand

History of the World, Part I

Honky Tonk Freeway

Lola

Looker

Nighthawks

On Golden Pond

Outland

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Ragtime

Rich and Famous

Rollover

Shock Treatment

So Fine

Stripes

The Survivor

Les Uns et les Autres

Wolfen

———-films I haven’t yet seen, but look promising

American Pop

Amy

Back Roads

Bustin’ Loose

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

La Chevre

Le Choix des Armes

The Chosen

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Circle of Deceit

The Devil and Max Devlin

Eijanaika

Une Etrange Affaire

Full Moon High

Gaijin, A Brazilian Odyssey

Garde a vue

Goodbye Pork Pie

Harry’s War

High Risk

King of the Mountain

The Last Chase

Lili Marleen

Mandala

Mephisto

Modern Problems

Mommie Dearest

Muddy River

Night School

Nobody’s Perfekt

Paternity

Priest of Love

Second-Hand Hearts

Sharky’s Machine

Taps

Ticket to Heaven

Tulips

Victory

Zoot Suit

Best/Favorite Films of 1982

1. The Night of the Shooting Stars

2. Diner

3. Shoot the Moon

4. Britannia Hospital

5. Fanny and Alexander

6. The King of Comedy

7. Identification of a Woman

8. One from the Heart

9. Tempest

10. Blade Runner

11. The Year of Living Dangerously

12. That Championship Season

13. Le Beau mariage

14. Tootsie

15. A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy

16. Evil Under the Sun

17. Author! Author!

18. Cat People

19. Imperativ

20. The Thing

21. Heatwave

22. Orienteering (Concurs)

23. The Return of the Soldier

24. An Officer and a Gentleman

25. Losing Ground

My Favorite Year

Barbarosa

The Border

Burden of Dreams

Cannery Row

The Challenge

Chan is Missing

Come Back to the 5 & Dime…

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Deathtrap

The Draughtsman’s Contract

E.T.

Experience Preferred…But Not Essential

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fitzcarraldo

Gandhi

The Go Masters

Halloween III

Hammett

Hanky Panky

Koyaanisqatsi

Night Crossing

Night Shift

The Personals

Pink Floyd – The Wall

Poltergeist

Smithereens

Star Trek II

Still of the Night

The Verdict

Victor/Victoria

The World According to Garp

———- films I haven’t yet seen, but look promising

Le Bal

Das Boot

Brimstone and Treacle

Conan the Barbarian

Day of the Idiots

Eating Raoul

The Escape Artist

L’Etoile du Nord

The Eyes, the Mouth

Fall Guy

Fast-Walking

Five Days One Summer

Flight of the Eagle

Forty Deuce

48 HRS

Giro City

Honkytonk Man

I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can

Liar’s Moon

A Little Sex

Lookin’ to Get Out

Love and Money

The Man from Snowy River

The Marathon Family

Missing

Moonlighting

La Nuit de Varennes

Parsifal

Partners

Personal Best

Q: The Winged Serpent

Querelle

The Return of Martin Guerre

Savannah Smiles

Say Amen, Somebody

The Seduction

The Sender

Some Kind of Hero

Sophie’s Choice

Soup for One

Split Image

Starstruck

The State of Things

Street Music

Teahouse

Tex

Time Stands Still

The Trout

Veronika Voss

Vice Squad

Yol

Young Doctors in Love

Zapped!

Best/Favorite Films of 1983

1. Nostalghia

1. The Right Stuff

3. And the Ship Sails On

4. Local Hero

5. Vivement dimanche!

6. The Makioka Sisters

7. Pauline at the Beach

8. Brainstorm

9. Zelig

10. Something Wicked This Way Comes

11. Terms of Endearment

12. The Black Stallion Returns

13. Cross Creek

14. Star 80

15. One Deadly Summer

16. L’Argent

17. Les Comperes

18. Baby, It’s You

Breathless

A Christmas Story

Curse of the Pink Panther

Danton

Krull

Rumble Fish

The Dead Zone

Easy Money

Experience Preferred, but Not Essential

Exposed

The Keep

Koyaanisqatsi

The Lift

Lovesick

The Man Who Loved Women

The Meaning of Life

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

The Moon in the Gutter

Never Cry Wolf

Never Say Never Again

Octopussy

The Osterman Weekend

The Outsiders

Scarface

Streamers

Table for Five

Trading Places

Twilight Zone – The Movie

Valley Girl

All the Right Moves

The Big Chill

El Norte

The Evil Dead

The 4th Man

Gorky Park

The Hunger

The Lords of Discipline

The Man with Two Brains

Risky Business

The Survivors

To Be or Not to Be

Videodrome

——— still need to see:

