Saturday, December 8, 2012

1984 Year in Review

Best Film of The Year

GREAT MOVIES

Amadeus                                  Milos Forman    US
Bounty, The                            Roger Donaldson                 US
Broadway Danny Rose         Woody Allen        US
Ghostbusters                             Ivan Reitman   US
Home and The World, The                Satyajit Ray          India
Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom   Steven Spielberg    US
Killing Fields, The                    Roland Joffe        UK
Passage To India, A                                 David Lean        UK
Sunday in The Country, A                Bertrand Tavernier France
Terminator, The                      James Cameron  US
Under The Volcano                  John Huston     US
Year of The Quiet Sun, The  Krzysztof Zanussi     Poland

MUST SEE

After The Rehearsal                Ingmar Bergman  Sweden
Against All Odds                 Taylor Hackford  US
Beverly Hills Cop                 Martin Brest        US
Blood Simple                Joel Coen                                 US
Body Double                 Brian De Palma      US
Budak Nafsu                 Sjumandjaja             Indonesia
Camila                     Maria Luisa Bemberg Argentina
Electric Dreams                 Steve barron      US
Falling In Love                Ulu Grosbard   US
Footloose                                 Herbert Ross         US
Gremlins                  Joe Dante                 US
Hong Kong 1941                 Leong Po Chih         Hong Kong
Karate Kid, The                 John G. Avildsen   US
Kembang Kertas                Slamet Rahardjo  Indonesia
Nightmare on Elm Street, A   Wes Craven     US
Project A                 Jackie Chan        Hong Kong
Romancing The Stones  Robert Zemeckis US
Secangkir Kopi Pahit / Bitter Coffee  Teguh Karya   Indonesia
Splash                      Ron Howard    US
Streets Of Fire                 Walter Hill          US
Yellow Earth                Chen Kaige       China

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Bolero                                      John Derek       US
Dune (Uncut Version)                   David Lynch      US
Henry IV                                  Marco Bellocchio                Italy
Long Arm of The Law          Johnny Mak         Hong Kong
Red Dawn                                                 John Milius       US
Thief of Hearts                        Douglas Day Stewart                US

NOW SHOWING

2010        Peter Hyams     UK
Aces Go Places 3                Tsui Hark                Hong Kong
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, the           W.D. Richter     US
All of Me                 Carl Reiner      US
Another Country                Marek Kanievska                UK     NETINS
Antonio Gaudi                Hiroshi Teshigahara                Japan
Bachelor Party                Neal Israel        US
Behind The Yellow Line         Taylor Wong       Hong Kong
Birdy        Alan Parker      US
Bizet's Carmen                Francesco Rosi         Italy
Bostonians, The                James Ivory       UK      NET
Boy Meets Girl                Leos Carax       France
Brother From Another Planet, The          John Sayles       US
Cal           Pat O Connor    Ireland
Children Of The Corn        Fritz Kiersch    US
Choose Me                Alan Rudolph   US
City Heat                 Richard Benjamin                 US
Class Relations                Jean Marie Straub                France
Cloak and Dagger                Richard Franklin   US
Comfort and Joy                Bill Forsyth    UK
Company of Wolves, The                Neil Jordan      Ireland
Conan The Destroyer                 Richard Fleischer US
Cotton Club, The                  Francis Ford Coppola                US     NETINS

Country Richard Pearce    US     ORTON
Crackers   Louis Malle       US
Crimes of Passion                Ken Russell      UK
Dangerous Moves                 Richard Dembo                 Switzerland    NTSC 1 H
Devil's Sword, The / Golok Setan                Ratno Timoer    Indonesia
Dreamscape                 Joseph Ruben       US
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, The                 Lau Kar Leung       Hong Kong
Element of Crime, The          Lars Von Trier        Denmark
Flamingo Kid, The                 Garry Marshall   US
Flashpoint                William Tannen    US
Fort Saganne                Alain Corneau   France
Frankenweenie                Tim Burton     US
Frida        Paul Leduc       Mexico
Full Moon in Paris                Eric Rohmer    France
Garbo Talks                Sidney Lumet      US
Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan                Hugh Hudson     UK
Hard To Hold                 Larry Peerce      US
Hati Yang Perawan                Chaerul Umam      Indonesia
Heartbreakers                Bobby Roth        US
Heimat     Edgar Reitz        Germany
Himatsuri / Fire Festival    Mitsuo Yanagimachi                 Japan
Hit, The   Stephen Frears       UK
Holy Innocents, The          Mario Camus      Spain
Hotel New Hampshire, The                Tony Richardson                US
Iceman   Fred Schepisi US    NTSC 1 H
Illusionist, The                 Jos Stelling                 Netherlands
Impiegati / Employee                Pupi Avati       Italy
Kaos        Taviani Brothers   Italy
Kerikil Kerikil Tajam                Sjumandjaja             Indonesia
La Femme Publique    Andrzej Zulawski   France  NTSC 1 H
L'amour a Mort / Love Unto Death                Alain Resnais     France
Law With Two Phases      Danny Lee          Hong Kong
Legend of Suram Fortress, The                Sergei Paradjanov                Georgia
Little Drummer Girl, The          George Roy Hill   US
Love on The Ground     Jacques Rivette     France
Love Streams                 John Cassavetes                 US
Mac Arthur's Children   Masahiro Shinoda    Japan
Man From Mallorca                 Bo Widerberg                Sweden
Maria's Lovers                Andrei Konchalovsky                Russia
Marlene                 Maximilian Schell    Germany
Mass Appeal                Glenn Jordan    US   NETINS
Meantime (TV)                Mike Leigh       UK
Micki and Maude                Blake Edwards    US
Mike's Murder                James Bridges     US
Moscow on The Hudson     Paul Mazursky US
Mrs. Soffel                Gillian Armstrong                US
Muppets Take Manhattan, The                Frank Oz                 US
Natural, The                 Barry Levinson  US
Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind                Hayao Miyazaki  Japan
Never Ending Story                 Wolfgang Petersen   Germany
Next of Kin                Atom Egoyan    Canada
No End    Krzysztof Kieslowski                Poland
No Small Affair                Jerry Schatzberg                US
Notre Histoire                Bertrand Blier         France
Other Side of Gentleman                Ringo Lam         Hong Kong
Paris, Texas                Wim Wenders   US
Places In The Heart      Robert Benton   US     NTSC 1 H
Police Academy   Hugh Wilson      US
Pope of Greenwich Village, The                 Stuart Rosenberg                 US
Purple Rain                Albert Magnoli   US
Quilombo Carlos Diegues    Brazil
Racing With The Moon      Richard Benjamin                 US    AIVP
Razor's Edge, The                 John Byrum      US
Repo Man                Alex Cox                US
River Rat, The                 Michael Apted       US
River, The                 Mark Rydell      US
Secret Honor                 Robert Altman    US
Shanghai Blues                Tsui Hark       Hong Kong     DVD R H
Singleton's Pluck                Richard Eyre         UK
Sixteen Candles                 John Hughes   US    NET

