Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1988

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1988.

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

Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
*** = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.**

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1988

Midnight Run
Die Hard
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Dangerous Liaisons
The Unbearable Lightness of being
A Fish Called Wanda
The Last Temptation of Christ
Running on Empty
The Accidental Tourist
The Thin Blue Line
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Beetlejuice
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
Tin Toy
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Frantic
Big
Rain Man
Mississippi Burning
The Chocolate War
Shoot to Kill
Married to the Mob
The Vanishing

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1988

36 fillette (Catherine Breillat) A Cry in the Dark A Handful of dust A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski) A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski) A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens) A Taxing Woman’s Return A Time of Destiny A World Apart (Chris Menges) Above the Law (Andrew Davis) Akira Alice Another Woman Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan) Ariel (Aki Kaurismaki) As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai) Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov) Biloxi Blues Bird (Clint Eastwood) Brain Damage (Frank Henenlotter) Bright Lights, Big City Bull Durham C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (William Friedkin) Camille Claudel Candy Mountain (Robert Frank/Rudy Wurlizter) Chocolat (Claire Denis) Clara’s Heart (Robert Mulligan) Clean and Sober Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog) Colors Coming to America Crossing Delancey (Joan Micklin Silver) Crusoe (Caleb Deschanel) Damnation Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov) Dead Ringers Dominick and Eugene Dragons Forever Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway) Drums of Winter Eight Men Out Essai d’ouverture Funny Farm Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette) Ghosts…of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat) Golub Gorillas in the Mist Hairspray (John Waters) Hanussen High Hopes (Mike Leigh) Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow By Reading Books (Richard Linklater) Jacob (Mircha Daneliuc) July (Darezhan Omirbaev) Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Stephen Chiodo) La lectrice (Michel Deville) Lady in White Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos) Legend of the Holy Drinker Little Dorrit Little Vera Madame Sousatzka Maniac Cop (William Lustig) Maria (Aleksandr Sokurov) Medea (Lars Von Trier) Memories of Me Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt) Monkey Shines (George A. Romero) My Uncle’s Legacy Mystic Pizza Paperhouse (Bernard Rose) Pascali’s Island Permanent Record Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli) Puissance de la parole Red Heat (Walter Hill) Rembrandt Laughing (Jon Jost) Salaam Bombay! School Daze Scrooged (Richard Donner) Stand and Deliver Stormy Monday Story of Women (Claude Chabrol) Straight, No Chaser Sunset (Blake Edwards) Switching Channels (Ted Kotcheff) Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin) Talk Radio (Oliver Stone) Talking to Strangers (Rob Tregenza) Tequila Sunrise (Robert Towne) Tetsuo: The Iron Man The Boost The Days of Eclipse The Dead Pool The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years The Documentator (Istvan Darday/Gyorgy Szalai) The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell) The Last of England (Derek Jarman) The Little Thief The Milagro Beanfield War The Moderns (Alan Rudolph) The Music Teacher The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick The Serpent Rainbow (Wes Craven) The Summer of Miss Forbes (Jaime Hermosillo) The Vanishing The Venus Trap (Robert van Ackeren) The Wizard of Speed and Time (Mike Jittlov) Thelonious Monk: They Live (John Carpenter) Thou Shall Not Kill Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica) Torch Song Trilogy Trois places pour le 26 Tucker: The Man and His Dream Two Moon Junction (Zalman King) Vampire’s Kiss (Robert Bierman) Vice Versa Voices of Sarafina! Without a Clue Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Working Girl Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious) Zero City (Karen Shakhnazarov)

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