Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back(Irvin Kershner)
Atlantic City(Louis Malle)
'Breaker' Morant(Bruce Beresford)
The Long Good Friday(John Mackenzie)
The Falls(Peter Greenaway)
Airplane!(Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker)
Bloody Kids(Stephen Frears)
Seems Like Old Times(Jay Sandrich)
Additional 1980 Films By Rating
The Long Riders(Walter Hill)
The Elephant Man(David Lynch)
Stardust Memories(Woody Allen)
Heaven's Gate(Michael Cimino)
Used Cars(Robert Zemeckis)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers(Les Blank)
Gregory's Girl(Bill Forsyth)
Loulou(Maurice Pialat)
Superman II(Richard Lester)
Dressed to Kill(Brian De Palma)
Out of the Blue(Dennis Hopper)
Caddyshack(Harold Ramis)
Hopscotch(Ronald Neame)
The Last Metro(François Truffaut)
The Shining(Stanley Kubrick)
The Stunt Man(Richard Rush)
Nine to Five(Colin Higgins)
Pixote(Hector Babenco)
Altered States(Ken Russell)
Kagemusha(Akira Kurosawa)
Every Man for Himself(Jean-Luc Godard)
The Fog(John Carpenter)
Bad Timing(Nicolas Roeg)
Serial(Bill Persky)
Roadie(Alan Rudolph)
The Calm(Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Cruising(William Friedkin)
Gloria(John Cassavetes)
Permanent Vacation(Jim Jarmusch)
Galaxina(William Sachs)
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Alligator (Teague); Battle
Beyond the Stars (Murakami); The Big Red One (Fuller); The
Blues Brothers (Landis); Bronco Billy (Eastwood); Coal
Miner's Daughter (Apted); The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
(Haggard); Flash Gordon (Hodges); Melvin and Howard
(Demme); My Bodyguard (Bill); Oh, God! Book II (Cates); Oh
Heavenly Dog (Camp); Ordinary People (Redford); Popeye
(Altman); The Private Eyes (Elliott); XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSS
(Jacobs)
As yet unseen:Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder); Death
Watch (Tavernier); The Gods Must Be Crazy (Uys); The Great
Rock 'n Roll Swindle (Temple); Inferno (Argento); Shogun
Assassin (Houston & Misumi)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.