Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome(George Miller & George Ogilvie)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters(Paul Schrader)
Prizzi's Honor(John Huston)
My Beautiful Laundrette(Stephen Frears)
Police(Maurice Pialat)
To Live and Die in L.A.(William Friedkin)
Taipei Story(Edward Yang)
Police Story(Jackie Chan)
The Stuff(Larry Cohen)
Desert Hearts(Donna Deitch)
The Return of the Living Dead(Dan O'Bannon)
Heaven Help Us(Michael Dinner)
Out of Africa(Sydney Pollack)
Legend(Ridley Scott)
Hail Mary(Jean-Luc Godard)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge(Jack Sholder)
Crimewave(Sam Raimi)
Phenomena(Dario Argento)
Insignificance(Nicolas Roeg)
Volunteers(Nicholas Meyer)
Commando(Mark L. Lester)
Teen Wolf(Rod Daniel)
The Practice of Love(Valie Export)
L'amour braque(Andrzej Zulawski)
Ladyhawke(Richard Donner)
Real Genius(Martha Coolidge)
St. Elmo's Fire(Joel Schumacher)
Lifeforce(Tobe Hooper)
Weird Science(John Hughes)
The Goonies(Richard Donner)
Clue(Jonathan Lynn)
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):Agnes of God (Jewison);
Better Off Dead... (S.S. Holland); Bliss (Lawrence); The
Bride (Roddam); Bring On the Night (Apted); Cat's Eye
(Teague); A Chorus Line (Attenborough); Cocoon (Howard);
Dreamchild (Millar); The Emerald Forest (Boorman);
Explorers (Dante); The Falcon and the Snowman
(Schlesinger); Fletch (Ritchie); Fright Night (T. Holland);
Into the Night (Landis); Jagged Edge (Marquand); Kiss of
the Spider Woman (Babenco); Mask (Bogdanovich);
Metropolitan Avenue (Noschese); My Science Project
(Beteul); No End (Kieslowski); Pale Rider (Eastwood);
Plenty (Schepisi); Rambo / First Blood Part II (Cosmatos);
Return to Oz (Murch); Rocky IV (Stallone); Runaway
Train (Konchalovsky); Santa Claus (Szwarc); Sesame Street
Presents: Follow That Bird (Kwapis); Silverado (Kasdan);
Summer Rental (C. Reiner); The Sure Thing (R. Reiner); 3
Men and a Cradle (Serreau); The Time to Live and the Time to
Die (Hou); Transylvania 6-5000 (DeLuca); Trouble in
Mind (Rudolph); Turtle Diary (Irvin); Twice in a
Lifetime (Yorkin); White Nights (Hackford); Witness
(Weir); Yes, Madam (Yuen)
As yet unseen:Flesh + Blood
(Verhoeven); Fool for Love (Altman); O.C. & Stiggs
(Altman); The Quiet Earth (Murphy)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.