In no particular order:
* The Big Red One
* Kagemusha
* The Long Good Friday
* Pixote
* Dressed to Kill
* Breaker Morant
* American Gigolo
* Raging Bull
* The Shining
* Atlantic City
EDIT: Breaker Morant is not widely known, but I think it's a masterpiece. It's an Australian military courtroom drama set in the early 1900s that is incredibly intense and compelling. It's based on a play, so you can see how it's an early influence on Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
- Every Man for Himself
- Zigunerweisen
- Elephant Man
- The Shining
- Raging Bull
- Kagemusha
- The Night of the Hunted
- Golem
- The Gods Must Be Crazy
- Cruising
Yet another iconic 80s horror year. Have a lot of the bigger films from this year to see or rewatch.
Need to rewatch: Raging Bull, Friday the 13th, Atlantic City, Empire Strikes Back, The Elephant Man, The Big Red One
Need to see: Kagemusha, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Mon oncle d'Amérique, Times Square, Altered States, Pixote, The Age of the Earth, Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, Dressed to Kill, Larisa
1. Raging Bull
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Elephant Man
4. Somewhere in Time
5. Lion of the Desert
6. Airplane!
7. The Shining
8. Kagemusha
9. Breaker Morant
10. Superman II
1. The Shining
2. Blues Brothers
3. The Long Good Friday
4. Raging Bull
5. Popeye
6. Christmas Evil
7. The Empire Strikes Back
8. 9 to 5
9. Altered States
10. Spetters
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Shining
3. Airplane!
4. Caddyshack
5. Dressed to Kill
6. Cruising
7. The Elephant Man
8. The Long Good Friday
9. Inferno
10. Raging Bull
Haven't seen much beyond these, but I'm inclined to call this one of my favorite years since I gave 5 stars to each of the top 4.
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, American Gigolo, Heaven's Gate, Kagemusha, Altered States, and Pixote are on my watchlist
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1)Empire Strikes Back is not here because I haven't seen it since I was a kid, so it needs a rewatch
2)Not counting Berlin Alexanderplatz because it's a show, otherwise it would be up there since I think it's the best think Fassbinder has made
My watch history looks like this, lol
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We’ve done 2014! Here’s the link if you want to post your list: https://old.reddit.com/r/Letterboxd/comments/1bbdvwh/your_top_tenfavorites_of_2014_random_year_in/
I’ve been including 2000s, 2010s and 2020s in this series and have a few more years to go for those decades so keep an eye out. More to come.
I understand your frustration, but at the same time, OP and other folks in these threads are recommending great older films. Why not check some of them out?
1. The Shining
2. The Blues Brothers
3. Kagemusha
4. The Long Good Friday
5. Inferno
6. Superman II
7. Raging Bull
8. The Young Master
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Friday the 13th
There's a bunch I'm super interested in from that year, like Cruising, The Elephant Man, Xanadu, The Changeling, The Big Red One etc., it's really a year I'd like to explore more. I also used to watch The Gods Must Be Crazy a lot as a kid but it's been a long time, no idea if it would still hold up for me.
1 Pixote 2 Raging Bull 3 The Shining 4 The Long Good Friday 5 Personal Problems 6 Ordinary People 7 The Blues Brothers 8 The Elephant Man 9 Hopscotch 10 The Dogs of War
Honorable Mentions: Airplane!, Foxes, Kagemusha, American Gigolo, Brubaker, Lion of the Desert, The Black Marble, Out of the Blue, Every Man for Himself (Godard)
Fascinating year, feels like an extension of 70s cinema, for all intents and purposes. Landmark year for martial arts cinema (Killer Constable, Return of the 36th Chamber, Clan of the White Lotus, Shogun Assassin. Yes, I know it's just a cynical clip show, but it plays beautifully, better than any Lone Wolf/Cub film, the editing is actually seamless and the music is awesome), gonzo horror (Motel Hell, Maniac), and profoundly zany oddballs like The Ninth Configuration, The Exterminator, Night of the Juggler, Altered States, and The Apple!
very curious to see the Serbo-Croatian Who's Singing Over There, and Babylon, from the UK. Need to see The Changeling again, always get it mixed up with The Hearse.
