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

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)

1987

1. Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story- Todd Haynes
2. Wings of Desire- Wim Wenders
3. Withnail and I- Bruce Robinson
4. Under the Sun of Satan- Maurice Pialat
5. Au Revoir Les Enfants- Louis Malle
6. RoboCop- Paul Verhoeven
7. The Princess Bride- Rob Reiner
8. Broadcast News- James L. Brooks
9. Prick Up Your Ears- Stephen Frears
10. Moonstruck- Norman Jewison
11. Boyfriends and Girlfriends- Eric Rohmer
12. House of Games- David Mamet
13. Evil Dead II- Sam Raimi
14. The Last Emperor- Bernardo Bertolucci
15. Matewan- John Sayles
16. Babette’s Fest- Gabriel Axel
17. Full Metal Jacket- Stanley Kubrick
18. Radio Days- Woody Allen
19. Roxanne- Fred Schepisi

Notable shorts: Her Fragrant Emulsion (Lewis Klahr), Thru the Wire (Aki Kaurismäki)

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Big Easy (Jim McBride), The Dead (John Huston), Epidemic (Lars von Trier), Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth), Innerspace (Joe Dante)

Need to see: Border Radio (Anders/Voss/Lent), Camp de Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembene), China Girl (Abel Ferrara), City on Fire (Ringo Lam), The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol), The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Falsch (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne), Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan), Four Adventures of Reinette and Isabelle (Eric Rohmer), Hotel Terminus (Marcel Ophuls), Intervista (Federico Fellini), King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard), King of the Children (Chen Kaige), Mournful Indifference (Aleksandr Sokurov), Opera (Dario Argento), Personal Services (Terry Jones), Project A, Part II (Jackie Chan), Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou), Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (Alan Clarke), Rouge (Stanley Kwan), Shy People (Aldrei Konchalovsky), The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben), A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami), Tin Men (Barry Levinson), Where Is the Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami), White of the Eye (Donald Cammell), The Year My Voice Broke (John Duigan), Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Last Emperor
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
César Awards, Best Film: Au revoir, les enfants
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Under the Sun of Satan
Venice, Golden Lion: Au revoir, les enfants
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Theme (Gleb Panfilov)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Waiting for the Moon (Jill Godmilow) and The Trouble with Dick (Gary Walkow)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Princess Bride

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)

1985

1. Come and See- Elem Klimov
2. Back to the Future- Robert Zemeckis
3. Brazil- Terry Gilliam
4. Ran- Akira Kurosawa
5. After Hours- Martin Scorsese
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo- Woody Allen
7. Pee Wee's Big Adventure- Tim Burton
8. Vagabond- Agnès Varda
9. Insignificance- Nicolas Roeg
10. To Live and Die in L.A.- William Friedkin
11. Mishima- Paul Schrader
12. Prizzi’s Honor- John Huston
13. My Life As a Dog- Lasse Hallstrom

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg), Lost in America (Albert Brooks), Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)

Need to see: A.K. (Chris.Marker), Contact (Alan Clarke), Crime Wave (John Paisz), Dreamchild (Gavin Millar), Flesh + Blood (Paul Verhoeven), Fool for Love (Robert Altman), Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard), Into the Night (John Landis), Louie Bluie (Terry Zwigoff), Mix-Up (Francoise Romand), O.C. and Stiggs (Robert Altman), The Official Story (Luis Puenzo), Police Story (Jackie Chan), The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy), Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon), Return of the Living Dead (Dan O’Bannon), Static (Mark Romanek), The Stuff (Larry Cohen), Taipei Story (Edward Yang), A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Treasure Island (Raul Ruiz), La Vie de Famille (Jacques Doillon), Wetherby (David Hare), Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette), Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino), A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Purple Rose of Cairo
César Awards, Best Film: Three Men and a Cradle (Coline Serreau)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: When Father Was Away on Business (Emir Kusturica)
Venice, Golden Lion: Vagabond
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Die Frau und der Fremde (Rainer Simon) and Wetherby
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Official Story (Luis Puenzo)

1984

1. Once Upon a Time in America [227 minute version]- Sergio Leone
2. This Is Spinal Tap- Rob Reiner
3. Stranger Than Paradise- Jim Jarmusch
4. Paris, Texas- Wim Wenders
5. Standard Gauge- Morgan Fisher
6. A Sunday in the Country- Bertrand Tavernier
7. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension- W.D. Richter
8. Body Double- Brian DePalma
9. Love Streams- John Cassavetes
10. Blood Simple.- Joel Coen
11. A Year of the Quiet Sun- Krzystzof Zanussi
12. Amadeus- Milos Forman
13. Gremlins- Joe Dante
14. Stop Making Sense- Jonathan Demme
15. Secret Honor- Robert Altman
16. Repo Man- Alex Cox
17. Broadway Danny Rose- Woody Allen
18. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom- Steven Spielberg
19. The Terminator- James Cameron

