Best In Film: 1985
01) Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
02) After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
03) Witness (Peter Weir)
04) Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
05) The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
06) Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
07) The Goonies (Richard Donner)
08) The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy)
09) Day of the Dead (George Romero)
10) Fletch (Michael Ritchie)
Honorable Mention: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton), Brazil (Terry Gilliam), Mask (Peter Bogdanovich), To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin), The Breakfast Club (John Hughes), Out of Africa (Sidney Pollack), Ladyhawke (Richard Donner), Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand)
Undiscovered: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann), When Father Was Away on Business (Emir Kusturica), Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard), My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears),Phenomena (Dario Argento), Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood), Flesh & Blood (Paul Verhoeven), The Stuff (Larry Cohen), Come and See (Elem Klimov), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Hector Babenco), Prizzi’s Honor (John Huston), The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg), Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky), Agnes of God (Norman Jewison)
I think you have a Woody Allen film on every list so far! Good choice with Back to the Future. True classic.
I noticed that a couple of days ago as well. Because Woody Allen releases a new movie every year, it’s only a matter of time before a bunch of his movies make it onto the year-end lists.
Back to the Future is easily one of the best films ever made. I watch it on average five times a month. If I were stranded on a desert island and could only bring one movie, it would be Back to the Future
I couldn’t agree with you more. At first, when I was younger, I thought part II was better, but how can you argue with the first one? It’s a classic.