Sunday, August 5, 2007

1988

1. Decalogue- Krzystzof Kieslowski
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit- Robert Zemeckis
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Philip Kaufman
4. Tanner '88- Robert Altman
5. Grave of the Fireflies- Isao Takahata
6. Dead Ringers- David Cronenberg
7. A Fish Called Wanda- Charles Crichton
8. Chocolat- Claire Denis
9. My Neighbor Totoro- Hayao Miyazaki
10. Track 29- Nicolas Roeg
11. Story of Women- Claude Chabrol
12. Bird- Clint Eastwood
13. The Last Temptation of Christ- Martin Scorsese
14. Midnight Run- Martin Brest
15. Landscape in the Mist- Theo Angelopoulos
16. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen- Terry Gilliam
17. They Live- John Carpenter
18. The Thin Blue Line- Errol Morris
19. The Vanishing- George Sluzier
20. Another Woman- Woody Allen
21. Talk Radio- Oliver Stone

Ripe for re-appraisal: Bull Durham (Ron Shelton), Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears), Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies), Frantic (Roman Polanski), Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August)

Need to see: 36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat), The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan), Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan), Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov), Cane Toads (Mark Lewis), The Chocolate War (Keith Gordon), Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog), Damnnation (Bela Tarr), Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov), Drowning By Numbers (Peter Greenaway), Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette), Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat), High Hopes (Mike Leigh), Iguana (Monte Hellmann), The Last of England (Derek Jarman), La Lectrice (Michel Deville), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Ermanno Olmi), Let’s Get Lost (Bruce Weber), Married to the Mob (Jonathan Demme), The Moderns (Alan Rudolph), Monkey Shines (George A. Romero), Resan [The Journey] (Peter Watkins) The Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens and Maurice Loridan), Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
César Awards, Best Film: Camille Claudel
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August)
Venice, Golden Lion: The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Berlin, Golden Bear: Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Heat and Sunlight (Rob Nilsson)
Toronto, Audience Award: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)

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