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Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1981
Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1981.
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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1981
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Chariots of Fire
- Das Boot
- The Great Muppet Caper
- My Dinner with Andre
- Gallipoli
- The Road Warrior
- Time Bandits
- The Fox and the Hound
- Dragonslayer
- Excalibur
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1981
A Thousand Little Kisses (Mira Recanati) A Woman Alone (Agnieszka Holland) Absence of Malice An American Werewolf in London Arthur Beau Pere (Bertrand Blier) Beloved Enemy (Alan Clarke) Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski) Blow Out (Brian De Palma) Body Heat Buddy Buddy (Billy Wilder) Celeste (Percy Adlon) Circle of Deceit Condorman Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier) Cutter’s Way (Ivan Passer) Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix) Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Emir Kusturica) Eaux profondes (Michel Deville) Elektra Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura) Escape from New York (John Carpenter) Excalibur Arabic Series (Stan Brakhage) Eye of the Needle (Richard Marquand) Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira) Gregory’s Girl (Bill Forsyth) Harmful or Fatal If Swallowed (Manuel de Landa) Heavy Metal Hotel America Kamilla (Vibeke Lokkeberg) Kisapmata (Mike de Leon) Knightriders (George A. Romero) Le pont du nord (Jacques Rivette) Lion of the Desert Lili Marleen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda) Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta) Memoirs of a Survivor (David Gladwell) Mephisto Merry-Go-Round (Jacques Rivette) Modern Romance (Albert Brooks) Mommie Dearest Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev) Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara) Murder in Texas (William Hale) On Golden Pond Outland Patakin (Manuel Octavio Gomez) Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross) Pixote (Hector Babenco) Polyester (John Waters) Possession (Andrzej Zulawski) Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet) Quest for Fire Reds Regularly or Irregularly (Abbas Kiarostami) Rich and Famous (George Cukor) Rocky S.O.B. (Blake Edwards) Scanners (David Cronenberg) Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson) Southern Comfort (Walter Hill) Springtime in Greenland (John Paisz) Temptation Island (Joey Gosiengfiao)* The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer) The Beyond (Lucio Fulci) The Chosen The Evil Dead The Four Seasons The French Lieutenant’s Woman The Howling (Joe Dante) The Melody Haunts My Reverie (Rajko Grlik) The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man The Tree of Knowledge (Nils Malmros) The Woman Next Door (Francois Truffaut) They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich) Thief (Michael Mann) Three Brothers Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (Bernardo Bertolucci) True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard) Under the Rainbow Why is the Sky Blue? (Mario O’Hara)*
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