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Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1987
Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1987.
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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1987
- Wings of Desire
- Babette’s Feast
- Raising Arizona
- Empire of the Sun
- The Princess Bride
- Roxanne
- The Dead
- The Last Emperor
- Good Morning, Vietnam
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Swimming to Cambodia
- Full Metal Jacket
- No Way Out
- The Untouchables
- Broadcast News
- Au Revoir, Les Enfants
- Hope and Glory
- House of Games
- Radio Days
- Pathfinder
- Moonstruck
- Innerspace
- Robocop
- The Glass Menagerie
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- Wall Street
As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1987
A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Gyula Gazdag) A Long Goodbye A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami) A Western Angel Heart Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland Baby Boom Back to the Beach Bagdad Cafe (Percy Adlon) Barfly Beirut: The Last Home Movie Belly of an Architect Black Widow (Bob Rafelson) Blind Chance Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer) Camp de Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembene) China Girl (Abel Ferrara) Chinese Ghost Story Christine (Alan Clarke) Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll City on Fire Comrades Course Completed Cry Freedom Damnation (Bela Tarr) Dark Eyes Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Dogs in Space (Richard Lowenstein) El Bosque animado Evil Dead II Falsch (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) Family Viewing Fatal Attraction From the Pole to the Equator(Yervant Gianikian/Angela Ricci Lucchi) Gaby: A True Story Heat and Sunlight Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth) In a Glass Cage (Agustí Villaronga) Ishtar (Elaine May) I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing Jackie Chan’s Project A2 King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard) La Bamba La Chouette aveugle Law of Desire (Pedro Almodovar) Le Grand Chemin Less Than Zero Light of Day Making Mr. Right Making Waves (Ann Wingate) Matewan (John Sayles) Michael Caine – Acting in Film Mixed Blood (Paul Morrissey) Mournful Indifference (Aleksandr Sokurov) Nadine (Robert Benton) Nayakan Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow) Night Zoo Nuts Opera (Dario Argento) Orphans Pelle the Conqueror Personal Services (Terry Jones) Plain Talk & Common Sense (Jon Jost) Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears) Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter) Red Sorghum Repentance Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (Alan Clarke) Rouge (Stanley Kwan) Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (Stephen Frears) September Shinran: Path to Purity Shy People (Andrei Konchalovsky) Soigne ta droite (Jean-Luc Godard) Stage Fright (Michele Soavi) Street Smart (Jerry Schatzberg) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes) The Big Easy The Big Town The Cartographer’s Girlfriend (Hal Hartley) The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol) The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) The Deadman The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On The Family The Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer) The Fourth Protocol The Hidden (Jack Sholder) The House of Bernarda Alba (Mario Camus) The Living Daylights The Peddler The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser) The Short and Curlies (Mike Leigh) The Sicilian (Michael Cimino) The Silent Majority The Trouble With Dick (Gary Walkow) The Whales of August The Year My Voice Broke Three O’Clock High (Phil Joanou) Throw Momma from the Train (Danny DeVito) Tin Men Tough Guys Don’t Dance (Norman Mailer) Travelling North Under Satan’s Sun Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh Waiting for the Moon Walker Wedding in Galilee Where is the Friend’s Home (Abbas Kiarostami) Wish You Were Here Withnail & I Yeleen (Souleymane Cisse) Your Face
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