Sunday, August 5, 2007

1986

1. The Singing Detective- Jon Amiel
2. The Sacrifice- Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Blue Velvet- David Lynch
4. Hannah and Her Sisters- Woody Allen
5. The Fly- David Cronenberg
6. Something Wild- Jonathan Demme
7. Sid and Nancy- Alex Cox
8. Manhunter- Michael Mann
9. Down by Law- Jim Jarmusch
10. Aliens- James Cameron
11. Summer (The Green Ray)- Eric Rohmer
12. River’s Edge- Tim Hunter
13. Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources- Claude Berri
14. Salvador- Oliver Stone
15. Little Shop of Horrors- Frank Oz

Ripe for re-appraisal: Mélo (Alain Resnais), The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir), Tampopo (Juzo Itami)

Need to see: 84 Charing Cross Road (David Hugh Jones), Bang! (Robert Breer), Big Trouble (John Cassavetes), Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines), Crime Story (Abel Ferrara), The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris), Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien), The Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman), Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang), In a Glass Cage (Agustin Villaronga), Landscape Suicide (James Benning), Life Is a Dream (Raul Ruiz), Man Facing Southeast (Eliseo Subiela), Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax), Menage (Claude Berri), The Mission (Roland Joffé), My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Alexei Gherman), The New King (Mario O’Hara), Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark), The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company As Revealed Through the Casting of a State Television Film (Jean-Luc Godard), Scene of the Crime (Andre Techine), The Terrorizer (Edward Yang), Two Friends (Jane Campion), Window Shopping (Chantal Akerman)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Platoon (Oliver Stone)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: A Room with a View (James Ivory)
César Awards, Best Film: Thérèse (Alain Cavalier)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Mission
Venice, Golden Lion: Summer / The Green Ray
Berlin, Golden Bear: Stammheim (Rainhard Hauff)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand)

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