Top 10 Favorite Films: 1980-1989

In order of preference:

1980

1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
3. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
4. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
5. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
6. Coal Miner’s Daughter (Michael Apted)
7. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
8. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
9. ‘Breaker’ Morant (Bruce Beresford)
10. Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc)

1981

1. Excalibur (John Boorman)
2. The Road Warrior (George Miller)
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
4. The Boat (Wolfgan Petersen)
5. On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell)
6. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
7. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
8. Ragtime (Milos Forman)
9. Knightriders (George A. Romero)
10. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)

1982

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
2. Tootsie (Sidney Pollack)
3. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
4. The Man from Snowy River (George Miller)
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer)
6. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
7. Missing (Costa-Gavras)
8. Sophie’s Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
9. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
10. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)

1983

1. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
2. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
3. The 4th Man (Paul Verhoeven)
4. Under Fire (Roger Spottiswoode)
5. Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)
6. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
7. Silkwood (Mike Nichols)
8. Cujo (Lewis Teague)
9. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
10. Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert)

1984

1. The Terminator (James Cameron)
2. A Soldier’s Story (Norman Jewison)
3. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
4. The Killing Fields (Roland Hoffe)
5. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes (Hugh Hudson)
6. The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
7. Splash (Ron Howard)
8. A Passage to India (David Lean)
9. The Bounty (Roger Donaldson)
10. The Natural (Barry Levison)

1985

1. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
2. Prizzi’s Honor (John Huston)
3. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
4. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
5. A Room with a View (James Ivory)
6. Agnes of God (Norman Jewison)
7. Witness (Peter Weir)
8. The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
9. Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)
10. Dreamchild (Gavin Millar)

1986

1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
2. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy)
3. Salvador (Oliver Stone)
4. Aliens (James Cameron)
5. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
6. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
7. Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines)
8. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
9. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes)
10. Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)

1987

1. Matewan (John Sayles)
2. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
3. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
4. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Jack Clayton)
5. The Dead (John Huston)
6. The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson)
7. Ironweed (Hector Babenco)
8. Pathfinder (Nils Gaup)
9. The Living Daylights (John Glen)
10. Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)

1988

1. The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan)
2. Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker)
3. Another Woman (Woody Allen)
4. A Cry in the Dark (Fred Schepisi)
5. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
6. Gorillas in the Mist (Michael Apted)
7. Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
8. Little Dorrit (Christine Edzard)
9. Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)
10. Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)

1989

1. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
3. Glory (Edward Zwick)
4. Sea of Love (Harold Becker)
5. Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
6. Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson)
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
8. Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker)
9. Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
10. Old Gringo (Luis Puenzo)