Best In Film: 1980
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

1980

01) Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
02) Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
03) The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
04) The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
05) Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
06) The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
07) Coal Miner’s Daughter (Michael Apted)
08) The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
09) Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
10) The Fog (John Carpenter)

Honorable Mention: Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc), Popeye (Robert Altman), Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis), Superman II (Richard Lester and Richard Donner), Caddyshack (Harold Ramis), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Inferno (Dario Argento), Atlantic City (Louis Malle)

Undiscovered: The Stunt Man (Richard Rush), Tribute (Bob Clark), Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme), Fame (Alan Parker) Altered States (Ken Russell), Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa), The Changeling (Peter Medak), The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty)

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  1. Pacze Moj
    July 26th, 2006 23:56
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    Comprehensive list!

    Nineteen eighty isn’t one of my favourite years-in-film, but once you see all these titles in one place, it doesn’t seem too shabby, either.

    Of the films I’ve seen from your Top 10, I was most disappointed by Ordinary People; from the Honorable Mention, I still, very much, want to see Berlin Alexanderplatz; and, from the Undiscovered pile, I’m a big fan of Kagemusha (the battlefield-after-the-battle scene glues me to the screen and stops my heart every time I see it), which too often gets looked over as just a warm-up to Ran.

  2. Richard X
    August 2nd, 2006 19:28
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    I know what you mean about this year. I had a real hard time picking the films. I mean, I like The Fog, but in any other year, I would be hard-pressed to put that in the top ten.

    I think Ordinary People gets a bad rap because it beat out Raging Bull for Best Picture, but I really liked it. It’s not as good as Redford’s other film, Quiz Show, but there’s something about it that keeps me glued every time I see it.

    I’ve got Kagemusha in my film queue. I think it’ll arrive in the mail in a couple of weeks.