Ah Ying

Arthur’s Hallowed Ground

The Ballad of Narayama

Camminacammina

Carmen (Saura)

Christine

Deadly Circuit

Deal of the Century

Le Dernier Combat

The Dresser

Educating Rita

Forever Young

Heat and Dust

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by the Idiot

Independence Day

Last Night at the Alamo

Man of Flowers

My Best Friend’s Girl

My Memories of Old Beijing

Nate and Hayes

Reuben, Reuben

Romantic Comedy

Sans Soleil

Secrets

Staying Alive

The Sting II

Sudden Impact

Tchao Pantin (So Long, Stooge)

Tender Mercies

Those Glory Glory Days

Under Fire

Yentl

Zappa

Best/Favorite Films of 1984

1. Paris, Texas

2. A Passage to India

3. Once Upon a Time in America

4. Blood Simple

5. Kaos

6. Stranger Than Paradise

7. Amadeus

8. Greystoke

9. Places in the Heart

10. Under the Volcano

11. Birdy

12. Moscow on the Hudson

13. The Pope of Greenwich Village

14. The Razor’s Edge

15. Splash

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

All of Me

Broadway Danny Rose

Comfort and Joy

The Crazy Family

Electric Dreams

The Funeral

The Hotel New Hampshire

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Lonely Guy

Micki and Maude

Stop Making Sense

A Sunday in the Country

Uforia

The Brother from Another Planet

Full Moon in Paris

A Soldier’s Story

(special mention of German series Heimat)

Banana Cop

Body Double

Crimes of Passion

Finders Keepers

The Natural

Purple Rain

Quilombo

Star Trek III

2010

Against All Odds

Bachelor Party

Beverly Hills Cop

The Bounty

The Cotton Club

Dreamscape

Dune

The Flamingo Kid

Footloose

Ghostbusters

Give My Regards to Broad Street

Gremlins

Heartbreakers

The Hit

Just the Way You Are

The Killing Fields

The Legend of Suram Fortress

The Little Drummer Girl

Maria’s Lovers

Misunderstood

Not for Publication

Out of Order

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Racing with the Moon

Romancing the Stone

Runaway

Sheena

Sixteen Candles

Starman

Streets of Fire

Supergirl

Until September

Where the Green Ants Dream

The Woman in Red

——— still need to see:

Almost You

Antonio Gaudi

Bastille

Best Defense

The Bostonians

City Heat

Dangerous Moves

The Descendant of the Snow Leopard

Garbo Talks

The Gospel According to Al Green

The Home and the World

Johnny Dangerously

The Karate Kid

Mike’s Murder

No Small Affair

Protocol

Purple Hearts

Return to Waterloo

The River Rat

The Rosebud Beach Hotel

Singleton’s Pluck

The Snowdrop Festival

Special Effects

Strangers Kiss

Swing Shift

Thief of Hearts

Der Todesspringer

Top Secret!

