Sunday, August 5, 2007

1989

1. Do the Right Thing- Spike Lee
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors- Woody Allen
3. Monsieur Hire- Patrice Leconte
4. My Twentieth Century- Ildiko Enyedi
5. The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover- Peter Greenaway
6. sex, lies and videotape- Steven Soderbergh
7. Drugstore Cowboy- Gus Van Sant
8. Roger and Me- Michael Moore
9. City of Sadness- Hou Hsiao-hsien
10. The Killer- John Woo
11. Mystery Train- Jim Jarmusch
12. The War of the Roses- Danny DeVito
13. The Seventh Continent- Michael Haneke
14. The Song of the Cloud Forest- Jim Henson
15. Baxter- Jérôme Boivin
16. Black Rain- Shohei Imamura
17. Henry V- Kenneth Branagh
18. Say Anything…- Cameron Crowe
19. My Left Foot- Jim Sheridan

Notable shorts: Living Inside (Sadie Benning), A New Year (Sadie Benning)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Casualties of War (Brian DePalma), Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki), O Sangue (Pedro Costa), Too Beautiful For You (Bertrand Blier)

Need to see: The Aesthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova), Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara), The Church (Michele Soavi), Elephant (Alan Clarke), For All Mankind (Al Reinert), Homework (Abbas Kiarostami), Life and Nothing But (Bertrand Tavernier), Miracle Mile (Steve DeJarnatt), Parents (Bob Balaban), Queen of Hearts (Jon Amiel), Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan), Street of No Return (Sam Fuller), Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica), Why Did Bodhi-Dharma Leave For the East? (Bae Yong-kyun)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
César Awards, Best Film: Too Beautiful for You
Cannes, Palme d’Or: sex, lies and videotape
Venice, Golden Lion: A City of Sadness
Berlin, Golden Bear: Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): True Love (Nancy Savoca)
Toronto, Audience Award: Roger and Me

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