Ripe for re-appraisal: Choose Me (Alan Rudolph), Dune (David Lynch), Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki), Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford), Top Secret! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker)

Need to see: Almanac of Fall (Bela Tarr), L’Amour a Mort (Alain Resnais), Another Country (Marek Kanievska), Antonio Gaudi (Hiroshi Teshigahara), Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax), Comfort and Joy (Bill Forsyth), The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan), Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell), Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer), The Funeral (Juzo Itami), Heimat (Edgar Reitz), The Hit (Stephen Frears), Kaos (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), Love on the Ground (Jacques Rivette), Manuel on the Islands of Wonders (Raul Ruiz), Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan), Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark), A Soldier’s Story (Norman Jewison), Summer at Grandpa’s (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Terence Davies Trilogy, The Wannsee Conference (Heinz Schirk), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodovar), Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Amadeus
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé)
César Awards, Best Film: My New Partner (Claude Zidi)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Paris, Texas
Venice, Golden Lion: The Year of the Quiet Sun
Berlin, Golden Bear: Love Streams
Toronto, Audience Award: Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)

1983

1. L'Argent- Robert Bresson
2. The Right Stuff- Philip Kaufman
3. Entre Nous- Diane Kurys
4. The King of Comedy- Martin Scorsese
5. It’s a Good Life- Joe Dante [short]
6. The Fourth Man- Paul Verhoeven
7. Á Nos Amours- Maurice Pialat
8. Local Hero- Bill Forsyth
9. Zelig- Woody Allen
10. Nostalghia- Andrei Tarkovsky
11. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life- Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam
12. Videodrome- David Cronenberg
13. The Man With Two Brains- Carl Reiner
14. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence- Nagisa Oshima
15. The Dead Zone- David Cronenberg
16. Koyaanisqatsi- Godfrey Reggio
17. Silkwood- Mike Nichols
18. Strange Brew- Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis

Ripe for re-appraisal: Betrayal (David Jones), El Norte (Gregory Nava), Eureka (Nicolas Roeg)

Need to see: And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini), The Boys From Fengquei (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Breathless (Jim McBride), A Brutal Game (Jean-Claude Brisseau), Christine (John Carpenter), Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis), The Dresser (Peter Yates), The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-liang), The Eighties (Chantal Akerman), First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard), Get Crazy (Allan Arkush), Gorky Park (Michael Apted), Lianna (John Sayles), Life Is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais), The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa), My Brother’s Wedding (Charles Burnett), Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer), Project A (Jackie Chan), Risky Business (Paul Brickman), Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola), Streamers (Robert Altman), Sugar Cane Alley (Euzhan Palcy), El Sur (Victor Erice), Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford), Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raul Ruiz), Utu (Geoff Murphy), Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert)
César Awards, Best Film: Le Bal (Ettore Scola) and À nos amours
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Venice, Golden Lion: First Name: Carmen
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Ascendancy (Edward Bennett) and The Beehive (Mario Camus)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)

1982

1. Sans Soleil- Chris.Marker
2. Blade Runner- Ridley Scott
3. Fanny and Alexander- Ingmar Bergman
4. The Thing- John Carpenter
5. Tenebrae- Dario Argento
6. Night of the Shooting Stars- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
7. Pink Floyd: the Wall- Alan Parker
8. So Is This- Michael Snow [short]
9. White Dog- Sam Fuller
10. Tootsie- Sydney Pollack
11. The Verdict- Sidney Lumet
12. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan- Nicholas Meyer
13. The Ballad of Narayama- Shohei Imamura
14. Burden of Dreams- Les Blank
15. The Year of Living Dangerously- Peter Weir
16. Le Beau Mariage- Eric Rohmer
17. Veronika Voss- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
18. Fitzcarraldo- Werner Herzog
19. Say Amen, Somebody- George T. Nierenberg
20. Victor/Victoria- Blake Edwards

Other notable shorts: Vincent (Tim Burton)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), Diner (Barry Levinson), The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway), One From the Heart (Francis Coppola), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper), TRON (Steven Lisberger)

