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Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1989
Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1989.
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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1989
- Henry V
- The Unbelievable Truth
- The ‘Burbs
- Do the Right Thing
- Dead Poets Society
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- The Abyss
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- sex, lies, and videotape
- Heathers
- The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Mystery Train
- My Left Foot
- Glory
- When Harry Met Sally
- Say Anything
- Sea of Love
- Roger and Me
- Parenthood
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
- Back to the Future, Part 2
- Field of Dreams
- Batman
- Lethal Weapon 2
As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1989
A City of Sadness A Dry White Season A Spy in the House That Ruth Built A Tale of the Wind Always (Steven Spielberg) Bashu, The Little Stranger Baxter (Jerome Boivin) Black Rain (Ridley Scott) Black Rain (Shohei Imamura) Black Sin Blaze Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow) Born on the Fourth of July Casualties of War (Brian De Palma) Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara) Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet Chameleon Street Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr.) Chances Are City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Cousins Crusoe Driving Miss Daisy El aprendiz de pornografo (Jaime Hermosillo) Elephant (Alan Clarke) Enemies: A Love Story (Paul Mazursky) Five Days in June For All Mankind Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord Getting it Right (Randal Kleiser) Ghostbusters II (Ivan Reitman) He Was Once (Mary Hestand) Homework (Abbas Kiarostami) Images of the World and the Inscription of War Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill) Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel) Le fille de 15 ans (Jacques Doillon) Leningrad Cowboys Go to America (Aki Kaurismaki) Licence to Kill Life and Nothing But Major League Marriage of the Blessed Memories of a Marriage Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt) Miss Firecracker Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte) Mr. Hoover and I Music Box My Twentieth Century (Ildiko Enyedi) Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy Orapronobis (Lino Brocka) Parents (Bob Balaban) Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn) Queen of Hearts (Jon Amiel) Roadkill (Bruce McDonald) Romuald et Juliette Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky) Scandal Shirley Valentine Sidewalk Stories Skin Deep (Blake Edwards) Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan) Strapless (David Hare) Street of No Return (Samuel Fuller) Sweet Home (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Sweetie (Jane Campion) Tap Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto) The Aesthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova) The Burbs (Joe Dante) The Church (Michele Soavi) The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves) The Iceman Cometh The Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti) The Killer The Kill-Off The Last Stop (Serik Aprimov) The Machine That Killed Bad People The Mighty Quinn The Owl’s Legecy (Chris Marker) The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer) The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke) The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito) Too Beautiful for You True Love Valmont (Milos Forman) Vampire’s Kiss (Robert Bierman) Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano) War Requiem Water and Power What Happened to Santiago Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae Yong-kyun) Yaaba
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