Twist and Shout

Unfaithfully Yours

Voyage to Cythera

The Wild Life

A Year of the Quiet Sun

Best/Favorite Films of 1985

1. Brazil

2. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

3. After Hours

4. Ran

5. The Emerald Forest

6. To Live and Die in L.A.

7. Creator

8. Tampopo

9. Plenty

10. My Life as a Dog

11. Year of the Dragon

12. Desperately Seeking Susan

13. Come and See

14. Lost in America

15. The Falcon and the Snowman

16. Better Off Dead

17. Real Genius

18. Alpine Fire

19. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure

20. American Flyers

21. Smooth Talk

22. The Purple Rose of Cairo

23. White Nights

24. Crimewave (Broken Hearts and Noses)

Back to the Future

The Bride

Burke & Wills

The Coca-Cola Kid

Dim Sum

The Doctor and the Devils

Dreamchild

Explorers

Flesh and Blood

Fool for Love

Hail Mary

The Holcroft Covenant

Jagged Edge

The Mean Season

My Beautiful Laundrette

No End

Prizzi’s Honor

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Return to Oz

A Room with a View

Secret Admirer

The Shooting Party

Silverado

Spies Like Us

Summer Rental

A View to a Kill

Young Sherlock Holmes

———— still need to see:

Acqua e Sapone

Angry Harvest

The Aviator

Bombs Away!

Boy Meets Girl

Brewster’s Millions

Butterfly and Flowers

Canyon Consort

Clue

Colonel Redl

Crossover Dreams

Dance with a Stranger

Eleni

Enemy Mine

Escalier C

Fandango

Fever Pitch

Forget Mozart

The Gig

Hour of the Star

The Ice Cream Parlor

The Jewel of the Nile

King David

Letter to Brezhnev

Mask

The Mass is Ended

Mischief

My American Cousin

My Science Project

My Sweet Little Village

The Official Story

Once Bitten

Orion’s Belt

Paso Doble

Perfect

The Power of Evil (Paradigma)

Red Sonja

Remo Williams…

Restless Natives

Revolution (revisited)

Rustlers’ Rhapsody

St. Elmo’s Fire

Shadey

The Slugger’s Wife

Static

Stick

The Sure Thing

Target

Teen Wolf

Tokyo-Ga

Turtle Diary

Twist and Shout

Vision Quest

Warning Sign

Weird Science

Wetherby

When Father Was Away on Business

Witness

Best/Favorite Films of 1986

(1. The Singing Detective)*

1. Down by Law

2. The Mission

3. Blue Velvet

4. Mona Lisa

5. Therese

6. The Sacrifice

7. Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring

9. Ginger and Fred

10. Hannah and Her Sisters

11. A Great Wall

12. Eat the Peach

13. Betty Blue [37.2 le matin]

14. The Green Ray

15. True Stories

16. Something Wild

17. Desert Bloom

18. Labyrinth

19. Under the Cherry Moon

20. El Amor Brujo

The Color of Money

The Fly

Manhunter

Peggy Sue Got Married

Ping Pong

Absolute Beginners

The Assault

The Clan of the Cave Bear

8 Million Ways to Die

52 Pick-Up

A Fine Mess

Gothic

Heavenly Pursuits (Gospel According to Vic)

Man Facing Southeast

One Crazy Summer

Sherman’s March

That’s Life!

Three Amigos

Wise Guys

At Close Range

Back to School

Big Trouble in Little China

Children of a Lesser God

Clockwise

Club Paradise

Crocodile Dundee

Dead End Drive-In

Dream Lover

F/X

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Home of the Brave

Legal Eagles

Modern Girls

9 1/2 Weeks

No Mercy

Off Beat

Pretty in Pink

Round Midnight

Running Scared

Salvador

Saxophone Colossus

Shanghai Surprise

Spacecamp

Sweet Liberty

* outstanding television six-parter

———- still need to see

About Last Night

April Fool’s Day

Band of the Hand

Belizaire the Cajun

The Best of Times

Big Trouble

The Boy Who Could Fly

Castaway

Comic Magazine

Coming Up Roses

The Decline of the American Empire

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Duet for One

Echo Park

Flight of the Spruce Goose

Flodder

The Fringe Dwellers

Gung Ho!

Haunted Honeymoon

Heartburn

Hoosiers

I Hate Actors

Inside Out

Jake Speed

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling

Just Between Friends

Let’s Get Harry

Maine-Ocean Express

The Men’s Club

The Mosquito Coast

Nobody’s Fool

Not Quite Paradise

Nothing in Common

On the Edge

Le Paltoquet

Pirates

She’s Gotta Have It

Spices

Vamp