1985: Overstreet's Favorite Films

Last updated on: May 29, 2012 at 6:15 pm by Jeffrey Overstreet

1985: Overstreet's Favorite Films 2012-05-29T18:15:52-06:00 Jeffrey Overstreet

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Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1985.

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

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1985

A Room with a View
Brazil
Ran
Witness
Ladyhawke
After Hours
Back to the Future
Legend
Better Off Dead
My Life as a Dog
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Hit
Fletch
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
28 Up
The Color Purple
The Breakfast Club
The Goonies
Clue
To Live and Die in L.A.
Silverado
The Journey of Natty Gann
Cocoon
A Chorus Line
Real Genius

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1985

Adela (Mircea Veroiu) Agnes of God Almanac of Fall (Bela Tarr) An Early Frost Angry Harvest (Agnieszka Holland) Bad Medicine (Harvey Miller) Bekci (Ali Ozgenturk) Canada’s Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks Code of Silence Colonel Redl Come and See (Elem Klimov) Contact (Alan Clarke) Cop au Vin Crime Wave (John Paisz) Dance With a Stranger (Mike Newell) Day of the Dead (George A. Romero) Defence of the Realm Desperately Seeking Susan Detective (Jean-Luc Godard) Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Dreamchild (Gavin Millar) Dust Erotic Psyche Explorers (Joe Dante) Fool for Love (Robert Altman) Four Days in July (Mike Leigh) Gwen, the Book of Sand Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard) Hard Choices Himatsuri (Mitsuo Yanagimachi) Huey Long Insignificance Into the Night (John Landis) Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand) Kiss of the Spider Woman La vie de famille (Jacques Doillon) Little Treasure (Alan Sharp) Lost in America (Albert Brooks) Mala Noche Manoel in the Island of the Wonders Men … Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Mix-Up (Francoise Romand) Mix-Up ou Meli-melo My American Cousin My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears) My Country: At the Razor’s Edge (Lino Brocka) My Sweet Little Village Night on the Galactic Railroad (Gisaburo Sugii) No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski) No Surrender On the Edge Out of Africa Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood) Phenomena (Dario Argento)A Private Function (Malcolm Mowbray) Plenty Police (Maurice Pialat) Police Story Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ Prizzi’s Honor Pumping Iron II: The Women Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon) Runaway Train Shoah (Claude Lanzmann) Silas Marner Smooth Talk Snatched from Heaven (Ishmael Bernal) St. Elmo’s Fire Subway Sylvia (Michael Firth) Taipei Story (Edward Yang) Tampopo (Juzo Itami) The Coca-Cola Kid (Dusan Makavejev) The Emerald Forest The Falcon and the Snowman The Good Father (Mike Newell) The Home and the World The Hour of the Star (Suzana Amaral) The Man Who Envied Women (Yvonne Rainer) The Official Story The Quiet Earth The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O’Bannon) The Runner The Shooting Party The Sure Thing The Time to Live and the Time to Die The Trip to Bountiful Treasure Island (Raul Ruiz) Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph) Turtle Diary Twice in a Lifetime UFOria Vagabond (Agnes Varda) Vampires in Havana (Juan Padron) Vision Quest Wetherby (David Hare) When Father Was Away on Business Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette) Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino)

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