Soldier's Story, A                 Norman Jewison US    NET
Songwriter                Alan Rudolph   US
Sotto Sotto                Lina Wertmuller                Italy
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock                Leonard Nimoy     US
Starman   John Carpenter US
Stilts, The / Los Zancos     Carlos Saura        Spain
Stop Making Sense                Jonathan Demme    US
Stranger Than Paradise   Jim Jarmusch  US
Streetwise                 Martin Bell          US
Success Is The Best Revenge   Jerzy Skolimowski                Poland
Summer At Grandpa's Hou Hsiao Hsien       Taiwan
Swann In Love                Volker Schlondorff                Germany
Swing Shift                Jonathan Demme    US
Tale of A Tiger                Rolf De Heer         Australia
Teppanyaki                Michael Hui           Hong Kong
Terence Davies Trilogy, The                Terence Davies      UK
Thieves After Dark                Samuel Fuller       US
This Is Spinal Tap                 Rob Reiner      US
Tightrope                Richard Tuggle      US
Times Of Harvey Milk, The                 Rob Epstein    US
Top Secrets!                Jim Abrahams US
Twist and Shout                Bille August      Sweden
Unfaithfully Yours                 Howard Zieff        US
Up The Creek                 Robert Butler       US
Vigil         Vincent Ward        New Zealand
Viva La Vie / Long Live Life Claude Lelouch    France
Voyage To Cythera                Theo Angelopoulos                Greece
Wansee Conference, The          Heinz Schirk      Germany
What Have I Done To Deserve This                Pedro Almodovar                Spain
Where The Green Ant's Dream                Werner Herzog     Germany
Where's Picone?                 Nanni Loi                 Italy
Woman In Red, The                  Gene Wilder      US

TOP 10 BOX OFFICE HITS

1 Ghostbusters
2 Beverly Hills Cop
3 Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
4 Gremlins
5 The Karate Kid
6 Police Academy
7 Footloose
8 Romancing The Stone
9 Star Trek III The Search for Spock
10 Splash

ACADEMY AWARDS

Amadeus
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Places In The Heart
A Soldier Story
Broadway Danny Rose

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
The Woman in Red
Purple Rain
The Times of Harvey Milk
Dangerous Moves

Starman
Under The Volcano
Country
The Bostonians
The River
The Karate Kid
Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan
The Natural
Swing Shift
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Beverly Hills Cop
El Norte
Splash
The Cotton Club
2010
Dune
Romancing The Stone
Against All Odds
Footloose
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Songwriter
Highschool
Marlene
Streetwise
Beyond The Wall – Israel
Camila – Argentina
Double Feature – Spain
Wartime Romance - USSR

1984 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Another Country                Marek Kanievska                UK                1984
Bayan Ko: My Own Country  Lino Brocka                Philippines               1985
Bounty, The                 Roger Donaldson                 US                 1984
Cal           Pat O Connor    Ireland                 1984
Day Is Longer Than Night       Lana Gogoberidze                Georgia                 1984
Element of Crime, The          Lars Von Trier        Denmark                1984
Henry IV  Marco Bellocchio                Italy                1984
Holy Innocents, The          Mario Camus      Spain                 1984
Home and The World, The                Satyajit Ray          India                1984
Memories of Prison                Nelson Pereira Dos Santos                Brazil                1984
Naplo       Marta Meszaros Hungary                 1984
Paris, Texas                Wim Wenders   US                1984
Pirate, The / La Pirate       Jacques Doillon    France                1984
Quilombo Carlos Diegues    Brazil                1984
Success Is The Best Revenge   Jerzy Skolimowski                Poland                1984
Sunday in The Country, A                Bertrand Tavernier France                1984
Under The Volcano                John Huston     US                1984
Vigil         Vincent Ward        New Zealand    1984
Voyage To Cythera                Theo Angelopoulos                Greece                1984
Where The Green Ant's Dream                Werner Herzog     Germany                1984


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