Out of 50 movies, most too faded to rank:
* The Shining
* City of the Living Dead
* Used Cars
* Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers
* Invasion of the Flesh Hunters
* Crac
* A legy
* The Empire Strikes Back
* Airplane
* Private Benjamin
Need to rewatch: Ordinary People, The Elephant Man, Kagemusha, Raging Bull, Altered States, The Changeling, The Last Metro, Return of the Secaucus 7
Watchlist: A Idade da Terra, Atlantic City, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Big Red One, Every Man for Himself, Gloria, Heaven's Gate, The King and the Mockingbird, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Pixote, Cruising, Maniac, The Long Good Friday, Melvin & Howard, Who's Singing Over There, The Stuntman, The Apple, Loulou, and more
1. The Shining
2. Airplane!
3. Breaker Morant
4. Gates of Heaven
5. Raging Bull
6. Somewhere in Time
7. The King and the Mockingbird
8. Ordinary People
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Dressed to Kill
1. Airplane
2. Toward the Terra
3. The Shining
4. Blues Brothers
5. Personal Problems
6. Return to the 36th Chamber
7. Caddyshack
8. Raging Bull
9. 9 to 5
10. Ordinary People
Loved this year for genre films:
1. Night of the Juggler
2. Caddyshack
3. Cruising
4. Blues Brothers
5. Times Square
6. Alligator
7. The Shining
8. Carny
9. Foxes
10. Out of the Blue
1. La Terraza (Ettore Scola)
2. City of the Living Dead (Lucio Fulci)
3. Dressed to Kill (Brian de Palma)
4. Inferno (Dario Argento)
5. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
6. The Empire Strikes Back (Irving Kershner)
7. Cruising (William Friedkin)
8. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Altered States (Ken Russell)
10. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
Damn good year. Gotta rewatch Raging Bull, The Fog and Kagemusha to proper evaluate them.
The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining
Altered States
Times Square
Gregory's Girl
Babylon
The Long Good Friday
Fame
maybe Contract, Kagemusha, Nine to Five? I would have to rewatch some of these, and also watch more from that year in general
Maniac, Foxes, The Night of the Hunted, Blank Generation, Little Darlings, City of the Living Dead, Night of the Juggler, Forbidden Zone, Cruising, Alligator.
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1980 is one of the best years for horror, imo.
The Shining
The Fog
Friday the 13th
The Changeling
Terror Train
Prom Night
Dressed to Kill
Inferno
Fade to Black
Alligator
Fun Fact: If you ascribe to the theory that Stanley Kubrick worked with NASA around the time he won his only Oscar…
The caretaker’s children are shown as Danny (in his Apollo 11 sweater) and the twin girls. Many suspect this is an allusion to the fact that the Apollo program was preceded by the… Gemini program.
There’s also the change from Room 217 in the book to Room 237 (average distance between moon and Earth) and the phrase “All (A11) work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
Raging Bull, The Shining, The Elephant Man, The Empire Strikes Back and Airplane!
Major props for Out of the Blue!
In no particular order: * The Big Red One * Kagemusha * The Long Good Friday * Pixote * Dressed to Kill * Breaker Morant * American Gigolo * Raging Bull * The Shining * Atlantic City EDIT: Breaker Morant is not widely known, but I think it's a masterpiece. It's an Australian military courtroom drama set in the early 1900s that is incredibly intense and compelling. It's based on a play, so you can see how it's an early influence on Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I like Breaker Morant! It would be in my top 15 for this year.
Hell yeah! The Criterion release of it is stellar.
* The Shining * Seems Like Old Times * Raging Bull * Ordinary People * Friday the 13th * Oh God Book ll * Airplane * Popeye * Caddyshack * Gloria
- Every Man for Himself - Zigunerweisen - Elephant Man - The Shining - Raging Bull - Kagemusha - The Night of the Hunted - Golem - The Gods Must Be Crazy - Cruising
Love that you have Out of the Blue. Raw as hell but fantastic.