Need to see: Blind Chance (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang), Danton (Andrzej Wajda), Diary For My Children (Marta Meszaros), Duel to the Death (Ching Siu-tung), Eternity (Raymond Red), Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman), The Grey Fox (Phillip Borsos), Honkytonk Man (Clint Eastwood), The Horse (Ali Ozgenturk), Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni), Miracle (Ishmael Bernal), Missing (Costa-Gavras), Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski), On Top of the Whale (Raul Ruiz), Passion (Jean-Luc Godard), The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen), Q (Larry Cohen), The State of Things (Wim Wenders), Tex (Tim Hunter), Toute une Nuit (Chantal Akerman), La Truite (Joseph Losey), Ulysse (Agnes Varda), Yol (Yilmaz Guney/Serif Goren)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Gandhi
César Awards, Best Film: La Balance (Bob Swaim)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) Missing and Yol
Venice, Golden Lion: The State of Things
Berlin, Golden Bear: Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Toronto, Audience Award: Tempest (Paul Mazursky)

1981

1. Blow Out- Brian DePalma
2. My Dinner With André- Louis Malle
3. They All Laughed- Peter Bogdanovich
4. Lola- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
5. The Road Warrior- George Miller
6. Pennies From Heaven- Herbert Ross
7. Reds- Warren Beatty
8. Cutter's Way- Ivan Passer
9. Knightriders- George A. Romero
10. Modern Romance- Albert Brooks
11. Diva- Jean-Jacques Beineix
12. Raiders of the Lost Ark- Steven Spielberg
13. Who Am I This Time?- Jonathan Demme
14. Das Boot- Wolfgang Petersen
15. Prince of the City- Sidney Lumet
16. Coup de Torchon- Bertrand Tavernier
17. Pixote- Hector Babenco
18. Vernon, Florida- Errol Morris
19. Time Bandits- Terry Gilliam
20. Body Heat- Lawrence Kasdan

Notable shorts: The Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Gregory’s Girl (Bill Forsyth), Scanners (David Cronenberg)

Need to see: …All the Marbles (Robert Aldrich), Arabic Series (Stan Brakhage), Dragonslayer (Matthew Robbins), Eijanaka (Shohei Imamura), Four Friends (Arthur Penn), Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira), Gently Down the Stream (Su Friedrich), Kisapmata (Mike de Leon), Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (Lou Adler), Lili Marleen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Meantime (Mike Leigh), Merry-Go-Round (Jacques Rivette), Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev), Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara), On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell), Polyester (John Waters), Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette), Possession (Andrzej Zulawski), Rich and Famous (George Cukor), Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson), Too Early, Too Late (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet), Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (Bernardo Bertolucci), The Tree of Knowledge (Nils Malmros), True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard), Why Is the Sky Blue? (Mario O’Hara), The Woman Next Door (Francois Truffaut)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Chariots of Fire
César Awards, Best Film: Quest for Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda)
Venice, Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Hurry, Hurry! (Carlos Saura)
Toronto, Audience Award: Chariots of Fire

1980

1. The Shining- Stanley Kubrick
2. Out of the Blue- Dennis Hopper
3. The Stunt Man- Richard Rush
4. Raging Bull- Martin Scorsese
5. The Aviator's Wife- Eric Rohmer
6. Dressed to Kill- Brian DePalma
7. Airplane!- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker
8. The Ninth Configuration- William Peter Blatty
9. Kagemusha- Akira Kurosawa
10. Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession- Nicolas Roeg
11. Stardust Memories- Woody Allen
12. The Long Good Friday- John MacKenzie
13. Atlantic City- Louis Malle
14. Melvin and Howard- Jonathan Demme
15. The Elephant Man- David Lynch
16. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back- Irvin Kershner
17. Coal Miner’s Daughter– Michael Apted

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Big Red One (Sam Fuller), Inferno (Dario Argento), Popeye (Robert Altman), Return of the Secaucus Seven (John Sayles), Sauve qui peut [la vie] (Jean-Luc Godard)

Need to see: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood), Carny (Robert Kaylor), The Competition (Joel Oliansky), Deathwatch (Bertrand Tavernier), The Falls (Peter Greenaway), Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges), The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (Julien Temple), Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh), Hardly Working (Jerry Lewis), Hopscotch (Ronald Neame), The Long Riders (Walter Hill), Loulou (Maurice Pialat), Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger), Manila by Night (Ishmael Bernal), Mon Oncle d’Amerique (Alain Resnais), Pepi, Luci, Bom… and Other Girls Like Mom (Pedro Almodovar), Shogun Assassin (Kenji Misumi and Robert Houston), Spetters (Paul Verhoeven), Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Elephant Man
César Awards, Best Film: The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) All That Jazz (Bob Fosse) and Kagemusha
Venice, Golden Lion: (tie) Atlantic City and Gloria (John Cassavetes)
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Heartland (Richard Pearce) and Palermo or Wolfsburg (Werner Schroeter)
Toronto, Audience Award: Bad Timing