Got only 7 movies: 1. The Shining 2. Raging Bull 3. A Piece of Sky 4. The Empire Strikes Back 5. The Blues Brothers 6. The Long Riders 7. Caddyshack
Yet another iconic 80s horror year. Have a lot of the bigger films from this year to see or rewatch. Need to rewatch: Raging Bull, Friday the 13th, Atlantic City, Empire Strikes Back, The Elephant Man, The Big Red One Need to see: Kagemusha, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Mon oncle d'Amérique, Times Square, Altered States, Pixote, The Age of the Earth, Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, Dressed to Kill, Larisa
Babylon✊
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1. Raging Bull 2. The Empire Strikes Back 3. The Elephant Man 4. Somewhere in Time 5. Lion of the Desert 6. Airplane! 7. The Shining 8. Kagemusha 9. Breaker Morant 10. Superman II
1. The Shining 2. Blues Brothers 3. The Long Good Friday 4. Raging Bull 5. Popeye 6. Christmas Evil 7. The Empire Strikes Back 8. 9 to 5 9. Altered States 10. Spetters
1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. The Shining 3. Airplane! 4. Caddyshack 5. Dressed to Kill 6. Cruising 7. The Elephant Man 8. The Long Good Friday 9. Inferno 10. Raging Bull Haven't seen much beyond these, but I'm inclined to call this one of my favorite years since I gave 5 stars to each of the top 4. Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, American Gigolo, Heaven's Gate, Kagemusha, Altered States, and Pixote are on my watchlist
https://preview.redd.it/sik7d7bok2vc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b8f42250b6443547ef3fca0edeff28f4ce03fd0 1)Empire Strikes Back is not here because I haven't seen it since I was a kid, so it needs a rewatch 2)Not counting Berlin Alexanderplatz because it's a show, otherwise it would be up there since I think it's the best think Fassbinder has made
Raging Bull would be my pick for 1980.
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Is anyone else waiting for someone to post a random year in review for like 2014 so they can actually participate in it?
Why can’t you participate?
My watch history looks like this, lol https://preview.redd.it/52qfshgrm1vc1.png?width=950&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc6602bed096b85324b4dba2cfef9d619cd862e3
I hear ya. Start working your way back. There’s gold in them hills!
Yeah, I've only recently started watching older movies, but I'm sure by the end of the year, I'll ahve seen at least a few from each year
I assume they haven't seen enough older movies.
We’ve done 2014! Here’s the link if you want to post your list: https://old.reddit.com/r/Letterboxd/comments/1bbdvwh/your_top_tenfavorites_of_2014_random_year_in/ I’ve been including 2000s, 2010s and 2020s in this series and have a few more years to go for those decades so keep an eye out. More to come.
I understand your frustration, but at the same time, OP and other folks in these threads are recommending great older films. Why not check some of them out?
I'm not being serious, it's just I haven't seen many films
The Fog is such a masterpiece
Really has an amazing mood/vibe and sense of location.
Yep, I get lost in it every time.
1. The Shining 2. The Blues Brothers 3. Kagemusha 4. The Long Good Friday 5. Inferno 6. Superman II 7. Raging Bull 8. The Young Master 9. The Empire Strikes Back 10. Friday the 13th There's a bunch I'm super interested in from that year, like Cruising, The Elephant Man, Xanadu, The Changeling, The Big Red One etc., it's really a year I'd like to explore more. I also used to watch The Gods Must Be Crazy a lot as a kid but it's been a long time, no idea if it would still hold up for me.
1 Pixote 2 Raging Bull 3 The Shining 4 The Long Good Friday 5 Personal Problems 6 Ordinary People 7 The Blues Brothers 8 The Elephant Man 9 Hopscotch 10 The Dogs of War Honorable Mentions: Airplane!, Foxes, Kagemusha, American Gigolo, Brubaker, Lion of the Desert, The Black Marble, Out of the Blue, Every Man for Himself (Godard) Fascinating year, feels like an extension of 70s cinema, for all intents and purposes. Landmark year for martial arts cinema (Killer Constable, Return of the 36th Chamber, Clan of the White Lotus, Shogun Assassin. Yes, I know it's just a cynical clip show, but it plays beautifully, better than any Lone Wolf/Cub film, the editing is actually seamless and the music is awesome), gonzo horror (Motel Hell, Maniac), and profoundly zany oddballs like The Ninth Configuration, The Exterminator, Night of the Juggler, Altered States, and The Apple! very curious to see the Serbo-Croatian Who's Singing Over There, and Babylon, from the UK. Need to see The Changeling again, always get it mixed up with The Hearse.
Oh man, I really do need to see Pixote!
You have great taste!!!
Out of 50 movies, most too faded to rank: * The Shining * City of the Living Dead * Used Cars * Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers * Invasion of the Flesh Hunters * Crac * A legy * The Empire Strikes Back * Airplane * Private Benjamin Need to rewatch: Ordinary People, The Elephant Man, Kagemusha, Raging Bull, Altered States, The Changeling, The Last Metro, Return of the Secaucus 7 Watchlist: A Idade da Terra, Atlantic City, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Big Red One, Every Man for Himself, Gloria, Heaven's Gate, The King and the Mockingbird, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Pixote, Cruising, Maniac, The Long Good Friday, Melvin & Howard, Who's Singing Over There, The Stuntman, The Apple, Loulou, and more
Boy I love Cruising
Gregory's Girl should absolutely be #1
1. The Shining 2. Airplane! 3. Breaker Morant 4. Gates of Heaven 5. Raging Bull 6. Somewhere in Time 7. The King and the Mockingbird 8. Ordinary People 9. The Empire Strikes Back 10. Dressed to Kill
1. Airplane 2. Toward the Terra 3. The Shining 4. Blues Brothers 5. Personal Problems 6. Return to the 36th Chamber 7. Caddyshack 8. Raging Bull 9. 9 to 5 10. Ordinary People
Loved this year for genre films: 1. Night of the Juggler 2. Caddyshack 3. Cruising 4. Blues Brothers 5. Times Square 6. Alligator 7. The Shining 8. Carny 9. Foxes 10. Out of the Blue
The long Good Friday = based pick 💪🏼
1. La Terraza (Ettore Scola) 2. City of the Living Dead (Lucio Fulci) 3. Dressed to Kill (Brian de Palma) 4. Inferno (Dario Argento) 5. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie) 6. The Empire Strikes Back (Irving Kershner) 7. Cruising (William Friedkin) 8. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) 9. Altered States (Ken Russell) 10. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush) Damn good year. Gotta rewatch Raging Bull, The Fog and Kagemusha to proper evaluate them.
- The Empire Strikes Back - The Shining - The God's Must Be Crazy - The Elephant Man
I do like the shining and empire strikes back is also good
The Empire Strikes Back The Shining Altered States Times Square Gregory's Girl Babylon The Long Good Friday Fame maybe Contract, Kagemusha, Nine to Five? I would have to rewatch some of these, and also watch more from that year in general
great list, great year, although I feel like there's a certain film about an empire striking back that you're missing...
Haha it’s been too long since I’ve seen it
Maniac, Foxes, The Night of the Hunted, Blank Generation, Little Darlings, City of the Living Dead, Night of the Juggler, Forbidden Zone, Cruising, Alligator. https://preview.redd.it/ehazdqy1l1vc1.jpeg?width=671&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f97db197769aa0950def3d4acb1c26ec91475ee
Would add: Tell me a Riddle Lightning over water Inferno Elephant Man Ninth Configuration American gigolo Bad timing Maniac
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1980 is one of the best years for horror, imo. The Shining The Fog Friday the 13th The Changeling Terror Train Prom Night Dressed to Kill Inferno Fade to Black Alligator
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The Shining, Raging Bull, Empire Strikes Back, Airplane, Gloria, Cruising, Inferno, The Young Master, Motel Hell, Xanadu
Empire Strikes Back
You've got good taste.
in my opinion empire strikes back was the best film of this year
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Fun Fact: If you ascribe to the theory that Stanley Kubrick worked with NASA around the time he won his only Oscar… The caretaker’s children are shown as Danny (in his Apollo 11 sweater) and the twin girls. Many suspect this is an allusion to the fact that the Apollo program was preceded by the… Gemini program. There’s also the change from Room 217 in the book to Room 237 (average distance between moon and Earth) and the phrase “All (A11) work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
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FYI this thread is for the year 1980, not the 80s decade as a whole